Anime News Network helpfully runs a seasonal preview feature highlighting the newest shows from Japan, and their summer previews have just kicked off.

The good news? This provides some valuable intel on how soon-to-be-imported, likely-megahit zombie-bashing anime High School of the Dead is doing in the establishment press.

The bad news? Sometimes the establishment press is even more anti-Zombie than the horror community, as Zac Bertschy illustrates:

…the fact is, zombies themselves are fanservice now. They’re such a nerd meme cliché that putting them in anything immediately turns whatever the project is into pandery geekbait. Which doesn’t mean the show isn’t fun to watch, but if you’re over the whole LOL ZOMBIES thing, this show is gonna seem pretty tiresome.

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All that and my zombie fatigue aside, this show is going to be huge and it’s a licensing no-brainer (oh ho!) for Section23, and nerds everywhere will love the crap out of it. It’s decently animated, appropriately nasty and has pretty much everything your average zombie (and/or boobs) enthusiast is looking for. It just could’ve easily been written by a script generator or a horror fan with 19 minutes to kill.

Zombies are ‘fanservice’? You have ‘zombie fatigue’? Oh, I’m sorry Zac, that our underrepresented and brutally oppressed minority is getting in the way of you watching anime. I guess they should just sit down, preferably somewhere in the back, and let the Living people attend to their important business.

Honestly… Zombie fatigue? Really? What’s next, ‘Asian fatigue’, or ‘Hispanic fatigue’? If you get tired of Hispanics, does that mean that you can dismiss all forms of entertainment involving their community? Carlos Mencia aside, that would be totally unjust!

Clearly, the ZRC is needed for our overseas Undead brethren too, as prejudice knows no bounds. Fortunately, High School of the Dead is now showing on the Anime News Network media player, so we can get a review of the action, which is probably defamatory anyway, and get back to you shortly.

For now, I think I have Bertschy fatigue, so I’m taking a break.

Tags: Anime or Manga, Social Justice

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