Friend Shitai

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 * Regular Edition
* Anime Edition

## Information

 ### Song By

 Gakuen Seikatsu-bu (Inori Minase, Ari Ozawa, M・A・O, and Rie Takahashi)

 ### Release date

 July 29, 2015

 ### Episodes

 1-12

 ### Length

 * 1:42 (TV size version)
* 3:40 (Full version)

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**Friend Shitai** (ふ・れ・ん・ど・し・た・い, *Furendo Shitai*?, "I Want To Be Friends") is the first and only opening music of *Gakkou Gurashi!* This song was sung by Gakuen Seikatsu-bu (Inori Minase, Ari Ozawa, M・A・O, and Rie Takahashi; the voice actors for Yuki, Kurumi, Yuuri, and Miki respectively). On the twelfth episode of the anime, this song was played as the ending theme instead.

## Track Listing

The song is written by Kiyomi Kumano, with the composition by Takanori Fujimoto. It was released on July 29, 2015.

### DISC 1

**CD**

1. **Friend Shitai** (ふ・れ・ん・ど・し・た・い?)
2. **Grateful Friends**
3. **Friend Shitai** [Instrumental]
4. **Grateful Friends** [Instrumental]

### DISC 2

**DVD**

1. **Friend Shitai** (MV - Music Video)
2. **Friend Shitai** (Music Video Making)

## Lyrics

* TV Size
* Full

## Characters

*In order of appearance:*

* Yuki Takeya
* Kurumi Ebisuzawa
* Yuuri Wakasa
* Miki Naoki
* Taromaru
* Zombies (episodes 2-11)
* Kamiyama (episode 1)
* Yuki's Classmates (episode 1)
* Kei Shidou
* Megumi Sakura

## Related Video

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## Trivia

* *Shitai* means "want to" but can also mean "corpse" or "dead body".
* The opening scenes for the anime adaption were redrawn for most of the episodes.
	+ Episode 1:
		- It was a normal clear day outside.
		- The appearance of everything appears to be from the view of Yuki.
	+ Episode 2, Episode 3, and Episode 4:
		- Zombies are roaming the front of the school.
		- The school yard is now grassier than before.
		- Parts of the school appear to be cracked.
		- Hallways are messier.
		- Inside of Yuki's silhouette displays the school from her view.
			* It previously was a solid colour.
		- Yuki's classmates are missing, presumably zombies.
	+ Episode 5 and Episode 6:
		- Kei is no longer seen outside, but is walking in the mall
		- The starry skies before the end of the opening scene turned to dark blue.
	+ Episode 7 and Episode 8:
		- The time setting is now before dusk (it previously was sometime around noon).
		- More zombies are roaming the entrance of the school.
		- One of the transitions are drawn with zombie hands reaching out.
		- A whiteboard with a drawing of Megumi is partly wiped away.
		- The scene with Megumi is replaced with her mock grave.
		- The pictures in the background are different.
		- The paper background is dirtier.
		- The starry skies before the end of the opening scene turned to purple.
	+ Episode 9:
		- The very last scene that displays the episode card is now replaced with writing on a blackboard.
	+ Episode 10:
		- Time setting is now night (it previously was sometime around dusk).
		- Taromaru doesn't appear when he catches the bone that bounces off of Miki.
		- Taromaru is seen slowly walking across the scene of the front of the school when that scene is panning downwards.
		- Taromaru's collar, leash, and dish bowl is seen instead of Taromaru himself.
		- A fuzzy image of Megumi is seen.
		- More pictures in the background are changed.
		- Yuki's hat, right before the episode card, is bloody.
		- The blackboard (for episode card) had cracks.
	+ Episode 11:
		- The blackboard (for episode card) is partly destroyed.
		- The starry skies before the end of the opening scene now turned to red.
	+ Episode 12:
		- This theme is played for the ending scene as the School Life Club drives out to town.
* This theme is covered by Lyrical Lily from Bushiroad's D4DJ multimedia franchise.