[Manga] Highschool of the Dead

from mainpage in XLG.

Highschool of the Dead ~ Licensed

Yen Press has announced that they have licensed High School of the Dead in North America, as such we will no longer be continuing the series. Here's to hoping they do at least as kickass of a job as we would have.

And let us not forget the message from the author...

BUY LEGALITY COOL COMIC!!!

We'll post links (to amazon of course ;P) when the first volume is available in english~

wtf?
this is bullshit.

http://xamayon.org/

Nice chapter and it was good that Inazuma stuck to his emotional finisher plan with Asami. We will remember Asami *cries* hopes a good figurine of her is released.

Anyways, HOTD takes after the "Classic" zombie series. Meaning Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead series. It goes back to the oldschool more scientific zombies where they are just infected by a natural virus. 28 weeks later and those other movies or games like left4dead takes after the "New" type of zombies that are man made and the humans are driven from excess amount of adrenaline type of viral infection. The "classic" zombies are infected by a virus that is a human infection only, which means mosquitos are also likely to transfer the disease much like the west nile virus. The disease itself is like a retrovirus that aims only for nerve cells and the brain. It takes over the cells and uses them to produce more of them, they are also anaerobic meaning that they can have the cells continue to function without the need of oxygen, thus the aerobic system and heart do not function. Lungs still function thoug, but they don't do much but just make the moaning sounds. The corpses themselves actually have to be fresh to be infected, give or take 2 hours, this is so because the virus can only use the still functioning nerve and brain cells. If they are already dead, then the virus will die along with the body. Even infected the body has to be able to have the virus circulate throughout the body to have it be fully infected. Zombies tend to eat as it is what the virus is following based off the brain's basic intinct, but in truth the zombies don't need to eat and by devouring flesh they just grow plump until their stomach bursts. As stated in the manga, zombies are blind but they can still use sound to their advantage. They lack the ability to feel, but this is actually a good trait as it means they have unlimited strength based on the body's muscles. They have no concept of stress so they can utilize the body's muscles to the fullest until they rip. After using all their strength though, they will be quite unable to do much afterwards since all the muscles are destroyed and can't be repaired.