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High School of the Dead
They're gonna graduate with horrors.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Junichi Suwabe
Takashi Komuro (voice)
12 eps
Marina Inoue
Rei Miyamoto (voice)
12 eps
Miyuki Sawashiro
Saeko Busujima (voice)
12 eps
Eri Kitamura
Saya Takagi (voice)
12 eps
Nobuyuki Hiyama
Kohta Hirano (voice)
12 eps
Yukari Fukui
Shizuka Marikawa (voice)
12 eps
Ayana Taketatsu
Alice Maresato (voice)
12 eps
Jouji Nakata
Sōichirō Takagi (voice)
12 eps
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Yuriko Takagi (voice)
12 eps
Kisho Taniyama
Kōichi Shidō (voice)
12 eps
Junko Takeuchi
Rika Minami (voice)
12 eps
Jin Urayama
Tadashi Miyamoto (voice)
12 eps
Mamoru Miyano
Hisashi Igō (voice)
12 eps
Hitomi Harada
Zeke (voice)
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How High School of the Dead actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
High School of the Dead reads strongest on Spectacle, Character Depth and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E04
Running in the DEAD
Z-Day +1...In times of crisis, even the most mundane activities become a monumental task. While on their way to the rendezvous, Rei and Komuro find that there's more to fear in this new world besides the walking dead.
- Directed by Tetsuo Ichimura
- Written by Tatsuya Takahashi
S01E05
Streets of the DEAD
The population grows desperate and chaos runs wild in the streets. Crossing any bridge presents a world of problems for Komuro and Rei, while dissension among the ranks splits the bus group in two.
- Directed by Yuji Kumazawa
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S01E07
DEAD Night and the DEAD Ruck
Fully rested and armed to the teeth, the group looks on as people are eaten alive in the streets below, and learn a valuable lesson: you can't save them all. However, in the zombie apocalypse, there are always exceptions.
- Directed by Takashi Takahashi
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S01E09
The Sword and DEAD
After narrowly escaping with their lives, Komuro and Saeko must make their way alone and rendezvous with the others. Saeko's true nature is revealed, and it begs the question: Is her beauty only skin deep?
- Directed by Yusuke Onoda
- Written by Tatsuya Takahashi
S01E02
Escape from the DEAD
As the entire school quickly spirals into chaos, more players just into the fight, handmade weapons at the ready. New enemy traits are discovered, and the survivors realize the situation that they're really in.
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S01E12
All DEAD'S Attack
After an EMP wave shuts down all electronic equipment in a wide radius, Komuro and his friends must defend the mansion or risk losing everything that matters to them.
- Directed by Mitsuyuki Masuhara, Tetsuro Araki
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E01
Drifters of the DEAD
S01E12
All DEAD'S Attack
- Directed by Mitsuyuki Masuhara, Tetsuro Araki
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S01E11
DEAD Storm Rising
- Directed by Takenori Mihara
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S01E10
The DEAD's House Rules
- Directed by Tetsuo Ichimura
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S01E09
The Sword and DEAD
- Directed by Yusuke Onoda
- Written by Tatsuya Takahashi
S01E08
The DEAD Way Home
- Directed by Chie Yamashiro
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Mitsutoshi OguraProducer
- Hiroyuki OmoriExecutive Producer
Writing
- Tatsuya TakahashiWriter
- Yosuke KurodaWriter
Direction
- Takashi TakahashiDirector
- Yusuke OnodaDirector
- Yuji KumazawaDirector
- Mitsuyuki MasuharaDirector
- Tetsuo IchimuraDirector
- Tetsuro ArakiDirector
Cinematography
- Kazuhiro YamadaDirector of Photography
Music
- Takafumi WadaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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