Haro Aso and illustrator Kotaro Takata’s Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead manga is shambling its way to the screen in a TV anime adaptation, and the official accounts recently came through with a start date. According to the English account, the anime will premiere on July 9 and will be available to stream on Hulu and Netflix, with KANA-BOON performing opening theme song “Song of the Dead” and Shiyui performing ending theme song “Happiness of the Dead.”
Join Akira on his post-apocalyptic journey towards true freedom! 🧟#Zom100: Bucket List of the Dead premieres on July 9 on @netflix and @hulu! pic.twitter.com/Rxm6OGvtFY
— Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (@Zom100_EN) May 28, 2023
You can hear some of the opening theme in a short commercial:
Staff:
- Creators: Haro Aso, Kotaro Takata
(Published by Shogakukan: Monthly Sunday Gene-X, ongoing) - Director: Kazuki Kawagoe (Komi Can’t Communicate)
- Assistant Director: Hanako Ueda (Summer Time Rendering)
- Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko (Chainsaw Man)
- Character Design: Kii Tanaka
- Zombie Design: Junpei Fukuchi
- Music: Makoto Miyazaki
- Music Selection: Maiko Gouda
- Sound Production: dugout
- Animation Production: BUG FILMS
- Production: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd
Here’s the official description:
With three years under his belt at the company from hell, Akira Tendo is mentally and physically spent. All at the ripe old age of twenty-four. Even his crush from Accounting, Saori, wants nothing to do with him. Then, just when life is beginning to look like one big disappointment, it happens. The zombie apocalypse descends on Japan! Surrounded by hordes of hungry zombies, Akira comes to a realization that will forever change his life…
“Wait, does this mean I never have to go to work again?”
Confess to… party like it’s… travel Japan coast to…
Now, with his nightmare job no longer, Akira’s got his mojo back. Let the bucket listing begin!!
The series previously inspired a live-action movie.
Source: Official Twitter