I pretty much sure there were no zombies and they just locked themselves up. People who knocked were probably just someone looking for them, or checking out closed apartment. I mean faucet still works and water is warm so it's probably still heated. Doubtful it would works in "zombie apocalypse" scenario.
Sooo there are zombies but ppl are able to use the train normally? Or did they end themselves right when help was coming?
More likely they were hallucinating and there never was a zombie apocalypse. Making the whole thing an on the nose analogy for how difficult it can be to be lesbian. Japan isn't exactly accepting and even if it was, there would still be a portion of the population that would hate them purely for being gay. Must feel like a zombie apocalypse at times.
I figured it was a "us vs the adults "kinda thing. Seeing adults as just mindless zombies wanting them to join them .
That's why its mentioned their age , right on the brick of adulthood
it looks like it was originally created in 2018 so I don't think the anti-vax implications were intentional (though unfortunate with hindsight). I think this is more of a combination of personifying growing older and conforming to social expectations as women (marrying men, working corporate jobs) as "zombies" and the girls choosing to die to not "become like them". Hence the final page being people reading a newspaper on a packed train, presumably commuting to work discussing their suicide. It's a bit bleak but I don't think it's malicious.
Ah yes, the classic trope, even in the middle of a zombie out break or with a serial killer on the loose, there’s always time for sex. I really liked this one though, it felt deep & sentimental I guess you could say.
Ah yes, the classic trope, even in the middle of a zombie out break or with a serial killer on the loose, there’s always time for sex. I really liked this one though, it felt deep & sentimental I guess you could say.
did you not read the story? there is no zombie out break
Really is a shame how easily I can see similar play out in real life. Social alienation due to strict standards of heteronormativity really is miserable.
Also realised it's the author of "Garan no Hime", strange seeing something that's not post-apocalyptic yuri from them.
im thinking that the zombies are an analogy, but why does the newspaper talk about the flu? Im wondering if thats just to make us question what happend (as in the flu happend but no zombies were present and those were the halucination), or something else.
im thinking that the zombies are an analogy, but why does the newspaper talk about the flu? Im wondering if thats just to make us question what happend (as in the flu happend but no zombies were present and those were the halucination), or something else.
I mean as said, flu viruses are notorious for mutating frequently, hence the annual shots. That part is ordinary, the zombie part was their imagination.
I agree the zombies weren't real, but I think they got the flu and that made them alucinate, they were on medication and the flu was mentioned in the newspaper. The door also has chains.
I was dissapointed when I realize there were no zombies and never were perhaps, flu meds are scary and if becoming a zombie is being someone you don't want to...I'm glad they chose how to go then.
I dunno how I'm supposed to feel about this one-shot, really. Probably not the best idea to read it when I'm feeling like dying is the best option as well but at the same time I respect what the author was feeling and was trying to achieve with the story.
I dunno how I'm supposed to feel about this one-shot, really. Probably not the best idea to read it when I'm feeling like dying is the best option as well but at the same time I respect what the author was feeling and was trying to achieve with the story.
I'm not sure if this is the best place to say this or not, but I'm sorry that you've been feeling that way, and I hope that many good things happen to you in the next few months <3
I think what happened is they were caught intimately by classmates — look at how they’re fallen on top of each other in a panic, wearing their school uniforms — and their (presumably homophobic) classmates began to mock them / bully them (hence them “being zombies” representing a brainless mob mentality that only seeks to devour whats alive). They ran to hide in a place that felt safe, spent the entire time having sex to hide from their uncomfortable feelings and fear of having to confront what they thought the world was, and killed themselves because they didn’t see a way out. The feeling of being outted = life or death is definitely all over this. The flu was just an excuse, and their assumption that homophobia is as common and spreads as easily as the flu.
I don’t really want to criticize this but I think the author should offer some thoughts about what is the deal with this ending.
At least the smut was pretty hot.
If it was symbolism then it should really be more obvious with how it is represented instead of pulling out the rug at the end.
“I’m a Cat” was also a pretty delusional story (those who were here for a while might know what I’m talking about, and I also left a comment there) but that one really handled the stuff of lies and truth much better.
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