Zombie loan

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Zombie Loan
Original title ゾ ン ビ ロ ー ン
transcription Zombi Ron
genre Action, adventure, drama, comedy, mystery, shonen
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Peach pit
publishing company Square Enix
magazine GFantasy
First publication May 2003 - February 18, 2011
expenditure 13
Television series
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 2007
length 24 minutes
Episodes 11 + 2
music Hiroyuki Sawano
First broadcast July 4th - September 12th 2007 on TV Asahi
synchronization

Zombie Loan ( Japanese ゾ ン ビ ロ ー ン , Zombi Rōn ) is a manga series by the artist Peach-Pit , which was published in Japan from 2003 to 2011. The series revolves around a girl who can predict when other people will die and two boys who hunt zombies . She's in the genre action, adventure, drama, comedy, mystery and Shonen classify.

content

The girl Michiru Kita ( 紀 多 み ち る ) has the eyes of a Shinigami . As a result, she can read off the remaining lifetime of each person on a ring around the neck that is not visible to other people. This ring turns gray as soon as the time of death has been decided, and the darker the closer it is to death. If the ring is black, the person dies.

But Michiru sees black rings on her classmates Chika Akatsuki ( 赤 月 知 佳 ) and Shito Tachibana ( 橘 思 徒 ) without them dying. So she learns that the two of them made a pact with the Zombie Loan company when she died so that they can continue to live but have to hunt zombies. Because of the two who want to use Michiko's ability for their task, she also gets into fights with zombies again and again.

Finally, Chika and Shito break away from the zombie loan in order to save Shito's mother from the Chinese mafia Xu-Fu. But Xu-Fu takes Shito so that their leader Lao-Ye can continue to live in his body. Finally, the magician Toho, who had long wanted to free the Xu-Fu from Lao-Ye, helps them, and both boys return.

publication

The manga was published in Japan from May 2003 to February 18, 2011 in GFantasy magazine by Square Enix . The chapters have also been grouped into 13 edited volumes .

A German translation was published in full by Egmont Manga between April 2016 and April 2018 . In the USA the manga is published by Yen Press , Asuka Comics publishes the volumes in France and Sun Ho Culture in Taiwan.

Anime

In 2007, Studio Xebec produced a 13-part anime television series based on the manga. Directed by Akira Nishimori , the concept was created by Atsuhiro Tomioka and the script was written by Yuka Yamada . The character design, which is very close to the original, comes from Chiharu Satō and the artistic direction was Norifumi Nakamura . For the adaptation, the narrative speed was increased compared to the manga. The plot mostly sticks closely to the original, but also deviates in details and less important scenes or subplot strands are omitted.

The first eleven episodes of the series were broadcast from July 4, 2007 to September 12, 2007 (after midnight and thus on the previous television day ) by TV Asahi in Japan. It was followed by repetitions with AT-X and Animax . The 12th and 13th episodes were only released on DVD. The anime was also broadcast on French and Spanish television and translated into Dutch. An English version was published on the Crunchyroll platform . The German translation was published by Anime-Virtual in 2009 on a total of 4 DVDs and was made available via streaming on Anime on Demand .

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Michiru Kita Hoko Kuwashima Julia Stoepel
Chika Akatsuki Ken'ichi Suzumura Till Völger
Shito Tachibana Takahiro Sakurai Peter Lontzek
Yuuta Khiva Saitō Silvia Missbach
Reiichiro Shiba Junichi Suwabe Jaron Lowenberg
Koyomi Yoimachi Kana Ueda Rubina Kuraoka

The German version was produced by TV + Synchron Berlin.

music

The music of the series, composed by Hiroyuki Sawano , is determined by violin sounds, spherical female chants and jazzy themes for the comic scenes. The opening credits were underlaid with the song Ōkami no Nodo by The Birthday, the closing title is Chain Ring by MUCC .

reception

The volumes sold around 30,000 each in Japan in the first few weeks. According to the German magazine Animania, the Manga stands out from other titles in the genre because of its " child-like, cute characters and the pretty bishones ". The page architecture is unusually strict and is rarely broken up. The content of the anime adaptation was an “ entertaining story and dealing with the taboo subject of death” . The treatment of philosophical topics, however, as well as the profound development of the characters, remains only brief and superficial. Some of the weird scenes looked out of place. The " actually good animations" lack dynamism in the rather rare action scenes and the design of the backgrounds and costumes is simple and " not very varied" . The background music is described as initially taking some getting used to for the audience, but overall successful. Opening and closing music are also praised, as is the German dubbing. Overall, the anime is recommended to genre fans as an “ entertaining mystery series” - fans of zombie films, on the other hand, tend not to.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Monster dogs, cannibals and other zombies . In: Animania 03/2009, p. 8ff.
  2. ↑ Information on synchronization. Synchronized files, accessed on April 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, October 26-November 1. Anime News Network, November 4, 2009, accessed April 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Zombie Loan . In: Animania 08-09 / 2009, p. 23.