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I got the next page for Rural Reign ready to go up but Drunk Duck doesn't seem to like my computer today. I'll try to have it up soon though.

I wish I had something witty to add but I really don't. Enjoy the new Rural Reign page.

www.drunkduck.com/Rural_Reign/…

There be spoilers beyond this point but honestly if this text has its intended effect you won't want to watch School Days anyways.

First off I like works of fiction that push children to extremes. Hell my favourite novels are Lord of the Flies and Ender's Game. My favourite comicbook series is Runaways. My favourite animes are Evangelion and Bokurano. I was told this was an anime that pushed a punch of teenagers through the hell of a realistically told soap opera and the go through immense psychological and emotional suffering.

Well that description fits for the most part until the last few episodes.

Those last few episodes are the sickest most twisted things I have ever seen.

Slaughtering a pig and using it's severed head as a stand in deity and excuse to beat another boy you are stranded on an island with in Lord of the Flies, eh full fledged societies have done worse.

A teacher sleeping with his student and then abandoning her when she gets pregnant in Bokurano, disgusting but okay he gets whats coming to him later.

Manipulating every second of a boy's life to turn him into the perfect general in a war that your opponents have stopped fighting generations ago (and you are fully aware of this) only to have him commit Xenocide upon said enemy and become hated by the very society that made him what he is in Ender's Game, yeah sure.

A guy sleeping with his girlfriend's best friend (and every other girl he knows except interestngly enough his girlfriend) and seemingly getting her pregnant. Then blaming her for getting pregnant, making out with his now ex-girlfriend in front of the pregnant girl, and suggesting she get an abortion over a text message. Only for the pregnant girl to then come and stab him to death and then his ex-girlfriend murders her and cuts her open to reveal that she wasn't pregnant before sailing off on a "nice boat" talking to her boyfriend's severed head as though it were alive. Okay no. Having sat through that mess the guy deserved his brutal death and theseries could have ended with that scene and I would slightly freaked out but cool with it. It wouldn't have become a favourite but it would have been tolerable but to push it just that far.

Maybe it is because all those works that I do like have fantasic reasons for the horrible things happening to children like being stranded on a deserted island, piloting a lobotomized clone of an angel with your mother's soul in it to fight monsters that would give Lovecraft the shits, piloting a robot to stop your reality from being destroyed by destroying other realities like it and then dying yourself, knowing your life has been controlled like an experiment from before conception to turn you into a killer, learning that your parents have been making virgin sacrifices yearly to bring about the end of the world and then watching the Gods they were dealing with kill them in front of you, etc where School Days was more grounded in reality but it pushed me way too far.

I just feel really scared and confused right now and I needed to rant.

Look what I got. A brand new page of Rural Reign. Aren't you jealous?

www.drunkduck.com/Rural_Reign/…

Now time for bed it's 4:30 am.