Kanta Higurashi

Kanta Higurashi (日暮 莞太) is a character in Zombie 100. He is a former NEET and the leader of his group, consisting of people he found during the apocalypse's first days.

Appearance
Higurashi has seemingly messy black hair, with black irises and eyebags. He wears a darker colored shirt, black sweat pants, and sneakers.

Personality
Throughtout his childhood, Higurashi seemed to be a very shy and quiet kid. He mentions having friends in his elementary years, but overtime his quietness took over. He spent most of highschool reading and listening to comedy sketches. During his time in college, Higurashi, Kencho and Akira become acquainted. He was infuriated wth Akira, as he grew jealous of how he lived everyday carefree and with no worries. When the zombie apocalypse happened, similar to Akira, Higurashi was thrilled.

Knowing that the world was ending, Higurashi took it upon himself to do things that were deemed immoraly wrong. Since there were no clear consequences to his actions, he and his group excused this as "doing what they want".

Akira Tendou
Akira and Higurashi are acquaintances, as they attended the same college. Though, Higurashi views Akira as an enemy, as Higurashi is incredibly jealous of how carefree Akira is.

Kenichirou Ryuuzaki
Kenichirou and Higurashi are acquaintances, as they attended the same college.

Touko Kanbayashi
A member of Higurashis group.

Naoki Atenbou
A member of Higurashis group.

Shigenobu Kurasugi
A member of Higurashis group.

Etymology

 * The name Kanta means "smiling, reed used to cover tatami" (莞) (kan) and "thick, big, great" (太) (ta).
 * Kanta's surname Higurashi means "sun, day" (日) (hi) and "evening, livelihood/make a living, spend time" (暮) (gurashi).