Dolly♥Kill Kill

That day, everything humankind took for granted collapsed into an unspeakably odious hell. First came a storm of wasps whose stings rotted flesh and dissolved bone. Next came the "Dollies"—terrifying doll-like giants with live "human vacuums" and an array of other ghastly weapons at their disposal.

Half a year later, only 1% of the global population remains, and traumatized survivor Iruma Ikaruga reflects on the carnage he witnessed on that tragic day. On the verge of suicide, he inadvertently saves a girl named Yuu Banira from her would-be rapists, and the grateful Banira invites him to join the resistance group Trial and Error.

Iruma reluctantly agrees, and he later witnesses Trial and Error's near-impossible feat of capturing a Dolly. However, the operation falls into shambles when a more powerful and intelligent "Pygmy Doll" appears, killing the captive and wreaking havoc at the location. But despite the slaughter, this encounter between Iruma and Pygmy will prove vital to unraveling the elusive mystery behind the Dollies' purpose and existence.

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Dolly❤Kill Kill was simultaneously published in Japanese, Chinese and English through DeNA's Manga Box app. The series was published digitally in English by Kodansha USA from April 21, 2020 to February 16, 2021.

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Namekata, Kyuujin

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Ikaruga, Iruma

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Banira, Yuu

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Pygmy Doll

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Sunny

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Kumano, Ren

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Sakamaki, Kazutora

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Nagiomi, Zen

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Kamuragi, Sekka

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Tsunashi, Kento

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Mar 5, 2018

Eisterk

Recommended

Dolly Kill Kill: the earth is invaded by the strange monsters that are later dubbed "Dollies", and billions of people die, including the friends of the main character. After this, we get to see the desperate struggle of the humans vs the monsters, and it's portrayed in a way that's very similar to Attack on Titan: while a portion of the people really want to kill all the Dollies, there are others who have given up hope and wish to see coexistence with these monsters.

So far, the story is still pretty standard - not to call it a tad generic: the MC undergoes some kind ...

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Sep 28, 2023

sahel3474

Mixed Feelings

first off the story is quite unique and pretty decent imo. It was in no way predictable and the author wrote the start quite well. The art for me was a 7/10 but at times it seemed like the author went super saiyan and dew some godly panels. the manga had potential to be really good however it seems like it got axed, the start and the plot were both amazing ideas but the ending is way too rushed, read it for the story not for then ending. Wish we got to see a more fullfilling ending to this manga

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Apr 24, 2023

hexashadow13

Not Recommended

tl;dr: A manga that goes in random directions and doesn’t do anything properly.

This manga is a hodgepodge of various ideas without any sense of flow or direction to the point that it’s hard to describe the faults of. The initial premise is that the protagonist, Iruma, was an incredibly happy go lucky and determined but otherwise normal high school student. The standard shounen type protagonist that believes that through sheer determination and the powers of friendship that he can do anything, though in his case all that meant was doing well at baseball. However, when mysterious being dubbed Dollies come down from the sky and ... trigger an apocalypse, no matter what he does Iruma is unable to save anyone, which completely breaks his spirit and leaves him a shell of his former self.

He’s part of the 1% of humanity that survives, but he wishes he was dead. He helps out a girl named Yuu and ends up joining Trial and Error, a group that’s dedicated to researching the Dollies with the goal of defeating them. At this point it feels like the plot is going to be centered around the group Trial and Error working a in a military like fashion to slowly learn more about the Dollies while also struggling to survive and that Iruma is going to have a character arc centered around him overcoming trauma and regaining his heroic mindset. That would have been interesting, but unfortunately that’s not what happens at all as it quickly abandons that concept.

Despite Iruma being listed as the protagonist of the manga from beginning to end, another character, Kyuujin, starts getting a lot more focus. He’s much more protagonist like, for lack of a better way to phrase it, in that he has supernatural powers that allow him to fight head on with the Dollies and he has the goal of reaching and defeating their leader. And as Kyuujin’s side of the story evolves, it ends up including a full assortment of characters with similar powers and goals and going full on battle manga. The problem though is that none of the cast is all that interesting. It has attempts at character development and relationship development with a couple characters, but they’re pretty rushed and thus it’s hard to get invested which results in the emotional beats not landing all that well. On top of that, while the action does have some good highlights near the end, for the most part it’s pretty weak.

Meanwhile, on Iruma’s side, in what little we see of him, his character is an inconsistent mess. There’s a major fight and minor time skip after which he’s changed completely. He’s no longer depressed at all and acts much more heroically, but under the surface he apparently has some deep darkness to him that allows him to use supernatural abilities as well. Except apparently, he’s always had that in him based on some random flashbacks. So, then his character arc becomes about who he really is and if he’s fine no longer being himself if he gets power in return. But it’s pretty badly written and then in the end transitions to themes about how all the different personalities he’s shown throughout the manga are all parts of him and he should accept himself which really doesn’t follow the previous progression at all.

And then there’s the bizarre love triangle surrounding him. Iruma has had a crush on a girl named Ren since before the Dollies appeared. His goal is to meet up with her. However, Ren is on Kyuujin’s side of the story, and thus they only have a bit of interaction towards the end of the manga. As such, it’s absolutely impossible to get invested in that romance at all. Furthermore, the girl that Iruma saved, Yuu, ends up with a crush on Iruma. They’re together for the whole manga so you’d think this would be developed better, but with Iruma as a whole getting so little focus and with what little time they are shown together having bizarrely frustrating writing, this is impossible to get invested in either.

I suppose that may be a good thing, because ultimately the manga goes nowhere and doesn’t resolve anything. Despite the plot being terribly told, the overarching story and world building are pretty decent. Towards the end of the manga, right after the completion of the previous arc, it’s playing with a bunch of plot threads that felt like they had potential to be pretty interesting. But at that point the manga clearly got axed. Trying to salvage an ending for an axed manga is always difficult, and I especially sympathize with having to do so right at the beginning of a major arc. But the fact is the ending was a terrible non-ending. It doesn’t resolve any plot threads. It doesn’t deal with any relationship aspects. All it really does is try to look cool. Once again, while it is understandable that this is the best that could be done under the circumstances, the ending is still completely unsatisfying and there’s no way of getting around that.

The art was not particularly great. The art style and quality are decent at best and the general design sense isn’t all that good either. Character designs and Dolly designs both felt pretty lacking. It basically felt like a much weaker Magical Girls Apocalypse.

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