This revelation colors everything that follows in increasingly darker tones, as the series bounces back and forth between survival tales and bursts of standard cute-girl silliness. While the first 20-odd minutes are some of the dullest and most stereotypical of the season, it drops enough hints (a hardtack breakfast here, a desk barricade there) to leave the audience uncertain, and then at last pulls back the curtain to reveal the truth: Our characters are the sole survivors of a zombie outbreak, stranded and isolated from the world, and the “happy school life” we’ve been viewing is a delusion created by the point-of-view character, Yuki. School-Live follows the “School Living Club,” four girls (and young teacher) (and pet dog) who look after the campus and other students and are not allowed to leave the building unless on official club business.
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If you have no clue what I’m talking about and don’t want to have it spoiled for you, then go sit through the first episode (available on Crunchyroll) and come back.
I saw the cover art for this one and figured I’d make it ten minutes into the pilot had my curiosity piqued just enough by the end-of-premiere twist to give it another week or two continued to watch half-intrigued and half-cynical, convinced that it was always five minutes from shooting itself in the foot and leaping off a cliff… and now here I am at the end of it, writing a full review and feeling pleasantly surprised by the experience.Īs I’ve said before, there’s no way to discuss this show in-depth without mentioning The Reveal that happens at the end of the first episode. Talk about never judging a book by its cover.Įxpectations are funny things.