YES! It’s so damn hard to find people who feel the same way as I do about School Days!
After finishing the School Days anime, I couldn’t get it out of my head for about 5 days. During these 5 days, I have been contemplaiting on one specific question: “If a work of fiction elicits a negative emotion from its audience, is it a good work or a bad work?”
Fictional works that make you feel happy, sad or scared are obviously good. But when it came to hatred and fury, the answer wasn’t as obvious to me. In the end, though, I concluded that making the audience feel a certain emotion is always an amazing accomplishment, no matter if the emotion is positive or negative. Either way, our hearts are moved.
Incidentally, intentionally disgusting splatter movies that make you want to vomit don’t count. Nausea isn’t an emotion. It’s a reflex.
School Days made me feel incredible fury and hatred, all directed at a single character. As I mentioned in the “Currently Airing Anime” topic:
Incidentally, I sympathized a lot with Kotonoha, which may be the main reason for my rage.
