Picture Perfect Paranoia

Remember what I said then?

Well, my blood is boiling again, and my creative energy replenished.

Why?

Because this had to happen.

“School Days” depicts a love triangle between three high school students: Makoto Ito, Kotonoha Katsura and Sekai Saionji. Episodes have been screened on Television Kanagawa and other UHF stations since July this year. The computer love simulation game on which the anime was based has about 20 different endings and one shows a high school girl slashing a victim with a knife. Television Kanagawa officials said that the last episode of the anime shows a schoolgirl acting violently. To tone down the scene, the victim’s blood was made black instead of red, but after the killing in Kyoto on Tuesday, officials decided to cancel the episode.

And I’m not the only one whose rage meter got raised.

So there was this recent murder incident from Japan bluemist cited. It involved a high school girl (of 16 years old) being stabby and “fatally attacked” her father, who is a police officer sergeant in their hometown in Kyoto.

At about 4:40 a.m., rescue workers received an emergency call from a family member of the officer saying he had been attacked on the neck at their home in Kyotanabe. Alerted by rescue workers, police officers rushed to the home and found the sergeant dead on his bed in his second-floor room with severe cut wounds.

I only have these words for the broadcasters: THAT IS ANIME! ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL IN SCHOOL DAYS IS NOT REAL! GET REAL!

I know it’s lame, but, sigh, people overreact to things like these. I call shenanigans.

As for bluemist, well, he’s recently joined a rally calling for the success of School Days instilling the chilling feeling of paranoia.

The otaku thus declared this a canon episode of School Days then? Awesome! It’s the calm before the storm, cause we know that the ‘real’ final episode of School Days will be teh perfectstorm. You should enjoy your boat while it lasts Makoto. You may have your show ‘axed’ for now… but you can’t escape the ’saw’ and the ‘knife’.

As for my thesis? It’s going well, and will not be eating up most of my time, as I had previoulsy thought. So, in the spirit of Jack Nicholson: