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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.
That's the start of ''
The series was licensed and dubbed by The Anime Network in 2011. It premiered there on March
Has a [[
With the death of writer Daisuke Satou in 2017, the series was left incomplete, ending with 30 chapters(plus some "x.5" chapters) released through 7 volumes.
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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.
* [[Action Dress Rip]]: Happens a couple of times to Shizuka as well as Saeko and Saya's mother.
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* [[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.
* [[Beach Episode]]: The OVA.
* [[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.
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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.
* [[Blade
* [[
* [[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).
* [[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.
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** In chapter 25, Saya acknowledges Takashi's leadership: "We get it, you're the main character."
** A German localization changed the bathing scenes dialogue:
{{quote|'''Saya:''' Well, the manga's X-rated after all...
'''Saya:''' Why do we have to take a bath all together?
'''Saeko:''' You should know that Saya. One at a time would've been only half as pleasant for the reader.|Volume 2, Chapter 6}}
** When asked why she is spacing out during a zombie attack, Shizuka breaks the fourth wall.
{{quote|
'''Shizuka:''' (Apologetic) That's how the author wrote me...
'''Saya:''' Yeah, ok. Get in the car! }}
* [[Bullet Time]]: Happens a lot in the anime whenever guns are involved. [[Rule of Cool|Taken to a ridiculous extreme in Episode 8]] when Takashi fires various rounds that manage to pass [[Gainaxing|between Saeko's thighs and breasts]].
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* [[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.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** 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.
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** 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.
* [[Due to
** 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.
* [[Dying
** 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.
* [[The End of the World
* [[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]]:
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** [[Credits Jukebox]]
* [[Facial Horror]]: Many of the zombies, and very likely some victims.
* [[Face Death
** 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.
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** 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.
** [[Panty Shot
** Chapter 29 features a female zombie being ''shot through the breasts.''
** In the OVA Kohta wears a ''girls'' school swimsuit.
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* [[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.]]
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** Kiriko Miyamoto, Rei's mother.
* [[Hot Teacher]]: Kyoko Hayashi, the Ping Pong Club's advisor. Her glasses add a [[Hot Librarian]] appeal.
* [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: Some survivors who have been bitten have to be [[Mercy Kill|mercy killed]] by others. [[Justified]] - if Hisashi's and Ishii's (nurse's office student) deaths were any indication, the zombie bites would have weakened them enough that they would not be able to kill themselves and would thus need outside help.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The anime's first episode features a track mimicking "In the house, in a heartbeat" from ''[[
* [[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.
* [[Karmic Death]]: Misuzu Ichijo. All the noise she was making to be let go earned her a [[Death
* [[Knife Nut]]: Two of the mall survivors.
** In the OVA Hirano seems to be about as comfortable with knives as with guns.
* [[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.
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** 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.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: Gee Hirano, you sure do look a lot like [[The Legend of Zelda
* [[Leaning
* [[Left Hanging]]: Thanks to the writer's death, the manga ends in chapter 30. {{spoiler|The chinese are positioning submarines as Japan is overwhelmed by zombies. Some order is still being kept but the situation is dire. The heroes are last seen shooting zombies. Minami is also coming to land to try to rescue them}}.
* [[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]]:
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** Saeko also does this for a bitten classmate.
** {{spoiler|Asami for Hiro Tamaru}} after he got bitten in the [[Abandoned Hospital|Abandoned Clinic]].
** {{spoiler|Hirano does this for Asami}}.
* [[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.
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* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: One of the mall survivors.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
** 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.
* [[No Ending]]/[[And the Adventure Continues...]]: The anime stops abruptly, with the main characters escaping and continuing the search for their parents.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[OVA]]: ''"Drifters of the Dead"''
* [[Paint the Town Red]]: Things get icky during a zombie invasion.
* [[Panty Fighter]]: No surprise here.
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* [[Ramp Jump]]: Done a couple times with Takashi on the bike. The first time occurred at the bridge where he and Rei reunited with the others. The second time occurred when he went off to save Alice. Both times involved use of [[Ramprovisation|improvised ramps]] and abuse of [[Slo-Mo Big Air]].
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]:
** This occurs somewhat often due to the main characters being [[Ordinary High School Student|perfectly normal high school students]] (in Japan) during a [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. However, since there's a resident gun [[Otaku]], their errors are quickly pointed out and [[
** Except in the anime's infamous "boob dodge" sequence where Takashi repeatedly narrowly avoids gunning down Saeko instead of the zombies.
* [[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.
* [[Removing the Head
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The anime runs on this, often to ridiculous extremes.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: See [[Laughing Mad]].
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Daisuke and Shouji's regular schedule in Dragon Age Maganize began to slip after the 20th chapter or so, monthly break followed by monthly break, eventually going for a [[Series Hiatus|hiatus]] after chapter 29.
* [[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}}.
* [[Sex Is Violence]]: For Saeko anyway. "I'm getting wet", anyone?
* [[Shipper
* [[Ship Tease]]:
** A bit between Hirano and Takagi in recent chapters, especially in chapter 28.
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* [[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.
* [[Taking You
* [[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.
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** 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]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]: Due to the manga's current brevity. Another season will presumably emerge once the buffer's built up again.
** Including the ''Drifters of the DEAD'' [[OVA]] episode.
* [[Undead Child]]:
** The undead children Takashi and Saeko encounter in the park.
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* [[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?
* [[What You Are in
* [[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.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Dawn of the Dead (
** ''[[Saved
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Saeko Busujima, emphasis on the 'wild flower' aspect.
* [[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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