Highschool of the Dead: Difference between revisions

The series was licensed and dubbed by The Anime Network in 2011. It premiered there on March 10th.

 

 

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** The kids are forced to drive without a license, use guns, act strongly as individuals, rely on themselves instead of authority figures or the government and steal things to survive. It doesn't seem that bad from an American point of view, until you remember that this [[Values Dissonance|story takes place in Japan]]. Takashi's narration actually makes reference to this several times, usually in the form of "It had been just half a day, and we had already changed this much."

** {{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.

* [[BLAM Episode]]: The OVA

* [[Bleached Underpants]]: The artist draws [[Hentai]], to no surprise. And by the looks of it, it seems that the artist also placed a character from one of his H-Manga in the story [http://www.citymanga.com/highschool_of_the_dead/chapter-6/14/ here] (The reporter with the lightning-bolt earrings).

** The police officer at the bridge placed his pistol to his head after the situation gets out of control and he gives the final order to exterminate everyone. Even came complete with a [[Fatal Family Photo]].

* [[Dub Name Change]]: Alice's name in the dub is "Arisu", as in "Ar-Ri-Sue" even though her name is written and translated as "Alice" in the manga.

** Takashi takes the time to cover Alice's dead father's face with a shirt from a nearby clothesline before making his daring escape with Alice and Zeke in tow.

** Upon returning to the home base at the airport, Rika recommends a posthumous promotion for her dead partner Tajima.

** A student named Kazu Ishii who is protecting Shizuka gets bitten from behind by zombies [[Dangerous Windows|breaking through the windows]], and Saeko offers to kill him before he turns. With a smile on his face, he replies "Please do it."

** {{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.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: The team has decent grasp on reality, but the horror of their current situation has made everyone a tad bit unstable, and a few of them have displayed [[Heroic Sociopath|Sociopathic]] / [[Ax Crazy]] tendencies.

* [[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.

* [[Establishing Team Shot]]:

** [[Credits Jukebox]]

* [[Facial Horror]]: Many of the zombies, and very likely some victims.

** Ishii, {{spoiler|Officer Tajima, and Asami}} get rather dignified deaths in the form of assisted suicides.

** Alice's father dies [[Go Out with a Smile|comforting a traumatized Alice]] and does not reanimate as a zombie.

* [[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.

** The remaining mall survivors eventually reversed this view of them.

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

** In the OVA Hirano seems to be about as comfortable with knives as with guns.

** The survivors in the city who attacked Takashi and Rei. They were a bit off.

** Two mall survivors descended into mad laughter, with one of them shanking the other.

* [[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]]:

** The first lady looks like Condoleezza Rice, and the president {{spoiler|having to decide if using nukes is simply [[Shoot the Dog|shooting the dog]] to protect Americans or crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]]}} looks like George W. Bush.

** [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.

* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: As the students make their way across the city, some of them only wear part of their school uniform with other clothing. Saeko got the biggest response from the group from [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|her own]] [[Custom Uniform of Sexy|adaptation]].

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: A major recurring theme. Some characters die trying to save others, while some kick them to the ground.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: And ''how''. Episode 8 of the anime actually combines [[Fan Service]] and [[Bullet Time]] to form what is quite possibly one of the most gratuitous sequences ever animated.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: The mall survivor who {{spoiler|earlier attempted to rape Shizuka-sensei}} goes off to try to save the twerp who {{spoiler|let the zombies into the mall in the first place}}. He gets bitten for his trouble.

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

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

* [[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}}.

* [[Sex Is Violence]]: For Saeko anyway. "I'm getting wet", anyone?

* [[Ship Tease]]:

** A bit between Hirano and Takagi in recent chapters, especially in chapter 28.

* [[Stupid Sacrifice]]: That one mall survivor didn't need to go out like a badass. As Shizuka pointed out, his stab wound was not even serious.

* [[Sweat Drop]]: Common. It is a rather tense situation.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: On the way to Saya's house, Rei noted that the group hadn't run into any of "them" so far. Guess what was waiting for them as they got closer?

* [[That Didn't Happen]]/[[Kissing Under the Influence]]: The gang (minus Takashi) agreed that the hydrangea smoke episode never happened.

* [[Wet Sari Scene]]: Saeko gets soaked twice in episode 9. The first time she's wearing her white uniform shirt, giving a clear view of her lacy purple bra. The second time she's wearing a black tank top, so not so much see-through.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Chapter 28 - What?! {{spoiler|Shidou and his cult}} are still alive?

* [[Wilhelm Scream]]: In episode 1, as the Outbreak begins and students flee in a panic.

* [[Wingding Eyes]]: Appears to various cast members in various forms.

* [[World of Buxom]]

* [[Wrench Whack]]: The preferred weapon of Mad, the Takagi mansion's mechanic.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Saeko Busujima, emphasis on the 'wild flower' aspect.

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