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 work life. 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 plummeting all the way to his demise.

Story
Akira started as a chipper young man and he was really excited to work for a big company, he then met Gonzou his branch leader who happily greeted him, he was then shown to his desk where he bumped into Saori Ohtori and was instantly infatuated with her, he helped her pick up her paperwork and then they parted. Later that night Akira was at his welcome party and he told everyone that he was a pro Rugby player, one of the guys asked did he have a girlfriend and Akira told them he did not, the guy responded with how he is such a hunk, Akira laughed, Akira then walked around pouring people drinks and getting to know them, but after the party all him team turned into Zombies (Not undead) and said backk to work.

Akira then had to work for 3 days straight with no sleep, he was then let home, He woke up and perked up and told himself not to let it get to him so he left full throttle, sadly Gonzou continued to break him, Saori was kind to him but he then noticed her having Sex with his boss in the bosses office hurting him more, Akira was so drained that he walked in traffic trying to die but failed, he tried to throw himself in front of a train but the bollard stopped him, he was so drained that he apologized to a mailbox for bumping into it.

the next morning Akira found a notice that he hadn't paid for his Bike parking so Akira decided to pay on the way to work, he went to his landlord but nobody answered, he then noticed that the door was open and he found his Landlord now Munching on a woman, the Zombie then turned to Akira and Pounced but Akira was too fast and the Zombie got its head stuck in some railings, Akira ran but then found a horde he kept running upwards and then crashed into a door cracking his head but he got up and kept moving, he was able to avoid the Zombies due to his Pro Rugby skills.

Akira then went to a convenient Store and took a Notebook so he could write a bucket list, and his first task was confess to Saori, he cycled all the way to her apartment avoiding many Zombies, he arrived to find his Boss had turned and dried to rush him but all the blood made it so that the blob Zombie had no footing so Akira took his Chance told his boss that he quits and rugby tackled the Zombie sending it plummeting to its death. Akira then went to find Saoiri but it was too late she had been bitten and was in the middle of changing but trying to fight it, Akira then told her that he loves her and then the Zombie charged him but Akira ran away too fast for it.

The next day Akira cleaned his room ticking another item off his list, he then wrote laze around drinking Beer but he only had 3 cans so he ran out and panicked, Akira then said he would rather be Zombie food than not complete this task. on his way out he met his Neighbors Mikio and Sumire Kousaka, he asked them if they needed anything and they told him what they needed. Akira then went to a convenient store loudly singing about getting Beer, not knowing that sound attracts Zombies, he then heard Something and went to see and he found a beautiful girl chugging a bottle of Water, Akira decided to make small talk but the girl told him that he has no survival instincts, he was loudly singing that alerts Zombies he left his home just to get luxury items and not essentials so she would not partner with him as he would lower her chance of survival. Just then Zombies entered the building, Akira tried to shield the girl but she pulled him to the ground and got on top of him to cover him as a truck driven by a Zombie crashed and killed the horde, Akira was impressed but then horrified when the girl stole his bike, Akira got on a Moped and drove off but then got on a Harley Davidson Motorcycle. Akira then found that the Kousaka home was destroyed and he was sad that they died however they escaped.

The next day Akira wanted to meet his best friend Kenichirou Ryuuzaki and catch up, he called him and Kenchou told him that he was in a love hotel with a zombie and that he had eaten nothing for 3 days he only had bottled water, Akira set off an alarm that lured the Zombies away and then he apologized to Kenchou way too loudly alerting more Zombies so they had to run away to the roof, Akira jumped the Building but Kenchou told him that he couldn't but Akira gave him a pep talk and he made it.

The next day Kenchou cooked a delicious mean for them and Akira praised him and Kenchou told him that is why Akira is a virgin and why he will never get a girlfriend, this annoyed Akira and he said that he will so they decided to grab a Large Plasma TV, they set off to Akihabara and found a Zombie Fireman blocking the way, Akira then heard a truck and it was a petrol truck with a Zombie driving it, but Akira noticed a staircase to an underground mall so he managed to avoid the collision killing both Zombies in the process. they then found a horde so they ran and slid into a big supermarket, they encountered 3 women Reika Maki and Yukari who were hiding along with a businessman, Reika asked had they been bitten Akira and Kenchou proved that they weren't so they sat and had a drink, Akira was overjoyed to hear that the girls were cabin attendants so he could tick another off his bucket list, Akira saw Maki and Kenchou getting to know each other well and he tried to talk to Yukari but was too blunt and straight up asked if she had a boyfriend once again proving that he doesn't think things through, Yukari angrily shot him down and he fell into despair but decided to chug Tequila which amused Reika, Later Maki and Kenchou left to find the bed section and Akira went to the bathroom to vomit, whilst emptying his stomach Yukari showed up and rubbed his back, whilst this was happening the Businessman had turned and Killed Reika turning her into a Zombie, Kenchou heard the Scream but Maki told him to dismiss it and go another round, Meanwhile Yukari was sat on a flight of Stairs with Akira talking about dreams, sadly this was short lived as the Zombie man had found them and pounced on Yukari Akira pulled it off her and punched it down a flight of stairs then he saw that Yukari had been bitten, Yukari staggered to her feet and embraced Akira, she told him that he needs to live and find her Boyfriend ant tell him what happened to her all with a smile on her face, Akira ran whilst hearing Yukari's Screams as she was killed, he found Kenchou who had killed Zombie Reika and was running from Zombie Maki but he had a TV they wanted,

Back on their rooftop Akira was playing a Zombie Shooter on the new TV and was thinking of Yukari and when he died in the game he clicked the continue button showing that he will not die easily.

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".

In chapter 57 of the Manga he and Shizuka confess their feelings for each other and passionately kiss as they are surrounded by zombies.

Teruo Tendou
Teruo is Akira's father.

Akiko Tendou
Akiko is Akira's mother.

Yukari
Akira met her in a mall when Hiding from Zombies, they had a rough start as Akira bluntly asked if she had a boyfriend and she shot him down, but after Drinking too much Yuakri came to rub his back whilst he vomited in a toilet, After this they sat on a flight of stairs and became fast friends and talked about their Dreams, Unfortunately a Zombie attacked Yukari and bitt her Akira pulled it off her and Punched it down the stairs, After that Yukari hugged Akira and told him to live whilst the Zombie came back.

Yukari's death haunts Akira as he always thinks about her and wished that he had the Vaccine back then

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).