Series synopsis
High School of the Dead, also known as 学園黙示録 HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD is a Japanese animation action & adventure drama sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on AT-X on July 5, 2010. It ended on September 20, 2010. It was created by Daisuke Satou. It stars Junichi Suwabe, Marina Inoue, Miyuki Sawashiro and Eri Kitamura.
A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?
Premise
A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?
Premise: They're gonna graduate with horrors.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Junichi Suwabe as Takashi Komuro (voice)
- Marina Inoue as Rei Miyamoto (voice)
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Saeko Busujima (voice)
- Eri Kitamura as Saya Takagi (voice)
- Nobuyuki Hiyama as Kohta Hirano (voice)
- Yukari Fukui as Shizuka Marikawa (voice)
- Ayana Taketatsu as Alice Maresato (voice)
- Jouji Nakata as Sōichirō Takagi (voice)
Supporting cast
- Yoshiko Sakakibara as Yuriko Takagi (voice)
- Kisho Taniyama as Kōichi Shidō (voice)
- Junko Takeuchi as Rika Minami (voice)
- Jin Urayama as Tadashi Miyamoto (voice)
- Mamoru Miyano as Hisashi Igō (voice)
- Hitomi Harada as Zeke (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 13 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | April 26, 2011 | April 26, 2011 |
| Season 1 | 12 | July 5, 2010 | September 20, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Drifters of the DEAD The gang find themselves on a remote tropical island, supposedly free of zombies. While the girls have some fun on the beach, Kohta finds some fish while Takashi locates some leaves for a fire. |
April 26, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Spring of the DEAD A deadly virus is turning the world's population into walking corpses. While the world erupts into chaos around them, Takashi Komuro and his friends frantically search for a way to break free from the living dead. |
July 5, 2010 |
| 2 |
Escape from the DEAD As the entire school quickly spirals into chaos, more players just into the fight, handmade weapons at the ready. New enemy traits are discovered, and the survivors realize the situation that they're really in. |
July 12, 2010 |
| 3 |
Democracy under the DEAD The enemy's weak points are discovered and exploited. The human condition is put to the test, and everyone's base survival instincts kick in. Tensions rise as more people swell the ranks, and one survivor refuses to continue with the group |
July 19, 2010 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | AT-X |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 5, 2010 |
| Last aired | September 20, 2010 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Saturday at 23:30:00 |