History Manga / FortOfApocalypse

* EliteZombie: Played with. On their base condition, the zombies are your standard fare mindless, slow, shambling undeads, although they're stronger than normal humans. But when a Bokor comes and exerts its influence to control the zombies, they gain massive increase in physical performance, capable of running on par with a car or performing acrobatic flips, enough that even a single one of them is a massive threat.

* BeautyIsBad: [[spoiler: The beautiful blonde woman's beauty is what tips off the group that the soldiers from the UN are suspicious and of course she turns out to be part of a cult.]]

* HiveMind: [[spoiler:Maeda encounters a [[HiveQueen mysterious man]] who can exert some form of sound-based control over the zombies. They pile on top of one another to carry him, and grow in ferocity to defend him.]]

* TheAssimilator: Baby Bokors grow into giant humanoid forms after absorbing zombies into their bodies. Getting a taste of someones dna also allows them to take their appearance.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yuuko Sagami managed to create a cure to the virus and within a few years civilization slowly return to some semblance of normality. Though the infected still remains, in which they are lock away until further cures can be discover. Maeda and Iwakura (who lost his left arm) are working as gardeners at a apple orchard and Yoshioka runs his family-run game center and keeps Yamanoi's broken glasses as a keepsake.]]

* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: Yamanoi simply explains to the rest of the inmates that humanity is heading for extinction by comparing to how new species begin to appear in rapid succession and alter their environment to suit their needs - which also kill off every other species that existed before them. Namely the new "species" are the Bokor and the infected.
* ThePenIsMightier: [[spoiler:Yamanoi subdued the Bokor by puncturing his chest with a ballpoint pen and preventing him from using his sound blast and controlling the infected. The end of the pen when it shot out from the Bokor almost ''speared'' Maeda.]]

%% * ZombieApocalypse

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yuuko Sagami managed to create a cure to the virus and within a few years civilization slowly return to some semblance of normality. Though the infected still remains, in which they are locked away until further cures can be discover. Maeda and Iwakura (who lost his left arm) are working as gardeners at a apple orchard and Yoshioka runs a game center and keeps Yamanoi's broken glasses as a keepsake.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Arguably, Hitotsukabuto. At first he kicked the main characters out of the Academy as a form of death sentence, but when they returned with the promised weapons, he stuck true to his words of letting them stay (albeit with a little threat). During the Rikkun incident, he was willing to let the main characters go because they ''were'' attacked first. And during the Bokor's attack on the Academy, he protected Maeda from the Bokor's [[MakeMeWannaShout sound blast.]]

* {{Revenge}}: The surviving and defeated cultists were payed dearly by the inmates. [[ColdBloodedTorture One cultist is seen being tied up and strung up from a tree and being beaten up like a pinata]].

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Daisy suffered a very literal one after being betrayed by Hatt that her mind regressed to that of a child and saw Hitotsukabuto as her "daddy".]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Hatt was truly after the Bokor (namely Maeda) and obtaining its power [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne all for himself]] and used the other cultists as [[UnwittingPawn unwitting pawns]], in which he bashed Daisy with a rock and abandoned her and killing the helicopter pilot.]]

* BarbieDollAnatomy: The Bokor has no nipples, genitals, or even excretory organs.

''Apocalypse no Toride'', or "Fortress of the Apocalypse" by Kuraishi Yuu, follows 4 inmates at the Shouran Juvenile Reformatory: the falsely accused Maeda Yoshiaki, cool but dangerous Masafumi Yoshioka, the strong and silent but fair Iwakura Gou, and the smart-mouthed genius Yamanoi Mitsuru. Upon arriving at Shouran on false murder convictions, Maeda Yoshiaki would rather be anywhere on earth, but when a van full of infected zombies crashes into the prison and its passengers begin to attack the guards and inmates, Maeda and his cellmates begin a fight to the death to stay alive amongst the infected from the outside world and the anarchy that arises within the prison. Eventually forced to leave the prison's walls of safety, the boys of Cell 4 find horrors in the ravaged cities beyond what they could have ever imagined.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Maeda thought they were going to kill him, but they were simply planning on cutting off the limb that was bitten by the Bokor.]]

* BadAssPacifist: Played with when it comes to the cultists. They believe the zombies are divine, and have developed a special fighting style to deal with them without killing them. However, when it comes to humans who get in their way, they either shoot them on sight or toss them to the hoard.

** At first it looked as if Hitotsukabuto was on his way to becoming the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DayOfTheDead?from=Main.DayOfTheDead Captain Rhodes]] and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheWalkingDead The Governor]] of the series. However, in chapter 18 [[spoiler: the [[BiggerBad bigger bad]] and her private army show up]].

* [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Maeda Was A Bokor:]] He's certainly infected, showed the increased regeneration and the ability to control the mindless zombies. The change wasn't full yet though, he still had only 1 pupil... and his genitals. [[spoiler:Not so much for Yamanoi, who was later revealed to be infected when he was earlier scratched by an infected days ago. But he managed to retain what is left of his humanity long enough to saving his friends in a HeroicSacrifice.]]

* {{Bald of Evil}}: The "nimble" creatures.

* BlobMonster / TheWormThatWalks: The Bokor uses a mound made of hundreds of zombies, which can form 'arms' to strike or capture targets. The mound also shift its mass around to protect him.
** CoolChair: And on top of the mound, he sits on a chair made of several zombies kneeling subserviently in the form of a throne.

* FetusTerrible: [[spoiler: After having its head blown off the Bokor grows a babies head in its own head, which proceeds to bite off Maeda's fingers.]]

* FleshEatingZombie

* HumanoidAbomination: The Bokor

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Mitsuru theorizes on the fly that [[PlagueZombie a virus is to blame]]. Later evidence of [[ViralTransformation severe mutation]] and an apparent hive mentality could either support or contradict him; the cast may never find out.

* StalkerWithACrush / StalkerWithoutACrush: Who knows what the deal is when it comes to the Bokor, but it's been obsessed with Maeda ever since he first harmed it [[spoiler: and its got is to infect him and make Maeda into another Bokor.]]

* ZombieApocalypse

* GenreSavvy: Mitsuru is very intelligent, and figures out many central plot points simply through intuition. For instance, he manages to figure out that the Bokor's goal was to infect Maeda, and that [[spoiler: the infection probably spreads very slowly based on how it would do things like bite of its own tongue so it could force Maeda to drink the resulting blood.]] When a survivor who's a biologist contact's the juvenile detention facility, he nearly hangs up on her because he's offended at how she felt the need to explain the nature of the outbreak to him using rabies as a point of reference--he'd figured out that a virus was to blame ''way'' earlier in the story.

* [[spoiler: [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Maeda Was A Bokor:]] He's certainly infected, showed the increased regeneration and the ability to control the mindless zombies. The change wasn't full yet though, he still had only 1 pupil... and his genitals.]]
** [[spoiler:Not so much for Yamanoi, who was later revealed to be infected when he was earlier scratched by an infected days ago. But he managed to retain what is left of his humanity long enough to saving his friends in a HeroicSacrifice.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: The mysterious man who is called a Bokor.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: ''Nimble'' zombies were shown doing this after one of their own was killed.]]
* MakeMeWannaShout: [[spoiler: The Bokor can do this. It's also how he controls the zombies.]]
* MonsterClown: [[spoiler:The doglike nimble zombies' facial features - dark-rimmed eyes, missing noses, no lips, and disgusting grins - evoke makeup rather than gore.]]

** At first the zombies show intelligence even as they try to devour others, but become mindless very quickly. [[spoiler: The "nimble" creatures appear to retain their intelligence and even trick the protagonists to entering a shed where they store food. They are also shown ''running away'' from the Bokor.]]
** There's even those that "evolved" into seal-like creatures.
* PowerUpgradingDeformation: First appearing in Vol. 2, the [[spoiler:mutant zombies are roughly canine quadrupeds with human heads, hands, and feet]]. They completely lose the ability to speak, but run much faster than normal undead.

* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: The Bokor can regenerate from having its head cut off or even its brains blown to bits. Though it takes time for it to fully regenerate.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Iwakura's missile launcher, which he used to intimidate one of the Nakazaki brothers from checking up on an [[spoiler:infected Maeda]], was later used by Hitotsukabuto to [[spoiler:shoot down the helicopter piloted by Hatt]].

* ChekhovsGun: Iwakura's missile launcher was later used by Hitotsukabuto to [[spoiler:shoot down the helicopter piloted by Hatt]].

* {{Revenge}}: The surviving and defeated cultists were payed dearly by the inmates. [[ColdBloodedTorture One cultist is seen being tied up and hanging upside down from a tree and being beaten up like a pinata]].

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Daisy suffered a very literal one after being betrayed by Hatt that her mind regressed to that of a child and saw Hitotsukabuto as her father.]]

* DwindlingParty: At the end of each chapter there is a tally on the population of the academy for both inmates and guards. The initial tally was 144 survivors and, as of Chapter 29, now currently has 31 (along with additional survivors).

* {{Revenge}}: The surviving and defeated cultists were payed dearly by the inmates. [[ColdBloodedTorture One cultist is seen being tied up and hanging upside down from a tree and being beaten like a pinata]].

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Daisy suffered so badly after being betrayed by Hatt that her mind regressed to that of a child and saw Hitotsukabuto as her father.]]

** TheChick: Maeda Yoshiaki