Sunday, May 3, 2009

Kondo Tatsumi: Kyoto, Japan


Today I interviewed Kondo Tatsumi. A skinny, acne faced teenage boy with bleached blond hair and dull red eyes. He was “otaku” which is an “outsider.” He was a very strange young man and he felt like his life was with cyber space. He told me that Japanese citizens were taught to memorize the things they were educated. When the zombies came they learned about their physiology, behavior, weaknesses, and global response and this helped him later on because it was very well memorized. He was always in his house working on what to do about the evacuation. He really didn’t have a good relationship with his parents. His mom would bring food and place it in front of his door while he worked. Crisis started; food stopped coming, parents vanished, computer stopped working, he started freaking out, and started revealing the cities meltdown, and the zombies. When the zombies came he had an escape plan, to take bed sheets and tie them down four stories and then get new bed sheets from apartment complexes so he could keep connecting them all the way down to the ground. But every time he went into the homes he would run into zombies or what they call them “siafu.” Then he went into a room where he discovered photos of someone’s family and friends and how the man used to be in war. As he was looking he revealed the man as a zombie seeing him through a mirror. Kondo broke the man’s arm and took the other arm swung him around and threw him over the balcony. Now he picked up some survival materials and was off on his journey to soon escape the dead and survive the war.

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