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“Love-indifferent Tarou gets hit by a ball, wakes to find a mysterious girl above him.”
Hatsukoi Zombie
初恋ゾンビ
7.49
3,368 rank · 24,813 readers · 508 favorites
Shounen
School
Comedy
Supernatural
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Love-indifferent Tarou gets hit by a ball, wakes to find a mysterious girl above him.
According to Ryuu Yashiro, Tarou Kurume's childhood friend, he is not interested in love. But one day, the ball hit by his classmate, Mei Ebino, directly hit his head rendering him unconscious. When Tarou wakes up, there's a girl "above" him...
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 15 sampled reviews
7.9
/10
What 15 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 2.25
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.25 · split reception
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.13
Running avg · Dec 2016 → Feb 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “So, I think this is my first real review on MAL. I won't lie, it's been like a year since I binge-read the series in one night, and even still, the art captivates me. You've already read the...”
- 9 “I found this manga while browsing through romance manga online and I gotta say, this was an amazing read. I love how the story went, there was never a dull moment! That doesnʻt mean that it was...”
- 9 “I actually stumbled upon this manga by accident, I saw that the main character look like the one from my hero academia, so I was like, "ehh why not." This manga is something else you fall in love...”
Verbosity
Short · 53%
Medium · 13%
Long · 33%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 167 × 17 ch × vol
- Total read 22h 16m approx
- Published Oct 2015 – Mar 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M36587 catalog