Anime & Donghua

ZOM 100 has a cast that's almost exclusively 20-somethings and its main protagonist is a 23 year old burnt out office worker. It's also a fantastic series overall, starting with a premise that sounds like irony poisoned nihilism but then repeatedly interrogating and rejecting the self-destructive and antisocial aspects of it until it arrives at a hopeful, pro-social conclusion. It's also incredibly stylish and weird, with the anime adaptation being absolutely gorgeously animated on top of the source material's style and creativity. The only criticisms I have of the manga (the anime doesn't reach this point in the story) is that it's almost too wide-eyed idealistic and that it includes a lot of short vignettes of the characters going to [regional tourist destination] and doing [apparently famous regional thing] in a way that feels very , although I will give it credit and say that at least some of the characters' wide-eyed idealism is also interrogated and subverted.

There's also a great shitpost at one point where the characters are talking about careers with dialogue that's like "A hundred years ago no one could have predicted modern jobs like drone pilot, twitch streamer, or cryptocurrency specialist, so who knows what the future will bring?" overlaid on a wide shot of a ruined square in a dead city full of shambling corpses. I wanted to post the panel but I can't find it now, because it wasn't at the part I thought it was.