Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26319667-20150417013705/@comment-32500188-20150417122939

I giggled a bit after looking at the thread title and thinking about it this way: both series feature Japanese teenagers in some sort of conflict (both in and out of the school environment), on top of stressing the importance of the power of friendship in their own creative twists as each story progresses. Doesn't about 90% of anime do that in general? Therefore, they're more "normal" than you think... they just have an odd way of presenting it, which overshadows the fact that they follow the same basic formula that just about all kid and adolecent age-related shows do. (ᗒ∀ᗕ)

But I do get what you mean... both of them do have a darker way of presenting themselves than the more light-hearted school/shoujo/shounen related material, but like everyone else mentions, there are plenty of non-VOCALOID related animes that go just as dark, if not much darker, than these two.