1 I think this is the link you're looking for.

2 Thank you; you're right. I just fixed it.

3 I also agree 100% about #1.  Now #3, I'm enjoying.  It's interesting to see just how far they can push it without actually making porn. 

Um, I mean, hardcore porn, given that last episode....

4 I dunno. I took a look at one episode of that, and was utterly revolted in very short order. I guess everyone likes different things.

5 Ironically School Days was one of shows I mentioned in a post of mine a while ago listing shows I want to see come out in the US/UK (happily for me Maria Holic is comming next year)

6

I had an email from someone about School Days, too (I don't know why he didn't post it) who thought it was good. His argument was that School Days subverted every trope about highschool harem romance shows, and that the plotting and writing were tight.

I can believe that it's a story well told. I'm not sure it's a story that needed to be told, however, and it's definitely not a story I want to watch. Anime is escapism for me. It takes me places I want to go -- and I don't want to go to the place where School Days happens.

School Days is a tragedy, and the theory from the Greeks (who invented the form) was that the audience felt catharsis after watching it. But I don't need catharsis, and watching the show would make me sick.

7 My GM has defined 'good' tragedy as being tragedy that results from the *virtues* of the characters involved.  Nothing I've heard about School Days suggests the main characters *have* any of those.

"A bunch of horrible unlikable people screw themselves" is not something I'd want to watch, even if it were written as comedy.  I suppose it might have viewing value to the Seinfeld fanbase. . .