In HOTD, the people become organized after the initial panic and create (admittedly temporary) safe zones in the cities. Sure some people will panic and get themselves killed, but no where near as many as in Romero’s world. They tend not to panic as much as Romero’s flaky people. Unlike Romero films, the main characters are all collected and do what needs to be done. Highschool of the Dead captures the feel of a George Romero flick and adds an anime twist. I did find it annoying how the female characters fawn after Takashi, but HOTD is shonen. Each character has baggage they bring from the previous world, such as Saeko Busujima’s “raw nature” and Saya Takagi’s troubled relationship with her parents. I found the way the characters interact and attempt to live as normally as possible with Them, as they call the zombies, around everywhere the most appealing. She is intelligent, but rarely shows it with her behavior. She is the only adult of the group and does take on a motherly role (what the enormous chest tends to represent). She is a blond bimbo with breasts larger than her head. Okay, all the females are likeable and strong except Shizuka Marikawa, the ex-school nurse. Each character adds a certain skill to the team that helps all of them survive.

The female characters were each likeable and strong in their own way. I found the scenes unnecessary.The crude scenes only detracted from the female characters. It is a source for many crude jokes and scenes teenage boys dream about. Many of the key female characters are….busty to put it mildly. HOTD adds teenage hormonal elements to the strange mix. The horrible intimacy of that is what gives them this sexual element. Zombies have always had a strange sexuality to them. Highschool of the Dead has too much boobage for my taste. From left to right: Shizuka, Alice, Saya, Rei, and Saeko They go from being normal honor students to urban warriors who have killed former friends. Even the characters comment about how everything changed in just 1-2 days. People are eaten alive, shot and everything else that happens when the world goes insane. It is the only way to kill the undead, after all. Heads are bashed in with anime style violence. The PhysEd teachers confront the man…well being a zombie series, the stranger turns out to be a zombie and after a bite, the PE teachers proceed to kill each other.ĥ minutes later the entire school is killing each other. Takashi Komuro was skipping class as usual when he noticed a strange man at the school gate. It all starts during a typical day at high school. Highschool of the Dead ( H.O.T.D.) follows a zombie apocalypse, anime style.

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