Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan

On a hot summer day, five university students sneak into the library storage to look for some treasure. They find two sets of female antique mummies from Italy around the age of 14–20 years old.

One of the students, Sayaka, rips open the mummy and takes out a stone called "stone of life," which gave the mummies super strength and eternal life. Having stolen their "stone of life," the two mummy girls wake up and become zombies after 100 years in order to get it back in a bloody gruesome way, smashing their heads and eating their flesh for power.

The only way for the students to get out is to somehow find a way to kill the zombie girls. Will they be able to survive?

(Source: Shochiku)

Studion, Euphrosyne Main

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Alma V Main

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Sudo, Noriko Supporting

Kubo, Yurika Japanese

Azuma, Hiroshi Supporting

Miwa, Takahiro Japanese

Miyake Supporting

Mugihito Japanese

Minagawa, Yui Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Abe, Mashiro Supporting

Suzuki, Tatsuhisa Japanese

Takanashi, Mako Supporting

Shiraishi, Ryouko Japanese

Kamoshida, Sayaka Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Takanashi, Shuuichirou Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Iwami, Hideaki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Noguchi, Akira Sound Director

Kanemaki, Kenichi Script

Otani, Kow Music

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Dec 28, 2019

Otherwise-six

Recommended

I personally think this movie is an incredible achievement. I like horror movies and I really like anime but they rarely intersect in a way that takes such fantastic advantage of both. The genre and medium are both used to great effect.

I am absolutely baffled by the low score and how few people have seen this movie. I certainly get why some people would dislike it. The combination of anime tropes and B-grade horror movie tropes is definitely unique; probably even jarring if you're not used to one or the other.

In my experience I've never quite seen anything like this and I was pleasantly ... shocked and surprised numerous times during my first viewing. And I do recommend going into this movie without knowing anything about it.

I am deliberately not going to go into any details about the plot but I will recommend going in prepared for something that is very deliberate in what it does and also specifically not taking itself overly seriously.

When this movie finds it's audience, and I'm sure it will eventually, I feel as though it will retroactively be praised as a horror anime classic for many years to come.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 23, 2022

Bugsybirdy

Mixed Feelings

Tend to enjoy bad movies, but this one was just not good. poor plot, awful characters too. No character building and the entire thing felt messy. If youre into bad horror, then you may like it.
It had its fair share of gore and violence, with some random funny parts. Didn't feel like a serious show at all so it was an easy watch if you ignore everything bad about it. a score of 5 seems too generous honestly.
All in all id say only watch it if you want something easy going to watch, no plot to follow really. not the worst ive seen ... though so i suppose thats something.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 13, 2025

Ghosty-Senpai

Not Recommended

Take all the worst and most frustrating parts of a western teen slasher, throw in some martial arts and a ton of gore, and you end up with this stupid thing. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but when the human survivors kept making the dumbest possible choices every chance they got, I quickly found myself rooting for the monsters. The out-of-place nudity feels extra pandering when those same bodies are subjected to some of the most brutal and gory acts of destruction I've seen in a long time. If it wasn't for the strangely familiar, but strangely generic modern art style, ... I could see this movie living comfortably amongst the more infamous OVAs of the 80s and 90s.

Oh yeah, and the movie throws in graphic animal cruelty for literally no good reason. That knocks off a point too.

It's entirely possible to enjoy dumb, pandering anime; I'm not ashamed to admit that some of my favorites are absolute trash. But the negatives outweighed any enjoyment I might have derived from this movie, and I say that as a horror fan desperate for more examples of the genre in this medium. Know what you're getting into before you proceed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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