Is Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead (High School of the Dead OVA) is a OVA (home-video release) from Spring 2011 by Madhouse Inc.: 1 episodes, about 18 minutes in total, finished, 6.62/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 18 minutes for the run, 1 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 16 min
- Total time
- about 18 minutes — one evening
- First aired
- Spring 2011
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 6.62/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, drama, ecchi, harem, horror, nudity, post-apocalyptic, romance, short episodes, shounen, supernatural, survival, tragedy, zombie, violence, yuri
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: High School of the Dead OVA: Drifters of the Dead; Gakuen Mokushiroku: High School of the Dead - Drifters of the Dead; Gakuen Mokushiroku: Highschool of the Dead.
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Related anime
More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · drama · harem · horror · post-apocalyptic · romance · shounen · supernatural · survival · tragedy · zombie · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead?
- About 18 minutes for all 1 episodes at 16 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead have?
- 1 episode of 16 min.
- Is Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead finished?
- Yes, Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead good for a group?
- Yes. Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead listed?
- Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead is on AniList (id 9515) and MyAnimeList (id 9515); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists