When I first came across this anime, I was a little skeptical; so far, my experience with school life-based anime had been dull. This anime proved to break that mold and provided an entertaining, even exciting, story, while still providing lots of beautiful animation and music.

Makoto Ito rides the train to and from school every day. However, at the beginning of his second term, he falls in love with a beautiful girl that also rides the train. Unfortunately, she barely knows of his existence. Her name is Kotonoha Katsura, and though they attend the same school, they are not in the same class. In an attempt to catch her eye, Makoto enlists the aid of a close female friend of his: Sekai Saionji. She helps him, despite the fact that she–unbeknownst to Makoto–is in love with him. Thus the three are bound in a love triangle of life changing proportions.

I recommend the quality fansubbed episodes of Conclave. You can download the episodes from via bittorrent — link goes to tracker.

Update: this series has finished airing. The ending was, in a word, bloody. As of this writing, m.3.3.w fansubs (tracker) is the only group to have completed all 12 episodes.


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