Gakkou Gurashi! Episode 10: Rainy Day – Beeble Reviews

“Turns out Stephen King really IS overrated.”

WOAH WOAH, ZOMBIE DOG! HA! AHA! I KNEW IT! DOG DIES DOG ALWAYS DIES why am I cheering over this

Alright alright alright everybody, Sensei really WAS locked up in Zombie Jail this whole time. By her own doing? Probably. 

See there, this hallway here...directly leads into the basement...where Dog died, see? It’s a very literal image.

Sure hope love’s thicker than concrete, otherwise that door is TOAST.

While they figure out the mystery of “Hey where is Dog” they also begin thinking in terms of ‘well we can’t live in this school forever.’ It’s a metaphor. For all children will someday have to leave school to make it in a world full of shambling people who want to eat them, metaphorically and, yes, sometimes literally. Sadly for them, the girls are clearly not quite ready to graduate into salarywomen smooshing into the trains full of zombies to make it to work on time, smashing rotten fruits for the toothless dead to munch on.

"AW FUCK YOU DOG NO WHY DO YOU GET TO BE A FAST ZOMBIE"

“AHHHHHHHH I WASN’T PREPARED FOR THIS AT ALL MAYBE WE SHOULD'VE WAITED UNTIL GRADUATION”

SHIT SHE’S BIT!! Finally the student becomes the master as in zombieways. Looks like we ARE waiting until the end of the show to lose a girl, even though it may come down to a self-sacrifice by somebody else, or even Shovel herself in an effort to kill every zombie with a B-movie explosion...no, I may be getting 9 episodes ahead of myself again. Zombification works slowly on the mind, depending on circumstance I suppose, so Shovel’s not out yet. If this school’s so heavily built-up with facilities n’ junk, then there can SURELY be some sort of medical bay with an anti-venom or cure or SOMETHING. Otherwise, this’ll just be heading into this territory:

Never again, Nitroplus. Never again.

Sure, you guys strapped all her limbs to that couch, but you understand that once she rots those limbs off she will be ON YOUR ASS IN A SECOND.

In one last ditch effort to escape the Worst Ending path, Bookie decides to go out on her lonesome to find the cure. Sensei was trapped down in the medical area (dang man, if she was a better runner she’d probably have been part of the cast the whole time!) so she’s gonna have to get through her to get it. 

“I should’ve known I’d have to kill him. A dog JUST starting to like you is like the animal version of being two days from retirement...”

Meanwhile

Something tells me this anime isn’t two cours long.

Day 54 of my paranoid delusions. There truly is no hope left for humanity.

They’ve finally gone full CG.

“Oh yeah, this show is still about my changing mental state becoming more congruous with the world in which I really live. Where’s that gonna go, I wonder?”

So...this is the lowest point the series has had since everything went to shit in the first place, there’s literally no way they can continue living in the school any longer, and THEY FINALLY DID A FUCKING EPISODE WITHOUT THE MOESHIT ALWAYS KNEW THAT’D BE GREAT (though the problem’s still that I don’t think they integrated that in well enough with the material overall, mostly taking over the rest of the situations when not being used as a reason for the other girls to do better (bathtime scene two weeks ago you can’t ever deny it)). Here’s hoping the last two episodes tie it together in a way that doesn’t default to ‘ending = big violence’ for such a psychological thingamajig.