Zombie Land Saga Revenge

ゾンビランドサガリベンジ (Zombieland Saga Revenge)

8.0(1)

OtakuDen

8.0(97,760)

MAL Score

Ranked #780

Popularity #1191

Comedy
Supernatural
Idols (Female)
Music
Parody

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Apr 8, 2021 to Jun 24, 2021
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Franchouchou returns to Saga with big plans—and an even bigger financial problem. After a concert fails to draw a crowd, the zombie idols find themselves saddled with debt and pushed into taking part-time jobs just to keep going. Even their usually unstoppable manager, Koutarou Tatsumi, begins to unravel as he turns to alcohol.

Still, setbacks don’t stop the group for long. New rival idols enter the picture, a well-known talk show host steps away from the spotlight, and uneasy questions about identity and purpose start to surface. As Koutarou’s past gradually comes into focus and a journalist edges closer to exposing the truth, Saga spirals into turmoil—and Franchouchou learns that being undead might not be their biggest concern, especially with Tae Yamada becoming more legendary than ever.

Otaku Consensus

Revenge lands as one of the sturdier second-season payoffs among anime-original idol comedies: MAPPA and Munehisa Sakai sharpen the first season’s genre-collision into tighter set pieces, while Shigeru Murakoshi’s composition gives the 12-episode run a stronger through-line than its gag-first reputation suggests. Its closely aligned MAL and AniList reception, 7.98 and 79/100, reflects a fanbase that values the escalation, music-comedy timing, and Saga-specific identity more than conventional idol polish. The recurring knock is that the show’s deliberate chaos can overrun subtler character beats, with CG-assisted performance moments and hard tonal swerves remaining the easiest parts to reject.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Revenge if you want an idol anime that treats choreography, local PR, deadpan horror gags, and show-business satire as the same engine. It scratches the Love Live! performance itch without asking you to take the industry fantasy at face value, and its absurdist timing lands closer to Gintama than to a standard comeback drama. The second season is especially rewarding for viewers who like anime-original storytelling: there is no manga checklist, so the staff can spend episodes on odd jobs, public-image crises, and performance pivots that feel built for TV rhythm. MAPPA’s mix of expressive 2D reaction comedy and CG stage work gives the concerts a knowingly artificial texture, which fits a series about idols who are literally manufactured personas. If you want sincerity smuggled through parody, this is the lane.

Key Characters

K
Koutarou Tatsumi
The manager remains the show’s loudest instrument, turning producer bravado, desperation, and showbiz mythmaking into a single unstable performance.
T
Tae Yamada
Tae is the franchise’s purest physical-comedy device, a “legendary” presence whose appeal comes from how far the staff can push zombie behavior without needing conventional dialogue.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
MAPPA’s production keeps the series in a deliberately hybrid mode: broad 2D reaction comedy sits beside CG-assisted performance staging, a contrast that matches the anime’s parody of idol artificiality rather than hiding it.
2
Munehisa Sakai is credited as both director and sound director, giving the season an unusually unified sense of timing across shouting matches, musical cues, and punchline edits.
3
Shigeru Murakoshi’s series composition uses the 12-episode length as a pressure cooker, moving from workplace comedy and rival-idol friction into media scrutiny and identity questions without abandoning the gag tempo.
4
The AniList tag profile is unusually revealing for an idol comedy: Idol at 96%, Zombie at 95%, Surreal Comedy at 79%, Satire at 57%, and CGI at 56% point to a show built on collision rather than genre purity.
5
Its identity-focused tags, including Body Image at 79% and Transgender at 51%, signal that Revenge’s idol parody is not only about music-industry jokes but also about performance, presentation, and who gets to stand onstage.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Zombie Land Saga Revenge aired as a compact spring 2021 run, with 12 episodes broadcast from April 8 to June 24, 2021.
Fun fact 2: The show’s audience metrics line up neatly across platforms: MAL lists a 7.98 score from 97,760 votes, while AniList records a 79/100 score and 1,733 favourites.
Fun fact 3: The title is an anime-original sequel rather than a straight adaptation, which helps explain the season’s freedom to veer between idol routines, local satire, supernatural comedy, and disaster-scale escalation.
Fun fact 4: The core visual pipeline is clearly credited beyond the headline studio: Kasumi Fukagawa handled character design, Tatsurou Oonishi served as art director, Azusa Sasaki set the color design, Momoko Mifune led photography, and Masahiro Gotou edited the series.
Fun fact 5: Funta’s music credit is central to the season’s identity because the comedy is inseparable from performance structure; songs, stage blocking, and sudden tonal shifts are treated as narrative tools rather than insert extras.