Survival of the Dead

Survival of the Dead (know as Tōkyō yoru Seizon obu za Deddo (Tokyo Night Survival of the Dead) in Japan) is an Japanese anime television series created by Kiyota Ayao and Sazama Takiji. The series follows a group of survivors in Tokyo who try to work together and survive the X Virus, which contaminated Japan. The series is animated by Studio Acesky with all new animators and directors, due to most of the veteran animators going on to work on CircleCity: Turning Square.

Plot
In 2006, at a Japanese medicine research facility, Tanaka Morio was the leader of researching brain waves after death. During the process, he accidentally created the X Virus and tried to contain it. The vial broke after a meeting, and Tanaka was infected.

A few months later, in the winter of 2006, a group of survivors were hanging out at one of their temporary "safe houses" to eat, rest up, etc. They each tell their stories to one another.

Development
The series was initially going to be a Fall 2018 limited series with a 10 series order, but after seeing progress of the show in early February, Acesky president asked AnimeNation to air the show on AniWeekends in the next available timeslot, and after a few calls and negotiations later, a timeslot was secured for the show.

Writing for the series took place in the later parts of 2017, with a few storyboards and scripts written. Chaossy, lead writer and director, was asked to write a few episodes and a arc idea and then the rookie team will continue from there. Animation for the first arc started in early March and ended in late June of 2018. Then it was announced that the series will continue in the late summer/early fall season.