User blog comment:ShonenChicoBoy/Shonen’s Regimen and Tonic: December 2014/@comment-1493741-20141215043439

Name: School Days Genre: Slice of Life, Romance Length: 12 Episodes Summari: School Days follows the every day life of Makoto Ito, an ordinary guy livin' in the fictional city of Haramihama with his mother. As he enters his second year of high school he begins to take notice of a beautiful young lass, Kotonoha Katsura, who he's been sharing train rides with for sometime. she's your typical cute anime sweetheart, shy and withdrawn, so beautiful all the guys want her and all the girls hate her. But Makoto doesn't work up the courage to talk to her until one fateful day where his homeroom arrangements are switched up and he's seated beside the upbeat Sekai Saionji who plays matchmaker for the two, all the while pining after Makoto herself.

School Days starts off like your typical slice of life, romance, and harem anime, but quickly throws convention to the curve to tell a unique story that one would not expect at all going into it. One could almost say that it takes an axe to cliche in order to carve its way onto its own little spot amongst the piles of dredge that make up that particular genre of anime. Its different, fresh, and romantic, and plays with those warm fuzzy feelings as Christmas likes to do. The show isn't particularly Christmas-y on its own, in fact, it takes place in the Summer. But its all about them feels, yo.