Initial Impressions: Sankarea

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May 6, 2012
Posted by DarrenW

Woah... I'm BACK.

Very sorry about the delays from me, I'm right in the middle of my mid year exams. The reason why I can post today is because its a holiday tomorrow and I got a tiny bit of time off from studies.

To be frank, I was just about to do the manga review when I heard that there was an anime for it coming out.

Let's start reviewing, Zombie Resurrection Anime Sankarea!!!

Chihiro Furuya

Now what happens when someone dies? What would you do? Sit around and sob about it, or revive the corpse???!!! Well, that is exactly what our main protagonist, Chihiro Furuya, is planning to do.

Babu

Chihiro Furuya is your average high school student has a fetish/love for ZOMBIES, which is very unusual. He wishes to date a cute female zombie, and doesn't have an interest for real human girls.

After the death of his beloved cat, Babu, Chihiro can't take it anymore. He wants Babu to be back alive, so it can spread the joy that was once there when it was alive. Digging up an antique recipe book, he find out that its actually a recipe... for ressurection.

And that's where our other main character comes in. After experimenting at his secret laboratory abandoned resort not far away, he notices that a girl visits the place everyday, a girl called Sanka Rea.

Okay! Now you know where the name comes from.

Remember what you wish for.

Wanko

Sanka Rea is also a high school student, of which she attends the girls school (named after her), across the river from Chihiro's, of which her father is the principal of that school.

After getting to know each other, Chihiro finds out that Sanka's father is real weirdo and sick-in-the-head,  willing to go to any ends of the world to "protect Sanka" and making Sanka do stuff that anybody wouldn't do in thier lives (if we had daughters that is).

Chihiro's Fetish

Hating her life, she says she hated her life to the extent that she would rather die and be reborn as someone else.

But really... She wouldn't expect what happened next.

After completing the resurrection potion, he finally tests it out on Babu, but with no immediate effect. The dead corpse still remains dead. Sanka steals part of the potion from Chihiro, and goes home. Unfortunately, she is caught by her father for leaving the house unofficially, and is locked up.

In an attempt to save Chihiro from her father's henchmen, she escapes once again, but unfortunately, her luck runs out. In a struggle with her father, she loses her balance and plunges down a cliff, her body impaled by a pointed tree stump as she dies.

30 SEC LATER

What will happen now? Will Babu survive? What will happen to Sanka from now?

If you might not have guessed, this is another one of my favourite animes, specifically because I have read the manga a long time ago, and loved it then, so its awesome that they're making the anime out of it.

DEMENTIA IS EPIC

It appears that the anime is following the manga story, so I would already confidently say it has a really good plot. For those watching I'm not going to spoil it any further.  Just some hints, its going to get better.

The theme of dreams, a girl's life, and romance seems very appropriate.

Of course, for art, its a different story. The anime has done an amazing job as it looks exactly like the manga, and more specifically, the art is very detailed in a lot of places. Though it was only until this anime that I realised what Wanko's hair colour was.

Sanka Rea

Duoun

Mero

Personally, I've never read a manga nor watched an anime that was about zombies. Of course there was "Kore wa Zombie Desu ka" that was sitting on my waiting list for a long time. It is informative to some extent, of zombies that is. I also have to commend the anime for not showing too much guts spillage or blood in that matter, unlike "Another" which I didn't finish because of that reason.

Screwed-up dad

"Sankarea" premiered on April 5th, 2012, and will have 13 episodes. It is currently fansubbed by AniBlaze, Anifecta-Subs, Asenshi, Commie, Doki, Eveyuu, Hadena and Hatsuyuki (Wow quite the popular anime) . It also has a manga edition in 2009 which is still ongoing btw. The manga's plot far exceeds the anime and most likely contain what the anime is going to show.

First time I've seen a tombstone is used in an OP :P

Hint: BANG!!
DarrenW
Edited by FayeA