Dai Dark

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Synonyms: Big Dark, Great Dark

Japanese: 大ダーク

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Mar 12, 2019 to ?

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Gessan

Authors: Hayashida, Q (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.82¹ (scored by 6,949 users)

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Ranked: #1316²

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Members: 37,800

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Zaha Sanko's body has great and terrible powers–they say that possessing his bones will grant you any wish, even the desire to become ruler of the universe. But Sanko is still a teenage dude with his own life, and he isn't about to let every monstrous lowlife in the galaxy rip him limb from limb. He and his skeletal buddy Avakian will use their dark powers to fend off any murder attempts while they search space for whomever put this curse on Sanko's bones...because killing them might end the madness. (And then Sanko can celebrate with his favorite spaghetti.)

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

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Dai Dark has been published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment since April 27, 2021.

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Death, Shimada

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Sanko, Zaha

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Avakian

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Damemaru, Hajime

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Moja

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Shop Valley Box

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Big Pikas

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Destruction

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Mini Moja

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Magma Ride-On

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Apr 13, 2021

fourmana

Recommended

Preliminary (18/? eps)

Ah! Where to start? Dai Dark is the second full-fledged manga from Q Hayashida, the zany mangaka behind Dorohedoro. It's a deeply imaginative take on far-future space travel seinen with all the over-the-top violence and low stakes that make Dorohedoro great. If you've read Dorohedoro, read this. If you haven't, well...

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What can be said? Q Hayashida simply kills it. There's no one like her. Both her charming character design and mindboggling background work demand a 10. The story notwithstanding, this one of those mangas you can read just to gawk at the gorgeous, uber-distinctive art. I'd put it up there with Hellper, Blame!, and CSM. ...

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Jan 12, 2021

sodamntired

Recommended

Preliminary (17/? eps)

Alright, to be honest, you really can't write a conventional review about Dai Dark, its a monthly release, by the same author as Dorohedoro. But none of that matters, Dai Dark, is all about not caring, Q Hayashida, threw the "how to make manga" book on the ground, stomped it, shred it, and threw it inside a volcano. The art is outstanding, the characters have great potential, world building rivals all time greats, and the comedy is up there. Doing all of this, in a style anybody but Q, would have been unable to. So far story wise, we know nothing, there is the basic ...

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May 15, 2024

Casually_Spelic

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Preliminary (19/? eps)

TLDR: Dia Dark has boring one note characters unprompted to change by a vague plot all while taking place in an uncomfortable liminal meat-scape 6/10.
To start, I loved Dorohedoro. I love Q Hayashida's writing and panel layout. The things that pulled me through Dorohedoro and ultimately the reason I gave it a 10, was the characters and worldbuilding; each character feeling grounded in the world with real motivations and emotions as well as the world itself feeling fluid and flexible in its worldbuilding but still using an explicit set of rules to govern the direction of that flexibility. In Dai Dark, I find both ... of those categories to be lacking to a point I simply dropped the series.

To start with characters, I feel absolutely nothing for any of them. While I initially found the contradiction between the liminal meat-scape that seems to be make up the world, and the happy go lucky nature of so many of the characters interesting and unique, that cognitive dissonance eventually really got in the way when it came to exploring characters personalities. Because they are the way they are, they don't feel like real individuals with real emotions. Almost ever character is a Shonen Jump comic relief character who's not taking the plot seriously and their only job is to just hang out.

Going off that, what is the plot here? Over the course of the 19 chapters I did read, that's still unclear. These past 19 chapters we've spent simply bumming around introducing places and characters. 19 Chapters in and we're just setting stuff up with little indication of where this is all going. And because the narrative haven't gone anywhere yet, no character has been prompted to change or evolve in any way, feeding the prior issue of the characters having these bland one note personalities. Further the reason the characters travel to any one location within the narrative seems to be chalked up to, "eh seems fun, why not."

This last section is much more personal to me and some might have an issue with this while others are the exact opposite. That being the setting. Every environment the main cast makes there way to is either make of indiscriminate organic shapes or seems to be made of stitched together meat. Further every space is a liminal one, giving the whole setting a deeply f*cked up vibe. Some people might love this, personally I found myself having a gutteral discomfort while reading. I don't mind gore at all but this is something different, a step beyond. Personally this was the biggest reason I stopped reading. Again this may affect you, it may not, either way its a very unique and very strong atmosphere.

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