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“Five days into zombie apocalypse, Masaru is "saved" by two high school girls with ulterior motives.”
Kingdom of Z
キングダムオブザZ
5.87
21,851 rank · 3,621 readers · 20 favorites
School
Drama
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Five days into zombie apocalypse, Masaru is "saved" by two high school girls with ulterior motives.
Five days after the sudden appearance of zombies... The protagonist, Masaru, who is having it rough surviving at school, is splendidly saved from this predicament by high schoolers Miki Sekigahara and Karin Nakiri. Though Masaru is at first relieved, he ends up realizing their true intentions...!! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
6.0
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 2
σ 2.94
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.94 · split reception
The polarity gap
7.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 2.0
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Score over time
↓ 3.00
Running avg · Oct 2020 → Feb 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “This gives me Highschool of the Dead vibes. If you enjoyed that, this is a good recommendation. Not totally the same, but it is still a fun read. The main girls are bad*ss, and the main character...”
- 7 “This manga is about a group of high school students surviving in a world going through a zombie apocalypse. It has most of the standard story elements you would expect from such a story, such as...”
- 2 “This manga is terrible. It doesn't do anything that it set out to accomplish in volume 1 and doesn't know what it's trying to be. Art - 7/10 This was the only redeemable thing about this manga. The...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 33%
Long · 33%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 45 × 6 ch × vol
- Total read 6h 00m approx
- Published Nov 2018 – Oct 2021
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M51036 catalog