The Zombie Land Saga movie finally came out on streaming, so I watched it recently. It was super good. I love the series, but I’ve found that I dislike a lot of anime series movies because they just feel like several episodes of a TV show stitched together. This is one of the few that don’t fit that description. It feels like a properly structured and paced movie.

::: End of S2/Beginning of Movie While it’s not really a criticism, I found it odd that they retconned the ending of the 2nd season with the ship not appearing at the concert, but instead much later. I think I get why they did it. They probably didn’t even have this movie written or planned when they made the 2nd season and realized later that it would make for better pacing for the movie if we started in a calmer time rather than right after the big saga flood disaster. :::

Also I thought they did a good job with the sci-fi stuff. I was totally expecting the aliens to be generic little green/grey men in flying saucers, but they made an effort to come up with something different and fit it into the story.

I’m kind of curious if this is the end of the series or not. It definitely seems like it could be a sendoff, but

::: ending spoiler The decision to bring things back to status quo with Tae makes me think it feel like it could get continued. Like that feels like a very “We wanted a cool development to happen but we can’t change the status quo too much in a movie” kind of decision. :::

I’d definitely love to see more of the show or at least a new thing by the same creative team. I always love good original anime and we definitely don’t get enough of that.