History YMMV / HighSchoolOfTheDead

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Now that [[http://kotaku.com/highschool-of-the-dead-writer-daisuke-sato-passed-a-1793667244 Daisuke Sato has passed away]] (March 22, 2017), any chance of HOTD ever resuming has likely died along with him.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Now that [[http://kotaku.com/highschool-of-the-dead-writer-daisuke-sato-passed-a-1793667244 Daisuke Sato, has passed away]] (March 22, 2017), any chance of HOTD ever resuming has likely died along with him.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Saeko. She has more fans than the rest of the cast combined. It really says something when you have an amount of member favorites nearing 4000 in MyAnimeList, when ''none of the others even reach 1000''.

** Though a comedic character, Shizuka gets this for being the cause of Ishii's death (covered in the TooDumbToLive entry on the main page), and [[DumbBlonde an airhead]].

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Rei, depending on which camp you're in:
** To her fans, she's a badass, albeit ClingyJealousGirl, who pulls her weight within the group.
** Whereas her haters believe she's exploiting Takashi's feelings for attention, and use the fact that she broke with him prior to the outbreak as proof.

* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/IllichGuardiola is the English voice actor for Kouchi, a teacher who engages in inappropriate relations with his underage female students. In 2014, Guardiola, who is also an acting teacher, was caught engaging in a sexual relationship with one of his underage female students. What's worse, though the incident was a RoleEndingMisdemeanor [[KarmaHoudini charges were dropped and the two went on to get married.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Illich Guardiola is the English voice actor for Kouchi, a teacher who engages in inappropriate relations with his underage female students. In 2014, Guardiola, who is also an acting teacher, was caught engaging in a sexual relationship with one of his underage female students. What's worse, [[KarmaHoudini charges were dropped and the two went on to get married.]]

* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Despite the love triangle between Rei/Takashi/Saeko (anime version), the series doesn't shy away from [[GirlOnGirlIsHot girl-on-girl]] [[HomoeroticSubtext action.]] Though the bath scene in episode 6 is so risque, that it's a wonder [[Radar/HighschoolOfTheDead how they got away with it.]]

** For a minor character, the unnamed kid from the mall arc gets a lot of hate, since ''he'' was responsible for letting the zombies into the mall, while trying to ''[[DirtyCoward save]]'' '' himself.'' Which lead to the deaths of several of the others he'd abandoned, as well as [[HeroicSacrifice Asami and Shimada]][[note]]the mall survivor who had [[AttemptedRape tried to rape]] Shizuka[[/note]], who [ both died saving him.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: It's about a group of teenagers, who're trying to find their missing families in the midst of a sudden (and unexplained) [[ZombieApocalypse zombie outbreak]], all while trying to survive the death and carnage around them. But you'll be seeing so much cleavage, ass crack, and camel toe, that it makes really easy to forget all of that.

* AcronymConfusion: The series is typically referred to as "[=HotD=]". What's ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead''?

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Across from the obvious bloodshed, gore, and people turning into zombies, it's very hard to sympathize with the characters who are willing to cross moral boundaries simply just to survive the zombie apocalypse. The very blatant right-wing politics [[spoiler:and the villain's infamous orgybus]] also doesn't help.

* NeverLiveItDown: Rei gets handed the DistressBall all of ''three times'' in the space of 30 chapters. Meaning, hardly at all. Plus, each instance was relatively minor and resolved within minutes. But if you let her haters tell it, you'd swear she was [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess]] [[DesignatedVictim Peach.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In the scene where Shizuka tries to stop Saeko from [[MercyKill putting Ishii out of his misery]], Saeko hastily cuts Shizuka off and says she's determined to give him [[DyingAsYourself "an honorable death".]] But immediately after she administers the blow, [[SlasherSmile she grins]] and chuckles to herself. Was she really concerned with ending his suffering, or simply [[CuteButPsycho eager for a chance to kill?]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In the scene where Shizuka tries to stop Saeko from [[MercyKill putting Ishii out of his misery]], Saeko hastily cuts Shizuka off and says she's determined to give him [[DyingAsYourself "an honorable death".]] But immediately after she administers the blow, [[SlasherSmile she grins]] and chuckles to herself. Was she really concerned with ending his suffering, or simply eager for a chance to kill?

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Rei. Depending on which camp you're in:

* DieForOurShip: Rei. ClingyJealousGirl, occasional DistressedDamsel and in the [[OfficialCouple wrong]] [[FanPreferredCouple corner]] of a LoveTriangle that also involves the [[EnsembleDarkhorse extremely popular]] [[ActionGirl Saeko Busujima]]. May the writers have mercy on her, because the fanficcers will not.

** Fans commonly hold Rei to be solely responsible for her breakup with Takashi, [[DoubleStandard while turning a blind eye to his part in it.]] Along with the fact that she only began dating Hisashi because she believed Takashi had abandoned her.
** Some people who watched the anime but haven't read the manga complained that Creator/{{Madhouse}} inserted sexual fanservice, but some of it was taken directly from the manga. Though some of the more infamous instances of fanservice (such as Saeko's "boob matrix" scene) are exclusive to the anime.

* MisBlamed: Some people who watched the anime but haven't read the manga complained that Creator/{{Madhouse}} inserted sexual fanservice, but some of it was taken directly from the manga. Though some of the more infamous instances of fanservice (such as Saeko's "boob matrix" scene) are exclusive to the anime.

** You'll either see her as a cute ClingyJealousGirl who pulls her weight within the group.
** Or as someone exploiting Takashi's feelings for attention. It really doesn't help her case that under the best of normal circumstances before the zombie outbreak, she broke up with him and, after [[spoiler: her boyfriend Hisashi died]], she's trying to rekindle her relationship with him. The latter group think she's manipulating him to [[OnTheRebound cope with the loss]], instead of genuinely falling in love with him again.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Rei. Depending on which camp you're in, you'll either see her as a cute ClingyJealousGirl who pulls her weight within the group, or as someone exploiting Takashi's feelings for attention and protection. It really doesn't help her case that under the best of normal circumstances before the zombie outbreak, she broke up with Takashi and chose another man over him. And after[[spoiler: her boyfriend Hisashi died]], Rei trying to become warm with Takashi once more has understandably made a lot of fans feel that she's only manipulating him for self-preservation and to [[OnTheRebound cope with loss]], instead of genuinely falling back in love with him again.

** Not helping things is the fact that both franchises [[EnsembleDarkHorse have popular characters]] [[NamesTheSame named Busujima that specialize in close range fighting styles.]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: Shidou, for some, despite or even ''because'' of his status as a CompleteMonster.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Rei. Depending on which camp you're in, you'll either see her as a cute ClingyJealousGirl who pulls her weight within the group, or as someone exploiting Takashi's feelings for attention and protection. It really doesn't help her case that under the best of normal circumstances before the zombie outbreak, she broke up with Takashi and chose another man over him. And after[[spoiler: her boyfriend Hisashi died]], Rei trying to become warm with Takashi once more has understandably made a lot of fans feel that she's only manipulating him for self-preservation and to [[OnTheRebound cope with loss], instead of genuinely falling back in love with him again.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Rei. Depending on which camp you're in, you'll either see her as a cute ClingyJealousGirl who pulls her weight within the group, or as someone exploiting Takeshi's feelings for attention and protection.

* BaseBreaker: Rei. Depending on which camp you're in, you'll either see her as a cute ClingyJealousGirl who pulls her weight within the group, or as someone exploiting Takeshi's feelings for attention and protection.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Saeko. She has more fans than the rest of the cast combined.