High School of the Dead: Complete Collection

If you are looking for an exciting anime series that involves a zombie apocalypse then look no further than High School of the Dead.
The storyline follows several high school students & their struggles to survive as an unusual plague, that transforms innocent humans into homicidal cannibals, brings widespread destruction to a populace within a city in Japan & later becomes worldwide. The main protagonist is a male high school delinquent name Komuro, Takashi whom along with his fellow companions & the school nurse survive the initial outbreak of the zombie pandemic & attempt to escape their school to flee for safety. However, with the risk of the zombie pandemic infecting them as well, they must abandon their code of morality & either bypass the many hordes of zombies unnoticed or go on a carnage (massacre) campaign & murder everyone, zombie or not, whom opposes their desire to remain human. One feature of this anime series is that it attempts to reduce the anxiety brought on by the entire bloodshed & societal destruction with the use of fan service & lots of it! Short seifuku shirts, revealing lingerie & cleavage, some nudity, & well endowed female characters!
The plot is well integrated & paces the storyline perfectly by ensuring that balance is maintained between scenes of gruesome carnage to comedic perversion & epic fighting or killing scenes.
The voice acting portrays the characters emotions & attitudes perfectly with very little signs of lethargic expressions. Dialogue is very tense & urgent due to the zombie emergency but still retains some compassionate & deep remorseful feelings. Very well developed anime series that mixes a apocalypse of zombies with fan service & perversion.
I recommend this anime series.
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High School Of The Dead is one of those anime series that you show to a friend who has never seen anime and a month later you see the series in their movie collection.

There series follows high school students during a zombie apocalypse / viral outbreak, however you want to look at it flesh eating zombies are everywhere. Takashi is the tough guy of the high school but is good friends with many students. He takes charge during this crisis and helps save his friends Rei Miyamoto, Saeko Busujima, Saya Takagi, Kohta Hirano and Shizuka Marikawa; the high school's nurse. As their journey continues they will meet many different people good and bad, and it will test the level of peoples morality and sanity.

I really enjoyed this series. The animation is fantastic, it`s got a lot of Japanese school girl fan service but it`s the action it does not let up and the character development is fantastic you really get to know these characters and watch them change in crisis. The pacing of the series is very well done.

I can`t say enough about how good high school of the dead really is. If you like Zombies don`t miss this series. My only issue is the pricing is very high for a 12 episode series, but it`s still one of the best series of 2010. Highly Recommended.

At first glance, Highschool of the Dead might look like another run-of-the-mill soft porn dumbed downed enough for underaged viewers, but it's actually a well-thought out horror masterpiece that'll keep you hooked until the last episode.

As you probably know by now, another ordinary day at Fujimi Highschool turns into a hellish nightmare (literally) when people suddenly start dying and coming back to life as flesh-eating zombies, known as "them". It isn't long before slacker Takashi Komuro and his ex-girfriend Rei Miyamoto, along with other students and the nurse are forced to band together to survive. These include, Saya Takagi, the rich brainy girl, Saeko Busujima, the sadistic tomboy and president of the kendo club, Kohta Hirano, the portly gun expert and last and certainly not least, Shizuka Marikawa, the school's well-endowed nurse.

I strongly suggest you read the manga so that you appreciate what the anime has that it doesn't and what it lacks. The violence and vulgarity has been tonned downed considerably in place of making it sexier (I think the girls' breasts are bigger here than the manga), but that's about it. Aside from more mammary glands and less blood and gore, it's an exact emulation from the pages of Daisuke Sato's manga masterpiece. It's an absolute must for fans of horror. And if you're a true otaku, try watching it in its native Japanese language with the english subtitles. So don't keep us waiting Madhouse. Get started on the second season real soon!