
The menu from the first Highschool of the Dead Blu-ray disc is rather striking in its choice of imagery.
The contents of the disc itself are essentially unchanged from the premium TV broadcasts – they can be inspected here and here.
Bonus points are of course on hand for those who can identify the character pictured.
It's not really about zombies.
It's about fanservice. Zombies are there to keep it from getting too boring and repetitive.;)
its Rei's undies :D epic win selectioon screen ? BTW
Why even bother if it's not going to be uncensored?
it is uncensored
Haha, I didn't expect anything different. When will this series be available to the west by the way?
By the way (forgot to log in), I'd say that's the samurai sword girl.
it is uncensored, i saw the pics
indeed, the bd rip looks very nice for the drilling
I approve of this image and wish to shake the hand of the genius that thought to put that up there.
The image is fake.
Or rather, not fake, but that's not the main menu screen. It's the show paused on an arbitrary frame with the pop-up menu activated.
The chapter menu screen just has the Highschool of the Dead title logo in the middle.
Looking forward to second season but seeing how they've only just left the mall in the manga it's going to be some ways off.
what is problem this blu ray is same as atx uncensored version plus more quality image and drill scene uncensored.
what more want.speciales ecchis,wtf.
this post is ba troll.
The menu resumes the essence of the anime. Just it. Fanservice and nothing more.
A FAIL series in my opinion
no cameltoe, what a tease
This is NOT the background image for main menu, it's just one of the actual scenes showing the pants coincides with pop-up menu enabled. The title is VERY misleading. The actual background is just a title of "High School of the Dead" with shaking effect, there's absolutely no fanservice going on. What a false advertisement. The disc uses SONY SBMV technology to minimize banding, the overall image quality isn't that great.
The opening menu sums up the series entirely. This is not an action show, a zombie survival show, a character or plot driven show... In fact, this show is nothing but fan service. At least the menu knows its filthy worthless audience and doesn't pretend the series has anything of worth to offer beyond panty flashes and gravity defying jello mound tits.
Well, ouch dude, you cut me deep. And here I was thinking maybe we could repect each other's opinion without verbally degrading anyone.
Maybe I'm just interpreting 'The contents of the disc itself are essentially unchanged from the premium TV broadcasts' as no special/extra scenes/redrawn scenes/etc in the BD or 99% of readers here are interpreting this as 'premium' TV = BD ie no censorship removal
or...
Artefact is trolling us
'Premium' TV = uncensored
I'm surprised at how many people are not understanding this. You pay money for the DVD or a premium anime channel and it's completely uncensored, it's that simple.
meh, no front camel toe. An episode of Strike Witches is more graphic than that.
Either Artefact is trolling us or 100% of the readers here have some misconception that 'the contents are essentially unchanged' to mean that the censorship still exists - at first I interpreted as this but now I think it means that the BD do not come with re-drawn scenes/extra scenes/specials like BD's from SHAFT (Bakemonogatari BD was a completely different anime...)
If you think about it, it's silly to assume that the censorship will still exist in the BD...
oh lols, how am i not surprised HotD used that for the menu XD
Saeko is 18 and Rei is 17.
Saya, Takashi and Kouta are 16.
Too easy, it's Rei.
It's Rei, dammit guys!
the content of a whole show described in one picture :)
i love the fanservice in this show.
it's not like 'kya, he accidently saw my pantsu'
but more like
'hey, let me shove that crotch in your face.
oh yeah, you like that.
what, you've had enough already?
don't be such a pussy! here, have some more'
Why don't you just watch some porn then?
No the line isn't blurred, Hentai shows penetration and ecchi anime doesn't
define penetration.... im sure many bullets penetrated the zombies.....
wait what was i talking about?...... i dont think it had anything to do with oppai or pantsu......
huh...... oh wells~
To be fair the line between ecchi anime and H anime nowadays is extremely blur anyway
Anyone care to guess the menu image for BD Vol.2?
I'm guessing bras and more panties, but I could be VERY wrong there.
Frills = Miya.
wow they really are going all out with unnecessary fan service even when they don't need it
...unnecessary?
necessary... cause this serie without the fanservice will never sell. A big copypaste/clonic/cliche shit.
"story and originality not included, but take this fanservice, we know you will be happy"
I didn't say it was bad :D
You can't spell 'click' without 'lick'. Touchscreens!
More importantly, is it clickable?!
You have one "c" too many. ^_^
Shot in the dark, Saeko?
Third picture of http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/07/05/highschool-of-the-dead-greatest-masterpiece/ is Rei.
http://img2.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-ero-viii/highschool-of-the-dead-004.jpg
EHN.
Wrong answer.
Looks lacy. Takagi probably.
yeah, its Rei...
"Looks like some of us have photographic memory for panties, or just re-watched it."
it is easy to memorize by seeing it just once i and dont have an photographic memory neither did i watch the ep several times over (at best it was twice)
Saeko had black string panties. Takagi wears short white stockings.
That is the scene where Rei was attacked by the teacher on the walkways in EP1.
Looks like some of us have photographic memory for panties, or just re-watched it.
Not Takagi, she wears blue striped shimapan.
Definitely Rei during that scene when her bf got bitten by the principal.
I watched that episode so many times it isn't funny, I still like the scene of Rei's mind breaking after the credits. I wasn't sure about the show until I saw that scene. I guess that makes me one of the few who didn't watch it for the tits.
Honestly it was the stockings that were the giveaway.
I wouldn't survive if any female member of my family caught me with this in the HDTV.
"I wouldn't survive if any female member of my family caught me with this in the HDTV."
depends on the size of the screen available (either 110 cm diagonal or a projektor that produce it on ~ 1,7m x3m)
but it might be embarassing nontheless
The menu of the left looks really insignificant now....
i can stare at it whole day long....
I can kill you over and over again to have fun even when you are dead. :D
i can fap to it all day long.....
Best Menu EVER lol
i can stare at it whole day long.... then fap to it all day long..... then cry all day long....
What menu?
lol
+1 internet for you
"The contents of the disc itself are essentially unchanged from the premium TV broadcasts"
WHAT? NO TAKAGI DRILLING ZOMBIE HEAD IN EARLY EPISODE, NO KOMURO BLOWING THE SHIT OUT OF 8 YEAR OLD WITH A SHOOTGUN? NOT BUYING!!!!!!!!
wondered about that, too.
the drilling and the jumping teacher weren't uncensored?
why would anyone buy the blu-ray if it's the same as the TV version?
and here i was hoping for some extra footage of the orgy bus later on... guess that won't happen either
You forget the Bath scene -_-
it is not censored, you can see the actual drill, the gore raining and the zombie dead (redead?) on the floor, all 3 were censored before (to the point you couldnt tell wtf was going on if you had not read the manga)
the drill scene never showed anything censored or not it was merely suggested she was drilling the hell out of a zombie, what brings to question, wth did they censor that ?
oh yeah, forgot
dem tights, obviously rei
best scene of the first episode
If it's not uncensored it's not worth buying. Why pay for something AT-X already delivered?
I'm pretty sure they're too busy playing on their pirated Pokémon games.
Wait isn't this the logic that makes them put censors everywhere?
20 bucks says 2ch fags defend this and damn SanCom for our rightful outcry. Seriously, not uncensored? Bullshit!
Luckily for me, the only person who'd catch me watching this is my brother or his girlfriend. And they wouldn't bat an eye.
My mom saw me watch the gas station breast squeezing or as my mom would call it the milk churning sequence. We had a good laugh. This menu might have the same effect. Ecchi can make a family closer
Nice to know there are open minded mothers nowadays ^_^
Incest. Just kidding. Hehe...
Relying on fanservice marketing to boost disc sales while having high chances of them containing the same thing as the AT-X broadcasts isn't gonna leave them with a bright future for a possible second season if ever they plan to.
On second thought, what was this show about
again?zombies?apocalypse?gore?babes?boobs?panties?
The AT-X broadcasts probably make the producers as much money as the discs, in relative terms (else why would they show it uncensored there?).
Just because overseas pirates never pay the $22 monthly fee does not mean it is not a premium service.
Actually, depending on the purchase contract for the timeslot, they may have lost money on the broadcast.
Just because it airs on a premium network doesn't mean they automatically get a cut of subscriber revenue, the program airing uncensored is intended to attract subscribers for the network.
The biggest profit margin for everyone involved in the production will always lie in physical media sales, because that's the where the real money is and how the production costs are paid, next to outside licensing and merchandise.
Another factor you forgot to take into account was the fact that the series was licensed in the US and streaming an hour after Japanese broadcast on a known portal for a nominal fee, which also netted the production committee yet another source of profit.
Considering the series has already quiet close to the manga a second season is unlikely anyhow.
It was just made to boost Manga sells no doubt.