Crueler Than Dead

A fast-moving narrative with intense and explicit violence depicts a world overwhelmed by a virus that transforms people into zombies. Maki Akagi awakens in a lab surrounded by dead bodies and is told by a dying soldier that she is the product of an experimental attempt to cure the infection. She is joined by a boy who also survived and together they travel through a ruined Tokyo teeming with hostile creatures toward a dome housing the last human survivors. The fate of humanity rests on a small amount of a potential vaccine. The story draws inspiration from various zombie-themed works and emphasizes graphic, unsettling imagery of decay and horror.