In North America, the second volume of the manga reached The New York Times Best-Selling Manga List, reaching #4 between April 24 and April 30, 2011, #10 between May 1 and May 7, 2011, and #8 between May 8 and May 14, 2011. The seventh volume of Highschool of the Dead reached #11 on the Oricon charts between May 2 and May 8, 2011, selling 57,016 copies, #2 between May 9 and May 15, 2011, selling 115,154 copies, and #19 between May 16 and May 22, 2011, selling 34,362 copies for a total of 206,532 copies. In Japan, the sixth volume of Highschool of the Dead reached #5 on the Oricon charts between July 5 and July 11, 2010, selling 92,040 copies, and #13 between July 12 and July 18, 2010, selling 43,714 copies for a total of 135,754 copies. However, it gets worse here because the manga doesn't have an ending either due to the original author passing away, so the story will likely never be completed.

Sadly, like many anime, this one doesn't have an ending.

This is a harem anime that actually has an INTERESTING MAIN CHARACTER!.

One of the very, very, very few zombie related anime, which there isn't nearly enough of.

This is another anime that pushed the boundaries on what could be shown on television with its fanservice.

Great characters that are likable but flawed, interesting, and get character development.

The director of the show, Tetsuo Araki, also known for Attack on Titan, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Death Note, and Black Lagoon, among others, is skilled with decifering the main appeal of the source material, and making it the main point of the adaptation. The bigges tone is in episode 9, with the moment that fans have nicknamed 'Matrix Boobs.' This is the most famous moment in the entire series.

Creative usage of bullet time in a few select scenes, which helps to emphesize the fanservice.

Very appealing art style and character designs.

Excellent animation, especially during fight scenes, dramatic scenes, or a few scenes when the characters are just running.

Later, they hold up at a mall, travel through a police station, and eventually make their way to an elementary school that is supposedly a safe zone. They check their homes for survivors, and pick up a little girl and a dog. Starting from the high school, the students escape into town where they must deal with a corrupt teacher and his students. As the cast tries to survive the zombie apocalypse, they must also face the additional threats of societal collapse, in the form of dangerous fellow survivors, and the possible decay of their own moral codes. The story follows a group of high school students and the school's nurse as they deal with a worldwide catastrophic event known as the 'Outbreak'. Highschool of the Dead is set in present-day Japan, beginning as the world is struck by a deadly pandemic that turns humans into zombies, euphemistically referred to by the main characters as 'Them' (奴ら Yatsu-ra).

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