"... Please no!!... Please... Stop it! You are hurting me.. STOP!!!! .................................."
Age: 18+
Episodes: 12 + 1 OVA
Director: Daisuke SatÅ, Shoji Sato
Genres: Action, Horror, Mystery, Ecchi
Ever wondered how it is like going to a high school? Well… of course that you know, what I am even bothering to ask. But check this out! Have you ever wondered what it is like to be in a high school… full of undead, with gorgeous girls and guys who define the word being brave and yet clumsy. Probably not, so let me tell you how it is.
The story goes as followed. Set in Japan during the 21st century, a group of high school students do their usual life by going to school and back with the usual background drama that they are having. But to add to all that love and school drama, they get another one. More like, zombie drama. Would they want that or not, it is not up to them because one zombie slowly takes his way up to the high school that they are going into and starts doing some chaos. As to everyone who is not yet familiar with zombies, they are dead corpses who walk and feed on the living people. The virus then quickly travels from them to the host making them another zombie. So this is what happens here and it quickly spreads not only in that high school, but also across the whole city, and even much more!
The story the slowly takes an even more drastic turn as they try to escape. And when I say they I mean a geek who knows almost everything that there is to know about guns, a guy who is a trouble maker at school but holds great feelings towards her childhood friend and she is a great spear fighter. Then there are some other ones, like the intelligent girl, the samurai girl and then nurse girl. Later they get some more characters to support them, but that’s for you to find out. Some characters will also leave them as this anime is covered with countless deaths and deceptions.
The characters do brilliant their job and the story is quite good and intense actually, leaving you up to watch it till the end in hopes wanting to know will they actually survive and meet up with their family. And will someone get suddenly pregnant? Yes, this anime holds many secrets and the story is not rushed at all and all characters get their own side stories. A bad note on the misuse of some characters and shortness of the others, as well as confusion that can sometimes bring to the viewers. That confusion is actually the main key, because even if you would be yelling at the monitor saying “Don’t do that!!! Run!!!!!” Or something in that line, still you actually see how it is going and in which direction, so it might actually at the end leave you speechless.
Oh yeah, what do we like about this anime. Hot girls! And boy how they made a good job with animating them, the close ups as well as details. Maybe a little too much and sometimes even unrealistic at certain parts, but that’s what you can like here and that’s what definitely is a great example of amazing drawings and graphics that they put here. It is just unbelievable, even on the guys part where they haven’t put that much detail, but for known reasons, they still maintain their own and all that including “all” characters make up to some amazing moves that will leave you jawless. Yes, and what I mean by that is all the fighting and the animations that follow them.
Aside from phenomenal animations and graphics, this anime offers some superb backgrounds and details in them. You will actually notice how the characters are fighting countless zombies only to see that there are many more in the background there, walking alone on their own and attacking everything that they see. Everything is on the moving and not just the focused parts. The live sequences are so good and all that is backed with some nice and smooth colors.
Not even the zombies would make a laugh after they see themselves at the mirror here!
The sound and their effects are another good part of this anime. Sound effects especially, from zombie walking, to distant sound, to zombie growing, to gun fires, to zombie voice acting… And the character voice acting as well, which is done in a good, maybe too fashionable way, but still quite good.
Now the OST is not something that this anime can be proud of. Sure it is presented there and what is presented is fairly decent, but that’s it. The OST is again as many animes suffer present, but not very noticeable. The opening song is great and the closing ones are good as well. But the in-anime soundtrack is not on the same level. But that is okay, because the anime is mostly set on quick action on movements so you won’t have much time for it and as for that maybe they could have worked more on these types of soundtrack, but still if you do notice some (like I have) you will see that they are of a high quality as the rest of what this anime is made.
If I was a guy, what would I like about this anime? Well, all that is presented. But interesting is, that only guys would enjoy it, but also some girls too. Why? Watch to find out, but I will fill you with couple of things. First is that this anime is heavily based on the ecchi genre and that is quite noticeable. There is much of fan service and they are not afraid to show that all. It can be sometimes just for the pure fun, but in some cases it actually takes the relaxing role and by that I mean comedy. Yes, even in the zombie filled show there is a comedy, but don’t get me wrong, this is still an anime with heavily side on the horror genre. The comedy is mostly there for the relaxing and enjoyable parts.
Like when they make funny comments about each other, or when they fight in a not so appropriate way, or when they just take a bath, everything is possible here.
What you need to know here is that the story can sometimes be confusing and that some stuff may seem pointless. Keep in mind that you have to keep a basic knowledge about some things which will help you understand certain decision and moments there. What is good about it, is that this helps to keep you on this anime from the beginning until the very end. You will constantly ask yourself what will happen next and even remember all the other characters or victims or how everything came together. This is one of those anime that will keep you thinking for not apparent reason, but you will enjoy in it.
The fanservice scenes sometimes seem like they are just rushed for their own purpose and there are some not unnecessary twists, but don’t let all that get you down. If you think that the genre and the theme is for you, then this might even be the best anime that has those things to offer. Now go and enjoy!
Graphics and animations: 9/10 – Oh yeah… they are good.
Sound and effects: 7.5/10 – voice acting good, sound effects just amazing, OST decent
Story: 10/10 – it will keep you on watching and watching and watching…
Presentation: 9/10 – Some things rushed, other than that more than phenomenal
Overall: 9/10 – This is how a zombie anime should look
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