Both, depending on how you look at it. I won’t say School Days is a good show, but it’s one of the anime I use to introduce people to anime (as you do with all “it’s not what it seems” anime.)
It’s memorable, and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters. Positive or negative, as long as you are thinking about it, it succeeded.
On a less serious note, my experience of it was soo different to yours!
I moved onto another show straight after. I understood the ending of School Days, but at the time I was too young to understand everything else that happened. Young age doing the automatic censorship that it does =3= Psychology~
I didn’t know what it was about until about 4 years later, when a friend got a copy of HQ and was streaming it for all the hype surrounding it. Then I remembered and understood everything that happened~
But yeah, hate can be successful sometimes. Just not in DC, 11eyes, YnS, or Shuffle!.
