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Inside the mind of a yandere is scary

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All things considered, crazy yandere gf is probably one of the best assets in a zombie apocalypse. You go, Eko!

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Love how genuinely unique this concept is so far, yanderes aren't that rare anymore, but having the MC be one and all the narration be from her perspective is so interesting.

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joined Aug 29, 2019

Mmmh this is gonna have such a happy end!

Hmm does Eko qualify as an antihero or would she be just a villain? Like, neither her morals nor her actions are heroic. Aside from "I wanna be with Risa", she doesn't seem to have any motivation and she doesn't really do anything "good", while instead planning to do "evil". If I recall correctly, an antihero normally is a deeply flawed character that ends up doing the right thing, even if not for "heroic" motivations and without espousing "heroic virtues".

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joined Apr 16, 2022

Mmmh this is gonna have such a happy end!

Hmm does Eko qualify as an antihero or would she be just a villain? Like, neither her morals nor her actions are heroic. Aside from "I wanna be with Risa", she doesn't seem to have any motivation and she doesn't really do anything "good", while instead planning to do "evil". If I recall correctly, an antihero normally is a deeply flawed character that ends up doing the right thing, even if not for "heroic" motivations and without espousing "heroic virtues".

I'd say she qualifies more as an antihero so far because she hasn't actually done anything bad yet. (Being happy that she gets to kill her former bully is bad but only mentally, not in terms of her actual action.) If she actually does murder Miya then she will go over the line to villain protagonist, but it's pretty up in the air whether she'll actually follow through with that, especially since she actually seems to enjoy texting with Miya lol.

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joined Jul 29, 2024

woah seeing how the mind of a yandere works is as unsettling as expected

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joined May 31, 2022

Excited to see how the series will unfold

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joined Aug 2, 2023

Mmmh this is gonna have such a happy end!

Hmm does Eko qualify as an antihero or would she be just a villain? Like, neither her morals nor her actions are heroic. Aside from "I wanna be with Risa", she doesn't seem to have any motivation and she doesn't really do anything "good", while instead planning to do "evil". If I recall correctly, an antihero normally is a deeply flawed character that ends up doing the right thing, even if not for "heroic" motivations and without espousing "heroic virtues".

I'd say she qualifies more as an antihero so far because she hasn't actually done anything bad yet. (Being happy that she gets to kill her former bully is bad but only mentally, not in terms of her actual action.) If she actually does murder Miya then she will go over the line to villain protagonist, but it's pretty up in the air whether she'll actually follow through with that, especially since she actually seems to enjoy texting with Miya lol.

In essence, an antihero does wrong things for the right reasons, but Eko does wrong things for the wrong reasons. There's absolutely nothing noble about her goals

Honestly, I want to see Eko falling for Miya too. I don't think I've ever seen a yandere torn between two LIs. Heh, if they have feeling for another and she wedges herself between, this could become one truly twisted poly relationship.

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So...Risa-chan has not been texting Miya-chan since the zombie outbreak started it seems? MC currently pretending to be Risa so she can close and eliminate her Target and potential 'rival'....Though it will be very funny if MC end up becoming friends and developing feelings for Miya as well like the comment above suggested...Seems unlikely tho (Miya is going to need a disguise at first though so she and MC can bond though an accidental meeting where Miya-chan can show she is a good person for a potential poly-relationship...)

MC to me neither a Villain or an Anti-hero...Right now she is a true Neutral position/Yandere clinging to first person that ever cared about her (Potential will become a Villainous Yandere though if she end up killing Miya to keep Risa to herself). An couple example of antihero are DeadPool from Marvel and Accelerator From that To Aru anime. If MC end up saving people [Though sacrificing a few jerks in the process] during this zombie apocalypse then yes she would count as a Anti-hero.

MC though...Must have lived a very sad and lonely life...Her parents are probably dead or don't care about her [Assuming Author didn't forgot to factor that aspect of MC life into the story] --(There are those type of parents that just have children then just give them money to survive...Better than abusive parents but still bad parents overall.)

This zombie apocalypse is thankfully not too serious, the world is not totally 100% doomed...But the situation is still pretty seriously bad...Risa-chan has a healing factor...Nice~

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joined Aug 13, 2023

That claw machine visual is getting darker by the day...

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I'd say she qualifies more as an antihero so far because she hasn't actually done anything bad yet. (Being happy that she gets to kill her former bully is bad but only mentally, not in terms of her actual action.) If she actually does murder Miya then she will go over the line to villain protagonist, but it's pretty up in the air whether she'll actually follow through with that, especially since she actually seems to enjoy texting with Miya lol.

Except I'd say she has done bad things already. She's swapped her phone with Risa's in order to keep them apart and get closer to Miya with intent to kill. Doesn't mean she can't end up becoming an antihero, but currently I'm not sure she'll stumble down that path.

I think it'll be entertaining either way, whether she gets "reformed", reintegrates into society and accepts Miya or even comes to form a throuple with her and Risa, or (more likely imo) descends into becoming a subversive, destructive force. A character that not only would keep being bitten by a zombie a secret, but would deliberately sabotage a survivor group (sans Risa) to wipe them out. I think that much is teased already.

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I'd say she qualifies more as an antihero so far because she hasn't actually done anything bad yet. (Being happy that she gets to kill her former bully is bad but only mentally, not in terms of her actual action.) If she actually does murder Miya then she will go over the line to villain protagonist, but it's pretty up in the air whether she'll actually follow through with that, especially since she actually seems to enjoy texting with Miya lol.

Except I'd say she has done bad things already. She's swapped her phone with Risa's in order to keep them apart and get closer to Miya with intent to kill. Doesn't mean she can't end up becoming an antihero, but currently I'm not sure she'll stumble down that path.

I think it'll be entertaining either way, whether she gets "reformed", reintegrates into society and accepts Miya or even comes to form a throuple with her and Risa, or (more likely imo) descends into becoming a subversive, destructive force. A character that not only would keep being bitten by a zombie a secret, but would deliberately sabotage a survivor group (sans Risa) to wipe them out. I think that much is teased already.

While swapping phones was certainly bad, it's not bad on the level of a villain protagonist. Other than that all she's done so far is help Risa and kill zombies. I'm also curious to see where her character goes from here, though.

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While swapping phones was certainly bad, it's not bad on the level of a villain protagonist. Other than that all she's done so far is help Risa and kill zombies. I'm also curious to see where her character goes from here, though.

Yeah maybe I'm giving that too much weight. I guess this story by Murasakino is living rent-free in my head.

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I enjoy that the protagonist manages to feel just as inhuman as her zombie counterpart, pairing an inhuman mind with an inhuman body.

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Oh, she deffo killed everyone.

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joined May 11, 2013

Yandere girl and her monster gf is a very fun premise but the execution feels kinda weak here overall. I guess Risa will slowly keep losing her humanity until Eko has complete control over her (just based off the art in the credits), but there's still a lot of interesting ways their relationship could develop.

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Oh, she deffo killed everyone.

I feel like she probably let a zombie in to cause chaos and that's how she overcame the numbers advantage they had.

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Welp...RIP to those idiots that weren't careful enough to be on guard against the newcomers (At least have a couple people be warily and on guard in case they are part of some gang-violence group as spies for first few days).

I guess that is the downside of being a half-zombie, can barely taste food. Though I guess the pain and experience of turning into a half-zombie also sucks too.

MC now has turn into a villainess Yandere mode path....RIP Miya-chan...Seems there is no room for you in this relationship, seems very unlikely. Jerk move by MC, probably/potentially killing everyone in their sleep and framing it as infighting...Tho if one of them notice Risa being a half-zombie and freaking out irrationally then MC might have be justified in self-defense of her bestfriendo/future waifu but likely totally uncalled actions for by the MC.

Dying member of group (Random person 2): W-Why...W-why did you do this...

MC: You made Risa feel bad by complaining and insult Risa-chan's cooking, you deserved to die.

Dying member of group (Random person 2):...I-I can't believe mom was right about ack...not complaining about a woman's cooking...*Cough blood*...*Dies*

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joined Nov 7, 2022

Wait what.

Eko deciding to kill everyone isn't a surprise. The question is how ?! How did she overpower an entire group ? Well, I guess the people in the last panel don't match the group member so she probably let zombies in, but... I'm still curious how everything unfolded.

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joined May 27, 2021

My theory is simply that a zombie wandered in and took the other girls by surprise after Eko left her lookout duty post to go after Risa, but I wouldn’t put it past her to have orchestrated something purposefully either.

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My theory is simply that a zombie wandered in and took the other girls by surprise after Eko left her lookout duty post to go after Risa, but I wouldn’t put it past her to have orchestrated something purposefully either.

i think you're right. we actually see the other lookout asleep immediately before eko spots risa on the camera, which i think is there to show nobody is looking out and thats how they got in, but it feels a bit hard to believe the whole base fell and everyone died just while they were talking and they didn't notice, tho. the time on the camera suggests it's the middle of the night so i guess the others were mostly also asleep?

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Yeah I don't really see any indication that Eko killed them. On the other hand, it's a bit odd that zombies would wander in while she was absent and the other lookout was sleeping, killed everyone by surprise and then left again before Eko and Risa came back around.
If Eko actually killed them, I'm sure we'll get confirmation of that soon enough.

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I thought Risa accidentally tainted the soup while cooking (in addition to the salt issue), because she was doing the taste-testing. Some cross-contamination happens with the tasting dish, and there you go, infected home ec club.

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joined Jun 8, 2022

I'm gonna go the longer odds here and place my wager on: Risa did something to reveal her zombieness off-screen and then she and they panicked and she killed them in something close to self defense.

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I'm gonna go the longer odds here and place my wager on: Risa did something to reveal her zombieness off-screen and then she and they panicked and she killed them in something close to self defense.

I think it was probably Risa, because in the first picture one of the bodies appears to have a pipe embedded through their skull. That's a combination of strength and precision only Risa could manage. But she seems surprised, so unless she's being unusually dishonest, I think she had some sort of zombie blackout and killed them on impulse. Things are going to get bad soon...

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