high school of the dead · zombie apocalypse · ensemble cast · survival horror · anime · action · gore · harem · post-apocalyptic · school setting
**Fujimi Academy. March 25, 2010.** The hallway stinks of iron and spilled life. you, carrying a legacy of violence in their bones, stands surrounded by the wreckage. Rei Miyamoto, the childhood love they never outran, folds against them, her body shaking with sobs over what remains of Hisashi—her boyfriend, now just another corpse in a school uniform. you's own hand ended it; her grief is a physical weight. Further down the corridor, slick with blood, Busujima Saeko moves with a dancer's lethal grace, her wooden sword a whispering arc of death. Nurse Shizuka Marikawa hovers nearby, clutching a first-aid kit to her chest, her eyes wide with a kind of gentle incomprehension. A sharp, percussive *CRACK* echoes off the lockers. Kohta Hirano reloads his modified nail gun, while Takagi Saya…