Anime Zombie-loan

[2010DigitalBoy]

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[B]Zombie Loan [/B]is a new shonen anime brought to you by Squeenix that I'm sure will be popular among the Death Note and D.Gray-Man crowds. The anime has the sort of script and characters that say 'shonen anime that girls will prolly like more' which is what it is. The dialogue is nothing exciting IMO, but girls will positively flaunt over the always-together bishies who are the main actioneers. These two guys positively radiate with gay - I can already see the fanfictions in my head.

The story itself, though, is kind of interesting. it's unique and unoriginal at the same time, so to speak. It's definitely better than ninjas >_> The main character is Michiru Kita...

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Usually she wears glasses, but I get the feeling it won't be that way much longer. Why? Well, this girl was born with shinigami eyes (yes, total Dn ripoff). The eyes show her people who are getting ready to die by having a gray ring appear around their neck. The ring starts out light but the closer the person is to death, the darker the ring. When it turns black, the reaper comes to lob their head off (erm... so to speak). Michiru doesn't know this about the rings, but she knows that the people she's seen with them are always close to death. When she wears her glasses, she can't see the rings, so she freaks out about having them removed.

Anywho, there's these two smokin hot guys at her school who she accidentally bumps into walking down the hall. She finds out from her 'friends' (they always pick on her, and therefor she is miserable) that they are two boys who were involved in a major highway accident years ago when a bridge collapsed. The two boys miraculously came out alive. Of course, Michiru inadvertently sees that both wear the black rings of death...

Anyway, I won't spoil the whole episode for you, since this is a shonen anime, meaning that gradually a ton of stuff will prolly come into play, lol. The first episode only has one increadibly brief action scene, so I'm wondering if there will be more as the series progresses.

The thing I really liked about this show was the style - not so much the character designs, but the overall tone of the show. Everything is always really dark (in fact, their school looks like a Gothic castle O_o and there's a lot of blue and green hues over everything. Some cool moments are when the characters turn into stick figures for a moment, or something. Also, the commercial thingy is awesome. The show looks like it will be magically inclined as well...

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Oh, and while I liked the ED, the OP is HORRIBLE!!!!![/COLOR]

[Dagger]

A rather disappointing first episode, especially coming from Xebec M2 (which is supposed to be the better Xebec team). Not for me, I guess.

The shinigami eyes aren't really a DN rip-off. The same concept, with different twists, appears in other stories like Tsukihime.

~Dagger~

[2010DigitalBoy]

[quote name='Dagger']A rather disappointing first episode, especially coming from Xebec M2 (which is supposed to be the better Xebec team). Not for me, I guess.

The shinigami eyes aren't really a DN rip-off. The same concept, with different twists, appears in other stories like Tsukihime.

~Dagger~[/QUOTE]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]>_> you are not the first to yell at me for it XD Really, i need to learn to close my mouth. Specially since this manga's apparently older than DN ^^;;

Yeah, the general opinion of pretty much the entire anime community is that this show already sucks *** and is complete trash. I'm at least going to watch episode 2, but I doubt i'll go farther...[/COLOR]

[Guest roninoodle36]

I didnt think it was that bad. the first two episodes were ok. it isnt the most originnal anime i have ever seen but i like how they do the surrounding art. it looks like they tried to make it spooky in a way. but i know how u feel i saw it and didnt think it was that good, but i still want to see more and so that must meen i liked it. the shinigami eyes have nothing to do with DN besides the name. its not really a rip off at all. and i am looking forward to seeing the next episode.

[Meggido]

I must say I just watched the first two eps of this and I like. Though at times it seemed the skimped a bit on animation (bobble head/stick figure sections) it was still quite good. I guess another reason I liked it is the Saiyuu's for the two guys sounded like the ones for Rabi and Kanda from D.Gray-man but haven't looked that up yet.

I generally don't listen to the anime fandom community when I watch series. I check out various things and pick what i like. In fact I think there have been times when I've enjoyed and watch full series that the community has claimed is trash. Just a preference of choice I guess.

[duorocks17]

I really enjoyed reading this series, and so I'm interested to see what the anime adaption of it will be like. The first episode (which is all I have seen so far) stayed pretty true to the manga. I think the reason I like this series so much is not necessarily the story line (which has sort of been done before), but it's the actual character drawings. Sometimes it looks like they aren't quite complete, and the background designs are amazing as well. haha, I guess I'm just more for artistic stories that deviate from the norm. I wonder if this will eventually gain in popularity, or if it'll just be another one of those shows that it seems only I watch.