Review of School Days

First off: This stuff's sick. Like, shit goes down in this anime. The kind of shit that makes grown men heave. People get cut. That kind of stuff. But, on to the review. I'll start with the Art and the Sound, since those are the things I liked the least. The art was solid enough for what it did, but a few hiccups exist here and there. I just don't remember it that well, so that means it was mediocre. Hey look, a Mediocre rating. Perfect. Same for the sound. The voice actors do a good job portraying their roles, especially Kotonoha's. The kind of deadpanvoice she goes into later in the series is excellent, but that's all I can remember. Ergo, a 6.

Now then, onto the plot and characters, where I feel this show really shines. This show takes the premise of your standard harem anime and gives it a dose of realism. It replaces your average spineless asshole main character with Makoto, the most pimpin' son of a bitch ever to live. When these women throw themselves at him tits first, he doesn't run away or get a nosebleed or whatever bullshit other protagonists do. He mans up and fucks them. Unfortunately, he doesn't know the meaning of self-control and everything goes to... well you'll just have to see for yourself.
The plot itself is fairly dumb until about ep 6 if I remember right, in which he starts sleeping around. Then, all the characters show their true sides and shit goes down. The reason that the main character starts sleeping around is that this anime originated from an H visual novel, which was the whole POINT of the game. With that, I'll go on to my final point.
I believe that Makoto is School Days' look at what would happen if you put the average attitude of a nukige player into the real world. Nukige are Japanese porn games, and you can guess how much plot is in any one of them. Therefore, the whole point of the game is to screw as many girls as possible. Makoto also wants to screw as many women as possible. So, perhaps Makoto is the director's look at what happens when you do that in real life. For those uninformed (you sad people), your shit gets slapped; and boy does Makoto's shit get slapped. He may have had his shit get slapped harder than any other shit I have seen slapped. How hard? You'll have to watch to see.

Once again, don't watch if you can't deal with mature themes and blood.