D.N.Angel

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Synonyms: DN Angel, DNAngel, N is for Nishiki, Protecting The Kanno House, Demonen Igen, Ou Magake Again, OumagaAGAIN

Japanese: D・N・ANGEL

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 20

Chapters: 108

Status: Finished

Published: 1997 to Jan 22, 2021

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Asuka

Authors: Sugisaki, Yukiru (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #3591²

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MangaAsukaSugisaki, Yukiru (Story & Art)

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Daisuke Niwa is an ordinary, if slightly unlucky, middle school student. On his fourteenth birthday, he comes down with a 'condition' that has plagued the men in his family for three hundred years. When he sees his crush, Risa, he transforms into his alter ego, the phantom thief Dark Mousy. Unfortunately, when Dark Mousy sees his crush, Risa's twin Riku, he transforms back into Daisuke. The only cure for this craziness is if Daisuke can get Risa to fall in love with him...

(Source: Tokyopop)

Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Namaiki no 'N' (N is for Nishiki)
Volume 2: OumagaAGAIN (The Demon Returns)
Volume 4: Kanno-ke wa Kanai Anzen. (Protecting The Kanno House)

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D.N.Angel was first published in English by Tokyopop, who released the first 13 volumes from April 6, 2004 to December 8, 2009 before the closure of their North American division. VIZ Media digitally republished the Tokyopop volumes under the VIZ Select imprint from April 1, 2014 to September 23, 2014.

The series went on an extended hiatus after the August 2005 issue, returning in the April 2008 issue. It went on another hiatus after the February 2011 issue, returning in the July 2018 issue.

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Mousy, Dark

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Niwa, Daisuke

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Hiwatari, Satoshi

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Harada, Riku

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Krad

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Harada, Risa

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Niwa, Kosuke

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Argentine

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no Shirube, Towa

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Jun 20, 2008

worldstraveller

Recommended

Preliminary (23/108 eps)

I first saw the anime, and then the manga, compared the manga to the anime, the manga is way by far much better.
the story is very rich, the mystery in the story is so deep and fascinating.
the art gets better by every chapter into a outstanding art, the eyes, the clothes the scene actions with the flowing of emotions of the characters, is just amazing,Yukiru Sugisaki is one of the greatest artists I ever seen.
characters, in development is just very good, personalities so unique in each way, and gets a better developmeng in every chapter.
I enjoy a lot the manga, because his mystery,story and ...

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Jul 25, 2010

Ziva

Recommended

Preliminary (58/108 eps)

I've to admit when I read the first two volumes of D.N.Angel I didn't understand the story very well, but the drawing style and all of the characters which were introduced so far were amazing. I stopped reading D.N.Angel back then and later started to watch the anime, which is also very good, and tried to read the manga again. I managed it and here goes my first review~

The character design is very well, Yukiru Sugisaki has managed to create awesome clothes for Daisuke and his friends. Moreover the background is also drawn very well and one can say that Sugisaki has improved a lot ...

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Dec 31, 2021

abystoma2

Not Recommended

This manga holds the record of making me hate one of its main characters the fastest. That is, within the first 7 pages of the very first chapters.

And it’s not just the characters, the whole premise doesn’t make much sense altogether. I was so disinterested that I would really prefer to just drop it and not waste my time, but then I couldn’t write this review, so let’s get to it. To answer the opening remark first – we’re introduced to heroine, one of the two main love interests in the series – she rejected the protagonist because he’s too average and wouldn’t help ... gain her social standing. She states that she would only go with someone really hot. The manga does not present this as a bad thing, but rather just brushes it of as normal. This is a manga mainly for young girls. Not exactly the greatest rolemodel. But that’s more of a pet peeve compared to rest of the complaints.

So the basic setting here is that the protagonist has another “personality” within him that comes out when the protagonist feels love. The protagonist has to hide this secret. Now you might see a problem here – the personality comes out when the dude thinks about his crush. Dude is 14. Do you know how horny teenagers are? The secret would be out in 2-3 days at most. And it doesn’t even make sense to tie the feeling of love to DNA instead of heart (or if you want to be more realistic, brain) and feels like this was done only to justify a pun in the series title. To add to the problems, the other personality turns out to be the famous phantom thief, one that has always been a part of the protagonist’s family, in a way. Just a moment goes by between the mother explains this to the protagonist and before telling him to go on his first heist. And our man just rolls with. I guess if your family tells you to go steal shit, you just do so? With no training of course, but magically it works out, because of course it does. One think I like about the setting though is the explanation for not running out of art pieces to steal, as the phantom thief’s rival is an artist making these pieces.

The major plot point, at least at the beginning, is that the two personalities each have a crush on a different girl. This setting could have made for an entertaining short romcom series. Unfortunately, this is neither romcom nor short. And we’re not even given any context as why do they love the love interests. They just do so because the plot will so, I assume.

The art is easily the worst part, often making it hard to understand what’s going on, resulting in quite unpleasant reading experience. This is not helped by the fact that the plot itself feels somehow chaotic, like the author herself isn’t sure where to go with it. To be fair, considering the 20 volumes took 24 years to release, yeah, I’d get lost in what was I supposed to do too. But to give credit when it’s due, the manga actually does improve after the second hiatus, the one that took 7 years. The most jarring difference is an art improvement, as the manga is now actually readable. Great progress. The story also seems like it now knows where it wants to go. This last part made me up my overall score by a point. Had the whole manga been like this, the score might have been even higher, alas the damage is already done and three quarters of this manga are bad.

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New Drama CD Coming in 2024 tsubasalover - Dec 20, 2023	1 replies	by Stardew »» Dec 20, 2023 3:54 AM
so did this manga end or nah whipnaenae - Apr 13, 2021	5 replies	by IustinMakihige »» Jan 9, 2023 12:10 PM
Will the DN Angel manga ever be completed? Rayn3698 - Aug 7, 2013	20 replies	by complexities »» Jun 25, 2021 11:49 PM
D.N. Angel restarted! But... anon7924 - Apr 21, 2008	12 replies	by Pichufreak100 »» Jan 22, 2021 2:44 AM
Why has there not been a new chapter for 4 years ? it hasn't updated since 2011 AllenVonStein - Jan 6, 2015	9 replies	by buunny »» May 28, 2017 6:45 PM

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