It's Time From Z (Zの時間) [Licensed by J-Novel Club]
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Zの時間
( Z No Jikan)
https://bookwalker.jp/de08ab5b6f-1c6e-4d1f-a63a-4efd3294b262/?acode=WpfPW3yk
What Is This?
I believe the story is basically that the main character was immersed in a VRMMO, and when they took the helmet off, their world had already been infested with a zombie outbreak. Now he has to survive.
Author?
Same author as Outbreak Company and Bluesteel Blasphemer.
(Note the appearance of another character with glasses and short black hair, + there are guns in the book too).
Review from Bookmeter user:
Momokubo
When I was withdrawing and playing the VRFPS game, the world was perished in no time! Zombie panic thing called. I have not had much opportunity to touch such works, but it was really funny. A hero who is familiar with guns and military families and a heroine familiar with zombies cooperate and like to expand survival.More reviews:
https://bookmeter.com/books/12766278Who is the publisher?
Hobby Japan.
How Many Volumes?
Volume 2 is releasing shortly.
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The Zombie media saturation didn't reach Japan very much so I'd actually be interested in reading something like this.
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It sounds like it is like touching on all the VRMMO stories & rejecting it in favour of the real world, which is kinda cool. Also the waking up in a different world than the one you left (vrmmo instead of sleep) is kinda isekai-ish, so it's like nodding to two popular somewhat overused settings and going with neither.
I dig it.
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There's a great nonfiction zombie book that came out of Japan. Don't know if you've checked it out, but it has fun manga drawings in it.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28260482-land-of-the-rising-dead
There was a bit of a craze with School Live, HS of the Dead, and I Am a Hero, and obviously there's a good deal of zombie games in Japan (Resident Evil, House of the Dead / Typing of the Dead, Dead Rising). LN maybe not as much (there was that one that was based on an adult VN, Only I Am Not Attacked In A World Overflowing With Zombies).
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Given that I've enjoyed pretty everything I've read from the author I'll give this an upvote.
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Halloween bumpity bump. 🧟♂️🧟
Volume 2 released in September of this year, though the author is really active and busy since even then (3 new volumes pop up on Bookwalker for 3 different series since this released). Always makes me nervous when an author has so many series he's juggling, like the Neechan author to a lesser extent.
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Made an LNDB page for this one (and some other Sakaki works):
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I’ve been getting back into Outbreak Company - and man that author can write well and also tease a lot of interesting angles out of a theme so I’d be way down for this one.
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Licensed by J-Novel Club.
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Referenced by
myskaros
