History Characters / SchoolLive

* CatSmile: Displays one occasionally, suiting her cat-ear hat.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: We can see in early episodes that Kurumi is not quite as gung-ho about zombie hunting as she makes herself out to be, and sometimes her reaction time suffers because of this. Episode 2 demonstrates that she will balk at killing a zombie if she is reminded of its former humanity: she pauses before an easy kill because she sees the zombie's phone, with a picture of a girl and her boyfriend on it. [[spoiler: It's therefore no surprise that she is almost fatally hesitant when confronted with a zombie she knew and loved personally. The incident with her senpai was a near miss, as his recent transformation gave her time to react, but she doesn't have that advantage with Megu-nee's zombie, and her shock when confronted with it gives the creature time to bite her.]]

* ICantFeelMyLegs: [[spoiler:She can't feel much of anything when her inflection progresses, but her legs go first. The epilogue reveals she's still in a wheelchair three years later despite having otherwise recovered.]]

* Foil: In the manga [[spoiler: she becomes this to Yuki. Both suffer from a coping mechanism to deal with the zombie apocalypse; however, both have key differences. Yuki’s mental problems started in the series after the zombie outbreak began and she glorified the school she and the other girls currently stay in; Yuuri started off as a fully functioning teen who eventually broke down after bad situations keep piling up in front of her. Yuki would eventually face the undeniable reality of how bad their situation truly is and change her priorities to truly move away from her mental problems, while it is because of said situation that Yuuri finally snaps and starts developing her own set of issues. Yuki loses the teacher she looks up to at the start of the series and during the outbreak, while Yuuri loses her sister LONG before the series even started. On a more negative note, Yuuri’s need to fantasize school life doesn’t prevent her from being useful, while Yuuri’s need to insert her sister in the group’s life became a hindrance multiple times and would get worse with the reveal that all those life threatening situations was over a teddy bear Yuuri projects to be her sister.]]

* CharacterDevlopment: She starts the series by believing that everyday is a normal high school day. Eventually, it doesn’t last and reality mentally breaks her; however, with the help of her friends, she chooses to take the positive aspects of her experience and instead becomes a school girl as a way to lift up spirits rather than shutting her mind off from the real problems around her. [[spoiler: By the end of the series and the sequel epilogue, she grows into a fully functioning school teacher. Being symbolized by her letting go of Megu-nee’s spirit]].

* CharacterRerailment: In the manga [[Spoiler: After leaving “Ruu” (really just a teddy bear), she begins to regain her sanity and once again becomes proactive in the group’s survival.]]