Q 01/05

What do the survivors in Highschool of the Dead call the zombies, since they differ from the movie kind?

A) Walkers

B) Ghouls

C) Them

D) Infected

Answer · why

C) Them

Them is the survivors' standing name for the undead, a euphemism coined by Hisashi Igo, who becomes one himself in the first episode.

Q 02/05

Saya Takagi is among the first in Highschool of the Dead to realise the zombies react only to what?

A) Sound

B) Movement

C) Body heat

D) Scent

Answer · why

A) Sound

Sound is all the undead can sense, which Takashi Komuro tests by slipping past a crowd of zombies quietly until another survivor's noise draws the hor...

Q 03/05

Highschool of the Dead director Tetsurō Araki went on to direct the first season of which hit anime?

A) Tokyo Ghoul

B) Attack on Titan

C) Sword Art Online

D) My Hero Academia

Answer · why

B) Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan arrived in 2013, three years after Araki's zombie series, and with Death Note it is the work he is best known for directing.

Q 04/05

Why was the Highschool of the Dead manga, which published only one chapter after 2011, left unfinished?

A) Its magazine closed

B) Its artist retired

C) Its publisher was sued

D) Its writer died

Answer · why

D) Its writer died

Its writer died in March 2017: Daisuke Satō had been ill since 2008, and artist Shōji Satō agreed to leave the story where it had stopped.

Q 05/05

What job does Shizuka Marikawa, the only adult in the main Highschool of the Dead group, hold on campus?

A) Nurse

B) Librarian

C) Counselor

D) Swim coach

Answer · why

A) Nurse

Nurse Shizuka Marikawa is 27 and admits she is only a temporary hire still in training, yet she is the one who drives the group's getaway vehicles.