Before watching Zombieland Saga, I had never watched an idol anime.
It's not that I had anything against the concept of the "genre", I just didn't have an interest in watching any of the few shows I knew of.
But when I looked at the anime of this season, I saw Zombieland Saga. And I had seen a clip of the first scene of the internet, so I knew what kind of show it was. And I decided that I was going to watch it.
The basic plot of the anime is that Koutarou revives 7 girls, who he gives the mission to save SAGA. They're basically zombie idols.
And something I found very interesting was how important it was for the plot that the girls were zombies. Cause a major theme of the show was how idols have to hide their personality and relationships to be successful as an idol. It is pretty disgusting, to be honest, and I appreciate how this is the first anime I have heard of that tackles the issue.
Cause the zombie literally have to paint over their skin to not scare the public. The only difference is that it makes sense for them to do that since the public would logically try to kill them.
But yeah it would have been easy for the creators to make them zombies so that it sticks out of the crowd just a little. But they thought of it a little more and made something great.
Something I didn't say in my synopsis is the "era difference" of the girls. Yuugiri, one of the main characters, dies in 1880, while Sakura dies in 2008. And the time difference shows a lot. You can see the different styles that the girls sing in reflect "idols" of the time.
Again, they could have gone with it easy and just make them look their age. But they took time to make it a little more interesting.
So yeah. If you want to see a show that tackles issues that idols have, or just talks about idols realistically. Then this is the show for you.
weak 9/10, 3rd favorite of the year ATM
