天下制覇

I like how the other one is trying to flee.

Impressions:

Apparently Saeko was killed by the zombies last week and they introduced her identical twin off screen, because this character and the one seen in the last eight episodes have practically nothing in common. She was prancing around without pants not two episodes ago without caring. Now she’s ashamed to be seen slightly wet? What? Did I miss a memo somewhere? That said, this was easily the least T&A-full episode of this show to date. Sure, that means that there aren’t quite as many talking points as last week, but I consider it a win for good taste. A shame that didn’t mean better animation though. I guess it was about average, but every single action scene was plagued with bad stills every 5 seconds.

Unfortunately though, that meant a return to the insultingly bad writing. After picking up their awesome little ATV, the first thing Takashi does is drive it into the river, wait until night, then drive it through zombies while they can barely see, before abandoning it in a fountain so they can continue on foot. Is the value of running over zombies lost on them? Remember way back when in episode 2 when they learned the zombies ignore them if they don’t make a lot of noise? What ever happened to that strategy? Saeko then has a sudden attack of angst from child zombies that would have been more compelling if A.) It hadn’t been introduced and resolved within a four minute span, most of which was stills with her giving a voice over and B.) Not solved by being violently groped. Also, it’s heavily implied that they kissed after their mutual confession of being sadistic. I thought kisses were supposed to resolve all Japanese feminine angst. Have you been lying to me all these years, Japan?

Preview:

Angry nudes.