IF YOU'VE READ THE SYNOPSIS YOU ALREADY KNOW, BUT JUST IN CASE, FROM HERE ON OUT THERE MAY BE MINOR SPOILERS
School-Live! follows the lives of the School Living Club, a club consisting of four students and one teacher (as well as a dog), as they go about various club activities. This club isn't like any other club however. It's the only club, and its members are seemingly the only survivors of a zombie outbreak. Our main character, Yuki, doesn't seem to realize what kind of situation they are in, as she attends classes in empty, beaten down classrooms. She plans School Living Club events, all the while, the other survivors, Kurumi, Miki, Yuuri, and Megu-nee try to come to grips with their situation and how to potentially survive.
The best way to describe this series would be "Psychological-infused Moe". The main focus is split between the girls being concerned about Yuki and her current state, and the zombies and how they plan to survive. The problem is that these two tones don't mesh very well together. Had this series focused on one or the other it could have excelled. Unfortunately, splitting its time between both causes both aspects, and ultimately the plot as a whole, to suffer. The zombies never feel like a legitimate threat, and a plot device used later on in the series feels all but shoehorned in in an effort to give the plot more depth. Meanwhile, the moe aspect of the series lacks as well, as characters come off more as annoying than cute.
Aside from Miki, the viewers learn next to nothing about any of the characters, making it very hard to emotionally invest in any of them. Their reliance on one another becoming the driving force behind what makes them want to make it out alive. The girls actively try to keep Yuki from losing it, and she returns the favor, although she doesn't realize it. This is about as far as the characters come. They just aren't interesting enough to the viewer to care about them.
The last few episodes of this series are very good, and show what this series could have been had it focused on just the Psychological side of things. Instead it ends up being a series that had potential and a good concept, but is relatively forgettable.
