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Highschool of the Dead Exegesis #1-2
Only a small part of Daisuke Sato’s violent, fan-service lathered manga Highschool of the Dead actually takes place in a highschool. Unlike the shopping mall in Romero’s Dawn of the Dead the school in HOTD isn’t somewhere to shelter and ride out the zombie apocalypse- like every other structure, whether we’re talking about a physical building or the symbol-systems that gird our culture, when the rules change it becomes a liability. The real education, the real highschool, is the zombie-infested world beyond the school gates. If you can keep your mind from being numbed by ceaseless close-ups of the bulging vulvas of sixteen-year-old Japanese schoolgirls barely contained by minuscule cotton panties then you just might learn something from Highschool of the Dead. If you don’t want to go deeper than gun-porn and ephebophilia then I’ve got you covered: each week I’ll be posting an exegesis of the latest episode, starting with a double-whammy- episodes one and two.
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