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Muse Asia Streams Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Anime in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead will premiere in Japan on July 9. Crunchyroll will also stream the anime in India.
Muse Asia describes the story:
With three years under his belt at the company from hell, Akira Tendo is mentally and physically spent.
All at the ripe old age of twenty-four. Even his crush from Accounting, Saori, wants nothing to do with him.
Then, just when life is beginning to look like one big disappointment, it happens.
The zombie apocalypse descends on Japan!
Surrounded by hordes of hungry zombies, Akira comes to a realization that will forever change his life...
“Wait, does this mean I never have to go to work again?”
Confess to... party like it's... travel Japan coast to...
Now, with his nightmare job no longer, Akira's got his mojo back. Let the bucket listing begin!!
Kazuki Kawagoe is directing the anime at studio BUG FILMS and Hanako Ueda is the assistant director. Hiroshi Seko is overseeing the series scripts, Kii Tanaka is the character designer, and Junpei Fukuchi is the zombie designer. Makoto Miyazaki is composing the music. Maiko Gouda is in charge of "music selection" and dugout is in charge of sound production. Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd is producing the anime. KANA-BOON is performing the opening theme song "Song of the Dead," and Shiyui is performing the ending theme song "Happiness of the Dead."
Viz Media licensed the manga and the anime is a VIZ Media co-production alongside Shogakukan and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Japan. The manga debuted in Shogakukan's Sunday GX magazine in October 2018. The series was nominated for an Eisner award.
Muse Asia describes the story:
"If I ever become a woeful queen, then please finish me."
Eight-year-old Princess Pride Royal Ivy realizes that she was a girl of an ordinary Japanese family from nowhere in her previous life. She's now reincarnated as the villainous queen of an otome game, "Our Ray of Light". She becomes Pride, the worst queen who torments her country and her people according to the game's story, the game's last boss. When she realizes that, she wants to avoid tragedies by relying only on her memories of the game. To avoid the tragedy that will happen in the future and to create a world where all the characters can be happy, she does her best for her country and her people while avoiding to become the last boss.
Norio Nitta (Kami-sama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama) is directing the anime at OLM Team Yoshioka. Deko Akao (Pokémon: Journeys, Noragami) is in charge of series composition. Hitomi Kōno is designing the characters. Hanae Nakamura, Tatsuhiko Saiki, Kanade Sakuma, and Junko Nakajima are composing the music. The band Tsukuyomi performs the anime's opening theme song "Kyūseishu" (Savior), while ChoQMay performs the anime's ending theme song "PRIDE."
Tenichi began serializing the original story in the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in April 2018, where it is still ongoing. Ichijinsha began publishing the story in print editions with illustrations by Suzunosuke, beginning with the first volume in June 2019. Bunko Matsuura launched the manga adaptation of the novels on the Zero-Sum Online website in March 2020. The manga was canceled due to Matsuura's poor health. Ichijinsha plans to continue the manga with a new serialization in some form, but has no concrete plans yet. Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing both the original light novels and the manga adaptation in English.
