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Highschool of the Dead-Trailer (New 2010 Anime)
By The Editor July 6, 2010 - 08:33
Sentai Filmworks
The new anime, “High School of the Dead” premiers today at the Anime Network. The anime version of the Japanese manga was licensed by Sentai Filmworks and is also premiering on Japan today. Sentai will also release a dub of the series to widen its audience.
High School of the Dead also known as Gakuen Mokushiroku or “Academy
Apocalypse” is an original Japanese manga written by Daisuke Sato and
illustrated by Shouji Sato. It appears in Fujimi Shobo’s Monthly Dragon
Age since September 2006.
The manga had been recently revived last February 9, 2010 after in
was in hiatus since end of 2008. The next chapter of the manga will be
released on July 9.
The series follows a group of Japanese high school students caught in
the middle of a zombie apocalypse. As the story suggests the whole
world is taken over by a deadly disease where humans become zombies.
The setting of the story is at Fujimi High School where the school
nurse bands together withs several students in order to survive the
deadly disease.