Quote Originally Posted by neflight86 View Post
I'm surprised you are enjoying this due to its deadpan depiction of death and the characters' reaction to it. No one bats an eye hardly that so many people have died. Even Akira got more emotional response out of finding a kindred spirit that also sought a fulfilling job than at the loss of her (and her comrades) lives, as a human beings.

That is probably why the emotional beats of this story fall flat for me. For all it offers, I just can't get behind the cast due to them being (with exception being the edgy main girl) completely flippant about the end of society. None of them suffer any real breakdown and are just... natural sociopaths? That drains my sympathy for them and actually makes me root for Akira's downfall. Nothing about his demonstrably poor decision making skills should enable his survival, meaning his 'luck' in doing so is simply deus ex. Zombies left conveniently for the getaway with a giga tv? Enjoy your fun time while the utilities still work and food hasn't spoiled yet?

That is likely why I also dropped the manga after x chapters; if the characters don't care about the story, why should I?
"Natural sociopaths", yeah, that's why I probably can relate to Akira so much <3

The way he despises work is just SO on point with my reality, and just how often have I wished for a zombie-apocalypse, lol. Ofc, it sucks to lose loved ones, but a zombie apocalypse is such an out-there-scenario that it's easier to get over it compared to, say, them dying in a car accident.

That's not to say that I likd how quickly Akira got over the girl he just had a moment with dying ,that was bad. But I've come to accept that Japanese authors just suck at depicting people's reacton to death. Tbh ever since Gantz have I given up on Japanese authors to handle death and loss properly. One of the rare exceptions really is One Piece, surprisingly, that handled the death of a certain character truly realistically and I likd that a lot.