Hatsukoi Zombie

Hatsukoi Zombie (Japanese: 初恋ゾンビ, Hepburn: Hatsukoi Zonbi, lit. "First Love Zombie") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryou Minenami. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2015 to March 2019, with its chapters collected in 17 tankōbon volumes.

Hatsukoi Zombie
First tankōbon volume cover
初恋ゾンビ (Hatsukoi Zonbi)
Genre	Romantic comedy[1]
Manga
Written by	Ryou Minenami
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	October 14, 2015 – March 27, 2019
Volumes	17

Plot

The series revolves around Tarou Kurume, a boy who is not interested in love. One day, he is hit on the head by a baseball during a P.E. class, leaving him with a severe concussion. When he wakes up at the infirmary, he is welcomed by a pink-haired, cheerful, well-endowed and scantily clad girl who is seemingly floating in the air. Not only that, he starts to see similar "ghosts" around countless boys, and finds out that they are fantasized versions of the first girl they loved, with the floating zombie above Tarou representing his first love.

Characters

Tarou Kurume (久留目 タロウ, Kurume Tarou)

A 15-year-old boy who is childhood friends with Mei Ebino. Tarou believes in "energy-saving" and initially has no interest in love-related matters.

Eve (イヴ, Ivu)

Tarou's first love zombie. Unlike most other zombies, Eve is self-aware and able to interact with her owner. She often appears floating above Tarou's head wearing sparkly flowing pink hair with a hair accessory, and a white high school girl uniform.

Ririto Ibusuki (指宿 凛々澄, Ibusuki Ririto)

Tarou's first love, from when they were in the same English class ten years ago.

Mei Ebino (江火野 芽衣, Ebino Mei)

Tarou's childhood friend and neighbor, she attends the same school as him and is responsible for the injury that begins all of Tarou's troubles.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Ryou Minenami, Hatsukoi Zombie was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 14, 2015,^[2] to March 27, 2019.^[1] Shogakukan collected its chapters in 17 tankōbon volumes, released from March 18, 2016,^[3] to June 18, 2019.^[4]

Volumes

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	March 18, 2016[5]	978-4-09-126440-4
2	June 17, 2016[6]	978-4-09-127168-6
3	August 18, 2016[7]	978-4-09-127324-6
4	October 18, 2016[8]	978-4-09-127401-4
5	December 16, 2016[9]	978-4-09-127457-1
6	March 17, 2017[10]	978-4-09-127512-7
7	May 18, 2017[11]	978-4-09-127563-9
8	July 18, 2017[12]	978-4-09-127665-0
9	October 18, 2017[13]	978-4-09-127857-9
10	January 18, 2018[14]	978-4-09-128079-4
11	April 18, 2018[15]	978-4-09-128242-2
12	June 18, 2018[16]	978-4-09-128264-4
13	September 18, 2018[17]	978-4-09-128397-9
14	December 18, 2018[18]	978-4-09-128594-2
15	March 18, 2019[19]	978-4-09-128804-2
16	May 17, 2019[20]	978-4-09-129159-2
17	June 18, 2019[4]	978-4-09-129168-4

See also

• Boy's Abyss, another manga series by the same author

References

1. サンデーのラブコメ「初恋ゾンビ」完結、次号あだち充×青山剛昌の対談掲載. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. March 27, 2019. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
2. 恋愛に興味がない“省エネ男”のラブコメ「初恋ゾンビ」がサンデーにて始動. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 14, 2015. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
3. 理想の初恋相手現る！省エネ男子のラブコメ「初恋ゾンビ」1巻. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. March 18, 2016. Archived from the original on March 20, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
4. 【6月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. June 18, 2019. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
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6. 【6月17日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. June 17, 2016. Archived from the original on April 4, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
7. 【8月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. August 18, 2016. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
8. 【10月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 18, 2016. Archived from the original on July 23, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
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10. 【3月17日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. March 17, 2017. Archived from the original on January 22, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
11. 【5月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. May 18, 2017. Archived from the original on July 23, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
12. 【7月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. July 18, 2017. Archived from the original on May 7, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
13. 【10月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 18, 2017. Archived from the original on September 2, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
14. 【1月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. January 18, 2018. Archived from the original on January 21, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
15. 【4月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. April 18, 2018. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
16. 【6月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. June 18, 2018. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
17. 【9月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. September 18, 2018. Archived from the original on January 31, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
18. 【12月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. December 18, 2018. Archived from the original on November 1, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
19. 【3月18日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. March 18, 2019. Archived from the original on December 28, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
20. 【5月17日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. May 17, 2019. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2023.

External links

• Official website at Web Sunday (in Japanese)
• Hatsukoi Zombie (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia