How To (Literally) Kill Your Love Life | School Days (Visual Novel/Manga/Anime Story Breakdown)

0:00 Intro 1:20 Part 1 (Visual Novel) 17:07 Part 2 (School Days Manga) 23:36 (Cross Days Manga) 40:42 Part 3 (Anime) 55:12 Conclusion

The fact that Makoto never considered the concept of “breaking up” at any point in this franchise just tells you what kind of person you’re dealing with before the story does.

Why dont these kids ever use protection😭😭😭😭😭

NGL I'm really glad Yuuki and Roka got their happy ending in this shitty soap opera universe after everything they go through

I watched this anime as a young girl, without any context, searching for a romance anime like all the others. Let me just say, I was SCREAMING at my screen for the girls to stop being so stupid, and I couldn't look away/stop watching. Finished it, hated it, but even today, 10 years later, I still remember it.

I’m pretty sure it’s heavily implied that Taisuke actually forced himself on Kotonoha and her distraught mental state at that moment made her not stop him

Cross days was a wild ride, I didn't have any idea of its existence but man poor yuki, he was just a normal guy traped in a hentai where he was just a random side character

Someoen has to make a spinoff where a group of angry older brothers jump makoto for cheating on their sisters

To this day Yuuki and Roka stand as the best characters of all this universe, good for them for getting away from all the shit from the main trio lmao

Once the shock factor dissapears, one realizes that the "daysverse" is so over the top, comically fucked up that it cannot be possibly taken seriously. Everyone is either an incest freak, a gang-bang rapist, a murdered or all in one hilarious package. In one novel, Makoto can impregnate either his friends' mothers or even his own mother.

Honestly, In Cross Days Yuki's romance is my favourite kind of Shipping "You saved me, so let me save you too."

The School Days anime was probably one of the best abstinence PSAs ever made.

Watching Makoto die in various painful ways is the only payoff for experiencing anything to do with this series tbh

Poor Yuki almost became the secret BL route

Makoto deserves more than the bad ending if you ask me, realistically he deserves to see those girls move on and be better and hotter w/o him and to live alone. there are worse slower fates than being killed by a crazy ex.

I used to hate the anime, but if you think about it School Days is a Cautionary Tale about what could happen if you think with the head between your legs instead of using the head on your shoulders to lead your heart.

I’m honestly really impressed with with the conclusion of Yuki’s story in Cross Days. Sometimes people are just super unhealthy, and you have to learn to separate yourself from the drama and trying to change things because sometimes, they just don’t want to change. Breaking off to take care of yourself and live your own life away from unneeded problems can be the best option. The end lesson is a really mature theme I haven’t yet seen in any other media, especially anime, and one with ties to an adult romance visual novel at that. I wonder who wrote that story and if they have any other similar works.

I love your analysis, but in the VN and the anime, Katsura didn’t “sleep with” Taisuke. He assaulted her because Otome basically told him that being forceful with Katsura would get her to fall for him. If you watched the scene in the VN she is actively saying no and Taisuke is still forcing himself on her while actively telling her that Makoto doesn’t love her anymore. I love your entire analysis, but I just wanted to clear that up.

Makoto may still be an asshole all around, but in Cross Days it actually works well. It's obvious that he is supposed to be an antagonistic character if not the main antagonist, which he is still. Point being it makes sense for us to hate him and him being written as the scumbag he is. As you said Yuki is a voice of the audience trying to reason with Makoto and actually gives us someone we want to succeed in his goal. Yuki still achieves his goal in protecting someone from Makotos sadisticness, maybe not who he intended in the beginning but he is still a hero. I haven't read the Cross Days manga but with the story being told from you I have enough information for this claim.

What I got from this is that Katsura did nothing wrong and when push come to shove, she is the only one who will spill all the tea exactly as it is, calling out everyone left and right (except Makoto, because reasons.) Katsura is the kind of woman who will read you for filth and I love that of ther.