Waifu of the Living Dead.note
High schooler Hinata Minegishi enjoys being the Class Representative, but her strict attitude towards the rules has alienated her from her peers, leaving her lonely and isolated. So, when a new transfer student named Shion Nagatsuki arrives and the teacher tasks Hinata with welcoming her, Hinata sees her chance to make a friend and eagerly agrees.However, her new classmate has a few quirks that shock and disturb Hinata. Her bento box is full of raw meat, she's capable of shrugging off a head-on collision with a truck, and her limbs have a funny way of becoming detached if you pull them too hard.
At this point, Shion reveals the truth: she's a "half-zombie". On the outside, she looks like a normal teenage girl. But if her heart ever stops beating, her "condition" will deteriorate and she'll devolve into a mindless brain-eating zombie straight out of a horror movie. And, to their mutual misfortune, the accident with the truck destroyed the special equipment designed to keep her heart pumping. The onset of Shion's permanent zombie-fication is imminent. As things turn grim and hope seems lost, these two girls accidentally stumble upon the only surefire way to solve their problem ...
Kiss each other, of course!
Turns out the doki dokinote of kissing Hinata is the only thing that can keep Shion's heart throbbing. So they're going to have to do it ... a lot. Follow these two girls in love, along with their friends/Beta Couple the gyaru Ema Tachibana and the zombie otaku Nene Sasaki, as they navigate their sunny (but hopefully not too sunny, or else Shion's body will start to rot) high schools days.
Chimidoro Ice Cream ("Bloodstained Ice Cream") is a Yuri Genre Yonkoma by Sui Hokuto that has been running in Manga Time Kirara since April 2023.
Chimidoro Ice Cream provides examples of:
- Accidental Kiss: Our love story begins when a zombie-fied Shion falls on top of Hinata and they accidentally lock lips, which is able to make Shion's heart start beating again.
- Beach Episode: In chapter 9, the girls go to the beach. Unfortunately, the bright light and heat makes Shion start to rot, and they need to pile on the shaved ice to keep her cool.
- Bait-and-Switch: When Shion and Hinata agree to start kissing so Shion can stay human, Shion's mom hands Hinata a box full of what she refers to as "reference material". Hinata assumes she means classified documents about zombies. It turns out to be shoujo manga.
- Beta Couple: Ema and Nene, despite being a geek and a gyaru, are shaping up to be an item, especially when they watch zombie movies at Nene's place in chapter 8.
- Bloodlust: The sight of a bloody cut or wound is enough to arouse Shion's zombie instincts.
- Class Representative: Hinata is the class rep. Her uptight, hard-ass attitude hasn't endeared her to her peers, and she has no friends at the beginning of the story.
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: Shion becomes a zombie in chapter 5, when she, Ema, and Hinata are inside a House of the Dead booth. She tries to eat Hinata's brains while the oblivous Ema keeps blasting away at the screen with the light gun ... until she whips the gun up and accidentally hikes up Shion's skirt. The doki doki of having her panties flashed is enough to make Shion's heart start beating again.
- Curtains Match the Window: Hinata's hair and eyes are the same shade of purple.
- Generation Xerox: Shion's mom is Shion with slightly different bangs.
- Giving Up the Ghost: Hinata's soul nearly departs her body in chapter 2, after a kiss returns Shion to humanity.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: The first chapter is, for the most part, your typical sugary Kirara-style moe aesthetic. And then at the end, when Shion gets zombie-fied, we're treated to a full-page close-up of her pallid, drooling, veiny face, hungry for Hinata's flesh.
- Gyaru Girl: Ema Tachibana is a flashy, gaudy girl who quickly befriends Shion and Hinata.
- Handwave: When Hinata hears that Shion is half-human and half-zombie, she follows through with the obvious question.Hinata: So your parents ...Shion: [bashfully] I-I'd rather ... you didn't pry into that matter ...Hinata: What's with the suggestive blushing~?!
- Head Turned Backwards: In chapter 4, Hinata grabs Shion and accidentally twists her head around so it's on backwards.
- Height Angst: Hinata is about a full foot shorter than both Shion and Ema. Her attempt to give Shion a kabedon in chapter 4 failed miserably since she couldn't get her arms above Shion's shoulders, and Ema is easily able to keep things out of Hinata's reach by just holding them up high.
- Horror Hunger: Shion has a craving for human flesh, even when she's not in her zombie-fied state. More than once, a tender moment between her and Hinata has been ruined by her drooling over Hinata's flesh.
- Idiot Hair: Shion has an ahoge sticking straight out of her head, befitting her ditzy nature.
- Ironic Name: "Hinata" means sunlight. Sunlight (and heat in general) make Shion's cold, half-zombie body start to rot.
- Like Reality, Unless Noted: The world the characters inhabit seems like your typical Kirara-land, except apparently zombies are real. There's no exposition about how common this knowledge is among the general public, but Shion's mom casually mentions there's a zombie quarantine facility overseas.
- Living Apart: As a half-zombie, Shion's limbs are prone to falling off, and not in the cutesy Zombie Land Saga way either. They're usually depicted being held together by strands of pixelated gore. However, all she needs to do is stitch them back on and then she's fine.
- Meaningful Appearance: Nene Sasaki has two hair clips that look like coffins, symbolizing her love of horror and zombie movies.
- Meaningful Name: Shion has a variety of meanings, including the name of a flower and "poem-sound", but it also sounds like the Japanese word for death, shi (死).
- Minor Living Alone: Hinata's parents work overseas, so she often has the entire house to herself.
- New Transfer Student: The story begins with Shion transferring into Hinata's class.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Nene is an avid zombie buff, and once she learns about Shion's secret, she starts to get a little ... enthusiastic. Like when she fantasizes about Shion disrobing at the beach, only to be disappointed when Shion doesn't look like a degrading corpse.
- Opposites Attract: Shion is warm, bubbly, and open, while Hinata is uptight, cold, and reserved. Ironically, Shion needs to stay cold or her body will rot, whereas the frosty Hinata's name means "sunlight".
- Otaku: Nene Sasaki is a zombie movie buff who struggles to communicate with her peers, but becomes fast friends with Shion and Hinata.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Although Shion has a lot of stereotypical zombie traits, somehow she was born with them. Since her mom seems totally human, that implies her dad was a zombie. Hinata asks about how that happened, but Shion says she doesn't want to talk about it, which has some ... interesting implications. She's able to pass for full human as long as her heart is beating, but she needs to keep her body temperature down or else she'll start to rot.
- Prefers Raw Meat: As a zombie, Shion's bento boxes are full of raw organs, as you'd expect. She also starts to drool whenever she's surrounded by humans, which she casually refers to as "meat".
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Shion has blonde hair and is perky, warm, and excitable. Hinata has purple hair and is uptight, serious, and overly-concerned with propriety.
- Running Over the Plot: In the first chapter, Shion shoves Hinata out of the way of a speeding truck and takes the full impact. She seems fine, due to being a half-zombie, but later we learn the impact broke the special equipment that keeps her heart beating.
- Series Continuity Error: In chapter 4, Shion enters the local playground and says it's where they first met. The playground is where Hinata discovered Shion's secret, but they actually met each other earlier, in school.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: In chapter 10, the girls gather at Hinata's house to brainstorm ways to keep Shion from rotting in the sun while walking to school. It devolves into them swapping scary stories to send chills down each others' spines. Then, at the end, Shion's mom calls and says she switched her work hours so she can drive Shion to school. Hinata, terrified by the horror stories, moans about how pointless everything was.
- Shipper on Deck: Shion's mom is totally fine with her daughter making out with another girl. In fact, she encourages it.
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl: When Hinata is "switched on" as her class representative, she can be very bossy and demanding. But deep down, she's sad that her love of rules and order has driven her away from her peers and she secretly wants to make friends, but is too shy to reach out.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: In chapter 4, Hinata tries to make Shion's heart skip a beat by acting out stereotypical shoujo manga scenarios.
