Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan

This anime is b list horror movie and it knows it, its has all the tropes of one, bland characters weak story, weird pacing but makes up for with fantastic gore, a great dark sense of humor and dosent take itself to seriously, if you area a fan of wacky horror movies you'll love it The problems with it feel almost intentional in order to keep that b list spirit, the facial expressions are pretty bad and almost never change which may be a reflection on b tier bad acting, the gore is detailed and over the top like from something likeEvil Dead or Nightmare on Elm street, If you have a love for terrible horror movies and can ignore the weak story and bland characters Calamity of a Zombie Girl is definitely for you

I'm actually a sucker for bad anime – I like watching really low-budget or poorly-made shows, laughing at their absurdity and noting down their failures in reviews. This one, however, was physically painful to watch – there's no fun to be had here, intentional or not. The Calamity (indeed!) contains: – Awful art (simply ugly, at times somewhat and at times horribly so – I can't remember any other anime that was this visually unappealing or had characters so poorly designed) and junky animation. There was nothing funny or over-the-top about it, like in Hand Shakers for example, it was just plain bad. – Characters too stupidto live, and never in a fun way. This includes everyone – I guess it tried to follow the slasher film formula (the axe in the picture in the right might be a clue – there's no axe in the actual movie though), but the titular Zombie, who shoul be threatening, might be the dumbest of them all. I wanted everyone to drop dead and I was sad it didn't fully happen. – Awful dialogue. I'm not sure I've heard dumber conversations and more half-assed voice acting in my whole experience in anime. This stuff is embarrassing, occasionally painful (expository dialogue was like the driest thing ever). – Pointless violence and gore. But hey, I've said already this is more or less a slasher movie, so why pointless? Because there's pretty much no reason for half of the violence and death. It just happens, often in a "comedic" way, which often made me uncomfortable with how stupid and uncalled for it all was. And it comes from someone who likes slasher films and gory anime. The scene with smashing a dog's head with a sledgehammer is the best example of macabre that serves no purpose other the movie trying to be edgy, but coming out nothing but obnoxious. Something else? Probably there is, but I'm tired of thinking about this anime already. Really, there's nothing to be seen here. Even if you like weird garbage anime like I do, skip this one – it's really not worth it.

This is a repost, spoilers possible: Ok, so they weren't kidding when they titled this ONA as "Calamity of the Zombie Girl" since when they woke up and I did said "they" cu'z there were two of them. Ok. like I've said they woke up from their long slumber and immediately they started to have to deal with a couple of shitty characters to take back what belongs to them and a calamity breaks out. You know if anybody says that the fact about this ONA does make sense, when everything was thrown at once with even considering about the pacing of the anime. considering thatthis, a fantastic spectacle, are about the only words that you can describe this as. You have to have a very high IQ to understand this. Too bad I kinda agree with it when this anime presents the character here who have died as greedy and it also shows that greed can be bad where most of them paid it with their lives, Ok so there maybe some plot holes here, where Alma and Euphrosyne were from the Holy Roman Empire but from the 19th century probably in the 1810's as seen from their attire in Euphrosyne's backstory. Also, we never get to know if the Occult Club member were high schoolers or college students. There is also Mako who is that mad scientist's sister whom we saw is alive so how the hell did that mad scientist able to plant that stone on her. Despite of all of it studio Gonzo did make used of the blood and gore of this anime and seeing them Occult Club die one by one was something that you make you feel like they deserve it, especially when you see how that mad scientist got killed by his sister / science project and how Mako the mad scientist's sister / science project got owned and eventually terminated by Euphrosyne was something else , cu'z the main protagonist and her sidekick only wants to live in peace and be left alone, but thanks to a certain two timing bimbo and the rest just goes one by one. Fanservice??????? there is boobs. butt and panty service , but no hairy fannies, so what gives about this anime?: Story-fair 6: Well Pretty much a lot were thrown in that a lotta plot holes follow through. Art-Very Good 8: Who cares about the fanservices, when the blood and gore makes up for it. Sound- Good 7: Nice to hear Hayami Saori's mature voice, btw she is ugly in real life. Character-Very Good 8: All that killing of them Occult Club (except one) was something that you can say that they deserve it and knowing that them two Zombie just wanna be left alone with their property and yes it's that magical stone. Enjoyment- Very Good 8: It did lived to it's title and the blood and gore was a lotta icing on the cake. Overall-Very Good 8: Nice to know that studio Gonzo just limit this to just one episode , that's quite worth it.

It really feels like someone decided they wanted to make an anime film based on old horror films from the 90's, but, and here's the kicker, instead of Jason or The Mummy, you get a kawaii anime (zombie) girl. It's got the classic group of teenagers who all are slightly quirky and have weird crushes in a nice love triangle, the plot twist which really isn't very good, and everyone gets picked off. Not everyone dies, but I feel this film suffers most from the lack of anyone worth cheering for, because there really isn't. Everyone's pretty dumb or despicable in my opinion and by theend I didn't care who won. I realized who the protagonist was probably supposed to be but either way was fine with me, so I certainly didn't feel invested. The art and action was pretty decent, even if they completely ignored the fact that a fight should have ended way sooner than it did for plot reasons. The voice acting was fine, the sound was nothing special in that I didn't even really notice it, and yeah it was a little fun. Dry, and some jokes didn't land, but if you want to watch something kind of ridiculous, you can get a few laughs out of it. Overall not really worth your time in my opinion, but it's only an hour so it's some dumb fun.

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