Kadokawa has confirmed what eagle-eyed manga readers suspected for months: Zombie Sagashitemasu—translated as I’m Looking For Zombie
will hit Japanese airwaves this October. The announcement arrived with a first trailer and promotional artwork. #I’M LOOKING FOR ZOMBIE.
Production Team
Studio Comet handles animation duties. The creative team includes:
- Shinya Une — Director
- Kyohei Suzuki — Assistant Director
- Kenichi Yamashita and Aki Itami — Series Composition
- Narumi Shimoji — Character Design Adaptation
- Kenta Higashiohji — Music
The writing partnership suggests tonal ambition, given their respective histories with comedy and character-driven drama.
Voice Cast
- Miyari Nemoto as Aki — A relative newcomer landing a lead role
- Lynn as Natsuki — Fresh off Miorine Rembran in Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
- Toshiya Miyata as Haru — Vocalist of Kis-My-Ft2
- Hibiku Yamamura as Yu
- Yuka Nukui as Sakura
The Premise
Thirteen years after Red Day wiped out ninety percent of humanity and reanimated the rest, a generation has grown up knowing nothing but collapse.
Aki, armed with a modified chainsaw, leaves her isolated village with two equally eccentric companions to find her missing father. No grand prophecy. No chosen one narrative—just a teenager with questionable weaponry and a singular objective.
Source Material
Katsuwo’s original manga ran in Comic Dengeki Daioh G from June 2022 through January 2024, concluding at three volumes. The brevity suggests a complete vision rather than an indefinite grind—a rare commodity in serialised storytelling.
What Remains Unclear
Can a twelve-episode season accommodate that complete narrative without sacrificing character development for pacing? The promotional materials emphasise comedy and youth, but the premise carries undeniable melancholy quiet melancholy underneath.
Will audiences embrace a zombie story that trades grimdark nihilism for something lighter, or does the market have room for only one apocalyptic tone at a time?
And what does it say about our current cultural moment that stories about young people navigating inherited catastrophe have become their own genre?
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