Sleeping Dead, Tome 1

スリーピングデッド #1

by Nemui Asada

Consciencieux et agréable, M. Sada est un professeur de lycée très apprécié de ses collègues et de ses élèves. Un soir, alors qu'il fait une ronde autour de l'établissement après les cours, il voit une silhouette suspecte attaquer une étudiante avec un couteau. Lorsqu'il essaye de s'enfuir, il est rattrapé et finit par perdre la vie... avant de se réveiller sur une table gelée.

Genres: Manga, Horror, Boys Love, LGBT, Graphic Novels, Queer, Yaoi

237 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2021

About the author

Associated names : あさだねむい

Name (in native language) : 朝田ねむい

Zodiac : Scorpio

Reviews

[bea ♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

THAT ENDING OMGGG that went from horror to slice of life real fast😭😭😭😭
quite interesting volume! enjoyed it a lot. queer horror will always be loved in this house. im gonna read the sequel right now, i want to know how this story continues!!

[Irene ♡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Love the art, bored by the rest.

[Naomi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ist das Liebe?

Dieser Manga ist von vorne bis hinten Horror und grausiges Erwachen. Doch zwischendurch finden sich einige Szenen die sich wirklich lohnen. Dieses Ende, was für ein Plottwist!
Ich kann es absolut empfehlen mit der Beachtung der Triggerwarnungen.

[Fenriz Angelo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I met this mangaka when the one shot of this story came out.

Now i find out there's two volume out already so I'm catching up on it. This first volume was very entertaining, it's the usual trope of sweet monster (Sada) and a cynic maker (Mamiya) navigating, in this case, Sada's new nature as a living-dead creature. Although Mamiya is the kind of character that might grate you, he goes well with Sada's calm personality. This balance is good enough to keep reafing to discover their past and what's going to happen to them next or how they'd end up as a couple.

I was disappointed when the scientist turned out to be only in his 30s, lol. Aaw i wanted him to be at least in his late 40s, haha.

Love the popularization of horror BL :3

[Vera Kabushemeye · Rating 2 out of 5]

While the premise isn't new, this take feels fairly fresh.

I like the art style but there’s a bit too much text in some parts.

I know the doctor isn't supposed to be a nice character but wow he gets scummy. Like, too much too redeem. I honestly reconsidered whether I should keep reading.

In the end, there's barely any plot and we barely learn anything about the characters.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 rating for both volumes

Excellent art and premise but the actual writing itself falls flat. Probably needed just one more chapter for the ending to not feel abrupt

[Carla · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

[mghf · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love the characters and i do think i'm getting attached to them 😭 they're so awkward, it's just so cute to read. the mention of the give-take relationship between them, and the horror element. it was so gore-y for the few first chapters, but mellowed out through the story and finger crossed the 2nd vol would be back to gore☝️ and honestly i'm looking forward to their relationship development too. to think that they were classmates (?) back in highschool....

[Mei-Amadis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Grosse inspiration du mythe de Frankenstein pour ce BL à l'atmosphère aussi glauque que troublante. Malheureusement, l'intrigue et le duo de héros peinent à convaincre, même si l'ensemble reste original !

[Lou · Rating 5 out of 5]

No but you don’t get it. I've never read a media that hit so close to home in matters of views on sexual desire, loneliness, wanting of relation/partner/friendships, and this is a fucking manga about Frankenstein's monster being a cannibal zombie. I can never show this to anyone to exemplify my beliefs unless everyone gets real cool about a lot of stuff real quick. I'll have to continue with the "ahah yeah I guess I'm aroace" charade. What the fuck. What the fuck. I thought this would only be horny gore. What is this call out. What the fuck

5*, the artstyle is the cherry on top, they made a balding man a blorbo, what more do you want.

[Hellen · Rating 3 out of 5]

depois de meses sofrendo de um bloqueio absurdo finalmente concluí uma leitura [praying hands]
uma mistura de nbc hannibal e frankenstein = duas coisas que eu gosto. revirou meu estômago em alguns momentos mas depois ganha uma vibe mais slice of life. não me prendeu taaanto como eu esperava pela aclamação no twitter mas suspeito que vou gostar mais do volume 2!

[Ethelia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Titre: Sleeping dead

[Almethystt · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5 ⭐

[Jasmin S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's giving Re-Animator meets Frankenstein, and I'm absolutely delighted by it. Very promising start.

[G L · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cried

[Josefina]

como diría mi amigo Marty: "absolute cinema" 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[Lolly · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5
AKA Hannibal

[Lorena B. Robles · Rating 4 out of 5]

*3,5⭐️

[Angy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uf, no sé lo que puede pasar en el siguiente tomo pero telita. No me gusta la relación de estos dos pero está claro que hay algo detrás. Me encanta como reflejan la muerte y la hipocresía de la humanidad al respeto.

[Ubi Aron · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,75 🌟

freaks… 🫰

[Line · Rating 5 out of 5]

The two most important questions this manga raises are 1) what if Frankenstein and his monster were gay and in love (so what every lit studies paper about the book already discusses) and 2) is it even old man yaoi if one of them doesn't have a prematurely receeding hairline from all the stress...joking of course. it's a lot deeper (how far would you go to stay alive? how far would you go for those you love? how do we justify the horrible things we do, and how do we live with them?). but either way i love it a whole lot, as evidenced by the fact that i just tore through the two books of this series like it was nothing

[Ronan · Rating 3 out of 5]

É uma história interessante, apesar de achar toda a discussão que levanta um pouco batida já. Curioso pra ver como vai terminar.

[zy忍 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I want to start by saying that this is body horror. Of course, it's not going to be for everyone. Just because it's a controversial topic, doesn't immediately mean it's a bad story. Don't immediately say stories/books are bad because you can't handle horror.

With that being said, this manga is not perfect.

I've read Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Brite, so this isn't new to me. I really had high expectations for this manga since I went in thinking that it would have philosophical discussions about life and death, and the morality of resurrecting the dead—or at the very least, have implicit points scattered between the plot and conversations. I guess this had that(?) Albeit, not quite enough to my taste to get the readers pondering. The most the story did was discuss the ethics of bringing the dead back but it's done halfheartedly that I barely cared.

Since it was tagged as horror, I hoped it would serve what it had promised. It did, but I'm left a bit dry. Yes, it's horror—body horror—but the story also tries to be a psychological horror as well which it really underdelivered. (Or maybe I'm numbed to the shock value of both types of horror that the gore in this story barely accounted for the "horror" theme.)

The romance was okay I guess. Sada was understandably resistant at the start but then he became complaisant for no reason later on. Now, this would have been inevitable had his psyche been beaten to the ground or at least the romance had developed at that point but neither of those happened. He honestly has no interesting traits to me, with the exception of his love for the monkey.

Overall, I liked the idea of the story but as a horror fan, this could have needed some more.

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

⁺˚⋆｡°✩₊✩°｡⋆˚⁺ S t o c k h o l m - s y n d r o m e ⁺˚⋆｡°✩₊✩°｡⋆˚⁺

:D

Wer Trigger-Warnings braucht, sollte den Titel hier definitiv nicht lesen. Stockholm-Syndrom, Dubious Content, Gore ... ich weiß wirklich nicht, wo der Romance-Tag her kommt *snort* das hier ist wirklich kein Romance, ich bezweifle das in Band 2 das in irgendeiner form auftaucht, außer some unhealthy toxic stuff ;D

Für Leute, die Hannibal mögen, ist der Manga aber vermutlich MEGA gut, denn ich denke, das trifft so zu 90-100% deren Geschmack.

Da es nur zwei Bände hat, ist der Umschwung vom entführten und zum Zombie gemachten MC ein wenig SEHR extrem schnell, gleichzeitig kann man sein stockholm syndrom sogar verstehen, denn ohne die Hilfe von Mr. Doktor würde er elendig verhungern, was er nicht will - und weswegen er den Doc braucht, um an Menschenfleisch zu kommen.

Romance o.ä. kommt hier nicht vor. Ich würde es auch nur mit zusammengekniffenen Augen als BL überhaupt sehen, nur wiel der MC schwul ist. Der Doc (übrigens KEIN Age Gap x,D der Doc ist jünger, obwohl er aussieht wie 50, aber ok. Auch mal spannend) ist probably auch gay, was er aber verdrängt - daher kommt die BL-Einordnung.

Ich find es interessant - gleichzeitig auch irgendwie abstoßend :D so ein wenig wie ein Unfall, man kann nicht weggucken und ich will wissen, wie es weiter geht. Dass die Story in Irgendeiner Form gut und glücklich enden wird, kann ich mir nicht vorstellen und würde auch nicht passen.

[Aiden Messer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the beginning and it would probably have been a big favorite if the whole manga had the same creepy, macabre atmosphere. Unfortunately, it soon becomes much tamer. It's still a nice manga, but I think it had much more potential than this.

[Letters for K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe I'm biased but I really like the author's writing style and concepts. The characters are well fleshed out. There are so much more things I wanna say abt this book. It is refreshing to read a story with actual substance that tackles moral dilemmas, representation of victims, and what stuck with me the most is how
'human' the characters are. Idk how to explain it well but the ideas, arguments, thought process, decisions, and quality of each character is so well done.

This is what I mean when I say I love authors who are not afraid to hurt its readers. Authors who do not feel the need to spoon feed every bit of information.
Authors who are confident not only in their storytelling but also in the capabilities of their readers to dissect and interpret the context presented.

I love how the author doesn't draw attention to the details when something happens but instead draw attention to the impact of it because honestly that makes it much more realistic. Like how the "sex" (they technically don't go all the way) scenes don't focus on
'wow look how steamy this scene is going to be' but instead we get to see what this means for this person, like those "erotic" scenes is somehow a symbol of a piece of a character's progression. And I love how it remains intimate and private for them because we don't get to see them cum or what. We literally just get to see what doing this means for that person.

Happy ending: this may be considered as angst, I mean they're not wrong, BUT I think it is a happy ending.
Mamiya's obsession to achieve total immortality and his indifference to what it takes in pursuit of this. All in order to avenge and ultimately achieve what his aunt could not achieve but only for him to meet death without injecting himself the vial despite having it beside him while dying even when he previously said "I will achieve it and I will do it alone" "I plan of infecting myself when I die" only for him to deny himself this (his lifetime's worth of work btw) was the greatest breakthrough in his lifetime.

Every detail in the ending panels and upcoming to the ending chapter was in contrast to the first few chapters which is why its so good. Mamiya and Sada are great characters— LIKE RLLYY

[Milagros Guevara Bernabé · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hay BL que te entretienen.
Y luego está Sleeping Dead de Asada Nemui… que te deja mirando el techo cuestionando tus decisiones emocionales 🫠🖤.

La premisa es brutal: Mamiya, un hombre frío, ambicioso y moralmente dudoso, arrastra a Sada —dulce, leal y desesperadamente humano— a una espiral que huele a tragedia desde la primera página. Esto no es romance cómodo. Es una historia sobre dependencia, ambición, soledad y cómo alguien puede convertirse en el centro de tu mundo… aunque te esté hundiendo.

Mamiya es un protagonista fascinante porque es objetivamente horrible. Manipulador, egoísta, soñador de grandeza. Te recuerda a esos anti-héroes tipo Walter White: hombres convencidos de que sus decisiones están justificadas mientras destruyen todo a su paso 🔥. Y aun así, cuando se pone en modo tsundere, cuando baja la guardia un segundo… es imposible no sentir algo. Esa contradicción es lo que lo hace tan bien escrito.

Sada, en cambio, duele. Nunca dice “te amo”, pero su devoción está en cada gesto. Es de esos personajes que aceptan migajas porque al menos alguien los eligió. Y eso es lo más devastador: para alguien que siente que jamás será prioridad (familia, hijos, futuro “normal”), que alguien lo ponga primero lo es todo. Incluso si ese alguien es su perdición.

Las conversaciones entre ellos son oro puro: afiladas, incómodas, a veces crueles, a veces sorprendentemente íntimas. Se sienten reales. Nada aquí es idealizado.

Y luego está el final. Abierto. Incómodo. Perfecto.
¿Mamiya sigue viviendo como Sada quería?
¿O decide terminarlo todo?
No hay respuesta clara. Solo la sensación de que cualquier opción encaja con la tragedia que construyó la historia. Y eso es brillante.

Sleeping Dead no es un BL para sentir mariposas 🦋. Es para analizar, debatir y diseccionar. Es oscuro, complejo y dolorosamente humano.

[Ayan1909 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is exactly the type of manga I love. If you know me you know I’m a sucker for these weird and unhinged characters with a creepy ambiance where you don’t understand what is happening or what is gonna happen in the next pages. The last time I had this feeling it was with "In These Words by GuiltPleasure” who is one of my all time favorite story so my expectations are high for this manga.

Mr.Sada is a high school teacher who is appreciated by his colleagues and students. One evening while patrolling the school after class, he saw a suspicious figure attacking a student with a knife. When he tried to escaped he was caught and ended up losing his life… before some hours later waking up on a frozen table.

I can’t even explain how much I liked this first volume. Directly from the start of this manga, it gave me the impression of reading Frankenstein but make it gay and make it gore. Our main character Sada was always considered as this perfect man with good morals and always ready to put others before him, in the space of a night, he died as this perfect human and is rebirth as a human eating monster. Mamiya who saved him by transforming him in this monster, is considered as a crazy man by his colleagues, misunderstood by everyone, he prefers to isolate himself in his laboratory and work on his projects. In Sada he will find a science project he accomplished but more importantly, he will find a life companion.

While the horror and gore is a bit fading away toward the end, leaving its place to a calmer plot, I’m still hoping for it to pick up in the second volume. The ending of this first volume happened so fast and leave you on a cliffhanger. I need to get my hands on volume 2 as soon as I can !!

Queer horror you will always loved by me.

Tw !!

[Ester · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seiji Sada es un profesor de literatura de instituto, de treinta años y soltero que, de forma miserable, mientras patrullaba las calles de noche, es asesinado por un hombre que perseguía a estudiantes bajo el amparo de la oscuridad nocturna. Pero Sada, a pesar del brutal crimen, vuelve a abrir los ojos; ¡y es que un científico loco llamado Mamiya lo ha devuelto a la vida!

A raíz de la introducción de unas bacterias en un organismo muerto, las cuales reduplican las células, no solamente las heridas de Sada se han curado, sino que no importa qué le hagan: ¡no puede morir! Mas esta segunda oportunidad tiene un altísimo coste para el profesor, y no porque sea el único ser no muerto de la faz de la Tierra, sino porque si quiere mantenerse con vida, es decir, en estado latente y despierto, debe comer cadáveres de su misma especie.

Estando retenido contra su voluntad, buscado por la policía ante su desaparición de un supuesto lugar del crimen con otro cadáver, sufriendo dolorosos experimentos por parte de su supuesto «salvador»..., Sada no tarda en descubrir que no tiene adónde ir, que su vida ya no puede volver al punto en el que estaba antes de que lo asesinaran brutalmente y que está en las manos de Mamiya, alguien que tiene unos extraños pensamientos y unas formas de proceder... poco humanas. Aunque no es solamente eso. Y es que Sada, pese a ser consciente de que es un monstruo y de lo que deberá ingerir para sobrevivir, como cualquier otro ser vivo, no quiere morir.

Pero esta nueva vida con Mamiya no será fácil. Siendo una persona muy difícil de tratar, que tiene un concepto de la vida, la muerte, la ética y la moral completamente opuestas a las del mismo Sada, el profesor comienza a adaptarse mucho mejor de lo esperado a su carácter, ya que Sada es una persona afable, empática y que reflexiona sobre las cosas antes de hacer juicios de valor taxativos o definitivos. El que Mamiya se vaya de la propiedad todos los días y no vuelva hasta la tarde, o la compañía de la mona Monkichi, hacen que esta nueva existencia en una casa recóndita solamente en compañía de otro ser humano, no esté tan mal como podría parecer cuando ambos hablan y ponen unos primeros límites. Pero, a pesar de todo, lo difícil viene ahora: conseguir la comida que Sada necesita para seguir despierto.

Utilizando la ciencia ficción de forma magistral, Asada Nemui nos presenta un argumento perfectamente ya conocido en otras historias basadas en la resurrección de los muertos (como la mítica obra Frankenstein), pero en realidad la intencionalidad de la autora no podría ser otra: relatarnos una crítica social sobre el acoso, la salud mental de las víctimas del mismo, sus secuelas y el derecho de la vida o la muerte de una persona dependiendo de sus acciones bajo el prisma..., ¿de quién?

Podéis leer la reseña de la obra completa en mi blog:

https://unabibliotecaentremundos.blog...

[Shiritaku · Rating 4 out of 5]

Uh, besser als erwartet 👀
Zombies gehen ja bekanntlich eigentlich immer - doch hier ist's ein wenig anders. Der Wissenschaftler Mamiya holt den charismatischen Lehrer Sada von den Toten zurück, als dieser ermordet in einer Seitenstraße liegt. Sein Experiment ist geglückt! Und Sada kann das alles nicht wirklich begreifen.. noch dazu besteht seine Nahrung gänzlich aus anderen Dingen, als ihm lieb ist..
Fängt erstmal wie ein klassischer Zombiefilm an, wird dann aber doch schnell anders. Der Plot schreitet in einem angenehmen Tempo voran und man lernt die Charaktere langsam etwas kennen - jedoch bleibt auch noch einiges verborgen. Das Artwork ist sehr passend und an vielen Stellen detailliert. Es baut sich auch ein guter Spannungsbogen auf - vor allem kurz vor Schluss gibt's dann nen Twist, mit dem ich in der Art nicht gerechnet hätte.. 👀 tatsächlich hätte ich grad richtig Lust weiterzulesen, aber natürlich hab ich nur Band 1 hier, haha. Allerdings ist die Kurzreihe tatsächlich auch schon mit zwei Bänden abgeschlossen - da besorg ich mir vielleicht bald mal den anderen 🤔 macht jedenfalls Spaß zu lesen!