This may sound dramatic but School Days has broken me. I fully believe I am no longer the same man I was before I watched this six-hour long, overly tragic, depressing odyssey.
I realised this today whilst watching I've Always Liked You. I kept expecting someone to go full Makoto and NTR the shit out of every person they've ever met. Like, there's a cute moment in this film where one character invites the girl he likes on a date, but she's in love with someone else. She agrees though, because she doesn't see it as a date and then it all comes to a head later when the boy she likes sees him hugging her, and steps in to intervene.
This entire scene I was having horrific flashbacks to School Days, fully expecting the male character to smirk and fuck someone else, causing this girl to forget her love for the other boy and fucking the person she doesn't actually love. As a result, I felt like I couldn't fully experience the warm fuzzy feelings stories like this normally give me. In other words, I feel like I'm gonna have to lay off romance dramas and romcoms for a while, even though that's pretty much all I watch. I just can't enjoy them without worrying Makoto is gonna pop up behind me, and make me pregnant whilst the woman in love with me falls in love with him instead.

In case this wasn't clear this is me both agreeing and disagreeing with you at the same time

I don't know about you, but just because it's the best in its genre doesn't mean its good at all.

Between how unrealistic every character acts (in order to keep the story going), and the nonsensical ending I really find it hard to understand why anyone likes this.