History WMG / SchoolLive

The corporation could of deliberately contaminated at least a third of the city's supply. Perfectly innocuous things like breakfast cereals, chocolate bars and other such products would have served as a perfect TrojanHorse for Randall Corp to sneak the virus into the city. People would be unwittingly infecting themselves left right and center, allowing the resulting reanimated undead to subsume the city very, ''very '' quickly. The main characters didn't get infected by this because they had fortunately managed to pick at the food not tainted by said bioweapon.

The corporation could of deliberately contaminated at least a third of the city's supply. Perfectly innocuous things like breakfast cereals, chocolate bars and other such products would have served as a perfect TrojanHorse for Randall Corp to sneak the virus into the city. People would be infecting themselves left right and center, allowing the reanimated plague victims to subsume the city very, ''very '' quickly. The main characters didn't get infected by this because they had fortunately managed to pick at the food not tainted by said bioweapon.

We all know that Miki isn't as hard-hitting with the shovel than Kurumi is, and after supposedly killing the zombie Megu-nee, the body's gone when they come back through the same area. The possibility being brought to light here is that Miki didn't hit her hard enough to put her down and instead simply stun her, so she could of gotten up and walked off. And it's known that the zombies are partially motivated and drawn by memories of their former lives, and even after full reanimation she has shown subtle signs of ItCanThink. So there's a possibility that she may tail the rest of the club, and considering how stamina isn't much of a problem with the zombies, be quite [[SuperPersistentPredator tenacious]] about it too.

Pre-breakdown, Yuuri was the most dependable girl in the group...and, arguably, the one most responsible for the girls' survival (as she maintains the necessities they need to survive, and co-ordinates the activities of the other three girls). However, after her breakdown, the "reveal" of Ruu comes out of nowhere. The organised and logical Yuuri maintains that she had ''totally forgotten'' her younger sister - that Ruu was absolutely erased from her memory while she was still relatively sane, not simply a memory she couldn't afford to dwell on. That's not much of a stretch: delusions are powerful things in this series, and all of the girls are extremely reticent when talking about their families -- Megumi, the one ''adult'', is the only one with any concrete mention of her parents . Yuuri's breakdown after the crash could well have destroyed the carefully constructed coping mechanism of her selective amnesia. However, there's still something really odd about the scene in which she suddenly remembers the existence of her younger sister, panicking over how she could have forgotten. Perhaps she ''didn't'' forget: Ruu's whole existence is a delusion, acting as a ReplacementGoldfish for everything and everyone that Yuuri lost to the ZombieApocalypse, or a manifestation of Yuuri's own guilt about not being ables to save what she loved.

** I don't think we'll ever run out of wrenches, because Chapter 43 just introduced another one. Yuki's submission into the Crew's scrapbook includes her drawings of each of School Life Club's members' faces, along with the face of the teddy bear. Yuki knows that Yuuri thinks the teddy bear is Ruu, but Yuki doesn't know what "Ruu" looks like.

** Also in Chapter 42, look at the university students' expressions. Hika looks concerned and a little pitying. Aki's expression is a cross between confused and worried, and she has a small sweatdrop. Touko looks like she doesn't know what to say -- or is holding herself back from saying something. They've definitely noticed that something is amiss. And you'd think that they'd have interacted with the youngest survivor if she was really there. Perhaps the only reason they let it slide was because Yuuri acts less obsessed with Ruu when she's around the university students, while it's become all she talks about with her own club. Perhaps, like Yuki, she's aware of reality on some level, and she knows that demonstrating herself to be delusional among a survivor group she doesn't know so well could be dangerous (it makes her seem more vulnerable and less trustworthy, which could be exploited). However, when faced with a potentially dangerous but productive mission, she opts out to protect "Ruu." From the university students' point of view, she just told them that she wouldn't help them in case her stuffed toy was injured -- if Ruu was real, they'd probably be the first to suggest that Ruu doesn't go. It'd be a great double bluff, but real-life-Ruu looks unlikely.

* Ever since her introduction, there have been multiple wrenches thrown into this WMG. First, read the spoilered WMG that has since been confirmed that throws the wrench into this theory. Next, go back to the last page of Chapter 38 where we see Touko standing across from Yuuri and Ruu. Note that Ruu is NOT in the reflection of Touko's glasses. The third wrench thrown into the works so far would be page 16 of Chapter 42. Note how we see a stuffed bear's ear in the reflection of Touko's glasses as she turns away from Yuuri.

[[TeenageWasteland Too bad adult survivors in Japan are few and far in between.]] Well, This calls for fanfiction.

[[WMG: ''Manga/School-Live!'' occurs in the same universe as ''Series/TheWalkingDead''.]]

[[WMG: ''[[Manga/School-Live!]]'' occurs in the same universe as ''Series/TheWalkingDead''.]]

[[WMG: ''School-Live!'' occurs in the same universe as ''Series/TheWalkingDead''.]]
Somehow, TheVirus would have spread across continents and into Japan through an airborne strain which got mutated as it goes along. [[TeenageWasteland Too bad adult survivors in Japan are few and far in between.]] Well, at least in ''School-Live!'', that is. This calls for fanfiction.

Somehow, TheVirus would have spread across continents and into Japan through an airborne strain which got mutated as it goes along. [[TeenageWasteland Too bad we won't see any adult survivors in Japan, though.]] Well, at least in ''School-Live!'', that is. This calls for fanfiction.

TheVirus has probably spread all around the world, and yes, even Japan was not spared. [[AdultsAreUseless Too bad we won't see any adult survivors in Japan, though.]]

* I'm going to throw a wrench in this. Go back to the last page of Chapter 38 where we see Touko standing across from Yuuri and Ruu. Note that Ruu is NOT in the reflection of Touko's glasses. EDIT: I've got another wrench to throw into this. Page 16 of Chapter 42. Note how we see a stuffed bear's ear in the reflection of Touko's glasses as she turns away from Yuuri.

** I'm going to throw a wrench in this. Go back to the last page of Chapter 38 where we see Touko standing across from Yuuri and Ruu. Note that Ruu is NOT in the reflection of Touko's glasses.

If the twist with Megu-nee was that she wasn't really there, the twist with Ruu might be that she ''is'' really there. Everyone assumed that she was a teddy bear from the second she appeared, after all. And while it's safe to assume that Yuki, Miki and Kurumi would play along with the dellusion, nobody at Saint-Isidore seems to find it strange when the girls talk to Ruu. Not even a pause or a dubious look. The author may deliberately throws innuendos that Ruu is a teddy bear, only to reveal that she isn't. (And yes, I know it's unlikely, I'm throwing this theory just because.)

If the twist with Megu-nee was that she wasn't really there, the twist with Ruu might be that she ''is'' really there. Everyone assumed that she was a teddy bear from the second she appeared, after all. And why it's safe to assume that Yuki, Miki and Kurumi would play along with the dellusion, nobody at Saint-Isidore seems to find it strange when the girls talk to Ruu. Not even a pause or a dubious look. The author may deliberately throws innuendos that Ruu is a teddy bear, only to reveal that she isn't. (And yes, I know it's unlikely, I'm throwing this theory just because.)

(Credit to one of the commenters on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rUK3QOesDs this]] video). In episode 3, Megumi is lectured on her conduct, and warned not to get too close to the students. That's fairly innocuous: most new teachers, especially teachers who aren't much older than the students themselves, will encounter a similar warning about crossing the line from "trustworthy and approachable adult I can confide in" to "friend." Megumi takes it personally; given her mother's incessant nagging and undermining of her confidence in her abilities as a teacher, she probably assumed that the VP had noticed that she was prone to being overly-familiar. However, a colleague tells her not to take it so hard, because the VP gives ''the exact same lecture'' to all new teachers, not just the tender-hearted ones. Again, that's not a huge red flag in itself -- many authority figures have a pet topic that they drone on about relentlessly, to the point that the people around them know what they're going to say before they say it. But...what if it ''wasn't'' just a rant about appropriate teacher/student boundaries? What if this is a tailored speech...or one someone has scripted for him, and that he's required to give? The emergency manual warns that compassion and mercy become weaknesses in case of outbreak, which means that teachers, the presumed survivors and leaders in such an event, would be called upon to act ruthlessly, quarantining or killing their own students. It's much more difficult to MercyKill someone you care about (or even view as a person), as poor Kurumi keeps being reminded. Thus, the VP fosters a certain coldness in the teachers, so that they can take decisive action when the siutation arises. He just didn't bank on the teachers being on the wrong end of the outbreak, and taken out of the game completely. This makes the speech much HarsherInHindsight: he's not giving sound advice on professionalism, he's obeying orders from higher up that require people trained to care about and educate children to turn into cold-hearted crisis-management {{SocialDarwinist}}s, because some shady company has decided to do a test run. Even worse, the teachers are given ''no training'' to this effect -- they're not even supposed to ''look'' at the manual until a crisis is underway.

[[WMG: The outbreak wasn't an accident or random disaster]]
In the manga, the emergency manual handed out to staff clearly indicated that someone expected those manuals to be needed; the Principal was very emphatic about these manuals and their uses. There's a shelter at the school with experimental drugs in it, indicating that it was designed as a safehouse as well as a school. Yet, despite these precautions and foreknowledge of what might happen, when the outbreak actually hits, the way it's handled is utter lunacy. Police fail to quarantine (or put down) dangerous infectees, and a car accident escalates to the utter devastation of a city in a ''day''. That's quick even for a ZombieApocalypse story. Moreover, the zombies are slow, and infection is spread through biting, so the vectors involved shouldn't be able to transfer the infection as quickly as they do (an airborne infection would make more sense, but then all the girls would have been zombified long ago, as they're living right on top of the things). Then there's one interesting little detail at the mall: there are no real staircases, only elevators and escalators. That's a fire risk: even children know not to take the elevator if there's a fire, and an escalator, running on electricity, would still pose a threat. For no other reason than standard fire safety, ''there should have been a staircase.'' As it turns out, the panicking people at the mall promptly act out the fire brigade's worst-case scenario: they panic, crush each other, apparently forget how to walk down an escalator without incident, and most of them end up dead. That makes no sense...until you remember that the school was privately built, apparently to provide a safe base in case of Zombie Apocalypse. What if the mall was privately built too -- to ensure the ''optimum'' conditions for ''creating'' a zombie outbreak? The people in it are penned in, panicked by the announcements over the loudspeaker, and all exit routes are compromised because they all rely on electricity. With people trapped and not thinking straight due to fear, the zombies have more time to infect a larger number of people who, if they were able to get outside, would simply have made a run for it.

She has dragged Yuki behind book stacks, has displayed knowledge that Yuki does not display, and [[spoiler: made an exit like a spirit would in the manga, by passing through a doorway after a speech,]] as if she'd been a spirit/ghost, and also in the manga [[spoiler: seemed to guide Yuki and Rii-san to the shelter to save them from the fire and zombies]]. Megu-nee refused to stop helping her students, even [[spoiler: after she'd been killed by the infection and her body became a zombie]]. Yuki is sensitive to the spirit world, maybe because she's a little insane, and so Megu-nee is able to talk to her directly only.

Due to the shout-outs of Literature/TheStand, and the fact that Flagg has access to other universes/dimensions, this world could be another interpretation of the events of the book where it's implied Flagg helped to cause the disaster. The girls are some of the very few people left alive in Japan, without access to Mother Abigail.

They were just attending a different school than Takashi and his friends were when the ZombieApocalypse occurred. They also decided to hunker down in their school rather than attempt to make a break for it right away, which probably helped save them in the long run as they weren't caught out in the open and stuck in a traffic jam where they would be easy prey for the zombies.