The Best Modern Zombie Anime
When one thinks of zombies, they think of survival, collapsing cities and civilizations, and of course, swarms of reanimated corpses. The trope remains a timeless one, as zombies continue to be the subject of various video games, anime, manga, movies, books, and television series.
In anime, the zombie trope has seen all kinds of applications and executions, and it is these manifestations, particularly in the last five years that have made for interesting subversions or interpretations of the zombie apocalypse concept. While High School of the Dead may be one of anime's most famous installments when it comes to zombies, there are several titles from more recent times that will entertain any zombie lover.
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Emerging from the nexus between zombies and steampunk is the 2016 thriller known in Japan as 'Koutetsujō no Kabaneri'. The series takes place in an alternate version of Japan, during the industrial revolution. The world is overrun by metallic zombies known as «Kabane» (taken from Japanese word «shikabane», literally meaning «corpse»). Their only weakness lies in the glowing core in their hearts, but it is protected by their tough metallic bodies, until an engineer named Ikoma develops a special tool capable of injuring them.
He gets no time to test the weapon as his village is overrun by the Kabane on the very day of its completion, but it proves to be a success. Unfortunately, Ikoma does not get through his village's onslaught unscathed, and the Kabane virus courses through his veins; however, he comes up with a plan to halt the virus's progression in his body. This is the most outright zombie onslaught series of the ones mentioned on this list, and like the others, there's a minor twist
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