Takashi proceeds to leave admitting to her accusation in his thoughts, but Rei holds him back and apologizes he responds with a hug. When Hisashi turns into a zombie, Takashi kills Hisashi with a blow to the head causing Rei to accuse Takashi of jealousy. At the beginning of the series, when he notices the zombies attack the teachers at the front gate he rushes to Rei's side. When they were children, Rei and Takashi made a promise to get married someday, but because of his indecisiveness, Rei started dating his friend, Hisashi. He and Rei are childhood friends and also in the same class. Takashi Komuro ( 小室孝, Komuro Takashi) is a 17-year-old second-year student of Fujimi High School and the male protagonist and viewpoint character of the series. Main characters Takashi Komuro Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe, Hitomi Harada (child) (Japanese) Leraldo Anzaldua (English) Director Steven Foster, in his English dub adaptation, changed Takashi Komuro's character to use more profanity, as well as adding modern references to people such as Sarah Palin. Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network agrees with the intent: 'turns out this show has decided that the one thing the zombie genre was missing were anime boobs.' The anime also had a character break the fourth wall: when asked why she is so ditzy, she responds that she was designed that way. Series Director Tetsurō Araki, who previously directed Death Note and Black Lagoon, mentioned in a 2010 Dragon Age interview, that he wanted to fill in the anime with many jiggling breast scenes, and that he was aiming for something he would have bought himself in middle school.

Masayoshi Tanaka, who also did Ano Hana, Toradora and later Waiting in the Summer, served as the Chief Animation Director and Character Designer for the anime adaptation. Character design was done by manga artist Shōji Satō whose previous work was mostly self-published titles in the adult genre, and this was his first major non-hentai title. Daisuke Sato, who has previously worked on various military genre games and manga, which include Imperial Guards, wrote the story which uses the perspective of Japanese high school students and refers to classic zombie apocalypse movies such as Dawn of the Dead.

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