Review of High School of the Dead

It's fascinating aka sad to read so many reviews that point out the problems with the sexual objectification of this show while simultaneously being sexist as all get out. Firstly, someone thought the idea for this up and made it into a manga. A bunch of other people then got together to turn it into an anime. These characters didn't walk into your screen and start contorting into crazy boob shenanigans and stupidity. Choices were made by real people to make the fictional characters like this. This isn't a case of lol that woman is an idiot, this is a case of "an actual humanbeing(s) decided to write a woman with boobs so large their jiggle has a sound effect". Because women are all secretly bisexual/lesbians who obsess over men, start molesting each other whenever they need to change clothes and boob jokes are always funny - a quotation by someone in the HotD writer's room, probably. So yes, the women are stupid, and written to fit stereotypes of irritation and stupidity. But ALL the characters are stupid and irritating. I don't know what's worse: matrix boob, the climax, or the mindcontrolling teacher who makes teenagers have sex with each other while he watches for no apparent reason.

I'm not a fan of zombie stories. This didn't convince me otherwise. It recycles a bunch of tired tropes you'd see in any harem manga/anime, but kicks it up a notch with the ridiculous animation of boobs, crotch shots, groping, jiggling, orgasms, etc. I don't like the art style. I think the quality of the art is very high, but the look is horrible. It's high quality crap is what I'm saying.

The climax - pun sort of intended - is so ridiculous that even the perverts in my anime club didn't really believe it happened. I mean "I" know that when I want to inspire someone mid-fight I walk around them to stand behind them, wrap an arm around them and grab the boob opposite my elbow in a painfully tight squeeze while shouting in their ear. I don't know how else to explain any of this show except that someone was rejected from writing porn labelled as porn so they wrote this instead and no one apparently said "no", so maybe we should ask who's the REAL monster here?

There's no logic in the science or the physics, even for an anime. No one even talks about the zombies when they talk about this. Why would they? It's very clear what the writers cared about, and it's NOT the zombies. Which says a lot for a zombie show. For the latest in harem gimmicks (e.g., harem in space, harem with magical girls, harem with vampires), it does a pretty terrible job of using it. This is the only series I can imagine where I would actually SUGGEST you just go watch "Kore Wa Zonbie Desu Ka?" instead, if you REALLY want to watch a harem series that involves zombies. Well one zombie, anyway. Even terrible as THAT is, it's less ridiculous. But that's a low bar.