high school of the dead 2
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“Are you an idiot?”
This show is turning out better than I hoped for. Maybe I was a bit too pessimistic… but Madhouse’s deft fanservice-laden touch and their willingness to give a bit more than the manga really hit home. High School of the Dead is just fun to watch. Then again, when has a team of unhumanly proportioned schoolgirls smashing zombies not been fun to watch?
The only problem with zombie stories is how do they end. Pretty much everything and everyone is devastated by the crisis, so the happiest possible ending is for the survivors to find some safe haven. Not really a thrilling end since… well… there’s that outcome and being eaten by the zombies. There’s no in-between. It’s not like watching Sora no Otoshimono thinking, “Mmm… which Angeloid does Tomoki actually like?” (And, well, I did not expect the answer to be that one. And that’s why SnO is fantastic.)
(Another possible ending is that the survivors figure out a way to kill the zombies. I consider this a cousin of the safe haven ending. It’s just… there’s not a lot of ways the plot can go. Once we get tired of the fanservice and the zombie bashing, what’s left? Not that I’m tired of the zombie bashing or fanservice at this juncture.)
Maria Inoue is awesome as Rei. She’s using a totally confident yet playful voice. She has done a great job at various roles lately, and this is no exception. My only request: more mischievous Kana Minami voice!
(I think it’s about time we induct Kana Minami into the This Character Is Just Awesome Pantheon. First ballot inductee, no question about it.)
Weren’t their clothes like covered in blood form episode one? *sigh* Also, if you were trapped, alone with a cute girl that you liked during a zombie infestation, is your first thought going to be sorrow for your friends? Mmm… Takashi is a better man than me, I guess.
(This is worse than Tomoya passing up the Kyou buffet mainly because they literally may only have hours left to live. Might as well start working on that ol’ bucket list.)
Takagi is really annoying me. I was cheering for the zombie to eat her brains. I liked how she discovers that the zombies are attracted to sound… then threw a screaming and crying fit in the hallway. Good job. Is she tsundere for zombies?
What I’m going to do this weekend. I’m going to Home Depot and buy bagfuls of sunflowers, pea shooters, and wall-nuts. I need to secure my house against zombie attacks. And, yes, I would so watch a Plants vs. Zombies anime.
(Even though this series is called “High School of the Dead,” I doubt we’ll get another episode that takes place in a high school. If this occurred in an American high school, I doubt it would be like this… since the students could be armed. They would be more effective at fighting back. Or maybe not.)
Go Hirano! I hope he becomes like McGuyver… “Hey, I just made a flamethrower out of a hair spray bottle, duct tape, an iPhone battery, some rubber bands, a chopstick, and bubble gum!”
Can’t say I enjoy Sound Effects-sensei. Come on. Don’t insult my intelligence… we’re to believe that she’s a competent teacher? Uh, sure. We’re to believe that those gravity-defying hopes and dreams can exist? Uh, sure. And for someone depending on others during a zombie attack, Shizuka sure whines a lot.
“Takashi… I don’t get 3G service here!” *sob*
I like how when these calls happen, it just so happens that the guy on the other line is attacked by a zombie right then and there. Not a minute before. Not a minute after. Exactly during the call.
Madhouse was a good choice.
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Is this the heavily censored feed? I’ve been hearing about those.
Also, I think Takagi’s justma retard. Pity she’s not getting eaten anytime soon.
Double team or not, you think she’d stop trying to nail zombies with a pole at the center of mass and instead aim a little higher.
By the way, you forgot the fourth, MJ-approved ending: “…and it was all just a dream.”
You have a picture of Busujima Saeko yet you have paragraphs of Marina Inoue. Whut D8 Miyuki Sawashiro mention please lol
I have no idea how you can love Rei and hate Saya. As far as irritating goes, Rei is far more annoying than Saya. At least Saya didn’t get hot for the guy that killed her boyfriend five feet from the corpse.
Tsundere? That word didn’t exist in 1999!
…oh wait, wrong show…
Watch Occult Academy :)
@Flags: Utter fail. “Maria Inoue is awesome as Rei.” != I like Rei. Try… “I like Maria Inoue’s voice work.”
“Double team or not, you think she’d stop trying to nail zombies with a pole at the center of mass and instead aim a little higher.”
Her broom-stick with a screw at the end doesn’t really have the penetrating power to stab through bone. If she tried to aim for the head the stick will just glance off. I think she aim for the chest to push them off balance and keep out of clawing reach while the guy bash it’s head in.
This is becoming dangerously a parody of itself, but it still somehow manages to keep it up.
I must say that the word “parody” pushes me imagining how HTT girls would deal in a suddenly zombie-infested sakura high school.
Mugi would triumph bashing the undead with her Triton keyboard and epic strength.
Ritsu would probably survive as the good tomboy she is, even if armed only with subpar drumsticks.
Azunyan would hide under sumething making good use of her remaining lives
Yui would luckily avoid all attacks thanks to her uberclumsiness just to be eaten alive by Ui once she gets finally home
and Mio… well… I just can’t see her as the usual salt statue in front of real utter terror…
Come on man, those hopes and dreams do exist… Not that level of gravity-defying though…( I mean, look at the pic: the size I can believe, but why the hell are they pointing forwards like that)
The writer should rename this series to “Bigboobies vs Zombies”
Another way to end the show would be the guys figuring out that zombies are actually attracted to highly concentrated soma, they would dump all the girls, never be attacked again and live happily ever after.
“Hey, I just made a flamethrower out of a hair spray bottle, duct tape, an iPhone battery, some rubber bands, a chopstick, and bubble gum!â€
You wouldn’t get much flame out of an iPhone battery.
I was trying to explain the premise of this show to a friend last night and he immediately framed the debt crisis in terms of a zombie attack. We are all doomed.
“Can’t say I enjoy Sound Effects-sensei. Come on. Don’t insult my intelligence… we’re to believe that she’s a competent teacher?”
she is a nurse.
What happened to ed music in the first ep? I was so missing that, plus the boing sound effects.
@Hanners: “You wouldn’t get much flame out of an iPhone battery.” That’s what the bottle of hair spray is for. Battery’s there just for the spark.
@Vallen Chaos Valiant: Last time she poked someone with that stick, she punched through the rib cage, and it got stuck. If that was all I was armed with, I’d go for the neck, maybe sever some neck muscles to make biting a whole lot harder for zombies to do.
Hirano is already my favorite. I’ve read a good portion of the manga and you can see in the show he’s going to become increasingly more badass. Plus he’s voiced by the same guy that did Viral in Gurren Lagann, and Viral’s my favorite in that show too which probably just makes me a little biased. I can’t with for him to go into full-scale military mode.
“Pretty much everything and everyone is devastated by the crisis, so the happiest possible ending is for the survivors to find some safe haven.”
Up until the manga hiatus I agreed with that assessment, since it seemed to follow the Romero formula. However, some of the events in the newly released chapters are decidedly unRomaroan. Maybe the authors took a break to read World War Z?
There’s many possible endings, the way I see it.
Hmm, it could end with them miraculously curing zombitis (otherwise known as “The Cop-Out”). I don’t think zombification disease has ever been named, so I’m coining it Zombitis (“my only regret… is that I have Zombitis”)
There’s also the “Everyone’s dead, we’d better repopulate” ending (“Classic Eva End”)
The always spectacular “we’ll keep on fighting, even if no end is in sight” (otherwise known as “Anime Harem with uncompleted Manga” end) – I’m expecting this one.
The “Let’s just turn into Zombies, who really cares anyways” end (the “Shaun of the Dead” end)
“Nuke the planet” end (I guess this’d be “Bad End”). If zombitis is limited to Japan (probably due to some mad scientist somewhere in the country) then they can go with “28 Days Later” end version of this.
Angel comes from heaven, God cures Zombitis, Time travel/parallel universe (“Deus Ex Machina” end)
Mysterious “energy/chi/chakra/reiatsu/haki” cures it (“Shounen version Deus Ex Machina” end)
Finally, I can think of the “Hero Dies” version of things (known as the “Fade to Black”) where the protagonist bites it, but the others survive to keep fighting, but you can’t see how it ends because the viewpoint has been cut off (a classy ending, but really it’s just a version of the harem end where nothing is really resolved)
Or did you mean “satisfying” ending… cuz, no, there’s not really any of those. Zombies are an evolutionary dead end, in both the literal and biblical sense.
In a somewhat related note, if you do it with a zombie, is it necrophilia? They’re kinda alive, but not really, right? If it’s yes, then it should count for Vampires, too (and the current vampire craze is really wrong), and if it’s no, how much rotting would have to occur before it’s not okay? This show brings up the important questions in life.
@K.K. Lmao dude WTF but yea most likely ending is the “Anime Harem with uncompleted Manga†which is to say im rooting for it Takashi should seriously get a harem it just kinda fits him
Why the hell they cencor the whole blood from this episode?
@K.K.: Don’t forget the Truman Show ending.
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@Haesslich: The censored feed is 24 minutes of a purely black screen. Judging by proportional levels of censorship in the censored broadcast > uncensored broadcast > home video relationship, the BDs will have the zombies all be inexplicably completely naked.
@ Flags
Actually women psychologically get close to and are attracted to people who can protect them not to mention that people don’t want to be alone
@K.K.
Judging from the manga, we can already rule out the following endings: “The Cop-Out” (rotting zombies cant’ be helped), “28 Days Later” (it’s affecting the world), “Bad End” (nukes have been set off, no-one knows what that achieved), and any “Deus Ex Machina” (…hopefully).
Personally I’m rooting for “Classic Eva End”.
And it must be televised.
Also Busujima-senpai better make a good move on Takashi. A yandere is fine too!
Why put up the picture of Busujima without mentioning her?
@ GHR: Hahahaha, Truman Show ending would be sooo funny. “It was reality TV, bitches”
Busujima Saeko is the best character in this series. I hate Rei.
Well theres a reason why people are attacked when they’re on the phone, cause its an opening, one hand on a phone or being distracted by a call means death, at least in a zombie apocalypse it does, most of the time, sometimes….ok its still bullshit but still I was onto something.
Wow, is it just me or most of the female characters in HOTD are annoying? (Are they doing this on purpose? -_-; Oh Japan.) Besides kendo girl, of course. This is going to be a entertaining anime.
No, I think you’re on to something. That means all the bastards who drive and talk on their cell phone all the time will be the first to go. Hurray! Or maybe they’ll just run the rest of us over in their carelessness. >_>
There’s another manga with a premise that might have hints toward the answer: Sanka Rea – http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=49450
Thanks scribuluos, i will check it
I love nitpicking, and here’s one –
The news had nowhere else to go from the feed so they cut to noise? That’s a great way to calm people after being told it’s a riot.
Harem ending, they fled to an island away from the zombie-infested society. Unless those zombies can swim which won’t happen.
@arigatou: They can’t swim, but they can…..lumber around underwater!
Thanks scribuluos, i will check it
You remind me to my high school :)
@kojeje
err, so you say your school have zombies?
The Zombies in HotD are attracted by sound.
Cellphones today have rather loud ringtones, some even make highpitched beeping sounds while autodialing.
So the idea that you might get attacked shortly after making/receiving a call actually makes some sense.
Conclusion: during zombie invasions, one should speed dial all ones enemies “to warn them”. Just mute your own phone first.
God, I hope they have MJ’s “Thriller” as their ringtone. I can just picture it.
You know there is something wrong if even the smaller hopes and dreams in a show are super duper giga drill br .. I mean, big.