There was an Episode 0 in 2019, but they're very different. That was a trading card battle anime in a slightly SF near-future. Here, we have a framing sequence set in that futuristic world, starring a teenage slob whose electricity gets cut off because she'd forgotten to pay the bill. The middle ten minutes of the episode, though, is about witches who help people in 1660, but get betrayed to the church, tortured and burned at the stake.

It's unclear what that has to do with Zenonzard card battles, but I'm not intrigued enough to keep watching and find out.

Zombie-kun is very cute. He's a traditional mindless zombie, living in a land of vampires, monsters and serial killers. He has pointy fangs and a forehead plate from which blood is always trickling. But it's all drawn cartoonishly and harmlessly and our hero's still cute anyway. I love Zombie-kun. This is a wonderful children's show.

This week, he defeats a UFO by farting. They also throw a doughnut at it.

Zoids are toy robots. These ones look like Transformer military robot dinosaurs with gigantic guns mounted on their backs, although there are also Zoids based on insects, arachnids and mythological creatures. They're for sending into battle. You'd use them against tanks and gunships.

As an experiment, I downloaded this series's last episode. I should have known better. The baddie blasts an entire city, then of course there's a BIG FIGHT. Halfway through, I realised that I'd stopped paying attention, but that's my fault for jumping cold into a season finale. The episode's last third is lots of happy-ever-afters, mostly over the end credits.

BATTLE BATTLE BATTLE BATTLE.

For three minutes 45 seconds.

It's an old-fashioned 1940s American cartoon (Merrie Melodies or Looney Tunes), but made in 2020 with Pokemon characters. Dialogue-free, lots of music and slapstick. No language is seen or spoken, either in English or Japanese. When we see a train, it's a steam train. The pastiche is immaculate and a joy to see. Rectangular objects bounce in deformed curvy way. Eyes turn into hearts. Someone's head gets bashed by a telegraph pole and a train car window... and it's funny. I laughed.

It's wonderful. There are eight of these, but the other seven were released in 2021.