Kore wa Zombie desu ka? of the Dead

Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead (2012)

This begins immediately after the first season and its OVA which is great to see no time-skipping. We have pretty much the same cast but with the addition of a few new faces with the main one being Chris as the antagonist of sorts. We also get a tiny viewing of the Queen of Villers Lilia Lilith and also Naegleria Nebiros who is hilarious in her setting despite who she is.

As for the story itself, it does continue along the path and is hilarious to see as it goes on. You get plenty of scenarios and ... different events happening keeping it all very light-hearted. The only complaint is that the story is sort of unfinished with this season and could have benefited from more episodes but then I haven't yet watched the OVA or the 11th episode which is separate from this.

The art is still a great standard considering its age and I honestly think even in another 10 years it will still look great.

The OP and ED are both fun and the OST generally is nice with good SFX for 2012.

Characters develop all over the place and it would be a far too in-depth review to cover all of it. What matters is this time Taeko was nearly pushed off best girl by Ariel, Kris and Yuki. Yuki is a very hard one since her whole character is beyond cute. Eu speaks more which is wonderful and don't skip the credits at the end since we have some funny Eu based humour. Also, characters like Sarasvati have unusual interests when it comes to love which is refreshing.

The BIGGEST DEVELOPMENT IS A BREAK IN HAREM, YES A BREAK IN THE HAREM PROCESS. This is important and unusual to actually see another notable character Orito actually have a girl be a love interest for him which is confirmed in the source material that Kanami is not interested in our protagonist but in the side character. Is the world not beautiful! Not a spoiler but a holy relic to be remembered.

The show is very enjoyable and top-class in that sense, it loses marks for not being complete and not being an absolute masterpiece but I would absolutely come back and watch this again without hesitation.

9/10.

Not much is different from the previous season so this review will be short and if you want to know more you should read my review on the original. Most things in there hold true here as well. That being said I do rate this higher than the original, but what is it about it that makes me bump it up a notch on the scale? Well...

- Story & Theme
Okay, so the backstory is obviously still the same; the male protagonist is still a zombie magical girl/crossdresser and there are still three girls living with him. This time around the main story feels a bit ... tighter and has a better flow through the episodes. It grows on you through the series in a way the first seasons story didn't. The one drawback is that it isn't really concluded and with this being 12 years old I doubt we'll see a continuation. There's an OVA episode, but it's not related to the main plot.

- Characters & Writing
Most characters remain, but there are a few new ones. The main antagonist is especially interesting and we get to see some character development in the other characters too, which is welcome. The tropes are still there, but they feel more pushed to the background to let the individual traits shine a bit more.

- Style & Presentation
No real change here from the first season, but the intro and outro themes are really good. They were good in the first season too, but there are little things in this seasons themes that make them sound more well produced and less written to a formula.

- OVA episode
Not as much ecchi as the the first seasons, but still not worth watching. A filler episode with a bit extra fanservice.

- Conclusion
If you watched the first season you should go on to watch this, mostly for the character development and better writing. It's too bad that it feels unfinished, it really builds up to a continuation, but that doesn't take away from the good that's in here. You should probably watch the first season before this and with that in mind I'm a bit ambivalent if I should recommend this or not. The first season is fairly short though.

Well, Korezom, an anime I discovered after seeing the advertising illustration in cooperation with SoraOto. I left it pending for a while and when I decided to watch it, I decided to start by reading the novel (a masochistic idea in itself).

The novel was up to volume 8-2 and I really liked the development of it, so there were many parts that I wanted to see animated (That's the masochistic part).

During the first season, the course was going well. The plot and characters had some development, the novel was well adapted and balanced with fanservice (For having been adapted 3 volumes) and there were good ... reasons to have to face the antagonist at some point.

Here's where the bad comes in. The second season.

If you're a regular guy who ONLY watches anime, you wouldn't find it so bad and you would even enjoy it and it could be one of your favorites; since, even though its jokes are very cliché, it manages to make you laugh.

But if you are someone who comes from reading the original material (Like all Japanese, some of you and me) you will come out very disappointed with what you saw. Not only did they adapt the novel badly, but in disarray, they were supposed to take volumes 4 to 7, but they slipped in volume 9 (It is worth noting that volumes 6 and 9 are a bunch of short stories, they contain nothing to support the main plot, but they are good in their own way).

DEEN gave 10 episodes, 6 of which are pure fanservice. fanservice (Short stories count as fanservice and not all of them belong to the novel) and only 4 adapt some story.

In these 4 the villain of the day, Chris, is introduced. Presented under the role of a "hallucination" of Ayumu, and this always goes to calm their sorrows where she and suddenly PUM! One day reveals his true self under a stupid event compared to the novel, Chris's intentions were never revealed and was shown more as a companion who comforted Ayumu as an enemy to defeat, throughout the series is not given any good reason for Ayumu to face Chris, it just seems a whim of this wanting to beat her.

Also characters introduced in this season.- The Demon Baron, the guy who spit blood everywhere and gave Ayumu the ring, was left out for the rest of the series and made to look like a filler, and Nene, who was only used for more fanservice in the only episode in which she is shown.

Episode 8, 10 could have improved the anime, but the first one differs a lot from the novel and they make Kyouko just another submissive for no apparent reason (Although she does fall in love with Ayumu anyway). The second one could have ended Chris's arc, giving closure to this one, but instead they put in a chunni Ayumu with identity issues AND MORE FANSERVICE!!!!

I expected to see a lot of things from the novel being animated and I'm sure the japanese did the same, but they got a huge load of fanservice and a lousy plot, quite a disappointment, the low sales of the blu ray proves it.

The audio and animation are the best part of this one, although there are some ost that don't match in certain moments, and one or another detail in the art, they didn't make the mistake they did with NNT XD, although that one had more story than this one.

The OP was a delight that stays in your head, except for the introductory audios, I mean, where the fuck do they get Gaia.

Anyway, this season was made with a vision to make a third one, the part where Lilia comes out proves it, but with how bad this one was, the plans went down the drain.

If I were asked if I want a third season, I would say with total certainty NO, at least not if it's under DEEN's direction again, they would surely shit on my hopes of seeing more of the novel being animated.

As a bonus, the best adapted volumes in this season were 6 and 9. Yes, the ones that contained short stories and were used as fanservice.

The final rating I give it is a 3.5, thank you for read this review.