Review of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

Entertaining Premise ZomByaku or Zom100 gives us a refreshing and comedic play on the Zombie Survival Genre. The premise starts with our protagonist who works a miserable existence at a Black Company, worked to the bone he is in a relateble situation for many employees, especially where Unions are not present. (Note: The US forced Unions out of Japan in the Cold War.) Overworked, underpaid, outright abused and treated inhumanely our character goes from this gray meaningless existence with suicide an high possibility, to entering the sweet relief of the Zombie Apocalypse. When your life is so bad the end of the world is better, this isa not so subtle jab at an harsh and very real social problem.
Ironically, Studio MAPPA got flamed for inhumane treatment of employees during the release of this series. (Zom100 is produced by BUG Films).

This introduces the next point,

Art:
ZomByaku is refreshing in it's portrayal of zombies through a lense of technicolour. If blood were swapped out with the aesthetics of Paintball and Splatoon, we get the premise for the highy dynamic use of colour in the Art of ZomByaku.

Animation:
Animation is standard quality, no hand ups. The Studio is competant and scenes are executed to standard quality.

Characters:
Characters are wacky, with the two main male protagonists becoming free from society. The primary female lead is more stoic and typical to the Zombie Apocalypse genre, especially as a baseline. The secondary female protagonist is introduced much later, and share a lot in common with the secondary male lead but via the angle of foreigner rather than comedian.

Voice Actors:
The Seiyuu do fine. The casting is appropriate.

Plot:
As the title suggests, the plot centres around the 100 things to do (before becoming a zombie). A tale of living. Carpe Diem, Seize the Day.

Tone:
The initial tone is very well executed with a dark reminder of the dystopia of unaddressed social problems.
At the end of the season I felt the series' tone sort of fizzle out, perhaps due to the delay or execution, or my break in watching it or because they just really needed to push a finalé to fit the single season series into some type of cohesive conclusion. It looks like you'll have to jump to the manga from there. Which is a positive, if you want more light-hearted stories and found it to your liking.

Conclusion:

Overall, it was a comedic take on the zombie genre, decent for a leisurely watch. The begining of the series' social commentary is very memorable and worth watching.

7.4/10