Highschool of the Dead - Reviews

This anime contains a lot of Eechi and that spoils a bit of the horror part in this anime, in my opinion, but otherwise I found myself addicted till I watched the last episode that had came out. The story is very much like that movie: Resident Evil, with just a bit more deeper history. The characters in the anime are a bit shallow and steriotyped, but meh - I coulden't care less. It really gived me a great break from all the drama and endless fights that usually happen in most animes, and gave me a fine dose of fear. I acetually needed to take my cat in my lap and pet her in some parts.

Altough the eechi part of the anime spoils it alot, I coulden't help but give it a hig rank. In my opinion, tough, this anime is more suited for the aged of 14 - 16 (I'm 15) because it is too mild for the minds of 18+ year olds, at least that's what I heard from the rewievs here.

You should really try watching it ^^

Buenisima, tiene la formaula ganadora!! (Chicas hermosas en ropa interior, armas, zombies, autos, motos, sangre, comedia) la verdad que la primera temporada me dejo muy contento!!

Esperando la segunda temporada!! :)

Demograph: 12-18

I didn't hate it, but this anime couldn't stand still long enough to plan it's escape.

The very poorly written narrative scrapes together fragmented "zombie movie" ideas and sticks them together with glue made from boobs.

The reason I didn't like it is that it couldn't take itself seriously enough. Not in an Ace-Ventura way, either. There was no pride in the storytelling. Boob and panty shots are so overused that they lose the "sneaky peek" element, which is what I had previously thought was the entire point of their existence.

The character designs are really ugly, and the voices are as annoying as they are stereotypical.

Whatevs. Watched it to the end, but only because it was so light-weight that it barely required concentration. That, and my girlfriend liked it.

Introduction:

Takashi Kumoro was just a 17 year old high schooler, until "there was someone at the school gate, P.E. Teacher went to check it out and something happened. And now that P.E. Teacher are killing others". Sounds interesting? Then skip this and watch it, so you can experience the bgm, character development and animation yourself. Other than that, continue:

Animation: The animation was great because since the studio "Madhouse" makes smooth and detailed anime, its no wonder H.O.T.D also has that kind of feeling. The best effect in the anime were the blood effect, like when Takashi hits 'them' blood splatter as it have to and they don't exaggerate with the effect or limiting it. Although some fanservice annoys me.

Sound/BGM:The opening is "HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD" by Kishida Kyodan and The Akeboshi rockets and the ending likes to change but they are sung by Maon Kurasaki. The op fits perfectly with the animation and the anime itself, while the ED fits but since there is little animation during the ED, i can't really review it.

Characters: Since character development is important in the series, i'll just show you the picture and their seiyuu.

From Left to right: (Kohta Hirano, Saya Takagi, Takashi Kumoro, Rei Miyamoto and Saeko Busujima.) [note: This is not all of the main char, but i can't find them all together, so i print screen this image and yeah.]

Seiyuu:order>Character of H.O.T.D:Seiyuu(same seiyuu but different character i known for)

Kohta Hirano:Nobuyuki Hiyama(Hiei)

Saya Takagi: Eri Kitamura(Ami Kawashima)

Takashi Kumoro: Jun'ichi Suwabe(Grimmjow Jeagerjaques)

Rei Miyamoto: Marina Inoue(Kanmuri Shigeru)

Saeko Busujima: Miyuki Sawashiro(Yomi Takanashi[just watched BRS recently)

Overall: Its a good anime and i am planning to finish this( i just finished ep 5). If you like the RE(resident evil), some fanservice you'll like, other than that, try it, you like it, you watch it!

Please do understand some of this could be my point of view, so if its bad for you, don't watch. Simple as that.

Oh- my I have a new anime love. Mostly this love comes from a love of Zombie Movies: Night of the Living dead, Dawn of the dead, Shawn of the dead, and everything inbetween. (I High School of the Dead is delightful as anything made for the big screen. A world wide pandemic has already taken out the US President- (who speaks Japaneese). Over in Japan two high school boys have escaped with three of thier friends and the school nurse.  Luckliy H.O.T.D. is also an Ecchi anime; so there is the foxy upper classman who is on the fencing team; the genius (who reminds me of Washu from all those Tenchi  series);  the cute girl next door (who Takashi, 1 of the boys, has been cruching on for eva); oh and then there is the school nurse...

Ah- ecchi and zombie appolocypise I never knew you'd be like chocholate and peanut-butter.  H.O.T.D. is not only a styleized gore fest the poression from high schooler to gun toating ass-kicker is something that each chracter deals with in his/her own way. The school nurse, Shizuka, seems a bit to bubbly to deal yet. But he dorky gamer, Kouta, also happens to be a gun freak eagerly mows down the hords of the undead from the get-go.

I've seen some bad zombie movies- (and enjoyed them simply because they were bad)- and this anime's Zombieness is top notch. The cause is still unknown, as eposide 8: the DEAD way home just aired, but their reanimated brians (think Night of the Living Dead) leaves hearing as thier only non dead sense. Thus the high school crew saves and adopts a little girl and a stray puppy, on the way to reunite with family memebers.

Guns and violence, girls of every flavor (even jailbait!), and a dog! I don't know if I need to say more but I will.... Great fight sceens compleate with breats that defy the logics of human flexabilty. (Watch the linked eposide to see what I mean) Pantie shots, nosebleeds- good olde Japanesse perverted moments to giggle at.

All who like any animes (like Gantz) or any kind of zombie movie will be glad they feasted thier peepers on this show.

(This anime is #1 with a bullet!)

^Totally nessary to fire the gun like this.^