Gekidol

Gekidol (ゲキドル) is a Japanese multimedia franchise. It consists of a manga series, titled Gekidol Alive, which has been serialized in Dengeki Maoh since December 2016, an OVA, titled Alice in Deadly School, released in January 2021, an anime television series, which aired from January to March 2021, and a stage play.

Characters

 * Seria Morino (守野 せりあ)


 * Airi Kagami (各務 あいり)


 * Izumi Hinazaki (雛咲 いずみ)


 * Kaworu Sakakibara (榊原 かをる)


 * Doll (ドール)


 * Akari Asagi (浅葱 晃)


 * Manami Fujita (藤田 愛美)


 * Kazeharu Yamamoto (山本 和春)


 * Mayuri Nakamura (中村 繭璃)


 * Hirokazu Takezaki (竹崎 宏和)


 * Makoto Higuchi (樋口 真琴)


 * Tomoko Hinata (日向 智子)

Manga
A manga series written by Kazuya Hatazawa and illustrated by Asami Sekiya, titled Gekidol Alive (ゲキドル アライヴ), began serialization in Dengeki Maoh on December 27, 2016.

OVA
An original video animation (OVA), titled Alice in Deadly School (アリスインデッドリースクール), was announced in August 2016. It was produced by Hoods Entertainment, with direction by Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Yume Kageyama writing the scripts, Kiyoshi Tateishi designing the characters, and Prhythm/epx composing the music. The OVA premiered on January 4, 2021. It was streamed by Funimation outside of Asia.

Anime
The project was first announced in December 2015. In September 2020, it was announced the series would be produced by Hoods Entertainment and directed by Shigeru Ueda, with the chief writer being Keiichirō Ōchi and series composition credited to the Gekidol Production Committee, Kiyoshi Tateishi designing the characters, and Prhythm/epx composing the music. The series aired on AT-X from January 5 to March 23, 2021.

Internationally, the series was also streamed by Funimation outside of Asia. On February 13, 2022, Funimation announced the series would receive an English dub, which premiered the following day.

Stage play
A stage play was shown in the Theater Sun-mall in Tokyo from March 3 to March 7, 2021.

Reception
The reviewers at Anime News Network felt the premiere was dull and tried to do too much. Anime Feminist concurred, calling it boring and nothing special.