History Manga / Zom100BucketListOfTheDead

* {{Fanservice}}: There's plenty of female nudity in the manga. However, the main three girls will always have their chests covered up by CensorSteam or a piece a clothing. Even someone bustier like Beatrix has her female parts covered.

* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: One of the items on the bucket list is to swim with dolphins, which the group manage to do in the "Dolphins of the Dead" arc. They are depicted as playful and friendly, where they have no problem swimming alongside the protagonists. That said, they actively avoid Akira and Shizuka, the dolphins being able to detect the awkward air around the two of them ([[spoiler:where Akira and Shizuka are partially avoiding each other due to the latter remembering how he confessed to her while she was delirious]]). Near the end of the arc, [[spoiler:when Akira and Shizuka manage to confess to each other for real, they manage to be saved by the dolphins from the zombies that cornered them on the beach. The group wonder if the dolphins did this intentionally, while Lambda Chop tells them about how there are heroic myths and stories about how they saved people from drowning or shark attacks, though note the dolphins view it as "playing" instead]].

** At the end of the first chapter, Akira confesses to Ohtori how he's been head-over-heels for her since the day he arrived to work. Unfortunately, she'd already been infected by the chairman and was already in a relationship with the chairman before being bitten. Akira doesn't take it too personally though and takes solace in knowing that he still got to see her breasts. The anime and live-action film [[AdaptationalAngstUpgrade turns it into a more dramatic turn]], and Akira [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove tearfully making his confession]].

** [[spoiler:Happens again during the "Dolphins of the Dead" arc, where Akira and Shizuka, who are surrounded by the pursuing zombies at the beach, share a passionate [[NowOrNeverKiss "do-or-die" kiss]] and profess their love for each other until the dolphins whisk them away to safety, with the additional bonus of completing entry #45 in the bucket list.]]

* RaisingTheSteaks: The infection can also affect animals as seen at the aquarium with the zombiefied fishes including a Great White Shark. Akira's group later encounter even more zombie animals such as boars and bears.

* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Akira vocally resigns from his job infront of a zombified CEO of a company he worked for, as he then proceeds to tackle him through the window. [[spoiler:Then he meets his former boss, Gonzo Kosugi, who employs him back as part of deal to treat Kencho's wounds from a bike crash trap they themselfes setted up. He brainwashes Akira, and when Shizuka starts bringing up his diary, she shows him an entry she wrote there. And he does, after he tries to stomp it down, Akira stops him and gets snapped out of his trance he was in, and calmly says that he is resigning.]]
-->''"Tell it to my stupid superior like it is."''

** At the end of the first chapter, Akira confesses to Ohtori how he's been head-over-heels for her since the day he arrived to work. Unfortunately, she'd already been infected by the chairman and was already in a relationship with the chairman before being bitten. Akira doesn't take it too personally though and takes solace in knowing that he still got to see her breasts. The anime and live-action film turns it into a more dramatic turn, and Akira [[AdaptationalAngstUpgrade tearfully making his confession]].
** [[spoiler:Later in Chapter 44, Shizuka, after coming to the conclusion that she might like Akira, confesses to a shadowed figure who she assumes was Akira. This is mitigate by the fact that the "Akira" she confessed to is actually a zombie; the real Akira was [[DrumBathing taking a drum bath]] while it happened.]]
** One made out of despair in Chapter 46, where [[spoiler:Akira realizes that he "met the woman of his dreams," Shizuka, right after she got bitten by a zombie. While she survives thanks to Tsuru's blood serum, she doesn't remember that Akira confessed to her while she was in her delirious state. Akira realizes he jumped the gun and ended up crossing off the item from the bucket list, which goes unnoticed up until the "Dolphins of the Dead" arc, with Shizuka remembering his confession at that moment too]].

* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Akira vocally resigns from his job infront of a zombified CEO of a company he worked for, as he then proceeds to tackle him through the window. [[spoiler:Then he meets his former boss, Gonzou Kosugi, who employs him back as part of deal to treat Kencho's wounds from a bike crash trap they themselfes setted up. He brainwashes Akira, and when Shizuka starts bringing up his diary, she shows him an entry she wrote there.]]

[[spoiler:And he does, after he tries to stomp it down, Akira stops him and gets snapped out of his trance he was in, and calmly says that he is resigning.]]

* SexSignalsDeath: In Chapter 58, Kazuki and Selena, a couple who pick up Takeru and Izzy as well as another hitchiker named Mercy, decide to have sex inside their van while the others search for gas at a seemingly abandoned property. The two were murdered shortly after.

* SexSignalsDeath: In Chapter 58, Kazuki and Selena, a couple who picks up Takeru and Izzy as well as another hitchiker named Mercy, decides to have sex inside their van while the others search for gas at a seemingly abandoned property. The two are murdered shortly after.

* SexSignalsDeath: Takeru and Izzy gets picked up by a couple named Kazuki and Selena and another hitchhiker named Mercy in order to find some gas. They stumble upon an old seemingly abandoned property. As Takeru and Izzy enter the house along with Mercy, Selena and Kazuki decides to have sex right until Selena spots someone outside their van, and they both get murdered.

* DancingTheme: Part of the anime's opening theme features the main characters dancing and singing along to the opening theme. Bonus points for having an entire flash mob of zombies dancing along with them, and Shizuka initially not joining in until the others rope her into it.

* FormulaWithATwist: The story is your standard ZombieApocalypse setting, but rather than focusing on survival and figuring out what the zombies are, the plot is instead focused on the sheer feeling of ''freedom'' Akira and his friends feel now that society has been upended and they have the opportunity to do what makes them happy rather than meeting expectations. The zombies are more of a motivator and a backdrop than the center of the characters' conflict.

* PlotArmor: The protagonists have survive multiple zombie encounters when others around them don't. For example, a zombified Reika attacks a drunken Kenchou but misses him completely and hits Maki instead. [[spoiler:It becomes jarring when a group of highly equipped and trained soldiers were completely massacred by Crushers while Akira's group manage to kill them without suffering a single casualty despite the only person among them who knows how to hold a gun got her [[IKnowMortalKombat experience via video games]]]].

** The bearded zombie driver in Episode 2 strongly resembles the truck driver in the beginning of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake''. Both are also shown eating hamburgers, and their vehicles similarly crash and slide afterwards.

** In Chapter 21, when all hope of escape from the zombie horde seems lost after the RopeBridge collapsed, [[spoiler: Kumano Masaru, the carpenter from Chapter 14, brings his own rope bridge to help the town escape]].

** There are other lawyer-friendly products seen in the series, such as Akira's notebook being a Kokuyo Campus notebook simply labled "Notebook" on the cover instead of "Campus"

* CentralTheme: The story doesn't shy away from [[CapitalismIsBad anti-capitalism]], which is commonly found in most ZombieApocalypse stories, but it ''also'' explores the themes of [[ForHappiness finding their own happiness]] and [[LivingIsMoreThanSurviving living their lives to the fullest]]. The main characters themselves represent those who wanted to feel alive, be free from social expectations, and pursue their own dreams and happiness.

* FanDisservice: There is a lot of frontal nudity and women in underewear in the manga. Unfortunately, most it is placed on female zombies, and the anime adaptation decidedly avoid this.

** [[spoiler:Later in Chapter 44, Shizuka does the same thing to a man while assuming he was Akira, only run away in panic after finding out that the "Akira" she confessed to is actually a zombie; the real Akira was [[DrumBathing taking a drum bath]] while that happened.]]

* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:One of Akira's goals on the Bucket List is "meet the woman of his dreams," with hints throughout the story that it's Shizuka. The two dance around how they might love each other, with their time on the cruise ship and desert island gradually pushing them closer. He only realizes that he already met the woman of his dreams in Shizuka, right when she gets bitten by a zombie in the arm. Thankfully, Shizuka is saved thanks to the blood serum injected into her, preventing her from turning.]]

* MaleGaze: The manga is clearly intended for a male audience, and the way some shots focus on Shizuka's boobs and butt certainly emphasizes this. Beatrix gets the same treatment.

** Many of the more minor characters are offed the chapter they're introduced, emphasizing that even with the darkly comedic tone of the series, it's ''still'' a ZombieApocalypse where death is a real possibility at any given time. Akira's co-worker and crush Ohtori, the flight attendants Akira and Kencho meet while looking for a TV, [[spoiler:several of Kosugi's followers, and some of the villagers in Akira's hometown all bite it.]]

** Beatrix is [[OccidentalOtaku so in love with in Japanese culture]] that she dresses herself in {{Samurai}} armor and wields feudal Japanese weapons to slaughter zombies.

** Beatrix is so endorsed in Japanese culture to the point where she dressed herself in {{Samurai}} armor and wield feudal Japanese weapons to slaughter zombies.
** Since Izuna is a professional gamer prior to the outbreak, she puts her gaming skills to good use against zombies, such as mowing them down with a flamethrower and pulling a ''VideoGame/PacMan'' tactic with Kencho to get away with the zombies chasing them.

* HellYesMoment: The EstablishingCharacterMoment for Akira and the series is him taking a moment he's safe from the zombies to actually consider his life now and what that means for the world...and then he realizes his SoulCrushingDeskJob is definitionally gone for reasons that aren't his fault now. He unleashes TheScream in ''pure ecstasy.''

* TheIdiotFromOsaka: The zombies in Osaka retain the personalities of their previous live, making them hyperactive, loudmouth and harder to be killed.

* LateToTheRealization: [[spoiler:One of Akira's goals on the Bucket List is "meet the woman of his dreams," with hints throughout the story that it's Shizuka. The two dance around how they might love each other, with their time on the cruise ship and desert island gradually pushing them closer. He only realizes that he already met the woman of his dreams in Shizuka, right when she gets bitten by a zombie in the arm. Thankfully, Shizuka is saved thanks to the blood serum injected into her, preventing her from turning.]]

''Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead'' (ゾン１００～ゾンビになるまでにしたい１００のこと～ ''Zombie 100 ~Zombie ni Naru Made ni Shitai 100 no Koto~'') is a {{Seinen}} ZombieApocalypse {{Dramedy}} written by Haro Aso and drawn by Kotaro Takata, which began serialization in ''Monthly Sunday Gene X'' in October 2018. It follows Akira Tendo's quest to complete his bucket list in the middle of the ZombieApocalypse, all while rediscovering a zeal for life he thought he'd long lost.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Naoki Atenbou, the SoleSurvivor of Higurashi's group, becomes one after his defeat, spending all his time working the fields in Gunma to make up for his awful actions.]]
* BaitTheDog: At first, Akira's company seems reasonably good. They take him out for drinks on his first day, his coworkers come off as rather friendly and he appears to be having a good time. But then, as Akira starts to go home, he's told he'll have to work an all-nighter, and [[FromBadToWorse things get worse from there.]]

* CensoredForComedy: Many of Kencho's NakedPeopleAreFunny antics will censor his privates when he throws off his clothes. This includes where his antics are covered by CensorSteam or pink swirls.

* DesignatedGirlFight: During the "Hometown of the Dead" arc, [[spoiler:Beatrix and Kanbayashi's come to blows over Gunma's water wheel, which Beatrix needs to break in order to deactivate the electric fence trapping the villagers.]]

** [[spoiler:Happens again during the "Dolphins of the Dead" arc, where Akira and Shizuka, who are surrounded by the pursuing zombies at the beach, shared a passionate [[NowOrNeverKiss "do-or-die" kiss]] and [[LoveConfession profess their love for each other]] until the dolphins whisk them away to safety, with the additional bonus of completing entry #45 in the bucket list.]]

** The English localization title is a clear send up to classic zombie movies like ''Film/DawnOfTheDead''.
** The names of several famous zombie films and books can be seen on the DVD boxes on Shizuka's desk, including ''Film/WorldWarZ'', ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'', ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', and the aforementioned ''Film/DawnOfTheDead''.

** Later on in the manga, [[spoiler:Shizuka is caught off-guard and got bitten by a zombie hiding in a car while she was talking to Akira. Fortunately for her, the serum made from Izuna's blood [[NoSell undid the zombification process]], saving her life as a result.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ThematicThemeTune Dystopia to Song of the Dead!]]'']]

** The bearded zombie driver in Episode 2 strongly resembles the truck driver in the beginning of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake''. Both are also shown eating hamburgers before going out of control, and their vehicles similarly crash and slide afterwards.