Zombie no Afureta Sekai de Ore dake ga Osowarenai

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7.3/10


Yup, my moral compass is absolutely broken by enjoying this degenerate trash. Was it the necrophilia? Was it the blackmailed rape? Was it the somewhat psychotic mc? I don’t know, but somewhere along the journey, I started enjoying this full colored manga more than I should have, and I have absolutely no explanation for it.

The plot has grown on me — at face value, it seemed somewhat stagnant and one-dimensional due to the mc’s immunity; however, there’s a lot of plot events and details regarding the zombies that makes the manga have more depth than it should have. Though it gets quite “deep” or ... “dark,” there are some loss and forgotten details within the plot that does create a rather disorderly chain of events.

The characters are iffy — of course there are some innate problems within the mc’s apathetic self and the side characters that seem to fall in love with a psychotic mc, but most of the reactions seem somewhat realistic and human considering the circumstances.

The introduction was definitely a huge turn-off due to how many morals it violated in such a short span of time, but as the manga progresses, it has more and more depth and well resounding characters that confuses my ethically corrupt brain.


You guys know this is just my opinion, right?

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”

Heyo,

ALSO BEFORE ALL THAT CHECK STEAM:I Walk Among Zombies (vol 0,1,2,3)
Here is a visual novel which manga is based upon.

Simply decided to review because of JohnTBrooke.
I didn't quite like his opinion based on 9 chapters and naive outlook on life.
In case of massive crisis sex for a favor, rape and etc. It is not only seen rarely but quite often actually. Women clinging to horrible psychopathic yet reliable men? It's not a fiction IT HAPPENS even during our peaceful times but during a crisis it's magnified. Your ever so loyal girlfriend will spread her legs to be protected OR she will die. Men ... will become either beasts or become fertilizer. After initial crisis those "beasts" create structure and they become beasts on a leash and our society once again regains some stability.

I would agree only on one point there were many panels with actual sex involved(Like fragments of actual intercourse) but not too many to call it H-doujin since emphasis wasn't on that. Look at the prison system, some men are willingly selling themselves for protection or "goods". It is not exploration of human psyche it's a reminder to us all during hard times your moral compass might not coincide with others. Why would i help a stranger when I myself am in a bit funny situation? Why should I even stress myself for others without compensation? I have family and friends, strangers are just that, strangers. They are a risk factor, you don't know them you don't owe them anything and in crisis promises are empty words, if you can't provide you are dead weight if you can you provide with something of interest.

Let's even delve deeper, many of female oriented literary works are based on psychopathic men who seem powerful and controlling.
So his comment on power play, romantic conquest and etc. seems like you don't even have slightest grasp of what would become of your life after a major crisis. Power play WILL happen, during situation that they experience a man who can use a gun will show his "power" in some form as any person with power does EVEN during peace times, it takes discipline and training or special mentality not to do this, vast majority would exploit power. People say police are "High on power", well ordinary citizen would be even more high on power than any military or police if they held a gun in their hand and knew that there is no law or police to take them in.

Story 8/10

Quite a story. I would say a realistic uptake on a psychopathic MC be it due to his condition or prior but it didn't seem out of place (his actions). I even brooded a bit and thought would i do the same? Probably yes (not the dead lady though, too risky).

Story concentrates on zombie apocalypse, what i liked is that there was some though put in to it (unlike some zombie fictions), for example MC thought about water or electricity running out. Food expiration, this deserves another +, rarely do we see when people who seek food in zombie fiction encountering a problem with stench of food (meat, dairy and etc.). After a week or 2 many markets and warehouse would stink and rot, many of our foods would not be good for consumption.

What i found problematic is the pacing, I honestly didn't could not comprehend how many days, weeks or months were going between chapters. Sometimes it seemed like months have passed whilst the story itself it seems was going consistently.

Characters 8/10

Rare occasion to see some depth to characters. MC is a bit psychopathic, others have a plethora of depth in them and I could even see further development. There are bad natured people and good natured people. People who are given a choice, do it or don't and we actually see their decisions. You know among some friend groups (during teenage-young adult phase) there are teasing questions for example "Would you kill a person for a million or would you suck a mans d for a million" many would answer NO! But reality is that when you are given a choice do this or die many would do this rather than die and exactly that is shown here. In any case i don't see the standard manga with dumb Paragon of virtue MC and 1 dimensional idiots.

Art 8/10

Characters are well drawn, background wasn't a sloppy work. Details on many things including killing of zombies or people. Also manga is colored. Speech bubbles and panels are up to standard.

Enjoyment 9/10

Damn good thing. Enjoyed and was sad that only 24 chapters were translated to the date of my review. Eaten it in one seating. Who knows maybe things will change but currently I like where this is going. Didn't seem to have much fakeness, didn't break away my immersion with some silly stupidity.

Overall 8/10

I would recommend it to people who are OK or like dark themes since it contains blackmail, attempted rape, gore and other nasty stuff. In either case i like when authors are not tied with PG rating and are free with their work. Does above stated discourage you? Then don't read it, it's not the main thing here but it is there and it is not sugar coated.

ALSO BEFORE ALL THAT

Pretty strong beginnings here with a rather compelling mystery to solve (the protagonist's status), let down by its insistence on fulfilling a power fantasy narrative by throwing in a female character to be the mc's romantic and sexual conquest. This is the issue with this manga, despite its somewhat intriguing premise, the power fantasy aspects play too straight and too obvious to ignore or be tricked into thinking it is part of the 'story'. Still, at the very least the characters seem to have some degree of depth to them.

However, the bigger problem here is the sexual content which seems to me, to be ... in place for the sexual gratification of the viewer rather than to further develop character or narrative themes. You can tell because the gratuitous and rather unethical sexual stuff done by the protagonist seems to develop to his benefit - with his unethically gained sexual conquest being attracted to him despite his rather distasteful action. This all adds to the manga's insistence on being a power fantasy rather than pushing to be a compelling zombie drama.

All in all, I guess it is rather entertaining, and the premise is quite unique, one that I've not seen much in manga (at least not since Highschool of the Dead... sheesh, what's with zombies and sex in Japanese manga?) but I think it best to not kid yourself that this is some exploration of the human condition.

Edit: Read up to Chapter 25. Maybe I was a little harsh because this series is kinda rapey and it doesn't really deal with the psychological effects of being coerced into such a relationship well. Hell, the protagonist is rewarded with affection and more sex from this act. Still, this is still an enjoyable and fun read if you can stomach the blatant erotism and necrophilia. It's better than your typical Isekai story and tries to render the reality of a zombie apocalypse in a relatively approachable way, touching on the trauma of violence, drug dependency, and the despair that people feel undergoing an apocalypse scenario. Though I would argue it doesn't go far enough into these ideas and the characters and storytelling aren't nuanced enough to really render things as 'realistic'. For something within that vein, I am a Hero does the job better. But! The story is paced well enough, has fun action sequences and the character designs are nice. I also like how the story has the intelligent zombie trope going on, it really adds a welcome degree of intrigue and intensity. But having read till 25 chapters, no question about it. This is a a power fantasy. A very male fantasy where you can make a girl prostitute herself to you to survive and still get that same girl to be affectionate with you (and the story executes this complex relationship with the mentality of a hentai).