Anime Column] Anime Writers' Review of Summer 2015 Anime! Five notable anime including "Gakkou Gurashi!" and "Tribe Kurukuru! Tribe Crucle" and 5 other noteworthy works!

This September saw the finale of numerous TV anime series. This month, our anime writer, who has been basking in the blue light of his LCD TV without a super moon in sight, gives a comprehensive review of the anime that ended in the summer of 2015. A survival horror "Gakkou Gurashi!" with zombies roaming the streets, which was thought to be a daily life anime. the street dance anime "Tribe Kurukuru" just before its final episode, "Monster Musume no iru Nichijo" with its overly unique heroines, "Rokka no Yusha," a one-court story based on the first volume of the original novel, and "wooser no Sonohiryu Yumehen-hen" in which the raging yellow beast returns for a third time!

Gakkou Gurashi!

Regarding the work of George A. Romero, the father of the zombie film, a mentor of mine from my school days said, "Romero has love in his work. He said that Romero does not make a distinction between zombies and humans, but rather looks at both with a compassionate eye. If we follow this line of thinking, "Gakkou Gurashi! is a work that follows Romero's vision.

Zombies and girls have always been portrayed as something close to each other. In "Puella Magi Madoka Magica," for which the same Nitroplus scriptwriter was involved as in this work, there is a heartbreaking scene in which a girl reveals that she is a zombie, and in the opening animation of "Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei" by Shaft, who also worked on this work, there is a cutout where girls approach with zombie-like gait.

And Yuki Jojari, the protagonist of "Gakkou Gurashi! s protagonist, Yuki Jouyari, is also depicted as a character who is both human and close to the dead. The title of the OP theme, "Furendo-shi-tai" (meaning "I want to be dead"), which does not hide the familiarity with corpses, and the development that the zombification is cured by antibiotics, strongly remind us of the connection between the girl and the zombies. In the final episode, the girls even say "I miss them" when they see the schoolyard where "they" have disappeared, and they must have the same blood as Romero running through their veins.

Tribe Kurukuru

The story, which started out as an everyday street dance battle, has somehow reached a conspiracy involving the entire world. The shocking revelation that people are controlled through forbidden dancing and that sponsor companies are selling everything from soft drinks to weapons of mass destruction is revealed. The scene in which he points at the sponsors and says, "There are a lot of people who value money more than human life," has a power that is uncharacteristic of a morning cartoon.

However, the main character, Haneru the Flying Dragon, brushes off such complicated talk and simply says, "Why don't you just dance? These words encapsulate the theme of the work, that dance has the power to change people. Just as Haneru did in the past, when people see dancing, for some reason they want to dance.

As is typical of a four-cour work that ran for a year, the sub-stories that are interspersed between the main storylines are also impressive. In the episode where they are attacked by a pickle monster, they playfully escape by moonwalking, just like in a dance anime.

Everyday Life with Monster Girls

It has been a long time since the moe anthropomorphization of all things in the world, but what are we to make of the fact that most of them are mere cosplayers? When I look at the cruel anthropomorphic characters that no longer retain even the original prototype, I even feel the sinfulness of human beings who cannot love an object unless it has the form of a human being.

When you feel such a gloomy feeling, take a look at the heroine of this work. Mia, whose lower body is a snake and is seven meters long; Papi, who has the wings and legs of a bird and lays eggs; Sue, a slime whose body changes size as it sucks water; and Lakunera, a spider with six eyes and threads coming from its body. Combining the two elements of "monster" and "daughter," these girls are full of energetic charm not found in characters who have been forcibly turned into humans.

The main character, Kimihito Kururu, who accepts the favors of the "monster girls," has a vast strike zone that is also wonderful. His egalitarianism, which affirms all races as they are, is the very philosophy that the protagonist of a harem story should have. This gentle perspective is carried over into the artwork, and even the sub-characters, such as the policeman who is always getting into trouble, the orc who occupies the fanzine store, and the charlatans and gun black women who discriminate against other races, are vividly depicted with brush strokes that are unforgettable once you see them.

Rokka no Yusha

A TV anime adaptation of a fantasy novel from the Dash-X library. While animations with original works are often rushed, the first volume of approximately 300 pages was carefully presented in 12 episodes per season. The action scenes and character dialogue were expanded without changing much of the main flow or dialogue of the original work. In particular, the secret tools used by the main character, Adlet, are even more varied than in the original story, and the result is something that will keep viewers on their toes. The bullets summoned by Flemmy, the Saint of Gunpowder, and the evil demon spewed from the mouth of Chamo, the Saint of the Swamp, are also not to be missed.

There is also an episode that devotes an entire episode to a conversation about the search for a fake among the seven heroes. The conversation that takes place in a room in the temple is full of tension, and the audience will enjoy the mix of hard and soft elements in the production.

wooser's life in the day, dream version

The yellow dark animal wooser also shows a dream collaboration in the third season of the TV anime. Starting with Ultraman Zero in the first episode, he showed off his extensive network of contacts, including Anisama 2015, for which he is the official promotion ambassador, the pixiv idol group Niji no Conquistador, and even Tottori-ken's yuru-kyara, Kurasuke-kun.

The sixth episode was a collaboration with "Arpeggio Ars Nova. The scripts were written by 13 creators. The scripts, written by 13 creators, are rich in variation, and each episode has its own unique flavor. Some episodes are so chaotic that it is hard to hide one's bewilderment, but the fact that they are still interesting to watch is probably due to the receptiveness of the yellow beast, which collaborates with all kinds of things.

(Text by Katsunori Takahashi)