Highschool of the Dead OP Single by Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets Cover is disturbing, ne~? Expect exactly that along with brimming fanservice from the zombie-fest that Madhouse has animated brilliantly. Overcooled is covering that for Metanorn and I am definitely enjoying Highschool of the Dead this summer. The [...]
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Takashi's group attempt to rescue a little girl. Door to door salespeople can be pretty annoying, but stabbing them is still pretty cold. Summary: Takashi watches the chaos and carnage from the apartment balcony and wants to do something, but Kohta and Saeko tell him not to try and be a hero. Takashi continues watching the streets and spots a father leading his young daughter into the yard of a fenced home that has people in it (because they left their lights on). The father knocks on the door and begs that the people inside let them in. When the people inside refuse, the father threatens to barge in by force. The door opens, but the father is stabbed in the heart by the people inside and he falls in such a way that opens the front gate. The girl cries over her father's dead body and that leads the zombies towards her. Not quite the dramatic entrance Takashi was hoping for. Back at the balcony, Takashi has been watching the scene unfold and realizes that he shouldn't do anything, but Kohta goes against his own advice and taking down the zombies threatening the little girl with his sniper rifle. Takashi decides to go out and rescue the girl, and Saeko and Rei agree to help. Takashi jumps out of the apartment complex with his dirt bike and makes it to the girl's location thanks to Kohta's sniper cover, but Takashi wipes out at the end. Using his crowbar and revolver, Takashi clears the yard of zombies and locks the gate, but the zombies are piling up against the yard and Takashi can't escape using the dirt bike. Watch where you are pointing that thing! The dog doesn't care if Takashi falls since the zombies don't eat dogs. That is just such a sight to behold. Back at the apartment, Saya and Shizuka are finally awakened by the commotion. After learning what's been going on, Saya tells the group to pack up and leave, and Shizuka suggest that they drive to Takashi's location with Rika's Humvee. Meanwhile, Takashi helps the little girl say goodbye to her dad. In order to escape from the yard, Takashi walks on the front wall of the yards while carrying the girl and puppy she picked up. With zombies on both sides of the wall, Takashi has a few near falls, but he manages to hang on long enough for the others to drive over in the Humvee. Kohta and Saeko clear out an area around the Humvee, and this Takashi to jump onto the vehicle and escape. The group drives away from the scene and now attempts to find another way to cross the river so the group members can check on their family. I know shotguns are devastating at close range, but to send someone tumbling through the air like that for 30ft... This is Kohta's lucky day (above and below) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This was definitely an improvement over last week. After lounging around last episode, Takashi and his band of survivors are doing something meaningful once again. I don't know if the little girl and her puppy will mean much later in the story, but at least her rescue was pretty fun to watch. I thought the early scene with the little girl and her father looking for shelter was pretty effective on the emotional level. I don't know if it makes a lot of sense, but the scene really drove home the point of how desperate people do desperate things during crisis situations, and desperate things are not necessarily good things. HOTD has the ability to create and maintain the sense of chaos and tense atmosphere when it wants to. The rest of the episode was just hilarious. The fan service is still very prominent, but it's essentially a comedic device now that the plot doesn't revolve around it. Saeko in her apron and black thong was just too darn funny, especially the shot where she was standing above Kohta on top of a moving Humvee. The final action sequence is really over-the-top with Saeko's above-mentioned antics, boobs bouncing around, and Kohta sending zombies tumbling through the air with his hand cannon... I mean shotgun. The upbeat music transitioning into the ED was a nice touch too. The show didn't look like it was taking itself seriously, and I enjoyed it. Having the characters run around and bash zombies while various body parts jiggle is the way HOTD should be, and this episode did a good job carrying out those parts. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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Plenty of action, an awesome insert song, and an even better insert/ED, censored nudity all over the place, jiggle physics maxed out to 11, the introduction of a loli, a pee scene for the fetishists… yep, quite a bit going on in this episode. This is for all the Saeko fans who voted for her [...]
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Time to rescue a little girl and her puppy! Looks like it’s that time again.  Time to review the next episode of our weekly zombie-infested anime, Highschool of the Dead.  Will we ever find out where these zombies came from, and will they ever be eradicated?  We’re slightly past the [...]
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After taking a fair bit of time out to concentrate on its fan service elements last time around, episode seven of Highschool of the Dead... well, carries right on with the fan service and all-round lack of clothing.Once both ourselves and the series manage to drag their gaze from our sleeping (and wide-awake) beauties however, we're once again greeted with the harsh realities of this new,
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Highschool of the Dead - 07 | Poor Alice, though for the story’s sake we can’t have even more people join the group, especially some old guy! We have to keep the show young looking and fanservice ready! This week’s episode features little of plot advancement besides the addition of Alice, but all than makes up for it in action, crazy Kohta sniping, short shorts, and a healthy amount of fanservice.Highschool of the Dead – 07 is a post from: Typenights
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Episode 07 – DEAD night and the DEAD ruck Wow. This episode was pretty darn good in comparison to the previous episodes, not that the previous episodes were bad. We still have a healthy dosage of fanservice in this episode (which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your tastes), but there’s also quite a [...]
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You can’t really blame me for the title – the episode had it coming.  Apart from the last five episodes being all about surviving, zombies, and undergarments flashing, this episode takes one of these elements to another level.  Surviving becomes harder?  Possibly.  More zombie?  Each passing minute, but the true masterminded craft that completely took [...]
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Summary Infomercial of the Dead part 3: Smelly zombies ruining your day? Ferocious flunky funk forcing you to forego fantastic forays? Maybe you just want to spruce up your rancid undead underlings a bit to impress your girl? No matter what your pungent problem may be, Darrow Chemical Company has got the solution to your [...]
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Highschool of the Dead – 06 | With no time to hit the beach, what a better way to relax and squeeze in the obligatory fanservice episode than having a hot, steamy and curvy bath scene.Highschool of the Dead – 06 is a post from: Typenights
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So, remember when I said last week's episode of Highschool of the Dead was the worst one yet? Allow me to amend that statement. Episode 6 is even worse, by a large margin. It's misogynistic, insulting, stupid, and some of it doesn't even make sense. In was a complete and utter waste of my time, [...]
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After watching the first episode of Highschool of the Dead (HOTD), my first thought was OMG! I immediately wanted to watch the next episode, knowing that it wasn't aired yet. This series is action packed. Zombies, blood, total chaos, plenty of breast and panty shots, and even a little comedy that helps ease some of the tension.  
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I personally think that it’s hard to think why you should hate this series for the fan service or the “intellectual” choice for not choosing it—particularly referring to just blood, gore, and tits. For the porn, I didn’t particularly care or even want to get a boner, but the Highschool of the Boobs was kind of a nice touch for the main event: the chaos between police officers and the ordinary citizens. During the rally of the citizens, who made abrupt conclusions and much panic, it was rather nice to say that these are the twisted minds of people as the zombie outbreak continued. Some people believe that it is a plot-hole of the episode for having absurd beliefs that don’t (just) materialize out of nowhere spontaneously and so quickly. For my comment on this misconception, it is kind of disappointing to lose a lot of viewers just ‘cause of this. I mean, seriously. We’re talking about people going mad over the fact of being afraid of death. Put yourself in a similar case, left in an island, all alone, surrounded by sharks, and miraculously still alive for almost a week, suffering from thirstiness and hungriness, and especially the sadness of them leaving you behind. What’d you do? Still think you’ll survive? Well, if you think you can still survive, then sorry for making such vague descriptions. And I have to agree, the fanservice wasn’t just for nothing because it was a nice character build-up; Rei’s relationship with Hisashi (needless to say, the girls’s relationship with Rei) and the better way of confirming why she chose Hisashi over him. Well, anyway, it was also thought that the bark of the dogs was a plothole because the zombies didn’t attack the dog, but this is also wrong; as highlighted in episode 4, they only react to metal sounds. As theorized by an ordinary commentator, zombies do not go for animals. They go towards the sound without finding something. Generally, the whole episode was ★★ (very good) for the character build-up, the “main event,” and the misunderstood abrupt rally and dog barks.
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Plot? We don’t need no stinkin’ plot! Although to be fair, you can only have so many episodes that feature our feisty gang running from and fighting zombies. You’ve got to mix it up. So a naked romp in the bath makes perfect sense when you keep that in mind. What is it about Japanese [...]
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Episode 06 – “ACT6 In the DEAD of the night” If you have already read the manga version of Highschool of the Dead, then you must have been certainly anticipating the fan service scenes for this particular episode. Well, I’m not really sure what to say about the fanservice except that they often defied the law [...]
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T and A, plus cops and protesters going nuts. If I were to pick one screen shot to describe this episode, this would be it. Kohta is in heaven. Summary: At Rika's luxury apartment, Shizuka, Rei, Saeko and Saya take a bath together and fool around in the process. Meanwhile, Takashi and Kohta pry open Rika's weapon locker and discovers an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, a shotgun and a crossbow along with plenty of ammo. The two guys then look outside and spot a TV crew and commotion growing on the nearby bridge blockade, so they decide to turn on the TV. Kids are a pain in the neck. Shooting people is a great way of making people calm down. Right... At the blockade, a group of protesters have gathered to condemn the police practice of shooting zombies. They believe that zombies are still people who have been infected by a secret biological weapon developed by the US, and they are making a big fuss. The police are undermanned and overwhelmed, and the section chief gets the command to maintain order by any means necessary. And so the chief goes up to the protest leader and shoots in the head, and the police orders its fleet of front loaders to charge the people/zombies that are trying to breach the blockade. In the midst of the chaos, the section chief commits suicide. Kohta is in a different kind of heaven. What are you complaining about, Takashi? Back at the apartment, the girls have finished taking their bath and Shizuka has some fun with the two guys before falling asleep with Saya. Meanwhile, Saeko is cooking rations while wearing only an apron. Takashi flirts with Saeko, but he is called away by the jealous, tired, and possibly delirious Rei. Takashi and Rei start an argument when Rei brings Sahashi up again, but the two makes up and starts making out. Unfortunately for Takashi and Rei, their make out session is interrupted by the barking of a dog. Takashi rushes to the balcony where Kohta reports that the dog has drawn a large group of zombies to the apartment building. Rei: Takashi baby?Takashi: What's up, honey-bunny?Rei: You didn't brush your teeth yet, did you? That horseradish smell coming from your mouth is ruining the mood. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I thought this episode would be completely dedicated to fan service, but I was wrong. This episode was 80% fan service, and the other 20% was people doing stupid things at the bridge. The pro-zombie protesters were out of their minds, and the police were clueless, but we shouldn't be surprised to see counterproductive idiots and incompetent authorities, given that HOTD is supposed to be a homage to zombie disaster films. At least what was happening on the bridge had zombie biting and people getting shot, which helps to offset the Highschool of the Boobs show going on in the apartment. The main focus of the episode was of course the girls and all their jiggling assets. I found the fan service to be laughable (especially Shizuka and Rei's perverted antics), which meant at least I wasn't bored. There wasn't much of a plot, but I wasn't expecting one this week. The series also tried its hand again at the Takashi and Rei drama, but an argument that suddenly turned into a make out session doesn't really say much. Maybe Rei realizes that there are at least two other hot girls in the vicinity who have their eyes on Takashi, and so she is trying to stake her claim. Overall, this episode was better than I predicted, but then again I came in with low expectations. The episode was fan service interlaced with random acts of stupidity and violence, and it probably won't be winning any awards. Judging from the preview, the girls still aren't wearing their cloths next week, but at least our main characters will be in action... the kind of action that involves killing zombies. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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This episode introduces a funky new character into the picture. She’s Dr. Boing-Boing’s friend!!! She has long wavy purple hair and is one of the best snipers around. YEAH! Sounds pretty kakkoi to me!! Oh and she ALSO carries some sizeable assets.  I guess like attracts like!! hahaha I approve this character!!! ^_^ Circumstances are [...]
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The beginning of Highschool of the Dead's sixth episode gives us an intriguing test of our priorities as viewers of this series - Do we focus upon the TV broadcast reporting over two million dead in Japan and the evacuation of even television station personnel to an off-shore location? Or, do we concentrate on the various heroines of this series getting undressed for a bath?Even if you weren't
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So the 6th episode is the fanservice episode. There was a surprising... Continue Reading
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The fifth episode of Highschool of the Dead is a perfect example of how to kill your momentum. Even though I may not have liked all of the previous episodes, I think they did a good job of slowly building the tension and scope of the zombie epidemic. By contrast, this week's episode meanders toward [...]
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