School-Live!

School-Live!

Cover of Gakkō Gurashi! volume 1 published by Houbunsha, featuring main heroine Yuki Takeya.
がっこうぐらし!
(Gakkō Gurashi!)
Genre Horror, Survival,[1]
Manga
Written by Norimitsu Kaihō
Illustrated by Sadoru Chiba
Published by Houbunsha
English publisher

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Demographic Seinen
Magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward
Original run July 2012 – present
Volumes 8
Anime television series
Directed by Masaomi Ando
Written by Norimitsu Kaihō
Music by MOSAIC.WAV
Studio Lerche
Licensed by

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Animatsu Entertainment
Network AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, BS11
English network

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Original run July 9, 2015 – September 24, 2015
Episodes 12

School-Live! (Japanese: がっこうぐらし! Hepburn: Gakkō Gurashi!, lit. "Living at School!") is a Japanese manga series written by Nitroplus' Norimitsu Kaihō and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. The series began serialization in the July 2012 issue of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine and is licensed in English by Yen Press. An anime adaptation by Lerche aired between July and September 2015.

Plot

Yuki Takeya is a cheerful school girl who, along with her friends Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yūri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki, is a member of the Megurigaoka Private High School's School Living Club (巡ヶ丘学院高等学校 学園生活部 Megurigaoka Gakuin Kōtō Gakkō Gakuen Seikatsu-bu). As Yuki seeks out fun school activities every day while living at school, the other girls work to keep her safe, because in reality, they are the sole survivors of their school after a zombie outbreak overruns the city.

Characters

School Living Club

The main characters of the series who are a small club of girls who prioritize being able to live while inside the school.

Yuki Takeya (丈槍 由紀 Takeya Yuki)[2]
Voiced by: Inori Minase[3]
A bright and cheerful girl who is always excited to try new and exciting club activities. As result of a mental breakdown due to the zombie outbreak, Yuki has created an idealized delusion for herself, believing that everything is normal and her classmates and teachers are alive and well. Slowly, she realizes the truth of her surroundings, but still acts oblivious, though she will panic on occasions when her delusion breaks down and she sees reality for what it is. Since leaving the school, Yuki has slowly been coming to terms with reality and has tried to be of more use to the group.
Kurumi Ebisuzawa (恵飛須沢 胡桃 Ebisuzawa Kurumi)[4]
Voiced by: Ari Ozawa[3]
A twin-tailed member of the School Living Club, who is often sent out on the more dangerous missions. She carries a shovel around with her at all times in case of zombie encounters. She was formerly in love with an unnamed upperclassman, but when the zombie outbreak occurred, her crush was bitten and attacked her. She then used a shovel to kill him, which explains why it is her weapon of choice. After she becomes infected by being bitten on the right arm by the zombified Megumi, she is seemingly cured by an antidote. However, her body remains cold and she is ignored by other zombies, suggesting that the antidote didn't work properly. In later manga chapters, she is beginning to display zombie-like behavior though she still manages to retain her sense of self.
Yūri Wakasa (若狭 悠里 Wakasa Yūri)[5]
Voiced by: M.A.O[3]
The president of the School Living Club, nicknamed "Rī-san" (りーさん). She is the one who manages food, electricity, lessons, and so on. Even though she acts as a strong girl and big sister for the other members, she is extremely mentally fragile, growing more unstable as the stakes get higher. She has a younger sister named Rū, who she believes she has rescued from an elementary school but is later revealed to be Yuki's stuffed teddy bear.
Miki Naoki (直樹 美紀 Naoki Miki)[6]
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi[3]
A blonde-haired girl who is a year below the other girls and is nicknamed "Mī-kun" (みーくん) by Yuki, much to her dismay. She was rescued by the School Living Club while they were scouting a shopping mall, where she had been living since the outbreak. She initially dislikes the way Kurumi and Yuri play along with Yuki's delusions, but later comes to understand how she helps them. She also becomes kind and soft, opening her true self to other members, and is especially close to both Yuki and Kurumi.

Megurigaoka Private High School

Megumi Sakura (佐倉 慈 Sakura Megumi)[7]
Voiced by: Ai Kayano[8]
A teacher and the adviser for the School Living Club who is affectionately called "Megu-nē" (めぐねえ) by her students, forming the club to protect the girls when the outbreak occurred. While initially shown to be a teacher with rather little presence, often being interrupted by the other girls, it is soon revealed that she, like the other students, is another part of Yuki's delusions. The real Megumi was infected shortly after forming the School Living Club, forcing herself into a hidden part of the school before completely turning into a zombie. When she is eventually found, she ends up infecting Kurumi before being put down by Miki.
Kei Shidō (祠堂 圭 Shidō Kei)[9]
Voiced by: Juri Kimura[10]
Miki's classmate and best friend who was with her when the zombie outbreak occurred. Forced to lock themselves in a shopping mall as a result, Kei eventually grew impatient of spending her life indoors and set out on her own. When the girls finally leave their school, Miki believes that she saw a zombified Kei on the way out.

St. Isidore University

A university in the same town area as the School-Live club. It is one of the several designated facilities in the town with survival rations, solar panels, and an evacuation shelter.

Tōko Deguchi (出口 桐子 Deguchi Tōko)
The club president of the St. Isidore University's Dissolute Club (自堕落同好会 Jidaraku Dōkō-kai), a small team of girls who are at odds with some of the other students who are more focused on survival. She has a collection of video games and movies which she can play using the university's facilities. She makes an anime-original cameo in anime's final episode post-credits. She left the Melee Fight Club when she disagreed with their strict methods. Unlike the Melee Fight Club, she does not enforce body checks for signs of infection.
Aki Hikarizato (光里 晶 Hikarizato Aki)
Member of the Dissolute Club and like the most of its members, she was a former member of Melee Fight Club until she left after having a glimpse of the thrilling pleasure that Ayaka took in the zombie apocalypse. She was a Liberal Arts Major before the outbreak.
Hikako Kirai (喜来 比嘉子 Kirai Hikako)
Repairman of the Dissolute Club, nicknamed Hika for short. She is quiet and kind, but was kicked out of the Melee Fight Club after failing to kill a zombie by herself in fear, being deemed too weak to survive. She was an Engineering student and performs maintenance on the facilities that the Dissolute Club uses.
Rise Ryougawara (稜河原 理瀬 Ryougawara Rise)
The bookworm and librarian of the Dissolute Club, she often remains in the school library to read books due to her love of books and rarely leaves. She was also a Liberal Arts Major before the outbreak.
Takahito Tougou (頭護 貴人 Tougou Takahito)
Leader of the Melee Fight Club, the more survival-oriented combatant group of students at the university. He enforces body checks on all members of the club in order to eliminate the chance of a zombie infection among them. He is often seen with a negative outlook and expression because of the stress of surviving the outbreak. He uses a nail bat as a weapon.
Ayaka Kamiji (神持 朱夏 Kamiji Ayaka)
One of the remaining female members of the Melee Fight Club, she usually is calm and without obvious emotion but secretly takes great pleasure in killing zombies and people alike, as a means of having a fulfilling existence. She is adept at using a crossbow and knife as weapons.
Shino Uhara ((右原 篠生 Uhara Shinō)
The other female member of the Melee Fight Club, she has a side ponytail and is the main zombie exterminator of the group. She has a kind-hearted nature, but is efficient in exterminating zombies. She considers another member of the Melee Fight Club, Kougami, as a precious person and has been hinted to be pregnant. She is adept with a variety of weapons, usually using a ice pick or a similar short weapon.
Renya Kougami (高上 聯弥 Kougami Renya)
Another member of the Melee Fight Club. Nicknamed Ren, he uses a crossbow and is Shino's lover.
Shigeru Takashige (城下 隆茂 Takashige Shigeru)
Another member of the Melee Fight Club.

Other characters

Tarōmaru (太郎丸)[11]
Voiced by: Emiri Katō[12]
A Shiba Inu puppy that was found by Yuki and taken in as the School Living Club's mascot. However, because he was infected, the girls had to throw him away when he turned, but he still occasionally attempts to get into the clubroom due to his residual memories of the club. He has an expanded role in the anime version, having originally been found by Miki before they were both taken in by the club, but is later infected by Megumi. Although he is cured by the same vaccine given to Kurumi, he is left weak from the fight and later dies.
Radio DJ (ラジオDJ Rajio Dī Jē)
A girl who broadcasts on a pirate radio station in the hopes of reaching out to any survivors. Unfortunately, she succumbs to her infection before the School Living Club are able to reach her. She does, however, live long enough to leave a note behind explaining to any survivors that come across her hideout to take the keys to the hideout and motorhome which the girls do.
Rū-chan (るーちゃん)
Yūri's little sister who is in elementary school. Yūri seemingly rescues her from the elementary school after the School Living Club leaves their own school. In reality, Rū is actually just Yuki's teddy bear that Yūri deluded herself into thinking is her sister similar to Yuki's delusions of Megumi. The others from St. Isidore University and the School Living Club, including Yuki, were simply playing along to keep Yūri happy and sane as they did for Yuki in the past.

Media

Manga

School-Live! is written by Nitroplus' Norimitsu Kaihō and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. It began serialization in the July 2012 issue of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine.[13] Houbunsha published the first tankōbon volume on December 12, 2012, with eight volumes released as of August 10, 2016.[14] Yen Press began releasing the series in English in November 2015.[15] A manga anthology illustrated by various artists titled Gakkō Gurashi! Anthology Comic "On" (がっこうぐらし! アンソロジーコミック 穏) was released on July 13, 2015.[16]

Volume list

No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1 December 12, 2012[14]ISBN 978-4-8322-4236-4November 17, 2015[17]ISBN 978-0-316-30970-7
2 June 12, 2013[14]ISBN 978-4-8322-4309-5February 23, 2016[18]ISBN 978-0-316-30988-2
3 December 12, 2013[14]ISBN 978-4-8322-4378-1May 24, 2016[19]ISBN 978-0-316-30992-9
4 July 11, 2014[14]ISBN 978-4-8322-4462-7August 23, 2016[20]ISBN 978-0-316-30995-0
5 March 12, 2015[14]ISBN 978-4-8322-4538-9November 15, 2016[21]ISBN 978-0-316-31001-7
6 August 11, 2015[14]ISBN 978-4-8322-4603-4——
7 January 12, 2016[14]ISBN 978-4-8322-4653-9——
8 August 10, 2016[14]ISBN 978-4-8322-4730-7——

Anime

An anime television series was announced on June 21, 2014.[1] The series was directed by Masaomi Ando at Lerche, with scripts by manga writer Norimitsu Kaihō and character design by Haruko Iikuza. The series aired in Japan between July 9, 2015 and September 24, 2015 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll.[3][8][22] The series features four pieces of theme music; one opening theme and three ending themes. The opening theme is "Friend Shitai" (ふ・れ・ん・ど・し・た・い Furendo Shitai, "I Want To Be Friends") by Gakuen Seikatsu-bu (Inori Minase, Ari Ozawa, M.A.O, and Rie Takahashi). The ending theme is "Harmonize Clover" (ハーモナイズ・クローバー Hāmonaizu Kurōbā) by Maon Kurosaki for episodes 1-3, 5, and 9,[23][24] "We took each other's hand" by Kaori Sawada for episode 4, and "Afterglow" (アフターグロー Afutāgurō) by Kurosaki for episode 6-8 and 10-11. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series in North America.[25] A drama-CD based on the anime television series was released at Comiket 88 on August 14, 2015.[26]

Episode list

No. Title [27] Original air date [28]
1 "Beginning"
"Hajimari" (はじまり) 		July 9, 2015
Yuki Takeya is a cheerful high school girl who lives at school and spends time with the School Living Club alongside fellow members Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yūri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki, and their advisor, Megumi Sakura. During classes, Yuki and Miki chase after their pet dog, Tarōmaru, who decides to go wandering off on his own, eventually tracking him down. Later on, as Miki accompanies Yuki as she retrieves her bag from class, it is revealed that Yuki's view of a rosy school life with her fellow classmates is all in her head. In reality, she and the other members of the School Living Club are the only survivors of their school following a zombie outbreak. 
2 "Memories"
"Omoide" (おもいで) 		July 16, 2015
Kurumi recalls an upperclassman that she had a crush on before he became a zombie. As Kurumi scouts the school for any wandering zombies, she is shocked to see one of them was once the upperclassman's girlfriend, which she is forced to kill. Later, Yuki suggests that everyone go on a test of courage through the school, which the others use as a motive to obtain supplies. While exploring the library, Yuki comes close to encountering a zombie, but is calmed down by Megumi and encouraged to hide while the others lure it away and finish it off, with Yuki remaining unaware. 
3 "That Time"
"Ano Toki" (あのとき) 		July 23, 2015
Writing in her diary, Megumi recalls the events of the day everything changed. Going through what should've been a normal day of school, Megumi helps Yuki with a make-up test while giving Kurumi some love advice. After discovering some disturbing texts from her mother about the situation outside, Megumi takes Yuki to the rooftops, where Yūri had been attending the garden. There, Megumi learns about the zombie attack, with Kurumi and her injured upperclassman also making their way up to the rooftop. As the others are forced to barricade the door from approaching zombies, Kurumi is attacked by her zombified upperclassman and is forced to kill him in front of Yuki. Back in the present, Yuki suggests everyone participate in a camping trip during a power outage, with everyone feeling thankful for everything Megumi has done for them. 
4 "Outing"
"Ensoku" (えんそく) 		July 30, 2015
Miki recalls her experiences of the incident, in which she and her friend, Kei Shido, along with Tarōmaru, were at a shopping mall when the outbreak occurred. As the three spend the following weeks hiding out in the mall's upper offices, Kei eventually grows tired of being inside all of the time and sets off outside, leaving Miki and Tarōmaru by themselves. Meanwhile, Yuki proposes to the club that they go on a school outing. As the girls take Megumi's car and make their way towards the mall, Miki discovers that Tarōmaru has gone missing too. 
5 "Meeting"
"Deai" (であい) 		August 6, 2015
Yuki and the others arrive at the shopping mall, exploring the place for supplies while taking care to avoid zombies. While visiting the supermarket section, Kurumi comes across Tarōmaru, who the group decide to take with them. As the girls end up disturbing a large group of zombies and are forced to retreat, Miki hears their cries and goes off in search of them. Just as the girls start to head back to the school, Yuki manages to hear Miki as she becomes cornered by zombies, allowing the girls to come to her rescue in the nick of time. 
6 "Welcome"
"Yōkoso" (ようこそ) 		August 13, 2015
Given a tour of the school by Yuki upon waking up, Miki quickly comes to learn about her delusions, including the fact that the existence of Megumi is also one of them. Later, Yuri and Kurumi later explain to Miki how the real Megumi, who founded the School Living Club with Yuri, sacrificed herself in order to protect her students from the zombies, the shock of which left Yuki with the delusion that Megumi and the other students are still alive. Asked by the others to play along with this act, Miki reluctantly takes part in a sports meet with everyone, where she learns a little about how Yuki's way of thinking helps everyone. Wanting to understand more, Miki decides to become a trial member of the School Living Club. 
7 "A Letter"
"Otegami" (おてがみ) 		August 20, 2015
Back in the present, as Yuki's delusion starts to show signs of cracking, Miki grows concerned that letting things continue this way is doing Yuki more harm than good. Later, Yuki manages to find a stationery set among Megumi's belongings, which the club decide to use to write letters to send outside, while Miki finds a key, which she gives to Yuri for safekeeping. The next day, the girls send off their letters on balloons, with Miki writing one for Kei. 
8 "Future"
"Shōrai" (しょうらい) 		August 27, 2015
After Yuki and Kurumi give Tarōmaru a much-needed bath, the girls discuss their plans after they graduate while Yūri recalls the day, she and Megumi started the School Living Club. Later that night, Miki becomes curious about the school's excessive facilities that has allowed them to survive and joins Yūri in searching the staff room for whatever Megumi's key unlocks. With Yuki's help, they find a hidden safe containing an emergency manual, which reveals the school was involved with a biological weapon and was constructed as a safe house in the event of an outbreak. 
9 "Holiday"
"Kyūjitsu" (きゅうじつ) 		September 3, 2015
As the girls further inspect the manual, learning of a shelter hidden in the school's basement, Yuki ropes everyone into cleaning the school's water tank to use as a swimming pool. While the girls take their minds off of things by swimming and having water fights, Miki finds herself able to grow closer to Tarōmaru, who was cold to her before. Afterwards, Yuki gives Miki some advice that if she enjoys herself, she will surely meet Kei again. Later that night, Tarōmaru breaks free from his leash and goes down into the basement, where he comes across a familiar looking zombie. 
10 "Rainy Day"
"Ame no Hi" (あめのひ) 		September 10, 2015
Upon discovering that Tarōmaru has gone missing, the girls go off in search for him. Following his tracks down to the basement, Kurumi finds Tarōmaru, only to find he had become infected. Managing to lock Tarōmaru up, Kurumi enters the underground shelter only to discover that the zombie who bit him is none other than Megumi herself, becoming bitten by her when she hesitates to attack her. As the girls struggle over what to do as Kurumi's condition worsens, Miki learns of an antidote located in the shelter and decides to go to the basement, but is soon overcome with grief over Tarōmaru. Meanwhile, as zombies start making their way inside the school, Yuki begins to remember something. 
11 "Scar"
"Kizuato" (きずあと) 		September 17, 2015
With zombies spreading across the school, Yuki rushes over to Miki's aid, giving her the encouragement she needs to go off in search of the antidote. Meanwhile, a thunderstorm strikes the school's power generator, cutting the school's power, while Yūri comes close to killing Kurumi before she completely turns, but can't bring herself to do it. Down in the basement, Miki comes face to face with Megumi, assuring her that the others are doing fine before putting her to rest. Miki manages to find the antidote, only to become cornered by zombies alerted by the backup power's alerts. Meanwhile, Yuki, who gradually remembers what really happened, is guided by her version of Megumi towards the broadcasting room, finally coming to terms with Megumi's death. 
12 "Graduation"
"Sotsugyō" (そつぎょう) 		September 24, 2015
Arriving at the broadcasting room, Yuki is cornered by zombies but is saved by Tarōmaru, who had instinctively come to her rescue. Realising that the zombies still retain their residual memories, Yuki manages to send all the zombie students away by telling them to go home, allowing Miki to deliver the antidote. Although the antidote manages to cure Kurumi of her condition, Tarōmaru is left weak from being infected for so long and passes away in Miki's arms. After giving Tarōmaru a proper burial alongside Megumi, the girls learn that the reason he went down to the basement was to search for another puppy that was somewhere in the school. With the school no longer habitable due to the damage done to the electricity, the girls decide to head towards a university marked on a map by Megumi, holding a graduation ceremony to bid their farewells to the school. As the girls set off on their "graduation trip", another girl elsewhere comes across one of their letters. 

Appearances in other media

Yuki appeared as a support character in a fighting game called Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel, which was released in December 2015.[29]

Reception

The first episode of the anime was well-received and sparked a ten-fold increase in manga sales. It was also viewed more than 1 million times on Niconico.[30]

The official Twitter of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazines has announced that School-Live! had 1.2 million copies in print.[31]

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  2. ↑ "Character - Yuki". Gakkou Gurashi! (in Japanese). Retrieved July 5, 2015.
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