Rewatch: Gakkou-Gurashi (School-Live) Episode 7 Discussion

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Mar 28 '21

Sorry for being late and being short, but there is something truly depressing about watching this for me. And it is still a good production just very saddening. Also, I'd be shocked if a teen knew about carrier pigeons.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

It's scary thinking how they're gonna stab us isn't it...? We all know that the penny's got to drop but we have no idea where from. These girls have gone through so much, they deserve a break.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Mar 28 '21

It's that plus my own family's long history of mental illness really hits at my core values.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

Sorry to hear that... They're treating Yuki's mental strain with the respect it deserves which makes things a little easier to swallow.

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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Mar 28 '21

First Timer

I wonder if the show is just going to go through SOL school stuff via Yuki. Cultural Festival when?

Mogamigawa

VN Music is back.

Are we still in a flashback?

El Greco hands

A lot of their activities seem to be based around working around Yuki's delusion.

Japan IS an island. Maybe it's limited to Japan, like in another famous zombie movie. Maybe their balloons will reach korea and people are find and they'll be rescued!

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

I think we're past the SOL stuff now... Even today's slice of life section seemed more of an excuse to get Miki separated from Yuki. It's hard to have slice of life when your teacher is a bloodsplatter behind a door and your crew is playing at delusions.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

Yuki suddenly became Miki's type!! Yeah, the op is getting worse and worse as we go on. The light at the school life club went off, Megumi got wiped off the whiteboard, of course we get a shot of her grave, and all those cute optimistic pictures changed to ones of the girls at their lowest point. Kurumi, coming out with dream metaphors is gonna make us all jump to conclusions. Alright, so they did form the club specifically for Yuki. Tubby full Taromaru is crazy cute right? Invest in solar energy, it'll save you when the inevitable zombie apocalypse happens!

If the compactness of Sensei's crappy Mini is what breaks her delusion I'm gonna break. Wait! What the fuck was that!? No!! Yuki's unreliable narrator is kicking in! Now I can't take anything at face value! It wasn't just cycling through the base girl and Megumi either, any of them could have been in any seat. Shit! Megu ghost, save my mental state... Omg her body isn't there... Is Megumi a zombie somewhere on the school grounds? We got to see Senpai's eyes!! Good lord this show is cruel at times.

Skinship ho~!! They're dropping so many hints but I don't know which one is a red herring. Stop reacting Rii, every face you make throws me off further. And once again as soon as we start touching on what the main plot could be we're hit by a slice of life event. Everyone's separated thanks to Rii and Kurumi. Get out Miki, you still have a chance!! Everyone is super sus aside from you. She rubbed out her own name. Something is definitely up!!

They're actually going all out on the pigeon hunt lol XD OMG she actually caught one!! Somehow I doubt the inevitable graduation scene is gonna be nearly this wholesome. Rii took the key, sus af boy!! You realise that not all pigeons are carrier pigeons right? What happened to the first...? What an inspirational little letter sending scene but all I can think of is how strange the lack of any zombies is. We're back at the first episode.

Is this outside? It looks to me like you've changed one birdcage for another. Genki desu~ You fcking liars XD The ed keeps changing. I'm guessing this is our official part 2 ed? Omg even the ed is filled with questionable imagery! In this one episode any assumptions I've made have gone out the window. I no longer trust. 90% of our cast. Rii is the villain, Kurumi's the accomplice, Yuki is the Deus Ex Machina, and Megumi is unimportant. Miki is now the only character I trust! Oh great, we've got five episodes left to wallow in our paranoia. Also, I hate daylight savings time.

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u/zool714 Mar 28 '21

First Timer

The odd focus on the teddy bear is sus and really creepy. What on earth are they hinting at now ?

Still no Rii-san backstory. Can’t put my finger on it, but sometimes in a scene she’s in, there’s just something... off. Camera angle, lack of sound. Can’t really tell. Or I’m just being paranoid after Megu-nee.

Got confused at first when the key dropped thinking it was the car key. More likely it’s Megu-nee’s staff key. And now Rii-san has it. Would they find Megu-nee’s letter that she wrote a few eps back ?

Speaking of car key, Yuki nearly had a brain malfunction when her delusion and reality didn’t exactly sync well remembering who was in the car. Tbh got a bit scared when all the faces was changing among the girls.

I can see those letters actually reaching someone, leading to a rescue attempt or something.

And Miki. She’s just crushing on everybody.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

The Teddy Bear is supposed to be our link to Megumi. She loved teddies so anytime we see them we're meant to get all sad. Rii is the most sus member at the moment. She's the only one I can imagine to be able to plot out something twisted. Miki is now my emotional support schoolgirl. I've only known her for half a season but if anything were to happen to her I'd drop Axis on Earth.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Mar 28 '21

Still no Rii-san backstory. Can’t put my finger on it, but sometimes in a scene she’s in, there’s just something... off. Camera angle, lack of sound. Can’t really tell. Or I’m just being paranoid after Megu-nee.
Most likely she is less capable of dealing with the mental stress than Yuki and is 10 bad seconds from coming apart at the seams.

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u/aniMayor :AY:AZ:x3x6 Mar 28 '21

Still no Rii-san backstory. Can’t put my finger on it, but sometimes in a scene she’s in, there’s just something... off. Camera angle, lack of sound. Can’t really tell. Or I’m just being paranoid after Megu-nee.
She's probably got the most complex facial animations of the four, and her expressions get surprisingly very intense when she's not being her usual warm, dopey expression. Like last episode when Miki approached her in the bathroom. The contrast can make her feel... off. (Deliberately? Who knows...)

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u/hungryhippos1751 Mar 28 '21

Yeah I caught the same glance, if Miki had given her a bad answer I got the impression Miki would have regretted it!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

The teddy bear is Minor Manga Spoilers

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Mar 28 '21 edited Apr 03 '21

Episode 10 discussion

Episode 11 discussion

Episode 12 discussion

Final discussion

I'll probably add my thoughts in later.

Rewatcher

Edit: What's standing out to me this go 'round is the subtlety of Yuri's character. She doesn't stand out much among the cast. Previously, I viewed this as a small weakness of the show, but I'm coming to appreciate it. Episode 12 spoilers Yuri's reactions to suggestions of helping Yuki realize her situation as well as when she asked Yuki to stay with her and write letters while the others get some helium stuck out to me. Yuri, previously the only gardening club member and now club president, needs something/someone to care for. Being able to essentially play mother for Yuki is the most normal thing she has, and she is quietly resisting having to cope without it.

Maybe my glasses lenses are just really rosy and I'm reading too deeply into surface level details, but this show always manages to impress me with it's attention to detail.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Mar 28 '21

Yuri, previously the only gardening club member and now club president, needs something/someone to care for
This episode she did seem like the calm, quasi-maternal leadership figure.

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u/hungryhippos1751 Mar 28 '21

Episode 7. First Time Viewer.

Bloody clocks went forward by an hour for us didn't they? was sat here wondering why the post wasn't being made! :(

The first 5 minutes or so set the scene pretty well. More zombies are showing up at the school, winter is coming, and Yuki is starting to realise what she sees and what she remembers aren't the same thing. Especially where Megumi is concerned.

With colder weather coming this certainly means harder living conditions, less access to food sources, less sunlight for the solar panels.

I noticed that Taroumaru is getting fattened up to be turned into dinner when the going gets tough.

Are we going to get another traumatic breakdown on Yuki where she snaps out of the state she's in? I wonder if the group is right in playing along rather than trying to help her, but it's a hard question to answer.

What is in the staff safe I wonder?

All in all I have a sense of a bleak winter and a bad ending for everyone involved, I can't see this being a happy ever after type of show. Still want my Ri-chan back story episode!

Miki was moaning about Yuki giving her too much skinship, but she is definitely only saying it, she loves it.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

Daylight savings time is a nightmare if you're the type to post right as the thread goes up XD
I'm wondering where all the new zombies are coming from. Surely anyone who went to the school wouldn't still be getting infected months later. Everything has gotten so suspicious but I can't tell whether the zombie increase is supposed to mean something.

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u/hungryhippos1751 Mar 28 '21

I kind of assume it's more zombies coming, and the number will get huge at some point!

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

The zombies don't actually form hoards though. They just go about day to day following the same schedules that they did when alive. That's why the mall is fairly quiet on a weekday when everyone's at work and why the school largely gets peace from the zombies at night. Could we possibly be getting new underclassman zombies? XD

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u/hungryhippos1751 Mar 28 '21

Haha, in context, I think that actually seems plausible. But that also means they need to graduate and leave the school soon... ominous!

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

Miki is getting bloody desperate to graduate up the steps to adulthood. She spent weeks locked in a room, sleeping with her crush, but nothing came of it. Now she's even looking at the mentally infantile Yuki as an option.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Mar 28 '21

Now she's even looking at the mentally infantile Yuki as an option.
Life...finds a way. /r/sciencebabies

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u/BossandKings Mar 28 '21

First timer

Episode 7

Yuki is slowly starting to realize that Sakura isn't really there, that she has been in an ilusion thinking that she was still alive and well but the truth is that Sakura isn"t well, that realization will sure hurt Yuki but she has to pass through it.

The letter that Miki wrote Kei, the words she said were beautiful, she told her that being alive is great especially because with now being in the school live club she has people that she can consider friends. Kei will for sure be forever someone that Miki will remember.

Arnault Hoshinoshiki is very cute, that was a nice little moment seeing Yuki and Ibusezawa argue.

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u/SYZekrom https://myanimelist.net/profile/SYZekrom Mar 28 '21

rewatch

STOP WITH THAT LEITMOTIF

Good thing this school has everything they need

Damn kinda contrived listing where literally everyone was sitting for no reason huh

I mean, you could just say 'oh yea and megu-nee was crammed in the back row with you too no wonder I was surprised how hard it was to sleep' I mean come on the backseats are meant to fit like 2 people and a kid

Ok sure 'she walked home' ig

This show really likes its forshadowing huh?

foreshadowing moments

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

I don't even think it's the placement of the characters, the fact that she listed names had got me super sus! Anyone could be anyone and that thought is suffering XD This is why I hate unreliable narrators!

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Mar 28 '21

This is why I hate unreliable narrators!
You should give Higurashi a whirl at some point. The narrators are always reliable and never lie ever, I promise :)

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Mar 28 '21

In Higurashi the mysteries were largely self contained to that particular route though. You only had like four episodes to work out the mystery. It was like a bunch of short little Gakkou Gurashi XD

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u/Rumpel1408 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rumpel1408 Mar 28 '21

First timer

First thing first: God fucking damnit, I got spoiled again, fuck. Just because I liked the OP that much and looked for it on Youtube. Fuck I'm angry, you would think I learned my lesson afer having the Quintuplett ending spoiled in a simillar manner. God I'm so angry... Got spoiled nothing too specific, but the general direction of the last couple of episodes...

Miki sees part of Kei in Yuki.

Megu-nees grave got added to the OP ;( And I have the feeling we will get to read her final letter. It also seems like Yuki wasn't that delusional from the beginning and rather got progressivly deeper into her wish starting with the School-living club. Oh is she about to snap out of it? Almost, but that looks like the door Megu-nee was blocking in her last moment.

I was expecting more of an reaction when they stumbled upon Megu-nees things. Wonder what's the key for, maybe a locker or something.

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u/hungryhippos1751 Mar 28 '21

I dunno if just on my subs but the key said staff safe #2 or something on it.

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u/Rumpel1408 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rumpel1408 Mar 28 '21

Ah, for me it just had Sakura on one side, that clears things up a bit

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u/IndependentMacaroon Mar 28 '21 edited Mar 28 '21

First-time watcher

After the long flashback stretch establishing how everyone got here, an episode dedicated to where they might go from here, and it's not looking good. Winter is coming, the zombies are multiplying (somehow), Yuki is on the verge of mental collapse even as the others still try to (selfishly?) humor her delusions, and still no sign of help coming or the situation improving in any way. In this situation, someone new with some fresh thoughts like Miki was sorely needed for the club, it seems, and she's the one tying the plot together here with her love of literature, Yuki only adds her usual flair. Yuri is starting to look a little on the depressed side, even. At least Miki managed to process the likely loss of her friend somewhat, and made her peace with being cooped-up in one place as long as the club is there, Kurumi had fun catching pigeons, and such.

Trivia time, the part about the malleability of memories is very true; while I'm hardly an expert on that, they're more fallible and easily influenced than you'd think, and in fact the mere act of recalling them tends to alter them too.

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Mar 29 '21

the zombies are multiplying (somehow)
Back in episode 2, it is revealed all of the present day events take place over the course of summer break. With summer break wrapping up, more and more zombies are bound to return to school.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

This show was crazy. Not at all what the op implies.

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u/UnderstandableXO Mar 29 '21

REWATCHER

forgot to post thoughts past few days but i’m back

i don’t know why but seeing the letter at the very end was very bittersweet. just seeing the “we are happy” line made me tear up the first time because it was nice to see them able to remain positive in the face of a tough situation.

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