Kotaro Takata

You'd think traveling the length of a country overrun with zombies while trying to tick off entries on a bucket list would be dangerous and difficult, but no, it's all "super easy, barely an inconvenience" as Akira Tendo and his friends blaze through a sake festival and dinosaur fossil excavation. The stakes seem even lower as they've brought along a robot butler from the luxury hotel from last volume.

Just as I was getting tired of the whole concept, the author anticipated me and had a chapter on boredom that has zombie stand-ins for Blaise Pascal and Martin Heidegger talk Akira through his sudden ennui about the zombie apocalypse. That's enough to keep me rolling through the next couple volumes I have on hand from the library.… (meer)

Akira Tendo and the gang are back to bucket list items as they make their way to Hokkaido for an adventure that's just a little too random and more far-fetched than usual. A nice visit with the characters, but a bit disappointing when it comes to humor and energy.

The bonus story is the best part as the author does some cross-promotion and sends an alternate universe Akira into the death games of his Alice in Borderland series, and we find that Akira handles that situation with the same enthusiasm he has for a zombie apocalypse.… (meer)