ZQN
ZQN are the infected of Kengo Hanazawa's manga, which follows a 35-year-old manga assistant through an outbreak in Japan. The series pushes its infected toward body horror, with fused and hive-minded forms. More than 8.3 million copies were in circulation by 2021.1
When did it first appear?
2009Released 2009
What the sources say
They attack and devour the nearest person; some keep a degree of awareness1
Two infected can fuse into a many-limbed mutant, and later they merge into giant hive-minded creatures1
One half-infected character, Hiromi, keeps most of her personality1
The manga ran from 2009 to 2017 in 22 volumes and won the Shogakukan Manga Award1
Filmed in live action by Shinsuke Sato, premiering at Sitges in 20151
Anime News Network ranked it first among ten great zombie manga1
Sources
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