Zom 100: Zombie ni Naru made ni Shitai 100 no Koto

[neflight86]

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?

[MFauli]

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.

[Ryllharu]

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.

Not that I'm watching this (I also dropped the manga fairly early on), but this is a really good point. I tried to think of a number of examples that countered this, only to realize that several I could think of were actually Korean. Japanese anime and manga all too often have the, "oh no! Anyway..." meme style reaction to a character's death or grief in general.

Maybe the only one to handle it well is Battle Angel Alita. Macross Delta did a pretty decent job even though the series as a whole is shit, it's actually the best episode in the entire series. 86 wasn't bad about it either.

Japan anime melodrama covers it, but it doesn't really match the natural stages of grief. Japanese films do it pretty well though.

[MFauli]

Not that I'm watching this (I also dropped the manga fairly early on), but this is a really good point. I tried to think of a number of examples that countered this, only to realize that several I could think of were actually Korean. Japanese anime and manga all too often have the, "oh no! Anyway..." meme style reaction to a character's death or grief in general.

Maybe the only one to handle it well is Battle Angel Alita. Macross Delta did a pretty decent job even though the series as a whole is shit, it's actually the best episode in the entire series. 86 wasn't bad about it either.

Japan anime melodrama covers it, but it doesn't really match the natural stages of grief. Japanese films do it pretty well though.

Japanese films as in other than live-action adaptations, maybe, I wouldnt know these. Im trying to think of other anime that did death/loss well, but often it's just romance stories where the griefing doesn't come from actual grief, but from "I lost my love interest". I was about to mention Clannad After Story, but that's too much already, it's "grief porn", lol.

I guess my favorite anime of all times, "Fantastic Children", handles it pretty nicely from what I remember. I really liked how the whole Conrad Röntgen-arc came to be, but even later on there's a heavy theme of losing others.

But, yeah, it's much easier to find anime where people don't give a shit about other people dying.