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• Doom Magnet: Whenever the group goes on one of their destinations, it's bound to be surrounded by zombies. It doesn't help that they're just fulfilling their lives to the fullest, and somehow it's attracting zombies. And they don't cause it either. Outside forces will always throw a horde in their way. Even if they're in space!
• Living Is More than Surviving: The source of the bucket list in Akira's notebook. They wanted to feel alive, be free from the shackles of capitalism and corporate expectations, and do things that truly made them happy.
• Opposites Attract: Akira, the lively, fun-loving, and honest Manchild from the countryside, hooks up with Shizuka, the brooding genius Head-Turning Beauty from the big city.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The group consists of a lively country boy recently freed from his dead-end job, a muscular womanizer, a tough-as-nails genius accountant, a German Japanophile college student, a robot butler with the head of a sheep, a college dropout from Osaka in a New-Age Retro Hippie getup, and a professional high school Gamer Chick who is invulnerable to the zombie infection.
• Relationship Upgrade: In Chapter 57, Akira and Shizuka confess to each other and kiss, believing it to be their final moments. They don't walk it back even after they're rescued.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: With the exception of Beatrix, everyone else has had some form of trauma in their life. Akira recovering from his Soul-Crushing Desk Job, Kencho's guilt over being a sleazy real-estate salesman, Shizuka's cynicism from her abusive father, Takeru's status as a dropout, and Izzy's past involving her mother. But when Akira began to live his life again, everyone else did so as well, and it allowed them to find a newer lease on life and enjoy themselves despite living in a world where they're being chased by the undead.
• Zombie Apocalypse Hero: A rather unusual take on this trope. Akira and his friends don't use guns (except for the time they're fighting against the Crushers, and that's also part of the bucket list), but they can distract or kill zombies with enough tricks up their sleeves.

Akira Tendo

Akira Tendo

Voiced by: Shuichirou Umeda (Japanese), Yo Taichi (Japanese; Young), Zeno Robinson (English, Anime), Anjali Kunapaneni (English; Young), Paul Dateh (English, Live Action)

Played by: Eiji Akaso

Ex-Wage Slave

"We could die today or we could die 60 years from now. Either way, there’s never enough time to do all the things we want. Life’s too short to avoid taking risks."

The Hero of the story. A disgruntled 24-year-old office worker broken by his Soul-Crushing Desk Job, the Zombie Apocalypse makes him reevaluate his life and he decides to do everything he's ever wanted to do now that he no longer has to go to work.

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• Accidental Hero: In trying to rescue Kencho from his entrapment by zombies in the anime, he saves the life of the last of the hosts, Shou, who was about to be overrun by zombies defending the people hiding in his club.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Akira develops this in Osaka after he and his friends manage to garner an enormous stockpile of food cans. Akira's ego inflates exponentially from his economic success and he soon becomes more interested in his wealth and status than the friends that got him there to the point of running away with it all to live it up in Nijo Castle. He doesn't snap out of it until his friends all risk their lives on a 50/50 chance of certain death, forcing his empathy for them to override his newfound narcissism.
• Action Survivor: Akira uses his athleticism from his rugby days to tackle zombies and push them back while protecting himself with a chainmail shark suit. His optimism, ingenuity, and leadership skills get him and his friends out of trouble time and time again.
• Actor Allusion: He dreams of becoming a Toku-esque superhero, and is played by in the live-action movie by Eiji Akaso, who rose to fame playing Ryuga Banjo/Kamen Rider Cross-Z.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The anime has him being deeply affected by the women he grows close to as opposed to making it Played for Laughs. In episode one and the movie, when he sees Ohtori who has turned, he tries to hold back his emotions while visibly crying and makes his confession, then ruefully tells her goodbye as he runs from her. In episode 4, he grows close to Yukari, who is a flight attendant, and they were discussing their dreams. But then she gets bitten by the zombie businessman who was with them, and she accepts her fate. Akira is again crying in a sadder manner than the Inelegant Blubbering in the manga.
• The Alcoholic: Akira loves beer, not realizing how good it tasted until after he's started being able to drink it for relaxation rather than Drowning His Sorrows. His first supply runs are not for essential items like food and medicine, but for more beer. That said, he admits to not liking sake because of how easy it is to drink yourself sick.
  Akira: [singing] Suds! Brewskis! Any and every kind of BEER! Give me all your BEER! Beer, bee- [runs into Shizuka]
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Subverted. Kanta Higurashi holds Akira's father hostage to force Akira to become a zombie. At first, it looks like it happened, but it turns out that one of Akira's neighbors had used her makeup skills to make Akira look like a zombie, allowing him to get close enough to disarm Higurashi and save his father.
• Anguished Declaration of Love:
  • In the anime and movie, he confesses to Ohtori after becoming a zombie that he always loved her before running off before she could eat him.
  • In the manga, Shizuka gets bitten and faints, and he cries his eyes out after having another chance to find love. Luckily for him, her infection was cured thanks to Yudai Tsurumi creating a serum made from Izzy's blood.
• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: After the Zombie Apocalypse started, Akira's mental state greatly improves on his outlook on life. But after seeing his neighbors' (seemingly) unfortunate demise, he chooses to make a bucket list to enjoy his life. And due to his Positive Friend Influence, his own friends and other people are beginning to see the bright side of things, and some even made their own bucket list to survive the apocalypse.
• Armor of Invincibility: Downplayed. The shark suit Akira retrieves from a Tokyo aquarium is made from a titanium mesh weave along with steel chainmail to protect the wearer from shark bites. Wearing it makes Akira essentially immune to zombie bites, but the fact that it's stab-proof and not impact-proof means that he still feels it when they're biting him, much to his surprise and alarm.
• Awesome, but Impractical: His shark suit in the live-action adaptation appears straight out like a tokusatsu hero, but its design wouldn't have been practical for its original intended purpose, particularly its motorcycle helmet-like headgear.
• Badass Boast: Akira's Character Catchphrase doubles as this, as it proves he's willing to risk being turned into the undead for simple pleasures like eating sushi.
  Akira: I would rather die/be eaten by zombies than not [do X thing]!
• Badass Adorable: He's an adorable dork who would rather live freely and have fun with other good people but give him a shark suit or a giant animatronic dinosaur and he'll pulverize any zombie like no one's business.
• Badass Biker: Despite never owning a motorcycle before, Akira proves to be a natural as soon as he gets his hands on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, racing through the zombie-infested streets of Shinjuku without a problem and even managing to Outrun the Fireball by jumping down a flight of stairs into an underground mall without wiping out.
• Bookworm: He is revealed to not only be this trope but also a speed reader as number 30 on the titular bucket list is for him to binge read all 60 volumes of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which he is able to do in a single sitting while waiting for some lab results in the 52nd chapter “Grandpa of the Dead”.
• Bully Hunter: Akira used to defend other kids his age from bullies as "Akiraiger", putting on a cape and taping a cardboard beetle horn to a helmet in emulation of a Kamen Rider. He'd even go after kids much older and bigger than he was, going so far as to bite their arms until they gave up.
• Calling Your Attacks: While acting as "Akiraiger", Akira shamelessly calls a battery-powered punch a "Crackling Thunder Punch" while punching the zombie shark in the aquarium.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Downplayed. Akira's desperation to get hitched leads to awkward conversations with the opposite sex thanks to his tendency to open by asking if they have a boyfriend in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse. But once he relaxes and gets his mind off of finding a date, he can be pleasant and easy-going conversationalist.
• Career Not Taken: When he was young, Akira wanted to be a "superhero", only to grow up and find himself doing deskwork at an exploitative company. When society collapses from the Zombie Apocalypse, one of the first things he marks off of his list is to live out that dream by saving a bus full of people using a shark-proof suit.
• Childish Tooth Gap: In flashbacks to when he was younger, Akira had a missing tooth on the left side of his mouth in his energetic days defending other kids from bullies as "Akiraiger". He remembers this after his conversation with Yukari, which gets him to try and relive his childhood fantasies of being a superhero, only with much higher stakes given the risk of being bitten. Luckily, he's wise enough to pick up a shark suit from the local aquarium to protect himself first.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Akira is somewhat desperate to get laid and is happy for any opportunity to meet a cute girl while staring at her boobs and butt. But he's also respectful to all of them, never feels entitled or angry if they already have a boyfriend, and never thinks of forcing them into situations they don't want to be in.
• Clark Kent Outfit: Compared to his even beefier friend Kencho, Akira tends to wear loose-fitting clothes that hide his surprisingly toned physique. This is reflective of Akira's insecurities over his Plain Jane appearance and inability to score a date, especially when he watches Kencho get girl after girl.
• Cool Bike: Akira manages to nab an abandoned Harley-Davidson motorcycle while searching for a replacement for his stolen bicycle. It's extremely loud and powerful, and Akira screams with joy at the thought of having the bike of his dreams. Its speed also proves handy when a flaming fire truck crashes into a gas truck, letting Akira and Kencho barely Outrun the Fireball and take shelter in an underground mall. He hands Kencho his motorcycle since Shizuka can't drive, and uses their mobile home to got to places.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Akira tells Higurashi that he would've loved to be friends with him if only he had asked to hang out. But Higurashi never broke out of his shell and became a reclusive NEET resentful enough to try and murder everyone in Gunma. Akira sympathizes with Higurashi's plight enough to hug him goodbye and tell him that they'll hang out if he ever becomes a zombie, giving Higurashi the first and only positive connection he's ever had right before he's dogpiled by zombies.
• Country Mouse: Akira was born in the sleepy and secluded farming village of Gunma in the Kanto prefecture. Because of this, he's used to working on a farm and doing manual labor, but left for Tokyo to attend college and find a job to have a taste of the bustling metropolis. He's long since grown out of this and is actually glad to leave Tokyo and visit home, having experienced the best and the worst the city had to offer.
• The Defroster: It's thanks to his positive influence that Shizuka begins to open herself up to others again and start enjoying life more.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Akira initially sees his shark suit as a complete Armor of Invincibility from zombie bites. Only after he gets dogpiled by zombies does he realize that it's stab-proof, not impact-proof. So while the zombies' bites aren't going to infect him, they still hurt and he begs for Kencho to help him but gets left to fend for himself as there was only one shark suit left.
  • Shizuka tears into Akira for playing superhero, pointing out everything that could have gone wrong, including putting Kencho in a horribly dangerous situation just for the sake of living out a childhood fantasy. Akira admits that he didn't put much thought into his antics at all.
  • While rescuing Shizuka from the zombie shark, Akira admits that he doesn't really have a plan and just kind of rushed to her aid. This leaves them both hugging each other and crying Tears of Fear until Kencho saves them by luring the zombies away with his butt, buying the two of them valuable time to come up with a plan.
• Dissonant Serenity: Akira is so much happier now that he never has to go to work again that he's able to cheerfully relax and play video games on the roof of his apartment even while zombies lurk just below. Even seeing his zombified coworkers, including his crush Ohtori, does little to damper his mood.
• Dynamic Entry: While visiting Ohtori's apartment, Akira encounters the zombified form of the company chairman. Rather than back down, Akira calmly removes his tie before announcing his resignation and tackling the chairman through the door rugby-style.
• Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit: Downplayed. The shark suit is tacky-looking and doesn't give Akira any actual superpowers, but it's durable enough to essentially act as Armor of Invincibility against zombie bites. Wearing it might get Akira strange looks from any survivors, but that's not going to stop him from putting it on to help others as Akiraiger.
• Endearingly Dorky: Akira is a little socially awkward around the opposite sex, largely due to his desperation to not die a virgin. While his fanboying and outlandish excitement over seemingly minor things like building a treehouse or trying dreadlocks also get him weird looks from others, his ability to wear his heart on his sleeve endears him to his friends. Shizuka in particular finds him refreshing to be around and goes along with his antics despite her objections because of how much she enjoys his honest, dorky self.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • Akira is introduced with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness while watching a zombie film, all while wishing he could swap places with the protagonist of that film, calling it heaven compared to Akira's workplace. The manga then shows how Akira started as a bright-eyed office worker before his abusive boss slowly ground him down into a wage zombie.
  • Then his sheer jubilation upon realizing that he'll never have to go to work again lets his character settle into its present form as a cheerful, Hot-Blooded guy raring to do everything he wanted to do but never could because of his awful job.
• The Everyman: Akira considers himself a normal guy with no special skills or hobbies. He's not especially bright aside from random trivia he's picked up to write his bucket list and he can be socially awkward at times. He worked a Soul-Crushing Desk Job prior to the apocalypse and is a fan of superheroes, video games, and movies.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Akira has these at the start of the story because of how thoroughly overworked and miserable he is at his Soul-Crushing Desk Job, often being forced to pull multiple all-nighters in a row and never being paid appropriately for all his effort. The eye bags vanish the minute he realizes that he never has to go to work again thanks to the zombie apocalypse, emphasizing just how happy and refreshed he feels.
• Farm Boy: Akira grew up in the rural farming village of Gunma deep in the Kanto prefecture. It's so remote that the only way in or out is through the modern tunnel or the "Man-Eating Pass", which Akira has no problems navigating despite the steep and narrow terrain. Despite spending three years away from home, Akira is able to fit right back in and help out no problem.
• Fate Worse than Death: Akira considers his Soul-Crushing Desk Job at the black company this, declaring that even the Zombie Apocalypse isn't as terrifying as his old workplace. This is why he's able to navigate the ruins of Tokyo so cheerfully, as even though he fears death, the misery he experienced at work far outstrips the threat the zombies pose to his life. Kencho lampshades this, saying that Akira looked more like a zombie than the actual zombies when they last met because of how worn down he was by work.
• For Happiness: After knowing nothing but misery for the last three years, Akira is completely and utterly fixated on making the rest of his life as happy as it can be. Not even the Zombie Apocalypse can stop him from chasing his dreams so long as his actions don't come at the expense of anyone else. This also means that if he can help someone else feel happy, he'll help them too (though more often than not it aligns with his bucket list anyways).
• Hot-Blooded: Akira is incredibly passionate about trying new things and completing his bucket list, getting unreasonably excited over something as simple as trying dreadlocks. He gets even more worked up when it comes to making up for lost time with his parents, volunteering to help with anything and everything to be a better son to them.
• I Know Madden Kombat: Akira uses his rugby training to tackle the zombified chairman through the door. He also wrestles and punches zombies on numerous occasions with the athleticism he built up in college.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Chapter 56 has Akira and Shizuka meeting Joichiro Sakaki, who had managed to save them from an oncoming horde of zombies and is a doctor in the town's pharmacy. When Shizuka follows the doctor and discusses their love of medicine, she eventually comes back to him and poses the question about what he would do if she decided to split off from the group to become a doctor with Sakaki. Despite him wanting to confess to Shizuka properly and having split off from the group for this exact purpose, he knows that her goal is to be a doctor, recognizing this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As such, he cheerfully supports her instead of confessing his love, though leaves in tears, happy for her and believing that she would enjoy carving her own path without him. He is immediately proven wrong when Shizuka comes barreling after him with a pack of zombies (his crying having attracted their attention). Shizuka only said what he would do if she decided to split from the party, after all, having decided that she would continue joining the group regardless.
• Inelegant Blubbering:
  • He immediately breaks down into ugly sobbing while apologizing to Kencho for all the awful things he said to him in their last meeting. He does this again when apologizing to his parents for not visiting in three years and not being a better son to them.
  • When Shizuka returns to his side in Chapter 57, he starts bawling, much to her chagrin, overwhelmed at how she chose him.
• Jaded Washout: If his brief flashbacks to his rugby days are any indication, Akira had a blast in his college years and was popular enough to get bentos from his underclassmen. He also did well enough in school to land a job at a prestigious production company and seemed to be set for life... until said company turned out to be a a horribly abusive black company. Three years of all-nighters and horrible deadlines later, he's jaded, spent, and not even sure why he's still working there in the first place.
• Keep the Reward: While acting as the superhero, "Akiraiger", Akira escorts a bunch of people to safety from the zombie horde with the help of a sharkproof (and thus zombie bite-proof) suit. Kencho points out that Akira could easily bask in the praise and become popular, but Akira declares that real heroes don't need a reward and leaves without getting one.
• The Leader: Akira takes the role of de facto leader among his travelling companions as they journey across Japan to complete their bucket lists. He combines the headstrong and competent aspects, jumping into new situations to have fun even if it means putting his life at risk but also having the ingenuity and spontaneity to get him and his friends out of sticky situations.
• Like an Old Married Couple: Pretty much settles into the dynamic of constantly bickering with Shizuka moments after their Relationship Upgrade. Though Izuna doubts their relationship will last, Kencho sees it as the happiest the two have ever looked.
• Like You Were Dying: Akira's goal is simply to enjoy himself and live life to the fullest after three miserable years in a crushing dead-end job. So he writes down "100 Things to Do Before I Become a Zombie" and resolves to do all of them before kicking the bucket. The Zombie Apocalypse is a great motivator.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: "I'd rather die/be eaten by zombies than (insert little pleasure or bucket list goal here)!"
• Magnetic Hero: Akira's optimism and friendliness is infectious. He quickly makes friends and gets others to follow his lead thanks to his willingness to put himself in danger to protect them.
• Manchild: Akira is determined to live life to the fullest now that he's freed of his abusive job, indulging all of his hobbies as he and Kencho scratch things off their bucket list. This also means they get outrageously excited over silly things that fly in the face of logic when it comes to survival, such as acting as superheroes or building a treehouse. Unfortunately, their shouting also tends to attract the zombies, much to Shizuka's chagrin.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: He serves as a gender-inverted version of this to Shizuka, being the one to bring her out of her cold and rigid logic-defined mindset through his earnest kindness and drive to live life to the fullest.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Akira develops these after running into Kosugi again and being browbeaten back into servitude. Akira's Trauma Button is so thoroughly mashed that his mind goes completely blank and he reacts on instinct the way he did back at work. He admits that he doesn't remember a thing between starting to work for Kosugi again and Shizuka snapping him out of it because of how terrified and mindlessly obedient he was.
• Mr. Fanservice: Akira is surprisingly buff, no doubt thanks to his rugby days, and looks good whenever he doesn't have his shirt on, though that doesn't happen nearly as often as it does with Kencho.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Akira is still in pretty good shape thanks to his rugby days in college and the occasional Shirtless Scene shows that he still has well-defined arms, pecs, and abs. This proves especially handy when the Zombie Apocalypse hits, as his athleticism lets him shimmy up and down poles, tackle and wrestle zombies, and help with hard labor when needed.
• My Suit Is Also Super: Justified. The shark suit wasn't intended to be a superhero costume. It's a titanium mesh combined with a chainmail weave designed to protect the wearer from being bitten to death by a shark so the aquarium workers could clean the shark tanks safely. However, it's only stab-proof and Akira still feels the pain of the bites even if he isn't at any risk of having his skin broken and being infected. Getting dogpiled by a bunch of zombies out to eat him leaves him sore and covered in bruises by the time he manages to throw the zombies into a nearby river.
• Nice Guy: Akira is friendly, outgoing and never wants anyone to get hurt. His conscientious personality made it easy for Kosugi to brow beat him into subservience, but it also won him plenty of friends back in college and during the Zombie Apocalypse. His compassion even extends to Kosugi, refusing to let him get eaten by zombies while he's still around to do something about it. He also has sympathy for Higurashi despite the latter's actions, wishing Higurashi had simply reached out earlier before becoming a resentful NEET.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: When Akira enters a natural hot spring, he's too busy enjoying it to notice that Shizuka had entered before him. She demands he get out, but he complains that it's not fair, as the hot spring is more than big enough for the two of them. This makes Shizuka realize that he cares more about enjoying the hot spring than seeing her naked.
• Past Experience Nightmare: Akira was so miserable and fearful under Kosugi's thumb that his nightmares are not of the zombies outside his door but of disappointing Kosugi and getting reprimanded for it.
• Plain Jane: Aside from being quite buff from his college rugby days, Akira isn't drawn as particularly attractive or ugly compared to most other characters his age. He's plain and average next to his handsome Chick Magnet Best Friend Kencho, Head-Turning Beauty Shizuka, and the curvy and blond-haired Beatrix. Akira is particularly envious of Kencho, whose handsome face and sociable personality make it easy for him to pick up girls and have sex.
• The Pollyanna: As far as Akira is concerned, nothing can be as bad as the misery he endured working at a black company for three years. Because of this, he's able to approach nearly every situation with a remarkable amount of optimism, sometimes to the point of Dissonant Serenity, shouting "GOOD MORNING, WORLD!" out his window even as zombies gather below in hopes of eating his flesh. Though he's far from immune to fear or sadness, he's always able to pick himself back up and doesn't let the future full of zombies get in the way of his fun. Lampshaded by Kencho, who says that Akira definitely has mindfulness down pat.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: Akira is a fan of video games, movies, and other forms of pop culture. His self-styled "Akiraiger" persona is a clear sendup to Kamen Rider and he throws Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs with delight after getting access to a Mini-Mecha while comparing it to a Stand from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
• Positive Friend Influence: Akira's honest, carefree, and relentlessly optimistic personality quickly rubs off on the people who get to know him. Kencho overcomes his past regrets over his work as a salesman and joins Akira on his road trip to finish his bucket list thanks to Akira's encouragement. Akira's honesty convinces Shizuka to lower her guard and enjoy her life rather than trying to live it completely rationally. When Beatrix loses confidence upon seeing the zombie horde between her and the sushi she dreamed of eating, one Rousing Speech from Akira is enough to get her back on her feet.
• Sex as Rite-of-Passage: Akira is somewhat self-conscious over the fact that he's never gotten a girlfriend, much less had sex. The fact that his Best Friend Kencho has gotten laid plenty of times motivates Akira to finally get a girlfriend even in the middle of the Zombie Apocalypse, though his luck has been pretty dry since his first two crushes both had boyfriends already. Though he seems to be having better luck with Shizuka, who demonstrates interest in him no matter how much she denies it, though Akira himself is oblivious to it.
• Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: In a sharp contrast to most zombie apocalypse protagonists, Akira's life before the zombies was such hell that it's extremely easy for him to find the positives in everything. The story shows this actually helps him be a better leader because of his ability to be a Positive Friend Influence.
• Skewed Priorities:
  • When Akira first sees zombies, his first thought is how this is going to make him late for work. From the on, his new goal is to scratch everything off his bucket list, even if it means risking his life to do something as simple as bathing in a hot spring.
  • He and Kencho end up trapped in an underground mall with no power and infested by zombies, and the important thing on Akira's mind is finding themselves a giant tv monitor, much to Kencho's disbelief.
  • Even after he resolves himself to find a cure for The Virus and treat his father's illness, he quickly gets sidetracked by sightseeing. Even he acknowledges this, wondering if someone like him is really up to the task of saving the world.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Despite Higurashi's attempt to murder everyone in Gunma and then holding Akira's father hostage, Akira can't help but feel bad for Higurashi after the latter is bitten and then dogpiled by zombies. He even says that he's not that different from Higurashi, as the misery and hopelessness he felt at the black company could have just as easily driven Akira over the edge and they even had the same idea of creating a "100 Things to Do Before Becoming a Zombie" list.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Inverted. Shizuka steals Akira's bike as part of her attempts to "hedge her risks" while making a supply run. Although he's initially worried by his lack of transportation, he manages to find a moped nearby to make his escape, calling it an upgrade to his old bike. Then he manages to get his hands on the bike of his dreams: an outrageously expensive abandoned Harvey-Davidson motorcycle^note A top-of-the-line Harley-Davidson motorcycle can cost as much as $44,000. It would have taken Akira four decades of pay from his old job to afford one, which has him screaming with joy as he roars down the road.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Akira's Soul-Crushing Desk Job squeezes all the life out of him, turning him into a miserable wage slave with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness and nothing to look forward to. He's so worn down that he's elated by the Zombie Apocalypse, taking the opportunity to do everything he's ever wanted to do. From then on, he's a carefree, Hot-Blooded, and easily excitable guy looking to maximize his happiness, finding joy in every little success and new experience even as the world falls apart around him.
• Trash of the Titans: Akira is so exhausted by work that he never has the time or energy to clean his apartment, leaving it filled with trash bags, empty bottles, tissues, and instant food. The actual trash bin is overflowing and it's a miracle he finds any place to sleep. One of the first things he does after the Zombie Apocalypse begins is finally clean his room, leaving it spotless while dumping the trash all over the heads of the zombies lingering below his veranda.
• Trauma Button: Seeing his old boss Kosugi again leaves Akira paralyzed and unable to breathe properly. His mind goes blank. All of his renewed cheer and optimism vanish as Kosugi slowly grinds Akira's newfound independence out of him.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: The Zombie Apocalypse makes Akira reevaluate everything about his life, including how little he feels he did to give back to his parents for raising him. When he finally returns to his hometown, he becomes desperate to make up for lost time even as they tell him to relax, his father's own stern, stoic demeanor not helping Akira's desire to make amends. Only after Akira and his friends rescue almost everyone from Gumna does Teruo finally tell Akira how proud he is of him.

Kenichiro "Kencho" Ryuuzaki

Kenichirou "Kencho" Ryuuzaki

Voiced by: Makoto Furukawa (Japanese), Xander Mobus (English, Anime), Stephen Fu (English, Live Action)

Played by: Shuntaro Yanagi

Ex-Real Estate Salesman

Akira's Best Friend from his college days and an ex-real estate salesman. He's good-looking and the life of the party, wanting nothing more than to make people laugh and smile with his antics.

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• Action Survivor: Kencho's willingness to be The Bait and throw himself in danger for the sake of others proves essential for saving lives on more than one occasion.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Zigzagged in the live-action adaptation. The film removes his angst over his salesman job and instead gives him a backstory of having heavy guilt over losing his last college football match because of his hesitation to pass the ball to Akira, which he grows out of by the end as he passes the batteries needed to defeat the zombie shark to Akira.
• Adaptational Modesty: In the live-action film. As part of his downplayed desire to be a comedian, he never bares his top nor does Naked People Are Funny gags compared to his manga/anime self.
• The Bait: Kencho repeatedly volunteers to lure zombies away by waving his ass at them, causing them to chase after him. He's also comfortable enough in his own skin to do this naked while still being fast enough to run away from the zombies who think his ass is literally delicious.
• Being Evil Sucks: His real estate job meant lying to and screwing over countless clients, causing him no shortage of ethical torment as he tried to pass it all off.
• Best Friend: Kencho is Akira's best friend from college and teammate on the rugby team. He and Akira have stuck it through thick and thin, and he's the first person Akira reaches out to when wireless calls become available again. They soon catch up on old times and make up for their last argument a year ago, getting into all kinds of trouble while scratching off their bucket list together.
• Career Not Taken: He only took up real-estate because it paid better, but what he really wanted to do was stand-up comedy.
• Character Catchphrase: "I'm won over."
• Chick Magnet: Kencho's muscular body. handsome face, and lively personality make it a cinch for him to pick up girls and have sex. But he was often required to use his looks to seduce women and get them to sign onto real estate deals they had no business making, which made him feel awful.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Kencho Really Gets Around thanks to his Chick Magnet good looks and personality, but he also believes in treating every one of his dates as the most important woman in the world while they're together no matter how he's feeling personally. In an extra chapter, he refuses to even entertain charming Shizuka because his Best Friend Akira is already interested in her.
• Dissonant Serenity: Kencho is happy to relax on the roof of Akira's apartment in the middle of the zombie apocalypse until they run out of electricity and food, forcing them to move elsewhere.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first time we see him, he's trapped in the room of a love hotel of all places where he had gotten a room with a girl he hooked up, a hint at his hypersexual lifestyle. And compared to Akira's extreme carefreeness and lack of caution, Kencho reacts to the horror of their situation with an understandable level of dread and hopelessness, quickly establishing that he's the much more rational of the two. Then he's finally spurned out of his despair by Akira's newfound lease on life, showing the deep respect they have for each other. Aaaand then Kencho's clothes disappear out of nowhere.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: He dyes his hair blonde to symbolically separate himself from his former life as a real estate salesman that he hated, as office workers wouldn't ever get hired with dyed hair. He instead hopes his newly blonde hair will help him make a bigger impact as a comedian.
• Friend to All Children: When he sees Anju, a girl depressed by the loss of her family, Kencho's first instinct is to walk over and make her laugh even as she lobs insults at him and calls him a pedophile.
• Hidden Depths: His goofy, comedic exterior hides a lot of emotional baggage. Kencho never met his father, who left his mother before Kencho was even born. So Kencho spent his childhood with only his mother and grandfather for company, and his mom had to work long hours to make ends meet. One of Kencho's regrets is leaving his grandfather on his deathbed to go to school in Tokyo (at his grandfather's behest). So he tries to make up for it by visiting his grandfather's grave to pay his respects.
• Manchild: Kencho is determined to live life to the fullest with Akira, indulging all of his hobbies as he and Akira scratch things off their bucket list. This also means they get outrageously excited over silly things that fly in the face of logic when it comes to survival, such as acting as superheroes or building a treehouse. Unfortunately, their shouting also tends to attract the zombies, much to Shizuka's chagrin.
• Mr. Fanservice: Kencho is incredibly muscular and has a handsome face. He's prone to stripping while enjoying himself and has wagged his "delicious ass" as bait for the zombie horde on more than one occasion as a Running Gag.
• Missing Mom: Subverted. His mother left a recording at the graveyard he and Izuna were visiting, telling him that she had to leave Hakata because it was overrun by the zombies and is currently with the other survivors and the JSDF.
• Naked People Are Funny: He almost spends just as much time completely naked as he is wearing clothes. This is even Invoked as Kencho wishes to be a comedian and sees getting naked as a way to bring the laughs. It's also very useful in deterring zombies as he uses his "delicious ass" as bait for zombies.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Although we know his name from the introduction cards, Kencho is only ever referred to by his nickname.
• Raised by Grandparents: Kencho's dad left his mom, who had to work long hours to help make ends meet. As a result, Kencho was largely raised by his grandfather, a kindly but rough-and-tumble guy from the Showa era.
• Real Men Can Cook: He cooks up a very tasty paella for him and Akira, the latter stuffing his face with it in Tears of Joy.
• Really Gets Around: His good looks and personality means that he's had plenty of dates and plenty of sex. This actually saved his life, as he got so drunk that he and his latest date checked in at an S&M Love Hotel, which had restraints durable enough for him to lock up his now zombified date. He later has sex with Maki, a flight attendant he meets at an underground mall, though she's turned by a Zombie Infectee soon afterward.
• Shipper on Deck: He's well-aware that Akira is harboring feelings for Shizuka and swears not to make a move on her. When he catches Akira and Shizuka in the hot springs together, Kencho wonders when Akira and Shizuka had gotten so close as to bathe together.
• Stepford Smiler: Kencho seemed to be living it up as a salesman for a real estate company. He got to dine with politicians, date models, and make good money, but the fakes smiles he needed to put on and the lies he needed to tell made it all feel empty, and he was never happy or satisfied. What he really wanted to do was become a comedian to make people happy. Akira convinces him that he can still follows his dreams, convincing Kencho to overcome his fears and roofhop to safety.
• Trade Your Passion for Glory: Kencho wanted to be a comedian, but took up a job as a real estate salesman to make money. While he succeeded in that role, his life felt miserable and empty because he didn't chase his dream of making people laugh and smile.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Kencho is completely comfortable strutting around in the nude and often does so as part of his comedy routine or when acting as The Bait. Even when he does have a shirt on, it's usually at least partially unbuttoned to showcase his muscles. This also illustrates Kencho's confidence in his social skills and sex appeal, compared to his Best Friend Akira's insecurities over his inability to get a date as well as his tendency to wear much looser-fitting clothing.

Shizuka Mikazuki

Shizuka Mikazuki

Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki (Japanese), Abby Trott (English, Anime), Artemis Snow (English,Live Action)

Played by: Mai Shiraishi

Ex-International Corporation Accountant

An aloof beauty who's prone to hedging her risks to maximize her chances of survival. She runs into Akira on numerous occasions before becoming a steady traveling companion once they nab a camping van from a convention hall together.

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• Abusive Parents: No mention is made of her mother, but her father used her like a tool, always telling her what she can and cannot do and never letting her do anything he didn't approve. She was never able to hang out with friends from the "lower class", choose who she wanted to date, or enter the profession she wanted. It was so bad that Shizuka used to think her name was "should" because of how often her father used the word. At the same time, she couldn't defy his word, lest he disown her and throw her out on the street.
• Action Survivor: While not as hands-on as her companions, Shizuka can take care of herself thanks to her smarts and resourcefulness along with a little aikido training.
• A-Cup Angst: Downplayed; while Shizuka is by no means flat chested, when Beatrix complains about struggling to fit her breasts inside a yukata, Shizuka mutters that it's a problem she'd love to have.
• Adaptational Badass: Despite started out as an Action Survivor, Shizuka doesn't actively fight zombies like the others and prefers to avoid or run away from them or formulate a plan for the rest of the group to defeat them. In the Netflix adaption, not only she is dresses more appropriately (including wearing a tactical vest), she is armed with a collapsible baton and is more active in combat. Losing it early doesn't stop her from coming up with other ideas to fight zombies.
• Adaptation Deviation: In the live-action adaptation, she's The Alcoholic instead of Akira, her Establishing Character Moment having her stock up on sake at the convenience store while he was there to get yakiniku supplies instead. She later on also becomes convinced to let herself go and hang out with Akira and Kencho by the prospect of enjoying the sake they brought with them at an onsen.
• Adaptation Expansion: The anime adaptation modified her introduction to expand on her survival skills, namely her tech savviness and Awesomeness by Analysis. To that end, she uses a foldable smartphone-tablet linked to a GoPro on her bike to keep watch outside the convenience store while also being able to sense and stay out of the lane of a runaway truck to have that crush the zombies that were entering the store, instead of her magazine-Banana Peel method in the manga.
• Adaptational Modesty: Did not bare her midriff in the Netflix live-action adaptation.
• Arranged Marriage: It's all but stated that her father planned on marrying her off to the son of another affluent family to expand his corporation's already sizable influence, not even allowing her to interact with others her age to prevent her from defying him.
• Brainy Brunette: She was forced to study by her abusive father rather than hanging out with her friends or doing things other people her age would want to do. Because of this, she's knowledgeable about a wide variety of subjects, such as the scientific name of a great white shark and diagnosing people's ailments from what she read in a medical textbook.
• But I Read a Book About It: Shizuka is an avid reader and wanted to become a doctor ever since she was a child. Although she has no formal medical training, she's able to diagnose and treat the various ailments of Gunma's elderly, for which they're so thankful for that they rush to her aid when she's in trouble.
• Cannot Spit It Out: It took a do-or-die situation involving zombies for both her and Akira to finally be upfront and confess their feelings for each other.
• Career Not Taken: While she wanted to become a Doctor, her domineering father forced her to become an accountant at his company.
• Career Versus Man: Chapter 56 has her and Akira meet a doctor during the "Dolphins of the Dead" arc, where she is then offered a chance to work with Dr. Joichiro Sakaki, who is leaving the same day that they meet. One of Shizuka's goals is to become a doctor, and going with Sakaki would help her achieve that dream, though she would have to leave Akira and the rest of the party. She initially brings this to up to Akira, asking what'd he do if she decided to leave, with Akira supporting her decision. That said, she already turned down Sakaki's offer even before she asked Akira on his opinion, where she wanted to hear him confess to her directly. When Akira confesses that he didn't want to redo his confession, she immediately gets annoyed about how she gave up a career for Akira, though they don't walk it back and become a proper couple, complete with a Big Damn Kiss.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: As the story progresses, Shizuka's feelings for Akira grew stronger overtime and she gets upset whenever she finds out that Akira is getting involved with another girl who is not from their travelling party. This is best exemplified during the "Cruiser of the Dead" two-parter, where she questions why she's so annoyed at him during the "Desert Island" arc, until she realizes she might be falling for him.
• The Cynic: Shizuka is by far the most pessimistic of the protagonists at the start of the story. She tears into Akira's superhero antics at the aquarium, pointing out everything that could have gone wrong along with lambasting him for calling himself some kind of hero. She can't fathom why Akira is risking his life on a regular basis for luxuries like beer and has a low opinion of anyone who can't act rationally. Even after she begins to lighten up, she's still the most grounded of the heroes and is prone to being negative even if she ends up going along with Akira's plans.
• Cynicism Catalyst: As a child, Shizuka took in a sickly abandoned puppy against the wishes of her father and nursed it back to health. But she returned home one day to tell her father that she wanted to be a doctor, only to be completely and utterly denied. He then tells her that he had the puppy taken to a pound to be put down, and that it's only through him that she can live a life free of worry. This broke Shizuka's will to resist her father, and she went along with his orders no matter how unhappy they made her. In the present, she's taken on nearly the same cold-blooded mentality as him, and it's only through repeated run-ins with Akira that she rediscovers her optimism and desire for more than just survival.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Shizuka is initially cold and aloof to Akira and Kencho, considering them detriments to her chances of survival with their insistence on enjoying themselves to the point of leaving safety for beer, TVs, and playing superhero. But after Akira rushes to help her without any logical reason for it, she begins to warm up to them and they become traveling companions after repeated run-ins together. From then on, Akira and Kencho's goofiness begins to rub off on Shizuka, who learns to let go of her rigid, logic-driven mentality and enjoy herself rather than simply survive, though she still remains the Only Sane Man by comparison.
• Does Not Drive: Shizuka doesn't have a driver's license, mainly because people from Tokyo rely on public transports. As such, when planning to leave Tokyo and having no experience driving a car, let alone an RV, she is forced to team up with Akira and Kencho again. Even after travelling with them for some time she has yet to learn how to drive.
• Establishing Character Moment: Shizuka is introduced looting the same abandoned convenience store as Akira. She flatly denies his offer to share her LINE ID, believing that doing so with someone like him would only reduce her odds of survival. She doesn't even flinch as several zombies rush toward her, simply throwing the magazines off the stand as a makeshift Banana Peel to send them all flying behind her as she makes an Unflinching Walk for the exit. This demonstrates her painfully rational mindset, her aloof and distant personality, and her ability to take care of herself.
• Genre Savvy: She made a point of researching zombie movies (assuming she's not just making excuses for being a fan) so she could better survive in a Zombie Apocalypse.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Shizuka is pretty enough that Akira freezes in his tracks when he sees her while staring at her breasts and butt thanks to her skimpy athletic wear. Anyone who sees her notes how pretty she is, and the only reason Kencho hasn't started flirting with her is because he knows that his Best Friend Akira is interested too.
• Hypocrisy Nod: When Akira asks Shizuka about her views on love, Shizuka calls it a waste of time and energy with not enough reward for the risk, shutting the conversation down in the process. She later apologizes for her statement, realizing that not only was she acting like her hated father, but she was just venting her personal frustrations on Akira. In truth, she's always wanted to find love herself, but she's still scared of being hurt.
• Ineffectual Loner: Double Subverted. She's initially insistent on remaining alone, as she doesn't want to get bogged down by the whims of others in her attempts to survive the Zombie Apocalypse. She handles herself quite well for a time, even lamenting that the panic of a crowd she was traveling on a bus with nearly got her killed. But it's also clear that none of what she's doing is making her happy. Repeated run-ins with Akira and then traveling with him get her to open up, finding far more satisfaction with friends than she ever did alone even if their antics are more risky than she'd like.
• Like an Old Married Couple: Pretty much settles into the dynamic of constantly bickering with Akira moments after their Relationship Upgrade. Though Izuna doubts their relationship will last, Kencho sees it as the happiest the two have ever looked.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Shizuka's father isolated her from her peers to force her to do nothing but follow his wishes. She wasn't allowed to hang out with her classmates, find love aside from those her father approved in advance, or even have any hobbies that he didn't like.
• The Medic: She wanted to be a doctor as a child, but her father forced her to become an accountant at his company. She still read medical books in her free time, which proves handy when she arrives as Akira's hometown of Gunma and is able to provide basic medical treatment and relief for the elderly people there.
• Ms. Fanservice: Her skimpy athleticwear makes her a prime source of breast and butt shots as part of the Male Gaze panel work.
• Never Be Hurt Again: Her aloofness is a wall she put up so she never has to feel hurt again after a childhood of being isolated and controlled by her cold-blooded father. She tries to stick to cold logic even at the expense of her happiness because of how scary it is for her to believe that she could choose for herself for once. Meeting Akira and seeing how he defies logic time and again for the sake of his happiness gradually disabuses her of this mindset, which she thanks him for.
• Nice Girl: Shizuka can be considered a Deconstructed Trope example. In spite of her aloof exterior and her emotionally closed-off behavior, it must be noticed that by nature, she is kind; after all, she had the desire to become a doctor and took in a sickly abandoned puppy and nursed it back to health - But when your father forces you to leave it to a dog pound and denies your wish to become a doctor, then turning into a rather aloof and cynical young woman who prioritizes survival is understandable. Though in the end, thanks to Akira and the others she becomes more friendly and less coldly logical, and despite her initial unwillingness to cooperate, she helps them a lot in survival, and starts being selfless again, given she helps people as a doctor's assistant as much as she can.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Shizuka tries to think logically and considers herself above the antics of her new friends, but she too gets excited over many of the same things they do, like driving a camper van or visiting the hot springs.
  • When the group tries to reach a master sushi chef for Beatrix, she enacts a plan involving gasoline water balloons, commanding Kencho with a fan as she were from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
  • She correctly points out that she and her traveling companions have not completed the physical training required to complete a 246 km run in a day and a half. But she goes along with it anyway despite her cynicism, even though her assumptions are right on the money.
• Older Than They Look: Downplayed and more of a relative example. Despite her being the shortest of the initial main group and having pretty youthful looks, she's actually the oldest of the four, being 26 while Kencho and Akira are 24 and Beatrix is 21.
• On Second Thought: When she meets Akira and Kencho while looking for a camper van, she says she has no intention of traveling with them because that would be too risky, until Akira reminds her that she just told them she doesn’t have a driver’s license and has no idea how to drive an actual car. She promptly readjusts her previous statement and says that traveling with them would be less risky than trying to drive herself.
• Shorter Means Smarter: She's the shortest member of the group and the most practical-minded.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Shizuka admits that she's jealous of Akira for being able to be so open with his feelings and honestly say what's on his mind. She then says that if she does find love, she hopes her lover will be honest with her the way he is... only realizing that it sounds like she likes him after the fact and desperately trying to correct herself before Kencho and Beatrix show up.
• The Spock: Shizuka is coldly rational at the start of the story, only doing things that would increase her chances of survival and refusing to associate herself with people as frivolous and illogical as Akira, lest she wind up in more and more dangerous situations. She tries to apply logic to everything, analyzing the risks to minimize potential harm to herself. She slowly moves away from this mindset the longer she hangs around Akira, to the point of surprising herself when she purposefully draws the attention of some zombies to herself to protect a group of elderly people.
• Trade Your Passion for Glory: Shizuka threw herself into her position as an accountant as her father's company to avoid having to confront how she gave up her dreams because of him and to Never Be Hurt Again. Now that the Zombie Apocalypse has cut her off from her father, she writes down that she wants to try and become a doctor again in her shared bucket list with Akira and the others.
• Tsundere: Definitely, in both romantic and non-romantic ways:
  • Part of her cold personality once introduced was due to her abusive father. Her father expects her to do everything he wants, and not what she wants, and a flashback scene in the anime and manga shows why she was so cold: Her father found out about a puppy she was keeping, and had it killed. He doesn't allow her to date a boy she was interested in, and disallows her to be a doctor. After she met Akira, she began to loosen up around him and his friends, enjoy her life, and help people as much as she can as a doctor's assistant.
  • In Chapter 43, she realizes that she might like Akira, and even tries to confess to him about it, though she accidentally says this to a zombie instead of him, due to the shadows. However, both her and Akira are shown to be very Twice Shy, and when she confronts Akira about whether she should pursue her dreams of being a doctor or continuing their journey, she chose Akira, even after he encouraged her to pursue said dream. The two eventually seal the deal with a kiss, with them becoming a couple in Chapter 57. Even then, she still acts like a Type B around him.
• Uptown Girl: It's more or less stated that her family is affluent. It's also all but stated that she's attracted to Akira, who is from a much more modest background. However, considering most social institutions have collapsed in the wake of the zombie apocalypse, the difference in economic status is pretty much a moot point.
• Women Are Wiser: Shizuka is definitely the most pragmatic and logical of the bunch, often pointing out the logical flaws in Akira's plans. That said, she quickly becomes Not So Above It All from traveling with him and can be just as zany when it comes to things she's interested in, like finally bathing in a hot springs after weeks without a proper bath. She's also the one who snaps Akira out of Kosugi's brainwashing by reminding him how much he wants to complete his bucket list and that he's not responsible for Kosugi's whims.
• Zombie Infectee: Subverted. A zombie caught Shizuka off-guard and bit her on the arm, but thanks to the serum made from Izuna's blood, the infection is quickly nullified.

Beatrix Amerhauser

Beatrix Amerhauser

Voiced by: Minami Takahashi (Japanese), Laura Post (English)

Former College Student

A German national enamored with Japanese culture. She studied everything from the language to the landmarks in hopes of having a joyful, beautiful trek through the country. Unfortunately, her plans were derailed by the zombie apocalypse as soon as she touched down at Narita Airport. Akira and his friends first meet her when she was surrounded by zombies on her way to the last Japanese sushi chef alive.

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• Action Girl: She's more than willing to pull out some Sengoku-era weaponry to defend herself and others from the zombie hordes. Later, during  Airsoft out the Dead, she shows that she also is proficient in firearms from airsoft and manages to keep her cool against the Crushers (while Akira and Tendo panic) and score a high kill count until Izuna leads them.
• Adapted Out: Beatrix doesn't appear in the live action Netflix adaption despite it covering several parts after Akira's group have left Tokyo such as the Hot Spring of the Dead chapter which takes place one chapter after Bea joins the group.
• Affirmative Action Girl: With the initial main trio consisting of Two Guys and a Girl, Beatrix balances out the gender equation after joining. It helps that she's a major ass-kicker that can slice and dice zombies.
• Antiquated Linguistics: As part of her Occidental Otaku tendencies, Beatrix speaks in old-fashioned and formal Japanese the way a samurai would. She also refers to Akira as a fellow "brave warrior" for helping her transport fresh fish to the last sushi chef alive.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Outgoing, kindhearted, and bubbly she may be, she's a total powerhouse, and is the first member of the cast to directly kill a non-zombie when she rolls Gunma's water wheel right on top of Kanbayashi, crushing her to death.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: In addition to her skills with the katana and naginata, Beatrix is also a good archer, calmly shooting a rushing zombie boar in the head.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Beatrix has no problems fending off a small crowd of zombies surrounding her truck, but when she's forced to take on a single opponent, the kendo champion Kanbayashi, Beatrix is on the backfoot and both of her weapons are heavily damaged by their fight.
• Damsel out of Distress: Akira jumps into his shark suit when he sees Beatrix and her truck surrounded by zombies. It turns out to be for nothing, as Beatrix herself walks out with a naginata and cuts down all the zombies herself.
• D-Cup Distress: Her breasts are so large that she struggles to fit them inside even a men's yukata.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her debut is leaping out of a truck in full samurai armor and slashing a horde of zombies to pieces. She then politely introduces herself to the heroes, showing that she's a Nice Girl.
• Funetik Aksent: While Beatrix speaks fluent Japanese, the English localization renders her dialogue with a stereotypical German accent, such as saying "zis" instead of "this" or "vud" instead of "would". This implies that her Japanese as an Occidental Otaku is spoken with a strong accent. The English dub of the anime rolls with this and gives her a thick German accent.
• Go and Sin No More: After rescuing the ex-convict Satoru Shibata despite his gang kidnapping her, she told him that the path of virtue isn't easy, but staying on it will bring him a brighter future.
• Gorgeous Gaijin: She's a pretty, large-breasted girl from Germany.
• Gratuitous German: As a German citizen, Beatrix is prone to responding in her native German from time to time, thanking Akira for coming to her aid with "Danke Schön" (Thank you very much!) while telling Kencho "Keine Ursache!" (Don't mention it!) after saving his life.
• Gratuitous Japanese: In the English version, she peppers her dialogue with random Japanese words that show she's invested in immersing herself in Japanese culture; calling Japan "Nippon", saying "hai" instead of "yes", and calling her new allies "samurai".
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Shiny blonde hair and a big heart that she wears on her sleeve.
• Hot-Blooded: She's just as eager as Akira when it comes to new experiences, believing that she could complete the Spartathlon with nothing but raw determination despite her lack of physical training. Even her mother calls her "bullheaded and stubborn" in Chapter 61.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Beatrix is an Occidental Otaku who immersed herself in Japanese culture, including books and video games. This lets her wield a katana, naginata, and bow with a surprising amount of skill, though she still needs help when she's outnumbered. She's also no match for an actual champion kendoka in a straight fight, and Beatrix needs to get resourceful to achieve her goal of demolishing the electric fence after her weapons are broken by a chainsaw.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Beatrix wields a katana and uses it to help cut down zombies attacking her. Unfortunately, the katana is brittle and easily chipped away by Kanabeyashi's chainsaw.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Especially when compared to Shizuka, Beatrix's longer hair displays more traditionally feminine sensibilities.
• Motor Mouth: She'll occasionally go let out info dumps about Japanese customs she's studied, and at such a fast rate that everyone else loses track of what she's talking about.
• Ms. Exposition: Her Occidental Otaku credentials mean that she often knows more about the local tourist attractions than her Japanese companions, rattling on about them at length in excitement even while being chased by zombies.
• Multi-Melee Master: Beatrix is surprisingly good with both a katana and a naginata, managing to hold off the zombie horde at a chokepoint for a short while with Akira's help. That said, the fact that she's an Occidental Otaku and not formally trained means that she loses in a straight fight against an actual kendo champion.
• Naginatas Are Feminine: She's first seen wielding a naginata with enough skill to quickly cut apart a small crowd of zombies on her lonesome, wowing Akira, Kencho, and Shizuka and leaving them wondering if they're watching a historical play. Beatrix is also girly, bubbly, and outgoing compared to Shizuka's Defrosting Ice Queen.
• Nice Girl: Beatrix is sweet and outgoing person who loves being in Japan despite the zombie apocalypse and is happy to return any favors she gets.
• Occidental Otaku: Beatrix is a German woman who is in love with Japanese culture, procuring actual weapons from the Sengoku era along with a suit of armor that prove quite handy against the zombie hordes. She's completely fluent in Japanese and is so excited to eat sushi from a real sushi chef that she's willing to risk dying for it. She's also able to rattle off facts about Japan at length, knowing more about the country than actual Japanese people.
• One-Woman Army: Her introduction sees her eviscerating a huge mob of zombies with the samurai weapons she's collected, all while our heroes are too stunned to step in themselves.
• Phenotype Stereotype: Beatrix is a German woman from out of the country and is depicted with blonde hair and huge breasts.
• Samus Is a Girl: Beatrix in a full suit of samurai armor along with a helmet and mask that obscures her face. Because of this, it's impossible to tell that she's a woman until she takes it off.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She has no shame in taking a hot springs bath with the guys, since mixed baths used to be part of Japanese culture before western influence banned it. As such, she strips herself naked to take a bath with the guys while Shizuka is startled by her willingness to do so.
• Skewed Priorities: Beatrix is introduced trying to get a truck full of fresh fish to the last Japanese sushi chef alive so she can have the sushi of her dreams rather than trying to get herself to safety. Akira's shared passion and desire to pig out at a great, non-conveyor sushi joint makes him tag along with her despite the risk.
• Tears of Joy: Beatrix cries tears of joy while tasting sushi from a master sushi chef in Japan
• Token Minority: She's the only non-Japanese member of the main cast as a German national visiting Japan when the Zombie Apocalypse happens.
• Wise Beyond Their Years:
  • Despite being the youngest member of the protagonists until Izuna shows up, Beatrix is repeatedly shown to be mature and worldly beneath her Hot-Blooded Occidental Otaku exterior. She's aware of the Culture Clash between Japanese culture and her native German culture, calmly bringing up the differences while taking apart Kanebayashi's self-righteous Never My Fault attitude.
  • Later on, Akira speaks with her while putting too pressure on himself to deliver the zombie virus vaccine after his Relationship Upgrade with Shizuka. Beatrix reminds him that being so focused on "noble goals" and "becoming happy" to the detriment of all else reduces life to a tool instead of something to admire and enjoy.
• Wrecked Weapon: Her katana and naginata are wrecked by Kanbayashi's chainsaw, leaving Beatrix with only her bow. The anime spares her katana, but it does suffer significant damage.

Lambda Chop

AI Robot Butler (on Sabbatical)

A robot sheep butler and Artificial Intelligence built to serve in the world's first entirely robot-run hotel. When the hotel is eventually overrun by zombies, Lambda chooses to join the heroes on their adventures until the hotel is repaired, serving as an additional voice of reason and information thanks to his vast database.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Subverted. Lambda presents hismelf as someone who takes pride in serving others. But he is Dr. Shoichiro's co-conspirator in luring female survivors of the apocalypse into the hotel to be used as part of a Brain Uploading experiment. When Akira calls out Lambda's actions as being contrary to his stated purpose of making guests happy, Lambda is clearly conflicted about this and doesn't like what he's doing. So he gives Akira and Kencho hints about how to override Lambda's orders so he can help, showing that Lambda is sincere about wanting to be helpful.
• Could Say It, But...: Lambda is ultimately beholden to his programming and cannot assist Akira and Kencho when Shizuka and Beatrix are kidnapped by Dr. Shoichiro. But Akira points out that Lambda was built for the express purpose of helping the hotel's guests enjoy themselves. This means that his actions are in direct violation of this. When confronted with this, Lambda continues to say that he cannot defy his instructions, but also tells Akira and Kencho that he would have to prioritize the evacuation of the hotel should its guests be in danger. With this knowledge in mind, the boys kick up such a ruckus that the zombies break down the gates of the hotel, allowing Lambda to act on his programming and free the heroes.
• Genre Refugee: He's a speculative science fiction character that somehow ended up in the middle of a modern-day zombie apocalypse story.
• Gruesome Goat: Subverted. In his first appearance, he works under orders of his creator Dr. Shoichiro to abduct Shizuka and Beatrix for a Brain Uploading experiment. However, Lambda himself is conflicted about following his creator's orders as it goes against his programming, so he ends up indirectly telling Akira and Kencho that he can override his creator's orders if there is an emergency that dictates the guests must evacuate which means he also can't keep Akira and Kencho locked in the suite since they are still guests.
• Mr. Exposition: Lambda is extremely knowledgeable about the going-ons in Japan thanks to his robotic database, making him the go-to guy for information when the protagonists are lost.
• Non-Action Guy: Chop is a robot butler built to serve hotel guests and has no combat skills. Instead, he collect data on any zombies the group encounters and put them to good use.
• Progressively Prettier: At the start, his sheep head is rendered with uncanny realism, conveying the initial antagonistic role he plays in the arc. However, as the manga progresses, the details of his head are gradually sanded away, making him look more cartoon-y and approachable.
• Punny Name: His name is a portmanteau of "lambda", the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet and a frequent variable in scientific calculations, and "lamb chop", the type of animal he's modeled after.
• Robot Maid: Er, butler. Lambda is programmed to provide service suitable for a five-star hotel to the guests staying there. After the hotel gets overrun and won't be back in operation for a while, he joins the group to serve the same purpose.
• Tin Man: According to Lambda, the difference between AI and humans is that AI cannot truly feel emotions such as "love" and "joy". Any compassion they do show has to be programmed into them. Despite this, Lambda is clearly conflicted when Akira points out that letting Shizuka and Beatrix become vessels for a Brain Uploading violates Lambda's purpose to serve the hotel's guests to where he essentially tells Akira and Kencho to exploit a loophole so he can override his creator's orders. As described by his creator, Lambda has as close to a heart as is humanly possible for an AI. While Lambda claims to be unable to feel joy, he takes clear pride in serving others and tells the heroes that he'll settle for being happy when they're happy.
• Token Non-Human: He's a robot in a party of humans.
• Visual Pun: He's a sheep butler because his creator Dr. Shoichiro, thought it'd be funny to have a butler (shitsuji) who is also a sheep (hitsuji), a pun that is unfortunately Lost in Translation.

Takeru Minakata

College Dropout and Ex-Job Hopper

A college mate of Akira and Kenchou who, unlike them, dropped out. Following this, he went back to Osaka and has been job hopping ever since.

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• Affectionate Nickname: His friends call him "Takemina".
• Brats with Slingshots: Takeru carries a slingshot to take out zombies when the situation calls for it.
• Foil: To Kencho. Both of them are Akira's friends from college, but while Kencho is a muscular Action Survivor and would-be comedian who is ridiculously good at distracting zombies with his "delicious ass", Takeru is a (borderline) slender college dropout and a New-Age Retro Hippie gambler from Osaka who is capable of killing zombies at some capacity.
• Fun Personified: He's an easygoing guy who values the importance of happiness and free will above all else, which is the reason why he dropped out of college in the first place.
• The Gambler: He's Fun Personified in a New-Age Retro Hippie getup who also happens to be a master gambler. He even made good use of his gambling skills to snap Akira out of his greed-induced intoxication.
• Long-Range Fighter: He fights with a slingshot compared to Beatrix and Akira, who prefer to fight on close combat.
• Love Hurts: Played for laughs at the end of the Geisha of the Dead two-parter when Takeru finds out that the Geisha he's attracted to, Hinae, has a "Danna-sama" already and is planning to marry him.
• The Power of Trust: He wins a gamble by exploiting the fact that Akira is a good guy underneath despite letting riches make him act like a snob. Since Takeru was risking his life by rushing to a zombie door, Akira used a facial expression that warned Takeru of the risk, after which Takeru switched courses and won the contest by opening the door with no zombies.
• The Idiot from Osaka: While Takeru is far from stupid, he's from Osaka and is a college dropout.
• New-Age Retro Hippie: His default choice of clothing.
• Punny Name: His name is based on the Japanese hunting and War God Takeminakata.

Izuna Tokage (SPOILER WARNING)

Former High School Student
and Ex-Professional Gamer

A young girl who carries the cure for the zombie infection.

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• Affectionate Nickname: She's often called "Izzy" by Kencho.
• Animal Motifs: Lizards, judging by her surname and gamer account. They also represent good fortune, since zombie bites have no effect on her.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: In her first appearance, her eyes are dulled due to depression, and her blood meant she can't be a zombie. But thanks to Shizuka, she becomes happier, and helps Akira and his friends kill the Crushers.
• Foil: To Bea. While both of them learned how to fight as a result of their personal interests, they have a Brains and Brawn dynamic: Bea is a German Occidental Otaku who is capable of mowing down zombies with feudal Japanese weapons, while Izuna is a Japanese Gamer Chick who prefers to shoot them with firearms.
• Gamer Chick: She's a video game enthusiast who is especially a fan of military FPS games.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: As a video game enthusiast, especially for military shooter games, Izuna not only knows how to fire a variety of guns but also take command of a squad against both an army of zombie and a raid boss (i.e. a large zombie creature).
• The Immune: Izuna can't be turned into a zombie even if she willingly tried to get bitten before.
• Instant Expert: Give her a gun, and she'll instantly mow down enemies with no problem. She even avoids Artistic License – Gun Safety and keeps her finger off the trigger rather than newbies who don't know how to handle firearms when they gain one.
• The Medic: In a sense. Because she's the only one who's immune to The Virus, she can administer her blood to give immunity to people during a horde attack.
• Serious Business: As expected of a former pro gamer, she verbally whips Akira and his friends into shape for their poor teamwork against the Crushers.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Sometime before meeting Akira, she was dull and unresponsive, and getting bitten by zombies didn't change things. Even when she willingly donated her blood to Tsurumi, she remained rather apathetic to her surroundings. It's meeting with Akira risking his life to protect Tsurumi, herself, and Shizuka, that she finally finds a new lease on life, and even added her own items to the bucket list.
• Zombie Infectee: Defied. Before she met Akira's group, she willingly let herself get bitten by a zombie, but nothing happened.

Tokyo

Saori Ohtori

Voiced by: Sora Amamiya (Japanese), Lauren Landa (English, Anime), Victoria Grace (English, Live Action)

Black Company Employee

A female worker that work at same company with Akira and was Akira's first love.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: The manga and anime implied that her affair with her boss was non-consensual, and only went through with it to keep her job. The film version however knows her boss was already married and went through with the affair, and angrily kicks his corpse because he promised her he'd leave his wife.
• Adaptational Modesty: In the film, her nightgown is kept on when Akira went to see her whereas she was topless in the anime and manga.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: By the time Akira reaches her apartment, Ohtori is already turned.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She's undeniably stacked and the men love her for it.
• The Mistress: To Akira's dismay, she's the CEO's who would always ask her to come to his office for some "service".
• Nice Girl: Ohtori treats Akira kindly which gives him more reason to fall for her.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the film, she was able to send Akira a message, and was still alive when he finds her. She still turns after Akira kills her zombified boss, but not before kicking his corpse.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Got bitten and turned into a zombie off-screen before Akira went to her apartment.

Yukari

Voiced by: Shion Wakayama (Japanese), Xanthe Huynh (English)

Ex-Flight Attendant #1

A flight attendant who found herself locked up in a mall alongside with other flight attendants.

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• Adapted Out: She does not appear in the live-action adaptation, her role of being the only girl to bond with Akira in the department store was given to Shizuka instead.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Became a zombie during the attack at the mall, greatly saddening Akira as he grew close to her.
• Go Out with a Smile: After being bitten, she takes her final moments to have an earnest talk with Akira, then pushes him out of the way of another incoming zombie, gently smiling all the while.
• Hidden Depths: Yukari revealed that the reason she became a flight attendant so she could make flight and the people feel safer.
• Kill the Cutie: She proves to be a very sweet and honest individual who manages to help Akira reevaluate his aspirations in the short time they spend together. And then she sadly meets her end to a zombie.
• Nice Girl: Not at first due to the pressure and terror of the zombie pandemic, but Yukari shown her kinder side after Akira open up, allowing her to do so herself.

Reika

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese), Allegra Clark (English)

Ex-Flight Attendant #2

A fellow flight attendant and a friend of Yukari.

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: A Groin Attack by a zombie can not be the most pleasant way to go.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Trapped in a dark strip mall surrounded by zombies, she's taken to downing bottles of liquor to cope. It unfortunately makes her an easy mark for a Zombie Infectee that turns right in front of her.
• Groin Attack: When the salarymen who was hiding with them tries spreading her legs after a drinking session, she assumes that he's trying to get lucky with her and berates him. Unfortunately for her, he actually turned into a zombie and it turns out to be this.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She's offed one chapter after she's introduced, as she's bitten by a Zombie Infectee while she's too drunk to defend herself.

Maki

Voiced by: Momo Asakura (Japanese), Michelle Marie (English)

Ex-Flight Attendant #3

A fellow flight attendant and a friend of Yukari.

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• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: She was too drunk, it made her an easy target when a zombie Reika mauls her to death.
• Nice Girl: She's pretty laid-back and enjoys socializing with people and attending parties.
• Sex Signals Death: She was killed not long after having sex with Kenchou.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She's offed one chapter after she's introduced, as she's bitten by a zombified Reika while she's too drunk to defend herself.

Gonzo Kosugi

Gonzo Kosugi

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English, Live Action), Jamieson Price (English, Anime)

Played by: Kazuki Kitamura

Ex-Black Company Group Leader

Akira's former boss who worked him and everyone else at the company to the bone until they were nothing more than wage zombies.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: The Netflix live-action version of him is far from ugly and fat.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Oh boy, the Netflix adaptation makes him even worse than his potrayal in both the manga and anime. When zombies attack the aquarium, he pushes his goons into the horde and runs away by himself.
• Arc Villain: Of the Truck Stop of the Dead arc, and the first one to boot.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: The prestige of the company he works for and his own brainwashing techniques prevented his blatantly overworked employees from simply walking away, as finding a job in the job security-obsessed Japan is incredibly difficult. Following the Zombie Apocalypse, he uses the same techniques to create a "traffic stop" and expand his influence, laying out a spike trap to force those traveling by car and by motorcycle to stop in his territory and force them to work for him while he browbeats them so they'll feel indebted to him and never leave.
• Beware the Living: An utter Jerkass before the apocalypse who became worse after it, he uses cult-style brainwashing techniques to gather minions and works them to the bone (the series' adaptations also has him much more willing to use them as cannon fodder to stay alive).
• The Bully: Kosugi potrayed all the characteristics of a classic bully, a large intimidating man who abuses people smaller than him but when against someone who is immune to his usual threats (ie. zombies), he is the first person to run away. When Akira meets him again on their way out of Tokyo, he is wearing a baseball outfit, referencing how he is both a Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up and a Jerk Jock.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: A very gleeful executive of a "black corporation" who fostered extreme workplace toxicity and working his employees almost literally to death.
• Cruel Mercy: His ultimate fate. Akira saves Kosugi from becoming zombie chow out of compassion, but also exposes Kosugi's incompetence in the process. Then all of his followers take the supplies and trucks and run, leaving Kosugi stranded on the middle of a highway with no supplies and no allies. Even Akira, the Nice Guy that he is, can't help but smirk a little as he watches Kosugi grovel and beg for someone to help him.
• Dirty Coward: He's a Pointy-Haired Boss who has no problems treating good people such as Akira like crap but once the zombies attack his truck stop, he's ultimately shown to be an incompetent leader and would simply run for his life. The Netflix version makes it worse as he pushes two of his goons into the horde and runs away while screaming like a little girl the during the attack.
• Elder Abuse: He has elderlies working for him and treated them the same way he treated Akira. He also scolds an old lady who is refilling his beer and slaps the bottle away with the claims that old women made his drink bad.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: He makes use of captured zombies as laborers, as they never grow tired or complain. But the moment they break loose, they immediately wreak havoc on his traffic stop.
• Fat Bastard: He's fat, Gonk, and such an abusive boss that Akira developed PTSD from working under him.
• Gonk: He's drawn uglier than most of the other characters in the story, with fat lips, a double chin, and being blatantly overweight.
• Hate Sink: Kosugi has absolutely no redeeming qualities. He's a Pointy-Haired Boss who abuses people until they're brainwashed into doing everything he says, a Lazy Bum who can't be bothered to do his own work, and a Dirty Coward when push comes to shove. Akira never wants to see or interact with him ever again and everyone is glad to strand him on the middle of the highway without any supplies or transportation.
• Hypocrite: He constantly scolds his workers that they are useless without him but it turns out the man is so lazy that he can't even protect himself from zombies. In fact, he matches word-for-word the insults he called Akira with (slow, dim-witted,stupid and lazy) The live action adaptation shows how pathetic he can be when he begs the underling he abused for years to take him in.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When Kencho is left bloodied and bruised from wiping out on the motorcycle (because of Kosugi's spike trap), Kosugi reveals he and his gang have stockpiled dozens of first-aid kits that could treat Kencho's wounds, all with a jubilant smile and sparkly filter. That act of generosity is immediately undercut once it's clear he's trying to get Akira back under his thumb, and Shizuka intuits that all that supplies was extorted from other survivors that encroached on his turf.
• Laser-Guided Karma: All of Kosugi's actions come to bite him in the ass when zombies invade his traffic stop. His complete inability to lead would have gotten him killed if not for Akira's compassion. Then Akira's quick thinking to dispose of the zombies by using the food trucks to corral them in before detonating them all with the natural gas and a flare proves just how much more capable he is. This shatters Kosugi's control over his workers, who all agree to quit and take all the supplies they gathered under his watch with him, leaving him alone, scared, and utterly helpless, exactly the way Akira felt under Kosugi's thumb.
• Lazy Bum: For all his bluster, he never does any of his own work, simply manipulating others to do it for him.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: He's Leader Kosugi to those working under him, using the title to create a hierarchy of authority.
• More than Mind Control: Kosugi kept people from simply walking away from the abusive workplace he created by piling expectations on them and burdening them with the fate of their coworkers while destroying their self-esteem to make them reliant on Kosugi for direction. It's telling that Akira's mental health rapidly improves the minute he realizes he never has to go to work again. And yet, the abuse Kosugi piled on Akira is still ingrained in his mind, and he falls back into old habits as Kosugi once again subjects him to the same physical and verbal abuse that crushed Akira's spirit before the zombie apocalypse. Akira even develops Mind-Control Eyes to emphasize how he's essentially being brainwashed. He's almost convinced to stay and be Kosugi's slave again until Shizuka talks him out of it.
• Morton's Fork: If Akira consults Kosugi before making a decision, Kosugi chews Akira out for being unable to work independently. Immediately after this, if Akira makes a decision on his own, Kosugi chews him out for thinking he's the boss.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Kosugi is a horribly abusive boss who runs his workplace like a sweatshop, constantly destroying his workers' self-esteem, paying them awful wages, and working them to the bone while slowly brainwashing them so they'll never leave him. Kosugi's orders often didn't even make sense and contradicted each other, such as complaining about being asked for input before shouting at someone for taking initiative. His constant demands of Akira took a severe toll on Akira's mental, physical, and emotional health, and Akira exhibits symptoms of PTSD from working under him. He's also a crappy leader when things actually get tough, as he panics and runs away when zombies begin to overrun his camp, and is only saved by Akira's compassion.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He scoffs at women, calling them no good for anything but kicking up a fuss, doing labor, and letting him grope their tits. The first thing he does seeing Shizuka is force her to serve him drinks while he makes lecherous comments about her.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: On the receiving end of this from one of his subordinates, who told him that he's just a Lazy Bum who would use other people to do the dirty work for him and Akira acted more like a leader than he did.
• Starter Villain: As Akira's former boss, Kosugi is the first roadblock the main characters encountered in their quest to complete the bucket list.

Mikio and Sumire Kousaka

Mikio voiced by: Shuhei Sakaguchi (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English)
Sumire voiced by: Sara Matsumoto (Japanese), Jennifer Sun Bell (English)

Ex-Airline Pilot

Ex-Violin Instructor

Akira's neighbors who had a hard time adjusting to the pandemic.

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• Action Survivor: Not at first, as they were among the people who panic during the zombie pandemic, but became more competent and level headed after surviving the attack at their apartment, inspired by Akira's action and attitude.
• Composite Character: In the Netflix adaption, Sumire, who is pregnant, replaces the unnamed pregnant woman forced to work for Kosugi.
• Dramatic Irony: Akira believes they're dead when he comes back to find their apartment empty with bloodstains everywhere, but it actually turns out they escaped and inspired by Akira's positivity despite the grim circumstances, decides to make the most of the situation to accomplish their dream of seeing 100 different countries together, meaning Akira actually did save them in a spiritual sense.
• Happily Married: Wasn’t shown due to them panicking during the Zombie Pandemic, but the couple grew closer after surviving the zombie attack at their apartment.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Sumire revealed herself to be a former violin instructor.
  • Mikio, even more surprisingly, was a former airline pilot and is still able to fly a plane.
• Imperiled in Pregnancy: In the film version, Sumire is pregnant in the early stages of the Zombie Apocalypse.
• Sacrificial Lamb: They're introduced rather early on, only for Akira to return from the convenince store to find their apartment bloody and empty. Subverted as an extra chapter reveals they actually managed to escape and are last seen taking up arms to reach the nearest airport to accomplish their dream of seeing 100 different countries.
• Took a Level in Badass: Not only they survive the zombie attack at their apartment, but decide to take up arm and fight for their dream of travelling around the world; no longer being the scared couple Akira found.

Gunma

Sushi Chef

A sushi chef in Gunma who continues preparing sushi even in the midst of a zombie outbreak.

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• Nice Guy: He's so grateful that people are coming to eat his sushi in a Zombie Apocalypse it moves him to tears, and he offers the party all they can eat in gratitude.
• Supreme Chef: The heroes find his sushi so declicious that they're moved to tears.

Masaru Kumano

Masaru Kumano

Voiced by: Naomi Kusumi (Japanese), Richard Epcar (English)

Carpenter of the Gunma Woods

A carpenter working in the woods around Gunma when the zombie apocalypse hit. He's building a treehouse when he's attacked by a zombie boar and saved by Beatrix. Akira then volunteers to help Kumano finish his treehouse.

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• Chekhov's Gunman: The gang meets Kumano right before entering Gunma and help him build his treehouse. Come Chapter 21, he arrives in the nick of time to help all of Gunma escape the zombie horde by tossing a fresh rope bridge after the old one collapsed.
• Cool Old Guy: He's a jolly old man and a fantastic carpenter able to build an amazing treehouse without any power tools and only a little help from Akira and his friends.
• Distressed Dude: Akira and friends first encounter Kumano while he's fleeing from a rushing zombie boar that Beatrix shoots dead.
• Happily Married: Kumano's wife and son are long dead by the time of the story, but the way he talks about them indicates that he was a devoted husband and family man who dearly misses them.
• In Harmony with Nature: Kumano's treehouse building philosophy means taking care of the trees and the environment around the treehouse before caring for the entire forest, both to ensure the house's longevity and to respect the resources nature provided to build it. He tells Akira to "ask the trees" when building a house, and that a properly built treehouse lets one "hear the trees".
• Outliving One's Offspring: Kumano was present when his wife was infected and bit their son. He laments that he expected his son to outlive him, only for the opposite to happen.
• Sole Survivor: His wife was infected and bit their son, leaving Kumano the only survivor of his family.

Teruo Tendo

Teruo Tendo

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Kinoshita (Japanese), Rick Zeffirelli (English)

Small Town Farmer

Akira's father, a hardworking and no-nonsense farmer. Despite his gruff demeanor, he welcomes Akira's friends to Gunma and lets them stay in a spare room.

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• Book Dumb: Responsible and hardworking though he may be, he also wasn't academically inclined enough to get the grades necessary to achieve his dream of becoming an astronaut.
• Career Not Taken: His dream was to become an astronaut, but he lacked the academic akumen for it and instead stayed to be a farmer at his village.
• Formerly Fit: Akira notes that Teruo has gotten a lot smaller than when he last saw him three years ago. Despite this, Teruo continues to work on the farm as if nothing is wrong even as his wife frets for him, his Incurable Cough of Death not helping matters.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Akira descends into Inelegant Blubbering about how sorry he is for not calling home and being a better son, Teruo punches him on the head and tells him not to spew all that nonsense.
• Good Parents: Gruff as Teruo may be, Akira thinks the world of him and Akiko. The first thing Akira does upon arriving home is apologize to his parents for not seeing them more and for never thanking them for raising them. Teruo isn't afraid to discipline his son, but is also encourages him to leave his dinky farming village and find a dream to aspire to.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Believing he doesn't have a lot of time left, Teruo throws Akira into the safety of a wooden house and tries to hold off the zombies invading Gunma alone rather than risk his wife and son's lives. Then it's subverted as Higurashi manages to take Teruo hostage, forcing Akira to dress up as a zombie to fool Higurashi and rescue Teruo, who survives the ordeal.
• Incurable Cough of Death: Teruo is suffering from a major illness that he's hiding from Akira, coughing up blood into a cloth when no one is looking. He believes he doesn't have much time left, becoming a major source of drama until it is revealed that he's suffering from hemorrhoids in which case it's Played for Laughs. This also motivates Akira to leave home to find a surgeon who can treat his father.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Compared to his carefree Manchild of a son, Teruo is firm and focused on keeping Gunma alive. He clocks Akira on the head for his Inelegant Blubbering over how sorry he is for not appreciating his parents enough and is almost always seen with a scowl on his face. Then it turns out that Teruo isn't nearly as much of a hardass as he appears to be, and had big dreams of becoming an astronaut that his grades never let him achieve. He says all this with a goofy smile on his face, showing Akira that they're not that different after all.
• So Proud of You: While Akira's parents are glad to see he's safe, Akira pointedly notes that neither of them are particularly impressed with how he turned out in life. Because of this, he becomes fixated on showing his gratitude to them for raising him however he can. Teruo finally tells him how proud he is of Akira after Akira and his friends save Gunma village from the NEETs attempts to kill them all.
• When He Smiles: Teruo is a Perpetual Frowner who always seems to be dour even when he's showing hospitality to others and speaking with his son. So the few times he does smile, like when he tells Akira how how proud he is of him, make a huge impact on both Akira and the reader.

Akiko Tendo

Akiko Tendo

Voiced by: Yuko Sasaki (Japanese), Jill Remez (English)

Small Town Housewife

Akira's mother, a kindly housewife who helps out around Gunma. She frets over her husband and son constantly, but also does her own fair share of the labor even as Akira begs her to let him help her.

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• Feminine Women Can Cook: Akiko does a lot of the cooking, making rice balls for Akira and his friends and later making pickled lunches for Akira to take once he leaves home again.
• Good Parents: Akira thinks the world of his parents, to the point that he apologizes for not seeing them more and for not being a better son to them. Akira is constantly begging to help her out with tasks during his stay in Gunma even while she insists he relax from his lengthy and labor-intensive trip from Tokyo to Gunma.
• Secret-Keeper: She's the only one who knows about Teruo's illness and doesn't bring it up to anyone. She only spills the beans after Teruo collapses from the strain of fending off the zombies invading Gunma, but it turns out that Teruo is suffering from hemorrhoids rather than some extremely hard-to-treat illness.

Kanta Higurashi

Kanta Higurashi

Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese), Bryce Papenbrook (English)

NEET

A 24-year-old NEET from Tokyo who took shelter in Gunma when the Zombie Apocalypse hit. He and the other three NEETs who came with him never help out around the village.

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• Arc Villain: Of the Hometown of the Dead arc.
• Beware the Living: Oh boy, is he an example. There are other examples of people who destroy zombie-safe zones in fiction, but he is one of the most vile ones because he is doing it because he is up to here with seeing them all content.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: A NEET has been a common character archetype for anime protagonists especially in the 2010s where they are free to indulge in their wildest fantasies when being given a second chance in life. Zom 100 shows what happened when a misanthropic NEET is put into such situation. Higurashi continues to be a lazy bum even in a post-apocalpytic world and refuses to help out in a community. While most NEET steadily improved themselves and sees how bad of a person they were in the past, Higurashi has no such Character Development and instead blames everyone for his poor lifestyle and choices and uses the apocalpyse to vent off his frustration on everyone just because he isn't happy. Moreover, in comparison to Akira's group, Higurashi and his group went on and do actions that are against the law such as firing a gun, doing drugs and getting back at the people who wronged them.
• Everyone Went to School Together: He was classmates with Akira and Kencho back in college and was on the verge of asking if he could hang out with them, with Akira at one point even offering Higurashi to come with them for lunch, but Higurashi's shyness and pride kept him from doing so. Seeing how apparently successful and happy Akira and Kencho are in the present irritates Higurashi enough to want them dead.
• Evil Counterpart: In many ways he's everything Akira could have been without friends to support him and dreams to aspire to. Both of them lived miserable, lonely existences prior to the zombie apocalypse. But while Akira had his loving parents, his Best Friend Kencho, and his new friends Shizuka and Beatrix to support him and give him dreams to aspire to, Higurashi had no one and spiraled downward into self-destructive behaviors, dropping out of college and blaming everyone else for his failures. He even has his own "100 Things to Do Before Becoming a Zombie" list, only it's filled with destructive ideas designed to make everyone else just as miserable as he is.
• Evil Is Petty: He decides to try to get everybody in his refuge killed just because he cannot stand seeing them happy. Becoming infected by the zombie virus only makes him more driven to ruin people's happiness while he still can.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: He is the Arc Villain of the Hometown of the Dead arc and has a distinctly raspy voice in both dubs.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Higurashi smokes as part of his self-destructive habits and nihilistic view of the world even before the apocalypse began. Which leads into his desire to make all of Gunma suffer for finding the happiness he couldn't.
• Karmic Death: He was the one who came up with the idea of unleashing the zombies onto Gunma to get rid of everyone who annoyed him, only to get bitten by one of those very same zombies, sealing his fate as the rest of the zombies converge on him as the rest of Gunma runs to safety.
• Knight of Cerebus: While villainous survivors are nothing new in Zombie Apocalypse stories, Higurashi is on a completely different level of villainy, being more nihilistic, misanthropic, and psychotic to the point of forming an evil version of Akira's travelling party and releasing the zombies confined in Gunma to terrorize the villagers.
• NEET: He never finished college and was jobless before the Zombie Apocalypse hit.
• Oh, Crap!: As Akira seemed as if he turned into a zombie at first and resulting in Higurashi sadistically declaring his Near-Villain Victory, his devastated, defeated reaction when he realizes he’s been had, after Akira tricked him by pretending to be a zombie (through makeup and acting) and pinning him down, says it all.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Higurashi is a 24 year old college dropout who never work once in his life and uses the zombie apocalypse to cause anarchy simply because everyone is happy but him. To Higurashi, the happiest moment of his life was when he visited the pool with his childhood friends during the summer and wishes to go back to that period of time. During his attack on Gunma, he regularly brings up his childhood memories and declares that everyday is summer vacation.
• Tears of Joy: He cries tears of joy for the first and last time when Akira embraces him and tells him that they'll hang out if he ever becomes a zombie, making him Higurashi's first and only friend before being dogpiled by zombies.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Higurashi and the other NEETs never do anything to help out around Gunma unlike the rest of the able-bodied refugees, simply taking food and water for themselves. Then they try to turn everyone in the village into zombies for the crime of being happy and content when he isn't.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: For Akira and his friends, Higurashi is far more dangerous as a villain than Kosugi ever was.

Shigenobu Kurasugi

Shigenobu Kurasugi

Voiced by: Seirou Ogino (Japanese), Bill Millsap (English)

Ex-Cellphone Shop Employee

A member of Higurashi's group, Kurasugi is a former cellphone shop employee and had an Awful Wedded Life before the zombies.

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• All Take and No Give: As Kencho points out to him, Kurasugi acted this way toward his wife by expecting her do everything while giving nothing back to her, which contributed to her treatment of him.
• Devoured by the Horde: He gets eaten alive by the zombies who attacked his village at the end of his fight with Kencho.
• Henpecked Husband: Deconstructed. Kurasugi definitely believes this is the case given his overbearing wife and their loveless marriage, thinking himself to be "a victim of marriage". However, Kencho points out that the real reason behind the failure of Kurasagi's marriage is his inability to show that he cared about his wife or properly communicate with her, calling Kurasugi out for expecting marriage to be All Take and No Give on his end.
• Never My Fault: He thinks himself a victim of why his marriage fell apart, but it's evidently clear it was because of Kurasugi's refusal to put effort into it.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: His response to Kencho's "The Reason You Suck" Speech, along with trying even harder to kill him.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: There is no mention of the fate of his wife and son as Kurasugi was found by Higurashi with the other members of the group.
• Would Hit a Girl: One of his items in the bucket list is slap his wife. However, the audience is not shown if he did the deed.
• Younger Than They Look: He looked like a middle-aged man but is actually 27 years old. This likely stems from the stress of his horrible marriage.

Touko Kanbayashi

Touko Kanbayashi

Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (Japanese), Kate Clarke (English)

Ex-Municipal Office Employee
and Former Kendoka

A member of Higurashi's group, Kanabeyashi is a former municipal office employee who was fired for her overbearing attitude.

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• Chainsaw Good: Kanbayashi wields a chainsaw to destroy the village circuit breaker and later duels and breaks Bea's naginata and katanas with it.
• Control Freak: As an office worker, she tried to micromanage everyone and everything around her. It got worse after her dismissal, resulting in her being almost constantly angry due to everything not working the way she wants.
• Dies Differently In The Adaptation: Instead of Beatrix crushing her with the water wheel like in the manga, Kanbayashi is eaten alive by the same horde of zombies she attracted during her climactic fight with Beatrix in the anime.
• Gory Discretion Shot: After the water mill breaks, Bea guides it to Kanebeyashi and crushes her to death though the scene shifts away from the gore.
• Never My Fault: She thinks of herself as the only one who is right and is incredulous about being fired over being overbearing to the point of berating her co-workers over minor things and refusing to compromise or cooperate on anything.
• Strong and Skilled: A chainsaw, even a small one, is not easy to carry yet Kanbayashi is able to lift one with ease. Combine this and her skills in kendo, she becomes a formidable opponent for Bea.
• This Cannot Be!: As Bea rode a tumbling water mill wheel towards her, Kanebayashi can only stare, grit her teeth and tremble with fury at such an unorthodox method of fighting. Even to the end, she remained an inflexible Control Freak.

Naoki Atenbou

Naoki Atenbou

Voiced by: Koji Takeda (Japanese), Bill Rogers (English)

Ex-Apprentice Chef

A member of Higurashi's group, Atenbou is a former chef apprentice who blames his laziness and carelessness as a result of bad luck.

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• The Atoner: He's the only surviver of Higurashi's group by the end and he's last seen working in the fields in an effort to atone for his actions.
• Attempted Rape: He might call it "forcefully French kiss" but even if he doesn't go as far as rape, what he tries to do is still consider a sexual assault.
• Forceful Kiss: In Higurashi's notebook, he puts "forcefully French kiss a girl" as the thing he wanted to do the most and spends his "battle" with Shizuka chasing her around a cornfield in order to do the deed.
• Gonk: The guy's an overweight bum with thick lips and deliberately drawn to be unattractive. It's no wonder Shizuka doesn't want to be near the guy.
• Never My Fault: He blames everything bad that happens to him on bad luck alone and none on his own actions, such as refusing to learn what he should know after working for three months or burning down the restaurant because of carelessly discarding his cigarette in the kitchen.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: As he is about to forced kiss Shizuka, the elderlies of the village come to her rescue and beat up Atenbou. Surprisingly, he survives the ordeal.
• Sole Survivor: Atenbou is the only member of Higurashi's group to survive the attack and choose to stay and help out the village in order to make ammends.

Other Survivors

Mr. Mikazuki

Mr. Mikazuki

Voiced by: Naoya Uchida (Japanese), Joe J. Thomas (English)

"A complete menace to the entire society despite he was not known that much."

Shizuka's strict father. A highly successful businessman, he puts high expectations on his daughter and controls what she does throughout her life.

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• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: He objects Shizuka's desire to be a doctor, stating that not only it is a low paying career but also that she has to serves others.
• Hate Sink: He's a monstrously abusive father who squashes his daughter's independence at every point, and sent her puppy to be put down because it was a "distraction" to her. He's the reason Shizuka's as detached from everyone as she is.
• Uncertain Doom: Mikazuki only appears in his daughter's flashback. His current whereabouts after society collapsed is unknown.

Shoichiro Edogawa

Dr. Shoichiro Edogawa

Hotel AI Owner and AI Engineer

One of the world's foremost experts on Artificial Intelligence, the creator of Lambda Chop, and the owner of the Resort Hotel AI, a luxury hotel at Wakkanai, Hokkaido, run completely and independently by his own robots.

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• Barbarian Long Hair: Justified. He had let his hair grow long and wild as a result of grief and, later, obsession. From behind, Dr. Edogawa looked like a big, white hairball!
• Love Makes You Crazy: His madness and his obsession both stem from his love for Rui, his late assistant.
• Mad Scientist: He became obsessed with resurrecting his beloved young assistant Rui Saionji after she was infected and died during the zombie outbreak. After uploading her neural patterns onto his computer, Dr. Edogawa experimented on any survivors that came to his hotel, intending to eventually download Rui's mind into another living body. The fact that this would basically kill the original body's mind didn't matter to him.
• May–December Romance: He appeared to be around 60 while Rui was in her mid- to late-twenties when she died.
• Redemption Equals Death: He reevaluated his actions after Akira told him that Rui would never want to live at the expense of someone else's life. In the end, Dr. Edogawa chose to stay in the (now zombie-infested) hotel and uploaded his own mind into his computer, presumably allowing him to be with Rui in cyberspace.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He is much shorter than the average person, but he is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. Dr. Edogawa and his team have built and programmed a full staff of robots, including Lambda Chop, to independently manage a luxury hotel, which was used to entice potential investors for his research.

Koharu Toono

Koharu Toono

Ex-Tour Guide

A sakagura (sake brewery) tour guide from Niigata.

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• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Because of her Hard-Drinking Party Girl antics, she used to remove her bras, forget to mind her manners, stole traffic cones to use as a hat, and accidentally had sex with a guitar player on the side of a road. Shizuka and Beatrix can't help but pity her about this. However, unlike other people who had the misfortunate of getting themselves killed by this, it actually proved advantageous for her.
• The Alcoholic: In her youth, she loved drinking alcohol to the point that she sometimes forgot to eat.
• Drunken Master: Parodied. After dunking herself in a brewery vat and drinking sake for the first time in years, she somehow gained the speed and courage to dodge zombies and intoxicate them with forced drinking. Shizuka compared Koharu to a drunken kung fu martial artist from the movies.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: During her college years, she spent countless nights at parties drinking until she lost all reason.
• The Teetotaler: She swore off drinking when she realized that her drunken habits were serious hindrances to her work life. At the encouragement of Akira and his friends, she dove into a brewery vat and drank her fill, allowing her to distract a zombie horde long enough for everyone to escape.

Satoru Shibata

Satoru Shibata

Ex-Workshop CEO and Escaped Convict

The leader of a gang of escaped convicts and a former workshop owner.

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• Became Their Own Antithesis: After trying to live an honest life only to end up betrayed and ruined, Satoru became a ruthless criminal himself, not unlike those who took advantage of his trust. Surviving during a Zombie Apocalypse hasn't really helped matters, giving him free rein to commit crimes.
• Dark and Troubled Past: After inheriting a small metal workshop from his father, he worked hard for 30 years and tried his best to live honestly. Life for Satoru took a turn for the worse when a friend convinced him to share a debt, only to disappear when the creditor, actually a loan shark, came to collect. This left Satoru and his family at the loan shark's mercy until the day the loan shark gloatingly confessed that he pimped Satoru's daughter, but not before raping her himself. Enraged beyond measure and goaded by the loan shark's laughter, Satoru beat the man to death with a wrench. As a result, he was arrested and imprisoned for voluntary manslaughter until the zombie outbreak began.
• Heel–Face Turn: After he was abandoned by his gang during a zombie attack, he was rescued by Bea despite her being kidnapped and threatened with rape. This act of kindness became the first step in restoring Satoru's faith in humanity.
• Papa Wolf: He beat a loan shark to death for raping and pimping his daughter.
• Took a Level in Cynic: His most recent life experiences led him to believe that Humans Are Bastards despite his father having taught him the importance of kindness and trust.

Yudai Tsurumi (SPOILER WARNING)

Dr. Yudai Tsurumi

Ex-Vaccine Researcher

A vaccine researcher at a biotech startup in Osaka. Tsurumi lost his wife and daughter during the first days of the pandemic while he was at work. For the next few months, he and his fellow researchers have been trying to develop a cure for the zombie virus without success, until the discovery of Izuna Tokage, a girl who hasn't been transformed into a zombie despite being bitten. After the zombies broke into his lab, Tsurumi took Izuna with him to continue their research somewhere else. One of Akira's goals on his bucket list is to find Tsurumi.

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• Contrived Coincidence: There are several times Akira's group were in the same vicinity as Tsurumi before they finally meet in Fukouka. Firstly, he was still at Osaka during the events of "Millionaire of the Dead" and he and his fellow scientist could have visited Trinity. Later, he took refuge on the same island that Akira and Shizuka were stranded on in "Desert Island of the Dead" and left a week before they arrived. Finally, Akira's group commandeered a train and so happened encounter Tsurumi and Izuna when they are about to reach the Umbriel lab and were cornered by zombies.
• Crusading Widower: His wife and daughter were killed by zombies during its early stages, and he couldn't help but watch them die in live news as it was happening. All he could think of is trying to find a vaccine strong enough to provide a cure, even though he had to take weeks to months to make it. Then he and his assistants found Izzy who was found out to be The Immune, and has been keeping her alive right until they encounter the protagonists riding on a steam train.
• Missed Him by That Much: As mentioned above, Akira's group may have served Tsurumi when they were at Osaka and was only a week behind him when they found shelter on the desert island.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter was killed by zombies during the early days of the apocalypse. Her death was caught by a news helicopter and Tsurumi had to watch her and his wife being ripped apart by the undead. Their deaths are a huge motivation for him wanting to complete the vaccine.
• This Is Unforgivable!: He's horrified and outraged learning the Umbriel Corporation not only created the zombie virus but have been using a mutated version of said virus to create bioweapons.

Umbriel Corporation (SPOILER WARNING)

An international pharmateutical company. Though the Japanese branch have long succumb to the zombies, the American branch is still active. From what little Akira's group gather during their search for a cure, Umbriel have make some progress in developing the vaccine. The company in reality holds a dark secret; not only does the zombie virus originate from them but they are also creating monsters to sell as weapons.

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• Expy: To the Umbrella Corporation, another pharmaceutical company secretly researching on zombies and creating monstrosities to sell as bio-weapons. At the facility where Akira and co gather, there are even what look like Hunters.

Sugizo

A serial killer who kills survivors to feed his zombified grandmother.

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• Acrofatic: He’s a chonky serial killer who is pretty fast on his feet.
• The Brute: The Heavy lifter of his family.
• Disney Villain Death: He was tricked by Takeru into destroying a stand above him where a huge amount of dirt fell on him. Too bad they didn’t double tap.
• Expy: To Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. At least his family doesn’t abuse him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The reason why he kills other survivors. He wanted meat to feed his zombified granny.
• Fat Bastard: He’s a fat serial killer wielding a Mochi Hammer.
• Love Makes You Evil: His love for his grandmother makes him kill other survivors to feed her.
• Malevolent Masked Man: Wears an Okame Mask and is never seen without it.
• Serial Killer: Guess a zombie apocalypse doesn’t stop him from becoming one.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Implied. From what we know, both him and his grandparents used to be nice people before the zombie apocalypse broke out.

Zombies

General

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• Alien Blood: Zombies are usually caked in blood that, in the anime, comes in various colors. Fitting the anarchistic themes of the series, it makes them look like they're covered in graffiti paint.
• Body Horror: Some develop large tumor-like growths on any part of their bodies, but this doesn't slow them down in any discernible way.
• Flesh-Eating Zombie: Their only concern is to hunt and eat the flesh of non-infected creatures, be they human or animal.
• Hive Mind: Exploited. Their hunting instincts can drive them to work together to an eerie degree despite there being no evidence so far of them having an actual hive mind.
  • The zombie shark encountered at the aquarium was given land locomotion by the legs of the zombies it ate. Despite the zombies within the shark being blind, they can walk together toward any noise made by potential prey, enabling the shark to attack. As a result, the zombie shark and the zombies within it act like a single ravenous monster.
  • A zombie horde got entangled within and all over a Spinosaurus fossil at a dinosaur museum when they pursued Kencho. The zombies then started to act eerily as one, giving the fossil muscles, decaying flesh, and a primitive brain. The result was a terrifying approximation of a zombie Spinosaurus, complete with roars simulated by the zombies' moans.
• No Zombie Cannibals: They're not interested in eating each other even if they've gone for weeks or even months without eating anything.
• Plague Zombie: They are dead bodies animated by viral infection and the virus within them can be passed to others if their bodily fluids get into their victims. This usually happens through biting. The speed of infection can vary depending on the severity of the infected wound and how close said wound is to the brain, but it is always fatal unless the victim receives immediate appropriate treatment. For example, a victim turned into a zombie almost immediately after receiving a deep bite wound on the neck.
• Raising the Steaks: The virus can infect animals and transform them into zombies as well.
• Sense-Impaired Monster: While they may or may not be blind, they hunt mostly through hearing and smell. Kencho was once able to conceal himself from an incoming group of zombies by covering himself in manure and staying quiet despite being in plain sight.
• Zombie Gait: Zigzagged. While many zombies only walk slowly, others are capable of running as soon as they detect potential prey. Recently transformed zombies are more likely to be able to run due to bodily decay not setting in yet.
• Zombie Infectee: Many victims tend to conceal or stay quiet about their bite wounds, especially during the early days of the outbreak. As a result, these victims spread the viral infection further and cause more deaths.

Zombie Shark

A Great White Shark at an abandoned aquarium that was infected by the virus after consuming infected divers and other zombies that fell into its tank. The legs of those it ate eventually sprout out from its stomach, allowing the shark to walk on dry land and attack the survivors.

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• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Or legs in this case, specifically the legs of the zombies the shark ate. Within the stomach, the legs sprout from the shark's stomach and allowing it to walk on land.

Zombie Bear

Zombie Spinosaurus

When the group pay a visit at the dinosaur museum at Fukui Prefecture, a horde of zombies attack the museum. By entangling themselves over the museum's fossils, the zombies are able to control the skeleton to make a pseudo-zombie dinosaur. One of these skeletons is a Spinosaurus, a large theropod that used to live during the Cretaceous period.

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• Artistic License – Paleontology: Played with. Kencho believes that since a Spinosaurus is larger than a Tyrannosaurus, the former will beat it in a fight. Not only are these dinosaurs separated by over 30 million years and lived at different continents, a Spinosaurus is an amphibious predator with its body designed for swimming, meaning a Tyrannosaurus would have won. That said, Kencho is not a paleontologist and his knowledge about dinosaurs sterns from movies such as Jurassic Park III.
• Savage Spinosaurs: It is the skeleton of a extinct theropod and one of the largest carnviourous dinosaurs. After the zombies take control of it, it becomes the biggest obstacle the group face at the museum.
• Spinosaurus Versus T. rex: Chop outfitted the Akiraiger 2.0 into a Tyrannosaurus suit from one of the museum's exhibit, allowing Akira to fight the Spinosaurus. Though the Spinosaurus proves difficult, it is ultimately defeated.

Crusher (SPOILER WARNING)

Crusher

Biological weapons created by the Umbriel Corporation and to be sold to the black market. These creatures resembles humanoid frogs with sharp claws and are infused with an enchanced strain of the zombie virus.

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• Expy: Considering Umbriel is an Expy to the Umbrella Corporation, the Crusher is based on the Hunters.

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