When it comes to the theme of "zombies", the Korean film "Busan Trip", the American drama "The Walking Dead" or the game "Resident Evil" are all representative works.
The struggles of human nature and the curiosity of the eye are often the highlights, but as a viewer, are you tired of the scenes of joy and sorrow combined with violence and bloodshed?
Based on this, to all of you, Amway has a free style zombie theme work -
《French of the Dead》
The comic begins with a dream of opening a restaurant in France to learn the art of making food. Tomioka.
Then the next page, Vincent. It's been a week since Tomioka was bitten and turned into a zombie.
The only people in the restaurant are the trainee chef Yuris and the head chef Matthew, and outside the restaurant are a horde of irrational zombies.
When the two chatted quietly, they discussed the question of "whether zombies will not eat people but eat French food", and decided to take the zombie Vincent in front of them. Tomioka experiment.
Yuris and Matthew used two different seasonings to make Vincent. Tomioka's favorite fried chicken on weekdays.
Tomioka first tasted the dish made by Yuris, chewed it twice, and spit it out.
Yuris scolded with a "your tongue is absolutely broken" expression.
Matthew, who is the chef, is indifferent: stupid, it is also our job to make seasoning with the taste of customers.
And Vincent. After Tomioka ate Matthew's dish, he showed a rather happy expression.
Matthew laughed: Sure enough, even the zombies are divided, the difference between a trainee chef and a chef.
And incidentally taught Yuris not to rely too much on his own feelings, and when it came to feelings, Matthew remembered the scene where he first met Yuris.
The restaurant's trash cans were often turned over until Matthew caught the "mouse", but he did not expect that Yuris was to restore a dish, and after eating it, he did not expect that the ingredients from the garbage can be reduced to this extent.
Matthew invites Yuris to taste the original dish, and after a big meal, When Eurys asks what are you, Matthew answers the chef.
Since then, becoming a chef has become Yuris's dream.
So naturally, the restaurant had an additional trainee chef named Julius.
Although the current zombie siege is not anachronistic for dreams, Matthew still says that it is precisely because of this situation that solid pillars are needed to prevent his heart from easily tilting towards death.
During the conversation, the unthinkable happened, and Tomioka in front of him changed from a zombie to a human.
Together, the two moved the comatose Tomioka back to the lounge, after confirming that the chef's pan-fried chicken had not been drugged.
Yuris suddenly thought that he could use fried chicken to get rid of the zombie siege, so he kidnapped a zombie and came in.
But this bald-headed zombie did not enter the oil and salt, not only did not change back into a person, but also directly spit out Matthew's cooking, so angry that the chef beat people.
When the bottleneck was stuck, there was a radio outside the restaurant, and the reason for the change in the zombie was because of the anti-phagocytosis caused by eating diet pills that suppressed appetite, because it was so long-term that even people wanted to nibble, and the people who were bitten would be infected.
To escape their hunger, the zombies are always looking for food that is so delicious that they no longer need to eat.
The two understood the crux of the matter, the tastes varied from person to person, and Tomioka's transformation back to humanity stemmed from eating his favorite pan-fried chicken, and everyone else must have been the same.
Matthew said ready to open a shop, Jules was surprised: we don't know what they like, right?
Matthew shook his head, you look closely, aren't all our old patrons around the door of the restaurant? They must have followed their memories of being human beings and wanted to come to this restaurant for dinner.
But even if the perfect dish is prepared, it is difficult to ensure that the zombies who pour into the restaurant are not first interested in humans.
At this time, Julius's Titian talent was indispensable, and Matthew gave Yuris the task of cooking and seasoning.
Matthew believed him, on the one hand Vincent. Tomioka first chose Yuris's cuisine, on the other hand, the young Yuris rummaged through the garbage can to pick up Yuris experienced the extreme hunger of zombies.
Seeing that Yuris was still hesitating, Matthew told his past, which is why he was willing to accept Yuris.
In his memories, the young Matthew traveled thousands of miles from the countryside to a Parisian restaurant with a bill, but was driven back by the chef, saying that people like him could not understand the taste of fine dining restaurants.
The restaurant should be a place where customers feel happy, so no matter how much Matthew wants to meet the needs of customers, he will never turn them away, even if the customer is just a penniless child who craves food and rummages through the garbage can.
Yuris suddenly knew that his dream was not only to become a chef, but also to become someone like Chef Matthew.
Inspired by the young experience of turning the trash can, Yuris chose to re-cook discarded fish bones and vegetable scraps.
At the end of the long cooking process, the dishes are on the table, and they open the restaurant door with the mood of "life is like chess, no regrets", and life and death are in this instant.
The result was very successful, and the zombies bypassed them, went to eat the food on the table, and turned back into people.
Except for one zombie, it was a bald zombie who spit on Matthew's cooking.
Of course, sooner or later, the bald zombie will be attacked by Matthew and Eurys.
This funny work can't help but remind people of the movie "Please Call Me a Hero" based on the manga of the same name by manga artist Kengo Hanazawa, in which the zombified humans also retain their habits.
For example, the final boss zombie who jumps high around the building, the editor zombie who urges the manuscript, etc., all kinds of obsessions are like muscle spasms after death.
And the zombies in "French of the Dead" who are manipulated by diet pills, according to memory, come to the restaurant they loved when they were human.
A small world around the restaurant is formed, and the task of salvation falls on trainee chef Julis and chef Matthew, targeting former customers and now hungry zombies under the suppression of medicine.
The key to success is as the cover shows, and a good meal must start on an empty stomach.
Under the overall situation of life and death, the "heroes" selected by the author are two ordinary cooks; in a short space, only two simple and even cheesy memories are used to complete the action trajectory, ideals and human designs of the combination of one old and one young, without any prominence.
Compared to other common zombie genres that emphasize humanity and curiosity, French of the Dead is more concerned with humor.
The author places the daily laughter and calm in what should be violent and bloody scenes, deriving a clever story: two chefs cook for a group of hungry zombies diseased by diet pills.
The short story "French of the Dead" is only one sentence, if there is a follow-up, perhaps It is the scene of Julis and Matthew driving around the world in a food truck, cooking everywhere, and treating zombies, when the two left, the surroundings of the small restaurant in Paris, France, had long been restored to normal.