School-Live! | Episode 5
Buckeye: That was just pretty dark there seeing that Kei was nowhere to be found and all of that talk about protecting loved ones after they discover a bunch of zombies barricaded in the theater. While Yuki can hallucinate all she wants, sooner or later she needs to snap back to reality. So that explains how Miki escaped, and next week’s episode is about what happens after the escape and it appears that for some reason they head back to the school when they could have driven out of town.
Asrialys: Better somewhere familiar and safe-ish than passing through places with unknown situations and unknown fuel availability.
Of course, there’s only so muck Yuki can block out…
EmperorBrandon: I hadn’t been paying too close attention to OP changes, though I spotted the one with Kei that just happened this time. Interesting. I figure the bit with Megu-nee is going to turn for the worse later on, too…
A lot of tension in seeing how Miki’s rescue was going to turn out. Obviously a sad undercurrent to it as there weren’t people guided there by Kei as she was setting out to do (neither do we see her, though: I wonder if her meeting a horrifying end will just be an implication. Maybe more frightening leaving it as a mystery) and the girls didn’t happen to discover where Miki was holed up either. Rather Kurumi came across another place where they were unsuccessful 
(thinking of it leads to an emotional promise between her and Rii-san) Miki had to be brave, and thankfully it just barely paid off.
Also interesting to get more of the side of Yuki aware of reality. “You’re imagining things, Yuki.” They sure had reason to believe that… but thankfully Yuki’s instincts were right in that case and she also gets to be brave. Rii-san’s resourcefulness came in handy too. I do want to see a bit of Miki first finding out about Yuki’s condition. Curious how that goes down. Though perhaps we won’t confront that issue directly until we see the genesis of it.
Library-chan: Well, Kurumi just threw up a “I’m getting bitten in the future” flag.
GingaDaiuchuu: Ah, it was going so relatively well for most of it. Of course it had to end on a major downer. Such is this show, and it wouldn’t really be any fun if that wasn’t the case. Even Yuki is showing some signs of breaking, which introduces the possibility of the happy fantasy not even lasting all the way through. I expect the main four will at least survive, but this show was of course about a twist from the beginning, so we can never be sure.
davesimmons: As dark as this show gets I wouldn’t be completely surprised if the final reveal is Yuki standing alone with the shovel, as we find out all of the others have been dead all along not just Megu-nee 
Sensuifu: Maybe I’m just overthinking it, but if looking at the OP, there’s something odd with the way it ends. Is it ominous? Possibly; but it’s interesting…the table scene starts with Yuki’s mug but ends with Miki’s. Also, the album opens up on Yuki’s end, only to be closed and placed on Miki’s spot, notably with Yuki’s cap on top of it. Why would Yuki be without her cap? This imagery might be hinting that this whole ordeal started with Yuki and ends with Miki.
With that possibly being the case, I’m guessing Miki ends up surviving, if she does turn out to be a lone survivor. If the other girls do get infected, I’m suspecting there’s going to be an incident between Miki and Yuki as well…possibly Miki fending off Yuki, which gives significance to Yuki’s loose cap on top of the closed book. Could be that it symbolizes Yuki’s ‘conclusion’ to what could really be Miki’s nightmare. And look at how attached Yuki is to Miki in the OP… It’s no coincidence Miki’s obsessed with horror, so it wouldn’t be all that surprising if this was just her imagination either. ‘We took each other’s hand’ fits perfectly for almost all scenes Miki has lost something/someone- Taroumaru; Kei, and now possibly the rest..
The Coffee God: 
Well that pretty much shreds any hope of Megu being among the living…
http://i.imgur.com/BpaXWgq.jpg
And since it was a Yuki flashback, I wonder if she was the only one around and watching when it happened.
That would some what explain why she’s so stuck on the Megu delusion.
bctaris: So it’s why she was able to snap into action, acknowledging, somewhat, the reality going on. That image was a parallel to Miki on the piano–it isn’t of Megu-nee already a zombie, it’s her under attack, and possibly how Yuki was unable to save her. And why she’s so attached to Megu-nee. And it now makes the story structure make sense. Keep in mind, of course, that this takes place before everything in the first two episodes (and second half of episode three), where the other girls confer at one point that Yuki seems to be getting worse–almost going home, and interacting too much with her fantasy world. The reminder of the original traumas triggered in the Miki rescue maybe did not help matters. If there is a story in all of this, Yuki confronting reality may be it.
But I doubt, seriously, that any of the four will die for it. That doesn’t seem the point of Yuki’s journey, if it is one: enough people have already died, and her realizing that–reliving and accepting Megu-nee’s, especially (I’d bet as part of the season finale)–will be enough to get the point across.
