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| “ | Yes, I'm free! I was unwanted by those guys and society! And they've all... They've all been destroyed! From now on, it's summer break every day! | „ |
| ~ Kanta's thoughts on the zombie apocalypse and expressing his desires. |
Kanta Higurashi is a major antagonist in the 2023 manga/anime series, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead. He is an unemployed NEET who leads a group of other fellow workers, whom all three either struggled or got fired by their own undoing, into committing every single crime for their own enjoyment, all listed on his personal bucket list. He is Akira Tendou's arch-nemesis.
He was voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto in Japanese and by Bryce Papenbrook in the English dub.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- When the apocalypse began, Kanta would react happily in a vicious manner rather than feel concerned for the people who have been attacked or turned into zombies when the chaos ensues. He made his intentions clear that he would commit any crime since it is "summer break every day".
- During the apocalypse, he began stealing as many cigarettes as he wanted.
- When finding other survivors inside a single room, Touko Kanbayashi, Naoki Atenbou, and Shigenobu Kurasagi, he begins making his personal bucket list with not just them but even himself to commit whatever crime they had in mind. These crimes involved using a live gun, blowing stuff up with dynamite, arson, and even sexual assault, showing Kanta isn't above allowing that.
- When taking shelter in Gunma Village and confronting Akira again, he and his gang planned to have the horde of zombies blocked in a barricaded tunnel to be unleashed and have them attack the villagers and surviving refugees, killing them and turning them into zombies just for the sake of it.
- He had Touko sabotage the electric fences, overaccelerating the electricity to where it would become a death trap for the villagers and refugees should they escape from the riot.
- Blew up the villagers' houses using dynamite to lure them out and have them become zombies.
- When challenging Akira and his friends, he had his gang take charge of forcibly luring out every last villager from their hiding places and having them killed by zombies, making a twisted game of both "tag" and "hide and seek" out of it.
- He forces Akira to decide whether he willingly becomes a zombie or has his father killed by several zombies, even threatening to pluck his neck with a garden hoe, all out of spite over his begrudging hatred for his optimism.
- When he is tricked into believing Akira became a zombie and is later bitten by a zombie, he kicks said zombie dead during his mental breakdown.
- While seemingly getting along with his gang, their relationship is of mutual desire of ensuing madness rather than legitimate care.
- His belief that society rejected him and never bothered getting along with others due to his introverted nature, while sympathetic, is nowhere near an excuse for his actions for several reasons:
- Back in college, he actually made an effort to better himself when participating in a personal development seminar, volunteering in community cleanup, and having an internship overseas. However, he turned it down due to believing nobody saw anything in him, when in actuality, he made his choice to back out.
- The only people who interacted with him were Akira, Kencho, and their college friends and they never held anything against him, especially Akira who offered to have him join them for lunch. He could've made friends with them at that time, instead, he left out of embarrassment of his stomach growling.
- Akira pointed out the fact that he was "foolish" for not realizing what he truly wanted and that should he have just accepted his offer back then if he really wanted friends. It also provides context that his actions barely had anything to do with his social problems and doesn't help that he held a grudge against Akira for petty reasons that weren't an excuse for the former.
- Even in his last moments before his death, he shows no remorse for everything he's done.
- Because of him, his actions of unleashing the zombies drove the villagers and refugees from their home and seek out to survive in the open world.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- His insecurities are genuinely played for sympathy. Even though it's not an excuse for his actions, it stemmed from his loneliness and having to grow up without any of his childhood friends, his introverted nature prevented him from communicating with others or at least making new friends, leading him to believe nobody would accept him due to his social problems. His mental breakdown provides this as well, uncontrollably crying and being sympathized by Akira despite everything he's done. Even his death is played for sympathy in different versions:
- In the manga, Kanta is left to his fate after he is bitten, surrounded by a horde of zombies, and is presumed to be killed by them before he turns.
- In the anime, before he turned, he pushed Akira aside and ran off to a nearby lake, envisioning himself as the same optimistic child before transcending to his zombified self standing near the pool in his childhood with a zombified Akira waiting for him to join him. He was last seen tearfully smiling before jumping into the lake, and committing suicide.
- Despite this, the narrative doesn't fully sympathize with it as Kencho called him a "fool" for his reasons being what caused him to commit his actions and still never showed remorse for everything he's done. Making this a minor prevention.
- He fondly remembers the happier times when he was a child, as he would spend his summer break playing by the pool with his childhood friends. It also shows that he still cares about them.
External Links[]
- Kanta Higurashi on the Villains Wiki