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Another zombie anime, because I guess KoreZom wasn't enough. From what I gather, this time the girl is the zombie though.

Airs Friday, April 6 at 02:50 JST on TBS

Animation studio: Studio Deen

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[Fencedude]

This show's tone is strange. Almost as strange as Chihiro himself. The Zombie obsession, fine. But trying to revive your dead cat as a zombie? Thats...not normal.

Rea is very cute, her seiyuu Uchida Maaya has done absolutely nothing of note, but I like her vouce. Her "mou mou" sounds especially are very unique.

As for the ending...ok...?

[HitokiriShadow]

So. High school Rom-com.... with a zombie fetish. As in, the main male actually has a fetish for zombies. Yeah. Zombies are generally more of a turn-off than a turn on, but zombie romance is at least something new, unique and potentially interesting.

Mero is cute and decently amusing. I'm hoping she gets a decent amount of time.
Wanko is a lot of fun. I expect good things from her. "I'll abandon my customers any time!"

Rea.... hmmmmm. I'll need to wait until next episode to figure out how I feel about her. She's cute, but for most of her appearance in this episode, she was a bit excessively.... passive, I guess. She seemed to be a "pure girl" type, and the situation that led her to meeting Chihiro and him being a borderline asshole left her being, well, very passive for the most part. She showed some sides of a hidden, more assertive side at the end though, so I'm hoping she'll be more interesting in future episodes.

And her seiyuu is... uh, Uchida Maaya. Who was Mari in YuryuYuri and.... that's about it. 'Tis the season for putting "new", essentially unknown seiyuu in starring roles, apparently.

[ookamigirl]

The kid lost his pet cat & decided to resurrect it.
His efforts were admirable, but with that sort of thing stuff always goes wrong.
Kinda reminded me of Occult Academy on some level.
Rea's unfortunate family situation lead her to become a test subject by chance LOL
This has potential. Will be watching it.

[superdry]

I loved the Shaun of the Dead reference in the beginning when Chihiro was thinking about a moe zombie. I wonder what other zombie movie references are going to show up if any.

Sanka Rea sure is cute. The two together in the abandoned building was fun to watch.

Originally Posted by Fencedude

Almost as strange as Chihiro himself. The Zombie obsession, fine. But trying to revive your dead cat as a zombie? Thats...not normal.

His zombie obsession, I think, has went too far even before wanting to revive the cat.

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Episode 1:

- Whelp, I love blue haired girl in the OP. Just from one scene.
- >_> Zombie fetish. A romantic fetish.

- Mero! And she's his sister! Yay, give her lots of time please.
- Ah she's Iguchi Yuka.
- Grandpa already looks like a zombie. >_>
- Crying Mero. ;_;
- Heh. Mero sleeps in ghost cosplay?
- Enter the doomed childhood friend character. Yahagi Sayuri~
- Ah, cousin. Well, pretty much the same exact dynamic.

- Hahaha, ummmmm. Rea's well confessions just took a weird turn.
- Damn she's pretty.
- And that cleavage...

- Ummm, I knew she was the zombie and all but wtf is going on, did she kill herself? Ewww, intestines. Well, there's a good chance she's trolling him, but I don't think so by the ending dialogue. Preview gives some hints, but I'll just wait until ep 2 before speculating more.

[strangefour]

-Why is the sexy girl who stands on things from Nise in the OP on a table?
-Zombie... sexual... Dude just got screw a goth girl.
-Grandpa has stopped living and become a crazy mixed up thing.
-Aww cute kitty.
-Mom is dead... oh don't tell me you want to resurrect and bone her you freak.
-BOB! NOOO!
-I take it this kid never saw Pet Cemetary.

-Zombie, which one? There's like six of the damn things.
-A boy with cat ears and a girl named Wanko. Wan~
-Ah cousin. That explains disinterest in bosoms.
-A relationship started by a confession of child pornography is a new one to me.
-Bo- b- boob~
-Dream? Reality? Prank? Preview? Well whatever, for Chihiro it's porn.

Chihiro is insane. Mero is a cute ghost. Sanka is naive enough to commit suicide... maybe. I just hope Bob the kitten is fine when he comes back as the living dead.

[ookamigirl]

Furuya & Rea working on the zombie potion..
Her dad is a total perv, looks like she has a family of weirdos.
Guess he really loved his cat since he was willing to go that far.
Poor Rea, don't think anyone would envy her life..
OMG, the potion thing really worked!! Cool!
Just.. Babu seemed kinda demonic though ^^"

[Fencedude]

Jesus. Rea's dad. Wow. Fuck him.

This show...is very melancholy. Also very interesting directoral decisions at a few points. Almost felt Shinboesque.

And then Rea was a Zombie. Maybe.

[strangefour]

-Maids get "fired" and animals "disappear" around Rea.
-Rea's mom is a cranky drunk?
-Picture time... ;_;
-I don't think resurrection works the way you think it does Rea.

-Rea can't have nice things.
-This episode better end with someone eating Rea's dad's intestines.
-"Hold this girl who wants to be a zombie while I look away from your naive ass." >_<
-Well she didn't chug it immediately. I guess she has half a brain.
-Helloooo cousin sexy.
-Super Bob!
-To sleep perchance to eat braaaaainz.

Originally Posted by Fencedude

And then Rea was a Zombie. Maybe.

Nope she's dead now. The rest of the show will be from the perspective of her in hell.

I think I'm dropping this show. Except for Wanko, I just feel sorry for the cast or want to see them die. Well Rea's milfy mom looks okay but she hasn't done anything. Since kitten Bob walking among the living again, I don't really have anything that makes me want to see more. I'll just picture him and a horde of zombie maids destroying the Sanka mansion and everyone inside.