Sailor Zombie

by Jiji, Pinch, Isshin Inudo

Genres: Horror, Manga
Pages: 200
Rating:

Synopsis:

Two months have passed since the world was overrun by zombies. High schooler Maiko Inui, a girl who longs to become an idol, finds refuge in Fujimi Girls’ High School, where the surviving students reside. When hordes of zombies mercilessly attack the girls, how will Maiko and her friends fight back?! Horror meets harmony in this vibrant tale where heroes don’t wear capes…but sailor suits instead!

Jiji and Pinch’s Sailor Zombie is a bit weird, and turned out to be not much to my taste. It’s set in a world where zombies have risen, and some schoolgirls (and some of their teachers, who seem to rely on the girls) have survived. One is weirdly bloodthirsty and gets them all into trouble (of course), while the main character stumbles upon the school after coming from somewhere else, and may weirdly (but predictably) have a key to making the whole zombie apocalypse thing a lot more manageable, by making the zombies cry.

I didn’t love the art and some of the decisions, like not even giving some of the cannon fodder girls faces (just blanks with numbers on them). Just… lazy. And overall it all just felt kind of scattered and rushed, without building up any real rapport between characters or anything like that.

The story is pretty lacklustre and scatterbrained; I won’t be continuing the series.

Rating: 1/5 (“didn’t like it”)