It’s the kind of show that can make you smile and scare you at the same time because of the balance that creates between two very different genres. In the end, ‘School-Live!’ does manage to stand out because it clearly tries to step out of the typical slice-of-genre where the cute protagonists of the anime don’t always have a happy ending. Even the background tracks are quite a blast and usually fit right in with the overall theme of the storyline. But getting back to the positives of the anime: the opening videos of the show are always different, which is great. I have nothing against the typical moe art but the fact that ‘School-Live!’ clearly makes no attempts at rising above its cliches does bother me a little. The characters are often drawn very lazily with clearly misplaced features and often, even the backgrounds lack enough detailing. The animation, which is done by Lerche Studio, proves to be a disappointment because of its evident inconsistencies. The writers of this anime clearly had a well-defined purpose behind everything they were trying to portray and they were very well aware of how their targeted audience will react to a particular event. Even the relationships between the characters are multi-faceted, which allows them to swiftly shift from one extreme end of their personality to another in a short span. I believe this is a very smart move on the anime’s part because it’s always easier to introduce a new “threat” by relating it with an event that takes place before the story of the show.
It also heavily relies on flashbacks to bring up certain plot points in the present. The good thing about ‘School-Live!’ is that it is very well aware of its narrative and though it only has a short runtime of 12 episodes, it clearly makes an attempt to have some build up before it shifts from one genre to another.
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