High School of the Dead

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High School of the Dead
Original title 学園 黙 示 録 HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD
transcription Gakuen Mokushiroku: High School of the Dead
Highschool of the Dead Logo.jpg
genre Horror , end times , ecchi , harem
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Daisuke Satō
Illustrator Shōji Satō
publishing company Fujimi Shobo , Kadokawa Shoten
magazine Dragon Age
First publication September 2006 - May 2013
expenditure 7+
Anime television series
title Gakuen Mokushiroku: High School of the Dead
Original title 学園 黙 示 録 HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2010
Studio Madhouse
length 24 minutes
Episodes 12
Director Tetsuro Araki
music Takafumi Wada
First broadcast July 5, 2010 - September 20, 2010 on AT-X
German-language
first broadcast		 April 19 - July 5, 2011 on Animax
synchronization
Original video animation
title Drifters of the Dead
Original title Drifters of the DEAD
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2011
Studio Madhouse
length 20 minutes
Episodes 1
Director Tetsuro Araki
synchronization

Highschool of the Dead ( Japanese 学園 黙 示 録 HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD , Gakuen Mokushiroku: Highschool of the Dead , German "School of Revelation / Apocalypse : High School of the Dead"), also known as HOTD or HOTD for short , is a manga series by the Japanese author Daisuke Satō and the draftsman Shōji Satō . It currently comprises over 1,000 pages, has been adapted as an anime and can be assigned to the genres of horror , end times , ecchi and harem .

Content (Anime)

While the student Takashi Komuro ( 小 室 孝 , Komuro Takashi ) mourns his childhood love , Rei Miyamoto ( 宮本 麗 , Miyamoto Rei ), because she broke her promise and goes out with his best friend, he observes a strange incident at the entrance to Tokyo’s Fujimi High School. In this case, the teachers who want to keep a man away from the school grounds are ignorantly bitten by a zombie and turn themselves into zombies. He can hardly believe what is going on, so he rushes back to the classroom and urges his closest friends to leave school. In this way, Takashi, Rei and their friend Hisashi gain the necessary head start before a mass panic breaks out at school . On the run, however, there is an incident in which Hisashi, underestimating the power of zombies, is bitten by one. So they first save themselves on the roof of the school to barricade themselves there. But there is no more help for Hisashi. After a while he also mutates into a zombie and Takashi is forced to kill him in front of the eyes of Rei, who at first feels deep hatred towards Takashi, but then recognizes him as a good friend. As you can see from the roof of the school, the entire city seems to have become a battlefield.

The chairwoman of the Kendō Club Saeko Busujima ( 毒 島 冴 子 , Busujima Saeko ), who can fight off the zombies with a Bokutō and good fighting technique, also survived . On her way through the school, she comes to the aid of the big-breasted but sometimes absent-minded school doctor Shizuka Marikawa ( 鞠 川 静香 , Marikawa Shizuka ). Together they try to go to the staff room to get the keys to an escape vehicle. At the same time, the fat gun fanatic Kōta Hirano ( 平野 コ ー タ , Hirano Kōta , based on the mangaka of the same name , who recommended Shōji Satō as a draftsman for this manga) and the intelligent, but behaving like a Tsundere , Saya Takagi ( 高 城 沙耶 , Takagi Saya ) through the school building quite aimlessly. Kōta uses weapons he made himself, such as a bolt-firing device that has been converted into a rifle . Meanwhile, Saya uses her time to experiment with the zombies. So she comes to the realization very early that they can neither see nor feel, but react to noises. In doing so, however, they find themselves in an ambush and make themselves loud so that they can get help from the other survivors. In this way, all six main characters manage to reach the staff room. Through a still functioning television they learn that not only the school and its surroundings are affected, but the whole world is infested by the zombies.

So all six decide to form a team and save as many people as possible. To do this, they leave school and help some students who have not yet been infected. Among them, however, is also the teacher Kōichi Shidō ( 紫藤 浩 一 , Shidō Kōichi ), who is frowned upon by Rei because of his selfish, devious and despicable behavior. For example, he deliberately injures one of the students while on the run in order to take advantage of it, which leads to the certain death of the student. Together with a few other survivors, they manage to escape from school by bus. However, Kōichi tries directly to usurp command, which causes Rei to leave the bus. Another bus that has gotten out of control separates Rei and Takashi, who tries to appease her, and are left on their own. Soon afterwards, the other members also left Shidō, who established a sect, and were finally able to reunite after having to go through some more dramatic events. They finally find shelter in the abandoned apartment of Shizuka's friend and sniper of a police special unit Rika Minami ( 南 リ カ , Minami Rika ). In keeping with their profession and illegal arms imports, they find plenty of ammunition and an armored vehicle there. During the stay, Takashi observed both the dramatic scenes that took place on the bridge, which was closed by the police, and the death of the father of a young girl. He decides to save her and, thanks to the support of his friends, succeeds too. Alice Maresato ( 希 里 あ り す , Maresato Arisu ) has accompanied the group since then .

On the search for a way to their hopefully still living relatives, however, they are caught in an ambush that almost forces them to give up, as they cannot control the overwhelming numbers of zombies. Both Takashi and Saeko decide on a diversionary maneuver, but only partially succeeds. The blockade behind them, however, was set up by the subordinates of Saya's parents, who eventually rush to help, while Takashi and Saeko are now on their own. In her search for another way to fix it, Saeko Takashi confesses that she has a dark past and a sadistic side. However, Takashi can convince her that she is a good person and a great girl. Both can make their way to the villa of Saya. Once there, however, they are not treated like adults, but labeled as children. In addition, Saya's father Sōichirō Takagi ( 高 城 壮 一郎 , Takagi Sōichirō ) is the leader of a violent right-wing extremist group , with which Takashi and his companions find it very difficult to make friends. Gradually, however, they succeed in asserting themselves and also in the eyes of Sōichirō to gain in value. He gives Saeko a sword and entrusts his daughter to the group.

Just when they decide to form a search party to find their relatives, the US launched a first nuclear strike against China and North Korea, which the other states responded to. The released EMP renders all electronic devices unusable and this enables the zombies to penetrate the villa grounds and overrun the defenders. Saya's parents and some servants allow the group around Takashi to escape and they decide to continue looking for their parents and friends together.

publication

The manga has been published since August 2006 (issue 9/2006) in Monthly Dragon Age magazine published by Fujimi Shobō in Japan. The publishing house Kadokawa Shoten has published the individual chapters in seven anthologies so far, whereby the seventh volume is also available in a special edition with an OVA . From the end of 2008 chapters were only published sporadically. In March 2011, the last chapter was published with chapter 29, which also appeared in an anthology and, after a two-year break, on April 9, 2013, the previous (as of October 2014) last chapter 30.

In March 2008, the fourth volume in the series reached number 9 on the Japanese comic chart.

Pika Édition publishes the manga in France, Glénat in Spain, Panini Comics in Brazil, Yen Press in the USA and Waneko in Poland. The Carlsen Verlag brings since March 2010, a German version in so far (as of August 2012) seven volumes out. The translation is by Karsten Küstner.

During the manga's pause, two comedic spin-offs start in Monthly Dragon Age : Saikin no Dead. ( 最近 の デ ッ ド。 ) by Hiroshi Tamaru ( 田 丸 浩 史 ) from issue 6/2010 to 5/2011 and the Yonkoma Highschool of the Head ( ハ イ ス ク ー ル ・ オ ブ ・ ザ ・ ヘ ッ ド ) from Sankakuhead ( ド ヘ ン カ ) ( ド ヘ ン カ ) to 4/2011, which was also published as an anthology on May 9, 2011 ( ISBN 978-4-04-712725-8 ). The latter was also licensed by Carlsen and was published in German in August 2012.

Between February 2011 and March 2013 a completely colored new edition called Full Color Edition was published :

Volumes 4 to 6 each contained a bonus chapter.

Yen Press published this new edition on November 22, 2011 and December 17, 2013 in two omnibus volumes in English. The German version was published between June 2012 and April 22, 2014.

Anime

In February 2010, the anime adaptation of the manga was announced. The series was produced by Studio Madhouse and directed by Tetsurō Araki. The plot spans the first four volumes of the manga. It was broadcast from July 5 to September 20, 2010 by AT-X in Japan. The series was licensed by Sentai Filmworks prior to airing for the US market . Parallel to the Japanese broadcast, the episodes will be provided with English subtitles and made available on the US video-on-demand service Anime Network .

The series was released in Japan on six data carriers ( Blu-ray Disc or DVD ) with two episodes each, which were released between September 22, 2010 and February 23, 2011.

The series has been licensed by Nipponart for sale in Germany. The anime was released on November 24, 2011 in a complete box with three DVDs. The Pay TV broadcaster Animax has confirmed that the series will be broadcast in German synchronization before the DVD is released. The free TV channel ProSieben Maxx broadcast the series weekly from October 1 to December 17, 2014 in the night program.

Voice actor

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Takashi Komuro Jun'ichi Suwabe Dirk Meyer
Rei Miyamoto Marina Inoue Rieke Werner
Saeko Busujima Miyuki Sawashiro Angela Wiederhut
Saya Takagi Eri Kitamura Shandra Schadt
Kota Hirano Nobuyuki Hiyama Patrick Roche
Shizuka Marikawa Yukari Fukui Nina Kapust
Alice Maresato Ayana Taketatsu Lara Wurmer
Hisashi Igō Mamoru Miyano Marc sting
Kōichi Shidō Kishō Taniyama Claus-Peter Damitz
Rika Minami Junko Takeuchi

music

The opening title is High School of the Dead by the dojin music group Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets. The independent band's single, released on August 18, 2010, reached number 10 on the Oricon charts and sold 22,144 times by the end of that year.

For the end credits, a different piece is used in each episode, sung by Maon Kurosaki: Kimi to Taiyō ga Shinda Hi ( 君 と 太陽 が 死 ん だ 日 ), color me dark , Return to Destiny , cold bullet blues , Memories of days gone by and Under The Honey Shine . In addition, O, Spirit , sung by Sayo Fukunaga, was performed in the fourth episode .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, March 11-17. Anime News Network , March 19, 2008, accessed March 5, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Highschool of the Dead Manga Gets Anime Green-Lit. Anime News Network, February 2, 2010, accessed March 5, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Sentai Filmworks Adds Highschool of the Dead Anime (Updated). Anime News Network, July 2, 2010, accessed July 12, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Highschool of the Dead at Nipponart and on ANIMAX. OtakuTimes, August 2, 2010, accessed November 2, 2010 .
  6. ↑ ＨＩＧＨＳＣＨＯＯＬ ＯＦ ＴＨＥ ＤＥＡＤ 岸 田 教 団 ＆ ＴＨＥ 明星 ロ ケ ッ ツ の プ ロ フ ィ ー ル な ら オ リ コ ン 芸 能 人事 典 . In: Oricon Style. Oricon, accessed January 19, 2011 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ Top-Selling CD Singles by New Artists in Japan: 2010. In: Anime News Network. December 23, 2010, accessed January 19, 2011 .

Web links

Commons : High School of the Dead  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files