Danica Davidson
July 27, 2011 
In Highschool of the Dead, zombies are taking over the earth and everyone could soon be dead. It’s the perfect excuse to show girls bursting out of their tops. Yeah, I’m not even going to try to say Highschool of the Dead is being literary or classy or that the girls symbolize something. It’s really basic stuff here. I just know that if the girls were real, they’d have back problems.
But if you’ve been reading Highschool of the Dead, you already know this series is about two very primal things: violence and sex.
The zombie epidemic is traveling the globe and over in America both the president and the first lady have been bitten. The president, a white-haired frowning man with a bloody bandage wrapped around his hand, is being told, “We must act now to obliterate all countries with intercontinental ballistics missiles aimed at the United States!!” So it seems it won’t just be a war against zombies, but nations will be fighting one another as well. Of course, people are turning into zombies by the minute, so who knows? Maybe a whole country has gone zombie by now.
The stuff with the American president is brief and we’re soon back to Japan and our main cast of characters. Alice, the little girl who lost her father in the last volume, has now become a main character. Even she isn’t free from sexualization, because right after she’s introduced in this volume they have to be talking about her panties.
For a while it does seem as if the gratuitous fanservice has died down this time compared to the last volume, but it quickly comes back. Does applying salve on a girl’s back really have to look like that? Really? I have to shake my head at this stuff, but as I said before when reviewing Highschool of the Dead, I’m not the right audience for all this. I can’t take it seriously. It makes me roll my eyes and laugh more than it probably should.
The zombie violence continues, and now the series is seemingly trying to get more political. Whether this will play into something important or the series is just trying to sound more sophisticated, I don’t know. Right now it feels like the latter. I did like the return of Rika Minami, the sniper who appeared briefly before in the series. She seemed like a promising character and I had a feeling she’d be back. She still wasn’t in this volume much, either, though I’ll be interested to see what the series has in store for her.
Publisher: Yen Press
Story & Art: Daisuke Sato and Shouji Sato
