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Rea Sanka

Also called: さんかれあ
ComicsUndeadScience gone wrong2000 to 2009

Rea Sanka is the zombie heroine of a Japanese romantic comedy manga. She dies after drinking an experimental potion and returns as herself, in a body that is slowly rotting. The series is an example of the sympathetic, self-aware zombie in manga.1

Battle it
First appeared
2009
Released 2009
Source work
Sankarea: Undying Love (2009)
Mitsuru Hattori (Kodansha)
Made in
Japan
What causes it
Science gone wrong
A home-made reanimation potion containing poisonous bigleaf hydrangea.
How you become one
She drinks the potion, then dies in a fall and gets up again.
Intelligence
Clever

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2009

Released 2009

field notes

What the sources say

1

She keeps her personality, which the story links to having taken the potion before she died1

2

Her body still decays and stiffens with rigor mortis; the potion only delays it1

3

Eating hydrangea leaves temporarily reverses the stiffening1

4

The manga ran in 11 volumes from 2009 to 2014; Studio Deen animated it in 20121

5

The boy she confides in is a zombie enthusiast; a reanimated pet cat also features in the story1

Sources

  1. Sankarea: Undying Love - Wikipedia

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