(L+CR) Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead [Netflix]

[Stark700]

Looks like Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is getting an anime adaptation

Synopsis

In a trash-filled apartment, 24-year-old Akira Tendou watches a zombie movie with lifeless, envious eyes. After spending three hard years at an exploitative corporation in Japan, his spirit is broken. He can't even muster the courage to confess his feelings to his beautiful co-worker Ohtori. Then one morning, he stumbles upon his landlord eating lunch—which happens to be another tenant! The whole city's swarming with zombies, and even though he's running for his life, Akira has never felt more alive!

Source link for domain:

https://zom100.com/

[Frontier]

Oh wow, I had honestly given up on an anime adaption since they were doing the live-action movie! But this is awesome !

[Nachtwandler]

First PV. Looks pretty fun despite all grimdark. Airs this July.

YouTube

https://youtu.be/POkryDWqUfg

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[Chosen_Hero]

So an anime for people who wish for a zombie apocalypse to happen irl, who think that they will become some sort of zombie apocalypse Bear Grylls just because they played some videogames and watched some movies...

[Huh...?]

Seems to be a good one based on the first episode.
Now have to see how it carries on.

[EroKing]

I had kept my expectations low for Zom 100 and it overdelivers. Top tier animation. The usage of black and white visuals from the point he goes into depression and having suicidal thoughts up till when the world goes to hell and he feels finally free with no longer needing to go to work, was brilliant.

For me, this is going to be the second gem of the season after "My Happy Marriage". Two shows completely different yet now going to move forward as the contender for the dark horse of the season.

Actually, wouldn't really care which one wins. Both seem like they are gonna keep me highly entertained for the next 3 months.

[Xeiros]

Dark Horse? Neither applies in the slightest.

In its home country, MHM, which is a novel series, is successful enough to have received a manga, live action, and now an anime adaptation. In the west, Zom 100 has the most members of any non sequel on MAL this season. MHM the third most.

Both have at least as far as we can tell high effort productions. As far as new anime are concerned, they’re about as mainstream as you can get.

[Guardian Enzo]

More Gainax than Gainax, in a good way.

[magnuskn]

As expected, not my sitch. Neither do I have sympathy for the plight of the MC (get a better job, dude) nor for his "haha, screw those other people, I'm happy now" attitude. Not my kind of show, other people can go and find their enjoyment here. This has the same energy as the movie Wanted from years ago, where I also wanted to throw things at the MC, because he was such a disgusting worm of a person.

[Tenzen12]

That's your right, but this protagonist is genuinely good guy, not someone who would think "screw those other people". Going full Ylo is not same as being asshole.

[Nachtwandler]

People complained Oshi no Ko criticizes JP industriy to much. When how would you call this?

I do not sympatize with MC suffering just to impress some girl with whom he already has no chance, but the episode overall was pretty good (and I a glad the girl is not the actual heroine). Let's hope the show itself will be more like the last third.

[Guardian Enzo]

Unless you understand how Japanese society operates, you don't get how realistic this is. The pressure and guilt to "gaman" is overpowering - you're treated like a failure and traitor if you quit. And if you quit a salaryman job at Tendou's age (24) you're effectively blacklisted for life from corporate employment.

This isn't depicted as an animation studio job - they could never have gotten away with this depiction if it was. And there are black companies in every industry in Japan. But it's hard not to draw the connection, and that's surely on-purpose.

[Nachtwandler]

I have a vague understanding about how bad JP work culture is. But here it was like ramped up to 11. I am sure even in black companies it is not as critically bad.

MC literarly stayed at work overnight on regular basis for a few days in a row (not just during big project deadlines), the management was cartoonishly incompetent, and the amount of sleep MC was having would have killed an average person in a few months.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

I have a vague understanding about how bad JP work culture is. But here it was like ramped up to 11. I am sure even in black companies it is not as critically bad.

MC literarly stayed at work overnight on regular basis for a few days in a row (not just during big project deadlines), the management was cartoonishly incompetent, and the amount of sleep MC was having would have killed an average person in a few months.

That’s not correct. There are innumerable documented cases of black companies this bad, and worse. Are they all this bad? No - but it’s distressingly common.

[felix]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Unless you understand how Japanese society operates, you don't get how realistic this is. The pressure and guilt to "gaman" is overpowering - you're treated like a failure and traitor if you quit. And if you quit a salaryman job at Tendou's age (24) you're effectively blacklisted for life from corporate employment.

In that case, just move to another country, move to the countryside, create your own business, etc.

Gaman, "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity", from what I can see would only apply if you went in willingly and aware (just like anything else). Sucker, social brainwashing, blackmail and brainrot are more fitting in this case. While I'm sure the showed played the "corportate zombie" to the fullest for the sake of the premise, it's very apt in portraying how little "enduring" and "dignity" is involved.

Also pretty sure most of the religions including the one where this comes from discourage slavery of every kind (including of the mind) as one of their core beliefs, preaching breaking the fetters that weigh us down and all that. So this being twisted into some kind of "rightous" phylosophy of self-imposed slavery is pretty unsettling.

The irony that "enduring the problems from quiting being a corporate slave" is somehow not Zen-y enough but going to Corp-Temple and relinquishing all free will and sense of self is, has not been lost on me either.

[Guardian Enzo]

And how easy do you think those things are to do? Move to another country? Self-evidently difficult. Countryside = no jobs. So what, be a farmer? And start your own business with what money (and what skills)?

[FlareKnight]

I'll give the show credit for at least hammering home the ugly and brutal situation for the MC. A good showing of how a situation like that can just break a person down. He worked hard to get to that point and didn't want to just throw it all away. Then as time goes on there's a sense of not wanting to abandon those in the same spot as him. And the list just adds up.

So I at least enjoyed that sense of freedom and energy that came from work being gone. And I think it does work to reflect how that job had utterly broken and ruined him as a human being. Though in that sense it's hard to say if I'll get into the show past this point. Because he has been broken so hard that he can barely care about anything that he doesn't have a firm emotional connection to. Ohtori's death is basically the only "oh this is awful" moment we get from him. All the other deaths are a worthy sacrifice to get him out of his job.

He needed the apocalypse to get him out of an abusive situation. And in that sense I do get it. People in awful situations sometimes can't get themselves out of them. But if he's truly lost any human empathy he's only slightly better off than the people that are already zombies.

[Tenzen12]

He is fundamentally good abd nice guy. Now he is also FREE good and nice guy

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

I have a vague understanding about how bad JP work culture is. But here it was like ramped up to 11. I am sure even in black companies it is not as critically bad.

MC literarly stayed at work overnight on regular basis for a few days in a row (not just during big project deadlines), the management was cartoonishly incompetent, and the amount of sleep MC was having would have killed an average person in a few months.

There is reason why over working is second most common way to isekai after truck-kun. Not to mention these pressures are also reason why there is significant number of NEETS.

[Frontier]

You know you're in for a fun, meta, zombie show when they're literally watching a zombie movie from the get-go...and the protagonist is basically a wage zombie at this point .

Things always start well. You're a bright and optimistic first hire ready to get to work and do what you love, with solid and nice co-workers and a beautiful accountant voiced by Sora Amamiya (how many dead stars walking were in this episode alone?), and you get through the usual round of drinks to get to know everybody better...and then everyone gets up and goes back to work and it all comes crumbling apart .

Oof. At work for two days straight. And that's before we get to Kenta Miyake yelling at you or finding out the co-worker you fell for is the boss (voiced by Chafurin's) main squeeze and they do it at the office where you can hear. It's only Akira's dwindling optimism and work ethic that keeps him going even though the life and color of the world is draind right out of him .

But zombies have never looked more colorful, huh? Or provide so much life to a guy because he now has an excuse to avoid work. Also I guess being a rugby champ lends itself to solid parkour skills. No one has ever looked more alive running from zombies. It took a zombie apocalypse for Akira to finally live !

I wonder if we're going to learn more about how the zombie outbreak happened. The boss seemed to be outright mutating when Akira found him .

That's one way to resign by tackling your overweight zombie boss in his tighty-whities out a window...and another to confess your love to your crush while she's in a zombified gal in her nightie and chases after you to kill you. Ten-chan as a zombie was still kind of hot .

Welp, the world is ending, but now Akira is free to live life on his own terms. And what better way to start it off than beginning a bucket list as the OP kicks in ?

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Unless you understand how Japanese society operates, you don't get how realistic this is. The pressure and guilt to "gaman" is overpowering - you're treated like a failure and traitor if you quit. And if you quit a salaryman job at Tendou's age (24) you're effectively blacklisted for life from corporate employment.

This isn't depicted as an animation studio job - they could never have gotten away with this depiction if it was. And there are black companies in every industry in Japan. But it's hard not to draw the connection, and that's surely on-purpose.

Akira even said in this episode that if he quit his co-workers would be forced to pick up the slack.

[Huh...?]

YouTube

https://youtu.be/spDteU8BOI8

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