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Kabane

Also called: Kabaneri
TVUndeadA virus2010 to today

Kabane are the undead of a steampunk anime set on an island nation where survivors live in fortified stations linked by armoured steam trains. They can be killed by piercing the iron-covered heart or cutting off the head. The series won the 2016 Newtype award for best television anime and continued in films.1

Battle it
First appeared
2016
Released 2016
Source work
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (2016)
Tetsuro Araki (Wit Studio)
Made in
Japan
What causes it
A virus
A mysterious, fast-spreading virus.
How you become one
A bite.
Intelligence
Some intelligence
Weak spots
  • piercing the heart through its iron casing
  • severing the head

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2016

Released 2016

field notes

What the sources say

1

The name means corpses1

2

Each has a glowing golden heart protected by a layer of iron1

3

Some learn to fight; the type called Wazatori uses a sword1

4

A colony can fuse into a single giant creature1

5

Kabaneri are human-Kabane hybrids, stronger than people but dependent on human blood1

6

The hero becomes one by cutting off the blood flow to his brain after he is bitten1

Sources

  1. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress - Wikipedia

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