Rei is the typical best friend from childhood who has a crush on the protagonist. After watching the subs then the dubs, it was weird hearing Komuro drop curse words like no tomorrow, but it was nonetheless entertaining. The one thing that is worth mentioning is that in the English dub, the director decided to turn Komuro into a Rambo-like character, dropping “fuck yeah!” every other sentence. Komuro is the typical not too bright and not too confident protagonist who is thrown into a leadership role (while surrounded by beautiful women). Laskowski, the ditsy but extremely busty school nurse Shizuka Marikawa (Yukari Fukui/Monica Rial), and later on little girl Alice (Ayaka Taketatsu/Brittney Karbowski) and pet dog Zeke. You got the main protagonist and the center of the harem Takashi Komuro (Junichi Suwabe/Leraldo Anzaldua), the extremely annoying childhood friend Rei Miyamoto (Marina Inoue/Jessica Boone), the other childhood friend and snob Saya Takagi (Eri Kitamura/Maggie Flecknoe), the cool and collected (but secretly sadistic) kendo captain Saeko Busujima (Miyuki Sawashiro/Taylor Hannah), the fat gun otaku Kohta Hirano (Nobuyuki Hiyama/Mark X.
Now that we’ve established the general plot, it’s time to get a little moar specific. After all, the first manga I ever read (and to this day is still my favorite) was Love Hina. I think it’s important to note that I’m a huge sucker for harem and fanservice heavy genres. What better way to add variation to the zombie apocalypse genre than by throwing in lots and lots of hot girls and boobs. However, what makes HOTD stand out is the fanservice. Mysterious virus ravages human population. Sounds cliche right? Unfortunately, that is the problem with many zombie related movies and t.v. The premise of HOTD is simple a zombie apocalypse strikes the world and a bunch of Japanese high school students band together to survive.
That is for a later time, however, so let’s get down to the reviewing! They also recently released a dub of Angel Beats!, which I also hope to watch and review too.
Sentai Filmworks released a dub of HOTD back in June. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the second edition of “Horror Hoedown Showdown!” Today we’ll be reviewing Highschool of the Dead, which was produced by Madhouse and based on the manga by Daisuke Sato (and illustrated by his brother Shoji Sato).
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