Zombie Land Saga (manga)
Zombie Land Saga (Japanese: ゾンビランドサガ, Hepburn: Zonbi Rando Saga) is an anime television series produced by MAPPA, Avex Pictures and Cygames. The series aired in Japan between October and December 2018. A second season titled Zombie Land Saga Revenge aired between April and June 2021. An anime film project has been announced. A manga adaptation that loosely follows the events of the anime, began serialization on Cygames’ Cycomi website in October 2018; a spinoff series, titled Zombie Land Saga Sidestory: The First Zombie, started running in Ultra Jump magazine in May 2021.
Plot
In the year 2008, high school student Sakura Minamoto is abruptly killed by a truck on the morning she plans to submit an idol application. Ten years later, Sakura, along with six “legendary” girls from various eras of Japan’s history, are brought back as zombies by a man named Kotaro Tatsumi, who seeks to revitalize Saga Prefecture by putting together an all-zombie idol group that would become known as Franchouchou.
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Zombie Land Saga key visual
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| ゾンビランドサガ (Zonbi Rando Saga) |
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| Genre | Comedy horror |
| Created by | MAPPA, avex pictures, Cygames |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Munehisa Sakai |
| Written by | Shigeru Murakoshi |
| Music by | Yasuharu Takanashi Funta7 |
| Studio | MAPPA |
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| Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, BS11, Saga TV, TVQ |
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| Original run | October 4, 2018 – December 20, 2018 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Megumu Soramichi |
| Published by | Cygames |
| Imprint | Cycomi x Ura Shonen Sunday Comics |
| Magazine | Cycomi |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | October 8, 2018 – June 1, 2021 |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Anime television series | |
| Zombie Land Saga Revenge | |
| Directed by | Munehisa Sakai |
| Written by | Shigeru Murakoshi |
| Music by | Yasuharu Takanashi Funta7 |
| Studio | MAPPA |
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| Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, TVQ, Saga TV, BS11 |
| Original run | April 8, 2021 – June 24, 2021 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Manga | |
| Zombie Land Saga Gaiden: The First Zombie | |
| Illustrated by | Kasumi Fukagawa |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | Ultra Jump |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | May 19, 2021 |
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