Zombieland Saga

This is how you play with people's mind, we thought this would be a traditional story of zombies and it that would be a saga of stories... i'm glad we were wrong about it.

Here we have an idols anime with a complete twist, we are preented to 2 different worlds: Saga and the group. The group is presented as a dark representation of who they were in life with how their death resulted in life changes for everyone around them and for them as well; this doesn't mean it cannot have a good humor when it needs too. Most of the time there are jokes about their condition of zombies and how to deal with it to not be found, giving good laughs and good horror moments that works very well and even some drama vibes. Being an idols anime also results in good music, specially in the later episodes. All of this things mixed with all characters personality is very charming and leads to an absolute delightfull show.

Remember when i said tha they have good music, they do but in the first half of the story we have the same song over and over and gets a bit repetitive. The other problem is the attitude of their "Manager" wich is a bit hiperactive and sometimes not very compasive with them.

Horror: They got it; Music: Checked; Humor: Yup. Must watch? You bet, give it a try.

Written as of EP 4.

This is one of those anime you get shown by a friend or randomly find on a video site. Is it absurd, crazy and a bit WTF? Yes. Is it trying to be revolutionary, no, but it doesn't need too. This is like the FLCL of idol anime. Silly, hilarious, a riff on idol anime. What more do you want? It's Zombieland Saga for christ sake. You get what you expect and what you get is absurd gold.

A lot of idol anime end up being the same or similar type of show with predictable content. Zombieland saga is not like that, it's new and interesting with great characters and absurd comedy. It's fun.

Sakura Minamoto is a high school girl who dreams of becoming an idol... right up until she steps in front of a speeding truck. She wakes in a strange building and discovers that she is surrounded by zombies. She flees and asks a cop for help... he looks at her in terror; it turns out that she too is a zombie! She is then helped by Kotaro Tatsumi, a rather manic individual whose idea to save the city of Saga is to raise various girls from the dead to create an all zombie idol group! Sakura gets to know the other girls and they start to perform; all the time trying to hide the fact that they are zombies from the public... something not easy when their heads occasionally fall off.

This series is without a doubt one of the highlights of the season. The premise may be totally bonkers but it really works. Of course these aren't conventional zombies; only one of them, the hilarious Tae Yamada, doesn't regain her consciousness; and apart from Sakura they all remember their pasts. Their characters are nicely varied and the fact that they were raised from the dead means they can come from different time periods in some cases. Their designs are impressive; they only look like normal girls when made up to go out in public. The comedy elements really work with plenty of laugh out loud moments in every episode. Overall I'd definitely recommend this series even if you don't usually like idol shows or zombies.

These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.

A very unique idol anime. Follows a young girl, who aspires to be an idol herself. However, before she could achieve this dream, she dies in a collision with a truck.

10 years later, she awakens as a zombie and meets several other girls, as well as her new manager I believe? Sorry, my memory is kinda fuzzy lol

These girls become an idol group made to save the dying idol industry, I believe.

Anyways, this show is definitely worth the watch. It's unique, different and interesting. Great characters, great songs, great comedy.

I love it. I would recommend it to any idol anime fans, the art style is also very pretty.