Man … that was a really tense moment at the end of the episode there – kudos to everyone for bonding together and helping when it was really needed. Yuri really is quite intelligent, and Kurumi is [...]
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The Mii-kun storyline continues this week when the other heroines reach the mall. How did they all join up? Let’s find out. Mimi hoped Little T would come back. That’s definitely not Little T. At this [...]
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Was curious about this series after reading the plot synopsis in the summer season line up, although was uncertain about its zombie apocalypse survivor setting considering the moe look in the [...]
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「えんそく」 (Ensoku) "Outing" No one lives in a world like Gakkou Guarashi's without experiencing some sort of hardship. The post Gakkou Gurashi! – 04 appeared first on Random Curiosity.
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GG! has taken on a LOST-style narrative, in which the present is constantly being informed and updated by the pasts of its characters. This week it’s Naoki Miki’s turn. While helping Yuki with a [...]
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This week was the beginning of what proved to be a mini-arc focusing around the bringing of Miki into the School Life Club, and it was pretty effective on the whole, I thought. It was also interesting [...]
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The time has come to find out what happened “that day” when Mii-kun was at the mall. Drawing of Mimi and a friend of hers. Time for “Mimi’s Mall Adventure”. Sit back and enjoy… Remember this girl, [...]
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I’m sorry. Well I sure didn’t expect Gakkou Gurashi to have one of the best-directed episodes all year, managing to effortlessly get across an instructor’s insecurities in a way that makes her [...]
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Here it is, a flashback to the beginning of the outbreak. In a market as over saturated with zombie media as ours it’s rather hard to do this kind of story without treading on old ground. The start of [...]
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Now this was something unexpected – a flashback episode dedicated primarily to Megu-nee, yes, but one which also incorporated her memories of the things that happened on the day the “zombie [...]
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In the first two episodes, Sakura Megumi or “Megu-nee” was treated at turns like an apparently deceased teacher whom Yuki, in her dissociative state, can still see, hear, and interact with, and whom [...]
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「あのとき」 (Ano Toki) "That Time" I think this might be the last episode where we get any hand holding. The post Gakkou Gurashi! – 03 appeared first on Random Curiosity.
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I mentioned in a post discussing spoiler warnings and stuff that I made my decision on how the GG coverage will continue from now on. The spoiler ban is back and here to stay. What that means is here [...]
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Hi Gakkou Gurashi is good so far, but I’m tired, so here are girls munching on phallic imagery, because there just isn’t enough of that on The Cart Driver. One really has to wonder how far gone Yuki [...]
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  So despite saying I would cover Chaos Dragon in my summer preview, I have decided to cover this instead. The reasons for this is simple, the obvious one being that Chaos Dragon is a poorly written, [...]
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If last week’s episode was a focus on the psychologically damaged Yuki this episode could be called a focus on the shovel-wielding twintailed tsundere Kurumi – and just as last week did not solely [...]
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「おもいで」 (Omoide) "Memories" Before you ask anything else - yes they updated the opening sequence ever so slightly to reflect what's going on. THAT'S DEDICATION I TELL YOU WHAT. The post [...]
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After watching the first episode a second time (man was that creepy!) and now this one with full knowledge of what’s going on from start to finish, I’ve gained an even greater appreciation for GG!’s [...]
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If this current season of anime and my personal life have taught me anything its that life can get really busy and one needs sufficient rest to recuperate from the hustle and bustle of normal days [...]
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I had been contemplating something last week. Since “everyone but me” rushed to or is already caught up with the translated chapters of this show I decided to do the following, remove the spoiler ban, [...]
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