School-Live!
School-Live! is a Japanese manga series written by Norimitsu Kaihō and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. The series was serialized from May 2012 to November 2019 in the Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine and is licensed in English by Yen Press.
An anime adaptation by Lerche aired between July and September 2015. A live-action film adaptation was released in January 2019.
Premise
Yuki Takeya is a cheerful school girl who, along with her friends Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yūri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki, is a member of the Megurigaoka Private High School's School Living Club. As Yuki seeks out fun school activities every day while living at school, the other girls work to keep her safe, as in reality, they are the sole survivors of their school after a zombie outbreak overruns the city, and a traumatized Yuki has repressed her memories to live in a delusion where the outbreak never happened.Characters
School Living Club
The main characters of the series are a small club of girls who prioritize being able to live within the school building.;Yuki Takeya
;Kurumi Ebisuzawa
;Yuuri Wakasa
;Miki Naoki
;Megumi Sakura
;Tarōmaru
Megurigaoka Private High School
;Kei Shidō;Akiko Kamiyama
;Takae Yuzumura
St. Isidore University
A university in the same town area as the School-Live club. It is one of the several designated facilities in the town with survival rations, solar panels, and an evacuation shelter. Following the outbreak, the surviving students at the school became divided, with some banding together to survive while others descended into anarchic survivalism.;Touko Deguchi
;Aki Hikarizato
;Hikako Kirai
;Rise Ryougawara
;Shiiko Aosoi
;Takahito Tougo
;Ayaka Kamimochi
;Shinou Uhara
;Renya Kougami
;Takashige Shiroshita
Other characters
;Radio DJ;Ruu-chan
Media
Manga
School-Live! is written by Nitroplus' Norimitsu Kaihō and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. It began serialization on May 24, 2012, in the July issue of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine. The series went on hiatus between July and December 2017. It ended on November 22, 2019. Houbunsha published the first tankōbon volume on December 12, 2012, with the twelfth and final volume released on January 10, 2020. Yen Press began releasing the series in English in November 2015. Three manga anthologies illustrated by various artists have also been released, the first on July 13, 2015, the second on September 12, 2015, and the third on January 12, 2016.A sequel manga series by Kaihō and Chiba, titled School-Live! Letters was serialized in Manga Time Kirara Forward from June 24, 2020, to August 24, 2021. Yen Press has also licensed the sequel manga.
Volumes
Anime
An anime television series was announced on June 21, 2014. The series was directed by Masaomi Ando at Lerche, with scripts by manga writer Norimitsu Kaihō and character design by Haruko Iikuza. The series aired between July 9 and September 24, 2015. The series features four pieces of theme music; one opening theme and three ending themes. The opening theme is "Friend Shitai" by Gakuen Seikatsu-bu. The ending theme is "Harmonize Clover" by Maon Kurosaki for episodes 1–3, 5, and 9, "We took each other's hand" by Kaori Sawada for episode 4, and "Afterglow" by Kurosaki for episode 6–8 and 10–11. A drama CD based on the anime television series was released at Comiket 88 on August 14, 2015.The series was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The series was licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks and released on Blu-ray and DVD with an English dub on June 27, 2017. After the acquisition of Crunchyroll by Sony Pictures Television, School-Live!, among several Sentai Filmworks titles, was dropped from the Crunchyroll streaming service on March 31, 2022.