History Manga / IAmAHero

* {{Catfight}}: Two of Hiromi's now-zombie friends (who never did like each other even while living) began to fight each other in the most brutal manner possible, with each trying to bite, gouge, and scratch as much as their disgusting undead bodies can muster.]

* BystanderSyndrome: Taken to ridiculous extremes inside the suburban rail. An infected salary man bites a chunk out of a {{Too Dumb to Live}} passenger's head, then attacks another. The second man, while trying to hold down the attacker, calls out to nearby passengers. What are their reaction? [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/10 They continue sitting and joking, wondering if they should help out in what they believe to be a molestation]]. Not until after several more deaths do the passengers finally get it that people are getting killed.

* {{Catfight}}: Two of Hiromi's now-zombie friends (who never did like each other even while living) began to fight each other in the most brutal manner possible, with each trying to bite, gouge, and scratch [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/24/68 as much as their disgusting undead bodies can muster.]]

* {{Ear Ache}}: [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/11 Here.]]

* EyeScream: Several times. Eyes can be bitten off, poked in, gouged out, etc. An example is [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/28/130 here]]

** "Red light, green light, one two THREE!!! [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/16 (chomps on nearby female passenger)]]
** [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/22 "Yesterday all my troubles seem so far away!!"]]
** [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/64 "I Love You" "I Love You Too"]]

* {{Madness Mantra}}: The infected keeps repeating their usual lines while attacking. And it is terrifying... - [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/8 "Thank you for your patronage"]]

* MarionetteMotion: [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/24/33 As if the zombies themselves weren't pants-shitting enough.]]

* {{Nightmare Face}} [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/13 Have]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/14 a]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/15 nice]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/16 sleep]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/11/17 everybody]]
** [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/18/16 Did]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/19/2 you]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/20/12 really]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/22/22 think]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/79 it]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/24/94 was]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/23/130 over?]]

** Although as the new chapters show even those who have long been dead appear to not have completely forgotten their humanity. [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/24/22 A hanged zombie]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/24/21 finally dies when it's handed a portrait of its family]] (although it could have just been the head separating from the body after much straining on the zombie's part)
*** Ditto for the Hiromi's former friend (whom it's implied got killed after Hiromi left the house to go on a stroll in the woods at night) [[http://www.mangareader.net/i-am-a-hero/24/62 who appears to offer her a shoe.]]

** SelfInsertFic

* {{Infant Immortality}}: Averted. Infact, zombified children are quite troublesome, as they are more difficult to spot and evade, especially in a crowded places. See the gathering of refugees close to Mt. Fuji.

* MessageBoard: Online communities play a role. They're the most GenreSavvy about a ZombieApocalypse, have less [[ThisLoserIsYou direct human contact]], and so have [[CursedWithAwesome better odds of survival]]. Not that it prevents the [[{{Hikikomori}} flaky]], [[{{GIFT}} morally questionable]] types from running things...

* {{Mangaka}}: There's a lot of them, always discussing about the future of the industry, as well as thhe envy it shows within the editorials, or criticism, toward popular genres, and doujinshi.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Humanity survives, but only just, and by the end a lot of the main characters are killed. Hideo fails spectacularly at saving Hiromi, and winds up alone in the ruins of Tokyo, but has managed to find peace with himself and is content with his new survivalist life.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Humanity survives, but only just, and by the end a lot of the main characters are killed. Hideo fails spectacularly at saving Hiromi, and winds up alone in the ruins of Tokyo, but is ultimately able to find contentment in his new survivalist life.]]

** [[spoiler: Takashi also maintains most of his mental faculties after being infected, and his interactions with another infected imply that they still maintain some self-awareness after turning, though he briefly succumbs to their violent behaviour once he realizes Kurusu killed a member of the group he had a crush on. He even goes on to become the leader of the group of survivors he was part of. It's also implied that Kurusu had actually been infected for quite some time before Takashi joined his group, which would explain most of his PsychoticManchild personality.]]

** In the 2016 movie, the athlete zombie that circles Gotenba Mall shows both Smart Zombie and Stalker traits. [[ItCanThink It notices]] [[spoiler: Abe and Hideo conversing on the Mall roof]] and [[StealthBasedMission later uses their location as a target point to jump into the survivor camp]]; ambushing one of their medics with its jaw-mutation. It then goes on to [[spoiler: infect the Gotenba Mall residents while their heavy-hitters are on a supply mission]], making a horde all it's own.

* EnemyCivilWar: [[spoiler:Some of the Infected kill both humans and other Infected. A minor character suspects that this may be because of a civil war among the aliens who started the disease]].

* FishEyeLens: Employed multiple times to great effects.

* HotScoop: Mitani never misses the news. Not because he cares what's going on, he just likes to slobber over the anchor ladies. They are the first clues that [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties something is extremely wrong]].

** In the short spinoff story ''She is a Slow Walker'', written and illustrated by Creator/JunjiIto, [[spoiler:an uninfected human starving in an apartment eats the flesh of his infected and decaying girlfriend]].

* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Hiromi, soon after meeting Hideo. When a suicidal zombie decapitates itself, she ends up covered in its apparently partially coagulated blood.

* LaughingMad: A mild example. When and Hiromi are escaping Aokigahara by bike, stress and the absurdity of the situation cause them to burst out laughing while Fujiyoshida is destroyed around them. They get better quickly.

** Makes another appearance near the end [[spoiler:when Hiromi finally gets absorbed by the HiveMind and sees it as the same message board shown earlier (with some of the same posters, for good measure).

** [[spoiler: Half-zombie hybrid: Hiromi and Kurusu, as well as several characters are bitten but do not turn into zombies. They retain most of their personality, but are "blessed" with strength rivaling the zombies, and apparently a HealingFactor as well. Zombies do not aggressively attack them, and as a bonus, they don't seem to suffer any ill effects like HorrorHunger.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: The change in mood [[spoiler:makes Suzuki unable to imagine Yajima any more.]]

* Distantfinale :The last one in the final chapter shows [[spoiler: Hideo still struggling to survive while living alone few years later in the ruins of Tokyo as evident when his head goes bald ]]

* MeaningfulHaircut: Hiromi, [[spoiler:after crushing the zombified Oda, as a representation of mourning. It's also in a sense a representation of her StartOfDarkness, since this is the point where she realizes that she ''wants'' to kill people in anger]].

* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:The protagonists are desperately trying to get to Tokyo where TheImmune Hiromi might be able to find doctors who can turn her immunity into a vaccine. Unfortunately, this idea is doomed from the start because Hiromi ''isn't'' immune. She's just as infected as all of the zombies roaming the street, and headed toward the same destination for the same reason just as unconsciously. She eventually meets her end after turning completely and fighting Hideo at Sunshine 60, which does apparently kill her but doesn't stop the ZombieApocalypse. Some people are able to escape by helicopter, but Oda and (obviously) Hiromi are gone permanently, and Hideo is stranded alone in the ruins of the Toshima ward]].

* EliteZombies: Combat types, child zombies, and a pregnant zombie are all seen early on. [[spoiler:Later, FleshGolem Brutes start to be assembled, we learn of the existence of creatures like Kuruso and the Naked Emperor who retain human level intelligence, and most of the regular zombies are eliminated completely to build Hives (enormous Flesh Golems the size of a city block) from their bodies. At least one Horde Master briefly appears in charge of an enormous zombie conglomeration]].