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Anime: HOTD
By Christian DeCataldo Christian’s Anime Corner
I recently finished a short Anime (only twelve episodes) called High school of the Dead, often abbreviated as HOTD (probably because all the women are HOT and have D cups). The anime is, believe it or not, about a zombie apocalypse (which is going to happen in 2012 so get your shotguns and napalm ready) and the frantic struggle of a group of high school students trying to survive the undead hordes. As far as teams go, HOTD’s protagonists have the basic skill sets of any Japanese RPG (such as, oh I don’t know, Final ADVERTISEMENT
Fantasy). There is the sword girl and the spear girl, then you’ve got the brawny guy with the baseball bat, the weapons expert, the smart one and the school nurse (healer/driver), later on the group rescues a child and gets a dog (as if they weren’t stereotypical enough). Not too much can be said about the story aspect of this particular anime, I mean it’s a zombie apocalypse, that’s the story. Survive or become a member of the living dead, you should all know the drill. They have to make some tough decisions, kill some infected friends and choose whether to save someone by putting themselves in danger or letting them
die. Again, it’s pretty standard zombie-content, though to its credit it does have some intense action sequences and it’s always fun to watch zombies get hit by cars, baseball bats, swords, spears, fists, fire, bullets and high explosive ordinance. It seems though that the thing setting HOTD apart from other Anime and zombie related… stuff is the, well, the boobage. There’s really no other word I can use to describe how large a role the breasts of the female characters play in the show itself. They’re like their own separate characters with different skills and, in some cases, sounds. “Christian you’re such a pervy kid! All
you look at are the boobies!” Oh, is that so? Please go and check this anime out, then when you’re done tell me you didn’t look at the boobs. Tell me you didn’t see them bounce like an overfilled water balloon rolling down stairs. Tell me you didn’t hear them tweet like a hungry, baby bird. Go ahead and tell me you didn’t see them defy the laws of physics, tell me you didn’t see them dodging bullets (not kidding either, they dodge bullets). If you’re able to make it through the entire anime without taking either a moment to gape at these things or turn away in embarrassment then by all means condemn me to the land of pervs otherwise, well, I
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hope you enjoyed it. Apart from the obvious, dual sandbag sized reasons, I thought HOTD was a pretty good anime. It was extremely clichéd but it had good animation, a lot of nice action and quite a cornucopia of humor (in the dubbed version at least). I’d recommend it to college students, not to kids or families because there’s quite a bit of language and of course, the monster boobs. On a final note, to those of you I haven’t convinced to watch it there is a bath scene with all four of the main female characters and there oversized voluptuousness. Now go enjoy yourselves.
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