History Manga / ZombieLoan

''Zombie Loan'' is a {{manga}} and ElevenEpisodeAnime series by Peach-Pit (of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', ''Manga/ShugoChara'' and ''Manga/DearS'' fame). The manga was serialized in ''Monthly G Fantasy'' from 2002 to 2011, and the anime adaptation aired in 2007.

%% * {{Meganekko}}: Michiru.

* AdultFear: Minor character Sougiya is a single father trying to pay off his contract to the Z-Loan. He knows that if he isn't able to keep his end of the contract, he will die and then no one will be left to take care of his young daughter.

* AkashicRecords: In the form of a [[{{Magitek}} computer database]]!

* AmbiguousGender: Yuuta. It takes a while, but eventually confirmed as [[DudeLooksLikeALady male.]]
* ArtificialHuman: The Golems, who provide several PetTheDog moments for Shito.

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Hakka]]

* ButNotTooForeign: Chika's father, who's also a PhenotypeStereotype blond and green-eyed Westerner.
* CampGay [[spoiler: / DepravedHomosexual]]: Hakka will shamelessly hit on anything with a Y chromosome. [[spoiler: And refers to himself as the Singularity's mother.]]
* ChainedToABed
* ChainsOfLove: Between Chika and Shito's hands (long story) and neither of them are happy about it.
* CliffHanger: Had they left the anime as just the 11 TV episodes it would have been fine. The two DVD episodes set up a brand new arc... and then ''stop''.
* ConspiracyRedemption: How Michiru ends up working with Chika and Shito.

* CreepyChild: [[spoiler: the little servant boy who helped Michiru]] is one of these.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Shiba, and later, Shito, who was actually born a zombie from a 7-year zombie pregnancy.]] [[{{squick}} Eww...]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Michiru and Shito can be like this.
* DealWithTheDevil: The very idea of the Z Loan, though some forms are more devilish than others.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sotetsu, of course.

* ElevenEpisodeAnime: Plus two DVD episodes.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Aside from a lot of the guys, Yomi wants Michiru too.
* {{Expy}}: The Butterfly looks like an older Jun Sakurada from Peach-Pit's earlier series ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', and Yuuta and Kuze Shimotsuki are dead ringers for Souseiseki and Shinku respectively. Yuuta also mirrors Natsuki Ikuhara of another Peach-Pit series, ''Manga/DearS'', and Chika looks ''quite'' a lot like [[Manga/FruitsBasket Hatsuharu Sohma]].
* EyepatchOfPower: Soutetsu
* EyesAlwaysShut: Tohou, a liaison from the Chinese mafia, a la [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Gin Ichimaru]].
** His kids inherited his eyes.
* FirstEpisodeResurrection: More like second episode, but same idea.

* GrimReaper: An actual character; also, the job description of the heroes.
* HandCannon: Subverted, other than the barrel Shito's gun is not actually that big.
* HeroicBSOD: Michiru briefly suffers through this, when she finds out that [[spoiler: her parents had actually adopted her and there was something dark lurking in her past, unknown to her]].
* HotSpringsEpisode: Complete with CensorSteam and SkinShipGrope scenes.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Michiru and Koyomi.
* InstantBandages: Is actually one character's power, and she pays off her debt by selling them to the other hunters.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Chika. Shito, on the other hand, is actually icy under his friendly demeanor.
** [[spoiler: Zarame]], despite his gruffness and insults, is actually quite protective over Michiru.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: An actual argument in the show about the protagonist's respective weapons.

* KillerRabbit: Shinigami Zarame may look like a adorable and very huggable plushie, but I dare you to say that to his face.

* {{Meganekko}}: Michiru.

* MurderDotCom

* OddCouple: Chika and Shito, who openly state that they hate each other.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Michiru, minus the Shinigami eyes.

* PapaWolf: Zarame tends to act this way towards Michiru. Same with Yomi, Shito and Chika, when Michiru gets involved.
* ParentalIncest: Shito really, really, really loves his mother, even [[spoiler: making the loan, so that she could have her years back]].
* PensieveFlashback: when Michiru has to [[spoiler:dive into Chika's mind after he reverts to his cannibalistic zombie instincts]]
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Zarame the Shinigami fits into this.
* PowerTrio
* PsychoLesbian: The school nurse from the first two episodes.

* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Lao Ye takes over [[spoiler: Shito's much younger body]] to attain immortality.

* SleepModeSize: TheGrimReaper after his body is stolen, making Michiru {{Squee}} (even as his scythe is embedded in her forehead).

* TeenGenius: Shiba is [[spoiler:later revealed to be a MadScientist]].

''Zombie Loan'' is a {{manga}} and ElevenEpisodeAnime series by Peach-Pit (of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', ''Manga/ShugoChara'' and ''Manga/DearS'' fame).

* CreepyCoolCrosses: On the school uniforms and several of the weapons.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Michiru.

* ScaryShinyGlasses: On Otsu, Michiru and Bekko at varying times.

* SinisterScythe: Wouldn't have a shinigami without one.

* SplitPersonality: Koyomi/Yomi.
* TheStoic: The director of the dormitory Michiru lives in, Shimotsuki Kuze, is this.
** Also Koume, the little girl who used to work for the Shinigami.
* StoryArc: Several, usually taking up two episodes each.
* SuicideIsPainless: [[spoiler:Shiba]], who jumped off a building out of boredom.
* SuperDeformed: Especially during comedy sequences.
* TeenGenius: Shiba [[spoiler:later revealed to be a MadScientist]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Shito and Chika.

* TomatoInTheMirror: It has been revealed that [[spoiler: Michiru]] is this.
* TheUnreveal: Touhou's real name.

* UrbanFantasy

* VitriolicBestBuds: Shito and Chika's relationship eventually evolves into this.

* WorkOffTheDebt: The entire premise of the show.

* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]: Michiru.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Seems to be a default part of the female uniform at Michiru's school.

* KabbalicGolem: In chapters 21-27 and episodes 8-11, Doctor (he prefers "Rabbi") Yoshizumi, inspired by the golems of lore, has set out to create his own taking the Frankenstein approach by using human body parts. His ultimate goal is to give humanity immortality, but his time cutting up corpses and zombies has corrupted this ideal badly. Yoshizumi has three golems to his name, all soulless and incapable of speech: a hulking executioner, a scrawny girl, and Phalanx, his perfect golem and therefore one gifted with a name. It's a collection of limbs that Yoshizumi eventually fuses with. Before then, Yoshizumi abducts Shito to get the Corpse Release Spell from Xu Fu to stabilize the golems, as at his current level of research he needs to inject them every so often with a cell-maintaining drug. During his captivity, Shito bonds with the golem girl. During an all out assault to save Shito, the executioner dies from lack of the drug, the Yoshizumi fusion is poisoned by his remorseful assistant, and said assistant shoots the girl as final cleanup. Shito is enraged, but can't do more than give her a burial. It's implied he named her "Inochi" ("Life").

* KaballicGolem: In chapters 21-27 and episodes 8-11, Doctor (he prefers "Rabbi") Yoshizumi, inspired by the golems of lore, has set out to create his own taking the Frankenstein approach by using human body parts. His ultimate goal is to give humanity immortality, but his time cutting up corpses and zombies has corrupted this ideal badly. Yoshizumi has three golems to his name, all soulless and incapable of speech: a hulking executioner, a scrawny girl, and Phalanx, his perfect golem and therefore one gifted with a name. It's a collection of limbs that Yoshizumi eventually fuses with. Before then, Yoshizumi abducts Shito to get the Corpse Release Spell from Xu Fu to stabilize the golems, as at his current level of research he needs to inject them every so often with a cell-maintaining drug. During his captivity, Shito bonds with the golem girl. During an all out assault to save Shito, the executioner dies from lack of the drug, the Yoshizumi fusion is poisoned by his remorseful assistant, and said assistant shoots the girl as final cleanup. Shito is enraged, but can't do more than give her a burial. It's implied he named her "Inochi" ("Life").

* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: The entire plot of the manga was a scheme by Hakka to [[ICannotSelfTerminate kill himself.]] Unfortunately, he doesn't care of all of creation goes down with him.]]

Michiru Kita is an orphaned girl living with her aunt and uncle. She is pretty much normal other than the fact that she possesses "Shinigami Eyes", meaning that, without her glasses, she can see rings around people's necks that show they will die soon.

''Zombie Loan'' is a {{manga}} and ElevenEpisodeAnime series by Peach-Pit (of ''Manga/Manga/RozenMaiden'', ''Manga/ShugoChara'' and ''Manga/DearS'' fame).

''Zombie Loan'' is a {{manga}} and ElevenEpisodeAnime series by Peach-Pit (of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', ''Manga/ShugoChara'' and ''Manga/DearS'' fame).

* {{Expy}}: The Butterfly looks like an older Jun Sakurada from Peach-Pit's earlier series ''RozenMaiden'', and Yuuta and Kuze Shimotsuki are dead ringers for Souseiseki and Shinku respectively. Yuuta also mirrors Natsuki Ikuhara of another Peach-Pit series, ''Manga/DearS'', and Chika looks ''quite'' a lot like [[Manga/FruitsBasket Hatsuharu Sohma]].

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A {{manga}} and ElevenEpisodeAnime series by Peach-Pit (of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', ''Manga/ShugoChara'' and ''Manga/DearS'' fame).

A {{manga}} and ElevenEpisodeAnime series by Peach-Pit (of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', ''Manga/ShugoChara'' and ''Manga/{{DearS}}'' fame).

* {{Expy}}: The Butterfly looks like an older Jun Sakurada from Peach-Pit's earlier series ''RozenMaiden'', and Yuuta and Kuze Shimotsuki are dead ringers for Souseiseki and Shinku respectively. Yuuta also mirrors Natsuki Ikuhara of another Peach-Pit series, ''DearS'', and Chika looks ''quite'' a lot like [[Manga/FruitsBasket Hatsuharu Sohma]].

* {{Expy}}: The Butterfly looks like an older Jun Sakurada from Peach-Pit's earlier series ''RozenMaiden'', and Yuuta and Kuze Shimotsuki are dead ringers for Souseiseki and Shinku respectively. Yuuta also mirrors Natsuki Ikuhara of another Peach-Pit series, ''DearS'', and Chika looks ''quite'' a lot like [[FruitsBasket Hatsuharu Sohma]].

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Koume keeps getting fired from her job (and on at least one occasion it was directly Z-Loan's fault.)

A {{manga}} and ElevenEpisodeAnime series by Peach-Pit (of ''RozenMaiden'', ''ShugoChara'' and ''{{DearS}}'' fame).

Has a [[{{Characters/ZombieLoan}} character sheet]].

* Deadpan Snarker: Michiru and Shito can be like this.