Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan

I personally think this movie is an incredible achievement. I like horror movies and I really like anime but they rarely intersect in a way that takes such fantastic advantage of both. The genre and medium are both used to great effect.

I am absolutely baffled by the low score and how few people have seen this movie. I certainly get why some people would dislike it. The combination of anime tropes and B-grade horror movie tropes is definitely unique; probably even jarring if you're not used to one or the other.

In my experience I've never quite seen anything like this and I was pleasantly ... shocked and surprised numerous times during my first viewing. And I do recommend going into this movie without knowing anything about it.

I am deliberately not going to go into any details about the plot but I will recommend going in prepared for something that is very deliberate in what it does and also specifically not taking itself overly seriously.

When this movie finds it's audience, and I'm sure it will eventually, I feel as though it will retroactively be praised as a horror anime classic for many years to come.

Tend to enjoy bad movies, but this one was just not good. poor plot, awful characters too. No character building and the entire thing felt messy. If youre into bad horror, then you may like it.
It had its fair share of gore and violence, with some random funny parts. Didn't feel like a serious show at all so it was an easy watch if you ignore everything bad about it. a score of 5 seems too generous honestly.
All in all id say only watch it if you want something easy going to watch, no plot to follow really. not the worst ive seen ... though so i suppose thats something.

I watched it for the plot. *crickets* The gore of course! Great usage of brutal bone cracking, stretching, tissue tearing, skull crushing gore! And maybe the horror theme, but really that didn't last long...now did it.. *sigh*

Characters look samey, especially the girls. Everything is stiff, slow and boring animation-wise with the sole exception for the fight/gore scenes. Watch a compilation of the gore on YouTube or skip through this entire thing to get to the good parts.

It missed a massive opportunity to make it about two delusional, demented victorian zombies going on a vengeful killing rampage slaughtering everyone in creative and obscenely brutal ways. (This ... still happens, kind of. It's not in the cool, well paced and mature way you're hoping for inside that brain of yours sadly.) Too many long scenes of talking, walking and nothing happening that bring the pacing to a screeching halt. Oh and some pointless martial arts scenes for padding it out before the inevitable, I guess.

That makes it... a... hmmm... 2. 2 out of 10 yes. 1 extra point for the short lived gore scenes that should've honestly set the bare minimum for gore standards in anime. Newsflash they almost never reach this visceral level even today because people are cowards and or lazy.