Review of High School of the Dead

Yes, the anime is filled with fanservice. Yes, sometimes it will be excessive and sometimes pretty silly. Yes, you will see panties shots and boobs jiggle EVERY TIME. With this is mind, if you are uncomfortable with this kind of thing you are bond to hate. But if you don't mind at all, you really see a excellent anime. The animation studio is MadHouse so you already know the animation will be 10/10. Even the CGI end up not being that bad. The background and some scenes were particularly very well made. The action scenes are very well animated. Also despite of the silliness of a scene whicha bullet go through a girl's boobs, I found the scene kind cool.

The soundtrack is fantastic, and also liked how the ending music is different each episode, and how the ending change too. It's a interesting thing that make watching the ending less boring. Watch out for the after credits scenes.

It's not much to talk about the plot, it's the kind of stuff you already saw in any zombie story. A bunch of people trying to survive in an apocalyptic world. The characters is somewhat cliches you see in some animes:
Takashi is the MC and want to save everyone.
Rei is a childhood friend and one of the love interest, she's pretty annoying by the start of the anime.
Saeko is a swordwoman of the group and one of the love interest, she is cool and calm
Saya is another childhood friend and a love interest too, she is a tsundere e belittle everyone because she's smart.
Kohta is a gun otaku and he has a crush on Saya.
Shizuka is the doctor and she's pretty much comic relief.

I'm kind neutral about the characters, since the anime didn't had much time to get any of them having a big character development.
Both the japanese and english dub are also very good, particularly Takashi's dub. Talking about this, I like his little monologues he have sometimes.

For me, it's a very good action-horror anime. Like I say, if you really annoy yourself much with fanservice you already set to hate. But if don't, relax and enjoy this mindless action anime.

Despite everything the mangaka is dead, so because of this, most likely we will never see a second season. So, this maybe also influence the decision of trying to watch this or not.