History Manga / Sankarea

** [[spoiler:Babu the cat has enough strength to kill a lagre fox with only a few hits.]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Kuramiya is 14. Yeah, that's right. Younger than Chihiro and Rea, but the dress and high heels she wore in her first appearance made her look mid twenties at least.]]
* XMeetsY: Romantic Comedy meets Zombie film

* KarmaHoudini: Nobody even thinks of trying to get Rea's dad arrested for taking naked pictures of his own daughter or [[spoiler: attempting to kill a high school student out of pure jealousy]].

* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: Chapter 16, quite a romantic moment, just before [[spoiler:things go wrong]]

* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: Chapter 16, just before [[spoiler:things go wrong]]

* CharacterTitle: The manga's title comes from Rea's full name: Sanka Rea.

* EverythingDeaderWithZombies

** It's back. [[spoiler:As the zombie progresses to the next stage of zombie-hood, their ability to differentiate between affection, lust, and hunger disappears, and Rea states that the thought of eating someone she loves is romantic...]]
*** It's Back yet again. [[spoiler:At the final page of Chapter 16 Rea tries to eat Chihiro and bites him on the neck.]]

* YeOldebutcheredeEnglishe: Chihiro's 12 year old sister is a big fan of this, if the translators at [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/sankarea/v05/c022/11.html mangafox]] are to be believed.

** In #9, Wanko introduces herself to Rea as Chihiro's cousin and ''fiancé''.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Rea's dad seems to be portrayed as a JerkassWoobie, where it's explained how he was very much in love with Rea's mother despite dying young. He also doesn't want to see Rea to go. But given his very disturbing interest in his own daughter, it's rather difficult to get past that.

* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs / FlowerInHerHair: Rea

* BlandNameProduct: "[[http://keishou.net/manga/Sankarea/007/4 Conan HD]]".

** Chihiro's ''father'', on the other hand, [[http://keishou.net/manga/Sankarea/005/20 seems to support the idea of having them married]].

** ItGetsWorse. [[spoiler:Her father's obsession with Rea and her "purity" gets [[{{Squick}} really creepy]] when it's revealed that he takes nude photos of her every year [[BlatantLies "to measure her growth"]] (he's got a whole room full of them framed on the walls). As for the mother, she seems to care for her daughter only as for how she impacts her job, and so is perfectly fine with imposing strict limitations on Sanka while not giving a damn about her well-being or her problems. Their reaction to their daughter dying and coming back is... well, see for yourselves [[http://keishou.net/manga/Sankarea/005/3 over the next few pages.]]]]

** His dream-girl whom he wants to share his first kiss with? Guess what! - [[http://keishou.net/manga/Sankarea/006/5 A zombie girl]].
** He mentioned [[http://keishou.net/manga/Sankarea/001/40 his ideal girlfriend]] as early as Chapter ''1''. ...Three guesses what he's talking about.

*** And of course, when it finally happens, he takes it [[{{Squee}} very]] [[http://keishou.net/manga/Sankarea/004/30 well]].

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Chihiro's sister seems quite calm at [[http://www.ourmanga.com/Sankarea/4/27/ the sight of their naked grandpa running around in the house]]. Then again, Grandpa's senile, so this has probably happened before.

* FridgeLogic: (From the treads on Mangafox) "Just picked up this manga; one question though :P If she is a zombie, and her heart had already stop, and has no bloodflow? How the heck did she blush SO MANY TIMES?????? :P"

* {{Moe}}: Zombies do have their coolness factor and all, but who'd have thought they can also be cute?!

An anime adaptation [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-09-05/sankarea-zombie-comedy-manga-gets-tv-anime has been greenlit]], and will air apart of the Spring2012Anime season Quite impressive for a manga that's only 20 chapters in.

An anime adaptation [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-09-05/sankarea-zombie-comedy-manga-gets-tv-anime has been greenlit]], though the release date is unconfirmed. Quite impressive for a manga that's only 20 chapters in.

After Rea's father finds out what she's been doing, he sends his personal guard to get her. In the middle of the scuffle, she falls off a cliff and dies impaled by a tree... however, the day before she drank the zombification potion.

After Rea's father finds out what she's been doing, she sends his personal guard to get her. In the middle of the scuffle, she falls off a cliff and dies impaled by a tree... however, the day before she drank the zombification potion.

Chihiro Furuya is a[[strike:n ordinary]] high school student with a fascination for zombies; movies, books, games, plushies... To revive his cat, Babu, who died a few days ago in an accident, he's been trying to make a [[strike:resurrection]] zombification potion in an abandoned building in the past few days. Incidentally, there's another person who's been visiting the area: Rea, a YamatoNadeshiko {{Ojou}} from a wealthy family and an idol to everybody in the neighborhood, who has a lot of issues. After finding out what Chihiro's been trying to make, she slips out a mention that she'd also like to die and be reborn.

Things quickly snowballed, in which Rea - [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler Guess what!]] - dies and revives as a zombie.