Review of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

This show started with a bang. The first 3 episodes were strong and interesting... but after that the show literally had nothing more to offer. CONCEPT = 5/10 Normally this would be "plot" but Zom 100 doesn't really have one. What it does have instead is a concept, what if the apocalypse happened and you were now free to do all the things you never made time for before as a working adult. Because our MC-kun here was a timid office drone his wants are rather benign and generic. Confess to the girl you like, eat high end sushi, visit hot springs..etc. All of this donewith the threat of Zombies as background noise.

What's interesting about this was that the manga released in 2018. Two full years before the pandemic and yet it accurately portrays how a lot of people started to act once we left the state of emergency with a little bit of a cash overflow to burn and a thirst to scratch things off their long time Wishlist.

It does get rather boring after a few episodes though as there is nothing to keep you invested. 9/10 for originality but 3/10 for the execution.

CHARACTERS = 4/10

Weak.
MC-kin is someone having a midlife crises. It's clear he's acting as a wish fulfillment insert but for an older crowd.
The side characters are very one note, I'm not sure what that note is.
One character insists on stripping at random moments and the show acts like this is the punchline to the joke.
Another is a weeboo Gaijin (a foreigner obsessed with japanese popculture) and the minute she shows interest in anything traditionally Japanese the show, again, acts like this is the punchline... If there's a joke it's still airborne as they never landed for me.

ART / ANIMATION / SOUND = 9/10

Very creative, no cost cuts noted and everything looks great. The show is very stylized and the OP is fire.
Sadly in this case it did end up as style with no substance.

FUN FACTOR = 4/10

Ok so this started out as a 9/10. Had the show ended after the first two or three episodes it would have been a memorable OVA and one of a kind, but it kept going. The longer it did the less fun it became with cheap tactics like establishing characters and killing them off the minute they have a bit of an arc or character moment. Focusing on fart jokes. dehumanizing their own MCs by making him borderline suicidal. It just kept getting worse and worse ending on a rather odd note.

SUMMERY = 4/10

It had an idea, a good one too. It also had the animation and art style.
Sadly the author didn't have the skills to build on that initial elevator pitch. The story was over after the first few episodes, it just shuffled along after that like a zombie, ironically.