Zombieland Saga Revenge

I'm sorry I'm illiterate. I love Zombieland Saga very much. The absurd chaotic storyline, the good ol' friendly setting of Saga that warms my heart, the overdramatic voice acting, the overly optimistic and unstable attitude of the zombie girls, their amazing songs, everything. Zombieland Saga (including Revenge) for me is hard to review, it's a mixed bag of candy that contains too many good stuff that clouds my judgement, and even if I do get a hard cringe from a lot of its childish and forced moments, they were still meant to be pleasant or inspiring, and I am willing to forgive and accept thosecringe. Because of how irrational I forgive those flaws, I think it's pointless for me to review the whole anime properly. Revenge is a huge step up in terms of quality. The art and animation are so much better now. The dancing and expressions are more natural and detailed. The promotional artworks are beautiful too. It really does feel like Franchouchou made it as top idol, makes me happy as a fan. I'm Reviewholic, I am illiterate due to yesterday's brain damage, and I love #4.

With the movie coming out some time this year, I wanted to make a review on this series. (Note that this review is considering both the first season and the second season Revenge). As someone who is not a particular idol fan, this show was a surprising banger. The main gimmick of this show is that it is an idol group of all zombies, and they have to keep performing while hiding their identities as zombies. Personally, I thought the zombie aspect was actually done very well in this show, as it: - Increased comedic effect and enhances performance by doing absurd things like adding electriceffects or such through a logical way. - Gives the characters more depth by introducing their backstory and uses zombie as "people who died before fulfilling their dreams or had a tragic end". The main cast all get their own development. The music and performances in this show was really good. I think the CGI performances at the start of season 1 was a bit rough, but that actually had some narrative purpose (whether it was intentional or not) by showing their improvement throughout time, like you can clearly tell how much better the CG is in Revenge compared to season 1. Also Junko's voice is so good. Shoutout to the GOAT Miyano Mamoru who killed his voice acting role on Koutarou. Overall I would highly recommend this show. Zombieland Saga: 8/10 Zombieland Saga Revenge: 9/10 Overall: 8.5/10

Zombieland Saga, as a whole, is a series I find to be wasted potential. Tell me, with a premise such as “zombies turned idols to save the prefecture of Saga with their borderline psychotic manager,” would you expect to see the show would a large dose of melodrama to go with such an absurd premise. Now, before I go into Revenge, I wanna summarize my thoughts on Season 1 since this is my first time talking about this anime. For season 1, the first two episodes were some of the most fun of the whole season, they completely use their premise to its fullest withsilly shenanigans, changing up the “idol anime” genre, and having fun. But, when the third episode hit, it kinda just became a self-aware idol anime with all the over the top melodrama of wanting to become the next big idol group. It was a big disappointment for me, so I was not expecting this season to really surprised me at all. I was somewhat proven right, and somewhat proven wrong. Story: The story seems like a fitting way to start of the second season as the crew of Franchouchou are in huge debt from the awful failure of their concert at the EFS. Which was stupid how they got themselves into this mess when given extra context 10 episodes later in a quasi-filler episode. This would have been fine as a bit for a joke, but both the first and tenth episodes play it completely straight. While Franchouchou are saving up money, they grow more as an idol group and as zombies. Most episodes are little bottle episodes that focuses on most of the cast members, giving us a little more context to their characters and normally doesn’t effect them all that much throughout the course of the story and go back to being the same cheerful charismatic zombies. Most of these episodes can be fun but usually don’t hit as hard as I would like them to. I’ll at least give season 1 credit, where there was at least some inner conflict to be had to keep the story more interesting. Art: Art is a little on the rough side with this series, though it looks the best in this season compared to the previous. Both do have their moments of fun and energetic animation, but they also have moments of static shots with lackluster artwork in places. The character design is probably the best part of this series as each character has their own unique look to them and give off their personalities pretty well. But that opening is a real banger and kinda tops the first season, IMO. Sound: Sound design wasn’t really all that special to give much praise as it sounded like most of it was just royalty free sound effects half the time. The music is really well done and catchy to the point that I would tap my foot to some of their melodies. Although, I think catchy music in an idol anime is pretty much expected to be there. Not to mention, it doesn’t really have too much of its own personality to the lyrics as it sounds like the kinda songs you would get from the usual idol groups. Characters: I will say that the strongest part is the characters for the most part. Aside from Sakura, who feels more like a wet blanket than a good character, most of the other characters have enough of a dynamic and personality that you’ll be sure to like at least one. While some don’t really gel with me completely for reasons that’ll make this review longer than it is, I can’t really say I hate any of them. I will make note to finally including a backstory to the member, Yuugiri, as she felt painfully underutilized in season 1 and mostly used for jokes. Her story arc were some of my favorite episodes as it was a nice change of pace from the anime’s usual antiques, it felt like a breath of fresh air. It also helped me to fully understand Koutarou’s quest to save Saga as his late ancestor(?) and gives him a lot of charm with his chemistry with Yuugiri. It also helped to accept Koutarou’s screeching autism that was sometimes getting to me. Enjoyment: It’s a bit mixed for me as I wasn’t really annoyed by this series, but I wished it really took the show to more absurd levels and actually did a little more with its zombie premise besides “we can’t let everyone know we’re zombies” shtick. And only after the last episode, we get a tease for [REDACTED] and ONLY NOW YOU DECIDE TO COMMIT TO THE ABSURD?!?! Overall: Those first two episodes of season 1 and Yuugiri’s arc were some of the best this series had to offer. Maybe one I can think of that was cute was Saki getting to meet her idol who made her who she was and filling in his shoes. But, I guess this show was mostly ruined for me because I expected too much from it that I lost interest along the way. If you want something to turn your brain off to and maybe laugh (though jokes can be hit or miss at times), check it out if you want. Time to go back into my cave.

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