If you like tits, action, action and tits, and tits with action then you've come to the right place my friend. Oh, and their are also guns. Copious amounts of guns with excruciating detail. What's that? You like plot in your zombie ecchi bloodbath shoot em up? What are you, some kind of nerd or something?
Jokes aside, the manga expands upon some of more lackluster areas of the anime, and while I won't go so far as to say it fixed some of my major problems with it, what I love about it was stronger in the manga and what I disliked was lessened.
Story 7/10: Eh, it's just The Walking Dead hopped up on ketamine. The edges are trimmed down, and anything perceived to be even the slightest threat to the target audiences limited comprehensive abilities is disposed of and set on fire in a glorious fashion.
Art: 10/10 It's fucking awesome, for being an manga drawn by people that clearly specialize in hentai the art here is still fantastic. You can feel the painstaking passion put into the attention to detail of the firearms and all weapons present in the manga. Was going to give this a 9, but at the end of every volume they have a ridiculous amount of pinups and bonus art of the guns and characters that ties everything off with a bow.
Character 7/10: A chain is as strong as it's weakest link, but the manga pulls itself up by the bootstraps a lot better than the anime did. They start out as blatant stereotypes, but SOME of them ultimately grow and change with the world around them and it's genuinely really satisfying to see. Takashi, our MC, is an alright dude that's not annoying, doesn't act retarded, and moves the plot forward while maintaining a good dynamic with the rest of the cast.
Not the main focus of the show, but there are times when it works. And when it works, it works really really well.
Enjoyment 10/10: I could not put this down. It's constant action and consistent quality, but always moving the plot forward at a pace and in a direction that keeps me begging to know what happens next.
Overall 8/10: I enjoyed this manga and I'm not ashamed to admit it, but objectively speaking I could never give it any higher than an 8 for it's hit hard or miss hard cast and the tragic indefinite hiatus. Watch this if you love action, stay far away from it if you loath fanservice. Either way, I know what I like, and I know that I fucking love HOTD.
