High School of the Dead Episode 4

Today was pretty dang boring. My husband had off from work but he spent most of the day sleeping. :( I was hoping we could do something seeing how we haven’t spent much time together lately but no. So I spent the day cleaning and being boring around the house. Then I watched this episode and I was still bored. Day off from work was pretty fail today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better or I don’t know how I will get through my work week.

Don't worry, be happy.

If you are allergic to blue smoke taking up half the screen this episode is not for you. Also sorry fanboys the fanservice was severely kept at a minimum this week. :( Let’s all cry together shall we?

24 hours later and their world is over.

Episode Summary: HALF OF THE EPISODE WAS A RECAP!!!!!!! Seriously people. But for the stuff that WASN’T A RECAP here we go. There is a massive traffic jam with people trying to leave the city. The police are trying to calm everyone down and keep them in their cars. The two random girls in the survivor bus start to cry when a zombie is killed but Shido and his creepy ass comforts them. The main characters are like EW we hate him and also talk about the possibility of them being rescued. Elsewhere on a motorcycle Rei and Takashi are fighting because that is what you do when the world has ended and zombies are trying to eat your soul. He basically says that the helicopters and planes aren’t going to stop and help him and Rei is pissed at his honesty. There is a sad, quiet ride through an empty and burning city. Rei and Takashi stop to get a gun and handcuffs off a dead cop and Takashi is surprised at Rei’s ability to not burst into tears over dead bodies.

That's the spirit Rei!

They stop because the motorcycle needs gas and they get in another fight. Takashi is all like I am not Hisashi and Rei is pissed that Takashi has no money on him. Then Takashi is like durp I can go into the shop and steals some money since it is the end of the world. Takashi enjoys smashing up the register but when he comes out Rei has been captured by some random creepy. Random creep is not having the best day ever as he just got done smashing in his entire family member’s heads. He has decided that he needs to find a woman to start over in this horrible world. Then he decides to grope Rei for a while but the censors don’t let us see that. We can see bouncing boobs and panty shots but when hands touch the boobies it is all blue lights. The punk forces Takashi to fill up the motorcycle. Takashi tries to reason with the dude but in the end he presses the gun against punk and fires. He is pretty wounded and Rei and Takashi leave him to be eaten by zombies. Takashi is really upset that this is day one and he has already killed a human but since Rei is snuggled upon him it is not the worst thing ever. Then Rei waves to a plane that flies over head that is taping them. The end.

This already happened!!!

WTF! Why in episode 4 was there a recap?! WHY!!!! Recaps are for long series, 24/26 episodes and even then they are annoying. This show is like 12/13 episodes long. And half of episode 4 is going to be a recap? No. NO! And then some more NO!
So putting that aside I guess this is going to be a really quick post since HALF OF THE EPISODE ALREADY HAPPENED. Just seriously…..

He looks like a floating head...

We only had a brief view of what is going on with our bus people. Shido is a gross pervert and those girls are pretty dumb for allowing his comfort. But none of these people are going to survive so it is pointless to comment on how these girls need to buck and not cry when police officers are shooting zombies outside. I just wish that the other adult (Ms. Nurse) was smarter than a gold fish so someone could question his authority.

Woohoo cops doing their jobs!!!!

However I did like that that there seem to be a lot of survivors (so far) as seen with the tons of cars leaving the city. And dude the cops were actually SMART. In most sci-fi/zombie movies cops are really, really dumb and usually cause a lot of people to die before they are nommed themselves. But these cops were all like STAY IN YO CARS! Controlling the panic XO How awesome is that.

Living was overrated anyway.

The rest of the episode was focused on Rei and Takashi’s up and down relationship. These two really need to learn that there is no time for fighting in this new world. I mean, I am not even talking about how this tragedy should have taught them to value human life and not take moments for granted. I am actually talking about there is no time for fighting because there is actually NO TIME FOR FIGHTING. You need to work together so you can stay alive. If you are bickering and picking on each other over small issues zombies can sneak up on you in no time. So put aside yo problems for now.

Grab me a candy bar while you're at it!

Takashi. You really need to learn to take things when you can get them. You were in a convenient store. You were surrounded by useful products, the most important being food and water. Yes you are on a motorcycle but it didn’t dawn on you to take SOMETHING to eat? I know bashing in some zombie heads would make me hungry. But you just have fun killing that cash register there. Leave all the food behind.

We can't all just get along can we?

Oh look, a survivor who has lost their mind. See these people are more dangerous than the zombies. They are aware of how awful their actions are yet they do them anyway. They see how crazy and horrible this world and they decide to make the world even worse by threatening people with weapons and trying to kill them. Because survivors rarely can work all together for the greater good. No when the end of the world comes around the selfishness in people is increased 10 fold and now you have to dodge zombies and crazy survivors. Yay.

Thank goodness they censored this! I don't think my fragile mind could have handled it!

So……why was the boob grabbing scene blurred? Like I don’t want to see crap like that but why was it so horrible that we got some blue fuzzy scene going on? The opening song alone is pretty graphic. We got people all sprawled on the bed nearly showing everything and people pressed into fences with their tiny bras barely keeping the boobies in place. But some dude is touching the boobies and we can’t see them because….? I mean, I am pretty sure we are watching a show where people are being clubbed with baseball bats and shot with nail guns. It might be pretty horrific that this girl is being molested but I don’t see why it was censored.

Bringing a knife to a gun fight....

I feel bad that Takashi had to kill that dude but his nerves are on high alert. Yeah he could have shot him somewhere else and still saved Rei but he has been up probably for about 24 hours at this point and zombies are roaming the streets. Now is not the time for making sense and trying to talk the bad guys down. You either let me friend go or I am going to blow you away. Sucks that you had to kill your entire family but I am not going down on that sinking ship with you.

Now is still not the time for smiles.

The episode ends with Rei waving at a plane. Because when I am traveling in a destroyed city being chased by zombies I often smile for the camera. Not much happened in this episode and I am slightly disappointed. Slow moving plot INDEED! Hopefully next week we get a little more action and get to know the characters better. So I would classify this week as a typical fail episode. Every series needs one and hopefully this will be the only one. BRAAAAINS.