Zombie-Loan 1
Posted: December 30, 2007 Filed under: Zombie-Loan 3 Comments »I’ve sort of been wanting to read a Peach-Pit series, but robot girls and aliens et al really aren’t my thing. Zombies and shinigami are, so I thought this would be a good series to try out.
It could just be because I read it after Skip Beat and From Eroica With Love, but I really didn’t enjoy this volume. The heroine didn’t go down too good after going through two volumes of Skip Beat, which has an extremely strong and entertaining main character. The girl in this series is wimpy, a crybaby, strung along by the other characters, and doesn’t care if she lives or dies. Of course, the point of the series is to beat this out of her, and the other characters do what they can to improve her outlook, but she spends almost the entire volume in this state. At the very end, she’s reborn, so here’s hoping the next volume will have her suddenly and hilariously transformed into an ass-kicking monster hunter.
The plot of the series is vaguely Lunar Legend Tsukihime-esque in that the main character has the ability to see “rings” on people’s necks that let her know when the person will die, and she’s got glasses that filter this ability out (which is really only vaguely similar to Tsukihime, where the lines Shiki sees are fault lines he can kill people with). She teams up with two boys who need this ability in order to see what are, for all intents and purposes, Zombies that are killing humans and went past their life expectancy without dying. The two boys also have these rings and are “dead,” but are not zombies and are making a living paying back their loan to stay alive by collecting bounties on the zombie creatures they kill.
The plot is great, but the shallow characters really brought it down. Here’s hoping things pick up next volume.
This is particualar series made me want to get into manga than anime. Before I would look for a manga title and try to find an anime series for it. But with this, the exact opposite happened. I found the anime first and hated it and got back into mangas. Lol weird huh.
There is some things, however, I liked about it. I liked the characters of course and I thought it was cool how they switched hands and how they were zombies and all that stuff. I really can’t stand how short it was and that it didn’t explain everything in depth. It was just a dry run of everything. The climax of it all was somewhat confusing to me as to why in fact things were happening. Other then that, it gave me some laughs here and then and was pretty good. Definitely NOT a favorite but it is tolerable.
This has an anime? I had no idea. I thought it was a current series with only a few volumes available, I didn’t think it had been around long enough to have an anime. Huh, guess I was wrong. WOW, I guess I was really wrong. It’s been running since 2003.
Yea,there is an anime that goes along with it. It is a bit hard to find but many free anime sites have zombie-loan on it. It only has about 13/12 episodes which was a downer to me. Wow, I always thought that it was pretty old since I haven’t heard about it until I stumbled across it one day. It isn’t that old though.