Akira Tendou

Akira Tendou (天道 輝) is the main character of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead. He is a former employee of a black company and the original author of the Bucket List.

Appearance
Akira is a fit young man with short scruffy black hair and matching color eyes. He wears a green jacket over a white long-sleeved shirt, black pants, and multi-colored shoes.

Personality
Initially, Akira was very optimistic, with dreams and bright world views. After years of working in the black company, he has become highly stressed and tired, nearly suicidal. When the zombie apocalypse started, he experienced a great sense of freedom and tried to experience everything life had to offer with childlike optimism.

Knowing that the end of the world and that of his life might be around the corner, Akira has pulled out all the restraints that his former life placed on him, letting out all the feelings and desires he had been repressed throughout his abusive, exploitative worklife. Therefore Akira, is a man who lives for the moment, making decisions that are unoptimal, inefficient, or otherwise suicidal in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, but that let Akira experience the many joys in life he was previously unable to.

Abilities
Being a former Rugby athlete, Akira is in peak physical condition, being able to easily outrun a pack of zombies, and jump obstacles without losing momentum. He is easily capable of climbing down buildings with little to no injury. The anime goes further and has him able to jump from several stories high, something that would kill most people, while sustaining no injury, albeit by being cushioned by trees, and still descend with enough force to break part of the ceiling he fell on while crushing the zombies underneath.

When confronting his former, zombified boss who had become extremely bloated, Akira was able to tackle him with such inhuman strength, he was able to push him while plowing through the door behind with the momentum catapulting the former human through the window frame and plumetting all the way to his demise.

Kenichirou Ryuuzaki
Akira and Kenchou were friends from high school when they joined the same club.

Shizuka Mikazuki
Akira first met Shizuka when he ran to gather supplies in a nearby minimarket. The stoic lady chastised him because he prioritized getting beers instead of more essential supplies. He seems to have romantic feelings for her but get flustered when he talks to her about their relationship.

He considers her "the woman of his dreams".

Teruo Tendou
Teruo is Akira's father.

Akiko Tendou
Akiko is Akira's mother.

Etymology

 * The name Akira means "brightness, radiance, shine, sparkle, gleam, twinkle" (輝).
 * Akira's surname Tendou means "sun, heaven/way of heaven, providence, destiny, divine justice/divine guidance/divine intervention, fate, fortune, chance, predetermination, lot" (天道).