Koutetsujou no Kabaneri / Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
A mysterious virus appears during the industrial revolution that transforms infected humans into Kabane ("corpses") and rapidly spreads. Kabane are aggressive, undead creatures that cannot be defeated unless the glowing golden heart, which is protected by a layer of iron, is pierced, or an important body part is completely severed (such as the head). Unfortunately, most melee weapons and the steam-pressure guns used by the bushi ("warriors") are not very effective against them.
On the island country Hinomoto , people have built fortress-like "stations" to shelter themselves from these creatures. People access the stations and transport wares between them with the help of fortified steam locomotives. One day, a locomotives hijacked by the Kabane crashes into Aragane Station and they overrun the city. A young engineer called Ikoma uses the opportunity to test with success his anti-Kabane weapon, the "piercing gun" (tsuranuki zutsu), but is infected in the process, although he manages to resist the virus and become a Kabaneri , a human-Kabane hybrid. Assisted by Mūmei ("Nameless"), another Kabaneri who appears to help them, Ikoma and the other survivors of the station board a hayajirō named Kōtetsujō ("Iron Fortress") and depart to seek shelter elsewhere, fighting the hordes of Kabane along the way.
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