Sankarea

[Buffalobiian]

Categories: Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror

Plot: Furuya is obsessed with zombies. He collects any figurines, watches any movie, and plays any game with the living dead, and is even only interested in zombie girls. When his cat dies, Furuya begins trying to raise it from the dead using an ancient book of the occult he bought from a shop. But what will happen when he sees the idol of a nearby all-girls school walking close to where he conducts his experiment, wishing to die and be reborn as a different person? -AniDB

Commie - Episode 01
SFW - Episode 01




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I liked this. The flicking back and forth between the comedic zombie moments (the alarm clock was great, nude photos?), emotional-inducing scenes (screaming, afterthoughts of death) and actual creepiness (how far does a guy go from being a zombie fan to a crazy corpse harvester?) worked in balance. It always felt like the show had a sense of energy and wasn't bogged down in a slow, morbid mood as well as not being off in the clouds of fuwa-fuwa highschool-romance land. The cat was drawn in the cutest way possible so the creepy side of things was still relatively toned down, but it contrasted enough.

Chihiro isn't exactly dense but doesn't go into ero-mode whenever breasts can be found, while Rea herself is rather clueless and clumsy with her words and experiences but also isn't dense/ditz or stupid. If this episode is any indicator, she learns pretty fast.