School-Live

School-Live(Japanese: がっこうぐらし!, Hepburn: Gakkō Gurashi!) is a 2019 Japanese horror film and adaptation of the manga series by Norimitsu Kaihō. A live-action film adaptation of School-Live! was announced in an issue of Manga Time Kirara Forward in November 2017, and it was released by Universal Pictures and Regents in Japan on January 25, 2019.

The film is directed by Issei Shibata and starred the members of the idol group Last Idol.

A English dub of the movie was announced and produced by Sentai Filmworks and was released on July 6, 2021.

Plot
Like the manga and its anime adaptation, It tells the story of four school girls, Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yuki Takeya, Yuuri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki attending the same high school in Japan, but they also know one another because they reside in the school's dormitory and having a school club. The school girls are having fun until a zombie outbreak occurs, infecting the school population. The four girls must now learn to survive in this new land if they want to stay alive. One of the girls, Yuki starts having delusions just to avoid the current horror they are living.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It derives heavily from the source material, such as Miki and Kei staying in the school cafeteria when the outbreak began instead on a mall, Miki witnessing Kei's death, Megu-nee being a nurse rather than a teacher, and Yuki also doesn't wear her trademark hat with cat ears. All of this just seems unfaithful compared to the anime.
 * 2) *The movie also seemed to focus more on Kurumi than Yuki. this isn't what happened in the original material as Yuki is actually the main protagonist.
 * 3) Abysmal writing that doesn't stay true to the original material and instead feels more like a generic high schooler zombie survival action movie instead of a psychological zombie survival horror with elements from the moe anime genre.
 * 4) Terrible screenplay as they just cramped up all the first two arcs of the manga into a 2-hour movie, which resulted in not only weak characterization but also an abrupt ending.
 * 5) While the anime had a good amount of colorful and beautiful objects and backgrounds, here it just has darker tone colors which just seems dull.
 * 6) The clothes that the characters wear don't match their original counterparts. Megu-nee is the worst offender.
 * 7) It has the classic mix of lazy casting with the entire main cast are played by young adult idols who even barely resembled the original characters, who are all implied to be teens.
 * 8) Speaking of the action movie stuff, the action scenes are rushed and awful.
 * 9) There are some plot holes throughout the entire movie which are either explained.
 * 10) Kurumi's subplot about her senpai and past is a good idea, however, it's poorly executed compared to the manga and it feels pointless most of the time.
 * 11) Awful makeup, CGI  and special effects that look horrendously fake, mostly the zombies.
 * 12) Generic soundtrack that doesn't fit the movie at all.
 * 13) Taromaru was completely cut. It is unknown if this was for writing or budget reasons.
 * 14) Some of the characters became incredibly flanderized; for example, Miki became more cold, rude and a complete jerk to everyone.
 * 15) Most of the characters including Yuki and Yuuri lacked depth and it may be because of the limited time the movie has to explore these characters.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The heart-warming scenes are good and touching.
 * 2) The characters are still likable and their personalities are actually close to matching their original versions with exception of Miki.
 * 3) The acting is passable.
 * 4) The addition of a subplot about Kurumi’s senpai and give Kurumi herself a bit more depth was good, despite its poor execution.
 * 5) The ending is enjoyable, though a bit confusing and abrupt.

Reception
School-Live! received mixed-to-negative reviews by critics. Criticism was aimed at the screenplay, plot, inconsistent tone, lack of originality, special effects, and character development.

Matt Schley from Japan Times gave the film a negative review and a 1.5 out of 5 citing: "Being aggressively boring, in fact, is the greatest sin of “School-Live” The principle that each scene of a film should push the story forward is discarded with abandon."

It currently holds a 5.3/10 on IMDb.

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Trivia

 * This was the first acting role of Midori Nagatsuki, Nanami Abe, Wakana Majima, and Rio Kiyohara, which explains why the acting of the aforementioned people aren't as good as the other actors.
 * Coincidentally, the School-Live! manga ended the same year as the movie was released.
 * Despite the movie's negative reception, the movie was surprisingly praised by the authors of the original School-Live! manga.