History Manga / Zom100BucketListOfTheDead

* CosyCatastrophe: The survivors of post-apocalyptic Japan adjust to their new status quo pretty well with most businesses such as casinos and Geisha still operating and food and other necessities are often plentiful. Even the utilities like electricity and water still seem to be functioning.

An official English release by VIZ Media began in Feburary 2021. A live-action adaptation was broadcast on August 2023 in Netflix, starring [[Series/KamenRiderBuild Eiji Akaso]] as Akira. An anime adaptation by Creator/OLMIncorporated offshoot BUG FILMS also aired from July to December 2023. ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'' is set to air the series on March 30th, 2024.

He was once a young office worker brimming with dreams, ambition, and a passion for his work. But now he's a 24-year-old trapped in employment at a black company. His life is an endless cycle of miserable labor for awful pay and little fulfillment. These days he'd rather be the protagonist of a zombie film than go back to work. As if something like that would happen...

An official English release by VIZ Media began in Feburary 2021. A live-action adaptation was broadcast on August 2023 in Netflix, starring [[Series/KamenRiderBuild Eiji Akaso]] as Akira. An anime adaptation by Creator/OLMIncorporated offshoot BUG FILMS also aired from July to December 2023. [[Creator/{{Toonami}}]] is set to air the series on March 30th, 2024.

An official English release by VIZ Media began in Feburary 2021. A live-action adaptation was broadcast on August 2023 in Netflix, starring [[Series/KamenRiderBuild Eiji Akaso]] as Akira. An anime adaptation by Creator/OLMIncorporated offshoot BUG FILMS also aired from July to December 2023.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every chapter in the manga and every episode of the anime is titled "[X] of the Dead". This even extends to the anime's opening and ending themes, titled "Song of the Dead" and "Happiness of the Dead", respectively.

* TemptingFate: Whenever the group meets a new person for the chapter, they start the mini arc by saying "We're totally safe. Don't worry". Lo and behold, suddenly it becomes infested with zombies, and the introductory character may or may not survive the encounter.

An official English release by VIZ Media began in Feburary 2021. A live-action adaptation was broadcast on August 2023 in Netflix, starring [[Series/KamenRiderBuild Eiji Akaso]] as Akira. An anime adaptation by Creator/OLMIncorporated offshoot BUG FILMS was also announced for July 2023.

* ChekhovsGun: Ryuuzaki come across a huge manure pit which he is initially disgusted by it being the village public bathroom. [[spoiler: However, he saw the bright side when he and Shigenobu were surrounded by a zombie horde. He jumped into the hole of poo without hesitation to escape the horde. Bonus when he knew that zombies wouldn't eat bad meat.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Ryuuzaki come across a huge manure pit which he is initially disgusted by it being the village public bathroom. [[spoiler: However, he saw the bright side when he jumped in a hole of poo without hesitation to escape the zombie horde. Bonus when he knew that zombies wouldn't eat bad meat.]]

** The serial killer/cannibal family that Izzy and Takeru meet during "Horror Mansion of the Dead" is a blatant parody of ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''.

** The serial killer and family that Izzy and Takeru meet during "Horror Mansion of the Dead" is very similar to the Baker Family from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard''.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ThematicThemeTune DYSTOPIA to SONG OF THE DEAD!]]'']]

* {{Crosssover}}: To celebrate the release of [[Series/AliceInBorderland the live action series of the author's first famous series]], a bonus chapter was made where Akira gets stuck in the Borderland world and he falls in love once he learns he never has to work again and can just play games now.

''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~'', literally "Zom 100: 100 Things I Want to do Before I Become a Zombie") 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.

* 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]].

* GreedMakesYouDumb: A theme throughout the "Millionaire of the Dead" arc. The protagonists, after struggling for the first few chapters, manage to build a bar that gets them plenty of food cans, which are Osaka's form of currency after the ZombieApocalypse. Akira Tendo, the main protagonist, literally gets blinded by greed (represented by the food cans covering his eyes after their newfound success) that he ends up taking the food cans and buying himself into the Castle Elite, [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism seeing himself as the reason why they got so many cans]] despite it being a group effort. He then finds himself unsatisfied with the constant talk of money with the other fat cat members of the castle, with an old man spelling out how badly greed will blind people in obtaining the most capital. Greed ends up being the downfall of Castle Elite, and through both Akira's old friend Takemina and the old man's words, they manage to show how dumb Akira had been for abandoning his friends in the pursuit of wealth.

** [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove 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]].
** [[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 on the bucket list.]]

** One of Akira's goals on the Bucket List is "meet the woman of his dreams," [[spoiler: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 deserted 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]].

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Ohtori and the company chairman have sex at work in the middle of his office not far from Akira's desk. The chairman claims that the walls are thick and no one will be able to hear them, but the story makes it clear that the walls are anything but soundproof and Akira is forced to listen to them make out while fighting to stay awake.

* RescueRomance: Shizuka's feelings for Akira begin after he selflessly [[DidntThinkThisThrough (but thoughtlessly)]] rushes to save her from [[spoiler:the zombie shark]] even after she chewed him out earlier for his illogical actions. These feelings of hers only get stronger over time as she grows to admire Akira's honesty and compassion. [[spoiler:This comes into fruition later in the "Dolphins of the Dead" arc, where they ''finally'' went into a RelationshipUpgrade through a NowOrNeverKiss before the dolphins drag them out of the zombies' reach.]]

** Higurashi's own "100 Things I Want to Do Before I Become a Zombie" list is scrawled in a black notebook with white lettering labeling it, making it appear oddly similar to the ''Manga/DeathNote''. [[spoiler:Fittingly enough, the book details his bucket list of destructive ideas, including destroying Gunma for daring to be happy when he never found any happiness.]]

** The Kosakas are Akira's only surviving neighbors when he wakes up to the zombie apocalypse. He gets things for them on his supply runs so they don't have to leave the safety of their apartment. Then it's subverted when he returns one day to find their apartment in tatters and covered in bloody handprints, implying that they were caught and killed. [[spoiler:Then it's DoubleSubverted when a side chapter reveals that they in fact escaped and are on their way to the airport to live out their dreams of traveling the world thanks to Akira's example.]]

** Akira's BadassBoast, that he repeatedly repeats through out, that he'd would rather be eaten by zombies than miss out on simple pleasures like drinking beer, bathing in a hot spring, or missing out on sushi made by a master sushi chef, and so on.

** Akira's BadassBoost, that he repeatedly repeats through out, that he'd would rather be eaten by zombies than miss out on simple pleasures like drinking beer, bathing in a hot spring, or missing out on sushi made by a master sushi chef, and so on.

** Akira repeatedly states that he'd rather be eaten by zombies than miss out on simple pleasures like drinking beer, bathing in a hot spring, or missing out on sushi made by a master sushi chef.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Takeru baits Sugizo into hitting a wooden bar trying to hit Izzy, then gets BuriedAlive. Then his zombified grandmother finds him and gnaws on his leg, only to rise up and is pissed as hell]].

** In the anime, Shou is the only hostess club employee to survive against the zombie horde, while all his men have turned into zombies.