High School of the Dead
I mention this little thing, as it is one of the subjects I enjoy, Anime/Manga. Just recently, Japan has put out the Anime for the Manga titled 'High School of the Dead' for people to check out.
Strangely enough, the Manga is not as popular as Naruto, by that, I mean, it is not out on a weekly basis as Naruto, one of Jump's more popular Manga or Bleach which is also another popular manga.
Synopsis - Well, we have all seen the Zombie Apocalypse movies, like all of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and the rest of the Dead series... The silly 'Return of the Living Dead' series, even 'Shaun of the Dead'. High School of the Dead is, by no means, too different from these series, well, with the exception of the Return of the Living Dead was pretty bad to begin with.
The setting takes place in Japan, right around spring time, as the first Chapter and Episode both titled 'Spring of the Dead' lends to the title. The focus happens to be set on a School in the middle of the outbreak, 3 students fighting for their lives. We then flash back a little to the main character and the girl before the outbreak starts, setting up the scene for what happens next.
Suffice it to say, the focus of the series is about this variation of the Zombie Apocalypse, and of course, the authors of the series make no bones on saying it is limited to just Japan itself.
The reason why I mention this series is how the author tries to keep the series going, showing different sides of the situation and even putting the one thing Romero tended to show in his own series, how the world begins to fall apart and how people react to the situation.
Now this is not to say we all wouldn't react the same way or should be prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse, but it does show that sometimes, people have different rationalizations, or handle the situation in different ways.
Of course, as noticed in the manga and the anime's first episode, it does lend a lot of fan service for the male population, the gratuitous underwear flashing like crazy or the bountiful showing of female nudity which probably has given it some popularity among the males, despite its sporadic showing.
The one thing I can say, is that Max Brooks might be subtly impressed with this series, being the author of both 'Survival Guide to Zombie Attacks' and 'World War Z' in the world fashioned by this manga group, as his book, "World War Z" did relate stories of things during the Zombie Apocalypse, this even goes farther than that as well as farther than some of the snippets of the Romero movies.
Should the manga hit the US market, I highly recommend getting it if you are a 'Zombie' type fan.
I mention this little thing, as it is one of the subjects I enjoy, Anime/Manga. Just recently, Japan has put out the Anime for the Manga titled 'High School of the Dead' for people to check out.
Strangely enough, the Manga is not as popular as Naruto, by that, I mean, it is not out on a weekly basis as Naruto, one of Jump's more popular Manga or Bleach which is also another popular manga.
Synopsis - Well, we have all seen the Zombie Apocalypse movies, like all of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and the rest of the Dead series... The silly 'Return of the Living Dead' series, even 'Shaun of the Dead'. High School of the Dead is, by no means, too different from these series, well, with the exception of the Return of the Living Dead was pretty bad to begin with.
The setting takes place in Japan, right around spring time, as the first Chapter and Episode both titled 'Spring of the Dead' lends to the title. The focus happens to be set on a School in the middle of the outbreak, 3 students fighting for their lives. We then flash back a little to the main character and the girl before the outbreak starts, setting up the scene for what happens next.
Suffice it to say, the focus of the series is about this variation of the Zombie Apocalypse, and of course, the authors of the series make no bones on saying it is limited to just Japan itself.
The reason why I mention this series is how the author tries to keep the series going, showing different sides of the situation and even putting the one thing Romero tended to show in his own series, how the world begins to fall apart and how people react to the situation.
Now this is not to say we all wouldn't react the same way or should be prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse, but it does show that sometimes, people have different rationalizations, or handle the situation in different ways.
Of course, as noticed in the manga and the anime's first episode, it does lend a lot of fan service for the male population, the gratuitous underwear flashing like crazy or the bountiful showing of female nudity which probably has given it some popularity among the males, despite its sporadic showing.
The one thing I can say, is that Max Brooks might be subtly impressed with this series, being the author of both 'Survival Guide to Zombie Attacks' and 'World War Z' in the world fashioned by this manga group, as his book, "World War Z" did relate stories of things during the Zombie Apocalypse, this even goes farther than that as well as farther than some of the snippets of the Romero movies.
Should the manga hit the US market, I highly recommend getting it if you are a 'Zombie' type fan.
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