fantastic first episode. Coming in blind, I kinda wonder if there’s gonna be more digs at work culture with the zombie parallels. As pointed out by KVin of SakugaBlog fame on twitter, the ZLM company is a pretty thinly-veiled reference to the studio OLM that BUG FILMS split off from (down to logo and office building). Seems like a lot of folks like the resignation scene but the other string of jokes I liked from this ep was that string of opposites in the MC’s narration where he mentions the employees being moved to tears, or health being a priority. It kinda feels like a lot of ground and variety was covered with different sorts of shots with everything moving at a brisk pace which was kinda overwhelming (probably the point) but also really impressive and kinda exhilarating, the energy levels kinda didn’t dip the whole 24 minutes.
Damn, I didn’t come in with much in terms of expectations, but that was awesome. This may be the best new anime of the season. The animation was insanely high quality, hopefully we’re in for a treat with the rest of the anime. I really loved the part where everything went grayscale, and slowly became more and more colorful from the first zombie appearance. Also, those zombies are fast as fuck, lol.
High hopes for this one going forward.
10/10 pilot episode
From Haro Aso, the creator of Alice in Borderland, this is something very different.
As others have said, great use of color.
I would add, some nice wild animation styling for both the black office and freedom sequences.
Didn’t realize this was from the creator of Alice in Borderland. That makes so much sense!
Not gonna lie, the first half of the show was too real for me.
This reminds me alot of Gakkougurashi with its lively atmosphere contrasting the plot
It’s gonna be hard trying to not read the manga while this airs 😭
This episode was mindbogglingly high quality, movie quality I daresay
I wonder if it’ll keep it up as the series goes on
This was a fun one to go in blind on! I really enjoyed this first episode, though I’m still not sold on the series. This episode just gave me really strong “one-shot” vibes, y’know? They’ve sort of already resolved the initial conflict and tied up all the loose threads to the point where I’m not really sure what’s left to explore.
Well, whatever. I’ll stick around for another episode because the author & production team clearly have chops. It’ll be interesting to see if they keep the same lightly manic tone of the pilot or if they veer off into more grounded post-apocalyptic storytelling. I’d prefer the former, though I do think that would be the harder path to tread here!
