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{{quote|''"But our world as we knew it had already been completely destroyed."''}}

Imagine waking up one day, going to school and then going to the roof to pine over your lost love. Then looking down and seeing a teacher's fingers get bitten off by a trespasser. Then seeing that teacher eat another. Then going to get your ex-love and her boyfriend to save them and fighting "[[Not Using the Z Word|not zombies]]". You try to call for help, but the lines are busy because of emergencies all over the town. And when you finally get to a television to see what's being done, you learn that it's happening everywhere.

 

 

 

 

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* [[Abandoned Hospital|Abandoned Clinic]]: Where some of the group go to collect frozen plasma and a blood transfusion kit for the old woman.

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Averted. See [[Bleached Underpants]].

** Played straight in the OVA, when {{spoiler|Takeshi}} hallucinates he's taking off {{spoiler|Saeko's}} bikini top, she has no nipples.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Everybody gets a turn, it seems. Outside of the main cast, the JSDF actually gets one rescuing a trio of side characters.

* [[Big Fancy House]]: The Takagi mansion.

** {{spoiler|Takashi}} shoots a would-be mugger/rapist, but leaves him alive so he can be bait to draw off any zombies in the area.

* [[Blade on a Stick]]: Rei's mother wields one.

* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: The {{spoiler|Takagi household}} storyline ends with {{spoiler|Takagi's parents}} trying to fight off a massive zombie horde.

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Shidou used his charms to manipulate the students into his personal sex cult.

* [[Car Fu]]: Zombies get mowed down several times over the course of the series.

* [[Car Skiing]]: Episode 12 of the anime adaptation has the group escaping the overrun mansion in the Humvee. To get past the barricades, the Humvee leans so far over it nearly tips.

** Way, way back in the high school, Saya and Hirano snatched a toolbox from one of the workshops. When they finally reach the police station, Saya lends Hirano one of the tools from that toolbox, a hand-powered drill. He uses it to break into the armory.

** Mad the mechanic in the manga explained that the buggy was capable of water transportation but suggested sticking to the riverbanks or cutting into the nearby park. Takashi and Saeko ended up driving the buggy into the riverbank and ditched it in the park.

** {{spoiler|Hiro Tamaru}} gets one by {{spoiler|Asami}}'s hands after getting caught in the hole at the clinic.

* [[Dying Like Animals]]: Many people simply cannot cope with the existence of "them", and many others, like Shidou, take advantage of that.

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: The group is acutely aware of this, especially Takashi when he realizes near the beginning that their moral code is adapting to the circumstances, thereby changing their personal world forever. Saya also knows that those who try to change the world back to what it once was will be doomed.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: The US and Russia seem to launch an all out nuclear attack on China and Korea together, though, not necessarily as allies, as theres no words on who else has launched at whom other then that, if any.

** There are even several accounts where female zombies give a [[Full-Frontal Assault]].

** Shidou turns the protagonist's original escape vehicle into the ORGYBUS, and the survivors remaining into a cult revolving around free love between high schoolers.

** Chapter 29 features a female zombie being ''shot through the breasts.''

** In the OVA Kohta wears a ''girls'' school swimsuit.

* [[Gun Nut]]: Kohta is a self-proclaimed "gun otaku", but as he is a sixteen-year-old in ''Japan'' at the start of this series, he doesn't actually own any. He did however go to America and learn how to shoot (at a Militia camp in the translation, by Blackwater in the original and the anime).

* [[Gun Porn]]: There's almost as many focused shots of guns as there are of breasts.

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Shizuka was the school nurse.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Used to subvert the [[Adults Are Useless]] trope - adults can fight just as competently, if not more so, and even sacrifice themselves so that the protagonists can live on. Even the guy who [[Redemption Equals Death|tried to rape Shizuka.]]

** Kiriko Miyamoto, Rei's mother.

* [[Hot Teacher]]: Kyoko Hayashi, the Ping Pong Club's advisor. Her glasses add a [[Hot Librarian]] appeal.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Replacing a word in a famous title or name with "dead", eg. "The Good, The Bad, And the Dead".

* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: In the OVA, the ladies use this tactic to get Takashi and Kohta to gather food for them.

* [[Infernal Retaliation]]: A molotov cocktail proved that fire does not really bother "them", but does make them slightly more dangerous.

* [[It Got Worse]]: Good luck finding many situations that don't start going to crap within 5 pages in the manga.

* [[Just a Kid]]:

** The group received this treatment from some of the refugees at the Takagi mansion.

* [[Karmic Death]]: Misuzu Ichijo. All the noise she was making to be let go earned her a [[Death by Irony]] a few seconds later.

* [[Knife Nut]]: Two of the mall survivors.

* [[The Last Dance]]: The [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] mall survivor was surrounded by zombies and nursing a stab wound, so he opted in his own words to go out like a badass. He failed. [http://www.citymanga.com/highschool_of_the_dead/chapter-25/38/ Badly.]

* [[Laughing Mad]]: Many are reduced to grinning and/or laughing right before and during their rather undignified deaths.

* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: Gee Hirano, you sure do look a lot like [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]] right [http://i53.tinypic.com/35hiyol.png here]. This could probably also qualify as a [[Nobuyuki Hiyama|seiyuu]] [[Actor Allusion|joke]].

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Oftentimes some of the characters have claimed that the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] feels like it's from a movie or a [[Manga]].

* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: The results of the Funky Smoke {{spoiler|Shizuka and Saya waking up naked on top of each other, Saeko and Rei kissing each other in the nude thinking the other was Takeshi.}}

* [[Love Triangle]]:

** Saeko also does this for a bitten classmate.

** {{spoiler|Asami for Hiro Tamaru}} after he got bitten in the [[Abandoned Hospital|Abandoned Clinic]].

* [[Moment Killer]]:

** Usually done by Saya. She lampshades this in chapter 28 where she promises not to ruin the hug between Takashi and Rei upon finding the possibility that Rei's father may still be alive.

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: One of the mall survivors.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:

** [http://www.citymanga.com/highschool_of_the_dead/chapter-5/04/ One zombie looks like Korean actor Yong-joon Bae], leading to accusations of racism.

* [[No Ending]]/[[And the Adventure Continues...]]: The anime stops abruptly, with the main characters escaping and continuing the search for their parents.

* [[Otaku]]: Mall survivor Hiro Tamaru showed hints of being a gun otaku like Hirano.

* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: Anime adaptation only. Takashi and Rei rush down a tunnel after [[Every Car Is a Pinto|an overturned bus that had caught fire exploded]], separating them from the others.

* [[Paint the Town Red]]: Things get icky during a zombie invasion.

* [[Panty Fighter]]: No surprise here.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: The anime runs on this, often to ridiculous extremes.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: See [[Laughing Mad]].

* [[Series Hiatus]]: Chapter 29 marked the longest break the mangaka duo ever took for their series, Kadokawa Shoten accordingly put the series on hiatus, taking their time with [[Updated Rerelease|rereleasing]] the first 4 volumes in full color; meanwhile Shouji Sato (artist) is working on his other series (Triage X), and still works on [[Hentai|what]] made him rise to stardom in the first place.

* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: The raid on the clinic ended with {{spoiler|one able-bodied survivor killed and the old woman that they were trying to save committing suicide anyway}}.

** A special mention to the would be mugger {{spoiler|who tried to rape Rei, '''OUTSIDE''', in the middle of a [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. You know where the zombies are going to most likely to hear and then eat you. This idea is not only despicable but beyond stupid. Even if Takashi had not been there, the mugger's actions would of gotten both, him and Rei killed. Good thing Takashi rescued her, shot the guy, and left him alive to be zombie bait.}}

* [[Too Hot for TV]]

* [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]: Due to the manga's current brevity. Another season will presumably emerge once the buffer's built up again.

* [[Undead Child]]:

** The undead children Takashi and Saeko encounter in the park.

* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' meets ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' meets ''[[School Rumble]]''.

** ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' meets ''[[Resident Evil]]''.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Occasionally Rei, Saeko, and Alice.

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: This story seems to follow the Romero rules, but "they" have a ''very'' strong grip. Also the zombies start slow, but if they hear a sound nearby they can move quicker. The fact that it's played as realistically as possible is also notable. The protagonists test and figure out that "they" must find things through vibrations. No circulation also means that in Japan's humid weather, the dead will probably decompose to the point of uselessness in a little under a month. Nobody has a clue how the dead are still capable of moving, though.

 

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