Right away I just need to straight up warn that for one this review is going to be FULL SPOILERS. Secondly this series has absolutely ridiculous amounts of gore and Im sure this review is going to include at least a fraction of it. Thirdly this is probably not gonna resemble an actual review because of what I have to work with this time. Introduction 220https://i.ur.com/8HlEPlc.jpg 220https://i.ur.com/6nNqrc4.jpg Before we just dive right in some background information on this... ONA. It is an adaptation of a two volume novel series written by Ryou Ikehatahttps://anilist.co/staff/101337/RyouIkehata and the studio GONZOhttps://anilist.co/studio/3/GONZO are the ones responsible for adapting it and releasing it into the world. GONZO: Hey you FUCKERS. LOOK AT WHAT WE DID. 440https://i.ur.com/N6k06u3.png The World: Oh jesus why. Pretty much every single thing about this ONA is just... completely fucked. Pardon my french but theres just really no better way to put it. It made way more sense when I read that the original novels were described as a violent survival comedy but that still just... Dont get me wrong though I laughed at this series a huge amount. It was in the moment and even a little bit looking back on it now amazing. 440https://i.ur.com/kfYVZF4.png At the time watching it I just couldnt wrap my head around it. And I still cant kind of. As horrible as this was as fucking awful looking as this and as how wrong everything in this was... I genuinely really loved and still kind of love it but with a gigantic fucking asterisk attached. The only reason I could see explaining this adaptations existence is that someone at GONZO just wanted to animate some fucked up and weird shit and this is what they picked. While on the other hand for most other recent horror series I can see a clear audience or market for those shows. Mahou Shoujo Sitehttps://anilist.co/anime/100010/MAGICALGIRLSITE/ for people who just want to see magic girl battles but with blood and some goofy overdone tragedy stuff thrown in there. Devils Linehttps://anilist.co/anime/99531/DevilsLine/ for people who want vampire action but generic vampire romance thrown in. Ousama Gamehttps://anilist.co/anime/99698/KingsGame/ for the ecchi crowd who also wants some blood thrown around. Happy Sugar Lifehttps://anilist.co/anime/101351/HappySugarLife/ for those people who like Those shows there is a clear audience that will watch them and probably even enjoy them. But personally I found more or less most of them just kind of boring. Thats why when this came along fully uncensored and there was just like limbs being ripped off and brains getting splattered around all uncensored I just... I just couldnt help myself. 440https://i.ur.com/HzjEpZO.png That being said despite my own borderline insane personal enjoyment of this series I could only honestly see myself ever recommending it to people who like myself enjoy the process of performing autopsies on absolute disasters. So lets get started. And I should just say right now that this is basically just going to be an overview. Because there is just way too much for me to ever feasibly exhaustively break it down. 440https://i.ur.com/vDztcoE.png Plot Okay this is the description of this ONA. The story revolves around a beautiful girl named Euphrosyne who is regretfully a zombie. Euphrosyne wakes up in an underground archive of a university where a maid named Alma tells her Madam kill the students and retrieve the Secret Stone. ...Thats literally the entire plot right there. You dont even have to watch the ONA now. College students steal a stone from zombie girls that are for SOME REASON being kept in a university the zombie girls come back to life and then want their stone back and kill the students who ARE GENUINELY IN THE WRONG AS THEY DID STEAL THE STONE AFTER BREAKING INTO THE UNIVERSITYS STOREROOM OR WHATEVER IT WAS IN SEARCH OF TREASURE. 440https://i.ur.com/fzBdXfQ.png Characters With the complex plot covered lets jump to the characters. 440https://i.ur.com/WqSp5XH.png There is not even a single fucking notable or interesting character. Hell there are not even any remotely LIKABLE characters. Theres just the college students a professor and the zombie girls. The college students are all complete assholes or just brainless horror characters that make the absolute worst decisions ALWAYS. Like if you wanted to you could nitpick almost every single decision they make every single thing they do and say. Theyre an occult club or something but why are they breaking into this place to steal treasure? Why would they assume theres treasure in a coffin? Why would they open the coffin? Why are these college students totally fine being around a mummified corpse? Why would one of them say it smells like BEEF JERKY? A CORPSE THAT HAS BEEN MUMMIFIED FOR HOWEVER MANY YEARS SMELLS LIKE PREMIUM BEEF JERKY. 440https://i.ur.com/nhN5plP.png 440https://i.ur.com/WQ2Djg2.png How did the one that pulled a stone out of the abdomen of one of the mummified corpses know that there was a magical stone embedded in the abdomen of the mummified corpse? If they did not already know about the presence of the magical stone beforehand then WHY THE FUCK DID A COLLEGE STUDENT PUT THEIR HAND INTO A MUMMIFIED CORPSE? LETS SEE HMM THERE DOESNT SEEM TO BE ANY TREASURE IN HERE. JUST ROTTING ENTRAILS. THATS WEIRD. EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU STORE YOUR TREASURE INSIDE OF YOU FOR SAFEKEEPING. 440https://i.ur.com/j68nlBT.png 440https://i.ur.com/938JYs0.png The fucked up thing is that statement is actually true for the zombie girl. But still I guarantee you if you just break into a morgue and start shoving your hand into dead bodies 99.999999999999998 OF THE TIME YOURE NOT GONNA FIND MAGICAL STONES And literally all of that is not even like ten minutes in. Its like an hour and twenty minutes. Like the sole college student I actually remember is the girl who kept bringing up kung fu. 440https://i.ur.com/0OBomCf.png Because it turns out she actually knows kung fu. What an amazing character arc Some quality writing right there Theres a set up and then a pay off Her entire character is her mentioning kung fu and then she does the kung fu And... it ended up saving literally no one. Whoops. Cant win every time I guess Then the zombie girls theres really no character to them apart from the fact that they want their stone back and the idiot college students that 100 deserved what was coming to them wouldnt give them their stone back. Theres like a brief flashback way later on about their past but it comes so late and out of nowhere that its just like... what was the point of that? Why even include that so late into the thing? What was the purpose of it? What? 440https://i.ur.com/3Io7xDv.png Additionally what the fuck sort of society did these zombie girls come from? Like I get that the main zombie girl was like basically a princess or something but like... its just fine to literally rip a guys arm off if they even touch you? And then to call that guy a coward when he realizes what just happened and fucking takes off running screaming in absolute terror? Like is she just supposed to be a princess who happens to be undead or is she a reanimated monster that just roams around massacring people? Because like in the flashback scene it shows other people looking at her in disgust as if they know shes a walking corpse. A princess and a walking undead monster with brute strength. The two just dont mesh and in like some scenes shes acting polite but then bam the murder just starts out of nowhere. 440https://i.ur.com/wL8bHBk.png A character who basically has no qualms about brutally murdering people... you cant sympathize with that character because theyre actually legitimately a walking monster. And yet eventually when almost everyone is dead the zombie girl who killed a PRETTY LARGE PORTION OF THE CHARACTERS OF THIS ONA basically becomes the good guy??? Or like shes portrayed to be the less worse of the three zombie girls there are by the end of the series. Fuck am I still on the characters??? NEXT. 440https://i.ur.com/VGc68KY.png Pacing I think probably up to like the first fifteen minutes of this I thought I was just in for an absolutely fucking terrible time. It was fucking horribly boring and it was just the human characters just talking and I instinctively looked at how long this was gonna be and saw I had over an hour to go and I think the exact words that came out of my mouth were: 440https://i.ur.com/fcZgRHA.png 440https://i.ur.com/ii3yA87.png 440https://i.ur.com/zB3qc54.png 440https://i.ur.com/WZm8Xac.png Ohhhhhhhhhhh fuck. But when the zombie girl is finally awake she just shoves some old guy against a book shelf and it bashes in the open of his head and you can see the brains and my attention went from immediately from 0 to 100. Like right as I was steeling myself to sit through a fucking slogging miserable hour of human characters there was just splattered brains. 440https://i.ur.com/1t5WD7y.png Of course as it turns out from this point on it just fucking keeps escalating and it never stops. When like thirty two minutes in it just switches to the professor guy taking a sledgehammer to a dogs head for... at that moment SEEMINGLY ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING REASON I was just... I was all in. I was fully emotionally invested in this series. I can basically already hear the judging thats gonna be coming my way even as Im typing this. These horror reviews really do make me seem like a monster. TGG you... you want to see dogs have their heads smashed open? 440https://i.ur.com/GWXpy0h.png GORE Gore is unmistakably an inseparable part of the horror genre. Dont get me wrong though Im a firm believer that just gore alone doesnt make interesting horror. Theres gotta be something behind all of the blood and viscera. However if youre outright making some schlock Bmovie horror and youre purposely trying to push the boundaries as far as you possibly can this certainly fucking accomplishes that. 440https://i.ur.com/Am90JdP.png And when I finally realized that this was just gonna be a lot of that and not much else my enjoyment increased considerably because the gore is just fucking so ridiculous and over the top that its just hilarious to me as a horror fan. The Friday the 13th movies AKA the Jason Voorhees series is like one of the biggest horror franchises I can honestly say Ive never seen a single movie of. Now even though thats true Ive of course seen the infamous scene where Jason basically kills a camper by swinging them in a sleeping bag against a treehttps://www..com/watch?v=mF629C5WRqU. AND WHEN ZOMBIE GIRL PICKS UP KUNG FU GIRL BY THE LEG AND JUST STARTS SWINGING HER AROUND AGAINST TREES I CANNOT HELP IT BUT START LAUGHING AT IT. 440https://i.ur.com/nlClG4j.png No matter how horribly gratuitous that fucking scene was. Its just fucking absurd. Speaking of absurd and that scene... Consistency The power level or effectiveness of the zombie girl as a horror monster is just fucking terrible. Like okay very early on you have it set up that the zombie girl is basically weakened without her magical stone that I guess is what is keeping her alive but like shes been asleep for a century or multiple centuries WITH the stone? Its only when she has the stone taken away from her that shes actually awakened? 440https://i.ur.com/SpjKrge.png Alright whatever pushing that aside Were almost immediately shown that she can just rip a persons arm off without even thinking about it. But yet she fights the kung fu girl for like twenty minutes or a seemingly ridiculous amount of time and the entire time I was just WHY DONT YOU JUST KILL HER? IF YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH TO JUST RIP LIMBS OFF WILLY NILLY THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HAVING LIKE AN EXTENDED SERIOUS ONE ON ONE FIGHT WITH THIS GIRL WHO LIKES KUNG FU? 440https://i.ur.com/y0G4GUb.png 440https://i.ur.com/ooQ8a0i.png Also I was not at all expecting that girl to actually start using kung fu and/or actually fight the zombie girl. I also completely forgot that she just started juggling bottles. Thats not fucking kung fu thats like a goddamned circus act. And then sure enough they fight for all this time and then like their fight even moves outside and then the zombie girl I guess just decides shes had enough for no reason and just kills her. It is just so blatant. Its not that the zombie girl gained the upper hand its not because the kung fu girl ran out of stamina the zombie girl just decides shes had enough because kung fu girl said something about the maid zombie girl and just brutally completely breaks her arm and the way it is executed is Like they had to have known what they were making. This has to be intentional. But yet I was still laughing like a madman. Like she just grabs the kung fu girls arms and like holds it for a second and like the kung fu girl clearly has more than enough time to react but no she just does absolutely nothing until zombie girl breaks it. 440https://i.ur.com/WK40MaH.png 440https://i.ur.com/qwtedWJ.png WHY DIDNT YOU JUST DO THAT FROM THE START. HOW ARE YOU GONNA NOT FORGIVE THEM WHEN YOURE ALREADY BRUTALLY KILLING AND TERRORIZING THEM? YOU RIPPED A GUYS ARM OFF JUST BECAUSE HE TOUCHED YOU. ACTUALLY YOU SHOVED THE OLD GUY SO HARD HIS BRAINS CAME OUT ALSO BECAUSE HE TOUCHED YOU. YET NO YOU CANT JUST IMMEDIATELY KILL KUNG FU GIRL. Then like immediately after that is the students brilliant trap to kill the main zombie girl. See all you have to do is just pour out a sizable puddle of gasoline get her to stand on it and then set it ablaze. Then confused rather than just trying to immediately get out of the flames shes just going to try and stomp the flames out giving you the perfect opportunity to have her impaled by sharpened metal poles? 440https://i.ur.com/iWKUJBU.png 440https://i.ur.com/7XcNRV8.png 440https://i.ur.com/6aqSDeB.png how did they have enough time to rig a trap in which sharpened metal poles would be launched at her at the pull of a rope? Where did they get the metal poles? How did they create this idiotic trap? I guess it doesnt fuck matter lets just move on from it. The point is obviously since there is still an entire half hour left this doesnt successfully kill the zombie girl. Why? Is it because shes just that strong? No its because she had a spare headless body the entire time. No really. Because thats fair. So like what is the power from the magical stone thats keeping her alive stored in her brain? Because the stone was in her original and now burned up body. Also she was originally mummified. Why is the spare body just good as new? Rules in horror are a necessary thing Without them this is the type of nonsense you end up with So basically the SOLE reason why she just does not immediately kill every single human character to get her stone back is just well then you dont have an hour and a half long ONA/two volume long novel series. Well okay but what about what about the final battle of this entire thing? The explosive climax if you will? Was was she at least effective then? She spent all this time fucking around with humans maybe shell actually have an effective and badass fight with the EVIL zombie girl right? 440https://i.ur.com/VBPutNC.png Like this is the lowest point in the entire thing. All the humans except for literally one are dead the maid zombie girl had her throat cut and this psychopath girl has the all powerful secret stone and just ate her brothers heart for absolutely no reason and the good ??? zombie girl can do nothing to stop them They leave the bloodied cathedral but theyre really off to have an amazing and serious battle RIGHT? 440https://i.ur.com/w5dDHhJ.png ...RIGHT??? 440https://i.ur.com/bxQa3F5.png ...................................RIGHT??????? WRONG. I cannot think of anything in the last couple of years that has made me laugh more than the sudden scene transition from the camera showing the cathedral with all of the dead characters and the sudden cut from that to both the good and the evil zombie girls standing on a FUCKING BASKETBALL COURT. 440https://i.ur.com/z1V0Vvz.png Why. No really. WHY. Were there scenes between that transition in the original novel that they didnt include or... like why and how did they end up on a motherfucking basketball court? The one who ate her brothers heart for no reason was chasing the main zombie girl but then theyre just there. Like if there was still any doubt in you the viewer whether or not Gonzo just wanted to animate some goofy shit IT SHOULD BE GONE AT THIS POINT AS SUPER EVIL ZOMBIE GIRL WITH A BASKETBALL ALREADY IN HAND SUGGESTS TO THE ORIGINAL ZOMBIE GIRL THAT THEY SHOULD PLAY A GAME. 440https://i.ur.com/LRzJGyh.png 440https://i.ur.com/5DcjOmf.png Why does the original main zombie girl actually even entertain the idea? Why is she not still running? Why does the evil zombie girl actually fucking dribble? Why are they doing this? Why does evil zombie girl say pass when her clear intention of launching the basketball at the main zombie girl is a violent one? Why didnt the evil zombie girl START OFF THE FIGHT WITH LAUNCHING MAIN ORIGINAL ZOMBIE GIRL INTO THE BASKETBALL HOOP RATHER THAN POINTLESSLY LAUNCHING ONE BASKETBALL AT HER? 440https://i.ur.com/cuSbjov.png Also I swear to god the entire purpose of this was that someone wanted to animate that scene where main zombie girls head rips off as shes stuck in the basketball hoop. Why does evil zombie girl say goal when main zombie girls head falls through the basketball hoop? Shouldnt she have said score? Goal is like more a soccer thing that doesnt really... sound right to me. Why does evil zombie girl just walk away with the clear purpose of giving main zombie girl enough time to pick up her severed head? Why just... go back to launching basketballs at her? 440https://i.ur.com/iYpBH36.png 440https://i.ur.com/8nfODTa.png Then when main zombie girl runs away to use some good old instant glue to attach her head back to her neck oh yes literally INSTANT GLUE CAN FIX DECAPITATIONS why does evil zombie girl just show up again with a FUCKING BASEBALL BAT? 440https://i.ur.com/pWkFav3.png YOU CANT JUST SWITCH FROM BASKETBALL TO BASEBALL. WHERED YOU EVEN GET THAT BASEBALL BAT? IT WAS A FUCKING BASKETBALL COURT. But you know what tops everything? You know what tops literally fucking everything? The insane scene transition the decapitation via basketball hoop the instant glue... ...What tops it all is that they end up going back to the FUCKING CATHEDRAL. After all of that shit they just end up where they left from. 440https://i.ur.com/cR7G549.png Oh okay Im gonna chase you to this basketball court and were gonna have this goofy gory slapstick sports themed fight but then we can come back to the cathedral with all the corpses and have this out for REAL. 440https://i.ur.com/IpwFrWS.png 440https://i.ur.com/b0nmljz.png And again for fucking absolutely no reason despite basically having to do nothing but running or getting the shit kicked out of her and literally thrown around by the evil zombie main zombie girl just suddenly decides for no reason NOW I HAVE THE UPPER HAND. The evil zombie girl had the secret stone though Isnt that the fucking source of your power and life??? 440https://i.ur.com/Z9ySQvm.png 440https://i.ur.com/a2ETGff.png ...NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE AND ITS NOT EVEN THAT COMPLICATED TO BEGIN WITH. YET ITS JUST COMPLETE AND UTTER NONSENSE. ZOMBIE GIRLS WANT A STONE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM THEM BY STUPID IDIOT STUDENTS THEY KILL THE STUDENTS AND GET THE STONE BACK DONE. THATS ALL IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. BUT IT JUST FUCKING DERAILS INTO COMPLETE AND UTTER LUNACY. Though it really was never on the rails from the very start was it? So it couldnt really derail. It was already just completely fucked but then it... went further. 440https://i.ur.com/kl3byB1.png 440https://i.ur.com/okI4kIj.png Horror At some point I guess someone who was involved in the process of making this remembered that oh yes this is horror We are making a horror ONA But... well theres gore but theres no atmosphere or any creepy things. Oh yeah didnt we just finish a scene where one of the characters is just flat out killed via fucking TOILET??? 440https://i.ur.com/dHJhhNZ.png 440https://i.ur.com/0wNwAQw.png Yeah this isnt very scary at all. ...LETS ADD A JUMPSCARE Thats horror But lets only add exactly one two if you count the pathetic after credits one of them. Okay how about... I know we already had a goofy scene where the human characters already saw the zombie girls running past them but how about a spooky scary scene where like you see like the shadow of a zombie girl runs by a human character in the background 440https://i.ur.com/UJzyMIH.png 440https://i.ur.com/XtmOyoJ.png Thats really fucking spooky isnt it??? Itd be even fucking spookier if this wasnt like over halfway through the ONA. And if WE HADNT ALREADY SEEN THE ZOMBIE GIRL IN FULL VIEW CONSTANTLY AND CONSISTENTLY. WHY TRY AND DO JUST ONE SINGLE JUMPSCARE FOR THE ENTIRE THING THATS JUST FLAWED IN ABSOLUTELY EVERY FUCKING POSSIBLE WAY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? 440https://i.ur.com/mstKUDU.png 440https://i.ur.com/ugPmDY7.png The cat shows up like very briefly in like the beginning and by the time you get through all of the shit in this thing and make it to the credits youve completely forgotten that there was a cat. And even if you remembered the cat its not like we saw the cat get experimented on and turned into a zombie like we did with the dog so what the fuck even was the deal THERE? WHAT WAS THE POINT? WHY? Conclusion 440https://i.ur.com/8gvr20M.png 440https://i.ur.com/76RCTrn.png 440https://i.ur.com/CF5cjpH.png 440https://i.ur.com/vnRLmi5.png ...Its a masterpiece truly. A 99 out of 100. In totality if I include just like watching segments of it Ive actually watched this somewhere around four times. But admittedly others may not receive as much... amusement out of this as I did. Even though I can with a straight face I actually enjoyed watching this and probably will watch it again in the future that one hour and twenty minutes straight up felt like at least two hours that first time I watched it unaware of what I was getting myself into. Personally I very much recommend to watch this if you are... well: 1 Not averse to gore. 2 Not averse to watching ridiculous and arguably horrible shit. But beyond that once you have finished watching it yourself I recommend either talking or tricking one of your other anime acquaintances into watching it themselves so you can feed off of their misery. Then you can rewatch it yourself And then when time passes you can rewatch it again You should watch it over and over again Again and again Again and again Again Again Again https://i.ur.com/Rd3iEyF.png