Zom 100: Bucket list of the Dead

 A comedy show for the summer season of 2023, and one I added to my FAL team as I had a gut feeling this would prove popular.  Except it didn't turn out to be a comedy show...

I guess this is alo my first real zombie anime, over 500+ series down the line...

 

Tendo is a 24 year old, totally broken by corporate boring life.  He doesn`t even dare to confess his intrest in his co-worker Ootori.  But one day he wakes up and finds that the whole country is being overrun by zombies!  Why he must struggle to survive, he never felt so alive actually.  He sees the world in colour again, happy he now has a day off from work... but when wanting to save his crush, he finds her turned into a zombie as well.

He wakes up the day after, happy he doesn`t have to go to work anymore even though the streets are full of zombies, and starts to finally clean his appartment now that he has time.  But he also finds out he has to go on a beer run as he drank the last one.  At the convenience store, he meets another survivor, a girl named Mikazuki Shizuka.  He feels alive, writing down a bucket list of 100 things he still wants to do before becoming a zombie.

A guy named Shou leads a resistance against the zombies, as Tendo reflects on his boring office life from before the apocalypse.  A mysterious sound lures all the zombies away, allowing Tendo to go and try an aquintance, Kencho, to apologise.  As they venture together in the city, they run into three fight attendant girls, and Tendo ends up very drunk.  But another survivor inside has been infected, and the girls attack each other and are infected.  The friends must move on without them, including a girl that made a lasting impression on Tendo.

 

As he wants to live out his childhood dream, he becomes Akiraiger, a superhero, but is soon faced with a zombified shark in the aquarium.  Mikazuki is also present, and in the end he saves her, but ends up with a reprimand for doing so and putting Kencho in danger as such.  They go on a road trip to Tendo's parents house, making a stop to get a camper... and running into Mikazuki again.  Their RV is stopped, by what turns out to be his old tyrannical boss, who started a sort of company again exploiting even the zombies.

Stuck in the encampment, he is forced to do the waitering of the men.  The boss takes an eye on Mikazuki, coming on to her.  But in the meantime, his boss keeps playing mindgames with him, slowly dwindling his resolve.  During a supply run, a zombie sneaks into the truck and gets into the encampment that way.  Mikazuki brings him back to his senses, Tendo telling of his boss.  But the truck arrives and in the ensueing chaos the zombies start making victims, but Tendo saves his boss.  

During a yoga excercise, they meet Beatrix, a samurai armoured girl that actually wants to find the last surviving sushi-chef.  They travel to an Onsen after enjoying a great sushi meal, but unfortunatly the hot spring is also filled with zombies.  Travelling through the forest, helping an old man out building a treehouse, they arrive at Akira's parents village... finding them in a sake induced party.  Akira appologises for not visiting for years, before they enjoy the rest of the infection safe haven.

Enjoying the calm life, there are however those that are in the village that are just bored, such as NEET Higurashi.  Fueled by a hatred for society, his actions cause an opening in the barrier, and allow the zombies in before he confronts Akira and his friends.  One by one his cronies are defeated, before they both end up in a duel of opposing views... and bucket lists.

His father held hostage, he is forced to make a hard decision.  Using a rouse to look like a zombie, he overcomes Higurashi and saves his father.  But Higurashi gets bitten in the end, and confesses that the one thing he really wanted to do was have fun with friends in a public swimming pool.  Akira makes him a promise when he finally turns zombie, he will find him and they will go to the pool before Higurashi runs off, throwing himself in the nearby pool.

Together with the villagers, they move away from the village and the zombies, but with the bridge gone they are caught, before help arrives and they make good their escape, and into new adventures!

Now, due to some studio issues, the series went on hiatus for a month or two between episodes 9 and 10, but once it returned it was the great viewing experience again, even though this did cause a bit of it's momentum to be lost.  But this is one fantastic series for sure and one you NEED to check out!