In anime years, that’s like 80
To be completely fair to him, he is essentially back in high school with a bunch of 15-19 year olds and a 17-year-old as his commanding officer. I would become depressed too
In anime years, that’s like 80
To be completely fair to him, he is essentially back in high school with a bunch of 15-19 year olds and a 17-year-old as his commanding officer. I would become depressed too
That actually sounds right up my alley. One of my biggest gripes with the zombie and apocalypse genre is how much of it ends up being like a survivalist power fantasy of “Finally no rules, now I get to play colonial warrior” and helping others outside your own little family to survive is often portrayed as a naive thing that will get you killed.
It is fantastic and I can’t recommend it enough. Like you say, the zombie genre is often fundamentally misanthropic, and apart from how much schlocky B-movie fun you can have with zombies as a plot device (and it does have a lot of fun with how much weird and silly stuff it can get away with) the stereotypical misanthropy of the genre almost makes it all the more ideal for a story that wants to interrogate and criticize antisocial escapism, power fantasies, hedonism, etc and offer a healthier and more positive position instead.
It’s a meaningful work of art disguised as a schlocky satirical B-movie sort of thing and it’s just great.
The original Night of the living dead being about lynching and dawn of the dead being about commercialisation and consumerism in the US suburbs was quickly replaced by zombies being just… the scenario and not the metaphor. It’s a genre that has missed the forest for the trees. Evem revent zombie films like the 28 years are still about humans surviving with some poetic moments but largely nothing allegorical. I enjoyed them though but yeah