School-Live!

School-Live! (がっこうぐらし！) is a 2012 manga about a group of high-school girls doing cute things in high school... or, at least, that's what one of them sees.

An apocalyptic zombie plague has spread over a city in Japan, and a small group of survivors try to survive inside their school. Yuki Takeya, one of these survivors, has suffered a mental breakdown and imagines her life like if everything was still normal, down to seeing people that are definitely dead and/or zombified. The manga follows her and her friends' almost hopeless struggle for survival.

The manga was written by Norimitsu Kaihou and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. It was published in Japan in Houbunsha Manga Time Kirara Forward, and has been released in North America by Yen Press and in Poland by Waneko.

A twelve-episode anime adaptation was made in 2015; this has been released in North America by Sentai Filmworks. A Live-action film was released in 2019. The manga finally came to an end in December of 2019, with 12 volumes and 78 chapters.

Tropes used in School-Live! include:

Break the Cutie: Yuki's inability to deal with the desperate situation she's in puts her inside an imaginary world of her own while chaos surrounds her.
- Interestingly, Yuki's delusions slowly decrease and she becomes more reliable from the time they had to abandon the school as it stops being a suitable shelter. Instead, it's Yuuri, who until that point was the most reliable and mentally stable member of the group, who begins to lose it when she realizes her younger sister didn't survive the outbreak.
Cargo Ship: In-universe, Yuki asks Kurumi why she doesn't marry her favorite weapon, a shovel.
Crazy Sane: Yuki, who reacted to a zombie plague wiping her school and her favorite teacher becoming a zombie too by a blatant rejection of reality. On one side, it makes her more vulnerable to get snatched by zombies as she blatantly ignores them, but on the other, it renders her functional enough to follow orders and keep doing useful activities.
Curtains Match the Window: Yuki's hair and eye colour is pink.
Fan Service: We get to see young girls in panties sometimes.
Fingerless Gloves: Kurumi uses this kind of gloves and is pretty badass.
Hellish Copter: The girls have to leave the school after an military helicopter crashes in the school yard, causing damage to the building that endangers its suitability as a refuge.
The Pollyanna: Yuki. It's also the reason Yuuri and Kurumi tolerate Yuki's brand of insanity: her relentless optimism and sunny disposition give her enough spirit to keep surviving their terrible situation.
Posthumous Character: It's pretty obvious from the first time the audience actually sees her that Megu-nee is already dead and is a part of Yuki's delusions since nobody else can touch her, and, other than Yuki the group seems to ignore her.
Rose-Haired Girl: Yuki has light pink hair and is a very cheerful girl.
Shovel Strike: Kurimi's main weapon is her trusty shovel.
Supporting Protagonist: Thanks to her condition, Yuki can't help the group in fighting the undead or getting resources, but the manga mostly follows her POV of things.
The Ophelia: Yuki certainly isn't very sane, and is also very cute.
Zettai Ryouiki: Yuuri Rikasa has a class A one.