School Days OVA, Valentine Days: Inside Every Melodrama is a Comedy Waiting to Get Out
Posted by Mike on 24 Jan 2008 at 11:59 pm | Tagged as: School Days
The final burial of this show is done expertly, and hilariously, by the makers of the anime themselves. Having once suggested in a very serious audio column that the best way to treat this show is unseriously, there’s no better way to take that advice than to watch and enjoy this fine bit of deconstruction.
Michael’s 2007 Diet Awards, Part 2: The Losers
Posted by Mike on 31 Dec 2007 at 7:00 pm | Tagged as: Code-E, Dragonaut, El Cazador de la Bruja, Gundam 00, Hayate no Gotoku, Kyoshiro, Myself; Yourself, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, School Days, Zero no Tsukaima
So…what shows and movies deserve a place in the hall of shame rather than the hall of fame? Since I tend to give up on shows I dislike very quickly, it’s shorter than the winners’ list. But we’ve still got plenty to populate this, the first annual Diet Demerits!
12 Days, 12 Moments: Day 11–School’s Out
Posted by Mike on 24 Dec 2007 at 6:46 pm | Tagged as: Anime Blog Collective, School Days
You didn’t think I’d forgotten this moment, did you? I deliberately saved this moment and the one I’m posting tomorrow on Christmas day for last, as I do believe they represent watersheds for the year, defining moments that portend future changes in anime in general, or a least will be remembered for many more years to come.
Today, of course, I speak of the end of that lurid soap opera so innocently titled School Days. I could just say “Nice boat” and you’d all understand. But here’s a little further reflection on what it means for anime in general.
Contest #1: The Runners Up
Posted by Mike on 08 Oct 2007 at 11:01 am | Tagged as: Contest, School Days
Because you asked! Here are some other examples of entries we received. Enjoy–we sure did! Thanks to everyone who submitted something and we look forward to seeing you in the next contest.
Contest #1: We Have a Winner!
Posted by Mike on 07 Oct 2007 at 10:03 pm | Tagged as: Contest, School Days
Well, our first ever contest–create your own School Days-inspired “demotivational” poster–has ended. Thanks to all of you who submitted entries. After looking them over, we’ve decided on a winner: Owen of Cruel Angel Theses, come on down! Here is his winning entry, and it’s (as another blogger on this site would say) siiiiick:
Is it bloody and sadistic? Yes. Did it make me squirm uncomfortably and wonder about the morality of the person who made it up as much as it made me laugh and question my own morality for enjoying it? Yes. Just like the show’s final episode did: it fits the spirit of School Days perfectly. All while poking fun and pointing out its very sadism…this puts things in perspective to say the least!
Congratulations and thanks Owen! You will be receiving your prize soon. Stay tuned for another contest coming soon!
School Days Cast Interview: Holding Back
Posted by Mike on 04 Oct 2007 at 10:31 pm | Tagged as: School Days
| Reminder: Our School Days Demotivational Poster contest ends in just two days! The deadline is October 6, 9:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, or October 7, 9:30 AM in Taiwan and Singapore. Please see here for more details. |
I suppose we can fire one more salvo at the dead corpse of this show, eh? I just saw that the 6.5 minute cast interview, featuring the seiyuu for Makoto, Sekai, and Kotonoha, was translated. Do we learn anything new or insightful about the show? No. If anything, the voice actors hold back any sense of how the show really ends up, a sordid little mess; like the show’s beginning, it’s sold as an innocent school romance.
But sooner or later, the truth emerges, as you know it will.
Review: School Days–The Wages of Sin
Posted by Mike on 28 Sep 2007 at 5:37 pm | Tagged as: School Days
Excuse me. I need to get one thing out of my system first.
DING DONG, MAKOTO’S DEAD, MAKOTO’S DEAD, STABBY STABBY DEAD!
With that out of the way, I can talk a bit more seriously about this unsettling, landmark anime which, in my estimation, went just a bit too far to be truly satisfying. The line above represents now only a small part of my feelings, the only legitimate part in what was otherwise a rather sadistic conclusion.
School Days 12–AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
Posted by Mike on 18 Sep 2007 at 7:34 pm | Tagged as: News and Commentary, School Days
By now, everyone of us who has been slavering to see the final episode of School Days has learned that in place of our half hour STABBY RAMPAGE, we got this instead:
You see, the final episode was hastily replaced on the TV station by half an hour of nature imagery. Why? Apparently, a teenage girl has just confessed to killing her father with an axe.
This pretty much confirms that we indeed have a BLOODY BAD END. Whoo boy. Can’t wait.
Sources: Random Curiosity, Anime Blog ga Arimasu.
School Days: The Ending We REALLY Want.
Posted by Mike on 16 Sep 2007 at 1:25 pm | Tagged as: Editorials, School Days
The second and third outcomes, that is. At least in part. I say it wouldn’t be quite enough! (Where’s Makoto?)
School Days 11 - Does Makoto Have a Conscience?
Posted by Mike on 12 Sep 2007 at 8:56 pm | Tagged as: School Days
Answer: nah. I totally underestimated how much more repulsive and conscience-free the writers could make Makoto. Just when I thought they couldn’t make him any bigger of a jerk, they do…you know you are a cold bastard when it’s one of your fifth or sixth groupies who has to tell you to go see and comfort your second girlfriend–the one you betrayed your first one for. And STILL they keep on coming, until…
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