Review of School Days

Hello everyone! I'm new here, but I must post this review, as a symbol this anime has in my life, because, in fact, it is because of this anime that I dedicated myself to watch animes ever since. --Story-- How everything begins, and why everything happens. (Skip if you already read synopsis) All begins with a rumor, or more like a superstition, so to say. It says that if you take a photo of the one you love or have a crush on, put it as your cellphone's wallpaper and, after six months, no one finds out, you'll get together with that person and your love will last forever. Makotois a usual main character of most slice-of-life anime you may find. He's in high school, is timid towards most people and have a crush on someone, but is afraid of taking the next steps, so he adepts that rumor, hoping his love for Katsura Kotonoha becomes real. Saionji Sekai, his childhood friend, finds out of Makoto's secret in the first day he tried this rumor, and so he laments himself, saying he'll never make Kotonoha his girlfriend. Sekai somehow feel pity of him and then helps him to go on.

The story from there on resumes and A LOT of story inversions/surprises in the end of most episodes, evolving a single romance to triangle relationships and so on, even if there are only 12 episodes, you'll definitely be surprised the first time you watch.

--Time exploitation--
Some animes makes time pass faster when watching them, and some do the opposite.

This anime is one of the most perfect examples I can give of this. "Filler" scenes are few and far between, meaning almost the whole anime is story driven. The story makes you think a lot about what's going to happen next, and when you think nothing is happening, it throws you a bomb, making you lose track of what happened, or why it happened, or how it happened so suddenly. Unfortunately the last episode is slower, though even more surprised-filled, and somewhat unexpected. I, for one, think the ideal ending is the ending of episode 11, and episode 12 is an "after story" of sorts. Either way, it is a joy to see it

--Story and Characters Evolution--
Story (usually) grows as time passes, but how about the characters?

All the main characters of the anime evolves in some form. Some become more proactive, others more rational, and others just become more insane about love. The secondary characters don't evolve much, but you do discover much about them as time goes. The story, as I said, grows quickly and have surprises in every episodes (I really mean that). I said little, but you can consider this a greatly positive aspect.

--PERSONAL Opinion--
Exactly what it means. What I think about the anime ^^

This anime is, in case you haven't figured out yet, school-life and slice of life altogether, with bits of triangle romances and love affairs, but not involving any super powers or that kind of stuff. Though the first episode looks innocent and all, the second episode on have more sexual emphasis and boyfriend/girlfriend behaviors, thus looking more realistic in a high-school student's life, and that's my favorite aspect of the anime, making you believe everything (or at least most of the story) could be happening right now, somewhere else in this world. As a bad side of the anime, the anime's conclusion certainly is one, and that the opening/some songs could have been better, but I consider these just minor flaws. Character design is simple, but even so has its own charm.

-- Score and Recommendation--
Final score to me and to what people I would recommend.

9.0/10.0

Truly worth watching it. Can be someone's life lesson (it was for me xD)
Recommended for everyone!