...Where do I even begin with this one? Earlier, we talked a bit about manga series that go over the top into excessive levels of grimdark, but while Berserk takes itself just seriously enough to be morally uncomfortable at several points, the shorter series we're going to look at here positively wallows in its own juvenile tastelessness, so absurdly grotesque that it's difficult to find it anything but silly, and I'm pretty sure creator Takayuki Yamaguchi is well aware of that. At least, I hope someone who fills a manga with what we're about to see was aiming mainly for some kind of comedy.
I discovered Apocalypse Zero through its dubbed, direct-to-DVD miniseries, which I found in a bargain bin for about a dollar. It adapts only around a fifth of the Manga over a handful of episodes, sadly cutting short before things get even a little more ludicrous, but at least covering most of its early weekly monster storylines panel-by-panel, with a fun soundtrack and lovingly animated gore.
Set in a crumbling, post-apocalyptic city where only one filthy high school remains standing, half of Apocalypse Zero is the story of a young man, Kakugo, and his one true love, a destructive exo-suit named Zero. Given to him by a father who forced him to endure brutal combat training from an early age and is for some reason never condemned for it at any point in the series, Zero is an experimental weapon of the pre-apocalypse world, lined with slimy flesh and haunted by a vortex of screaming skulls representing the ghosts of dead warriors. Yes, I said vortex of screaming skulls.
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Meet your other heroes. We frequently cut to the skulls advising Kakugo on battle tactics, warning him of danger and begging him not to overexert himself between their howls for vengeance, serving as both the classic warrior-mentor character and the cheerleading friend squad. Zero kind of seems like it might have a sentience distinct from the screaming skulls, but it's difficult to determine where we're meant to draw this possibly arbitrary line.
So, who are these clowns up against? That's why we're here! The big villain of Apocalypse Zero is Kakugo's brother, Harara, who had a bad reaction with his own, imperfect exo-suit and learned to despise humankind for its history of senseless violence, prejudice and environmental destruction. For no clearly explained reason, the rejection also gave him a woman's body, in their own words, but he continues to identify as a man, and that's handled surprisingly well for such an otherwise lewd series. His gender is never made a point of confusion or revulsion by any other character; it's just casually accepted that this is a man who has breasts and a vagina. No biggie. While not perfect, it's a far better treatment than the same character might get in a lot of other anime and manga, and while he is the main villain, there are plenty worse characters you can be than Harara, not to mention worse you could work for.
Besides his somewhat sympathetic motivations, this guy's minions positively worship the ground he walks on, and it's an endearingly mutual sentiment. Harara waxes quite a bit about his overwhelming love for his underlings, showing concern and respect for them regardless of their shortcomings. This isn't an evil overlord who has ever uttered the phrase you've failed me for the last time, but an evil overlord who will thank you for trying your best and ask that you please take care of your wounds so he doesn't have to worry anymore. These are murderous megalomaniacs who get along like one big, happy family...it's just that they also kind of perform sadistic experiments on humans with the intention of exterminating their species.
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Just look at those magnificent beauties. Introduced as those monsters of the week I mentioned earlier, Tactical Fiends are humans transformed into twisted, deranged reflections of their own psyche, or as the exposition puts it, their bodies change to match their morbid thoughts. They take on forms - and powers - symbolic of their most toxic attitudes, petty obsessions, perverse desires and bitter prejudices, like genetically engineered demons! Apparently, they also need to prey on normal, living humans to rejuvenate their bodies with bone marrow, a nice little sciencey touch.
The nightmarish cartooniness of these things is so me it's almost scary, if leaning a little more towards human-like anatomical features than I usually go. Naturally, the most fascinating fiends are the nameless hordes in these crowd shots, raising all sorts of questions about what kind of people they once were. What emotional issue turns you into a one-eyed snail with heads for antennae? The sheer goofiness of the fiends is what makes them truly terrifying. They may seem like corny jokes on paper, but you're not going to laugh when a boardwalk caricature the size of a house pokes its gawking, dopey face around a corner and tries to decapitate you with its bladed genitalia.
There are several Tactical Fiends who get a little focus early on in the series, and almost all of them are incredibly obscene. We're going to tackle them in order, and it's so not my fault if you get fired for reading this at the office.
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This is the least raunchy image I could show you of Hamuko, a gigantic, mutant dominatrix who goes around violently breaking up young, human couples. She seems to believe every man is in a relationship with her, and jealously murders anyone else she catches them with. Unfortunately, the kidnapped men don't generally survive a night in her company, but she's at least sentimental enough to keep parts of them, if you didn't notice. We also get to see her vomit up a man who is mostly digested and still briefly conscious. That's the anime screenshot we saw earlier. He was not, in fact, okay.
As the very first Tactical Fiend we're shown, Hamuko sets the tone for much of the series; despite sharing so many elements with hentai manga, Apocalypse Zero uses sexual imagery almost exclusively to invoke disgust and horror. The only thing really resembling a sex scene in its whole run is Hamuko sitting on top of a guy while she devours his face, and our hero is basically interested in nothing other than fighting monsters and protecting people. This, too, is never presented as an abnormality to be mocked or changed by other characters.
The second fiend we meet is somewhat frog-like, with a huge flower for a tongue that can tunnel rapidly through the ground and even speak. Obsessed with rock and roll, Dokumaguro also brags about his individuality and lethally punishes conformity, killing several students for the unforgivable crimes of wearing uniforms and going to school. Yes, it's special snowflake syndrome embodied in a giant monster...and you haven't even seen the best part.
Art] Efu No Shichinin #8(champion Red Comics) Release:22/12/19 By Author Of (exoskull Zero, Apocalypse Zero, Shigurui).
Dokumaguro's ultimate weapon is his lack of any actual musical talent, strumming the guitar strings on his chest while he sings into exactly what this looks like, which functions like a microphone. His crooning songs about how school stinks and rules are for dorks is so terrible, it threatens to kill people who listen to it. I guess appreciating music sarcastically stopped being cool between now and the end of the world.
Eikichi's deal seems to be a mix of both arrogance and insecurity over being an old man. Even while lusting over youngsters, he seems perpetually convinced that they're disrespecting him and need to be taught a lesson, which usually involves either strangling them to death with his dragon-headed schlong or dicing them to pieces with his spit, which hardens into razor-sharp crystals on contact with air. Oh yeah, and the testicles can deliver an electrical shock. Of course they do.
Mercifully for us readers, Eikichi only expresses that lustfulness I mentioned by trying to eat younger humans with his eel-like inner jaws.
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Probably the raunchiest of the bunch, Megumi usually disguises herself as a sexy, human nurse; a nurse which, for some reason, spends her time roaming half-naked around the toxic wasteland and throwing herself at hormonal men. She seems to believe she's helping by showing lonely, desperate guys what she thinks is a good time, but even in human form, all of her bodily secretions (all of them) dissolve flesh clear to the bone. She becomes particularly fixated on helping Kakugo, convinced that his zero suit is actually some kind of pathetic love doll. In full-blown monster mode, she sprouts a giant, hairy man-face, mollusk-like tentacles and nightmarishly exaggerated gazongas that can punch through several feet of concrete.
Megumi proves especially tricky to fight, since she not only regenerates from almost every type of injury in seconds, but interprets them as acts of affection. She'd be kind of adorable if not for all that damn flesh-melting. A lot of people want flesh, Megumi. You ASK about that first.
Further into the series, fiends start coming and going with less and less fanfare, sometimes lasting only a page or two between their introduction and defeat. It's
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