Audience reviews
12 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Ghosty-Senpai
Take all the worst and most frustrating parts of a western teen slasher, throw in some martial arts and a ton of gore, and you end up with this stupid thing. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but when the human survivors kept making the dumbest possible choices every chance they got, I quickly found myself rooting for the monsters. The out-of-place nudity feels extra pandering when those same bodies are subjected to some of the most brutal and gory acts of destruction I've seen in a long time. If it wasn't for the strangely familiar, but strangely generic modern art style, I could see this movie living comfortably amongst the more infamous OVAs of the 80s and 90s.
Oh yeah, and the movie throws in graphic animal cruelty for literally no good reason. That knocks off a point too.…
Read at the sourceBugsybirdy
Tend to enjoy bad movies, but this one was just not good. poor plot, awful characters too. No character building and the entire thing felt messy. If youre into bad horror, then you may like it.
It had its fair share of gore and violence, with some random funny parts. Didn't feel like a serious show at all so it was an easy watch if you ignore everything bad about it. a score of 5 seems too generous honestly.
All in all id say only watch it if you want something easy going to watch, no plot to follow really. not the worst ive seen though so i suppose thats something.
Read at the sourceGatesOfOblivion
I watched it for the plot. *crickets* The gore of course! Great usage of brutal bone cracking, stretching, tissue tearing, skull crushing gore! And maybe the horror theme, but really that didn't last long...now did it.. *sigh*
Characters look samey, especially the girls. Everything is stiff, slow and boring animation-wise with the sole exception for the fight/gore scenes. Watch a compilation of the gore on YouTube or skip through this entire thing to get to the good parts.
It missed a massive opportunity to make it about two delusional, demented victorian zombies going on a vengeful killing rampage slaughtering everyone in creative and obscenely brutal ways. (This still happens, kind of. It's not in the cool, well paced and mature way you're hoping for inside that brain of yours sadly.)…
Read at the sourceOtherwise-six
I personally think this movie is an incredible achievement. I like horror movies and I really like anime but they rarely intersect in a way that takes such fantastic advantage of both. The genre and medium are both used to great effect.
I am absolutely baffled by the low score and how few people have seen this movie. I certainly get why some people would dislike it. The combination of anime tropes and B-grade horror movie tropes is definitely unique; probably even jarring if you're not used to one or the other.
In my experience I've never quite seen anything like this and I was pleasantly shocked and surprised numerous times during my first viewing. And I do recommend going into this movie without knowing anything about it.
I am deliberately not going to go into any details about the…
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
So this is what a Japanese anime adaptation of a B-List "Kill 'em All" Horror is like...
Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan is what you'd expect from a B list horror and man does this movie takes from bland characterizations, absurd situations and the uncensored gorey and nudity you'd expect from the genre just under the anime umbrella.
The basic premise is of a zombie girl and her maid, Euphrosyne Studion voiced by Saori Hayami and Alma V voiced by Yui Ogura being resurrected when five students sneak into the library storage and steal Euphrosyne's "life stone" and with her now resurrected, she seeks to retrieve it back in ANY way possible, mainly death and gore. The plot does give us little details about some of how the plot foundation is set up as, like how a 2 Italian coffins landed in Japan…
Read at the sourcePlk_Lesiak
I'm actually a sucker for bad anime – I like watching really low-budget or poorly-made shows, laughing at their absurdity and noting down their failures in reviews. This one, however, was physically painful to watch – there's no fun to be had here, intentional or not. The Calamity (indeed!) contains:
– Awful art (simply ugly, at times somewhat and at times horribly so – I can't remember any other anime that was this visually unappealing or had characters so poorly designed) and junky animation. There was nothing funny or over-the-top about it, like in Hand Shakers for example, it was just plain bad.
– Characters too stupid to live, and never in a fun way. This includes everyone – I guess it tried to follow the slasher film formula (the axe in the picture in the right might be a clue – the…
Read at the sourceJiangHaoyi1979
This is a repost, spoilers possible:
Ok, so they weren't kidding when they titled this ONA as "Calamity of the Zombie Girl" since when they woke up and I did said "they" cu'z there were two of them. Ok. like I've said they woke up from their long slumber and immediately they started to have to deal with a couple of shitty characters to take back what belongs to them and a calamity breaks out.
You know if anybody says that the fact about this ONA does make sense, when everything was thrown at once with even considering about the pacing of the anime. considering that this, a fantastic spectacle, are about the only words that you can describe this as. You have to have a very high IQ to understand this.
Too bad I kinda agree with it when this anime presents the character here who have died…
Read at the sourcenobracommander
So I missed an anime festival to see this at the cinema on the big screen so I found it online instead and I have to say, I didn't miss much.
A cast of annoying characters (minus kung fu girl, who gets pass marks) stumble across two zombie girls who then proceed to wreak mediocre gory vengeance on them.
At no point do you feel any sympathy for the students save the aforementioned kung-fu girl and you're just counting down the time until they die horribly.
Falls into that category of not amateurish to be terribad but just about bad enough to be boring.
Read at the sourceAndreikun
Minor spoilers might follow. Picked this up to relax a bit after work and I was not wrong to do so despite its score and some punishing reviews. For example Corpse Party: Tortured Souls edges on the 7 and is much more dumber in my opinion and has much more gore for the sake of gore.
The story looks like a typical cheap Hollywood 90s horror movie, a bunch of students resurrect some zombies who happen to be cute and powerful and get in trouble for it. Would have liked a bit of suspense as to whom gets killed when but its no so, killings are brutal and come rather quickly. However the physics involved is quite good, done in CGI, blood is realistic also most of the times.
Beware that if you are not comfortable with splattered brains, limbs being torn off of animal cruelty this is not for yo…
Read at the sourceCrogLatte
It really feels like someone decided they wanted to make an anime film based on old horror films from the 90's, but, and here's the kicker, instead of Jason or The Mummy, you get a kawaii anime (zombie) girl. It's got the classic group of teenagers who all are slightly quirky and have weird crushes in a nice love triangle, the plot twist which really isn't very good, and everyone gets picked off.
Not everyone dies, but I feel this film suffers most from the lack of anyone worth cheering for, because there really isn't. Everyone's pretty dumb or despicable in my opinion and by the end I didn't care who won. I realized who the protagonist was probably supposed to be but either way was fine with me, so I certainly didn't feel invested. The art and action was pretty decent, even if they compl…
Read at the sourceRahkshilord
I had no idea what this was when I saw it pop up on crunchyroll, so I took a chance and watched it. I regret this immensely. At times I couldn't stop laughing, at times I was on the verge of crying, but regardless of my emotional state the entire time I watched this OVA I wanted to die.
The story is absolute nonsense where some idiots accidentally unleash the ultimate evil from a coffin in the basement of a university: two Gothic Lolitas who are also super powered zombies! The rest of the movie is about them fighting said zombies in baffling stupid ways. Until a new zombie shows up to fight the old zombie in a ridiculous super-powered basketball game. (I’m dead serious, that happens.)
The reason this show made me wish I too were a shambling corpse instead of a living person was twofold:…
Read at the sourceIronAlchemist
This anime is b list horror movie and it knows it, its has all the tropes of one, bland characters weak story, weird pacing but makes up for with fantastic gore, a great dark sense of humor and dosent take itself to seriously, if you area a fan of wacky horror movies you'll love it
The problems with it feel almost intentional in order to keep that b list spirit, the facial expressions are pretty bad and almost never change which may be a reflection on b tier bad acting, the gore is detailed and over the top like from something like Evil Dead or Nightmare on Elm street,
If you have a love for terrible horror movies and can ignore the weak story and bland characters Calamity of a Zombie Girl is definitely for you
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