I now realize that if I hadn’t told you about my little vacation… I might have gotten away with it. Seems like all the anime waited for me and I am grateful! I am a little worried about all the delays in the ZOM 100 production though. They seem to be having a hard time. I hope this won’t bring down the series too much.
Obviously, they couldn’t just stay on their little roof drinking beer and playing video games forever. But just like me, they had to be forced out of there by outside forces. Or else they would have just stayed on their roof drinking beer and playing video games forever. Can you blame them?
I’m not quite sure how autonomous the infrastructure of big towns is. Like how long do things keep running if there is no material damage. In some movies, it’s like instantaneous. The minute the DJ gets zombied the radio station just goes down altogether. In others it seems like rusty old fridges in ransacked grocery stores are still chugging away months if not years after pretty much everyone’s bit it.
I suspect that ZOM 100 has the closest image we’re going to get to reality. As in things are going to keep up for a little while and eventually, whatever fail-safes and backup emergency measures have been put in place will just shut down. I think… I need to learn how 5G works. Let’s face it, a zombie apocalypse is around the corner and I have to be prepared. Learn from Shizuka!
Speaking of Shizuka, she’s kind of adorable when she dorks out about something, isn’t she? It’s probably because she’s so serious all the time, seeing her loosen up a bit is a really refreshing change, but she’s also adorable.
Here’s a question, is an RV really the optimal vehicle for a zombie invasion. I haven’t been in an RV for years so I’m not sure. On the one hand, I can see the advantages. Essentially having everything at your disposal so you don’t have to leave your vehicle and can stay nice and safe is a huge plus. Because if there’s one thing that zombie movies have taught me is that zombies can’t get inside cars. They can rock them and stuff but if you hold tight, you’re safe. They can totally break down doors and windows in your house though so it has to be a car. And RVs count as cars so that’s a huge plus.
But like how far can you get in one of those before you have to fil ip the tank again? And how fast can they go? And are they really comfortable? What exactly is the bathroom situation? There are a lot of things to take into consideration here. Then again. even without any of those answers, I’m pretty sure it’s a better choice for the situation than a motorcycle. I can’t imagine a zombie invasion smells very good…
See guys? What did I tell you about the bike? Never a good idea!
I’ll be honest, I kind of forgot about this little arc. It was in the manga but my mind just pushed it to the side. I guess I didn’t find it that interesting. I mean there’s always a makeshift little community of survivors that are essentially just a violent bunch of thugs in these types of stories. Every since Lord of the Flies, we have all collectively agreed that the first thing humans will do once you remove society is revert to savages and band together but in violent and authoritarian regimes. We do not have much faith in each other, do we.
Of course, there’s a twist here. ZOM 100 has always had a really on-the-nose and in-your-face anti-labor message. And that’s cool. I no longer dream of labor myself. So meeting up with Akira’s old boss as this huge bully who lords power over him and makes his life miserable even in these circumstances is a pretty obvious move for the show. But it’s kind of been there done that a bit. At least for me.
Also, my favourite character shows up after this and I’m really impatient to see her again so maybe that’s why I was a bit weary of this episode. I didn’t dislike it but I didn’t have as much fun with it as…giant zombie shark. How the heck can you even follow that?
So the second that Akira goes back to some form of organized “work” he essentially turns into a zombie again. For him, it’s the stifling job market that’s the real zombie invasion… They really beat us over the head with it this week.
But it does make me wonder, if we are to take this entire zombie outbreak as a metaphor for a society that demands that its members spend the great majority of their lives in either back-breaking, soul-sucking, or mind-numbing labor, often a combination of the three, then what is the message of the show?
As Shizuka pointed out, Akira and Ken aren’t really expecting to get out of this. They both seem completely resigned to becoming zombies at some point, They just want to do a bunch of things before they become zombies. Live to the fullest before dying if you will. So is the show just telling us to like to take a year before college and travel or something? That would be great but, in this economy?
