Despite its outlandishly familiar premise of a zombie apocalypse, Zom 100 is a shockingly relatable human story at its core. After all, working at a job that slowly eats away at you and seeking some emotional satisfaction outside of your work hours is something that most millennials can understand.

That includes Zeno Robinson, who himself has been in the kind of workplace doldrums that Akira faces in the first episode.

In trying to tap into his portrayal of Akira, Zeno was able to draw from experience.

"I tend to be sort of a workaholic and my identity sort of becomes synonymous with my work," Zeno admitted to Distractify. "Sometimes because I am always so busy and I'm always putting a lot on my own plate, I tend to not have as much time to do things I want to do for myself."

He goes on to say that he's fully aware of the kind of internal drama that Akira first faced in his office job, and had a lot to bring to the table when it came to stepping into the recording booth. He told us, "I could see how that burnout can affect a person just like it affected Akira, so playing that was definitely coming from a real place.