HIGHSCHOOL OF THE
DEAD
HOTD
An anime based on the manga of the same title and written by the late Daisuke Sato. The manga was never finished and there were 7 volumes of the manga that was published from 2006 to 2013. The anime came out in 2010 with 12 episode and 1 OVA.
I am one of those who followed the manga and the anime before I heard or read news that the author died back in March 22, 2017. Just to make things clear I am not one of those who has been sending messages saying or suggesting that the publisher or whoever was in charge of the HOTD series along with Daisuke Sato, to just get someone else to continue the series. For me if it does continue then so be it if not that is not a problem since I have seen anime and manga that has been left on hiatus for a long period of time already so I don’t expect HOTD will continue any time soon. That is after I have come across a Reddit post that the production who worked with Daisuke Sato have no more plans on continuing the work of the late Daisuke Sato. Link is below for more details.
I was first introduced to the anime before I got into the manga. The anime was so fluid in the animation so fluid that it felt like I was watching cinematics of one of the latest Dead or Alive video game where we get very fluid jiggly breasts which was one of selling points of the fighting game. HOTD was one heck of a fanservice series considering that it was a zombie holocaust series where we also get to see women who turned into zombies who are almost naked and still jiggly (I don’t have necrophilia just to be clear but I like the fanservice). Just like what I said the series is flooded with fanservice for those looking for various sizes of oppai this might be the series for you if you also like zombie themed series.
The series follows Takashi Komuro, Saeko Busujima, Kohta Hirano, Rei Miyamoto, Saya Takagi, Shizuka Marikawa and Alice Maresato. From Takashi to Saya they are students of the Fujimi High School and Shizuka was the school nurse who was rescued by Saeko during the zombie outbreak in their school. Alice was the young girl whom they rescued after her father was attacked by zombies and she adjusted quite well to the party since she was often being taken cared off by Saya and the rest of the party and they did not left her alone making her feel more comfortable considering that they are strangers to Alice who was just 7-years-old in the story.
For me it seemed like the author made the characters adapt so fast in the situation since they are young adults and an adult who seemed like an airhead with huge boobs. I just wondered with Alice who was fast to somehow recover and get enough strength after she witnessed her father getting stabbed by the folks who were in a house whom they thought would let them in to take shelter from the horde of zombies but instead left them for dead even the poor Alice. The good thing that happened to her other than having a caring father is that Takashi was brave enough to go and rescue her from the attacking zombies considering their number and he had to walk over the cement wall fence to cross back to where his friends are. Lucky enough they survived, yeah because he is one of the protagonists of the story.
I don’t usually watch zombie genre media unless I am in the mood to watch it. Heck I have seen Land of the Living Dead years ago and I don’t remember how old I was when I saw it or do I even remember if they censored some scenes back then in our local TV stations since there are a lot of gore in that classic film. Anime zombie series I have seen other zombie anime series and I will put a list later. I did got hook on HOTD not only because of the idea of high school students fighting off zombies in order to survive but well who am I kidding I also watched the series for the fanservice specially that OVA where they thought they got stuck in an island where they got drugged by some herb that they ate in order to kill off the hunger thinking that they have drifted off in the middle of the ocean.
Regarding the flow of the story in the series for a 12-episode series it was not bad although it made viewers wanting more and that was the bad thing. Not many fans or followers of the series nor the author outside Japan accepted the fact that the series may not have another season after it went on hiatus at first due to the health of the author and after the untimely death. In respect to the author of HOTD and other series that he has made, as far as I understood the article on Reddit, they will no longer touch HOTD or have someone take over the series. Same goes with his other works, they will stop as to where his manuscripts have finished and no more.
Before I forget,
since the series is flooded with fanservice and a lot of adult related themes I
do not recommend this series to minors unless supervised. The series also has
some sort of love triangle or rather uncontrolled desires that the heroes are
being drawn in to due to the situation they are in. Takashi and Rei who has
been having their own issues in their current relationship and later Saeko
enters the mix having herself being drawn into her own issues with men and
seeing Takashi being someone that she can trust, the series has implied that something
happened between them in one of the scenes where they got separated from the
group and in order for Takashi to get Saeko back in to the game he seemed to
have gave in to what she has been wanting to do.
There are a lot of heavy implications in the series and considering that they are thinking of the big “What if” in their heads like “what if their end suddenly comes I have to do something that I have not done before” or “I should grab this opportunity to do something before I regret it later on not doing it”. Something like that, and since the series is in the gray on not having a continuation all fans are using their imaginations or looking for doujins and fanfictions as to how the series will end.
Even though I still want the series to have another season all I can do as a fan of the series is to respect the decisions of whoever was left in charge of the works of Daisuke Sato. But still who knows maybe someone might adapt the story and give it a new life sometime in the future. There are other zombie genre anime out there and just like HOTD which I recommend to viewers regardless that season 2 is close to not going to happen anymore.
Sankarea – a boy whose girlfriend became a zombie and he is looking for a way to turn her back into a human.
Kore wa Zombie
Desu ka - a guy who became a zombie with the help of a loli Shinigami or Death
God and he can also become a magical girl well a guy in skirts.
Kabaneri of the
Iron Fortress – two half-zombies who are still human enough to protect the people
who does not trust them and are trapped inside a train fortress looking for a
new safe place for them live since the world is being over-run by zombies that
has skins as strong as steel.
Hellsing – Alucard
the strongest vampire in the world fighting to protect his master Integra
Hellsing with the help of his busty apprentice Seras Victoria they take out
ghouls and those who oppose their master.
Sunday Without God
– a loli who lost her family and found out that she is one of those chosen people
who can bury the dead before they become zombies.
School-Live – this
is one hell of a series where another group of high school girls and just like
HOTD are one of the survivors on Earth in the middle of a zombie holocaust. The
sad part of this series is that the main character is living in a fantasy that
everyone in their school are alive and well and they are living in the school
as part of a school program and only her friends knows what is actually
happening around them.
Gungrave – just like
Hellsing the main character in the series is out to take wipe out zombie-like
creatures.
Tokyo Ghoul – a young
man who got turned into a ghoul as a result of some experiment done to his body
after he was heavily injured and close to death when he was attacked by a ghoul
who was also the girl whom he likes. Good thing Alucard of Hellsing does not
exist in their world since the ghouls in this series are either good or bad but
they still tend to eat human flesh.
Zombie Loan – two guys who are zombies who also hunts down other zombies. The reason for them hunting zombies is part of their agreement to Zombie Loan who brought them back to life as a form of payment.
Corpse Princess –
a young girl who was brought back to life by some cult. Even though she was
brought back to life against her will, she took this opportunity to take
revenge on those who murdered her and her family.
Check links below for other details on the series regarding if it will continue or not
https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/a4ktrc/high_school_of_the_dead_is_officially_cancelled/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Sat%C5%8D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highschool_of_the_Dead
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