Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata’s Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead manga has announced it will be receiving an anime adaptation. The series haslaunched a website,a Twitter account,and a trailer, all in English via publisher Viz. Reflecting these global ambitions, the anime has already confirmed that it will stream in the U.S. onHuluwhen it premieres in July.

Aso and Takata’s original manga debuted in October 2018. Zom 100 follows the story of Akira Tendou, who uses the occurrence of a zombie apocalypse to decide to start living for himself, going on a mission to cross all 100 items on his bucket list. The series has released twelve compiled manga volumes so far, and was nominated for an Eisner award.

RELATED:Tokyo Revengers Season 2 To Stream In English On HuluEnglish publisher Viz already seems to be priming the Zom 100 anime to be a global hit. It has licensed the show for streaming in the west, the series itself following a production deal between Viz and Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha. Viz also launched the English-subtitled trailer and the official English Twitter account. Said account confirmed streaming on Hulu in the U.S., with other streaming platforms for other territories to be announced at a later date.

Shogakukan-Shueisha is the company producing the anime, with animation being done by Bug Films, which previously produced animation for Komi Can’t Communicate and Summer Time Rendering. Kazuki Kawagoe is directing the anime with Hanako Ueda assistant directing. Voice actor Shuichiro Umeda has been announced to be playing main character Akira.

This simultaneous global launch of an announcement is one more indication of the increasing global popularity of anime, especially the kind of fare Viz deals in. The publisher had previously also announced the streaming of the recentBleach: Thousand-Year Blood War through Hulu, and produced the dub for it. For Zom 100’s part, the manga is also inspiring a live-action film adaptation set to release through Netflix sometime this year.

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