![]() I can't really remember any zombie-themed story where the protagonists actively searched for a cure, except maybe I Am Legend and that really doesn't count since those things aren't really zombies anyway. Like virtually all zombie pandemic stories, there isn't a cure that needs to be found. Damnit, it's always something.!Īs Hideo moves from place to place he meets a revolving cast of characters that either want to impede him by being cruel and unkind and general dickwads, or stick to him because he's got a shotgun and every game we've played that involves shooting things KNOWS that a shotgun by itself has 200% more power than a standard pistol, and that's without upgrades! Accuracy and recoil is a bitch though, but you can upgrade that later at your nearest Work Bench or Fontaine's Upgrade Terminal! But these are things that look like people, that are people, and now they're trying to eat my thigh meat! What the hell, dude?! The fact that Japan is virtually weapon-free sounds awesome for those interested in a utopian society but when the dead walk among you it doesn't sound like such a good plan. ![]() So it's not that the Japanese rolled on their backs and didn't try when the zombie apocalypse hit, they just weren't prepared for something so sudden that could endanger their livelihoods in the form of people. Natural disasters, nobody's fault, if you die it's a tragedy. ![]() Let me tell you, I'm not knocking on Japan, but they haven't been in a full-out war in over half a century, whereas places like America have been sent into the field guns blazing every decade. ![]() 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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