There is not much to say about Seitokai Yakuindomo (S.Y.D.) in general except to confirm earlier predictions that it would succeed where Seitokai Ichizon failed. Perhaps it was not side-splittingly funny all the time, but equally it was not nasty like its rival. I even marathoned it in large chunks.

Liked: It was ok, even good at times.
Rewatch: Probably not, but won't say no to a club screening.

Retrospective:

Make no mistake, the teenage hormone overdose was the spine of the proceedings. One curious thing was how the creators honed the balance. First two or three episodes were very heavily loaded, followed by a ton of character development, and some oscillations thereafter as the right ratio was attained.

The generic gag also received a good space. Many of them caught me by surprise, unlike the ones rooted in the puberty.

GoHands' art style does not sit well with me. It's not as dis-shaped as, say, one in Sunrise's SoraKake, but nonetheless something feels weird about it. It is pretty consistent and I see that they have done it with a purpose.

Just to show that they can do it when they want, a number of scenes with a wide variety of basic art was thrown in. I don't mean only Georgi, but also chunks of the main show.

Perversely, I thought the simplified (e.g. SD-equivalent) scenes were very cute and I liked it more than the main show's look. There was something of J.C.Staff in it. Shino looks like a loosely-wound, sex-obsessed Sakaki-san. I know about the "tall and dark" trope, but we're talking the character art here.

Unattached notes:

I don't have a screencap for Mako, but it was rather strange that embedded anime was better than its host. This may not be a fluke, since Mako appears in the host backgrounds, and does not have an entire show for herself like Geikandar 3.

In the beginning, it was really unsettling how voices invoked deja vu. It went double for Shintaro Asanuma, since I did not watch any shows with him. But when Satomi Arai's character Hata appeared a few episodes down, the reaction was very different, since she is very recognizable.

I laughed out for the first time in ep.9, when the "writing talent" sequence built to its crescendo. It followed quickly with Igarashi receiving a request for "male student" in the mystery race. Another notable gag was Kotomi's interview with Yokoshima ("scythe ran over stone" as Russians say).

Todoroki is the cutest robosexual ever. Alas, 2nd season is not going to happen.

UPDATE: Peter twitters: "My favorite bit: Takatoshi hallucinating a magical girl in his bed, and his bored reaction." He neglected to mention it in the finale post. The bottom line was: "Don’t ask me why I watched this all the way through. I simply don’t know." I assume the passage of time added a bit of perspective.