I mean, Yuugiri has a massive scar on her neck but no other scars, so her death was presumably by beheading. Sakura has a massive head wound and a bandaged leg (plus that gunshot she got in ep1). Tae-chan has a bandaged neck and her head comes off easily, so maybe that's her damage, as well. Lily has an exposed heart, which may be some sort of cartoony way of showing a crushed sternum and exposed heart.
Junko is stitched together and has skin which has different colors from a simple pale skin color to a deep green rot, so presuming they're all her flesh instead of some Frankensteinian stitching of several girls, she was presumably butchered into pieces, and thrown into different locations so pieces of her body rotted at different rates before being collected back together?
Ai is also a big question, since her whole lower head seems to be covered at all times, like her whole jaw was removed. Her arms come off easily, and her eyes pop out easily, as well...
Is there something about the actual former idols where they meet really gruesome deaths by stalkers or something?
I mean, Yuugiri has a massive scar on her neck but no other scars, so her death was presumably by beheading. Sakura has a massive head wound and a bandaged leg (plus that gunshot she got in ep1). Tae-chan has a bandaged neck and her head comes off easily, so maybe that's her damage, as well. Lily has an exposed heart, which may be some sort of cartoony way of showing a crushed sternum and exposed heart.
Junko is stitched together and has skin which has different colors from a simple pale skin color to a deep green rot, so presuming they're all her flesh instead of some Frankensteinian stitching of several girls, she was presumably butchered into pieces, and thrown into different locations so pieces of her body rotted at different rates before being collected back together?
Ai is also a big question, since her whole lower head seems to be covered at all times, like her whole jaw was removed. Her arms come off easily, and her eyes pop out easily, as well...
Is there something about the actual former idols where they meet really gruesome deaths by stalkers or something?
To be perfectly honest, why is this anime a thing? why moeblob fucking zombies of all creatures?
To be perfectly honest, why is this anime a thing? why moeblob fucking zombies of all creatures?
1) It is a satire of the idol industry, in that it proclaims that the idol industry is so dehumanizing, it's easier to start with actual inhumans and throw makeup on them until they pass as humans, rather than try to make humans act like they are not human.
2) It is a deconstructionist absurdist comedy, and using zombies as moeblobs is part of the absurdity. Also, it means that the same cop that screams in horror and starts shooting at the girls if they walk around as zombies starts hitting on them when they're in makeup and passing as human, again, as part of the absurdity of the situation.
3) Zombies are so culturally omnipresent that people are fed up with just more zombies and hence, they're ripe for parody works where you have stuff like zombies as the heroes just to overturn things. It's the same way that you have Isekai so damn omnipresent that you have "reincarnated in another world as a spider/slime/lich overlord/Nazi/with Your Mom/JK prostitute/vending machine/hot spring" and even THEN are still trying to out-absurd one another to get views.
I mean, Yuugiri has a massive scar on her neck but no other scars, so her death was presumably by beheading. Sakura has a massive head wound and a bandaged leg (plus that gunshot she got in ep1). Tae-chan has a bandaged neck and her head comes off easily, so maybe that's her damage, as well. Lily has an exposed heart, which may be some sort of cartoony way of showing a crushed sternum and exposed heart.
Junko is stitched together and has skin which has different colors from a simple pale skin color to a deep green rot, so presuming they're all her flesh instead of some Frankensteinian stitching of several girls, she was presumably butchered into pieces, and thrown into different locations so pieces of her body rotted at different rates before being collected back together?
Ai is also a big question, since her whole lower head seems to be covered at all times, like her whole jaw was removed. Her arms come off easily, and her eyes pop out easily, as well...
Is there something about the actual former idols where they meet really gruesome deaths by stalkers or something?
Tae's whole torso is wrapped in bandages actually, and it's hard to see, but if you pay attention, her forehead is also wrapped up. If episode 5 is anything to go by she doesn't really hold together very well either. It could be a sign of how badly decayed she is.
Ai might be worse then Junko too. It's not just her head, she's swathed head to toe. The only part of her not covered is the area around her eyes and her hair. Junko might've been chopped up, but Ai must've been burned or something.
"NWSiaCB" explained things very well, but also just why not? If anything we've never gotten an Idol Series with Zombies, so even if it wasn't a parody-comedy it would at least be an amusing spin on the Idol genre, in my opinion at least. That and if you don't like moe, just don't watch moe. I think the girls are cute and zombie girls that are cute is even more so my cup of tea, plus the industry commentary that's woven into the parody humor is fun.
Also I always find it odd how people that hate moe are the most obsessed with it, I was recently having a talk with someone about this but there doesn't really seem to be a reason behind it other than "I don't like this thing and I see it fairly often, so it's my duty to make a post bashing something other people like simply because I personally disapprove of it's existence". Which doesn't make sense to me, since ignoring it would be far easier. Live and let live as they say.
Disclaimer first, I don't see the appeal in moe. I like Zombie Land Saga because it's great comedy and the character design doesn't matter as much. Even then yeah, I often just live and let live moe animes, admitting it's not my cup of tea and move on.
That said, the reason me and a lot of people dislikes the moe trend can boil down to 2 reasons.
1) Moe is the only thing the anime has going on. Like fanservice shows, moe has only one appeal point and that their characters are attractive. It doesn't have plot, character depths or anything to give you a fresh or memorable experience. The entire anime stakes on the characters being cute/sexy and that's the entire series.
It also means a lot of moe are very repetitive and samey. You watch one good moe anime, and you no longer have any need to watch any other because the worse ones all are just recycling the same tropes and jokes over and over.
If an anime, like Zombie Land Saga, has something else unique going on other than being cute, then yes, it could be great, but most of the times you just don't even see companies putting any efforts into that.
2) Overexposure. This is a day and age being an anime fan means you cannot escape from moe. It's in your animes, your games, your mangas, your novels, your music, your Youtube, and if you live in Japan, even your food and public transports.
It can get tiring real quick, especially if you started off of neutral to bad first impression of them to begin with. It doubly goes when again, most of them are zero-effort clones of each other.
Again, if the majority of moe wasn't made by unskilled people trying to exploit otakus who will impulse-buy anything with a bishoujo on it for minimum efforts, this would have been much less of a problem.
As of Episode 6, we now know how Junko and Ai died.
SPOILER ALERT PAST THIS POINT
Junko died in a plane crash, so her body was probably pretty messed up, hence the patchworking. Ai got struck by lightning and fried, hence her full-body bandaging to hide the burns.
1) It is a satire of the idol industry, in that it proclaims that the idol industry is so dehumanizing, it's easier to start with actual inhumans and throw makeup on them until they pass as humans, rather than try to make humans act like they are not human.
After the series concluded though, I don't think this is the point very much as "lol isn't it funny the zombies are moe" a la Sankarea.
Koutarou treats the girls rather like a slave driver, yes, but all of it is used for comedy, and more importantly not only do the girls eventually consent to the idol shtick themselves, Koutarou is also shown to be very understanding in sensitive moment. That debunks the "idol industry dehumanizes its idols and use them as whale baits" part.
The fans too, are shown to be people who gets hope, ease of heart and aspirations from watching idols, like every other idol shows and game did. The show never once attempted to touch on the "kimo ota whale fans, AKA the actual idol industry main target audiences dehumanizes the idols and fantasizes they are their personal dakimakuras" of reality, to put it lightly.
