Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction

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English: Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction

Synonyms: Honobono Fuufu

Japanese: デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Apr 28, 2014 to ?

Genres: Comedy, Drama, School, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life, Seinen

Authors: Asano, Inio (Story & Art)

Serialization: Big Comic Spirits

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Score: 8.20¹ (scored by 5,625 users)

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Ranked: #384²

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Popularity: #337

Members: 34,117

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MangaBig Comic SpiritsAsano, Inio (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

When you look up at the sky, what do you see? A blue sky? Freedom? A hopeful future? The people of Tokyo see none of these. Instead, an ominous alien mothership looms overhead, engulfing the city skyscape.

Three years ago, they came. The arrival of the "Invaders" sparked the greatest war humanity had ever faced—one that threatened to end the world. The Japanese government scrambled to fight the Invaders. Weapons were mass-produced, sparking controversy and pacifist movements.

That day, everything changed. And yet, nothing has changed. Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa Ouran live their final days like they always have: going to school, playing with friends, and doing what any carefree high school girls would do.

As they grow up they come to learn what it truly means to be an adult, in a world where adults seem to be demons who only deceive and destroy. They come to learn the real threat to humanity is not the Invaders, but humanity itself.

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Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction has been published in English by VIZ Media since April 17, 2018 under the VIZ Signature imprint. It has also been published in Spanish by Norma Editorial since October 29, 2015, in German by Tokyopop since May 12, 2016, and in Italian by Planet Manga since March 3, 2017.

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Characters

Nakagawa, Ouran

Main

Koyama, Kadode

Main

Ooba, Keita

Main

Nakagawa, Hiroshi

Supporting

Isobeyan

Supporting

Watarase, Naoki

Supporting

Tainuma, Makoto

Supporting

Kurihara, Kiho

Supporting

Takemoto, Futaba

Supporting

Sumaru, Hikari

Supporting

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Sep 26, 2015

22 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

czxcjx (All reviews)

159 people found this review helpful

WHY DEAD DEAD DEMON HAS ALL THE SIGNS OF BEING BETTER THAN OYASUMI PUNPUN

Everyone who generally reads Asano knows what Asano does best.

The early Asano was mainly short stories about the urban alienate in Japan, with an abundance of self-laceratingly aware or angst filled monologues, and also a tinge of magical realism at parts. Nijigahira Holograph was all of that while pushing the themes into the realm of high allegory. Solanin was the feel good indie comic hit. Oyasumi Punpun was his breakdown testing of a completely new methodology, with vast experimentation over all 147 chapters, plenty of sharp humor and purposeful parodical artifice, and a stretch of characterization beyond just the 'merely pathetic'. It was in there that Asano learned full control of his atmosphere, and stacked less on his woefully poetic monologic style, and placed more faith in his images. Umibe no Onnanoko was the extension of that, tightly written and tightly made, preferring elliptical atmospheric bubbles coagulating together rather than being merely a straightforward narrative about desperate love and lust (or rather it somehow does both equally well, and finds the median to communicate exactly what it needs in every instance).

In one chapter of DeDeDe, a journalist meets up with a public relations officer to interview her about a technological company's development of a new particle beam laser, used to destroy the space aliens that are currently invading Tokyo. The brief conversation they have goes through the whole history of that company, about how they shifted from making robotic/virtual pets, to riding on the agricultural boom by making farming robots, to eventually developing military weapons. In the meantime the conversation also reveals that both the journalist and the PR officer are old classmates and that she's having a bit of trouble with her current boyfriend. The conversation takes about 13 pages, the next 5 or so pages manages to stack even more characterization, a marginally startling narrative reveal, and a joke.

It's great to see a complete flourishing of an artist's style across multiple works, and you can tell he's far from done. Asano just has too much to say, and now he's finally getting away from his standard fare of topics, despite still having the same 'outcast focused' bent, he can finally reach everywhere he wants to reach at once. He's also firmly in his age. DeDeDe is his most contemporaneous work so far, and it seems to be evolving exactly with the times (pretty much the only equivalent out there is probably I Am A Hero). His characters are all the more distinct, coming in all shapes and forms and ideologies, with their own specific viewpoint on the world as they are situated in, and its how these viewpoints satellite off each other that the whole of the manga forms.

I mean its just so many things at once, simultaneously a social/political work, a surreal outre comedy work, character study, sociological study, a heartwarming tale of friendship, a sci-fi work... ornate with as much thick Asano detail as can be possibly mustered. And he pretty much proves the case, that never has there been a more exciting moment in human history, than being able to take current stock of our contemporary times.

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Jul 17, 2016

38 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

deadoptimist (All reviews)

73 people found this review helpful

Read it. It is something you should read, probably now or at least soon. And I say this as a person who always hisses with frustration, when she reads Asano, and is ready to disagree with him in this work too. But DeDeDe is currently so relevant, that it’d be stupid not to explore the living nerve. The collision of life and fiction is like nothing else around, so I’ll keep telling you and others to read it.

DeDeDe is about the anxiety that people of today feel or at least sense brewing, especially the young ones, those with the big unknown ahead and the world crumbling all around. DeDeDe is about the eternal question of “How can I have fun with friends, when there is war, and suffering, and death, including the death of my close ones and me, but then what is left to me, if I do not, also what the stupid and weak me can do anyway for this turbulent and complicated reality?”. It contains alienation and aliens, war approaching and love passing, growing up and dying off, faithful friendship and fleeting ideologies, hopes for future and plans for resignation, also a giant-ass flying saucer above Tokyo – the “mothership”, that drops aliens, blocks the sun and embodies this creeping unease.

It’s not easy to sum DeDeDe up. Nor should I attempt to. Asano is at his biggest and most literary here, reminding me of Tolstoy stronger than ever. DeDeDe is a “high” literature novel in scope, sprawling and dialectical, one that clearly aims to reflect the modern life in Japan in its various forms, cataloguing types and summing up experiences. The writing is wonderful, the narrative is complex – the author weaves many stories at once and makes use of the interesting technique of a story into a story (there’s a fictional comic that many characters read and almost every character knows). And the art is superb. Asano has accumulated enough experience and assistants to blend in detailed backgrounds (clearly based on photos), character designs and fictional elements seamlessly, creating shots, that are nothing if not breathtaking. Though it’s useful to remember that fictional world is like that – a focused reflection, not a straight carbon copy.

Too bad Asano is too honest and personal (by the way, that is what I hate Tolstoy for), it’s all him in his work, wherever you look or whoever follow. He eats away his characters mercilessly, and the schoolgirl protagonists (one self-insert for the reader, the other insane) feel like part mouthpieces, part anchors with rare moments of true life of their own. The characters, who are closer to Asano in age and sex, come out considerably more lively. Yeah, schoolgirls, probably, are the logical main characters in an attempt to summarize Japan, and an author does always mold his characters as he wishes, but still it’s not good enough for a big realist novel, which this manga aims to be the closest manga analog to. And Asano heavily discriminates his side characters (even bypassers), making some characters look cartoonish and ugly, giving them some oversimplified caricature features or, specifically, robbing them of “manga eyes”.

For all the deep, torturous topics Asano touches upon in Demon Destruction, for all the tension created, I am sure his answer will be small and personal, one not really solving shit (seen it in his Bakemono Recchan, that was when I found the key to my frustration with his works). This approach is honest, but it’s not enough for a work on ideology, though it happens pretty often even with classics. Also the answer given will be flawed as a result of the situation, of the fantastic analogy, that Asano has personally crafted. Why are aliens like this and not like that? What are they metaphor for? Punpun was easier, growing up and having depression are two things many can empathize with without further questions.

Yet for the potential failure on the ideology front, the personal parts strike close to home. It’s a lot to say this for me, wasn’t easy but I have come around. How could I not, if I also try to have fun with friends, even though I breath the heavy air of today’s world, half already in hell, half going there? And procrastinating death is what all of us do, everyday and no exception. Maybe the personal aspect will betray me as well, the answer of DeDeDe may still turn out to be either too edgy, or too hipster, or too Japanese for my liking, but mostly likely it will be too Asano. But there’s a lot to like and to think about during the ambitious and suspenseful ride. I know I am curious about the answer too, so I am looking forward to it, while I bask in the great atmosphere of DeDeDe, all concentrated Japan, all tension and then also some philosophy and a pinch of good social critique on top.

DeDeDe is the sort of thing you will shove into your professor, who condemns your for reading manga, the sort of thing you go to to repent for all the harem you have read. It is a beautiful and substantial work by a great author, made about things many people, and there’s a good chance you too, are living and pondering right now. Not reading it robs you of an experience, so, come on – read it, better now or at least soon.

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Feb 13, 2020

73 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

arturmodolo (All reviews)

16 people found this review helpful

The quality of the drawning is outstanding. The pace of the story is somewhat slow, but it's still good to dig in some details of the characters. As the story goes on, there are new details that are revealed to us concerning some totally unexpected actions abd stories of the characters.

The art of the manga is carefully made. I am very grateful that Asano and his assistants have put that amount of effort doing it.

If you are not very patient, maybe I would suggest you to only start reading it when it's finished, because the story is still going on.

Asano, you have a huge fan read more

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Apr 28, 2020

72 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

Vh4zt (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

---D English is not my native language, so this will be poorly written but I assume it will be understood the same, in the end for those who speak Spanish there will be a version in that language
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Dead Dead Demon's Dededededetruction is probably the work that Inio Asano has enjoyed the most, among all that he has done to date, while in my opinion it is the most complete work of Asano and curiously also the most different compared to the rest of his sleeves, a refreshing change that was already necessary.
Although in parallel with "A Girl on the shore" or "Oyasumi Pun Pun" his script falls from time to time it is balanced with his wonderful visual narrative, a polished drawing that many times without the need for any dialogue transmits us almost perfectly all the feelings and thoughts of the characters.
As usual in Asano, he presents us with a work riddled with existentialism and almost ridiculous ironies in a slow-paced slice of life format in which a group of adolescents close to reaching adulthood face a series of conflicts that will make them evolve. as characters and in most cases it occupies them to show us the most shameful, disgusting and in general dark that people can become, but to this format already preset in their sleeves we are surprised by adding in the background science fiction, with a world attacked by aliens who look much more tender than usual, with obvious references to racism and Japanese foreign policy but adorned with an extremely bizarre and sometimes childish but quite bearable humor. It is quite interesting in how in the world presented by Asano humanity continues to seek its desired routine even when the world could be in imminent danger and without taking weight they continue with their lives.
Without a doubt I recommend it and if it is not noticeable, I have liked it a lot, being among my favorites in Asano, although I also understand those who were not, since they were predisposed to the usual works of Asano, but not because they are different, they are bad and for the On the contrary, it gives Asano more flexibility than we would expect from him in terms of stories and their type.
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Dead Dead Demon's Dededededetruction es probablemente la obra que Inio Asano más ha disfrutado realizar, entre todas las que ha hecho hasta fecha, a la vez que es a mi opinión la obra más completa de Asano y curiosamente también la más diferente en comparación con el resto de sus mangas, un refrescante cambio que ya iba siendo necesario.
Aunque en paralelismo con "A Girl on the shore" u "Oyasumi Pun Pun" su guión caiga de veces en cuando este es equilibrado con su maravillosa narrativa visual, un pulido dibujo que muchas veces sin necesidad de dialogo alguno nos transmite casi a la perfección todos los sentimientos y pensamientos de los personajes.
Como ya es costumbre en Asano nos presenta una obra plagada de existencialismos e ironías casi ridículas en formato de slice of life de ritmo pausado en el que un grupo de adolescentes cercanos a llegar a la adultez se enfrentan con una serie de conflictos que los harán evolucionar como personajes y en la mayoría de casos los ocupa para mostrarnos lo más vergonzoso, asqueroso y en general oscuros que pueden llegar a ser las personas, pero a este formato ya preestablecido en sus mangas nos sorprende agregando en el fondo ciencia ficción, con un mundo atacado por aliens de aspecto bastante más tierno que el acostumbrado, con obvias referencias al racismo y a la política exterior japonesa pero adornados con un humor sumamente bizarro y a veces infantil pero bastante llevadero. Es bastante interesante en el como en el mundo presentado por Asano la humanidad sigue buscando su deseada rutina aun cuando el mundo podría estar en inminente peligro y sin tomarle peso estos siguen con su vida.
Sin duda la recomiendo y si es no se nota ya me ha gustado bastante quedando entre mis favoritas de Asano, aunque también comprendo a los que no ya que iban predispuestos para las obras usuales de Asano, pero no por ser diferentes son malas y por el contrario este dota a Asano de más flexibilidad de lo que esperaríamos de el en cuanto a historias y su tipo.

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