The Nice Boat and Quality Anime Train Wrecks

I have published several articles and short posts about the 2007 anime adaptation of the School Days visual novel. I wrote about School Days not because it is good – for it is most certainly not in my humble opinion – but instead because it is famous, or infamous, for how it guided its maladjusted characters into catastrophe. Its final episode gave birth to the “Nice Boat” meme both for its content and because its release was delayed in Japan due to a real-world homicide which bore some vague similarities to the end of the anime. Nothing to see here: A boat rides off into the sunset in the final episode of School Days. Below, rather than re-inventing the School Days wheel, I will examine the anatomy of an anime train wreck and consider what may make a train wreck story good, or at least plausibly entertaining. Spoiler Warnings and Un-warnings I will discuss the anime adaptations of School Days, White Album, and White Album 2 in this article, as well as the Code Geass anime. Regarding…

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