I Am a Hero has an author that knows his fellow countrymen and how they would handle a crisis. This manga paints a pretty accurate picture on the slow reaction time to the quickly escalating crisis that is the zombie pandemic. Up until then it's exposition of Hideo and his girlfriend, but mostly Hideo and his socially awkward, lateral-thinking 35-year-old otaku self. It isn't until chapter 10 or 11 that zombies start appearing. The story starts off slow, I'll tell you that right now. Well, I guess won't go that far, but if you haven't read World War Z I would highly recommend it as it features some vignettes that "interviewed" survivors from Japan and how they escaped. I hope I don't come off as a snob, but unless you've read Max Brooks's World War Z, his survival guide, or even the graphic illustrations of the history of zombie epidemics, then I'd say you aren't really up with the times on how zombies have evolved from slow shuffling, fairly harmless ghouls out for brains to mad, frenzied freaks bent on tasting the delicious hide that is your own at any cost.
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