High School of the Dead. The basic gist of it is, zombie apocalypse happens, the main characters are high school students, and the main path of the story is actually a good one. Its covering the time between the initial outbreak, and finding a place to fort up long term, which so often gets glossed over in movies. "Omg zombies!" /smash cut to the main characters reaching a mall. It isnt porny, outside of part of one episode which is an obligatory female group bath scene, but the cringe part is it is obsessed with fanservice to a terrifying degree.

Most of the anime is filmed at male gaze height. So lots of butt shots in skirts, and bouncy boobs in tight shirts. To me the cringe worthy episode happens early on. Its either the first or second episode where the zombie attack on the school takes place, because the insistence on fanservice does not match whats going on. We are seeing school girls running away screaming, getting dragged into piles of flesh eating zombies, (who are eating their flesh) plenty of blood, and they STILL give us panty shots, boobs bouncing like they are made out of rubber springs, and plenty of butt shots. The dissonance between the mood of the scene and the obsession with seeing high school girls bounce everywhere they go is cringe worthy to my mind.

There is another scene later on that really drives home the silliness of boob physics in this world. One of the girls is swinging a sword around killing zombies, and one of the guys is holding a high powered rifle. We get to see a bullet time shot of the rifle where one shot passes directly down the crease of her panties while she is in mid flip, which has to give her a friction burn in a very unpleasant spot, and then the next shot, one of her boobs swings up far enough for the bullet to pass under it, and her other boobs bounces so far down the same bullet goes over the top of it. We get to see this in loving slow motion so as to enjoy every millimeter her magic boobs travel.

The thing is, this anime is NOT played off as a hentai or whatever the term would be for a jokey anime where its all about sex, strategic clothing damage, and wank fantasies. Its a deadly serious zombie survival series where people die horrific deaths, emotional trauma is everywhere, and no place is safe for very long, as the city is dying around them. We dont see jokey sexual assault like where the protagonist male trips and falls face first into the crotch/cleavage of some tsundere female character who utilizes hammerspace to summon a giant weapon to beat him with. We see yakuza grab a girl, very clearly state what he is going to do to her, then get shot to death with blood everywhere. Its just, the entire time this is going on, no girl can so much as move without her surprisingly large breasts bouncing and swaying like crazy as the camera focuses on it, and every step she takes causes gusts of wind to blow up her skirt. Apparently the streets of japan are built entirely out of steam vents. So yeah, a cringe worthy series overall, even if I really like the premise.