If you're like me and you're looking for your next big anime one day when you stumbled upon the title Zombie Land Saga with the word Zombie on it, then you have my condolences as to how you found it.
The title is actually misleading because while the show features what are supposed to be 'zombies' the story goes like this: a schoolgirl is minding her own business wanting to become a pop star one day when the punchline comes and Sakura gets killed by a truck (okay?). Right after that, she wakes up in a mansion full of zombies...turns out to be one of them...and then some molester claims he's going to turn her 'into a pop idol'? Wait, what? I thought this was a genuine zombie anime; why even bother with zombies when all you wanted was to showcase some pop stars?
How does the anime handle the subject of zombies? By throwing it out of the window. How do the zombies behave? They perform death metal, and...they turned back to normal!? That's no fun! Oh, you said they 'came back from the dead'? Then how are they still DEAD? Typically, that's not how zombies are supposed to work.
Does anyone see the problems I now have with this anime?
So the 'zombies' now go through the usual trials and tribulations of... just pop idols and not anything supernatural or horror related (besides season one, which was a spoof of that) and I was looking for a zombie anime about that! Oh, and everything about the show is so overstimulating and everyone is so gimmicky and the anime itself (for the first season, anyway) goes through the usual hero storyline with Sakura while cheating on the writing and narrative often: the girls, from their zombification and evil death metal ritual to the very last concert when Sakura saved the day during a snowstorm, often partake in publicity stunts out of their own volition and cover it up by 'entertaining' their audience anyway.
"Mommy, why does that girl have her head ripped off?"
"Oh, don't worry, honey: look at the other girl starting a rap battle with another girl that used to be an undead monster beforehand!"
The minute the schoolgirl got killed and zombies appeared, I was immediately baited into liking the series before it switched into Japanese pop idols which is a twisted way of doing things and apparently I have started fixating on the wrong anime as an autistic and I want to like Black Jack instead which is much better.\
Or better yet, Sankarea: Undying Love was an anime that understood zombies better than this hyperacid sugar rush on cocaine. And what about the girls themselves? They all push the wrong buttons in terms of making me comfortable or not hyper. One of them, mind you, is a boy in ponytails posing as a girl. Although trans people exist, that's just really embarrassing and I instantly rebel against my new fixation once I learned about it.
I want to forget about this sugary joke of an anime...I want to like Black Jack or Sankarea instead, but this? I regret watching it.
The title is actually misleading because while the show features what are supposed to be 'zombies' the story goes like this: a schoolgirl is minding her own business wanting to become a pop star one day when the punchline comes and Sakura gets killed by a truck (okay?). Right after that, she wakes up in a mansion full of zombies...turns out to be one of them...and then some molester claims he's going to turn her 'into a pop idol'? Wait, what? I thought this was a genuine zombie anime; why even bother with zombies when all you wanted was to showcase some pop stars?
How does the anime handle the subject of zombies? By throwing it out of the window. How do the zombies behave? They perform death metal, and...they turned back to normal!? That's no fun! Oh, you said they 'came back from the dead'? Then how are they still DEAD? Typically, that's not how zombies are supposed to work.
Does anyone see the problems I now have with this anime?
So the 'zombies' now go through the usual trials and tribulations of... just pop idols and not anything supernatural or horror related (besides season one, which was a spoof of that) and I was looking for a zombie anime about that! Oh, and everything about the show is so overstimulating and everyone is so gimmicky and the anime itself (for the first season, anyway) goes through the usual hero storyline with Sakura while cheating on the writing and narrative often: the girls, from their zombification and evil death metal ritual to the very last concert when Sakura saved the day during a snowstorm, often partake in publicity stunts out of their own volition and cover it up by 'entertaining' their audience anyway.
"Mommy, why does that girl have her head ripped off?"
"Oh, don't worry, honey: look at the other girl starting a rap battle with another girl that used to be an undead monster beforehand!"
The minute the schoolgirl got killed and zombies appeared, I was immediately baited into liking the series before it switched into Japanese pop idols which is a twisted way of doing things and apparently I have started fixating on the wrong anime as an autistic and I want to like Black Jack instead which is much better.\
Or better yet, Sankarea: Undying Love was an anime that understood zombies better than this hyperacid sugar rush on cocaine. And what about the girls themselves? They all push the wrong buttons in terms of making me comfortable or not hyper. One of them, mind you, is a boy in ponytails posing as a girl. Although trans people exist, that's just really embarrassing and I instantly rebel against my new fixation once I learned about it.
I want to forget about this sugary joke of an anime...I want to like Black Jack or Sankarea instead, but this? I regret watching it.