Saga sinks! Kind of! After a shockingly seafaring introduction, the girls of Franchouchou find themselves and the rest of Saga mired in the wake of the freak overnight typhoon. This evocation of real natural disasters heralds a predominantly sentimental installment of Zombie Land Saga, taking a hard look at loss and forcefully grabbing the thread of hope that lies beyond it. I like the result a whole lot. Here, we see the fruits of their zombie idol labor over the past two seasons on display on the humblest stage imaginable, but no less powerful for it. While I don’t know what entails saving Saga, I do know what helping Saga looks like, and it looks a lot like this episode.
At this point, it’s not surprising to see Zombie Land Saga work outside of its usual comedic framework. It is, nevertheless, a little disquieting to see the episode pull from a persistent cultural memory…
