Sure, I might have some gripes that things are different than the manga, but I have a feeling Lerche has a clear direction with where they’re going and these changes are going to just make the adaptation from a manga into an anime that much better. Besides capturing all the magic that I felt while reading the first chapter of the manga, it added in its own special touch in a way that only an anime can do. Especially since the entire episode led us to believe that everything was just fine! While I’m sure we’ll get some kind of answer next week, I wish the show had given us a little more after dropping a huge bombshell on us.īeing one of my most anticipated shows of the season, I was super duper happy with how this first episode came out. With the school in shambles and what are presumably zombies crawling around everywhere, I hope I wasn’t the only one who had a “what the fu…?” moment.
Waiting until the last few seconds to really show us what’s going on, it looks like things aren’t as peachy as the show wants us to believe. Especially after they’ve given him so much personality! I think I’m going to die a little on the inside if Taroumaru meets the same fate as he does in the manga. From Yuuri’s motherly nature (and anger) to Kurumi’s tomboyish behavior, it was fun to catch all these things from the most subtle of clues. While the spotlight was obviously shining on Yuki and Miki, I really loved how the show managed to nail a lot of Kurumi and Yuuri’s little quirks. I’ll keep them within spoiler tags so OPEN THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK.Īs an introductory episode, I was surprised how much the story fleshed out all the members of the club. On a side note, I will be talking about some spoilerish things throughout these posts. While some things in the timeline and story were shifted a bit, the biggest being the sudden introduction of Naoki Miki or Mii-kun, who can fault Lerche for giving us a surprise cutesy character in the form of Taroumaru? In any case, I can totally feel the magic that the manga had and then some. I’ve been dying to find out how Lerche was going to handle their adaptation of Gakkou Gurashi and I loved it for the most part.