Kore wa Zombie desu ka?
Is this a Zombie?

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After awaiting for the final volume to get released in English and finish collecting them all I got to say it was worth it. The story in this manga is focused more on Eu than any other character, but still features its proper display of other characters as well. Throughout the story many strange perverted situations happen that gives the book its romantic comedy. If you are looking for a book with strange situations, but hilarious ones then I recommend reading this manga. The artwork was pretty well drawn featuring its great display of perverted romantic comedy moments. Each of these characters personalities will get ... you laughing when they are displayed. Although if you are planning to read this in English you will have to purchase it considering it is not online.
For the anime continuation read on, don't read if you haven't seen the anime :




Basically read from volume 6 and you will get to see the ending of the story even though it might be a little different

...Why does this have such a high rating again?

"Kore wa Zombie desu ka?" revolves around Ayumu, an extremely boring high school student (who's also zombie... and a "magikewl girl") who has a thing for ''the little sister type'', even making the girls call him ''Onii-chan''.

From the very first page, the series leans into lolibait. Magical girl Haruna embodies the average "loli" trope: she’s loud, obnoxious, and looks and ACTS like a child. Despite that, there are multiple moments of her with unnecessary panty shots and her being completely nude. At one point, Ayumu even asks her to wear cat ears and a tail while ... without any other clothes, which honestly felt sudden and uncomfortable.

Eu is a ''cute'', quiet girl who doesn't speak. Despite Ayumu literally calling her ''the little girl'' in the 4th chapter, he develops feelings for her. Keep in mind that Eu looks like a 12-year-old, while Ayumu is a high-schooler. Ayumu also fantasizes about Eu in a questionable manner. Even if it's supposed to be portrayed in a humorous manner, it's rather uncomfortable and honestly feels predatory.

In addition to the borderline questionable moments, Ayumu is known to have a type for pigtails on girls. There's a moment where a little girl is literally told to put her hair in pigtails to appeal to Ayumu more. Using comedy as an excuse to deliver these unnecessary and predatory scenes is just... questionable, to say the least. And the thing is, the actual ''humor'' in this manga is repetitive and irritating. The whole ''Ayumu, you creep! Perv! Die!'' thing just gets tiring.

Overall, I think that if you *do* want to read something funny, you should look for something else. "Kore wa Zombie desu ka?" fails to succeed in its comedic scenes. It comes off more as an excuse to place these characters in questionable situations, knowing that they can use the justification that ''they don't technically have an age, therefore it's okay''.

tl;dr: A manga with decent comedy and an amusing cast but that feels too rushed and random to properly develop anything.

This is the manga adaptation of a light novel series. There’s also a two-season anime adaptation of this light novel series, though this manga goes a bit farther than that but not by much. The core of this manga is playing with common tropes and themes in ridiculous ways. I won’t go as far as saying that this is a parody or satire as it doesn’t seem to be trying to critique or deconstruct the tropes it’s working with. However, it does seem to be ... trying to throw in an extreme number of tropes solely for the purpose of having as many as possible and exaggerating them to an extreme degree while also using many of them in ways they aren’t traditionally used for the sake of comedy. The story ends up absolutely ridiculous, but it’s pretty funny so whatever.

This is largely carried by the cast of characters who are almost all pretty bizarre, but mesh pretty well for humorous moments. In terms of something with more substance, there does seem to be an attempt at trying to flesh them out with backstory and such and there are some impactful moments. However, it largely feels like things are rushed too much and most of these moments don’t land as well as they could have.

The same applies to the overall plot. The plot in general is supposed to have a very spontaneous feel to it where it’s constantly getting pulled in random directions as that contributed to its comedy and general atmosphere. However, I feel that this manga took things too far and if I hadn’t already watched the anime I think a lot of it wouldn’t make all that much sense. Just in general it doesn’t feel like there’s enough background provided and it largely doesn’t seem to flow all that well. That isn’t an issue for the comedy which is still pretty good, but the more serious aspects like character and relationship development suffered significantly.

The ending of this manga is solid enough, occurring after the end of a pretty significant arc, though with the story clearly incomplete. Though at the same time, with this kind of bizarre story I’m not sure what a proper complete ending would really look like or whether it would really have all that much value, so this feels like a perfectly solid and satisfying ending.

The character designs and general sense of style and framing is pretty good, but the quality of the art overall felt pretty mediocre. Overall I’d say it’s worth reading for how it goes past beyond the anime a little, but I would definitely recommend watching the anime first.