Survive,

Survive, (stylized as survive,) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsujita Ogai and illustrated by Miyasaki Akiko. It was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from June 1993 to December 2005, Weekly Young Jump from January 2006 to December 2010, and currently serialized in Ultra Jump starting with the January 2011 edition. The story revolves around three different groups of people, one from Japan, one from the United States, and one from France as they try to survive the zombie apocalypse and the drama/tragedy within.

survive, has a dark thriller drama formula with tragedy and action mixed in. The series focuses hard on character development, who often has to make choices for the better side.

The manga has been adapted into an anime franchise by Venga Animation Team since July of 1996 on. TV Tokyo has dropped the anime as of December 2006, and during a winter hiatus, picked up the anime to start airing on April of 2007. The series first started airing in HD on July 9, 2005. The series started airing in widescreen on April 9, 2007.

Manga
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Anime
Venga Animation Team and Ogai announced in December of 1995 that an adaption of the manga will start in July 1996 on TV Tokyo, on Saturday mornings.

Viz Media picked up the anime for North American distribution, and started releasing the anime on VHS tapes starting in December of 1998. The subtitled only releases ended in 2000, and Viz Media contacted Ocean Studios to produce a dub starting in August of 2001 in DVD volume sets of 5 episodes each. Starting in 2003, Adult Swim started to air the anime on early Thursday and Friday mornings at 4:30 am. These airings stopped in 2009 when Viz Media decided not to renew the rights of the anime.

As of 2018, the series is currently out of print and unlicensed.

American live action television series
In September of 2002, it announced that Vision Entertainment has bought the rights to the American arc of the manga, and will adapt it to television. The show will take a darker, adult tone than the manga. The show aired on Sci-Fi from 2003 to 2005, and on Vision from 2006 to 2007.

Parental info
The whole Shonen Jump (and for the anime, the whole TV Tokyo run) run can be said to be for older children (10) and up. Starting with the Young Jump run (Nippon Television run for the anime), the manga has took a much darker and mature tone, and can be said to be appropriate for older teens. (14-16+)

Prequel
In 2008, Miyasaki Akiko started writing and illustrating a prequel series, detailing events a year, a few months, a few weeks, a few days, and a few hours before the infection started. It also follows a small group of people in the initial infection. The manga ended in the fall of 2011.

Viz Media picked up the manga in 2011

Volume 1

 * Pages: 146, Release: November 2008 (1.9 million total worldwide sales)
 * Part I: 52 Weeks Before (February 2008, 35p)
 * Part II: 26 Weeks Before (April 2008, 30p)
 * Part III: 24 Weeks Before (June 2008, 31p)
 * Part IV: 20 Weeks Before (July 2008, 25p)
 * Part V: 10 Weeks Before (August 2008, 24p)
 * Part VI: 21 Days Before (September 2008, 26p)

Volume 2

 * Pages: 197, Release: October 2009 (2.1 million total worldwide sales)
 * Part VII: 14 Days Before (November 2008, 31p)
 * Part VIII: 7 Days Before (February 2009, 30p)
 * Part IX: 2 Days Before (March 2009, 27p)
 * Part X: 24 Hours Before (April 2009, 26p)
 * Part XI: 16 Hours Before (June 2009, 28p)
 * Part XII: 10 Hours Before (July 2009, 24p)
 * Part XIII: 3 Hours Before (August 2009, 21p)
 * Part XIV: 1 Hour Before (September 2009, 10p)

Volume 3

 * Pages: 147, Release: June 2010 (2.5 million total worldwide sales)
 * Part XV: Now (October 2009, 29p)
 * Part XVI: Initiation (November 2009, 25p)
 * Part XVII: Survival 101 (January 2010, 21p)
 * Part XVIII: Choice (February 2010, 25p)
 * Part XIX: Humanity (March 2010, 26p)
 * Part XX: Highway (April 2010, 21p)

Volume 4

 * Pages: 173, Release: November 2010 (3.5 million total worldwide sales)
 * Part XXI: Crossroads (May 2010, 25p)
 * Part XXII: Last Stand Part 1 (June 2010, 30p)
 * Part XXIII: Last Stand Part 2 (July 2010, 28p)
 * Part XXIV: Last Stand Part 3 (August 2010, 31p)
 * Part XXV: Last Stand Finale (September 2010, 38p)
 * Part XXVI: Epilogue (October 2010, 21p)