Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead - Recommendations

• Vol: 15+; Ch: 65+
• 2019 - ?

Surviving a zombie apocalypse beats being a wage slave any day! After spending years slaving away for a soul-crushing company, Akira's life has lost its luster. He lives in a trash-filled apartment, his pay is abysmal, and he can't even muster up the nerve to confess his love to his beautiful co-worker. But when a zombie apocalypse ravages his town, it gives him the push he needs to live for himself. Now Akira's on a mission to complete all 100 items on his bucket list before he...well, kicks the bucket.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2015 - 2016

As the zombie apocalypse begins in Osaka, chaos descends on the city. Kozue and her friend Yuuko arrive on a flight to Shin Kansai International Airport, only to discover the facility is overrun with the dead and they can't leave the aircraft. Meanwhile, Kozue's lover Tatsuo is in the midst of the carnage downtown. Will the two manage to reunite, let alone survive through the night?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 18
• 2022 - 2023

A world where 90 percent of humans on Earth have contracted and died from a deadly, virulent disease; only to then rise again as zombies who only attack people. 13 years after that "Red Day" of societal and civilizational collapse, the surviving humans survive away from the big cities, while still hoping to retake them someday. An entirely new generation of people who know nothing of the pre-Red Day world are now coming into their own. The story begins when Aki and her close friends Haru and Natsuki begin a journey to find Aki's missing father.

• Ch: 66
• 2013 - 2015

The world has come to chaos. An unknown virus haunts every living soul, and one man is determined to reach his beloved before it's too late. His journey takes him closer and closer, but he faces adversity and strife. That's when he faces reality. He sees the world around him. He sees a world faced with something more dangerous than the virus.

• One Shot
• 2022

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2016

The zombie apocalypse has spread to Nagasaki, where the cowardly Yamada would have died if the athletic Aya Nirei hadn't saved him with her archery skills. As the city has been overrun, they make their way to Gunkanjima to escape. But the pair didn't realize that a naked man named Kagawa stands at attention at the dock, and they'll need to work alongside his member(s) to survive.

• One Shot
• 2023

One day, I suddenly became a zombie. What way of life can I lead as a zombie that would demonstrate the kindness I had as an high school honors student...?

• Vol: 22; Ch: 264
• 2009 - 2017

The zombie apocalypse has never been more surreal! A mentally unhinged manga artist witnesses the beginning of a zombie outbreak in Tokyo, and he's certain of only two things: he's destined to be the city's hero, and he possesses something very rare in Japan--an actual firearm! 

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 2012 - 2015

After a man-made pathogen known as the K virus is accidentally released from Fieldwar Labs in the heart of Tokyo, the city is overrun by flesh-eating zombies. In the hopes of saving the last-remaining survivors of this apocalypse, an organization known as Madara sends out its rookie member in a last-ditch effort to find a cure. Young Itachi must survive the zombie-ravaged streets of Tokyo while searching for the missing key that’s integral to Japan’s survival!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2020 - 2021