Be Danichirou Sanka:
-Producing and owning CP of your own daughter
-Murdering your daughter
-Fatally wounding a person (who barely survives thanks to the zombie potion + the maid attentions)
-Abuse of power
-Kidnapping
-conspiracy to commit a crime
-incest
-Stalking
And he just takes a plane and flees to the USA without any consequences because "I wanna find a cure"? BS
It's not a surprise Rea decided to go with the necrophilliac dude instead.
About the series itself, it is alright. I loved the storyboard, specially on the first episodes. Some smart scenes like the blank painting being this exposition device, or the scene where the rolling curtains acted as a theater scenario where little amazing details.
The characters in the other hand, besides the AH Danichirou, where ok. The fact that the comic relief character had alzheimer, or all the whole Mero character where the best points. The author acknowledged the bizarre nature of this series and tried to compensate using ecchi and humor, and yeah sometimes he misses, but he landed a few good jokes here and there.
The animation...ok. it didn't stand out, but it looked just like a 2012 anime should. Nothing cheap.
The plot. I don't know. I know the main focus is the...weird relation between Rea and Furuya, and their dynamic works, somehow. Rea is so broken she just accepts joining Furuya with his experiments. But the series end and you're left with things open, like how long will it actually take for Rea to decay? Is it even possible to stop the zombies from decomposing or it's a doomed fate waiting to happen? What will they do about the temple family and Rea's school when she turns blue, then green, she starts smelling and her eyes turn white? The series ends with a "They lived on, and things will figure themselves later", like, Danichirou could or couldn't find a cure, eventually, we won't know.
A similar example of this is Cyberpunk 2077, where V, the main character dies, and gets resurrected by a chip, and has to fight to avoid dying for good, but in Cyberpunk it works because you are certain of your fate. If you decide save yourself, you either end with scarring sequels or with a very shortened lifespan: Death is the most likely outcome, and you learn to cope with that destiny. In Sankarea, they are worried about consuming the leaves, but not significant effort into getting a solution is made, and that solution is never reached. The series spent more time into resolving Danichirou's plot that forgot a huge slice about the zombie girl and the consequences of being one.
TLDR: It's alright for a 12ep seasonal thingie, but the series has more stitches than Rea, and the Villain is the worst thing of this series in every sense of the word
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