Is My Daughter is a Zombie Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read

Quick facts
Format	Webtoon, 90 chapters, 7 volumes
Run	2018–2020 · completed
Community score	AniList 7.1 · MangaUpdates 7.7
Content	Mild violence, body horror
Where to read	WEBTOON — official

Overview

A year has passed since a zombie outbreak tore through South Korea and was, officially, declared over. What the government doesn't know is that Jeonghwan's daughter Su-a is still infected — the last zombie on Earth, by his reckoning, and a secret he's built his entire life around protecting. When her violent urges are managed, she can almost pass for an ordinary kid. The question hanging over the whole series is simple and constant: how long can one father keep that secret before the world finds out?

My Daughter is a Zombie uses its genre premise as a delivery system for something warmer than the title suggests. This isn't really a zombie horror story — it's a story about a parent who refuses to give up on his child, dressed in just enough horror-comedy trappings to keep things from getting maudlin.

What it does well

The central father-daughter relationship is the reason this webtoon works as well as it does. Jeonghwan's stubbornness — his refusal to see Su-a as a monster no matter what the rest of the world would call her — gives every chapter, even the comedic ones, real emotional stakes underneath. That's a harder needle to thread than it sounds, and the manhwa mostly threads it well.

The tonal balancing act deserves real credit. A premise this potentially grim could easily tip into either played-for-laughs shallowness or grinding misery, and My Daughter is a Zombie manages to stay warm and often genuinely funny without losing sight of what's actually at stake for this family. The comedy comes from character and situation rather than undercutting the horror-adjacent tension whenever it builds.

The length works in the story's favor too. At 90 chapters, it tells a complete, focused story without padding out the central premise past its natural shelf life — everything serves the father-daughter relationship at the heart of it.

Where it falls short

Readers coming in expecting real zombie horror — action, dread, escalating outbreak stakes — will find the genre elements more restrained than advertised. This is fundamentally a family drama wearing horror-comedy clothing, and that choice, while a strength for the story it's telling, means it undersells on scares if that's what you're after.

The supporting cast outside the immediate family gets comparatively little development, and the premise itself — successfully hiding a zombie in plain sight for this long — asks for a fair amount of suspension of disbelief that not every reader will extend easily.

Verdict

My Daughter is a Zombie takes a premise that sounds like a horror-comedy gimmick and turns it into a genuinely affecting story about unconditional parental love. It's not the scary zombie story its title implies, but as a warm, tightly told family drama with just enough genre flavor to keep it interesting, it delivers more than expected.