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‘Sankarea’ Was So Uncomfortable To Watch, I Couldn’t Stop Watching
The themes explored in this anime were heavy
Sankarea is about a teenaged boy named Chihiro, who watches zombie movies all day and love anything undead. When asked what kind of girl he likes, he says, “I want a zombie girl. That’s what will do it for me.”
Every night a beautiful girl named Rea, who attends the Sanka School for Girls, goes to the well and screams into it. Mind you, Chihiro is in an abandoned hotel every night trying to bring his dead cat Bub to life, but this beautiful girl who happens to be filthy rich, does not seem happy.
Long story short, one day she is arguing with her dad, and whoops! She falls off a cliff, dies, and becomes…a zombie.
But that’s not what’s most disturbing, believe it or not
Let’s talk about a father’s unholy affections for his daughter
A girl who screams into wells and who admits, she’ll feel freer if she was dead– is having serious problems at home.
Her father who is also director of the girls' school, has been taking nude pics of her since she was a baby. Even as a teen he has her pose nude on beaches, as a mermaid, or just draped with a skimpy cloth. He says over and…
