Combining ecchi and zombies? Well if you are fan of that, what more can you ask for? It is a great anime for any zombie lover and, as I said, it is filled with ‘panty shots fan-service’ like you have never seen before. Enjoy?
Well maybe you can enjoy, but what do I like to take in account is the story itself. Plot, it is just the usual one. I mean for this kind one you can’t even expect more. You still don’t know what it is? It is a general zombie outbreak, easy to say it like that. But that is what doesn’t matter, what matters are the characters. And even if they all have back-stories I can’t help to wonder, but are they really important? You don’t actually care for their past seeing that their future is ruined. Well actually, the present, but they are trying to get alive and they are not too many happy outcomes.
But the other thing that will keep your attention from that is the action (and the girls too). The action scenes are, great! Fighting first with improvised weapons then later going on the real ones kind of makes you feel like you are playing a video game. It also adds knowing and feeling how characters progress from making hard and decisive actions to actually having that look in their eyes knowing what to do and how to do it. That is why most people like about this anime and yes, I could go talking about girls and how they were portrayed, but actually that doesn’t steal the show. You get plenty of anime doing that, but not that many anime having an actually decent zombie-outbreak scenario.
The animations are suburb as well as the drawings. All is well planned and placed. The effects are great, body movements… Pretty much everything. They even animated partially all those larger zombie movements and it all looks great! The soundtrack is also nice, but what really gets more on the attention is the voice acting and sound effects. Voice acting is good, it gets the job done. But the sound effects are just fantastic, from zombie sounds, bites and attacks to gun fire and small details like that.
And to top it all, since this is an anime and since it has “High school” in title, it is not completely a horror one. It is, but it also comedy from time to time, more like comedy relief moments. It gets the job done, because you would get bored if it would only be about one thing (again, not talking about the girls). If you think that you might enjoy this kind of anime (loads of unnecessary ecchi plus good zombie beating), give it a try. You might actually like it.
4/5
Mangaka: Daisuke Sat
Genres: action, horror, ecchi
Anime director: Tetsuro Araki
Age rating: Mature (18+)
Episodes: 12 (+1 OVA)
Original vintage: July 2010 - September 2010
