LogFAQs > #914452653

Zombieland Saga completed. Man, what was up with that argument in the last topic with people trying to say this wasn't an idol show? There were plenty of arcs straight out of idol shows, and there was as much focus on the singing as a lot of those shows have. I guess some people are just desperate to trick people into watching something they like? I feel like it's better to be honest rather than lying to people when it comes to that sort of thing. Anyway, let's go into a few of the show's elements:

Music: it was bad. The first couple episodes did some fun stuff my having metal and rap songs, so it felt like it might be doing something different, but all the rest of the songs were generic idol stuff. Bad generic idol stuff, at that. Even Love Live had better music than this. And none of them play instruments, wtf.

Animation: the highlight of the show! Almost everything looked pretty good. There were a lot of neat visual gags, and a high amount of movement in general. The CGI performances were terrible though (please don't tell me they were supposed to be parodying other idol shows. There were zero parody elements to the CGI in the last few episodes), and I wish they'd stayed without human makeup more often.

Story/Characters: this is where the series really fails. Most of the cast is fairly uninteresting. Sakura's a generic idol show protagonist (though she was fun in ep 11 at least), Junko and Ai are generic filler idol group members, Tae was actually solid, Saki was fun most of the time, Yugiri could've been good if she actually got any focus, Lily was good in her episode but boring the rest of the show, and Tatsumi was a repulsive piece of garbage who ruined every scene he was in. The zombie elements were pretty heavily underused in general, as were the diverse origins of the cast members. There could've been all sorts of fun stuff with them coming from different eras, but that was mostly just used for the occasional gag. Even the zombie elements were way underused. How come none of them go back to their families? Why do all of them accept becoming idols, especially after they get makeup that lets them pass as human? Why don't more people notice that they've come back from the dead, especially famous people like Ai? At the very least, Lily had no reason not to go back to living with her family, as far we were shown. Everything was oddly predictable too. You'd think a show with such a crazy premise would actually have plot twists, but no, everything basically goes right as you'd expect in a normal idol show. Junko's episode was one of the worst for this. Would've been a lot more interesting if she'd actually left the group.

Comedy: The show could be funny sometimes, but a lot of the jokes fell flat, and having too many serious parts kinda spoiled some of them. The show probably would've been better if it had tried to be more of a pure comedy.

Overall, bad show. Didn't even have the courtesy to wrap things up in one season. Gave it a 3/10 on MAL.
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