What a peaceful beginning. Here we have our protagonist, Ayumu, who loves cloudy weather...
...and hates the sun...
...who lives with a girl who wears armor...
...but the truth is, he thinks it's all fake. All this peaceful scenery, and his close friends, and the useless conversations at school, they're all fake. He is sure that these pointless days at school will last forever. Then this happens.
A cat runs into the road!
Ayumu runs to save it!
He is struck!
Oh, yeah, he's a zombie!
He spins through the air!
He passes by nude by two girls with uselessly short skirts who are never mentioned again!
And he survives! Because he's a zombie!
While this turn of events does comes out of nowhere with barely any explanation for the first minute and a half of the show, I was laughing the whole time. It made me think that this show had some potential right off the bat, if only potential to be randomly funny despite it's (obvious) anime cliches.
Buuuuut after that it sinks into relative mediocrity.
A supporting character that it introduced is Eucliwood, a necromancer who lives with Ayumu, who was the one responsible for turning him into a zombie. Ayumu chose to remain in a living dead state so that he could find the person who murdered him, who he is out looking for every night. Not a bad premise, right?
But here we find Ayumu in a graveyard in one of his usual nightly wanderings, and he is unexpectedly attacked by a young girl wielding a chainsaw who is after another creature. Sound familiar? Sound exactly like Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan? Well, that's where you're wrong. You see, Dokuro-chan is uselessly bloody, which this show isn't.
Oh. Well, okay, maybe this show did kind of borrow some ideas from Dokuro-chan. But what about panty shots of girls who look like they're 12? You don't see any of that in this show right? You're just fishing to find reasons to criticize such an original piece of anime.
Oh. Nevermind, this show is an uninspired rip-off. I guess the "extremely bloody cute girl shonen romance" genre was under-serviced or something.
Maybe the most annoying moment in this episode was here, where Haruna, not knowing that Ayumu is a zombie, is trying to erase his memories so that he forgets about being cut in half.
But I guess she messes up, cause she ends up erasing something else.
That's gotta be one of the stupidest things I've seen. God, what a dumb "joke". She ends up erasing her clothes, get it? Not his memories? I think I just threw up a little explaining that.
What else does this show have to offer? Well, later on, a creepy man visits Ayumu alone after school and makes this proclamation.
To which Ayumu responds by protecting himself in the only way he can...
Oh, and the pedophile rapist also turns into a lobster.
Yeah.
There's also some magical girl transformation scenes in there, I guess just because they had to cover every base of anime cliche.
Wait, her clothes come off again? Great. Wonderful. I have a feeling this will be a running joke.
So, then Ayumu has to fight the lobster monster. Although he is already more powerful as a zombie, Haruna tells him that he now has all of her magical powers, so he can transform if he wants to. So he does.
Ha ha, I gotta admit, that's pretty funny.
So, I guess to throw a bone to all the women sitting through this garbage pile of otaku baiting, they gave us some panty shots of Ayumu in his new costume. Which, coincidentally, are indistinguishable from the panty shots of the women in this show.
Nothing about this indicates that this is a man.
So, what do I think all-in-all of this show? It's good for a few laughs and the over-the-top randomness of the show is enjoyable for what it's worth. But you'll have to overlook some of the stupider aspects of the show if you're planning to watch the whole show.
The best part of the show? Probably that the monster looks like Pedobear.
They must be brothers or something.
Grade: B-
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