The Morbid Slice-of-Life Series Anime Fans Forgot About
This article contains spoilers for the School-Live! anime.
Did you ever play Doki Doki Literature Club? If you did, remember the bait-and-switch genre switch halfway through the game? Now, imagine if an anime followed a similar formula, but with zombies. That's what School-Live is. The anime came out back in 2015 and was the talk of the town after the polarizing first episode aired, but has since been forgotten. But did it deserve to be tossed to the wayside?
School-Live is an anime about four overly cute girls surviving daily life at their school. Literally. In fact, Yuki is completely delusional and is hallucinating a normal life with her and her friends. Meanwhile, her friends that are grounded in reality are simply trying to keep each other alive inside their old school, which was nearly destroyed in the ongoing zombie apocalypse. The bulk of the anime takes place in Yuki's delusions, with the occasional flash to their deadly reality. But what does the anime have to offer past the infamous plot twist in the first episode?
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The first episode alone is one of the most unique anime episodes to ever exist. It starts out as a bright and cheery introduction to your typical slice-of-life anime, and waits to reveal the true intentions behind the anime until the final two minutes of the episode. What was before the most stereotypical and cliché CGDCT anime episode suddenly turned into an atmospheric horror in a matter of seconds, and played out just long enough for you to realize what you're really getting into with School-Live.
That being said, not much is talked about past the first episode. This is unfortunate, because the anime seamlessly blends the two worlds introduced in the first episode.
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