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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

Japanese manga series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ105562947
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (Japanese: ゾン100〜ゾンビになるまでにしたい100のこと〜, Hepburn: Zon Hyaku Zonbi ni Naru Made ni Shitai Hyaku no Koto; "Zom 100: 100 Things I Want to do Before Becoming a Zombie") is a Japanese manga series written by Haro Aso and illustrated by Kotaro Takata. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X since October 2018, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes as of August 2026. The series is licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media and in Southeast Asia by Shogakukan Asia.

An anime television series adaptation produced by Bug Films aired from July to December 2023. It is licensed by Viz Media outside of Asia. Muse Communication licensed the anime for South Asia and Southeast Asia regions. A live-action film adaptation premiered on Netflix in August 2023.

Plot

Akira Tendo, a 24-year-old office worker of an extremely exploitative marketing firm, discovers himself trapped in a routine and meaningless life. He lacks drive and motivation after three years of abusive treatment. When a zombie apocalypse unexpectedly strikes Tokyo, everything is turned upside down.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2026, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bucket, List and Dead can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.