History Manga / DeadDeadDemonsDededededestruction

It was serialized in ''Big Comic Spirits'' from April 28, 2014 to February 28, 2022, running at exactly 100 chapters, and was collected in 12 ''tankobon'' volumes. Following the publication of the final chapter, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-22/inio-asano-dead-dead-demon-dededededestruction-manga-gets-anime/.183879 an anime adaptation was announced]] on March 23, 2022. On August 30, 2023, [[https://natalie.mu/comic/news/539014 it was announced the adaptation would be a pair of theatrical anime films]] for release in spring 2024. Tomoyuki Kurokawa will helm directing, while Reiko Yoshida wrote the script with character designs by Nobutaka Ito and a score composed from Taro Umebayashi.

It was serialized in ''Big Comic Spirits'' from April 28, 2014 to February 28, 2022, running at exactly 100 chapters, and was collected in 12 ''tankobon'' volumes. Following the publication of the final chapter, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-22/inio-asano-dead-dead-demon-dededededestruction-manga-gets-anime/.183879 an anime adaptation was announced]] on March 23, 2022. On August 30th, 2023, [[https://natalie.mu/comic/news/539014 it was announced the adaptation would be a pair of theatrical anime films]] for release in spring 2024. Tomoyuki Kurokawa will helm directing, while Reiko Yoshida wrote the script with character designs by Nobutaka Ito and a score composed from Taro Umebayashi.

It was serialized in ''Big Comic Spirits'' from April 28, 2014 to February 28, 2022, running at exactly 100 chapters, and was collected in 12 ''tankobon'' volumes. [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-22/inio-asano-dead-dead-demon-dededededestruction-manga-gets-anime/.183879 An anime adaptation was announced]] on March 23, 2022. On August 30th, 2023, [[https://natalie.mu/comic/news/539014 it was announced the adaptation would be a pair of theatrical films]] for release in spring 2024. Tomoyuki Kurokawa will helm directing.

It was serialized in ''Big Comic Spirits'' from April 28, 2014 to February 28, 2022, running at exactly 100 chapters, and was collected in 12 ''tankobon'' volumes. [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-22/inio-asano-dead-dead-demon-dededededestruction-manga-gets-anime/.183879 An anime adaptation was announced]] on March 23, 2022.

** The final volume reveals that [[spoiler:Kadode's dad]] was similarly inhabited by an Invader, but he passed away shortly before the volume's events start.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler:The last few chapters have the character use the alien tech to go back and prevent the spaceship from hovering over Tokyo and preventing the war and the destruction that followed.]]

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: For the final volume of the manga, it's [[spoiler:Kadode's dad]] who takes the reigns as the protagonist and [[spoiler:eventually sets up the ending by altering the timeline to influence Kadode to start talking to Oran on her own]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from bottom: Ontan, Kadode, Rin and Ai.\\
Not pictured: Kiho.]]

It was serialized in ''Big Comic Spirits'' from April 28, 2014 to February 28, 2022, running at exactly 100 chapters, and was collected in 13 ''tankobon'' volumes. [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-22/inio-asano-dead-dead-demon-dededededestruction-manga-gets-anime/.183879 An anime adaptation was announced]] on March 23, 2022.

''Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction'' is a strange {{Seinen}} SliceOfLife manga by Creator/InioAsano (author of ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun''), which was serialized in ''Big Comic Spirits'' from April 28, 2014 to February 28, 2022 running at exactly 100 chapters. The story follows the lives of five high school girls (later college students), focusing mainly on the geeky Kadode Koyama and the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric misanthrope]] Ouran "Ontan" Nakagawa, as they live in a world under the shadow (figurative and literal) of an alien invasion. Combining some at-times dark comedy and social commentary on the Internet's effect on today's youth, this series is notably lighter than some of Asano's earlier works, but still manages to instill a sense of looming disaster that hangs over the head of the cast like the alien spaceships that have become a part of everyday life.

On March 23, 2022, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-22/inio-asano-dead-dead-demon-dededededestruction-manga-gets-anime/.183879 an anime adaptation was announced.]]

* AlliterativeTitle: With the repetition of the "De" imitating a sort of phone static or a disc skipping. In two chapters, "dededede" is also used as onomatopeia...for a machine gun.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: For the final Volume of the manga its [[spoiler: Kadode's dad who takes the reigns as the protagonist and leads us to the finale.]]
* ApocalypseWow: [[spoiler:When the Mothership finally goes, it goes out with a BANG. Starts in Chapter 86, all of 87 is dedicated to the annihilation of the Tokyo Metro Area, and then keeps ramping up from there]].

* ChekhovsGunman: Kadode's dad disappeared after 8/32 and his disappearance mentioned throughout the manga. [[spoiler: He reappears for the final leg of the manga.]]

** In vol. 11, as the mothership's troubles continue, it starts emitting balls of light. They float around like bubbles, but if anything organic touches them, they blip away and disintegrate whatever was touching them. A woman in an office loses both her hands to one, and several people are shown lying dead with sections of their bodies removed.

* DisappearedDad: Kadode's father disappeared during the attack on the mothership on 8/31, causing his wife to grow increasingly paranoid.

* FaceOnTheCover: The ''tankobon''[=s'=] cover arts through vol. 8 are each a close-up shot of one of the main characters. Volume 9's breaks the trend by being a closeup of Kadode and Ontan looking at each other so closely that their noses are almost touching. Volume 10's cover is a close-up of an Invader with Kadode and Ontan's distorted faces reflected in its helmet's faceplate, and vol. 11's cover is another close-up of Ontan.

* HumanDisguise: After the crash of an Invader craft kills a male idol group, an Invader appears disguised as one of the group's singers, Oba. [[spoiler:Ch. 47 reveals that certain Invaders with squarish helmets can transfer the essence of normal Invaders into other bodies; in the aftermath of the crash, one sends a dying Invader child into Oba's body.]] Afterward, at times [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_d8combo.jpg part of his head comes unaligned from the rest]]; at first his body seems to be hollow, but when he reveals his secret to [[spoiler:Makoto]], his Invader form can be seen inside the Oba body.

* LighterAndSofter: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Overall, D8 is much more upbeat in comparison to Asano's other works. WordOfGod is that after the ''incredibly'' dark ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'', he felt he needed to tone it down and give his readers something more light-hearted and escapist for his future projects. However, as the story progresses, darker elements such as the JSDF's genocide of the Invaders and [[spoiler:a seemingly inevitable worldwide catastrophe]] start to become more prominent, to the point that by vol. 7, an overall feeling of dread persists throughout despite the lighter parts.

* OneCastMemberPerCover: The first 8 volumes' covers are all close-ups of one member of the cast, specifically (in order) Kadode, Oran, Kiho, Ai, Rin, Futaba, Makoto, and "Oba". Volume 9 breaks this trend by having both Kadode and Oran, and then volume 10 features a close-up of an Invader.

* TeacherStudentRomance: Kadode doesn't even try to hide her interest in Watarase, and while he doesn't really take it seriously, he never really turns her down either, especially after breaking up with his girlfriend (and after they're no longer teacher-student). The end of ch. 40 cranks things up considerably [[spoiler:but they break things off after Watarase reveals to her that he’s going to return home to take care of his elderly father]].

* {{Fanservice}}: One of the lighter aspects of this series is that it includes a handful of genuinely fanservicey scenes, unlike most of Asano's other works where such material is often FanDisservice. There's a BareYourMidriff shot from Kadode via rumpled bedclothes, some ComedicUnderwearExposure from Ontan as she leaps over a pedestrian, and a fairly restrained sex scene between Futaba and a fellow pro-alien protestor with a shot of her getting dressed the next morning. Vol. 7 features Kadode and Ontan in bikinis in some of the chapter transitions before everyone is seen in bikinis on the beach.

* DeathFromAbove: In vol. 10, as the mothership [[spoiler:begins to list alarmingly]], sections of its underside detach and fall onto the city, causing a lot of property damage and a handful of casualties, inclding a journalist who'd been covering the government's actions in previous chapters and the woman who she was interviewing at the time.

* FaceOnTheCover: The ''tankobon''[=s'=] cover arts through vol. 8 are each a close-up shot of one of the main characters. Volume 9's breaks the trend by being a closeup of Kadode and Ontan looking at each other so closely that their noses are almost touching. Volume 10's cover is a close-up of an Invader with Kadode and Ontan's distorted faces reflected in its helmet's faceplate.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: The last few chapters have the character use the alien tech to go back and prevent the spaceship from hovering over Tokyo and preventing the war and the destruction that followed]]

''Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction'' is a strange {{Seinen}} SliceOfLife manga by Creator/InioAsano (author of ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun''), which was serialized in ''Big Comic Spirits'' from April 28, 2014 to February 28, 2022. The story follows the lives of five high school girls (later college students), focusing mainly on the geeky Kadode Koyama and the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric misanthrope]] Ouran "Ontan" Nakagawa, as they live in a world under the shadow (figurative and literal) of an alien invasion. Combining some at-times dark comedy and social commentary on the Internet's effect on today's youth, this series is notably lighter than some of Asano's earlier works, but still manages to instill a sense of looming disaster that hangs over the head of the cast like the alien spaceships that have become a part of everyday life.

* {{Gonk}}: The strange facial designs of some of the bit characters make them almost alien-looking in and of themselves. Examples include Japan's prime minister, whose tiny, side-by-side eyes make him look like the Isobeyan character from Kadode's mangas (which gets lampshaded in vol. 10); a govt. official whose huge, droopy cheeks make his head look something like a kidney bean; and a pro-alien protester who has an unnaturally squared-off chin and jaw. Ironically, "Oba", the most alien character both literally and figuratively, is the one who looks the most normal as his shell used to be a singer in a BoyBand.

''Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction'' is a strange {{Seinen}} SliceOfLife manga by Creator/InioAsano (author of ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun''), published by Big Comic Spirits and beginning publication on April 28, 2014. The story follows the lives of five high school girls (later college students), focusing mainly on the geeky Kadode Koyama and the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric misanthrope]] Ouran "Ontan" Nakagawa, as they live in a world under the shadow (figurative and literal) of an alien invasion. Combining some at-times dark comedy and social commentary on the Internet's effect on today's youth, this series is notably lighter than some of Asano's earlier works, but still manages to instill a sense of looming disaster that hangs over the head of the cast like the alien spaceships that have become a part of everyday life.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: While nothing beyond friendship has been explicitly shown, Kadode and Ontan are quite close and one could easily assume that they are a couple based on some scenes.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In vol. 10, [[spoiler:the Prime Minister's cabinet deposes him and

* AlliterativeTitle: With the repetition of the "De" imitating a sort of phone static or a disc skipping. In one chapter, "dededede" is also used as onomatopeia...for a machine gun.

* FaceOnTheCover: The ''tankobon''[=s'=] cover arts through vol. 8 are each a close-up shot of one of the main characters. Volume 9's breaks the trend by being a closeup of Kadode and Ontan looking at each other so closely that their noses are almost touching.

* {{Gonk}}: The strange facial designs of some of the bit characters make them almost alien-looking in and of themselves. Examples include Japan's prime minister, whose tiny, side-by-side eyes make him look like the Isobeyan character from Kadode's mangas; a govt. official whose huge, droopy cheeks make his head look something like a kidney bean; and a pro-alien protester who has an unnaturally squared-off chin and jaw. Ironically, "Oba", the most alien character both literally and figuratively, is the one who looks the most normal as his shell used to be a singer in a BoyBand.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: As the story progresses, hints drop with increasing frequency that some sort of disaster is going to happen within the next few months. This becomes more clear in volume 5 when [[spoiler:white smoke begins to billow off the mothership, and "Oba" reveals to Ontan that it will eventually crash, causing devastating damage to the planet if its engine explodes]]. Earlier, it's revealed that the Japanese government is aware that something bad is going to happen, and that [[spoiler:the new Olympic stadium is actually a guise for an extra-atmospheric craft which will house a handful of survivors; the governor refers to it at one point as "our ark"]]. Vol. 6 makes things even more clear at its very end with the ominous statement "ONE MONTH UNTIL THE END OF HUMANITY", and vol. 9 states "HUMANITY IS SO SCREWED" at its end.