Zom 100: Zombie ni Naru made ni Shitai 100 no Koto
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

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Haro Aso is striking again after Alice in Borderland and I have to say, this one disn't disappointed me in the slightest !

Bucket List of the Dead is a well done mix of serious and chill, funny moments. It's a real breath of pure air that is very enjoyable. Maybe it isn't for everyone, as humour is something very different among people, but for me it was a great experience.

The story tackles traditional, dramatic zombie stories by bringing a totally different ambiance and themes you wouldn't see normally in those stories. It's pretty well handled and some arcs are excellent. The more serious moments are ... pretty good too and blends in well with the light, chill ones. That's a good critic of japanese society among other things.

The characters are all enjoyable and very unique. Their dynamic is an amazing one and even if more people join their group, it will never affect negatively the balance and relationships between them and that's pretty cool. Akira is a carefree guy with a dark past but it's the light that shines above everyone in a doomed world. Kencho is the best friend everyone wants (that is, if you don't have a girlfriend). Shizuka is the cool-headed one but her interactions with the others in the party are very funny to read? Bea is a Japan fan and blends in very well with the others. Some other characters join later but it's up to you to discover them, I'm sure that you will love these ones !

The art is really good, nothing to say more I guess. I mean, I'm not a professionnal when it comes to drawings so yeah my gut feeling tells me that it's good.

I will end this review by saying that if you loved this manga, check out the anime it's very well made. And if you already did that, then read the manga it's as enjoyable as the adaptation !

It wasn't all that, people hype it up to where you think it'll be a absolute masterpiece with hidden meanings and exciting plot but its plain and average. It was okay at first but as i got deeper in the chapters felt repetitive and boring, I felt like I could be reading better stories. I may have judged it harshly mainly due to others reviews though, I read it and felt disappointed in what I received. What really gets me is the author tries hard to make it meaningful but all the lessons are so obvious that I feel nothing reading this, it's not funny ... either so what is there to this that makes everyone love it so much???

As somebody said... it went from 100 to 0.

This is manga is about survival of black company employee during zombie apocalypse and trying to fullfill list of wishes.

The art is decent, the story has shounen tropes in it, meaning protagonist being naive/saintly, villains being on occasion nearly comical and inhuman and so on. It was a decent read for duration of manga, touching on tougher subjects, not overly silly and with plenty of black humor in it, but around chapter 17 they introduced a story turn which, as far as I can tell, flushed everything they were building for down the drain. A pity.

In greater ... detail:

Story: 4/10.
It is mostly decent not super realistic but with shounen-like overtones (exagerrated characters, mostly, either overly good or overly malevolent), all the way down to chapters 16-17. Past that point they screwed up.

Art: 6/10:
It is kinda unique and fairly detailed. There's slight resemblance of "Mairimashita, Iruma Kun", but it is not very strong, and in general the art is somewhere halfway between comical and serious.

Characters: 4/10:
Exagerrated emotions/motivations, shounen style. It isn't truly horrible, but shounen-like behaviors with preachign, overly moral or overly malevolent characters is definitely there.

Enjoyment: 4/10:
It was mostly okay, but after chapter 17 I decided to drop it, as the direction story took felt too uninspired to me.

Overall: 4/10.
Maybe worth checking out up to chapter 15 or so.