School Days

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Japanese: スクールデイズ
English: School Days
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 4, 2007 to Sep 27, 2007
Premiered: Summer 2007
Broadcast: Wednesdays at 02:15 (JST)
Licensors: Discotek Media
Studios: TNK
Source: Visual novel
Genres: DramaDrama, RomanceRomance
Themes: HaremHarem, SchoolSchool
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 5.511 (scored by 416401416,401 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #125972
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #331
Members: 701,538
Favorites: 3,583

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Synopsis

High school student Makoto Itou first notices Kotonoha Katsura at the start of his second semester, freshman year. Immediately, he becomes entranced by her beauty, but his bashfulness doesn't allow him to approach her, even though they ride the same train every day. Instead, he snaps a photo of her in secret and sets it as his cell phone's wallpaper: a charm that, if kept under wraps, would supposedly help you realize your love. However, classmate Sekai Saionji spots the picture, but instead of ratting him out, she offers to help set him up with Kotonoha—going so far as befriending her just for him. Thus, the trio begins a rather impromptu friendship.

School Days follows the lives of these three teenagers as they traverse the joys and hardships that come with being a high schooler. In a story alive and brimming with romance and melancholy, the tale of these three students will linger in memory long after the momentous conclusion.

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Background

At midnight on September 18, 2007, the final episode of the TVK program was cancelled without notice, and a travelogue program showing castles and boats was shown instead with the message, "Due to circumstances, the program has been changed." In fact, the day before the last episode was aired, a 16-year-old girl murdered her father in Kyoto Prefecture, which led to the postponement and cancellation of the last episode with a similar murder scene.

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"Innocent Blue (イノセント・ブルー)" by DeviceHigh
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Ending Theme

1: "Usotsuki (ウソツキ)" by CooRie (eps 1, 8)
2: "Ai no kakera (愛のカケラ)" by Miyuki Hashimoto (eps 2)
3: "Waltz (ワルツ)" by Kanako Itou (eps 3, 11)
4: "Kioku no Umi (記憶の海])" by yozuca* (eps 4, 7)
5: "Look at Me" by YURIA (eps 5)
6: "Namida no Riyuu (涙の理由)" by Minami Kuribayashi (eps 6, 10)
7: "Anata ga... Inai (あなたが...いない) -Remix Ver.-" by Minami Kuribayashi (eps 9)
8: "Still I Love You ~Mitsumeru Yori wa Shiawase~ (~みつめるよりは幸せ~)" by Kiriko – (eps 12)

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Reviews

Oct 24, 2025
Watching this anime, half way through I knew that this was either going to be a 10/10 or a 1/10.

I haven’t watched the final season of AOT for the very reason I feel after having finished this anime, that I ‘don’t know what to feel’, so I would be very disappointed with myself as I am now if I didn’t know how to feel after watching something that mentally I consider to be so important.

I watched this constantly rooting for the most bloody end to the scum of an MC, chanting as if the spirit of the French Revolution possessed me, but after it was ...
Sep 22, 2025
Mixed Feelings
School Days starts as a nice romantic light-hearted series, but it quickly starts to "go bad". There is a brutal difference in the portrayal of the characters at the beginning and the end of the series, or rather, it is mainly about the main character Makoto, who is introduced as a normal boy, but in a few episodes he turns out to be an extreme pervert. The series knows what it is slowly heading towards and that is probably a surprise (I had a more or less spoiler-filled ending - but that was also the reason why I started watching the series), but the plot ...
Oct 29, 2025
You’ve probably heard things about School Days. Maybe a friend smirked and said, “Oh, you’ll love the ending,” or you’ve seen it mentioned in some dark corner of the internet with words like “traumatic” and “nice boat” floating around. You’re curious. Is it really that deep? That shocking?

Let’s cut the crap: School Days is what happens when a boring romance anime gets bitten by a radioactive soap opera and decides to take itself way too seriously. It’s not so much a story as it is a 12-episode-long sigh of disappointment.

The setup is almost aggressively simple. You’ve got Makoto, your standard-issue shy anime guy who develops ...

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