They’re fortunate – the school is equipped with solar panelling, so they have power, a largescale rain collector and water purifier, so they have clean water, and a roof garden allowing them to have at least some sort of replenishing food supply.
They’re stuck in the upper floors of their school with the lower floors barricaded off in a ramshackle fashion. Above all else, the characters are simply trying to survive. So how is this not a cute-girls-doing-cute-things show? Survival isn’t a ‘cute thing’. So consider this a warning! If you just want to know my general impressions: Gakkou Gurashi! is excellent, frequently emotionally trying, and you should watch it.
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It’s impossible to discuss certain important parts of the series without mentioning those early events, but knowing of those early events ahead of time could seriously ruin your enjoyment of them. Note: this review WILL be mentioning some early spoilers. ‘Cute girls doing cute things’ was really only a surface impression, and the reality is far more complex than that. Gakkou Gurashi! proved to be a remarkable series, intensely dramatic, horrifying and psychological. The moe schoolgirl s’life thing has had its moment in the sun, zombies are seriously passé, and the last time high school + zombies was attempted in anime we ended up with Highschool of the Dead and the less said about that the better.īut as they say, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.
This is what Gakkou Gurashi! (aka School-Live!) seemed to be billing itself as prior to airing, and while it drew a lot of attention it was not exactly positive. Cute girls doing cute things at school… during the zombie apocalypse! It’s easy to have reservations about this show based on that premise, I think for fairly obvious reasons.