Versus (バーサス, Bāsasu?) is a Japanese monthly manga series written by ONE., illustrated by Kyoutarou Azuma and composed by bose. It began publication on Monthly Shōnen Sirius on November 26th, 2022.
Humanity has been oppressed for hundreds of years due to the rise and invasion of its natural enemy "demons". The world was ruled by the "Great Demon King" and his 47 subordinate "Demon Kings".
While people live in fear, 47 people selected from all over the world have been named "Heroes" and are preparing to fight against the Great Demon King's army.
And now, a desperate operation was about to begin that would put the very survival of the human race at stake.
This manga contain examples of:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The robots who only wish to bring eternal joy and happiness. If that involved killing the living to do so, then they are willing to sacrifice the time to accomplish their raison dêtre with virtuous resolve.
- Always Chaotic Evil: The robots due to their programming, more so than the plagues which are seemingly indiscriminate and the other monsters merely following their instincts.
- Cool Versus Awesome: Robots vs demons? Check. Giants vs giant moles? Check. Demons vs giants? About to be, and it seems the New Humans are joining the fight. This series, in general, is the answer to the idea: What if all these monsters killing humanity fight it out for preeminence?
- Crapsack World: A multiversal variety wherein every humanity is on its last leg before seeking aid from other realities leading to the Patchwork World below.
- Enemy Civil War: The one-sided demon-robot alliance, however brief it was, involved the demon general tolerating the robots since they were on the same side killing off human survivors. That lasted until the robot attacked him.
- Evil Versus Evil: The antagonists were all top dogs destroying humanity in their respective world. It changed when the worlds converged, the various apex predators now finding peer competition for their prey.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: Some of the monsters like the giants want to eat and enslave humanity. That makes them the lesser evil compared to robots and plagues and other abominable entities that seek only total annihilation.
- Go-Go Enslavement: One of two of the giants' proclivities.
- Killer Robot: Hailing from a futuristic world ruined by a genocidal war. They only want to bring eternal peace.
- Master Race: A common trait among the various enemies of mankind. They either hold beings not of their own kind to be inferior or in the case of the robots and less sapient monsters Always Chaotic Evil.
- Mêlée à Trois: The series.
- The Multiverse: A grim dark one. Humanity from the various worlds are being killed off by their own brand of monster—demons, robots, giants, giant moles, monster plants, a tree sapping the life of the planet, flying saucer aliens, a malevolent god, a plague poisoning the stars and everything in between. It is telling when the new world is a better alternative.
- Our Demons Are Different: They have an oceanic theme with fins and gills and one even resembling a blobfish. Each realm is led by a demon king forming 47 monarchies that answer to a high demon king.
- Patchwork World: The merged world was created by the various summoning spells, dimensional gates and other multiverse traveling methods colliding and dragging the worlds, the humans asking for aid, and the various monsters killing them, into one big chaotic warzone.
- People Puppets: A blobfish looking demon king treats people like toys, playing a chess game wherein the piece, or people, fight against each other and made a father be killed by his own son.
- To Serve Man: The other of the giants' favorite predisposition.
