#I'm Looking For Zombie Sets October 3 Premiere, Adds Cast and Theme Songs

Kadokawa announced Sunday that the television anime of Katsuwo's #I'm Looking For Zombie (#Zombie Sagashitemasu) manga will debut October 3. It also released the main promotional video and visual, revealing more cast, staff and theme song artists.

The trailer previews the opening song, “Raki Raki” by Surii, and the ending song, “Soft Apocalypse” by the band cadode.

The announced broadcast and streaming schedule is:

• TV Asahi and 23 affiliated channels: October 3 premiere in the IMAnimation block, airing Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. JST (10:30 a.m. EDT).
• BS Asahi: October 3 at 1:00 a.m. JST, effectively October 4.
• AT-X: October 5.
• ABEMA and d Anime Store in Japan: October 3 at midnight JST, effectively October 4.

The newly revealed cast members are:

• Yōko Hikasa as Mikazuki, a woman who entered the “outside world” before Aki. She visits Aki and her friends' base seeking a companion she became separated from.
• Makoto Koichi as Tōka, a female auto mechanic, a rarity in the “outside world.” Haru saves her from a zombie attack.
• Tomoyo Takayanagi as Takamo, the sharp-tongued commander of Ueno Base.
• Aino Shimada as Saigo, Takamo's 12-year-old younger brother.
• Kōsuke Toriumi as Aki's father, who made a certain promise before leaving her behind as a child. His location and whether he remains alive are unknown.

They join the previously announced stars:

• Miyari Nemoto as Aki
• Lynn as Natsuki
• Toshiya Miyata as Haru
• Hibiku Yamamura as Yū
• Yuka Nukui as Sakura

The additional staff members are:

• Art director: Masatoshi Muto
• Color design: Ryōta Katsuta and Maki Yamamoto
• Compositing director of photography: Shintarō Sakai
• 3DCG director: Junya Sato
• Editing: Yumiko Nakaba
• Sound director: Yayoi Tateishi

The main production team includes:

• Director at Studio Comet: Shin'ya Une, director of Rent-A-Girlfriend season 3 and an episode director on Teasing Master Takagi-san and D.Gray-man Hallow.
• Assistant director: Kyōhei Suzuki, an assistant episode director on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind and Kiss Him, Not Me.
• Series scripts: Kenichi Yamashita (Actually, I Am……, The Holy Grail of Eris) and Aki Itami (Forest of Piano, The Comic Artist and His Assistants).
• Character design: Narumi Shimoji (Charanpo Land no Bōken film, Ugoku! Neko Mukashi Banashi).
• Music: Kenta Higashiohji (Pole Princess!!, Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire).

The manga's “zombie x youth comedy” unfolds after a deadly, virulent disease infects and kills 90 percent of Earth's humans. They subsequently return as zombies that attack people.

Thirteen years after that “Red Day” brought society and civilization down, survivors live outside major cities while hoping to reclaim them. A new generation, unfamiliar with the world before Red Day, is coming of age.

Aki and her close friends Haru and Natsuki set out to search for her missing father.

Katsuwo began the manga in Kadokawa's Comic Dengeki DaiohG magazine in June 2022. Kadokawa released its third and final volume in January 2024.

In July, Yen Press announced plans to publish the entire manga in one omnibus under the title #ImLookingForZombies.

Katsuwo's Mitsuboshi Colors also received a television anime, which debuted in January 2018. Sentai Filmworks streamed it during its Japanese broadcast.

Katsuwo's Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu (“Solitary ‘’ Life,” or “Hitori Bocchi's ‘’ Life”) began in Comic Dengeki DaiohG's inaugural issue in September 2013. It concluded in April 2021, and Kadokawa released the eighth and final volume that June.

Its television anime adaptation premiered in April 2019 and streamed on Crunchyroll.