Akira finally has a friend to face the zombie apocalypse alongside – but will it last?
Highlights
- Akira realizes he can enjoy life and play it safe to live long enough to finish his bucket list. He aims to reconnect with his best friend, despite the challenges of finding him.
- The episode highlights the theme of making up for lost time, as Akira and Kencho apologize to each other for their past actions and the work culture that consumed them.
- Apologies serve as a way for the characters to forgive themselves and move on, recognizing the need to enjoy life and not succumb to their past mistakes.
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Warning: The following contains spoilers for Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Episode 3, “Best Friend of the Dead”, now streaming on Netflix & Crunchyroll.
Last week on Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Akira Tendo got a real taste of what a world filled with zombies is like. Thankfully an unnamed girl saves him before getting hit by a runaway truck and shakes some sense into him.
Akira realizes that he can enjoy his life and still play it safe so that he can live long enough to finish his bucket list. In this episode, Akira makes it his goal to reconnect with his best friend to make up for lost time. It won’t be easy finding him, if he is even still alive. Regardless, Akira has to try, because what kind of life would it be with no one to share it with?
Episode Breakdown
The episode starts out by showing a club, run by a man named Shou. It’s housing refugees while the staff fight off the undead from entering the facility. A few hours before this, Akira finds out that the internet is back up and running thanks to the low number of users. While scrolling through all his messages, Akira mourns the time he lost hanging out with his friends. Only when swiping past the name of an old friend, Kencho, does he decide that he has to find him. Besides, Kencho would have never succumbed to the zombies.
The scene then shifts to Kencho, trapped in a bondage room of a love house with a zombie. With only water to drink for the past three days Kencho is losing his strength to fight. Leaving his mind to wander to Akira and when they played rugby together. At that same moment Akira calls Kencho, an unlikely reunion for the pair to say the least. Before the two were the best of friends during college, but with Kencho having a better job Akira snapped. The two stopped speaking with one another after that. Now, Akira has a chance to make it up to him, only if he is able to save Tenko from the zombies in Shinjuku.
Learning from before, Akira utilizes a car horn to attract the zombies in the area. Saving not only Kencho, but the head of the club Shou as well. Reunited Akira shouts his apology to Kencho. Kencho is unable to respond and Akira’s screams cause all the zombies to return. The two race to the roof faced with the choice of jumping or being eaten. Obviously frightened of the leap, Kencho hesitates and confesses to Akira that he wasn’t happy with his job either. He was just showing off to Akira. Like Akira, Kencho ‘quits his job’ and frees himself to enjoy this new world. With the weight off his shoulders, Kencho makes the jump, naked just to make Akira laugh.
I’m Sorry
The common theme that keeps appearing in Akira’s life is the need to make up for lost time. As mentioned in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead: I Quit Akira is going to engage with his surroundings differently than others. This is what makes Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead different from other zombie cinema. The characters, especially Akira, see the zombies less as a major concern and more like another obstacle to get around. Yes, they can kill you, but compared to the hell they lived in before they’re nothing. Instead, Akira’s main conflicts involve making it up to himself and others for what he did in the past.
Fans were aware of Akira’s inability to do anything but work before the apocalypse, but with Kencho fans get another look at the work culture these men were living in. Even though Kencho bragged about his job he actually hated what he did just as much as Akira. The two opening up to each other and apologizing allowed for them to rekindle their friendship. However, the two weren’t just apologizing to each other.
Their apologies to one another can also be seen as them apologizing to their past selves, especially Kencho. The two recognize that they forced themselves to suffer when they should have taken the time to enjoy life. Now with the freedom from social norms, it is time to forgive themselves and move on. Otherwise, they can end up just like Kencho, locked in a room dying.
Fans interested in watching Zome 100: Bucket List of the Dead can stream them on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
Fuente: successacademy.edu.vn
Categorías: Anime
