Gakkougurashi!

If no one has spoiled you yet, PLEASE go into this anime BLIND! Just finish EP1 and you'll be completely surprised. It's just not what it seems to be.
The character development and plotline are pretty interesting, especially towards the end. The way the anime handles the perspectives of the different characters is very well done and makes it clear what they experience compared to the others.
It's really hard to properly reccommend this without spoiling it.. The only way to know if you like it is just to try EP1 and go from there.
This anime is SO worth the watch, especially going in blind! Just go ... watch it!

THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY ANIME EXPERIENCES

i was going to rate this a 10/10, but I ended up with a 6/10 .....What went wrong?

the show is Excellent:
• it has Zero Mistakes (few scenes could be more convincing)
• it manages to be Tense and Adult, captivating and funny
• the Quality is pretty high
• Good characters development and story telling
• probably the Best plot twist I've ever seen
... • there are Easter eggs
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here are the Show Killers:

• how in the hell Yuki managed to save everyone by talking to Zombies, this is garbage.
the show did its best to make everyone die, everyone was alone and in a desperate situations, but it seems that directors decided to force an happy ending.
I think they had to die, it would have been Very hard to digest but also a memorable, different and a well executed ending.

• the Dog is a complete Mess, he is the responsible for the School Break-in, ALSO he eventually became a Tiny Hero Zombie Dog that saved Yuki from Certain Death by pushing away the Horde that was surrounding her.

• experimental vaccine is OP and basically can transform a zombie into human?! (also a zombie dog into a dog that will die few minutes later because yeah the drama...)
+ there is a big inconsistency about the time of infection.

• the Anime isn't as conclusive (and not as good) as the manga, but I have to evaluate what I got to see:
we don't get to know why Megumi never spoke about Vaccines and Shelters.
unfortunately we also don't get to see what happens after the end
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I ended this Anime in 24h which is something that I Never do, i thought that it could be my Very Favorite, and I'm speechless about the last part of the show.

there are no justifications

With a very strong start, gakkougurashi turns more and more dissapointing at every episode that passes.

!!!!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!

The characters really are not much more than moe cute girls, and when the show has any opportunity to explore them more, just wastes it. For example, the decision to make Miki confront zombie Megumi not only is the less interesting option to make; but also goes against the supposed message of "moving on" from the show. has none of the girls have or even seem to acknowledge the need to kill Megumi zombie.

Actually, the show contradicting its own message also happens when Yuuri refuses to kill Kurumi and ... that's completely okay having no consequences at all. This could be an option to be made and even be interpreted as the "right choice", but brushing it off with just some cliff hanger of Yuuri almost killing her and then one or two scenes of her crying does not explore any theme and would be better off NOT PUT on the show at all if you're not going to do anything with it.

The final monologues about "how we need to move on and everything has to come to an end" really misses to hit due to this repeated refusal of the show to show us that.

Yuki refusal to believe on what happened was also a very VERY cool concept, but it was so poorly and I mean REALLY POORLY executed, it never builded the tension that the show so desperatly tired to create.

I also felt that there was a loss of focus on what character should be the main one. While I understand the need to make Miki an outsider so she can confront Yuki and we can get more context without a full info dump; it was too stretched out for us to see, know more and even process Yuki as the actual main character.

Overall, there were really good and cool ideas, but left more to be desired for.