Art & Sound-10
Character-10
Enjoyment-9
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Overall-9
A lot of people are really beating up this anime because the high fan service. Putting the fan service aside, the producers did a great job in this anime.
The story starts out with a zombie apocalypse with a bunch of high school students and a obnoxious school nurse and they're desperately trying to escape. The group was basically like the Titanic after it struck that iceberg, it slowly started to sink and eventually it was surrounded by darkness. High School of the Dead is basically the same thing although it did suffer one "miracle syndrome" (basically when the scene is in a despair, a miracle happens to save it).
The art was amazing in this. The creators definitely did put in the work to give amazing art. Everything was detailed great, the characters, background, the guns, everything. The sound was also outstanding. I usually don't like opening themes for shows but this opening theme had a good rock song to start it off. Both the opening and ending theme songs are great.
The characters in my opinion was not clichéd, and actually took me by surprise. I honestly feel that all the characters in the group are likable. They're all badasses in their very own way, they're what makes the show so enjoyable.
Honestly, if you put the fan service aside, this is a really good anime, the plot was well thought of, the art was well drawn and the music was well played. Everything was well done, even the fan service (lol) and I really did enjoy watching this, from watching Saeko beat the crap out of a zombie with her wooden sword to Takashi cracking another zombie's skull with a wrench to Kouta launching a 7.62x51mm NATO round into a zombie's head. Despite all that great action the only reason I left HOTD with only a 9 is because they left me on a cliff-hanger. Honestly, they totally screwed up in the end by leaving us blank, but hey its typical Japan now-a-days with making anime with only 12 episodes. So to conclude this, if you like action, drama, zombies and can put aside fan service, HOTD awaits you otherwise you may want to rethink watching this.
