Hatsukoi Zombie

• Ja Kanji — 初恋ゾンビ • Ja Romaji — Hatsukoi Zonbi • Genre — Romantic comedy

• Type — manga • Author — Ryou Minenami • Publisher — Shogakukan • Imprint — Shōnen Sunday Comics • Magazine — Weekly Shōnen Sunday • First — October 14, 2015 • Last — March 27, 2019 • Volumes — 17 Hatsukoi Zombie is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryou Minenami. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2015 to March 2019, with its chapters collected in 17 tankōbon volumes.

The series revolves around Tarou Kurume, a boy who is not interested in love. One day, he is hit on the head by a baseball during a P.E. class, leaving him with a severe concussion. When he wakes up at the infirmary, he is welcomed by a pink-haired, cheerful, well-endowed and scantily clad girl who is seemingly floating in the air. Not only that, he starts to see similar "ghosts" around countless boys, and finds out that they are fantasized versions of the first girl they loved, with the floating zombie above Tarou representing his first love.

• Tarou Kurume • A 15-year-old boy who is childhood friends with Mei Ebino. Tarou believes in "energy-saving" and initially has no interest in love-related matters. • Eve • Tarou's first love zombie. Unlike most other zombies, Eve is self-aware and able to interact with her owner. She often appears floating above Tarou's head wearing sparkly flowing pink hair with a hair accessory, and a white high school girl uniform. • Ririto Ibusuki • Tarou's first love, from when they were in the same English class ten years ago. • Mei Ebino • Tarou's childhood friend and neighbor, she attends the same school as him and is responsible for the injury that begins all of Tarou's troubles.

Written and illustrated by Ryou Minenami, Hatsukoi Zombie was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 14, 2015, to March 27, 2019. Shogakukan collected its chapters in 17 tankōbon volumes, released from March 18, 2016, to June 18, 2019.