Hello, Welcome to the 5th day of the manga Advent Calendar
of 2016 and today we will be looking into one of the best modern manga in my
time of reading “Gakkougurashi!” and
how it blends slice of life with a horror and parallels within the two versions
of this school setting.
The basic premise is that it follows a group of cute girls
going around there high school life going to classes and attending the School Living
Club with friends such as drinking tea and having banter like friends do. After
the first few chapters we see the cracks in this idealist life style and how
our main girl Yuki Takeya (she is the one with the cat ear hat) becomes
unreliable as a source of information about this world, and then things switch
to the horror elements as we discover it’s a zombie apocalypse in reality. For the
rest of the story we switch between the light slice of life and the zombie
reality, which is a fabrication of Yuki Takeya as a coping mechanism to deal
with the fact as the world is messed up. It’s been well balanced in the spilt
of horror and school life, we also see the crumbling of the casts mental state
and how things escalate in this story. It’s an interesting concept and I think it’s
worth a read if you haven’t read some of the other stuff I haver recommended
like Higurashi and Umineko ( Umineko is like Higurashi but mixed with elements
from Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, PS it’s a great game even if you can’t
play it watch someone play it as it will become an anime at some point) the
show was a bit underrated due to the pacing
of the show and the lack of the true ending but it’s something for people who
prefer to watch rather than read, but reading this at the same time enhances the
experience and also expands on some of the more dramatic moments which has been
removed due to it being gory and scary.
My personal fact for day five is that I’m really into zombie
manga but it needs to bring something new to the table rather than the Apocalypse,
the manga I will be looking into will bring a new aspect to zombie anime genre and presents it
in a new format which makes it enjoyable and interesting.
I will See you all
tomorrow guys
Regards Fiona
Nice.
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