School Days is yet another anime based on an H-game. A guy likes a girl, but she doesn't notice him. His friend, another girl, says she'll help him get to know the girl he likes. So far, so good.

The only problem is that nearly everyone in the show is either a monster or a victim, sometimes both. These kinds of games usually have "good ends" and "bad ends". The Japanese language games will say, "Good End" or "Bad End" in English once you've finished playing. Sometimes Bad Ends can be really bad.

When they did the series, they decided to end it with nearly the worst Bad End the game offered, and among the worst in the entire genre. The guy ends up stabbed to death, and then decapitated. One of the two girls ends up killed with a cleaver, and then is disemboweled. The other girl runs away with the guy's head, and is shown at the end laying down, cuddling it.

In between there are a lot of other wonderful things happening, like rapes.

Oddly enough, people who have watched the show say that what happened approaches being a "good end" mainly because the guy is such a despicable bastard and they hated him so much that they wanted to see something like that happen to him. Perhaps so. But I'm not even slightly curious, and won't be watching it.

School Days is the series that gave us the term "Nice Boat ending".

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Never Watch at 05:00 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
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