What is Gakkōtale?

Gakkōtale {Gakkō standing for "School"}, or Animetale is an Undertale Alternate Universe that takes place in the Ebott Underground Academy. At first glance, Gakkōtale may seem like your average highschool AU, but this universe is filled to the brim with anime tropes and stereotypes; some examples are:

-Frisk: They're the new abroad student and protagonist, very enthusiastic and determined to help anyone that comes their way.

-Sans and Papyrus: The skeleton twin brothers that out of the blue start following the protagonist around because they find interest in their human origins. Despite being "twins", one of them is very laid-back while the other is loud and proud. Of course, being so quiet and just relaxed, Sans holds a hidden power that will only use when the whole academy is threatened.

-Undyne: The strong and moody hall monitor, founder of the cooking club. She's the shonen hero you don't want to mess with.

-Mettaton: A nerdy box robot, absolute star of the drama club and secretely a magical boy.

-Chara: Main antagonist, silent and observative. You wouldn't even notice they're there. They will do anything to get rid of Frisk and their goody-two shoes ways.

What is it about?

Gakkōtale revolves around our protagonist, Frisk. They have just arrived to the Underground Academy, a huge monster-only academy, divided in multiple sections where specific monsters study and spend their time on. Guided by the lead teacher, Toriel, Frisk is led to the first area; SnowWing, where they will have to commune with multiple students and learn about their subjects. The human child is not welcomed at first, as some monsters even try to fight them, but using mercy, they manage to make everyone in the Academy happier than ever. Frisk soon comes across two peculiar students; Another human, Chara, and a goat child, Asriel. While Chara seems to be very moody, Asriel is silent, always looking sad, and paranoically glaring from side to side, as if he was trying to spot someone that wasn't there. Frisk tries to help them by giving them a gentle talk, but Chara hisses them away. As time goes on, the second human child has come to develop a deep hatred for the new one, they feel abandoned, left behind, enraged as everyone praises Frisk and leave them and Asriel on a side. Frisk, soon discovers, and not in a good way, the reason the shy goat child had always looked distressed; Flowey, a corrupted soul and a voice in Asriel's head, that is constantly torturing the child by whispering twisted things to him. When Frisk tries to help him, Flowey goes crazy.

Flowey and Chara are together in this. They've come to despise the small human child, and with a little help from other monsters, they manage to steal the six human souls from the Principal's Office, and with them, they free Flowey and turn him into an hideous beast, only known as Omega.

The new entity gives Frisk a seven day-limit to save their precious Academy and Earth, in which they'll have to team up with the most powerful monsters and confront the demon flower.

If they fail, they will be killed and sent back to the start.


A friend of mine and I have been working on this Alternate Universe for a while now and we really hope others can enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed ourselves working on it!

This AU takes inspiration from various animes {Like multiple magical girl, shonen and time-based animes, as well as high-school and slice of life ones}, and videogames {Like Majora's Mask and the whole three day, or in this case, seven day limit the hero has to save everyone}

Some of the plot-holes I left in this small introduction will be answered as new chapters are published, so bear with me here...

I've drawn the little cover and it took me ages ahhH.