Review of School Days

The negative reputation attributed to School Days is undoubtedly undeserved. There is an easy explanation for it, and it sure is not that it was a badly made anime. The animations are, in fact, simple, but in no time they fail to fulfill and to pass well the message of the anime. Why is the anime so poorly ranked then? The characters are the key to the answer to that question. Interestingly, School Days takes you to Makoto's skin. An ordinary boy who falls in love with a girl on the train. Everything leads you to sympathize with the couple and want them to stay together, butas the plot progresses, you see that the characters are not one-dimensional beings. Makoto acts insanely and does very bad things. He is painstakingly worked on, and the psychological aspect of this work is quite good comparing it to how most animes portrait teenagers
About the end: Amazing twist plot. Nobody expected that, not like that. Kotonoha's reaction is also great. It's amazing how he regrets everything that has happened, and tries to create his own "Happy Ending," but fails miserably. It has stirred the emotion of everyone who has seen it, and a work that can make a big emotional impact on people deserves recognition. Unfortunately, in the case of School Days, the impact is so strong that it backfired, and people took their frustrations out of evaluating the play.

If you turn off your mind a little bit from self-inserction and shipping, you will realize that everything makes total sense. From the way the girls begin to want to stay with him, even how he gives in and even humiliates Kotonoha.

That's why I gave 7/10 to School Days.
The message of this anime is great and unfortunately most people are not yet ready to understand this work of art for what it is.