Zombie Anime Review Questions Where the Show's Tone Is Going
A review that cannot place a show's tone is a warning the series has not decided what kind of story it is in its opening three episodes, even with the premise doing the work.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
The first three episodes of #I'm Looking For a Zombie draw community scores of 3.5, 3.7, and 3.6. The review says the setup, a sheltered village decades into a zombie apocalypse whose young cast barely knows ordinary things like certain foods or malls, carries real sadness under the gags. The problem is the mix: zombie fights with muddy animation and over-the-top reactions against a dark end to episode two and a limb lost at the close of episode three.
The show sets its cast in a village that raised them to fear the outside, decades after the outbreak. Episode two ends darkly, and episode three closes with a character losing an arm right after a little girl curses while shooting zombies. The review singles out the running gag about Aki checking each zombie she kills for her father, because her father made her promise to end him if he turned: funny and sad in the same beat. Madeline Dorroh gets credit for selling that scene in the dub. The fights themselves are where the praise stops.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network #I'm Looking For a Zombie Episodes 1-3