Zombie Loan (Anime, 2007)
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What the fuck, anime? Is it only that I am older, or does anime usually nowadays just suck? It seems like most of them are just consist of tired anime stereotypes.

I watched “Zombie Loan”, because I couldn’t imagine them fucking up the idea too much, because I was looking for something very simple. The anime had the word “Zombie” in it so I was almost sold. Then I think the premise talked about fighting zombies, and that is it. That is all I wanted, a bunch of anime episodes about undead going “arghhhhh” and Japanese animated characters cutting them into pieces. How simple is that?

But we get any zombie fights, because in this anime everything is a zombie. The two main characters are zombies, but not your traditional zombies. They have died, a company has resurrected them, and to pay the company back for this, they have to fight zombies, get paid, and slowly pay their debt until they get their life back. But during the duration of the 11 episodes, I did not know what great disadvantage their undead status held for them. They still go to school (whenever the episode calls for it), they have friends, colleagues, and family members. They can eat and have fun and have emotions. This is not MY kind of zombies. Occasionally the two characters exchange their hands (??) and they get weapons from their body’s ectoplasm (???) and they fight monsters with it, in boring, uninteresting fights.

Most of the episodes include the two characters acting tough and manly (but in a stupid boyish manner, not in a “Fist of the North Star” or “Berserk” manliness) and full of unfunny comical scenes. I don’t want to sound like a grandfather, but fighting anime in my day was better!

2/5