School Days: Valentine Days Review

By Sheex Published: January 24, 2008

STORY

2 / 10

Excluding the opening and ending tracks, School Days: Valentine Days boasts an astounding fourteen minutes of absolutely worthless content.  If my memory serves me right there was an actual Valentine's Day episode in the series, so why this was even made boggles me.  There's really not too terribly much to say about the (nonexistent) story other than it was downright awful, as it rehashes an extremely typical harem event and plops in an OVA for no reason.

For those who doubt me, the OVA begins with a completely random hot springs scene where all of the girls and Makoto are somehow all staying at the same resort.  The girls ogle each other's breasts for a minute or two before it immediately jumps to Valentine's Day (a total "wtf" transition, by the way.)  All the girls interested in Makoto from the story then proceed to all give him chocolate at the same time (surprise surprise!) and then chase him around in chibi format for a few minutes while he yells "no!" in a high pitched, annoying voice.  And then it ends.  It's seriously that bad. 

ANIMATION

6 / 10

There very first scene of the OVA looks nice, but the rest of it is downright plain.  It seemed pretty obvious that this was put together on a whim, especially given the minute long chibi-run-across-still-background scene slapped in the middle.  The animators didn't care about making this look good, and I guess they expected the viewer to feel the same.  But hey, you do get to look a bunch of poorly drawn cleavage at the beginning, so that must make up for it, right?!

SOUND

6 / 10

Out of utter boredom, I completely ignored the musical score.  Other than that, same voice actors as the main series, though they have absolutely no difficult or dramatic lines to perform, so nothing worth mention.

CHARACTERS

2 / 10

As to be expected of such an OVA, the characters are "comedic" shells at best.  They bear no real correlation to the series, as any batch of harem females could have taken their place and still had the same effect.  I've spent more time trying to figure out what the hell to say about them than I spent watching the OVA, so I really think that says it all.  Shallow in the utmost degree.

OVERALL

2.5 / 10

This bears absolutely no relation to the series, and though it tries to be funny, it fails miserably.  If you enjoyed the series as I did, don't even bother watching it - not worth an iota of your time.