Zom 100 Makes the Zombie Apocalypse Into an Office Worker’s Godsend

Over the years, there’ve been so many zombie exhibits and movies that new additions to the undead canon want some a fairly good hook to face out from the gang. How do you make the undead really feel contemporary and enjoyable in at the moment’s market? According to Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, you employ them as an excuse to give up your job.

The new anime from manufacturing firm Bug Films (Komi Can’t Communicate) and director Kazuki Kawagoe (Beyblade, Komi Can’t Communicate) is about in a metropolis beset by a zombie apocalypse that appears to haven’t any means of being stopped. For most individuals, that will be if you both attempt to flee or grow to be a helpless sufferer, however for workplace employee Akira Tendo, that is simply the precise time to get out of his lifeless finish workplace job. Instead of fretting over payments and hating himself for not having the braveness to ask out his coworker, Akira decides to say “YOLO” and attain all 100 objects on his bucket record earlier than he inevitably turns into zombie chow or a casualty of the navy’s efforts towards the horde.

Zom 100 is predicated on a manga of the identical title by Haro Aso (Alice in Borderland) and Kotaro Takata (. Since its debut in 2018, the Zom 100 manga has obtained a stable crucial reception and was nominated for an Eisner in 2022. Along with the anime, Netflix is behind a live-action adaptation of the movie to be directed by Yusuke Ishida (Shin Godzilla, Attack on Titan). That’s additionally anticipated to drop this 12 months, although the streamer hasn’t introduced a launch date for it but.

Meanwhile, the anime model of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead will probably be releasing its first season on Hulu beginning in July. Peep the primary poster down under.

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