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Zombie Land Saga Anime Film Opens in Taiwan on December 24
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The film features a returning cast. Daisuke Ono voices the new character Naomasa Amabuki.
Takafumi Ishida and Takeru Satō (both Zombie Land Saga episode directors) directed the film at MAPPA. Shigeru Murakoshi (The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse) wrote the screenplay. Fumihide Sai, Jinshichi Yamaguchi (both chief animation directors for Zombie Land Saga), and Kasumi Fukagawa (character designer for Zombie Land Saga) are credited as character designers. Yasuharu Takanashi returned to compose the music. Yuriko Waki returned as an animation producer.
MAPPA, Avex Pictures, and Cygames' Zombie Land Saga anime premiered in October 2018. Aniplus Asia streamed the anime in Southeast Asia beginning in August 2020.
The Zombie Land Saga Revenge sequel anime premiered in Japan in April 2021, and aired for 12 episodes. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
The anime follows Sakura Minamoto, who dreams of being an idol, but is hit by a car and wakes up as a zombie. A man named Kōtarō Tatsumi appears and tells her he's recruiting her into an idol group made up of zombies, dead girls he has "recruited" from several eras of Japanese history.
The anime inspired a stage play titled Zombie Land Saga Stage de Do-n! at Sōgetsu Hall in Tokyo in September 2020 with four performances. The play was originally scheduled to run in March 2020 in Tokyo with seven performances.
The anime inspired its first side story manga titled Zombie Land Saga Gaiden: The First Zombie by character designer Kasumi Fukagawa. The manga launched in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in May 2021. The series ended with its third compiled book volume in December 2022.
