Zombie-Loan

I have noticed that I haven't written any reviews on bad anime lately so I'm definitely going to try.

Zombie Loan is quite a lame excuse for a zombie anime that contains more plot holes and inconsistencies than a George Romero movie (look him up)




Story (Poor)
The story is quite laughable in every sense of the word. It is a mix of fan service, action, and comedy. Of course there are ways to execute a combo like this well, but it doesn't pull it off at all. They do well to suck you into the show with the first few episodes, but further down the road, ... you will notice it gets more and more ridiculous to even an open-minded person such as me to accept. The enemies are also pretty unimpressive. When I expect brutal zombie fights, the least I would expect would be puppies, nuns, and otakus. To give the story some credit though, it does get fairly decent towards the end after all the characters have established themselves. Also, don't forget the fan service as they try to hit all points of fan service from bishoujo to loli to bishonen. It's all there.

Art (Mediocre)
Theres nothing wrong with the art, but theres nothing great about it either. It's obvious from the start that the main aspect of the characters are their sex appeal and their HAIR. Yes their hair, its noticeably more detailed than an average anime, and pointy. I'm surprised no ones eyes gets poked out from all the pointy hair flying around. Suffice to say, they drew most of the men in a bishounen style whereas the women were drawn with a cute moe style (again with the fan service). Girls who love that style will like the boys and the same goes to the boys who love the girls. As for me (being a guy), I loved how all the girls were drawn and even their characteristics weren't bad at all. Aside from favoritism, everything else from backgrounds to static objects and stand ins were just average in my book. Nothing to write home about.

Sound (Decent)
The sound is also not very stellar for such a short anime. A lot of MAL users didn't seem to appreciate the opening theme song (ref: MAL forums). As for me, the OP was average it seems like they were trying to steal a page from Death Note with a hard j-rock theme with no real relevance to the show. The sound effects throughout the show are also average. You'll encounter more comedy sounds than anything else. Also, theres a lot of music in the show, but in the same token, theres a lot of 'dead air' (like a faint wind blowing). But for the most part you will wish they lightened up on the background music. It's only saving grace from a "Pathetic" score (1 point), is the voice casting. Well you can tell the girls are all voiced in a cute or 'typical' manner but some of the guys didn't sound too good in my opinion. One of the main characters even has a nasally tone to his ranting and raving which was quite irritating at times.

Characters (Decent)
Although it's very hard to take an anime like this serious when ALL THREE main characters special abilities are horrible from the start. One can see a band on their neck showing if that person is alive or dead. That ability is fine, but the other two have to switch hands with each other in order to call forth a sword or gun. Which begs the question... why not just keep your own hands to yourself (the reason is also pretty lame IMO). Now I could understand if there was a decent explanation, but its lame. Theres holes like this throughout this show as you would expect from an 11 episode show. Some of the holes are big, like how did they get so good at fighting, or why even bother going to school when your dead and broke. I'm sure you'll find your own issues to pick on throughout your viewing. A good point of the characters though is the fan service aspect as they again cover as many aspects as they can, but even that can help the score that much.


Overall, it's an all right anime that looks like it tries too hard to please a broad audience in such a small time. Even the manga felt to ambitious as well. I believed if Peach-Pit focused more on the story rather than the fan service, it would have been a much better show. Its a shame that such a bad story came from the same person that made Rozen Maiden, Shugo Chara, and Di Gi Charat.


Verdict (4.4)

TBH it was a good waste of time but... it was a horrible anime. 1st: characters "ChiruChiru" shallow soooooooo shallow no development until the vesy last episod, Shito. ((youll know what im talking about)) " old OOOLLLDD " 0 character development. only thing he seems to want to be alone. and care about some "AI" created lifeform.. Chika: 0 character development " pretty new " only one making any sense but still boring. 2nd basicly NOTHING HAPPENED! NOTHING at all! they hunted 1 zombie ( teacher) then the next (butterfly) then shwoosh they where in a "tag game" with another "zombie team" then SWOOOSH its ... all over.. got to be hones here and say it was pretty much the worst anime iw seen in a good while ( not the worst ever, but in a while ) every once in a while we step by a bad anime. but this takes the price i expected so much more from watching it.. wow all i will say.. dont get your hopes up. but watch it if you got time to spare and judge if for your selves this is my opinion not yours! every one says its a good Zombie anime but NAH NAAAAAAH its not.. you got to see like 4 zombies. then the rest is human or other "IMO" not Zombie.. if you want something like HOTD this is not what your looking for or if you want something like kore wa zombie desu ka this is not for you.... this is a faint beginning with no ending

I watched this series back in high school (like 10 years ago) cause a clingy friend asked me to and as I'm filling MAL from 0 to Z I had to add it, of course... Man, I think this is actually the first time I put 1 to an anime and I can't believe myself cause I really don't like to put a 1 in something I invested time...

I'm gonna put a 3/10 to art cause there's definitively worst art than this and sound could be a 2 or a 10 but idk and don't care either.

I'm not gonna talk about this anime cause ... I seriously can't remember anything about it other than being so so so soooo appalling bad, so you can skip my review and read another one with technical details on it. I will base my review on another aspect which I consider it's the most important while making a production of any sort: resistance.

Ok, for me, anything that's considered good has to resist in time and this surely didn't: I can't recall ANYTHING from this other than the title. No chara, no story... anything. I had to read the summary just to check! And I was sure I did watch it! And if this anime would have engaged me in any way, I surely would remember even if it passed a million years ago, like I still and always will do with my beloved 20th Century Boys masterpiece.
That's the difference between good and bad execution.

I highly recommend to everyone on planet Earth NOT to watch this!!! It's a total waste of your time you should be investing on studying or watching another anime which is actually good. Those 13 episode-time in your like are never gonna be back again.

Go watch FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood instead, or read 20th Century Boys. Do yourselves a favor ;) and if you did watch/read them, go watch/read again. Then send me a Friend Request and we can talk ages about them :)

If you do decide to try my words on this, it's totally ok, but don't say we didn't warn you... XD (jk)

Hope you enjoyed at least reading this (? bye bye.