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ゾン100～ゾンビになるまでにしたい100のこと～ [Zom 100 ~Zombie ni Naru Made ni Shitai 100 no Koto~] #16
ゾン100～ゾンビになるまでにしたい100のこと～ 16 [Zom 100: Zombie ni Naru made ni Shitai 100 no Koto 16]
アキラとシズカが正式に付き合い始め、
気持ちを新たに九州一周を進める一同。
しかし、山奥で想定外のガス欠トラブル発生!
事態を打開すべく、ヒッチハイクで出会った3人組と
明かりが灯る家を目指すタケミナ&イズナだったが…
そこは「神隠し」の噂が絶えない曰くつきの古民家で――――
「ラブストーリー」から一転…青春ゾンビ活劇の最新章は
ホラー映画顔負けの全く新たな「恐怖の世界」!?
気持ちを新たに九州一周を進める一同。
しかし、山奥で想定外のガス欠トラブル発生!
事態を打開すべく、ヒッチハイクで出会った3人組と
明かりが灯る家を目指すタケミナ&イズナだったが…
そこは「神隠し」の噂が絶えない曰くつきの古民家で――――
「ラブストーリー」から一転…青春ゾンビ活劇の最新章は
ホラー映画顔負けの全く新たな「恐怖の世界」!?
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November 27, 2024
Manga ed anime di Zombie 100 mi hanno ormai giá conquistato da tempo con il loro irresistibile cocktail di orrore, umorismo e buoni sentimenti. Tuttavia, l'inaspettata ed esilarante parodia di Non aprite quella porta, con protagonisti gli sventurati Takemina e Izuizu, é semplicemente uno degli episodi migliori che abbia mai visto in tutta la serie.
Ora, come sempre, l'attesa per il prossimo volume mi sembrerà interminabile.
April 4, 2024
Tuvo terror, referencias al cine y ese hermoso cap final con una reflexión muy linda que me llegó al cora, qué más puedo pedir?
December 31, 2024
This is ongoing tale of a decent manga that is good enough to keep me hanging in there and is, admittedly, a decent premise for a shonen series that helps keep mixing things up and keeping them fresh.
In fact, the opening chapter and closing chapter are both standouts that really work well, while the middle two kind of don’t. Better than average, certainly, but it wasn’t quite strong enough throughout.
The horror movie/haunted house riff that opens this volume is incredibly amusing because it introduces a whole new cast while most of the regulars are bickering after running out of gas.
Takemina and Izuna decide to go off in search of gas, lending credence to my theory that the story is biding its time to pair everybody off, and are immediately picked up while hitchhiking by a horny couple and a pothead.
By the time we’ve gotten into the story of a family that hunts humans (minus a couple points for not using the phrase ‘the most dangerous game’), it’s pretty obvious what’s happening here and all the more fun for it.
First we get Izuna’s relentlessly pragmatic dismantling of all the horror tropes, which is wickedly funny on its own. Then the new cast is ruthlessly slaughtered, which is no surprise once you realize that this is absolutely aping classic slasher films. No immoral behaviour remains unpunished.
The subsequent chapters in this arc are okay. Once it turns to Izuna’s experience with horror games it isn’t nearly as fun, much as the same way that Resident Evil parody kind of sputtered out. I will say the callback at the end, which they don’t draw any attention to, is clever.
While the last chapter doesn’t come from a place of logic - Akira decides to suddenly turn all serious and be a colossal buzzkill due to his relationship with Shizuka - it does offer a more thoughtful aside that makes good use of Bea for a change.
Bea has mostly functioned as a pair of large, German breasts for this whole series (literally one early shot this very volume is looking up at them from the POV of her crotch), so giving her anything to do is welcome and seeing her tending a garden while offering advice are all worthwhile additions.
The story she tells Akira is nothing especially novel, but it does offer a good message and is something he needs to hear. There have been very few thoughtful moments in Zom 100, so this was especially appreciated.
It all wraps up on a quiet moment between Akira and Shizuka that is okay. I don’t mind them as a couple, but I have little faith that the story knows what to do with them now. As I pointed out previously, I think it hasn’t known what to do with Shizuka in ages.
3.5 stars - I really like the message in the last chapter and the first chapter is a total hoot. The middle chapters don’t add a whole lot of anything, however, and have some okay action but nothing that makes them essential. Uneven, unsurprisingly so.
In fact, the opening chapter and closing chapter are both standouts that really work well, while the middle two kind of don’t. Better than average, certainly, but it wasn’t quite strong enough throughout.
The horror movie/haunted house riff that opens this volume is incredibly amusing because it introduces a whole new cast while most of the regulars are bickering after running out of gas.
Takemina and Izuna decide to go off in search of gas, lending credence to my theory that the story is biding its time to pair everybody off, and are immediately picked up while hitchhiking by a horny couple and a pothead.
By the time we’ve gotten into the story of a family that hunts humans (minus a couple points for not using the phrase ‘the most dangerous game’), it’s pretty obvious what’s happening here and all the more fun for it.
First we get Izuna’s relentlessly pragmatic dismantling of all the horror tropes, which is wickedly funny on its own. Then the new cast is ruthlessly slaughtered, which is no surprise once you realize that this is absolutely aping classic slasher films. No immoral behaviour remains unpunished.
The subsequent chapters in this arc are okay. Once it turns to Izuna’s experience with horror games it isn’t nearly as fun, much as the same way that Resident Evil parody kind of sputtered out. I will say the callback at the end, which they don’t draw any attention to, is clever.
While the last chapter doesn’t come from a place of logic - Akira decides to suddenly turn all serious and be a colossal buzzkill due to his relationship with Shizuka - it does offer a more thoughtful aside that makes good use of Bea for a change.
Bea has mostly functioned as a pair of large, German breasts for this whole series (literally one early shot this very volume is looking up at them from the POV of her crotch), so giving her anything to do is welcome and seeing her tending a garden while offering advice are all worthwhile additions.
The story she tells Akira is nothing especially novel, but it does offer a good message and is something he needs to hear. There have been very few thoughtful moments in Zom 100, so this was especially appreciated.
It all wraps up on a quiet moment between Akira and Shizuka that is okay. I don’t mind them as a couple, but I have little faith that the story knows what to do with them now. As I pointed out previously, I think it hasn’t known what to do with Shizuka in ages.
3.5 stars - I really like the message in the last chapter and the first chapter is a total hoot. The middle chapters don’t add a whole lot of anything, however, and have some okay action but nothing that makes them essential. Uneven, unsurprisingly so.
February 6, 2025
It took 16 volumes to get a parody of a slasher movie, but we got there, dammit.
Want to know the two Japanese-language books I really want to read that are not available in English?
No?
Well, fuck you, then, read something else, because that's what I'm about to type in here.
1. Mr. Murakami's Place
A few years back, noted author and running enthusiast Haruki Murakami took on the role of "agony uncle," which is, I guess, sort of a Japanese equivalent of a "Dear Abby" type of position. People wrote in with their problems, and Mr. Murakami answered them.
I'm VERY curious about this, both as a fan of Mr. Murakami's work and as a fan of the genre of answering questions.
Answering questions is kind of an awesome exercise for writers, I think, because it gives you a jumpoff. You don't necessarily have to think about what to write about, and you know where the piece starts and end. But then, it forces you to get a little creative, because it's not just about answering the question (which is the fundamental misunderstanding possessed by the current NYT Ethicist, who picks boring questions and gives boring answers), it's about telling a story within the answer.
This seems like a natural fit for Murakami. Plus, I'm curious if Japanese people write into these sorts of things with issues similar to the ones Americans write in about. I mean, we're all human and have those human things, but I'm sure cultural differences must have SOME impact on this stuff, right?
2. Nasubi's Journals
Nasubi is this guy you're familiar with if you've seen the documentary The Contestant, or if you were alive a couple decades back and remember a brief fascination in newsmedia that falls into that, "Ain't Japanese TV Weird?" thing.
Which, by the way, yes, Japanese gameshows are a little weird, but after seeing the success of Selling Sunset, an American TV show where plastic-injected Barbies supposedly sell real estate and have interpersonal drama - I mean, is watching someone try to complete a physical challenge that's mildly humiliating really any more morally bankrupt than that? At least in the Japanese gameshows, I'm not the one being humiliated, whereas in Selling Sunset, by watching, I do feel like I'm at the butt of the joke.
Anyway, Nasubi was on a one-off gameshow segment where he was placed into an apartment, naked, with absolutely nothing, and he had a bunch of postcards and a pen, and his task was to win prizes through magazine write-in giveaways, enough to A) Survive, and B) reach a certain dollar amount.
It's a long story, watch the movie you lazy fuck, but the part I'm interested in is that Nasubi kept diaries the whole time he was doing this, and they were a pretty big hit in Japan but have never, apparently, been translated into English. Which is too bad, it's kind of a big moment in media, not to mention I'm always game to get some insight into a weird person or a not weird person doing a very weird thing.
If some publisher is reading this, you've fucked up, but also, could you consider getting the rights to these things and translating them? I would appreciate it. If you don't want to do it for me, then fuck you, but also...I don't know, come up with some better reason to do it. Jesus, am I supposed to suggest the thing to you AND create the motivation in your heart? I'm not a boxing trainer, I'm a book reviewer. Not even a good one.
Want to know the two Japanese-language books I really want to read that are not available in English?
No?
Well, fuck you, then, read something else, because that's what I'm about to type in here.
1. Mr. Murakami's Place
A few years back, noted author and running enthusiast Haruki Murakami took on the role of "agony uncle," which is, I guess, sort of a Japanese equivalent of a "Dear Abby" type of position. People wrote in with their problems, and Mr. Murakami answered them.
I'm VERY curious about this, both as a fan of Mr. Murakami's work and as a fan of the genre of answering questions.
Answering questions is kind of an awesome exercise for writers, I think, because it gives you a jumpoff. You don't necessarily have to think about what to write about, and you know where the piece starts and end. But then, it forces you to get a little creative, because it's not just about answering the question (which is the fundamental misunderstanding possessed by the current NYT Ethicist, who picks boring questions and gives boring answers), it's about telling a story within the answer.
This seems like a natural fit for Murakami. Plus, I'm curious if Japanese people write into these sorts of things with issues similar to the ones Americans write in about. I mean, we're all human and have those human things, but I'm sure cultural differences must have SOME impact on this stuff, right?
2. Nasubi's Journals
Nasubi is this guy you're familiar with if you've seen the documentary The Contestant, or if you were alive a couple decades back and remember a brief fascination in newsmedia that falls into that, "Ain't Japanese TV Weird?" thing.
Which, by the way, yes, Japanese gameshows are a little weird, but after seeing the success of Selling Sunset, an American TV show where plastic-injected Barbies supposedly sell real estate and have interpersonal drama - I mean, is watching someone try to complete a physical challenge that's mildly humiliating really any more morally bankrupt than that? At least in the Japanese gameshows, I'm not the one being humiliated, whereas in Selling Sunset, by watching, I do feel like I'm at the butt of the joke.
Anyway, Nasubi was on a one-off gameshow segment where he was placed into an apartment, naked, with absolutely nothing, and he had a bunch of postcards and a pen, and his task was to win prizes through magazine write-in giveaways, enough to A) Survive, and B) reach a certain dollar amount.
It's a long story, watch the movie you lazy fuck, but the part I'm interested in is that Nasubi kept diaries the whole time he was doing this, and they were a pretty big hit in Japan but have never, apparently, been translated into English. Which is too bad, it's kind of a big moment in media, not to mention I'm always game to get some insight into a weird person or a not weird person doing a very weird thing.
If some publisher is reading this, you've fucked up, but also, could you consider getting the rights to these things and translating them? I would appreciate it. If you don't want to do it for me, then fuck you, but also...I don't know, come up with some better reason to do it. Jesus, am I supposed to suggest the thing to you AND create the motivation in your heart? I'm not a boxing trainer, I'm a book reviewer. Not even a good one.
March 28, 2025
So the two newest members of the crew have their own lil adventure while the RV is out of gas...AND IT'S THE MOST BLOODY TERRIFYING SIDEQUEST SINCE *OF COURSE* THE MYSTERIOUS CABIN IN THE WOODS HAS ITS OWN HORRORS!
I will gripe that gamer girl isn't up to the challenge of surviving their own Resident Evil 7, because, as she puts it, horror survival games nowadays will do unexpected, seemingly random sequences to stump the veterans of the genre. Of course it's brave of ME to say when it's not my life on the line, but you could still pull from what you know of the types of games you've played to avoid falling into the common tropes.
...
After that harrowing ordeal, there's a sweet moment of Bea & Akira talking about the nature of happiness; whether or not it's something to strive for or something to realize is actually all around you. We get a nice backstory moment for our German weeb and Akira learns how to stress less when it comes to the people he holds dear.
I will gripe that gamer girl isn't up to the challenge of surviving their own Resident Evil 7, because, as she puts it, horror survival games nowadays will do unexpected, seemingly random sequences to stump the veterans of the genre. Of course it's brave of ME to say when it's not my life on the line, but you could still pull from what you know of the types of games you've played to avoid falling into the common tropes.
...
After that harrowing ordeal, there's a sweet moment of Bea & Akira talking about the nature of happiness; whether or not it's something to strive for or something to realize is actually all around you. We get a nice backstory moment for our German weeb and Akira learns how to stress less when it comes to the people he holds dear.
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October 9, 2025Este tomo cambia completamente de tono, de historia de amor al más puro terror. ¡Y con Takemina e Izuna de protagonistas!
Creo que dejar solos a estos dos en una historia es una muy buena idea: al haber aparecido más tarde en el manga, tiene sentido que no se desarrollen tanto como el resto. Sin embargo, este arco ha servido muy bien para darles momentos de personaje y, además, explorar su dinámica. El escenario de una mansión con un asesino en serie también me ha encantado y siento que el ambiente de película de terror está muy bien conseguido.
El último capítulo, por otro lado, me ha parecido precioso. No ha pasado mucho, era Bea contando la historia de su madre, pero... qué puedo decir. Es uno de esos mensajes que te hace recordar el corazón de Zom 100.
Creo que dejar solos a estos dos en una historia es una muy buena idea: al haber aparecido más tarde en el manga, tiene sentido que no se desarrollen tanto como el resto. Sin embargo, este arco ha servido muy bien para darles momentos de personaje y, además, explorar su dinámica. El escenario de una mansión con un asesino en serie también me ha encantado y siento que el ambiente de película de terror está muy bien conseguido.
El último capítulo, por otro lado, me ha parecido precioso. No ha pasado mucho, era Bea contando la historia de su madre, pero... qué puedo decir. Es uno de esos mensajes que te hace recordar el corazón de Zom 100.
October 20, 2025
I needed some good fun campy horror and some wonderful moments affirming the joys of life, and this volume delivered. We start with a classic slasher story with a car break down, and then we get the curly haired guy and gamer girl going off to find gas, only to end up at the house of a serial killer family that hits every slasher trope you can imagine. This was definitely one of the better side adventures of the journey, even if the bucket list goal of smoking a hookah was kind of shoehorned in (the evil father smoked it and blew it in their faces). The last story is another cute one about the importance of enjoying the little moments in life and to spend time with those you love because they may be gone one day, but you need to think about the now that you share with them.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 26, 2024
There's this moment where Akira starts to act more like Shizuka and it seems like it's going to be some turning point where their relationship causes him to take things more seriously (and move the plot forward). And that moment hits on it's own, but then Bea comes along and tells him that he's acting strange and should take it easy. Then he and Shizuka have a cute moment and the volume is over. The first three chapters were just alright. I guess after 14ish volumes of Zombieland in Japan I'm getting a little bored.
December 17, 2024
4.5 stars 🌟
December 22, 2024
I love this volume. The horror element was fantastic, and I absolutely adore Bea. She's one of my favorite characters in this series. So good.
January 24, 2025
peak fiction i fear
February 1, 2025
Be grateful for what you have. Weird horror side quest.
April 25, 2025
Takemina and Izuna find trouble while searching for gas.
May 13, 2025
Kinda Filler
August 25, 2025
3.5*
I honestly loved the added horror elements in this volume. And the message at the end was a great reminder.
I honestly loved the added horror elements in this volume. And the message at the end was a great reminder.
September 10, 2025
The group of friends survive a haunted house and find the meaning of happiness.
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