Sankarea: Undying Love

Sankarea (Japaneseさんかれあ) is a romantic - comical manga by Mitsuru Hattori, which is about the love of a zombie.

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The student Chihiro Furuya visited the Shiyo - boy high school and is a big zombie fan who dreams of being a " cute zombie girl " to have as a friend. For some days he goes every night in an abandoned building and trying there with the help of a recipe on an old scroll to revive his run over recently cat Babu as a zombie. In the abandoned building he meets Rea Sanka from the adjacent Sanka Girls High School, which uses the remoteness of the house to shout to get her frustration that her obsessive father "golden cage " holds in one. Chihiro and Rea become friends on this occasion.

Together, the two try a new recipe based on toxic hydrangeas from, but that does not initially seem to work. At home arrived, however, the cat wakes Babu as the undead, while Rea at the same time trying to take his own life with the agent. Although their suicide attempt fails, however, Rea crashes later during an argument with her father Dan'ichirō Sanka to death, then wakes but shortly afterwards as a zombie. Rea is thrilled because she can now lead a new "life" as a normal girl and moves in with Chihiro. Chihiro discovers that her rigor mortis sets in, which means that their bodies will be rotting away in a month. Reas zombie instincts awaken and she bites Chihiro, who learns from his senile grandfather in one of its rare moments clear that Rea regularly eat hydrangeas and must be kept refrigerated to slow the deterioration of mind and body. Rea's father had kidnapped Chihiro and calls him to a fencing duel for Rea. Chihiro provoked the father and is then stabbed by this. Thanks Reas bite that had made him briefly to half a zombie, but he survived. Dan'ichirō Rea wants to get rid of her condition, but she refuses, as it would be to leave Chihiro and her friends. Chihiro talks Dan'ichirō conscience that he should cease to impose its ideals of his daughter and that she should let them live how they want it. Whereupon they Dan'ichirō actually entrusted Chihiro.

Spirited cousin Ranko arises supposedly jokingly Rea as his fiancée before. But Rea recognizes that Ranko really loves him. At the same time a foreign girl named Therein Kurumiya, which describes his grandfather as a "Professor Boil " and claims to have formerly operated with him zombie research appears in Chihiro. She pulls then also a study by Rea at Chihiro. At Reas body in turn appear first signs of decay in the form of to sloughing skin on their fingertips. Chihiro's little sister Mero remembers her late mother, who had a bandaged hand, and that Rea resembles her. In the next chapter Therein told Rea that they will lose their human behavior in about a week in their experience. Rea commented on the process so that this is a much bigger reason than before was now enjoying her life as a zombie. Later, she said that the loss of human behavior that goes with it, that for a zombie affection and appetite are identical and therefore will consume their loved one.

Ranko and Rea speak out and Ranko tells Rea, she should not because of her respect Chihiro hold back because they are both rivals for his love. In one occasion spent together Rea Chihiro wants to kiss. But here are her zombie instincts awake and she bites him a piece of meat from the neck. Shocked, she runs away. Chihiro has during his recovery a dream of his mother, in which she says that she needs to leave him and Mero, because she loves them both. Chihiro finds Rea who injure themselves for fear of Chihiro again, has put in chains. Reas zombie instincts come alive again and she starts to eat his arm. Chihiro appeals to their humanity and confesses to have loved her from the beginning, when she was still a human being. His last wish was that after they have finished eaten him again goes to his house. This awakens Rea out of her trance. Spirited grandfather and Darin are surprised that for the first time a zombie after he has fully entered into the "predatory phase " again became human. Ranko called Chihiro against Rea as a monster, because he almost died twice because of Rea what they can no longer stand. She kisses him and then taking pills from a vial she stole from Darin, and to help it become a zombie, so Chihiro loves them. It turns out that the ampoule It has been used only for antihistamines. Chihiro realizes that Ranko has long been in love with him and apologizes to her for not having noticed this. Ranko says her only wish is to continue, albeit unrequited love him.

Characters

Publication

The manga is published in Kōdanshas manga magazine Shōnen Magazine Bessatsu since 9 December 2009 ( issue 1/ 2010). The chapters have been (as of December 2013) summarized in eight anthologies ( tankōbon ):

• Volume 1: 7,780,611,000,016th July 2010, ISBN 978-4-06-384341-5
• Volume 2: 7,782,034,282,509th December 2010, ISBN 978-4-06-384412-2
• Volume 3: 7,783,225,002,509th March 2011, ISBN 978-4-06-384453-5
• Volume 4: 7,784,713,402,509th Aug. 2011, ISBN 978-4-06-384529-7
• Volume 5: 7,786,797,162,509th Feb. 2012, ISBN 978-4-06-384623-2 (normal), ISBN 978-4-06-358382-3 ( with limited radio play CD)
• Volume 6: 7,787,978,580,008th June 2012, ISBN 978-4-06-384682-9 (normal), ISBN 978-4-06-358389-2 (limited OVA DVD)
• Volume 7: 7,789,476,282,509th Nov. 2012, ISBN 978-4-06-384762-8 (normal), ISBN 978-4-06-358390-8 (limited OVA DVD)
• Volume 8: 7,791,839,117,507th June 2013, ISBN 978-4-06-384873-1 (normal), ISBN 978-4-06-362253-9 (limited)

Until August 2011 50.000 copies were sold of the first three volumes.

The manga is in Chinese in Taiwan under the title Jiangshi nǎ yǒu NAME Meng? (Chinese僵尸 哪有 那么 萌?, What is a zombie so moe? ') published in Tongli. In the U.S., the manga was as Sankarea: Undying Love licensed by Kodansha Comics USA, the first volume was published on 11 June 2013. In Germany the manga to appear from April 2014 Egmont Manga.

Anime

6 September 2011 it was announced in the blog of Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine or in issue 10/2011 of 9 September that the manga should be implemented as an anime series.

The anime was animated and directed by Mamoru Hatakeyama by Studio Deen. The character design is by Kyūta Sakai. The 12 episodes were between April 6 and June 29, 2012 shortly after midnight (and thus on the previous TV day ) first aired on TBS in the Kantō region, and with four or fourteen days offset on MBS in the Kinki Region and CBC in the Greater Nagoya. The first 11 episodes correspond to the first two manga volumes, while the last episode is based on the first two chapters of volume 4. The consequences were brought out from June 29 to November 30, 2012 on six DVD or Blu- Ray, the last additionally contained a 13th unaired episode. A sequence 0 as a prologue and on 9 November 2012 on June 8, 2012, a 14 episode: Besides appeared as a supplement to the limited editions of manga volumes 6 and 7 are two DVDs.

The music is by Yukari Hashimoto.

On April 6, 2012 Funimation announced the series for North America licensed to have, which will then be broadcast as simulcast on their website and in the partner portal Nico Nico.

Synchronization

Novel

Ryō Suzukaze wrote based on the manga of the novel Sankarea: All Night Long Rea (さんかれあ おーる·ない とれあ·ろんぐ, Sankarea: Oru Naito Rongu Rea ), who on July 2, 2013 ( ISBN 978-4 -06-375286-1 ) was published by Kodansha.