Anime in Focus: School Days episode 9

 <- Meet Otome, Itou's fling during this episode

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Have you ever gotten that feeling where, you’re watching a bunch of people fight, but you’re not really rooting for them? You know, it’s dramatic, but all you’re here is to see how badly people get hurt? That about sums this anime up. I can’t really root for the main character at this point, in much the way I can’t root for Bella in Twilight. I honestly don’t really want him to get a happily ever after. In fact, I’d take great pleasure in watching horrible things happen to him.

Oh yeah, things get a bit more heated in this episode. Although it’s not as interesting as episodes 4 and 5, I’m just so used to it in this series. Im this episode, Itou can’t keep his hands off Saionji, which leads to him getting kicked off the staff from the school festival for a while.

Meanwhile, we have the school dance. Apparently, there’s one of those teenage rumors going around about how if you go to this dance with somebody, you’ll never break up with them. For some reason about 3 or 4 girls wind up asking Itou out to this dance (What’s his appeal?) Strangely enough, Itou still can’t make up his mind on who he wants to take. Either the chick that’s madly in love with him, the one he’s having filthy sex with on a regular basis, or that girl who just confessed her feelings to him.

Well, after she confesses her feelings for him, rather than saying he’s taken, he decides to take her around the school festival like she wants. Saionji finds out about this and scolds him about it. You can smell his lack of remorse in his actions, and you can almost see the slime dripping off of Itou as he goes through the rest of the episode.

Also, some crazy stuff happens, but I’m kind of unphased at this point. But you could cut the tension between the characters with a knife. I’m exited to see it all explode eventually!

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Coming soon: School Days Episode 10

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