Gakkou Gurashi is one of those shows you initially see on the season anime chart and go ‘yup, not watching that moe bullshit’, and just move on. But then you hear whispers about it actually being good from people who dislike the cute, slice-of-life genre and you become curious. 20 minutes in, you think it’s some it’s some kind of elaborate joke the internet had made up, because you cannot believe something so boring has people losing their shit.
And then the last 3 or so minutes happen, and you end up realizing that there was so much foreshadowing pointing to so, so much amiss about the girl’s situation that you feel like kicking yourself. You cannot believe the show actually went there, that the cute facade is merely a delusion of one of the characters trying desperately to hold onto their sanity because the reality of things is horrifying.
Gakkou Gurashi is a fucking gift
