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Sep 20, 2010 2:33 AM
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It was a bad ending, it has to be a second season, takashi has to find he's parents and everything! it was like a half movie :S no, it has to be a second season, or else they will fuck up :S
Do you turn left where nothing is right or do you turn right where nothing is left?
Sep 20, 2010 2:34 AM
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journey continue, I guess this is going to be a zombie drama.
Well,at least the plot still hold it position ^.^ .thank god the nuke doesn't take affect.
7/10 .
Sep 20, 2010 2:35 AM

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Thank god this is over. Biggest dissappointment of this season, and I was really looking forward to a good zombie anime, not some generic ecchi-fest with crappy tacked on drama.


I am proud to have Clannad as the only thing on my dropped list.
Sep 20, 2010 2:38 AM

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Well that was nothing short as within my predictions and expectations. The humvee did make a great vehicle for the escape instead of the amphibious one that they used in the manga. Although the gravity defying move was unneeded once again. And it ended at the part I expected so no surprises there. The action here was awesome though.

Overall, it was a fun ride. Having read the manga, I know exactly what to expect and what not to expect in this show and where it would end so I enjoyed it while it aired. This cliffhanger ending leaves it open for season 2 but I doubt it will be made next year, since the manga has little material. Add the slow pace of the story in there and Madhouse not famous for making season 2 of shows and it might be a long while. But maybe it depends on the BD sales of this and the OVA if it will warrant one. I sure would like a season 2.
Sep 20, 2010 2:51 AM
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Xavierxenon said:
Thank god this is over. Biggest dissappointment of this season, and I was really looking forward to a good zombie anime, not some generic ecchi-fest with crappy tacked on drama.


Biggest disappointment? What bollocks.
There are even worse shows this season.
And HoTD is one of the gems of this season IMO.
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Sep 20, 2010 3:01 AM

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I liked the episode, The ending was ok ... needs a second season.
Sep 20, 2010 3:21 AM

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this show could mutch better with less fanservice overall it was enjoyable 7/10
Sep 20, 2010 3:33 AM

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open ending...where the f**k is the second season!
Sep 20, 2010 3:39 AM

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Season 2, f*cking where?
Sep 20, 2010 3:43 AM

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A very good(unexpectedly) ending. I'll be hoping for a second season...
Season overall 8.5/10 , the start of the season pulling it down.
Sep 20, 2010 3:44 AM

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I did enjoy this last episode, which let me bump the score up from a six to a seven. Considering how much worse other series have ended, I was somewhat satisfied with this one since I think a second season is practically guaranteed.
Sep 20, 2010 3:53 AM

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I think it was a decent ending. Well, they show us the at the end where Komuro and the guys arrived at the mall, maybe chances of getting second season? I hope so. And also who is the female police officer at the end? Either way it was a good series. 8/10.



Sep 20, 2010 3:59 AM

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Episodes 1,2,3,12 were good. The rest were really bad.

If you take into consideration that this anime/manga has no real plot and its just about zombie slashing and tons of fanservice then i can say they did a decent job on the action scenes and over the top bad fanservice from my point of view.

And about 2nd season ppl should not rejoice because theere is no manga material for it. I guess the OVA will be about the police girl in the end of this episode. If there is another season then it will be after 2-3 years.

7/10 mostly because of the 4 good episodes
Sep 20, 2010 4:01 AM

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This episode was pretty epic. Saya's dad is such a total badass its ridiculous. Cant forget Mr.Maddo either, series was short n sweet
Sep 20, 2010 4:11 AM
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AceIII said:
Episodes 1,2,3,12 were good. The rest were really bad.

If you take into consideration that this anime/manga has no real plot and its just about zombie slashing and tons of fanservice then i can say they did a decent job on the action scenes and over the top bad fanservice from my point of view.

And about 2nd season ppl should not rejoice because theere is no manga material for it. I guess the OVA will be about the police girl in the end of this episode. If there is another season then it will be after 2-3 years.

7/10 mostly because of the 4 good episodes


Okay, on what basis in ep 7,8 and 9 not considered good?
IMO, Ep, 1,5,7,8,9 and 12 were the bests eps. The others were good but just a few points short.
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Sep 20, 2010 4:15 AM
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Thought these were real nuclear bombs that would kill everyone...
Anyway, can't wait for OVAs :)
Sep 20, 2010 4:16 AM

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Ok.. This ep is the one I'm looking for..

Less fanservice, more zombie action..

Also, Takagi's mother is hot after that ripping that clothes.. :D

+1 for the nurse for that driving =p

Waiting for the season 2..
Sep 20, 2010 4:30 AM

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Im pretty damn sure theres going to be a second series now.

They seemed to give this series a relatvely happy end in spite of what had just happened.

Also what in hell happened to Shido? I assume he died.
Sep 20, 2010 4:32 AM

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kinda pissed with only 12 episodes like with kuroshitsuji


Sep 20, 2010 4:36 AM
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So many questions left unanswered. Second season and OVA, HURRY UP! XD
Sep 20, 2010 4:39 AM

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Never expected HOTD to have a good ending and I'm happy it is now over, was one hell of a stupid series. No second season needed.
Sep 20, 2010 4:44 AM

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I'm expecting a nicely done "bad end" then it would be awesome. 7/10
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Sep 20, 2010 5:03 AM

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I must say that I was disappointed after watching ep 11, didn't expect the last episode to be good. But I was wrong.

After watching the final episode I officially forgive all the bad things this anime had. Tons of ridiculous fanservice, lack of logic in the main plot etc. - these don't matter to me anymore. This episode gave me exactly what I wanted from this serie all along.

I want season 2, not only OVA's!
Sep 20, 2010 5:21 AM
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9/10

Probably the best episode after Episode 1.

That is the best scene :



haha

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The check the laser dot thingy reminds me of Modern Warfare :D


Yeah, but more precisely Modern Warfare 2.

Sep 20, 2010 5:26 AM

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Awesome final, so extreme :D
Loved the tilting car at the end :D
The score went up one for me, 9/10.

Sep 20, 2010 5:27 AM
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supersayen said:
9/10

Probably the best episode after Episode 1.

That is the best scene :



haha


Breaking the 4th wall :D
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Sep 20, 2010 5:31 AM

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Kazejimonji said:
Aversa said:
Only thing i am wondering about is why did they nuke near or in Japan, just targeting a random densely populated area?


I would presume that they've targeted the China/Russia Block which is quite close to Japan.

*EDIT*
Two words:
Cold War
If you do politics then you'll understand why they would bomb there.


Yeah.. I think my favorite part of this series.. was honestly the launching of the bomb.. That is a scene that is played out in many early 80's Nuclear "Educational" films.. (I say educational loosely because it was more to garner awarness of what would happen during Nuclear Warfare.. ie "The Day After" and "Testament" are two films that come to mind.)

I know they really just cliched it and followed it as its been done before.. but it was still a neat sequence. The only quam I have.. is looking directly at even a airburst Nuclear ICBM.. you would be flashblinded instantly.

Now my final thoughts on the series... exactly what the last quote says..but I'll reword it a bit:

"This is the way hotd series one ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper."

Another thing I found neat about this episode, It looks like Takagi's men were using the M-16a as their weapons. The sound effects for it were pretty good. Would have been neat to hear them on burst though. :)
Sep 20, 2010 5:33 AM
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tecu said:
Yeah, really original humor etc etc..

Thank god this series ended. Now I don't have to drop anything as long as I don't start watching season 2.


[sarcasm]Oh noes, we lost a potential viewer for season two :<[/sarcasm]
What bollocks, less ppl like u would make season 2 far more enjoyable.
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Sep 20, 2010 5:37 AM

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This was a great ep IMO:
The zombies assaulting the house of Takagi
Saya's mother ripping her dress
Saya's father as a badass
The escape scene
There we`re great scenes, altough i'm disappointed that they didn`t show Shido died so I guess he will be in the OVA.
7/10 for the show
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Sep 20, 2010 5:44 AM

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To further try to explain the airbust ICBM.. I may need someone older than me to verify this that is more well versed. From movies and documentaries I've seen on tactical nuclear warfare and if you noticed in the anime, the bombs were coming in clusters. They intercepted everyone but one, which just happened to be the airburst missle. It's my understanding that the first missle is the airburst one to shutdown radar tracking and any last second intercepting missles so that the ground detonated weapons hit their targets while the targets are "blind."

I guess that would be my best explanation to everyone about why would they just use EMP. Because they did intercept the other missles.
Sep 20, 2010 5:50 AM

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meh 12 episodes...
12x 15 mins of boobs and panties
12x 5 mins of ending, opening etc
12x 1mins of zombie action...

they should have named it Highschool of the Panty Shots
Sep 20, 2010 5:56 AM

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supersayen said:

That is the best scene :



FumiGuys translated that to: "That is my characther" XD
Funny either way, I lol`d XD

Sep 20, 2010 6:00 AM

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hope there'll be s2....i just dont really happy with how it end :P
overall- 9/10 :D
Sep 20, 2010 6:17 AM

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"Kota arc" doesn't get animated. DAMMIT.

SECOND SEASON. WE DEMAND.
Sep 20, 2010 6:32 AM

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Hansinkdu said:
Even in a zombie apocalypse, each country's government is doing what it can to prevent another country from gaining global dominance during this time of crisis, but at the same time attempting to gain dominance over the others by crippling them, which is where the EMP's come in. It's M.A.D because each government can't trust one other, and for good reason.


So basically you didn't watch the same series that I just finished. You seem to have forgotten that this Zombie outbreak was on a worldwide pandemic scale and the nuclear weapons seemed to be launched in an attempt to contain the infected cities. Considering in past episodes we saw Washington D.C. overrun with Zombies we can assume that the United States wasn't thinking of expanding it's global Hegemony. We could also assume the same for the other Nuclear nations. In episode 11 they discussed Russia actually firing a MIRV(Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle). You don't launch a MIRV unless you are seriously planning on destroying a lot of targets. We also see in episode 11 the United States shoot off an SLBM(submarine-launched ballistic missile). Ask yourself why the United States, which was implied as being overrun with Zombies would want to disable the electronics in Japan. This is a strategic tactic that is to be implemented before an invasion. There are only a few logical reasons I can think of to use Nuclear weapons during a world wide pandemic, assuming the zombies were caused by some sort of virus and not the devil, one would be to attempt to contain the infected areas. Of which Japan was an infected zone. Another would be if another country did not know that this was a world wide pandemic and interpreted the zombie breakout as a first strike biological attack against it's country.

Since a real antagonist was never really established, other than the Zombies and crazy perv teacher guy, how are we to imagine like you are suggesting that there is an actual attempt by some evil country to take over the world. Seriously yo. The only reason they used the EMP attack was to add a dramatic effect that would lead to some sort of climax. I'm just pointing out that premise behind the entire episode was not well thought out, nor was the entire series a good example of other Zombie movies which have meaning and substance behind all the gore and fanservice. This show had a chance in the beginning, but it just fell into the same ecchi hole, when it continued to focus on fanservice rather than a well developed plot. It's ok haters gonna hate right? But seriously I'm still just really disappointed. I say if they do ever decide to create a second season they need to fire the mangaka if he's at fault for this plot line or ignore him and focus more on other great zombie creators, particularly George A. Romero.
Sep 20, 2010 6:35 AM

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Now we just have to wait every 2 months for the manga to come out O.o
Shame it was only 12 episodes hope there will be a second season (Hopefully by then more chapters for the manga would come out by then)
Sep 20, 2010 6:41 AM

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There most likely will be a second season, becaus they showed a main characther from the next arc in the manga from where the anime is in the ed pics :D

Hope you guys don`t mind me spoiling a little bit to give you hope XD

Sep 20, 2010 6:42 AM

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Great action packed episode! They made it to the shopping mall and then the season ends. =(

Shame we have to wait such a damn long time before a season 2 because of the manga.

Great series, 9/10.

Sep 20, 2010 6:46 AM
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Des said:
There most likely will be a second season, becaus they showed a main characther from the next arc in the manga from where the anime is in the ed pics :D

Hope you guys don`t mind me spoiling a little bit to give you hope XD


Somewhat true, the main character of the Mall arc has blond hair. The character shown was the other cop that left shortly be4 Takashi and the others arrived to get help.
Still there will be a second season. I'm sure of it.
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Sep 20, 2010 6:52 AM

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Koi-phan said:

Somewhat true, the main character of the Mall arc has blond hair. The character shown was the other cop that left shortly be4 Takashi and the others arrived to get help.
Still there will be a second season. I'm sure of it.


I don`t read the manga, they just told us that on CR.

Sep 20, 2010 6:55 AM

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4/5 for this episode, 6/10 overall.

This was probably the best episode, because it didn't have any cheesy melodrama and tacky character background stories and lines.

Oh, and the badass parents also made it better.
Sep 20, 2010 6:58 AM

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Saeko was awesome :O



Man 12 eps ain't enough hope they make a season 2
Sep 20, 2010 6:59 AM
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Des said:
Koi-phan said:

Somewhat true, the main character of the Mall arc has blond hair. The character shown was the other cop that left shortly be4 Takashi and the others arrived to get help.
Still there will be a second season. I'm sure of it.


I don`t read the manga, they just told us that on CR.


oh. Still, there is gonna be a second season....the Mall arc is over tho.
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Sep 20, 2010 7:04 AM

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There must be a second season!!!! I neeeeeed my weekly fix of gravity defing breasts!!!

Anyway it sure does look like they plan on a second season. At this point they really don't need to follow the manga all that closely if they don't want to. What I mean by that is the writters could just ask the manga guys about whose parents they want to turn into Zombies and you get a whole season of really good side stories about the gang finding their parents as Zombies or not.
Sep 20, 2010 7:11 AM

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This needs more than just an OVA sequel ><

Hopefully there will be a real sequel in the future, when the manga progresses. It was a good show.
Sep 20, 2010 7:24 AM

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Even though I first didn't really like this anime but later I get addicted to it ...so now I want a season season badly T_T want to see more crap politics and some couple evolving ...
Sep 20, 2010 7:25 AM

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Koi-phan said:

oh. Still, there is gonna be a second season....the Mall arc is over tho.


Yeah, I`m pretty sure that there wil be a second season :)
So chill you guys who seem to be in despair :P

Sep 20, 2010 7:39 AM
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Orion1 said:
Hansinkdu said:
Even in a zombie apocalypse, each country's government is doing what it can to prevent another country from gaining global dominance during this time of crisis, but at the same time attempting to gain dominance over the others by crippling them, which is where the EMP's come in. It's M.A.D because each government can't trust one other, and for good reason.


So basically you didn't watch the same series that I just finished. You seem to have forgotten that this Zombie outbreak was on a worldwide pandemic scale and the nuclear weapons seemed to be launched in an attempt to contain the infected cities. Considering in past episodes we saw Washington D.C. overrun with Zombies we can assume that the United States wasn't thinking of expanding it's global Hegemony. We could also assume the same for the other Nuclear nations. In episode 11 they discussed Russia actually firing a MIRV(Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle). You don't launch a MIRV unless you are seriously planning on destroying a lot of targets. We also see in episode 11 the United States shoot off an SLBM(submarine-launched ballistic missile). Ask yourself why the United States, which was implied as being overrun with Zombies would want to disable the electronics in Japan. This is a strategic tactic that is to be implemented before an invasion. There are only a few logical reasons I can think of to use Nuclear weapons during a world wide pandemic, assuming the zombies were caused by some sort of virus and not the devil, one would be to attempt to contain the infected areas. Of which Japan was an infected zone. Another would be if another country did not know that this was a world wide pandemic and interpreted the zombie breakout as a first strike biological attack against it's country.

Since a real antagonist was never really established, other than the Zombies and crazy perv teacher guy, how are we to imagine like you are suggesting that there is an actual attempt by some evil country to take over the world. Seriously yo. The only reason they used the EMP attack was to add a dramatic effect that would lead to some sort of climax. I'm just pointing out that premise behind the entire episode was not well thought out, nor was the entire series a good example of other Zombie movies which have meaning and substance behind all the gore and fanservice. This show had a chance in the beginning, but it just fell into the same ecchi hole, when it continued to focus on fanservice rather than a well developed plot. It's ok haters gonna hate right? But seriously I'm still just really disappointed. I say if they do ever decide to create a second season they need to fire the mangaka if he's at fault for this plot line or ignore him and focus more on other great zombie creators, particularly George A. Romero.
OMG such a long passage,I advice you to watch the first 5 minute of episode 8 .just watch and you will realize the stupidity of US president's decision.
Hansinkdu 's explanation was 70% wrong ,so I don't really care, but Orion1 explanation actually made me said "OMG" .
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Sep 20, 2010 7:40 AM

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All I can say is wow. The whole season just blew my mind, it was a lot of nonstop action. The plot wasn't that original, I mean the whole living dead and end of the world thing has been done to death but this was refreshing. I got a little sad when Saya's parent stayed behind to fight but that's how it is. I'm really hoping for a second season because I feel there is still more left that can be done. I want to know what happens to them, even if they die I still want to know.
Sep 20, 2010 7:41 AM

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Series ended with a bang - i loved abosolutely everything in this episode, especially music and action scenes. Can't wait for continuation.
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