I Am a Hero: The Day It Began: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Two weeks before the theatrical release of the feature film adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa's zombie survival manga I am a HERO in Japan, NTT DoCoMo's online-video service dTV will start streaming its prequel web drama I am a HERO: Hajimari no Hi. The story of the web drama will focus on the nurse Tsugumi "Yabu" Oda. Through her experience as a nurse, the web drama explains how the zombie pandemic spreads across Japan.

Series details

• Title: I Am a Hero: The Day It Began
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2016-04-09
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-05-07
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: dTV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 20 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 55022
• IMDb ID: tt5504766
• TVDB ID: 323948

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-04-09; final listed air date 2016-05-07; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

Adapted from I Am a Hero: The Day It Began on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.