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School Days
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School Days is an Animated Adaptation of the Visual Novel of the same name. Just like in the original Visual Novel the story centers around Makoto Itou who spends his days watching a beautiful girl named Kotonoha Katsura from a distance, until one day he gets the opportunity to meet her with the help of her newfound friend Sekai Saionji. Eventually Makoto finds himself involved in a Love Triangle with his two friends that will put their emotional threshold to the ultimate test.While the original game was a story that aimed to subvert the Harem genre with its many twists and dark themes, this anime series presents a story that starts out with a happy innocent mood, but gradually becomes much darker, and by the end plummets deep into the pits of despair, angst, and violence……and laughs, depending on how much you hated the main character by the end. Ultimately, the anime is like watching the worst route possible on the visual novel.Wait no, scratch that, not even the worst possible path in the visual novel reaches the level of messed up irrationality that the anime presents.Sensitive, idiocy-intolerant, or squeamish viewers, beware!There are also two OVA episodes, Valentine Days and Magical Heart Kokoro-chan, that exist in Alternate Continuities. Especially in the latter's case, which turns most of the main females into Sentai and/or Magical Girls with liberal amounts of randomness and School Days-style fanservice and gore.Finally, there's also a manga, which is much more family-friendly than the anime. Makoto, much less of a Jerkass here, manages to resist Sekai for most of the run; when he finally gives in to temptation, he feels so bad about it that he is prepared to break up with her... until stuff happens. Almost more disturbing than the anime, in a subtle way. There's a manga adaptation for Cross Days as well, which follows Yuuki, the protagonist of the game, and which gets dubious props for somehow making Makoto even more of a jerk than he is in the anime. No, really.Discotek Media licensed the anime and released it on DVD in 2015; they also announced a Blu-ray release for Spring 2017. | |
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Visible Silence | |
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Sekai sending a message saying "Sorry... ... ... ...goodbye.". | |
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No Accounting for Taste | |
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No Accounting for Taste: Of the four anime love interests (Kotonoha, Sekai, Otome, & Setsuna), it is only explained why Setsuna likes Makoto, and ironically she is the only girl to love him for reasons other than liking him, curiosity, or lust. Also Hikari – What does she sees in Taisuke anyway? | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Kotonoha's mental and emotional breakdown begins hitting more fully after she's raped by her Stalker with a Crush, Makoto's best friend Taisuke. | |
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Surrogate Soliloquy | |
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Surrogate Soliloquy: In this case, just Talking To The Head. While there is no exposition on Kotonoha's part, there is no mistaking to the viewer that she has perhaps irrevocably gone off the deep end, mental health-wise, on her Nice Boat. | |
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Genre Shift: Starts as a light-hearted and slightly ecchi comedy, finishes as a big melodrama. And in the final episode, it turns into slasher horror... | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: In this case, literally. Even beyond that, so much of the plot could have been avoided if Makoto had just straight-up said to anyone that he was dating Kotonoha. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: The ending. Was Sekai really pregnant? Was she lying about it to try and keep Makoto for herself? Or was she experiencing a psychological or other kind of false pregnancy? | |
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Girl Posse | |
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Girl Posse: Otome's friends Minami, Kumi, and Natsumi are a really nasty and cruel version. By the end of the series, their Alpha Bitch, Otome, ends up as being less bitchy than them. | |
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Adjective Noun Fred: ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ OVA. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Sure, all the girls in the 10th grade are spreading like peanut butter for Makoto and each don't mind in the least that they're not the only one… but they all drew the line at Makoto loudly and publicly abandoning his unborn child, and collectively dropped him like a sack of shit. Makoto himself has standards by standing up for Setsuna when she was being bullied; that's why Setsuna fell in love with him. So at least being a bully hunter is a consistent standard of Makoto's. | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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The unmistakable shout-out at the end of the OVA episode, regarding a certain famous meme associated with this series, where Kokoro is rowing in an inflatable raft specifically labelled "Nice Boat" on its sides. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Kotonoha kills Sekai in the finale. Too bad it was little too late. Reversed in the manga when Kotonoha tries and fails to kill Sekai, Sekai is the one who later kills her, even gloating about it in front of a hospitalized Makoto. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: What the creators were trying to do was teach the male audience to never be unfaithful no matter what. Which is fine and all... expect by the end we see at the end that clearly the message is that you should murder your despicable, jerkass of a boyfriend and the girl who (you claim) seduced him into cheating on you, even though for the latter’s case is just as much as the victim as you. | |
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A Tragedy of Impulsiveness | |
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A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Makoto would probably have ended up happier and kept himself and Sekai from getting murdered if he had only kept it in his pants. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Although judging by most of the anime's entries, it probably fit into non-sexual fanservice to most tropers who saw it. After the nice boat, that is. The manga, though fewer people die, is still quite the downer. Although Makoto survives his injuries trying to protect Sekai from Kotonoha, he later learns that during his hospitalization Sekai has killed Kotonoha to be with him... | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line Sekai sending a message saying "Sorry... ... ... ...goodbye.". In the Manga | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Episode 1 begins with an internal monologue by Makoto detailing his feelings for Kotonoha; the same speech is played over the post-credits scenes in Episode 12. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
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Adaptation Distillation: The anime completely erased Makoto’s internal struggles and good-hearted nature in order to turn him into a complete Jerkass. This is also true for pretty much all of the supporting cast who had all their positive traits completely removed in order to present them as Jerkasses as well. The only ones who were saved from this are Sekai and Kotonoha, and then just barely. One could view the manga being this for the anime, as in its continuity Makoto has noticeably toned down his Jerkass The Casanova tendencies and seems to genuinely care about Kotonoha and Sekai. | |
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Psychotic Love Triangle | |
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Psychotic Love Triangle: Trope Codifier | |
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If I Can't Have You… | |
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If I Can't Have You…: In the last episode, Sekai brutally kills Makoto after he chose Kotonoha over her. | |
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Sadist Show | |
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Sadist Show: Take one Jerkass protagonist, one passive-aggressive Clingy Jealous Shrinking Violet, and one kind but thoughtless Matchmaker with a Crush, and put them in a decent-sized Japanese high school. Apply drama and stir thoroughly until emotions bubble to the surface. Boil off all cross-communication and common sense, then let the mix settle for twelve episodes. Serving size: One anime. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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Here We Go Again!: The after credits scene of the last episode features a monologue from Makoto which is identical to the one he gave in the beginning of the first episode. Considering how the anime is adapted from a multi-choice visual novel, this may be reflective of a new version of the story about to start. Hopefully, one that doesn't end in madness, heartbreak and death. | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: "Idiot." "You're the worst." Everyone uses this to describe Makoto. | |
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Practice Kiss | |
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Practice Kiss: Just like in the visual novel, Sekai tricks Makoto into this to get him to fall in love with her. | |
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Relax-o-Vision | |
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Relax-o-Vision: After a particularly nasty Real Life incident in Japan where an Ax-Crazy schoolgirl murdered her dad, the final episode had to be Distanced from Current Events and replaced by an episode of random peaceful Norwegian scenery, which included a rather nice boat. See Ascended Meme. | |
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Fanservice with a Smile | |
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Fanservice with a Smile: Sekai in her waitress uniform, complete with detached sleeves. The Meido uniforms from the School Festival also count for this trope... which often turns into Fan Disservice, on account of it being present in even the most horrifying scenes. | |
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What Does She See in Him? | |
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What Does She See in Him?: They do technically answer this but at the end of it all, it doesn't justify nearly enough of what happens. To clarify, what they see in him is two things: One, he's a nice enough guy to be a bully hunter and to make others feel confident and special. Two, he's amazing in bed. | |
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Animation Bump | |
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Animation Bump: The anime has rather limited, middle-of-the-road animation. However, Makoto's death is rather well-animated considering the rest of the show. All the more to satisfy the audience, obviously. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: In the first episode of the anime, Makoto exposits on a supposed love charm activated by keeping your crush's picture as your cell phone wallpaper. We hear him think, "What bullshit," in an unpleasant tone right before he tries to delete his picture of Kotonoha. | |
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The Anime of the Game | |
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The Anime of the Game: The original PC Visual Novel was released in Japan on April 28, 2005. The Anime ran in Japan from July 3 - September 27, 2007. See Animated Adaptation in the description above. | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: After Sekai tells Makoto she's pregnant, he pressures her to get an abortion simply because all the other girls he’s been sleeping with refuse to have anything to do with him since he abandoned the girl he got pregnant. In other words, the concept of an abortion is used to drive home what a total Jerkass he is. However the trope is subverted when you realize that Sekai was avoiding going to the hospital, not because she rejected an abortion but because she wasn’t pregnant at all. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: Many who dislike the show have cited the unlikeable characters and the confusing plot as reasons for why they've hated it. Some who enjoy the show have actually cited these things as reasons for why they like it, as the main character's refusal to remain faithful to his girlfriend coupled with his Really Gets Around nature is something that many men, especially in this day and age, unfortunately do to their partners. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: By the end, you will have an idea of how a Harem anime would go in real life if a guy really did treat a group of young women that all had feelings for him like your typical H-Game player treats the female characters of a game — and if some of those women happened to be extremely unstable. Most real people wouldn't react like that. Some would. Also, it makes it clear that someone pursuing solely his or her own pleasure with everyone in sight while paying no attention to the effects that are having on others is an immature, maladjusted jerkass. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Setsuna Kiyoura. She tried to be more discreet than the others… until Kotonoha caught her kissing Makoto in his sleep. | |
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Parody Episode | |
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~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ has several, as expected of a Parody Episode. The girls form a Sentai team, Kokoro and Kotonoha are secretly magical girls, and there's a giant robot fighting at the end. The opening theme sequence also blatantly references the visuals in the Ultraseven opening. | |
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Character Exaggeration | |
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Character Exaggeration: All three main characters and most of the supporting cast undergo this, with their negative traits being dialed up to the point where they pretty much dominate their personalities (by contrast with the original visual novel, which on the whole gave them more Hidden Depths and realistic motivations). Again, fully intentional. | |
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Credits Jukebox | |
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Credits Jukebox: ANN lists 8 ending themes in a twelve-episode series. Some of them come from the original visual novel. | |
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Black Blood | |
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Black Blood: The broadcast version of the last episode. The DVD version leaves all the blood in its red glory. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: In one of the few lucid moments for Makoto, he eventually notices Kotonoha’s horrible descent into madness. But only when he happens upon Kotonoha while wandering around alone and becomes horrified by the sight of her standing in front of him rambling about how she wants to be a good girlfriend to him. | |
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Third-Option Adaptation | |
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Third-Option Adaptation: The ending to the anime is a composite of elements from two other endings in the original game: To My Child and Bloody End. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The final scene before the credits is Kotonoha floating out to sea with Makoto's severed head, having very clearly gone off the deep end before going to the happy ending tune. After the credits roll, we hear a repeat of Makoto's internal monologue about his admiration of Kotonoha from the first episode, playing over a montage of all the other students happily going about their days as if two of their classmates hadn't just brutally died. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Otome's "friends" get away with bullying Kotonoha, sexing up Makoto behind Otome and Sekai's backs and, in the anime, exhibiting a tape that shows Nanami and her boyfriend having sex, ruining her reputation at school. Makoto's best friend Taisuke also gets clean away with raping Kotonoha at the school festival. The same trope could be applied to Kotonoha in the last episode of the anime, unless you consider her descent into utter madness to be karma. And in the manga, Sekai gets away with murdering Kotonoha. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The opening and ending themes for the Anime eventually become a big contrast to the Genre Shift / Mood Whiplash. In the last episode, the opening and its respective theme aren't even shown. It would've been too dissonant at that point. Instead, they have a picture of a shot from the opening on screen for a few seconds before it abruptly shatters like glass. The same tune for the bad endings in the Visual Novel is used for the anime’s ending. I guess that tells you enough about it. | |
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Bully Hunter | |
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Makoto himself has standards by standing up for Setsuna when she was being bullied; that's why Setsuna fell in love with him. So at least being a bully hunter is a consistent standard of Makoto's. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: That is, if you discount half a dozen other girls - Makoto certainly does!. However, the manga is more of a deconstruction of the trope since it only focuses on Kotonoha and Sekai. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: Nanami is much more important to the plot in many paths in the Visual Novel. In the anime, she barely makes an appearance in a few episodes. In the manga, pretty much everyone but the main trio. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: The series is known for its unusual names and alternate spellings. Compare Kotonoha, Sekai, Kokoro, Roka and Itaru to Makoto, Setsuna, Yuuki, Hikari, Nanami, Taisuke and the rest. | |
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Plucky Comic Relief | |
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Plucky Comic Relief: Taisuke. See Bromantic Foil and Dogged Nice Guy above. | |
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Wingding Eyes | |
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Wingding Eyes: In the ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ OVA, Makoto and Taisuke sport big shiny gold starbursts in their eyes in their ecstatic response to the arrival of the Anonymous Defence Service. Later a naked Taisuke's eyes contain big white starbursts for Magical Heart, whom he sees in person for the first time. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: The last episode is rife with this. First we have Sekai finally snapping and stabbing Makoto to death with a kitchen knife while sitting on his chest and with her panties being visible almost the entire time. And then there's Sekai's murder at the hands of Kotonoha, who is splattered with Sekai's blood and wearing quite a short skirt as she takes up her saw and slices open Sekai's stomach to check for a fetus. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| School Days / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ has several, as expected of a Parody Episode. The girls form a Sentai team, Kokoro and Kotonoha are secretly magical girls, and there's a giant robot fighting at the end. The opening theme sequence also blatantly references the visuals in the Ultraseven opening. The unmistakable shout-out at the end of the OVA episode, regarding a certain famous meme associated with this series, where Kokoro is rowing in an inflatable raft specifically labelled "Nice Boat" on its sides. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Credits | |
| School Days / int_c76b215e | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Credits: At the beginning of the anime, the OP seems fitting. Later on, it becomes so nauseatingly happy in contrast to the story that by the last episode, the show doesn't use the OP anymore, but just the "School Days"-Logo crashing like a destroyed sheet of glass. Somewhat justified as the first episode started the same way. | |
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No Periods, Period | |
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No Periods, Period: Averted, sorta. One of the reasons why Sekai thinks she's pregnant, aside from suddenly having vomiting fits, is that her period hasn't come on time. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| School Days / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: In Episode 12, Sekai has a vision where Setsuna calls her out for her actions around Makoto, pointing out that she was the catalyst for the love triangle and its tragic consequences. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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Male Gaze: The ratio of face shots to boob/butt shots in this show is close to 1:1. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: In addition to all of the High-Pressure Blood, the last episode had Kotonoha slice and pry Sekai's stomach open, blood everywhere, with an "inside looking out" camera shot which, aside from some fleshy strands still attached, wasn't too too bad in the TV broadcast, but then the Nausea Fuel gets cranked up even more as the DVD edition did away with the Black Blood, so you can make out all the textures and stuff. Seriously nasty. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Taisuke, as he takes advantage of Kotonoha and is (at least vocally) more perverted than Makoto. | |
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Jerkass | |
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One could view the manga being this for the anime, as in its continuity Makoto has noticeably toned down his Jerkass The Casanova tendencies and seems to genuinely care about Kotonoha and Sekai. | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype: It begins as a typical Harem Anime, with the average-looking protagonist, suddenly gaining the attention of many cute girls at his high school. However, unlike other shows that play it for laughs, this show gives the viewer a realistic example of what can happen when a boy suddenly starts getting with different girls and the psychological damage that it can cause, from the protagonist seeing the girls as nothing but sex objects, to the girls that really care about the protagonist getting mentally damaged by his behavior — so much so that one could be driven to commit murder. | |
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Distanced from Current Events | |
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"Nice Boat" started as one 4chan commentator's dry remark following an outpouring of shock due to Episode 12 being replaced with 30 minutes of Norwegian scenery and classical music following the news of a girl murdering her father with an axe. The meme became so widespread, 0verflow named their Comiket 73 booth as such. | |
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Breast Expansion | |
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Breast Expansion: In Episode 5, there’s a callback to the inflatable bikini scene from the Visual Novel. But it’s Setsuna who helps Sekai instead of Nanami. | |
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Snow Means Love | |
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Snow Means Love: Makoto apologizes to Kotonoha and says he loves her in a snowfall at episode 11, a redeeming moment in the anime. Comes complete with Kotonoha covered in snow. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Kotonoha. Like in the games, she’s a really shy but sweet girl. However, by the end of the series she proves to be an amazing killer both disarming Sekai with one single movement and killing her with one quick cut to the neck. She also proves to be amazing at cutting the human body by both sawing Makoto’s head off of his body cleanly and later cutting Sekai’s womb open to see if there was a child growing inside. One skilled girl indeed. | |
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