While I entered with some second-hand knowledge of the involvement of zombies in the show's plot-due to the inescapable whispers coming down the grapevine-I assumed that the subject matter would have merely been treated as a backdrop for cute girls to get involved in silly, tension-less slapstick with the overbearingly cutesy aesthetic that it was sporting on its cover photo being used as my basis for assessment.

With a 1st episode that threw all convention out the window, it didn't take long for it to garner buzz within the anime community. Gakkougurashi! (School-Live!) was a surprise for many viewers of the 2015 summer season lineup.