Gakkou Gurashi! Episode 1 Discussion

Jul 10, 2015 10:10 AM

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coffeeworld said:
I've seen a lot of people complained who read the manga, well, this is not the right for you to discuss that thing, this is ANIME not Manga. Specifically Discussion for Episode 1 not the chapters of the manga. For me, as I didn't read the manga, the story was well executed.

Yeah, well, the people who read the manga compare the two AND discuss the episode. If we were talking only on the manga, I could see you complaining. Seeing as we are not, I am pretty sure you can't tell me what I can and cannot talk about.

Also, you can see that a lot of people that have NOT read the manga still think the episode was having a shitty attempt at slice of life.

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Jul 10, 2015 10:16 AM

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Kinda creepy how she is talking to people who aren't really there.

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Wait wtf the text behind xD
So dark

Didn't pay attention to the text at all :o

Jul 10, 2015 10:24 AM

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All I'm seeing are cute girls doing cute things, where are the horror in thi--Oh...
Okay, so that is one screwed up twist right there.

Not bad. Comfy over the half of the episode. Then it turned out they're actually in the middle of zombie-pocalypse (?). Interesting....

Jul 10, 2015 10:39 AM

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Slice of Life? More like Lives are Sliced. That twist was amazing.

O.O

Jul 10, 2015 10:46 AM

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LoveChild said:
I had the good intention to read all 5 pages of comments, but there's barely anything discussion worthy in 85% of them, so I am sorry, just skipping ahead and giving my 5 cents on episode 1:

The reveal is what saved it. I LOVE the source material and the art style is great, but the episode was absolutely SHIT!!!!!!! It even failed in pretending to be a moe SoI. The choice to chase the dog for an entire episode is a very poor one, when we're talking episode one - the very first that should hook people up. If they wanted to go mask it as slice of life - good. But I am sure there could have been plenty of other scenarios they could have gone with that would mislead the viewers and still not bore them to death. Because I ended up only waiting for the big reveal, that's how disappointed and uninterested I was. And mind you, I like slice of life, it's just that Gakkou Gurashi did really poorly at it and the "well it isn't actually moe slice of life, it's horror" is not an excuse in my book.
As for the reveal - it was executed perfectly I have no complains about it and the scene with Yuki in the classroom actually shook me. The manga did a great job with it, but aside from a surprise and a gasp, it didn't really strike me as much as seeing it in animated form.

About Taromaru(?) and Miki: eh. I can see why they're there. But I don't think "otherwise she would need to appear around episode 8" is a valid excuse. I think there could've been plenty of things that could have been done differently, present some things in a more organized fashion and have Miki by episode 5 or something. It looks like many of the manga readers forget Megu-nee is not a minor character in the whole story, so having her

pretty much removes a good amount of story that they will actually bring back later as a flashback. At least this is how I think will happen. And that is something absolutely unneeded. Why just not play things out normally like in the manga and add Miki later on? I know a lot of you love her, but I love Megu-nee too and having this weird twist is pretty much pointless to me. Why rush things, if you'll explain them with flashbacks later on?!
Also, I am curious if there is a possibility that the dog

It probably gonna work since it's the author who is in charge with the script but maybe they will skip some stuff since its 12 episode only.

in 12 episodes they can adapt 30 chapters without skipping nothing

I'm not so sure honestly, most chapter are 30pages +. Also episode 1 cover chapter 1 so you stil have 29 chapters for 11 episode which makes a little less than 3 chapter/episode which is quite big for 30pages + per chapter. Or I was just slow when I read it because I swear it took me as long as a 80 chapter of weekly manga.

They just wanted to finish the 1st episode like the 1st chapter of the manga, this is probably the reason of why they adapted just 1 chapter in this episode, i am pretty sure the next episode will adapt in the first half the second chapter and in the second half the third chapter. these are my previsions for episode 2. if they continue adapting 1 chapter per episode this adaptation will be rushed as hell.
Btw you are slow.

Thai777 said:
No I'm pretty sure there was quite a lot of them in other chapter, some are full of SoL. Like chapter 14. There was also chapter 25 which almost made me sleep.

3 chapter full of SoL out of 35. Not bad. the rest of SoL scenes are most likely fake SoL that makes you depressed and are really short ones.

I can't remember but I do know that it happened more often than 3 chapter and they aren't all that short. Of course the SoL is not the dominant one but it is not a small portion either from what I remember so it's better if you tell them that it's happens sometimes but maybe the author will change that since she is in charge of the anime.

And yeah I know that for episode 1 they purposely slowed it down to just have the twist but even taking that on account I still don't think it can adapt 30, I do think it can do 20 but 30 is far fetched in my opinion.

Oh well, 30 pages aren't a lot, if you put into them SoL, Horror, Psychological panels you'll immediately understand that the panels with SoL aren't a lot (5-10 maybe?)

They can do it, if they skip useless fillers (there aren't fillers in the manga as far as i remember), fillers= chapter full of SoL and SoL scenes they can do it i think. it is obvious that they will change the story a little for the first 3-4 episodes (because there's Miki too) and maybe for later episodes too, if they do their best, they can do it.
There's always the idea of Original Ending, if they make an original ending i'll be more than angry, the manga is perfect.

Well I will trust you on that one, but don't say that only the first episode will have SoL which is false.
Anime original ending can be good. It's the author, we can expect the same quality no?

Not really, An anime original ending for this one wouldn't make sense, if they stop at 30 chapters they can do (or better, if sales are good, -they will do) a second season and it's not only that, the "first half" (i suppose) of the manga finished at 30 chapters and it was really touching, i cried a little, the ending was perfect. So, for me, an anime original ending would be really a bad idea.

You are right i shouldn't have said it.

Jul 10, 2015 11:07 AM

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Zombies are so god damn overdone

Jul 10, 2015 11:39 AM

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So far it's looking like it doesn't stick to the manga. Miki and the dog being in the first episode threw me off. It could throw off pacing of the show later. I'll still watch it though.

Jul 10, 2015 11:49 AM

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My mind got legitimately fucked O_O

Jul 10, 2015 12:15 PM

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