Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan (Calamity of the Zombie Girl)

On a hot summer day, five university students sneak into the library storage to look for some treasure. They find two sets of female antique mummies from Italy around the age of 14–20 years old.

One of the students, Sayaka, rips open the mummy and takes out a stone called "stone of life," which gave the mummies super strength and eternal life. Having stolen their "stone of life," the two mummy girls wake up and become zombies after 100 years in order to get it back in a bloody gruesome way, smashing their heads and eating their flesh for power.

The only way for the students to get out is to somehow find a way to kill the zombie girls. Will they be able to survive?

(Source: Shochiku)

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A 45-second promotional video was released on July 1, 2012 for the anime adaptation. The proposed anime was assumed to have been cancelled until new information was announced in April 2018.

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Studion, Euphrosyne

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Hayami, Saori
Japanese

Alma V

Main

Ogura, Yui
Japanese

Sudo, Noriko

Supporting

Kubo, Yurika
Japanese

Azuma, Hiroshi

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Miwa, Takahiro
Japanese

Miyake

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Mugihito
Japanese

Minagawa, Yui

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Ichimichi, Mao
Japanese

Abe, Mashiro

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Suzuki, Tatsuhisa
Japanese

Takanashi, Mako

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Shiraishi, Ryouko
Japanese

Kamoshida, Sayaka

Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Takanashi, Shuuichirou

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Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

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Iwami, Hideaki

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Noguchi, Akira

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Kanemaki, Kenichi

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Otani, Kow

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Jul 5, 2018

IronAlchemist

Recommended

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 like ...

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Oct 27, 2019

LegendAqua

Mixed Feelings

So this is what a Japanese anime adaptation of a B-List "Kill 'em All" Horror is like...

Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan is what you'd expect from a B list horror and man does this movie takes from bland characterizations, absurd situations and the uncensored gorey and nudity you'd expect from the genre just under the anime umbrella.

The basic premise is of a zombie girl and her maid, Euphrosyne Studion voiced by Saori Hayami and Alma V voiced by Yui Ogura being resurrected when five students sneak into the library storage and steal Euphrosyne's "life stone" and with her now resurrected, she seeks to retrieve it ... back in ANY way possible, mainly death and gore. The plot does give us little details about some of how the plot foundation is set up as, like how a 2 Italian coffins landed in Japan to why even five student went to sneak into the library storage and everything but the plot does tend to bend the rules for the sake of a gorey death and thus characters acting either stupid as hell or absurdly out of place for the "sake of it". BUT through all this, Euphrosyne and Alma actually became the most interesting and likable character from the entire roster even mainly for the sake of developing them, they are the main characters and the titular characters.

And because of this, the victi- "main characters" of the five students as well two more characters are stock boring, irredeemable or just plain stupid, like the egoistical asshole, the kung fu girl, the perverted nerd, the two timing ulterior motive girl and the shy girl and yes because Euphrosyne is pretty much a superpowered zombie able to rip limbs like butter...you can see these five having their heads rolls very soon and very quickly. The other two characters involved are the professor and his younger sister and once they get into focus of the plot is when this movie goes from schlocky gorey horror to batshit insane superpowered death match ( no seriously that's the tone it gets into).

So yeah the five main victims are either stupid or unlikable and the two characters that drive the plot up a wall doesn't have any influence until the latter half of the anime AND the titular character has more likability and development but is portrayed as the heroine...yeah this is B grade horror schlock, point on point.

The animation done by Studio Gonzo and Stingray, well LA did note few things about the animation, well the first one is that the animation at least in the first half tended to fade in and out maybe because the director didn't know how to transition better and just used fade in and outs because he couldn't think of anything else, second and finally is that yes, the gore and nudity is completely uncensored and the "fanservice" is mostly shown in a dis-servicing way...you know, all the gorey death and all and sometimes both blended together for no discernible reasoning for the sake of it, but yes, if your squeamish rather you not watch it at all (and LA is squeamish about this...for live action horror movies, LA is weirdly ok with animated gore). The animation done by Gonzo and Stingray was decent at least from the character designs to background work as well as the uncensored nature of it all, like the animation seemed more focused on the gore than anything else being REALLY detailed, well it's a gorey horror anime so LA guess the animation focused on the gore did make some sense. All in all, the animation done by Gonzo and Stingray was decent with a few annoyances.

The voice cast, well they did decently as well, it was the scripting that was the problem and what they had to work with and the voice actors did their best with the material, especially with M.A.O as the kung fu girl to the ulterior motive girl voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro, but by default Saori Hayami and Yui Ogura were great as Euphrosyne and Alma just because their characters were likable and they were charming in some ways.

Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan has what every B grade horror schlock's problem has, bland to absurd characters to just characters acting stupid or nonsensical for the sake of a death and makes you root for the zombie girl and maid kill the unlikable cast already. Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan does jump the shark near the latter half and just goes batshit crazy with it and takes it 100% seriously and guess what, LA liked it as Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan knows what it was and it could go even further beyond it's own craziness and succeeded in that B-grade schlocky way BECAUSE it is an out and out B-grade horror schlock fest through and through.

Just what the hell did LA watch?, ohh right B-grade horror schlock.

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Jul 7, 2018

Rahkshilord

Not Recommended

I had no idea what this was when I saw it pop up on crunchyroll, so I took a chance and watched it. I regret this immensely. At times I couldn't stop laughing, at times I was on the verge of crying, but regardless of my emotional state the entire time I watched this OVA I wanted to die.

The story is absolute nonsense where some idiots accidentally unleash the ultimate evil from a coffin in the basement of a university: two Gothic Lolitas who are also super powered zombies! The rest of the movie is about them fighting said zombies in baffling stupid ways. Until ...

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