Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—especially when that eye happens to be dangling from its socket by a thread of decomposing flesh. That’s just the reality of the world in Zom 100, and it’s one Akira Tendou has come to love even as he’s being chased down the street by reanimated corpses. As ugly as the zombie apocalypse can be, to Akira, it’s a glorious sight to behold—right down to the series’ representation of blood.Zom 100’s take on zombies is not necessarily atypical. They pretty much do all the regular zombie things that they do in every other form of popular media. The true difference in Zom 100 actually comes from how the characters view the zombies and the consequence of their existence in the world. In order to accentuate this unique perspective, a blatant visual change is made to one of the images most synonymous with zombies in pop culture: blood. Instead of witnessing the harsh reality of disgusting blood and guts that usually coincides with zombies, viewers are treated to an aesthetically-pleasing explosion of multicolored paint splashes. It’s a jarring visual change that is meant to serve a deliberate purpose beyond just being more pleasant to look at.Before the zombie apocalypse, Akira inhabited a world that was gray and dismal. His life slowly descended into darkness until everything was entirely monochrome, at which point he began suffering from intrusive thoughts and depression. At that point, Akira seemed to have no freedom or hope for spontaneity; his options were truly black and white in the most literal way.RELATED: How Zom 100 Captures The Existential Crisis Of Millenials Perfectly
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—especially when that eye happens to be dangling from its socket by a thread of decomposing flesh. That’s just the reality of the world in Zom 100, and it’s one Akira Tendou has come to love even as he’s being chased down the street by reanimated corpses. As ugly as the zombie apocalypse can be, to Akira, it’s a glorious sight to behold—right down to the series’ representation of blood.
Zom 100‘s take on zombies is not necessarily atypical. They pretty much do all the regular zombie things that they do in every other form of popular media. The true difference in Zom 100 actually comes from how the characters view the zombies and the consequence of their existence in the world. In order to accentuate this unique perspective, a blatant visual change is made to one of the images most synonymous with zombies in pop culture: blood. Instead of witnessing the harsh reality of disgusting blood and guts that usually coincides with zombies, viewers are treated to an aesthetically-pleasing explosion of multicolored paint splashes. It’s a jarring visual change that is meant to serve a deliberate purpose beyond just being more pleasant to look at.
Before the zombie apocalypse, Akira inhabited a world that was gray and dismal. His life slowly descended into darkness until everything was entirely monochrome, at which point he began suffering from intrusive thoughts and depression. At that point, Akira seemed to have no freedom or hope for spontaneity; his options were truly black and white in the most literal way.
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