On the town late at night, a couple meet a woman in a tight dress... and she's undead and trying to grab them.

KEN: "What is it? A zombie?"

MAYU: "Wow, it stinks! Oh, we're super lucky! I've never seen one before."

KEN: "They've been totally quiet recently, right?"

MAYU: "Up close they look grotesque, don't they?"

KEN (waving his hand near the zombie's mouth): "Look, look, over here! Hey hey, do you want a bite? Good grief, you reek. Look, have a bite, go on."

MAYU: "Hey! If you keep doing that, what if it bites and you bleed?"

KEN (hugging the zombie): "It's fine. It's got a mouthpiece. Mayu, let's get a picture. Hey, don't move. Hurry up."

MAYU (taking a selfie of the three of them together): "Wait a minute. OK, zombie!"

Zombies are an everyday thing. There was an outbreak 16 years ago, but it was resolved because zombies are stupid and can be outwitted by small children. (In the opening credits, a toddler on a tricycle goes in front of some zombies who've just been knocked down by their would-be victim.) These days, the undead get dragged away by the authorities and/or fitted with mouthpieces. There's even a zombie vaccine (although not everyone bothers getting inoculated) and an infection scale. Level 1 means you smell a bit. Level 5 means cardiac arrest. The city office's zombie division is staffed by losers and weirdos.

Our hero, Shinsuke Akaba (Kento Hayashi), is one of those council workers. He's in the special welfare division at the Tamagawa City Office and he deals with zombies. This is a friendly, harmless TV series. Our heroes are a bunch of not-very-eccentrics, from the idol otaku to the kendo girl who believes in killing zombies on sight. (Akaba regards this as murder because he sees zombies as people.) Episodes will always have a zombie angle of some kind, but the most memorable stories tend to be about something else, e.g. a partnership of two stand-up comedians, or sexual exploitation in the entertainment industry. (Ouch.)

It becomes a fad among rude, annoying schoolgirls to paint yourself grey and draw fake injuries on yourself. This causes lots of false alarms.

An institute collects all the zombies our heroes capture. They're stored safely and used in research. I expected the specimens to escape for the last episode finale, but no. Also, the yakuza conduct zombie auctions (and the yakuza we talk to is annoying).

It's not horror. This TV series would be safe even for people who hate zombie films. It finds some interesting parallels, e.g. using zombie infection as a way to talk about learning you have a terminal disease, or the sub-plot with the couple who are trying to conceive. We see two marriages where the wife's healthy and the husband's infected. Also, the zombie virus is sexually transmittable. Primarily, I suppose the show's a study of trying to maintain human contact with your loved ones even when they're no longer themselves and/or their remaining time is limited. The cast is likeable, starting with our charming loser hero. This show isn't heavyweight, but it's mildly quirky and sometimes interesting. It's worth a look.