Highschool of the Dead Got Me Down!

As I hammer out the basic details of my review style I am going to look at a few things that have been bothering me. I'll start with “Highschool of the Dead”.

I love Highschool of the Dead. It is a very enjoyable manga with interesting and enjoyable characters with real motivations. The very first issue, one of our main characters, Rei Miyamoto, starts freaking out over a lost loved one and blames our protagonist Takashi Komuro, for killing him once he turned. When she loses it and says that he wanted to kill him so they could be together he basically says "Fuck it and you, I'm leaving stay here and die if you want it so bad. We see right here Takashi ain't taking any shit. This is exactly what I want; he isn't here to babysit you he's in it for survival. All of our characters are there for a bit obvious reason the only problem I have with the series and I mean that it is the only problem. Is the Jiggling.

Yes jiggling breast. I love jiggling breast, I'm a guy let's face it its fun to watch but seriously!

I hate when the jiggle effect is over used. And this series uses it. The reason from what I have learned is that the mangaka is or was a hentai artist, so obviously jiggling is a side effect to this outstanding story. And because of that and it's little use near the beginning makes this story addictive. But since the beginning it has gotten worse and worse, what was the occasional panty shot, ignoring the gigantic racks of "Highschool girl" it is easy to overlook the obvious porn. But with this most recent chapter it is getting harder and harder. There is a scene where our group finds a net launcher. A very obvious tool with, a very obvious use. But one of our characters the nurse, Shizuka Marikawa, asks what it is and her first thought is...

Yeah, that was her very first thought. From this...

Why is all anime/manga turning to porn, excluding One Piece but we all see Nami's tits grow every issue! Seriously there was a time when parents would think that all anime was cartoon porn. And I fought to try and prove that wrong then it changed and just about all anime became porn. Looks at just about any anime now a days. Anything reviewed by “MasakoX” shows a huge increase of porn like images and panty shots galore! I have lost that battle. For this reason I can't watch the Highschool of the Dead anime. I tried but the jiggling is way too much! And the story is left at a random point considering the manga is released pretty irregularly. And with scenes like this

I'm kind of happy. I would have loved to see it go to the end but then the jiggling would kill me. Just scenes destroy the idea of it. Like the trailer showing a bullet go right between both breast and legs of Saeko Busujima.

Also I notice a lot of nip slips in manga more recently. “Sankarea” did it and Highschool of the Dead. Damn it anime stop making it hard to defend you. At least I'm not defending “Komodo No Jikan”.

Sanka-READ IT! A manga Recommendation

It might not seem it but I do happen to have other interests than just talking about zombies. I also like to read manga. And one of my favorite mangas is Sankarea. Sankarea is the story of a boy who falls for a girl who then falls to her death. The End see you next blog! But obviously there is a story past that the boy uses a formula to bring her back...ok the actual story goes nothing like that but at the very least it is kind of the idea behind it, just rearrange the order and get rid of the boy bringing her back on purpose. The actual plot goes a little like this...

Rea!

Sankarea Plot: Sankarea is about a zombie-obsessed boy, Chihiro Furuya, who discovers how to resurrect the dead and as a result acquires a zombie girlfriend when the 15 year old girl he likes, Rea Sanka, dies in an accident but is brought back to life thanks to having earlier drunk a potion he had developed using information he got from an old manuscript. Ironically Rea had actually drunk the potion as a suicide attempt, as one of its ingredients was the poisonous plant Hydrangea (also known as Hortensia). She had come to despise her overbearing and abusive father and when he withdrew her from school so as to completely control her life, she decided to end it all. Unfortunately, her death does not free her from his continued interference in her life! (Note this summary is taken directly from anime wiki: Sankarea)

So if you can't see why I love this story already then you don't get this blog at all. It has absolutely everything a good story needs.

Good stories need:

• Good character
• Interesting story
• Teenage suicide (or at least a good attempt)
• Zombies
• Implied necrophilia (if not obvious necrophilia, am I right?)
• People with cat ears...don't judge me

But in reality this is one of the better manga series even if it is a bit shoujo-ish, but its shounen. It seems to e a must read for any real zombie fan, even if it isn't a fleshing eating zombie story...yet.

I hope to take a more in depth look at this series later when I have more time, but for now I can only try to tell you people about something really enjoyable. So if I can say you should check out Sankarea it is a really enjoy able series.

Sankarea Manga: Sankarea on Mangafox

However be warned that this series also includes:

• Strange bondage foreigners
• Implied incest (as well as really implied incest)
• Disturbing staring lolitas (no sexual situations...let's hope it stays that way [ignore the banner pages])
• Possibility of this series turning into a harem manga

For actual manga reviews check out YRulerofTime