尸兄 Zombie Brother

[tooironic]

Hi everyone. I discovered this Chinese anime today and thought I'd recommend it. It's called 尸兄 (Zombie Brother), and all the episodes are available on YouTube, starting here.

 

Each episode is only 5-10 mins, so they come in bite-sized pieces. The story is about a city that gets its water supply infected, thereby starting a zombie uprising. It's half-horror, half-comedy, with plenty of coarse language and sexual references thrown in. Good fun, with lots of common slang (the first episode features 文艺青年，屌丝 and 坑爹, to name a few), so it's good learning material as well.

 

Enjoy.

[tysond]

Cool stuff, very amusing.  Very interesting sentences...  

 

iQiyi link is here:   http://www.iqiyi.com/dongman/sx.html

 

Youku has it too but missing first 4 episodes.

[deathtrap]

Hah, sweet. Loved the first episode. 

[roddy]

Watched the first one, good value!

[tooironic]

It's pretty good, isn't it? Great art design and hilarious dialogue. Watch out for the cross-dressing 大叔 who comes up a bit later - absolute comedy gold, with double entendres aplenty.

[tysond]

Animation style and level of profanity and violence reminds me of Archer.  Love the cultural references (when I understand them) like the whole conversation with his mother.

 

It's based on a comic actually, a lot of it is directly taken from the comic scene for scene.

[Pingfa]

 

 

Watch out for the cross-dressing 大叔 who comes up a bit later - absolute comedy gold, with double entendres aplenty.

"我感觉我出现幻觉了。我竟然看见你家COCO头上顶了一堆的蛋蛋"

"阿，蛋蛋。。。蛋蛋！？我看看!"

I don't know why I'm watching this, but I want to see more.

[Demonic_Duck]

It's pretty good, isn't it? Great art design and hilarious dialogue. Watch out for the cross-dressing 大叔 who comes up a bit later - absolute comedy gold, with double entendres aplenty.

I dunno, I find it kinda distasteful when a minor character is set up as a complete stereotype and then made the butt of every joke.

[tooironic]

It's supposed to be distasteful, that's the genre. And every character is made fun of, including the main character.

[Demonic_Duck]

Sure, but the main character isn't an offensive stereotype. I mean, if it was a black dude with exaggerated racial characteristics and a predilection for fried chicken, you wouldn't defend it on the grounds that "every character is made fun of".

 

I have nothing against childish humour. Hell, I love watching 蜡笔小新... though that also occasionally contains offensive characterisations of transgender people. I just think it's something worth singling out as objectionable, rather than holding up as an example of great comedy.

[maggieh]

Nice. THanks for posting.  Not a good idea to watch it while eating my lunch...

 

[Hwong_DsiKiem]

I've watched until ep 21 and I couldn't find episodes 22 and 23 so I assume that's all there is currently, at least on Youtube.

[deathtrap]

Just a heads up to let you know that it's currently up to 40 episodes available on YouTube

[JunyDuan]

There are more Chinese cartoon I can recommend

十万个冷笑话：There are many Chinese mythological figures in it .You can know Chinese history and tale from it .My roommates like it very much.

中国惊奇先生：it‘s about zombie,just like尸兄.

[laurenth]

It seems there's a "fictionalised" version of 中国惊奇先生 starting here, with accurate dialogues matching those of the anime, as far as I can tell from the two first pages.  Could be useful for those (like me) for whom that kind of help is necessary.