Hatsukoi Zombie
| Hatsukoi Zombie | |
![]() First tankōbon volume cover | |
| 初恋ゾンビ (Hatsukoi Zonbi) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romantic comedy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Ryou Minenami |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Original run | October 14, 2015 – March 27, 2019 |
| Volumes | 17 |
Hatsukoi Zombie (Japanese: 初恋ゾンビ, Hepburn: Hatsukoi Zonbi; lit. "First Love Zombie") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryou Minenami. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2015 to March 2019, with its chapters collected in 17 tankōbon volumes.
Plot
[edit | edit source]The series revolves around Tarou Kurume, a boy who is not interested in love. One day, he is hit on the head by a baseball during a P.E. class, leaving him with a severe concussion. When he wakes up at the infirmary, he is welcomed by a pink-haired, cheerful, well-endowed and scantily clad girl who is seemingly floating in the air. Not only that, he starts to see similar "ghosts" around countless boys, and finds out that they are fantasized versions of the first girl they loved, with the floating zombie above Tarou representing his first love.
Characters
[edit | edit source]- Tarou Kurume (久留目 タロウ, Kurume Tarou)
- A 15-year-old boy who is childhood friends with Mei Ebino. Tarou believes in "energy-saving" and initially has no interest in love-related matters.
- Eve (イヴ, Ivu)
- Tarou's first love zombie. Unlike most other zombies, Eve is self-aware and able to interact with her owner. She often appears floating above Tarou's head wearing sparkly flowing pink hair with a hair accessory, and a white high school girl uniform.
- Ririto Ibusuki (指宿 凛々澄, Ibusuki Ririto)
- Tarou's first love, from when they were in the same English class ten years ago.
- Mei Ebino (江火野 芽衣, Ebino Mei)
- Tarou's childhood friend and neighbor, she attends the same school as him and is responsible for the injury that begins all of Tarou's troubles.
Publication
[edit | edit source]Written and illustrated by Ryou Minenami, Hatsukoi Zombie was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 14, 2015,[2] to March 27, 2019.[1] Shogakukan collected its chapters in 17 tankōbon volumes, released from March 18, 2016,[3] to June 18, 2019.[4]
Volumes
[edit | edit source]| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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| 1 | March 18, 2016[5] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
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| 3 | August 18, 2016[7] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 4 | October 18, 2016[8] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 5 | December 16, 2016[9] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 6 | March 17, 2017[10] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 7 | May 18, 2017[11] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
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| 9 | October 18, 2017[13] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 10 | January 18, 2018[14] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 11 | April 18, 2018[15] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 12 | June 18, 2018[16] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
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| 14 | December 18, 2018[18] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 15 | March 18, 2019[19] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 16 | May 17, 2019[20] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 17 | June 18, 2019[4] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
See also
[edit | edit source]- Boy's Abyss, another manga series by the same author
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website at Web Sunday (in Japanese)
- Hatsukoi Zombie (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
