Highlights
- Zombies have been a popular theme in anime and manga, with several unique and compelling stories featuring love, survival, and supernatural abilities.
- "Are You Alive Honda-Kun?" explores the dynamics of love in a world overrun by zombies, with a young girl named Alice navigating romance and survival.
- "Hour Of The Zombie," "Fort Of Apocalypse," and "Mōryō no Yurikago" offer thrilling narratives set in high schools, prisons, and a haunted ship, as characters fight to stay alive amidst zombie outbreaks.
Zombies have been as inescapable in the real world as they are in their media. While the craze for the undead has died down since its peak over a decade ago, they’re still out there. They may be the classic living corpses as seen in The Walking Dead, rage monsters like in 28 Days Later and its sequels, or people with the world’s worst fungal infection a la The Last of Us.
They also turn up in a range of anime and manga. Highschool of the Dead made them fodder for the fanservice-toting leads. Seoul Station showed what happened in Korea’s capital prior to the cult movie classic Train to Busan. Then (in)famous horror mangaka twisted the genre with his sealife-based undead tale of terror GYO. But there are still some zombie manga that haven’t become anime…yet.
8 Are You Alive Honda-Kun?
The world may be overwhelmed by the undead, but that doesn’t mean love still can’t bloom. It’s what made The Last of Us: Left Behind quite compelling, and is at the center of Yoshiki Tonogai’s rom-zom-com Are You Alive Honda Kun? Written for Shōnen Gangan, the story sees a young girl called Alice try to live an ordinary life in a world overrun by zombies.
She can be a bit ditzy at times, though not ditzy enough to prioritize romance over survival. So, when Honda confesses to her, love sadly isn’t on the cards. But as they help each other to live, that might change. Provided Honda can come clean about his own secrets. Readers can catch Yen Press' English translation to see if Honda-kun is still alive.
7 Hour Of The Zombie
Originally titled Igai: The Play Dead/Alive, Tsukasa Saimura’s story also involves love and high schoolers with zombies, only it gets a little more complicated. It starts with Akira, a student with a crush on his childhood friend Kurumi, who loves Akira’s friend Umezawa. As jealous as Akira gets, he values both Umezawa and Kurumi’s company and keeps things friendly.
Then some students start attacking others, with the wounded turning into man-eating monsters. Kurumi and Umezawa fall victim to it, and Akira expects to be killed next. But when Kurumi goes to bite him, she and the other “zombies” suddenly go back to normal, leaving the school split between the bitten and unbitten. But why did they snap? And will they snap again? Find out via Seven Seas Entertainment’s official English release.
6 Fort Of Apocalypse
Created by Yū Kuraishi and Kazu Inabe, Fort of Apocalypse shows what happens when zombies start running amok in a prison. Detained for a crime he didn’t commit, Yoshiaki is sent to the Shōran Institute, a juvenile correctional facility that takes in young perps from all over the Kantō region. The atmosphere there is tense and violent, leaving Yoshiaki wondering if he’ll even survive.
Things get worse when he’s pulled into a feud between the convicts by his cellmates Iwakura, Yamanoi, and Yoshioka. It’s only then that a van crashes into the building, releasing a horde of flesh-eating zombies into the building. Between the violent inmates and the undead, Yoshiaki has no choice but to find a way to make it out alive. While readers can check it out via Kodansha USA’s digital release.
5 Mōryō no Yurikago
People have seen zombies in shopping malls, mansions, and whole cities. So, why can’t they be on a ship too? Written & drawn for Square-Enix’s Young Gangan by Kei Sanbe, it sees students Makoto, Yūya, and the rest of their class on a cruise for a field trip. All was well until the ship suffered a zombie outbreak.
It left the cruise liner adrift at sea, filled with bodies both dead and undead, the latter chasing after and killing any living creature it can find. It’s up to the survivors to find out how the zombies got aboard and survive long enough for help to arrive. The manga hasn’t been officially translated into English, but it did get a French translation via Ki-Oon as Le Berceau de Esprits (Cradle of Spirits/Monsters).
4 KoLD8: King Of The Living Dead
Appearing in Shōnen Jump+, Pageratta’s manga sees the undead as the source for a new kind of anti-hero. After Japan falls to the zombies, Eito "8" Hasaba joins his mom and little sister on the road to reach a blockaded safety zone called a “sector.” They’re allowed in, but after Eito gets into an argument, he’s grievously wounded and left for dead outside the sector.
As the zombies start shuffling towards him, he only hopes to die of his wounds before he gets eaten. But after he passes out, he survives, recovers, and discovers he has the ability to control the undead. With these new powers, he dispenses justice within the sectors to keep those in charge from abusing their status. It did get an English translation via Manga Plus, though it only goes up to Chapter 23.
3 Maō na Ore to Fushi-hime no Yubiwa
Or “The Demon King and the Zombie’s Ring” in English, this manga started as a light novel by Kankitsu Yusura and Shugasuku. Redrawn in comic form by Yaya Hinata for Comic Dangan, it sees Kusumi Chiharu receive a message saying he’s been chosen as a “Monster Tamer” and must pick his partner in quelling the monster’s attacks.
He forgets about it as soon as he’s read it until he receives another, larger package containing a scantily clad woman. This turns out to be Zonmi-chan, a zombie who intends to be his monster-taming partner, starting with the creatures hiding in plain sight at Kusumi’s school, some of whom would rather take Zonmi’s place beside Kusumi. If a harem series with supernatural creatures is up one’s alley, this manga has them covered.
2 Kingdom Of Z
If “The Demon King” feels a little too much like someone's wish fulfillment to some, or they’d rather not chase down its fan translations, Seven Seas Entertainment officially translated an alternative. Saizō Harawata and Lon Watanuki made a story where its unlucky lead might have a better chance of survival with the undead than with the pretty women who saved him.
After Japan fell to the zombie apocalypse, Masaru thought he’d soon be zombie chow. Instead, he’s rescued by Karin and Miki, the most attractive girls at his high school! Except Karin is a psychopath underneath her happy-go-lucky exterior. Then Miki wants to turn the zombie hordes into her own private army and take over the country. Masaru is stuck as their underling until he can find a way to escape.
1 I Am A Hero
This is perhaps the best-known zombie manga to never get animated. Created by Kengo Hanazawa for Weekly Big Comic Spirits, it saw three spin-offs, a 2016 live-action movie, and an anthology of short stories by other notable manga artists, including Junji Ito and Scum’s Wish’s Mengo Yokoyari. The Anime News Network even considered it “probably the greatest zombie manga ever.”
The spin-offs see other protagonists handle the same zombie plague in Osaka, Ibaraki, and Nagasaki. But the original story began in Tokyo with Hideo Suzuki, a manga artist stuck in a rut in his life. Once ZQN, a disease that turns the infected into man-eating monsters, hits Tokyo, Hideo’s life is turned upside down. Armed with just a shotgun, he and other survivors have to band together to survive and find a way to reach safety.
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