World info: In the year marked at 21xx, there are Handead, Zendead, and Alivers. Alivers are 50% of the population, and have been brainwashed to focus only on their work, listless and devoid of joy. The other 50% is Handead or Zendead; Handeads are called "truly living", though physically, they're "half-dead". There's an organization called Dead And Alive, or DAA, who works to undo the brainwashing through the production of music, as Influencer Handead can undo the brainwashing with their voices and turn them Handead through their bites. Zendead are basically listless zombies without the urge to eat human flesh.

Gara info: At age 13, he was set to be the next Head of the Okayama branch, but this was short-lived. As he's a bit of a danger with his constantly fluctuating dead level, he was kicked out of DAA after he was saved by Kakeru from a Crazy Bee attack during a performance.

While Gara was always emotionally volatile and prone to outbursts, the abandonment here just made him more explosive and doubly so when Kakeru disappeared entirely. Kakeru often told Gara he wasn't afraid of his dead level's fluctuating and the very real threat he posed; it was because of this that Gara really learned he was more than just bee-bait.

At the current canon point here, Gara has joined up with another father figure of his, Genjiro Chibana, and his childhood friend, Yuki Minano, to form a group called Shura Jodo. Their aim is to shake things up and show Alivers and newly-turned Handead they don't need to follow the DAA's every word and scripture.