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Zombie Land Saga
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ゾンビランドサガ (Zonbi Rando Saga)
Thể loại	Hài kịch, Kinh dị
Sáng tác	MAPPA, Avex pictures, Cygames
Anime
Đạo diễn	Munehisa Sakai
Kịch bản	Shigeru Murakoshi
Âm nhạc	Yasuharu Takanashi Funta7
Hãng phim	MAPPA
Cấp phép	Crunchyroll Funimation SA/SEA Medialink
Phát sóng	4 tháng 10, 2018 – 20 tháng 12, 2018
Số tập	12
Manga
Tác giả	Megumu Soramichi
Nhà xuất bản	Cygames
Tạp chí	Cycomi
Đăng tải	8 tháng 10 năm 2018 – nay
Số tập	3
Anime
Zombie Land Saga Revenge
Đạo diễn	Munehisa Sakai
Kịch bản	Shigeru Murakoshi
Âm nhạc	Yasuharu Takanashi Funta7
Hãng phim	MAPPA
Cấp phép	Crunchyroll Funimation SA/SEA Muse Communication
Phát sóng	8 tháng 4, 2021 – đang lên lịch
Số tập	6
Manga
Zombie Land Saga Gaiden: The First Zombie
Minh họa	Kasumi Fukagawa
Nhà xuất bản	Shueisha
Đối tượng	Seinen
Tạp chí	Ultra Jump
Đăng tải	19 tháng 5, 2021 – nay

Zombie Land Saga (Nhật: ゾンビランドサガ, Hepburn: Zonbi Rando Saga) hay ‘’’Vùng đất thây ma’’’ là một chương trình anime dài tập do MAPPA, Avex Pictures và Cygames sản xuất và phát hành. Mùa đầu của chương trình đã được phát sóng ở Nhật trong khoảng thời gian từ tháng 10 năm 2018 cho đến tháng 12 cùng năm. Mùa thứ hai của chương trình đã được khởi chiếu từ ngày 8 tháng 4 năm 2021. A manga adaptation that loosely follows the events of the anime, began serialization on Cygames' Cycomi website in October 2018.

Plot

In the year 2008, high school student Sakura Minamoto is abruptly killed by a truck on the morning she plans to submit an idol application. Ten years later, Sakura, along with six "legendary" girls from various eras of Japan's history, are brought back as zombies by a man named Kotaro Tatsumi, who seeks to revitalize Saga Prefecture by putting together an all-zombie idol group that would become known as Franchouchou.

Characters

Franchouchou

Franchouchou (フランシュシュ, Furanshushu) is an idol group founded by Kotaro Tatsumi and composed of seven legendary idols from different time periods that he brought back to life as zombies with the goal of reviving Saga's declining idol business. Because of the possibility of being persecuted should their identities be exposed, they perform using aliases and hide their zombified states using makeup.

Sakura Minamoto (源 さくら, Minamoto Sakura)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Kaede Hondo (tiếng Nhật), Brina Palencia (tiếng Việt)

Portrayed by Sakiho Motonishi

A high school girl and aspiring idol who dies in 2008 after being hit by a truck following a rather dull life. She is the first of the zombies to regain consciousness after being resurrected, but initially retains no recollection of her life, only remembering parts of her past when she performs until she fully regains her memories. Her idol nickname is Zombie 1 (ゾンビィ1号, Zonbii Ichi-gō).

Saki Nikaido (二階堂 サキ, Nikaidō Saki)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Asami Tano (tiếng Nhật), Caitlin Glass (tiếng Việt)

Portrayed by Yuriya Suzuki

A delinquent girl and leading member of the all-female biker gang Dorami, which conquered the entire Kyushu region before her death during a chicken race in 1997. She is the appointed leader of Franchouchou. Her idol nickname is Zombie 2 (ゾンビィ2号, Zonbii Ni-gō).

Ai Mizuno (水野 愛, Mizuno Ai)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Risa Taneda (tiếng Nhật), Bryn Apprill (tiếng Việt)

Portrayed by Rie Matsuoka

The former lead performer of Iron Frill, a 2008 idol group Sakura idolized in life, who was killed after being struck by lightning during a concert. Not wanting to be remembered only for her tragic death, she resolves to work hard in her second chance at life. Her idol nickname is Zombie 3 (ゾンビィ3号, Zonbii San-gō).

Junko Konno (紺野 純子, Konno Junko)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Maki Kawase (tiếng Nhật), Amanda Lee (tiếng Việt)

Portrayed by Yūna Kitahara

A soft-spoken idol from the Shōwa period who was popular during the 1980s before dying in a plane crash. Coming from an era without social media, she has reservations towards personally interacting with her fans.She is sometimes seen playing an acoustic guitar, but can also play electric. Her idol nickname is Zombie 4 (ゾンビィ4号, Zonbii Yon-gō).

Yugiri (ゆうぎり, Yūgiri)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Rika Kinugawa (tiếng Nhật), Stephanie Young (tiếng Việt)

Portrayed by Mioka Sakamoto

An oiran who lived between the Bakumatsu and the Meiji Restoration eras in the 19th century. She has a bad habit of criticizing others for giving up, even if they do not have such thoughts in the first place. Her idol nickname is Zombie 5 (ゾンビィ5号, Zonbii Go-gō).

Lily Hoshikawa (星川 リリィ, Hoshikawa Ririi)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Minami Tanaka (tiếng Nhật), Sarah Wiedenheft (tiếng Việt)

Portrayed by Rin Takanashi

A prodigious transgender child actress, born Masao Go (豪 正雄, Gō Masao), who died from a heart attack caused by occupational stress and mental shock upon growing facial hair in 2011. She has no qualms about being a zombie, seeing it as a way to continue being a child forever. Her idol nickname is Zombie 6 (ゾンビィ6号, Zonbii Roku-gō).

Tae Yamada (山田 たえ, Yamada Tae)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Kotono Mitsuishi (tiếng Nhật), Dawn M. Bennett (tiếng Việt)

Portrayed by Asami Morita

The only "legendary" girl with no other title, and the only zombie who has yet to regain her human consciousness. She is the one who officially names the group Franchouchou, which is derived from her sneezing. Despite not yet having "awakened", she still shows an ability to dance with the rest of the group, and is a proficient percussionist, playing a technically demanding drum solo during one performance. Her idol nickname is Zombie 0 (ゾンビィ0号, Zonbii Zero-gō).

Supporting characters

Kotaro Tatsumi (巽 幸太郎, Tatsumi Kōtarō)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Mamoru Miyano (tiếng Nhật), Ricco Fajardo (tiếng Việt)

Portrayed by Noriyuki Ohashi

A manic producer and necromancer who resurrects Sakura and the other girls as zombies to revitalize Saga Prefecture by forming the idol group Franchouchou, tentatively titled Death Musume and Green Face by him. He is a skilled make-up artist, able to make the zombies look like normal humans during their public appearances. He also carries a supply of dried squid with him to appease the zombies. It is eventually revealed that he is Sakura's former high school classmate named Inui (乾, Inui), and that he wants to make her dream come true.

Romero (ロメロ, Romero)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Yasuhiro Takato (tiếng Nhật), Alejandro Saab (tiếng Việt)

Kotaro's undead pet toy poodle.

Male Cop A (警察官A, Keisatsukan A)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Hiroyuki Yoshino (tiếng Nhật), Austin Tindle (tiếng Việt)

An unnamed police officer who repeatedly encounters Sakura and the other undead girls.

Related with Franchouchou

Takeo Go (豪 剛雄, Gō Takeo)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Tsuyoshi Koyama (tiếng Nhật), Christopher Sabat (tiếng Việt)

The ex-manager and father of Lily. He is a large man whose face is often mistaken for that of a yakuza.

Reiko Amabuki (天吹 麗子, Amabuki Reiko)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Komina Matsushita (tiếng Nhật), Colleen Clinkenbeard (tiếng Việt)

First captain of the motorcycle gang Dorami, who retired to give birth to Maria and lead a normal life. She saves a photo with Saki along with her old Tamagotchi and motorcycle.

Shinta Okoba (大古場 新太, Okoba Shinta)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Tōru Nara (tiếng Nhật), Kent Williams (tiếng Việt)

A chief reporter who works alongside his photographer Inuhashi. Both begin investigating Franchouchou after recognizing Junko in the Drive-in Tori commercial.

Master (マスター, Masutā)

Lồng tiếng bởi: Hōchū Ōtsuka (tiếng Nhật), R. Bruce Elliot (tiếng Việt)

The unnamed bartender of Bar New Jofuku who is personally familiar with Kotaro, Yugiri, and the Zombie Land Saga Project. The bar's name references Chinese medical scholar Xu Fu, named "Jofuku" in Japanese, who was ordered by Qin Shi Huang to find the elixir of life.

Production

Cygames announced the series, in collaboration with Avex Pictures, on July 5, 2018. The series is directed by Munehisa Sakai and written by Shigeru Murakoshi, with animation by studio MAPPA. The series' character designs are provided by Kasumi Fukagawa, Kazuo Ogura is the art director, Takashi Yanagida is serving as director of photography, Azusa Sasaki is the color designer, and Masahiro Goto is editing the series. Yasuharu Takanashi is composing the series' music, which is produced by Avex Pictures, while dugout is producing the sound. The opening and ending theme songs respectively are "Adabana Necromancy" (徒花ネクロマンシー, Adabana Nekuromanshī, n.đ. "Fruitless Necromancy") and "Hikari e" (光へ, "Hikari e" n.đ. "To the Light"), both performed by Franchouchou (Kaede Hondo, Asami Tano, Risa Taneda, Maki Kawase, Rika Kinugawa, and Minami Tanaka). The 12-episode series aired between October 4 and December 20, 2018, and was broadcast on AT-X, Tokyo MX, Sun TV, BS11, Saga TV, and TVQ. The series was simulcast outside of Asia with Japanese audio and English subtitles by Crunchyroll and with English audio by Funimation. An uncut version of the dub that translates the main songs from the anime series was eventually released by Funimation at the end of 2019.

Medialink licensed the first season in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and streamed it on Netflix, Aniplus Asia, and Bilibili, while Muse Communication holds the distribution rights to the second season.

The opening and ending themes were both released as singles paired with "FANTASTIC LOVERS" and "Jellyfish" (respectively, both sung by Iron Frill, Ai Mizuno's in-universe pre-Franchouchou idol group) on November 28, 2018, and they charted at #13 and #19 (respectively) in the Oricon Singles Chart on December 10, while the opening theme single topped the Billboard Japan Download Songs chart on the same day.

On July 27, 2019, it was announced that the series is getting renewed for a second season, titled Zombie Land Saga Revenge. On February 27, 2021, it was revealed that MAPPA would animate the new season, which premiered on April 8, 2021 on AT-X and other channels. The main staff and cast members are returning to reprise their roles. The opening and ending theme songs respectively are "Taiga yo Tomo ni Naite Kure" (大河よ共に泣いてくれ, "Taiga yo Tomo ni Naite Kure" n.đ. "O Saga, Cry With Me") and "Yume o Te ni, Modoreru Basho mo Nai Hibi o" (夢を手に、戻れる場所もない日々を, "Yume o Te ni, Modoreru Basho mo Nai Hibi o" n.đ. "Spending The Days With a Dream and Nowhere to Go Home"), both performed by Franchouchou. Crunchyroll will stream the series with subtitles, and Funimation will stream the series dubbed in English.

Reception

Steve Jones of Anime News Network described the revelation of Lily's gender identity as "the episode's biggest talking point", and described her death as "[t]he most bizarre detail of [her] past" and "com[ing] across like slapstick". Kate O'Neil of The Fandom Post gave the episode "Go Go Neverland SAGA" an A, stating "It’s so incredibly rare to see a transgender character in anime that isn’t being a stereotype or played to some horrible trope that I missed it. Even rarer to show a supportive, loving parent of a transgender child." The Daily Dot described Lily as "trans Twitter’s latest role model".

During a May 2019 session of the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights where executives from Facebook and Twitter faced accusations over the way they handled abuse and harassment of parliamentarians on social media, Scottish National Party Member of Parliament Joanna Cherry cited, among several abusive tweets that were not removed swiftly by Twitter, one involving Lily Hoshikawa.

Zombie Land Saga won the 2019 Tokyo Anime Awards Festival award for Animation of the Year.

On August 12, 2019, the special Natsu no Saga, a documentary on the anime, featured governor of Saga Yoshinori Yamaguchi cosplaying as major character Kotaro Tatsumi.

Gadget Tsūshin listed "nice bird" (referring to the fifth episode) and "Masao" (Lily's birth forename) in their 2019 anime buzzwords list.

Other media

A manga adaptation by Megumu Soramichi began serialization on Cygames' Cycomi website on October 8, 2018. This manga iteration primarily focuses on Kotaro, tying in with the episodes from the anime from his perspective.

A stage play based on the anime, Zombie Land Saga Stage de Do-n!, was set to be performed March 11 to 14, 2020, but was originally cancelled to due to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, and was then brought back to be run during the September of that year. It adapted the first seven episodes of the anime series.

A manga adaptation illustrated by character designer Kasumi Fukagawa will begin serialization in the June 2021 issue of Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump on May 19, 2021.

External links

• Website chính thức (tiếng Nhật)
• Autumn VN/Sandbox/Zombieland Saga (anime) tại từ điển bách khoa của Anime News Network