Review of the DEAD: Highschool of the Dead

Ah, zombies. We've had a wonderful love affair over the years, you and I. From that first shocking moment of putting in Resident Evil 2 at the tender age of 8, to watching Night of the Living Dead for the first time ever a couple of years ago, and now you're even infecting my anime. Highschool of the Dead is a fun little anime involving Japan and the zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of students with the best female-to-male ratio I've ever seen in an anime. They run around zombie infested locales, fight off the flesh eaters, even rescue a little girl along the way, all in the name of survival. It has a diverse cast of characters, from the military nerd, to the sword wielding yamato nadeshiko, to the smart girl, to the guy with obvious anime main character syndrome. However, it should be addressed that this anime has an obvious draw to the, uh, male persuasion. Fanservice is EVERYWHERE. It practically yells "HEY LOOK, BOOBS!" every time you look at the screen. There's one scene in particular that is incredibly ridiculous, and everything seems to be made of jelly. It just seems that where they could have developed more of an incredible zombie apocalypse story, they have instead replaced over 60 percent of the seriousness with I HAVE NEVER SEEN A MORE INCREDIBLE SET OF TWINS. All in all, though, it is a very well written series, though it ends on a cliffhanger. Here's to hoping for a second season!