Zombie Brother recap In H City, a populous and technologically urban city has its water supply infected with a pathogen that mutates humans into zombies. Xiaofei is the protagonist of a satire, parodical zombie donghua that picks at the western and eastern apocalyptic medium. His purpose is to make it out of H City safely to reunite with his concerned Mother; However, the government quarantines Xiaofei and other helpless people inside H City forcing them to fend for themselves, will Xiaofei manage to sneak out safely or will the ever-evolving intelligent zombies capture him. Story & Characters: 4/10 The story starts off atypical of eastern apocalypic mediawith pathogen-contaminated water consumed by humans. The events also follow suit of a main character finding his/her way out of the apocalypse's ground zero; However, Shi Xiong does it very differently. The story events have twists that reference franchises like Pokemon, Naruto, Bleach, Fairytail, The Walking Dead, Train to Busan etc. which was a nice touch in the beginning but gradually became the go-to method to pause the plot development. The characters are a bit interesting with personalities involving a homoerotic author, policewoman, abandoned child and many others. Shi Xiong makes some good effort in maintaining a character palette but it still feels like the characters are somewhat disposable and die for illogical reasons.

Art & Sound: 3/10
The first season art and animation was atrocious to watch even for a low budget donghua, it makes sense since it was released in 2015. However, it is the art that made it a very distracting experience; I assume this was intentional considering the satirical nature and budget related constraints the studio behind this show wanted to adhere. The character designs are very artificially like even more so as a 2D animation. Overall, not impressed with the visuals of this series first season as it discouraged suspense in a lot of scenery and angles/shots.

I am not surprised with the sound either; Most of the time the sound doesn't suit the atmosphere. The sound quality itself is fairly decent for a small time 2015 donghua but there was a lot of background noise or reverberation that made it sound cheaply mixed. Especially Xiaofei's dialogue considering the series is filled with 90% of his monologue and char dialogue.

Overall & Enjoyment: 4/10
This season could have been better developed if it didn't use gag references to other franchises while it gets serious. A lot of characters could have remained in the story because of their out-of-touch and engaging personalities. The scenery could have also been created more porportionately as many different angles distorted the details of the scenery/background especially during the weeb crowd event. I may not watch the second season because of the repetitive satire of the series.