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/ Busujima Saeko /
The main character Komuro Takashi is a boy attending a boarding high school.
He was spending the days of emptiness because he had known that his childhood friend Miyamoto Rei whom he had yearned for, had started to get along with his close friend Igou Hisashi.
However, on some day at the time of the lunch break, the world was completely changed. The herd of the resuscitated dead (= "them") came flocking to the school.
"them" are the entities so-called "zombies".
- in this anime, zombies are called "them".
If the people are eaten or bitten by a part of their body by "them", the people will become "them" and will start to act as "them". So, the "them" will increase to a large number in a short time.
Even a man who had weak power in his lifetime, if he becomes "them" he will get strong power. So, a people gripped by him can hardly escape from him.
In addition, they can move even if they loose all of their body except their head, muscles, and bones. The only way to defeat the "them" is to destroy their heads.
Takashi escaped to the rooftop along with Hisashi and Rei, but Hisashi was bite by a "them".
Hisashi became a zombie. His last words were "I want to remain myself until the end". So Takashi destroyed Hisashi's head responding to Hisashi's sentiment.
Then, the remained people Takashi and Rei joined with the other survived classmate Takagi Saya, Hirano Kouta, the kendo club captain Busujima Saeko, and the school doctor Marikawa Shizuka. They strengthen their determination to escape from the school.
Will they be able to survive?
The high school students overcome much hardness and are surviving in the city where people one after another become a zombie. The anime "Highschool of the Dead(H.O.T.D)" depicts such circumstances of high school students.
The biggest feature of this work is somehow erotic while it is zombie anime.
You might imagine that the story of this anime is horrible when you heard that the people one by one become a zombie.
However, this anime includes many scenes contradictory to the zombie story such as the scene of a girl wearing an apron only, the scene of a bathing girl, the scene that just a little part of an underpants can be seen, ...
The most surprised scene is that all girls wearing only inner wear rushed to the flock of zombies.
I was impressed how wonderful it is that the zombie story can be erotic to this extent.
I think the innovative depiction and the story are the special charms to this work.
However, this is the work dealing with the zombies, therefore there are also the grotesque scenes and tense scenes. So you can enjoy various elements in a single work.
The anime "H.O.T.D." crushed the shell of the zombie story! Everyone, please have a look by all means.