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A 2009 comedy/horror manga by Kengo Hanazawa.

 

A uniquely weird [[Seinen]] series. Features realistic artwork that switches from funny faces to grotesque ones with outstanding impact.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Boob Morning! (Oppai-yo Gozaimasu!), done by appropriately busty models and actresses acting as hosts for a morning variety show.

* [[The Ace]]: Nakata, as far as artistic talent goes. There's something to be said about a series where this trope applies to a lisping, pencil-necked weirdo with the fashion sense of [[Garfield|Jon Arbuckle]].

* [[Action Survivor]]: Mitani, of all people. Who better than a materialistic slob to be [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]?

* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]: [[Nice Girl|Hiromi]] is a sweet girl... right?

* [[Anyone Can Die]]

* [[Author Filibuster]]: Suzuki has very strong ideas about the future of manga, and loves to philosophize about them at length. Played for laughs when it's clear nobody asked.

* [[Body Horror]] / [[Facial Horror]]: Yikes.

* [[Creepy Child]]: A little boy spotted {{spoiler|gnawing on a woman's remains}}, moaning for his mother. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]].

* [[Creepy Doll]]: {{spoiler|From Hiromi's point-of-view, post-infection, both humans and zombies appear as hideously-deformed plush toys.}}

* [[Erotic Eating]]: {{spoiler|Mi-chan}} fellating a ''baseball bat''.

* [[Facial Horror]]: "Red light, green light, one two THREE!!! [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/16 (chomps on nearby female passenger)]

* [[Fingore]]: Chomp.

* [[Horror Hunger]]: The zombies who completely lose themselves don't stop at the [[I Am a Humanitarian|living]].

* [[Hot Scoop]]: Mitani never misses the news. Not because he cares what's going on, he just likes to slobber over the anchorladies. They are the first clues that [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties|something is extremely wrong]].

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted. [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/20/12 One of the infected appears to be a young school girl with a crushed skull.]

** About to be averted, where Hiromi catches a glimpse through the window of an apartment where an infected man approaches a woman holding a newborn child.

* [[Kaiju Defense Force]]: The SDF's having a hard time in combating infected civilians. The survivors pass by an abandoned APC with the interior drenched in blood to prove the point.

* [[Madness Mantra]]: Those who have been infected. And it is terrifying... - [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/8 "Thank you for your patronage"]

* [[Mind Screw]]: See [[Unreliable Narrator]].

* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Hideo of course, being a mangaka and all.

* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: {{spoiler|With Tetsuko.}} He understands the situation, though - it's out of respect.

* [[Nightmare Face]] [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/13 Have] [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/14 a] [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/15 nice] [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/16 sleep] [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/17 everybody]

* [[Not a Zombie]]: With a few exceptions, the entire city is under this impression as few people who encounter them survive long enough to pass it on.

* [[Not Using the Z Word]]: The online term for the infected becomes ''ZQN,'' a portmanteau with the Japanese slang ''DQN.''

* [[Police Are Useless]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] for laughs as Suzuki obsessive compulsively keeps mentioning laws long after they have nobody to enforce them.

* {{spoiler|[[Safe Zone Hope Spot]]}}

* [[Sequential Artist]]

* [[Shaky POV Cam]]: Impressive in a rather detailed comic.

* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: The change in mood {{spoiler|makes Suzuki unable to imagine Yajima any more.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Staking the Loved One]]}}

* [[Tainted Veins]]: Infected people are marked by both [[Prophet Eyes]] and full-body standout veins.

* [[Technically Living Zombie]]: However, the infection gives them the unnatural resilience more often associated with traditional zombies, and increased strength to boot.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bit]] characters, which includes [[Supporting Protagonist|our hero]]. Apparently nobody watches the news.

** On a commuter train, rather than running as fast as humanely possible, an angry youth continues to yell at a staff member staring through the window on the other side of the car even while it's clear blood is seeping from the staff man's eyes, nose and mouth, is constantly spouting [[Madness Mantra|Madness Mantras]] ("Thank You For Your Patronage"), and [http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/22/22 has tainted veins sprouting all over his face.] Once it gets through, it takes a nice bite out of the youth's head, who stares unbelievingly at the mush of brain in his hand while touching the hole on his forehead before passing away.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Suzuki hallucinates on a daily basis. Most of the time it's harmless, like his pudgy little imaginary friend Yajima... but it does throw the [[Fridge Horror|veracity of his account into question]].

** Hiromi herself becomes a zombie after being bitten by a zombified baby. She is still able to maintain some of her mental faculties and so far has not tried to attack or eat the main character, Hideo (she even tries to protect him when watching him get chased by a fellow zombie). However, as a zombie she often experiences periods of dissociation where, after tearing off the aformentioned zombie's jaw, she experiences herself in her room washing dishes when she is actually using the the ripped jaw to rub the zombie's now jawless face. She then mutilates the unfortunate zombie, thinking she is performing surgery on her stuffed toy. Her behavior may explain the zombies' erratic violent behavior and tendency to spout [[Madness Mantra|Madness Mantras]].

 

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