One cannot go into any anime convention in 2011 and not see dozens of females cosplaying as Busujima Saeko. It is no wonder that the Saeko role has become such a major favorite of the male fans of the series, but also of women fans. Into this mix comes in the highly confident and supremely calm Busujima Saeko whose mysterious nature soon becomes clear later on in the series as a certain darkness in her nature becomes known which adds a layer of complexity to the character. There’s the group’s reluctant leader in highschool student Komuro Takashi who also happens to be in love with another group member, Miyamoto Rei, and best friends since kindergarten with another, Takagi Saya. It’s during the first two episodes that we meet the members of this group. We see this through brief scenes when the core group of characters stop to try and get some news of the crisis at hand. The zombies themselves don’t get too much of an explanation as to how they came to be only that one day the outbreak began all over the world. It’s pretty much a survival horror tale of a small group of Japanese high school students trying to survive the sudden arrival of a zombie apocalypse. Highschool of the Dead has quite a simple story. So, it was with great anticipation when Sentai Filmworks and Yen Press announced at anime conventions of 2010 that the series will be making its way to the US in its manga and anime format. This was a manga that gained popularity outside Japan through fan scanlations of the original Japanese issues. The anime was adapted from the original manga (still ongoing though on hiatus at the moment) from Sato Daisuke and Sato Shouji who wrote and drew the series for Monthly Dragon Age. Now that the series has been released on home video that has changed. With the 12th episode still unwatched I held off doing a proper review of the whole series. I was able to watch 11 of the 12 eisodes aired and wrote up “first impressions” of each episode right after they aired. I was able enough to watch the series as it aired during it’s initial summer 2010 run. Highschool of the Dead ( Gakuen Mokushiroku in Japan) is the horror-ecchi 12-episode anime series which had a simultaneous premiere and series airing in both Japan and the United States in the summer of 2010 has finally been released as a DVD/Blu-Ray set.
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