Warning #1: SPOILERS ahead. Warning #2: HUGE SPOILERS ahead! So if you haven't watched School Days yet, I strongly suggest you go do that before reading any further, or especially clicking this super-spoilerific link to AkibaBlog - where they herald the release of the final School Days anime DVD. What's so special about it? Well, it's the "director's cut" version of the 11th story, which means that it's a lot more grotesque than what was shown on TV (and by extension on torrents), without any nice boat, but with buckets of nice blood!
Despite the warning on its cover advising that "this DVD has some abusive scenes or grotesque expressions", retailers didn't shy away from playing the scene with Makoto being hacked and slashed, again and again. Sadists will be happy to know that the black "blood" is now red as intended, and apparently the knife used in the TV version was also replaced with a more Higurashi'esque butchering tool.
I guess it's safe to assume that this "director's cut" version (pun probably intended) won't make its way to English-speaking territories, so feel free to look for the torrent - yep, it's already out.
Update: Just checked, there's actually no change of butchering tools (my bad), and only a couple of shots are slightly different between the TV and DVD versions. So unless this wasn't the genuine "director's cut" (the blood was red, though), there's absolutely no point in getting excited over it. The TV version is just as brutal, really.
Watched it when it came out yesterday, but since I didn't like the series much at all I don't remember the old scene very well. Not much worse in the uncensored though, and it will still be a crapanime. Only good moment in it was when Makoto got what he deserved.
anonymouswrote on Mar 3, 2008 at 08:53
you know it was just censored because of an idiotic girl who killed her father or something a bit before the anime started, that happens a lot lately.
anonymouswrote on Mar 3, 2008 at 12:09
school days suck =.=
Yurekawrote on Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32
I've seen the last episode,it's really scary...
I couldn't believe that such scenes will happen in an anime show,even though some of the scenes in school days happened already in real life....
Aymenwrote on Oct 9, 2008 at 13:02
well, i have watched the series from the begining till the the finale..the end was horrible!! i have to say i didn't expect that come out > < , i was hoping a happy ending but again i think this would teach us all a lesson in real life! to be honest i was supporting makoto-sekai relashionsip i don't know maybe coz sekai is the most whom i like in the series among the girls..i hated the episode # 11 tittled (everyone's makoto) it has led to the bad atrocious end! i mean come on! what was makoto thinking?! this just not right he should be with sekai.. at least thats what i believe! oh one more thing i have watched the 2 ovas of school days and im kinda happy to see the main characters alive again! in the valentines day ova when makoto was chased by the girls sekai was holding that knife running after him makoto screamed like:"what are you doing with that knife?!" sekai:" Makoto do you have to make that fuss about it?" i thought that was funny lol.
Chrishimewrote on Nov 4, 2009 at 11:53
I really like that watch anime. But That's really mad thing about sex and make of baby to Sekai. Why Makoto had hold of him's head. I don't understand really well. Plaese can you tell me about that Makoto is doing to him's head?