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.

In many ways, Higurashi is a dark reflection of Akira. Whereas Akira was a joyful person, full of dreams and enthusiasm, Higurashi was a disillusioned man who isolated himself from society, actively refusing to work, for what he perceived as meager wages, while indulging himself in video games and cigarrettes. Thus his elatement at watching the zombie apocalypse unfold, was not out of any sense of liberation from dehumanizing conditions like Akira suffered, but rather out of a perverse sense of freedom in which he could do as he pleased without anybody to demand anything out of him.

He eventually met, like minded bitter individuals who shared a hatred of society that they perceived as shunning them for not being "useful". His priorities in the now chaotic world, were thus very simple; to indulge himself in malignant pleasure, by engaging in immoral and even criminal acts at the expense of everyone else, out of a sense of entitlement and petty revenge.

Only after being defeated, did he truly realize that his one true desire, was to hang out and have fun with friends, which he was unable to, due to his shy nature. Making peace with Akira and with his real wish, he resigned himself to his fate with grace.

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).