Highschool of the Dead...

I picked up Highschool of the Dead recently...

It began without warning. It continues without mercy. Now a band of high schoolers join forces with guns, swords, baseball bats and anything else they can get their hands on to battle a bloodthirsty, flesh-hungry zombie apocalypse!

Blood and gore abound -- Highschool of the Dead is certainly not for those who fear red ink. HOTD is like every zombie movie I've ever seen, but, with subtitles and fan service. All of the usual zombie-tropes are explored -- people being ripped apart, head-smashing, child zombies munching on their parents, and so on. By the way, the zombies in HOTD are of the classic slow-moving variety. These zombies are attracted to sound, but, cannot see. They have difficulty navigating stairs or steep inclines and although, they are very strong, they show no evidence of cognitive ability, such as problem solving or being able to use tools.

There is quite a lot of fan service (tight costumes, short skirts, bare skin and suggestive situations and dialogue) in the series, so, HOTD is probably not suitable for the younger anime fans among us. The animation quality has that nice clean polished look that I've come to expect in more recent anime. Despite, the copious amounts of blood spilled in the series, there is not a whole lot of eye candy to speak of. I found the series very entertaining and overall, I was quite pleased. I give HOTD a 4 out of 5.