Gakkougurashi!

In the first few minutes of the anime, all we see is a group of girls doing school club activities, typical of a CGDCT anime. In the final minutes of the first episode, it seems like another type of anime, post-apocalyptic, depressing and dramatic, as the girls' reality is revealed; it is unlikely to write a review without revealing the biggest spoilers of the anime!

The story is slow, but captivating; the characters are simple, but this simplicity is the "charm" of the anime; the character with the greatest prominence is Takeya Yuki, who has difficulty understanding what is happening around her; Wakasa Yuuri is the ... cook of the group, who has an older sisterly attitude, even though she is the youngest, the character does not have any development, but is always providing moral support to the group; Ebisuzawa Kurumi is the most hyperactive of all, worried about the safety of her friends; Naoki Miki is the last to arrive, she does not have much confidence in herself; Unlike most post-apocalyptic animes that focus on violence against zombies, Gakkougurashi focuses on the group's daily lives.

The anime features many scenes with simplistic features, but they can be ignored due to the quality of the story and drama; it has implicit subplots with a Yuri context; for those who think of watching it in search of fan service/ecchi because it has cute girls, they will be disappointed, the most they will find is girls in bikinis on a normal summer day, without exaggerated fan service/ecchi; for those who are looking for an anime with twists, suspense and drama in a post-apocalyptic setting starring girls, Gakkougurashi is more than recommended!

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.