Sankarea: Undying Love
| Sankarea: Undying Love | |
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Rea Sanka | |
| さんかれあ (Sankarea) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romantic comedy, zombie |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Mitsuru Hattori |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | December 9, 2009 – September 9, 2014 |
| Volumes | 11 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Shinichi Omata |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Noboru Takagi |
| Music by | Yukari Hashimoto |
| Studio | Studio Deen |
| Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
| Original network | TBS |
| Original run | April 5, 2012 – June 28, 2012 |
| Episodes | 12 + 3 OVA |
| Novel | |
| Sankarea: All Night-Rea Long | |
| Written by | Ryō Suzukaze |
| Illustrated by | Mitsuru Hattori |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Imprint | Kodansha Ranobe Bunko |
| Published | July 2, 2013 |
Sankarea: Undying Love (Japanese: さんかれあ, Hepburn: Sankarea) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Hattori. The manga was serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine between December 2009 and September 2014 and compiled in eleven tankōbon volumes. The story follows Chihiro Furuya, a zombie and occult enthusiast in modern Japan, who meets Rea Sanka, a girl who becomes a zombie after drinking an experimental "reanimation potion" made from bigleaf hydrangeas.
The series has been licensed and is published in North America by Kodansha USA. An anime television adaptation by Studio Deen aired from April to June 2012. A novel adaptation by Ryō Suzukaze was published in July 2012.