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Kill 6 Billion Demons #5
Kill Six Billion Demons, Book 5: Breaker of Infinities
123 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2020
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July 19, 2025
A slight step down from the previous volume - most of it was taken by a single gigantic fight, and much of the rest was spent moping around. Some very important events and a great big dramatic comeback right at the end, sure, and it was a hell of a battle between gods to witness, but in the end, it was a lot of pages for relatively little happening. Fewer characters involved and fewer good moments between them. That sort.
February 20, 2025
Sorprenentment carregat en drama i emocions tenint en compte com començava la saga.
Un estil artístic ric en detalls, simbolisme propi, treballat, ben carregat i indulgent era tot el que buscava i pensava que estava prometent. No esperava que buscara carregar la història d'emocions tan fortes, però fa passar satisfactòriament la narrativa per la filosofia de què carrega el món que ha creat.
Genial en la coherència interna de l'obra i espectacular en l'execució del producte.
Un estil artístic ric en detalls, simbolisme propi, treballat, ben carregat i indulgent era tot el que buscava i pensava que estava prometent. No esperava que buscara carregar la història d'emocions tan fortes, però fa passar satisfactòriament la narrativa per la filosofia de què carrega el món que ha creat.
Genial en la coherència interna de l'obra i espectacular en l'execució del producte.
November 18, 2025
Spoilers for book six:
I could write a massive rant about my love/hate relationship with this comic, and it would probably only be about 10% as deranged as some of the hate I've expressed for certain Land of the Lustrous characters, but I'd rather explain why Incubus is the best KSBD character and should have been the protagonist.
He's already the main character of the demiurges. He's always occupied a visual place of primacy among them. He is the only one to appear on the spread showing Throne, the first visual appearance of any of them:
He's also front and centre of the flashback depicting the origin of the seven keys:
And if the figure Praman Nand was talking to in the Hell 71 wimmelbilder was Incubus (likely given he got to Alice first, but never confirmed):
that would make him and Jagganoth the only demiurges to appear in all six books. Of course, he doesn't appear in the present in book one, but that's consistent with him already knowing from Nand that Zaid isn't the real heir. He's already more tightly tied into the main plot than most of them for that very reason.
Beyond being so intimately tied into the main plot, he also functions pretty well as a protagonist compared to the other demiurges. He has several underdog qualities, being among the weaker demiurges, if not quite the weakest. He seems to be younger than at least Solomon, and could conceivably be the youngest. He is derided by the others for failing to kill Maya, with Jagganoth insulting him to his face during negotiations and Mottom refusing to acknowledge him as a legitimate member. He lacks coloured text in his speech, either in dreams or reality, until book five, implying difficulty with mantling his word. Yet he has a tenacity, a stick-to-itiveness that the others lack. He wants things in a way the others don't. He has goals, he's working to do something. He would be a great villain protagonist, with Alice as a deuteragonist.
The important part is that he's established visually as being a narratively important member of the group, whereas Jadis, Gog, and Mammon, are peripheral. It is really funny though, that his "consort" (never appeared again) has coloured text whereas he didn't until book five.
He has BY FAR the most detailed backstory of all the demiurges. Incubus is at over a dozen pages, over multiple books, and it's entirely possible more is coming. For comparison, Jadis and Mottom got about four, Solomon two (narrated by Incubus), Mammon less than one full page, Goghas yet to get any outside Abbadon's tumblr okay she got about four pages so the point stands, and Jagganoth's was in prose snippets below the comic that most probably didn't read or even realize were about him (he is Yaun of "The Tale of Yaun").
Not only that, Incubus' backstory is tied intimately into his relationship with Maya, which in turn connects to both her and his relationships to Alice, which further informs his character.
To illustrate a subtle point about Incubus' character and his relationship to Maya and Meti, note that most of the demiurges present a false face to the world, while secretly having a horrifying and disgusting true form.
Mottom: Beautiful maiden/shrivelled hag
Mammon: His image on a coin/blind overgrown and decrepit
Incubus: Sexbomb rock star/scarred veiny and never bathes
Gog Agog: Clussy/pile of worms
Jadis: Beautiful maiden/mummified corpse
VS
The exceptions are Solomon David, who presents himself as a powerful muscular man (which he is), and Jagganoth, who presents himself as a tusked demonic war machine, and he's still pretty scary even when he's naked. These dichotomies, or lack thereof, mirror their internal justifications for their actions and the reality of their characters. Mottom claims to be a victim, but really enjoys the evil she perpetrates. Gog claims to want to make things better for everyone, but is really a narcissist. Solomon and Jagganoth are again the exceptions: their justifications are not lies to make themselves look good, but accurate summaries of their internal motivations. Solomon really does believe he is the good guy, and his actions are determined by what he believes to be the most good for all. Jagganoth really is HIM if HE was a JRPG villain.
Back to incubus. His false/true internal dichotomy would be something like "Winning is the only thing that matters"/"The teacher-student relationship is enduring and valuable". His false and true appearances accurately reflect that he lies about what he really is, but the inner actuality he is lying about is (slightly) more noble than the lie he projects. Why?
Incubus claims that he will do anything to survive ("win"), and is introduced as a starving orphan mere months from death. He painfully injures himself, because he believes that will get Meti to teach him, which will let him survive. He kills the rat because he believes following Meti's commands will procure further teaching. He follows Maya and acts subserviently to her, because he believes that survivors leap into the fray last...but also because she is his fellow student. It is clear from Incubus' words and actions that he ultimately sees his relationship with Maya and Meti as something more than a simple survival calculus. While Maya hates Incubus to the degree that she only ever calls him him, he or that man, Incubus nostalgically calls Maya an "old friend".
When Maya has her revelation and flees from Meti, he doesn't look angry, fearful, or psychopathically neutral, he looks almost concerned. Perhaps hurt. Because Maya has rejected him, and he valued what they had. His exact reason for later attempting to murder her is unknown, but he is deeply broken. It's possible that after she left him, she ceased to be a "fellow student" in his eyes, and became a threat, because she knew his secrets. Perhaps he believed that destroying her life, as his was before becoming a student, would push her to again become the big sister he hid behind. It's clear that he hates her in the present, as his voice is literally dripping with hatred when she appears:
In universe, this would be mere days after he described her as an old friend. It seems that he has compartmentalized the current Maya, and the Maya that was like a sibling to him. While he is 99% evil, there was some tiny part of him that cared about her, once. He in fact displays a strong ability to compartmentalize and switch emotional tracks quickly several times. When Alice is sleeping in Solomon's dungeon, he switches from triumphalism, to the only fear he has yet displayed, then to defiance.
His devotion to Meti is clear. He considers her teachings valuable, and crucially attempts to pass them on. Meti the person may be dead, but Meti the teacher can live on, if he himself becomes the teacher. He found what he took from the lesson of the rat valuable, and attempts to pass that on to Alice by killing Cio. There was no reason for him to frame killing Cio that way, unless he truly believes that passing on that teaching is valuable in and of itself. It made him strong, it can make Alice strong too, but telling her that it was a lesson of his master is superfluous. His ultimate reason for making Alice strong may be Machiavellian, but his belief in the value of Meti-the-person comes through. Interestingly, Maya also invokes the lesson of the rat to Alice, but does not invoke Meti while doing so.
An important unknown in this relationship is why he killed Meti and fed her body to dogs. There are a couple of possibilities - anger for destroying Maya's glory, Meti's own desire, his own twisted wish to honour Meti (she claimed that was how she wished to be disposed of). We might never see what exactly his reaction to Maya's humiliation was, or the moment of her death, though it would surely be illuminating.
The question of why Incubus didn't try to kill Alice was a long running mystery. He was the first demiurge to speak to her:
and the only one to acknowledge her as the true heir: 
He had ample opportunity to kill her during books three and four, but opted instead to train her and gift her some of his power to help her along. Even after she rejects his magical assistance, he continues training her:
During book five, he advises her to run:
and saves her life:
Several times he attempts to convert her to his all-against-all philosophy. Except, if she truly took it to heart, she would become a threat to him. He instead seems to believe that if he trains her, once she exceeds him and crushes the other demiurges, she will recognize him as her master, and he will finally have won. He will have an omnipotent protector who will be eternally grateful for his teaching, as he is of Meti. Even when he finally does decide that Alice has outlived her usefulness, it was because she refused to keep fighting, and he aimed to kill her quickly. He wasn't searching for a moment of weakness to strike, he was searching for an ember of strength to rebuild her from. Now, this obviously isn't an especially noble goal. It's fundamentally selfish, but it does hinge on a reciprocal relationship that a true and total psychopath probably wouldn't be able to feel or understand. It suggests he may have been a somewhat normal child with rare determination, who was able to survive, at the cost of being horribly warped by the corpse reality he lives in.
In summary, Incubus is a villain who is 99% evil, but that 1% can't help but shine through and put the lie to his claim to being the ultimate survivor, which combined with his underdog nature would make him a more compelling protagonist than Alice.
I could write a massive rant about my love/hate relationship with this comic, and it would probably only be about 10% as deranged as some of the hate I've expressed for certain Land of the Lustrous characters, but I'd rather explain why Incubus is the best KSBD character and should have been the protagonist.
He's already the main character of the demiurges. He's always occupied a visual place of primacy among them. He is the only one to appear on the spread showing Throne, the first visual appearance of any of them:
He's also front and centre of the flashback depicting the origin of the seven keys:
And if the figure Praman Nand was talking to in the Hell 71 wimmelbilder was Incubus (likely given he got to Alice first, but never confirmed):
that would make him and Jagganoth the only demiurges to appear in all six books. Of course, he doesn't appear in the present in book one, but that's consistent with him already knowing from Nand that Zaid isn't the real heir. He's already more tightly tied into the main plot than most of them for that very reason.
Beyond being so intimately tied into the main plot, he also functions pretty well as a protagonist compared to the other demiurges. He has several underdog qualities, being among the weaker demiurges, if not quite the weakest. He seems to be younger than at least Solomon, and could conceivably be the youngest. He is derided by the others for failing to kill Maya, with Jagganoth insulting him to his face during negotiations and Mottom refusing to acknowledge him as a legitimate member. He lacks coloured text in his speech, either in dreams or reality, until book five, implying difficulty with mantling his word. Yet he has a tenacity, a stick-to-itiveness that the others lack. He wants things in a way the others don't. He has goals, he's working to do something. He would be a great villain protagonist, with Alice as a deuteragonist.
The important part is that he's established visually as being a narratively important member of the group, whereas Jadis, Gog, and Mammon, are peripheral. It is really funny though, that his "consort" (never appeared again) has coloured text whereas he didn't until book five.
He has BY FAR the most detailed backstory of all the demiurges. Incubus is at over a dozen pages, over multiple books, and it's entirely possible more is coming. For comparison, Jadis and Mottom got about four, Solomon two (narrated by Incubus), Mammon less than one full page, Gog
Not only that, Incubus' backstory is tied intimately into his relationship with Maya, which in turn connects to both her and his relationships to Alice, which further informs his character.
To illustrate a subtle point about Incubus' character and his relationship to Maya and Meti, note that most of the demiurges present a false face to the world, while secretly having a horrifying and disgusting true form.
Mottom: Beautiful maiden/shrivelled hag
Mammon: His image on a coin/blind overgrown and decrepit
Incubus: Sexbomb rock star/scarred veiny and never bathes
Gog Agog: Clussy/pile of worms
Jadis: Beautiful maiden/mummified corpse
VS
The exceptions are Solomon David, who presents himself as a powerful muscular man (which he is), and Jagganoth, who presents himself as a tusked demonic war machine, and he's still pretty scary even when he's naked. These dichotomies, or lack thereof, mirror their internal justifications for their actions and the reality of their characters. Mottom claims to be a victim, but really enjoys the evil she perpetrates. Gog claims to want to make things better for everyone, but is really a narcissist. Solomon and Jagganoth are again the exceptions: their justifications are not lies to make themselves look good, but accurate summaries of their internal motivations. Solomon really does believe he is the good guy, and his actions are determined by what he believes to be the most good for all. Jagganoth really is HIM if HE was a JRPG villain.
Back to incubus. His false/true internal dichotomy would be something like "Winning is the only thing that matters"/"The teacher-student relationship is enduring and valuable". His false and true appearances accurately reflect that he lies about what he really is, but the inner actuality he is lying about is (slightly) more noble than the lie he projects. Why?
Incubus claims that he will do anything to survive ("win"), and is introduced as a starving orphan mere months from death. He painfully injures himself, because he believes that will get Meti to teach him, which will let him survive. He kills the rat because he believes following Meti's commands will procure further teaching. He follows Maya and acts subserviently to her, because he believes that survivors leap into the fray last...but also because she is his fellow student. It is clear from Incubus' words and actions that he ultimately sees his relationship with Maya and Meti as something more than a simple survival calculus. While Maya hates Incubus to the degree that she only ever calls him him, he or that man, Incubus nostalgically calls Maya an "old friend".
When Maya has her revelation and flees from Meti, he doesn't look angry, fearful, or psychopathically neutral, he looks almost concerned. Perhaps hurt. Because Maya has rejected him, and he valued what they had. His exact reason for later attempting to murder her is unknown, but he is deeply broken. It's possible that after she left him, she ceased to be a "fellow student" in his eyes, and became a threat, because she knew his secrets. Perhaps he believed that destroying her life, as his was before becoming a student, would push her to again become the big sister he hid behind. It's clear that he hates her in the present, as his voice is literally dripping with hatred when she appears:
In universe, this would be mere days after he described her as an old friend. It seems that he has compartmentalized the current Maya, and the Maya that was like a sibling to him. While he is 99% evil, there was some tiny part of him that cared about her, once. He in fact displays a strong ability to compartmentalize and switch emotional tracks quickly several times. When Alice is sleeping in Solomon's dungeon, he switches from triumphalism, to the only fear he has yet displayed, then to defiance.
His devotion to Meti is clear. He considers her teachings valuable, and crucially attempts to pass them on. Meti the person may be dead, but Meti the teacher can live on, if he himself becomes the teacher. He found what he took from the lesson of the rat valuable, and attempts to pass that on to Alice by killing Cio. There was no reason for him to frame killing Cio that way, unless he truly believes that passing on that teaching is valuable in and of itself. It made him strong, it can make Alice strong too, but telling her that it was a lesson of his master is superfluous. His ultimate reason for making Alice strong may be Machiavellian, but his belief in the value of Meti-the-person comes through. Interestingly, Maya also invokes the lesson of the rat to Alice, but does not invoke Meti while doing so.
An important unknown in this relationship is why he killed Meti and fed her body to dogs. There are a couple of possibilities - anger for destroying Maya's glory, Meti's own desire, his own twisted wish to honour Meti (she claimed that was how she wished to be disposed of). We might never see what exactly his reaction to Maya's humiliation was, or the moment of her death, though it would surely be illuminating.
The question of why Incubus didn't try to kill Alice was a long running mystery. He was the first demiurge to speak to her:
and the only one to acknowledge her as the true heir: He had ample opportunity to kill her during books three and four, but opted instead to train her and gift her some of his power to help her along. Even after she rejects his magical assistance, he continues training her:
During book five, he advises her to run:
and saves her life:Several times he attempts to convert her to his all-against-all philosophy. Except, if she truly took it to heart, she would become a threat to him. He instead seems to believe that if he trains her, once she exceeds him and crushes the other demiurges, she will recognize him as her master, and he will finally have won. He will have an omnipotent protector who will be eternally grateful for his teaching, as he is of Meti. Even when he finally does decide that Alice has outlived her usefulness, it was because she refused to keep fighting, and he aimed to kill her quickly. He wasn't searching for a moment of weakness to strike, he was searching for an ember of strength to rebuild her from. Now, this obviously isn't an especially noble goal. It's fundamentally selfish, but it does hinge on a reciprocal relationship that a true and total psychopath probably wouldn't be able to feel or understand. It suggests he may have been a somewhat normal child with rare determination, who was able to survive, at the cost of being horribly warped by the corpse reality he lives in.
In summary, Incubus is a villain who is 99% evil, but that 1% can't help but shine through and put the lie to his claim to being the ultimate survivor, which combined with his underdog nature would make him a more compelling protagonist than Alice.
May 4, 2025
This review is for books #1-5, I'm not reading the final book until it's complete.
Anyway, it's a gorgeous piece with various lush, intricate art and page spreads. Tom really wants you to appreciate the scope and character of things, and I think he achieves this well -- there is clearly so much to dive into the K6BD universe, though I mostly charged thru for the characters.
I enjoyed White Chain's story most of all, of her love for humanity, for its fragility and softness that she found in herself; how that and her gender went against the rest of the angels (which I guess default to male as a sort of genderless orientation? It feels like that's a very Christian notion, but I digress), marking her as a deviant. It's incredible to watch her change, to become happy, or at least. "It's me!" made me tear up a bit. I wanted so much more of White Chain's story, I think it could use more breathing room, but as is it's still a beautiful story.
Change. Change is such a big thing, we're responsible for our own actions. The cage is an illusion, and it only exists as a prison if you let it. It cages the demiurges, the people, the world, in this samsara but like, is that any excuse for your actions?
There's some talk of predestination in a later arc that I'm not sure how to feel about, but someone more clever than I pointed out that stories are, by their nature, predestined. Everything is planned to a final end - and if you believe the Red God saying this battle has been done before thousands of times, just with a male heir in its stead... well, yeah. There is a way these mythic-epics go, the hero's journey and all, at the end of it. Even if you know how it ends, does that stop you from reading? From getting up in the morning anyway?
Also it's gay totally gay girls are kissing gay, I know it starts with a girl trying to lose her virginity to a guy, but that quickly becomes not a thing.
Anyway, it's a gorgeous piece with various lush, intricate art and page spreads. Tom really wants you to appreciate the scope and character of things, and I think he achieves this well -- there is clearly so much to dive into the K6BD universe, though I mostly charged thru for the characters.
I enjoyed White Chain's story most of all, of her love for humanity, for its fragility and softness that she found in herself; how that and her gender went against the rest of the angels (which I guess default to male as a sort of genderless orientation? It feels like that's a very Christian notion, but I digress), marking her as a deviant. It's incredible to watch her change, to become happy, or at least. "It's me!" made me tear up a bit. I wanted so much more of White Chain's story, I think it could use more breathing room, but as is it's still a beautiful story.
Change. Change is such a big thing, we're responsible for our own actions. The cage is an illusion, and it only exists as a prison if you let it. It cages the demiurges, the people, the world, in this samsara but like, is that any excuse for your actions?
There's some talk of predestination in a later arc that I'm not sure how to feel about, but someone more clever than I pointed out that stories are, by their nature, predestined. Everything is planned to a final end - and if you believe the Red God saying this battle has been done before thousands of times, just with a male heir in its stead... well, yeah. There is a way these mythic-epics go, the hero's journey and all, at the end of it. Even if you know how it ends, does that stop you from reading? From getting up in the morning anyway?
Also it's gay totally gay girls are kissing gay, I know it starts with a girl trying to lose her virginity to a guy, but that quickly becomes not a thing.
February 19, 2026
[Volumes 2-5]
The art alone is worth the read, esp. if traditional Asian art is your cup of tea (and you have a Western background; no idea to what extent this applies to actual Asian readers). Vibes are the undisputable strong suit of this comic.
As for the plot, it is coming together, and it's... ok, I guess? A bit heavy with meaning-of-life tirades for a serie that has a "heist" and a "tourney" episode in my opinion. I'm also not a fan of White Chain's and Cio's new looks, they both feel like a massive downgrade from the original one.
The art alone is worth the read, esp. if traditional Asian art is your cup of tea (and you have a Western background; no idea to what extent this applies to actual Asian readers). Vibes are the undisputable strong suit of this comic.
As for the plot, it is coming together, and it's... ok, I guess? A bit heavy with meaning-of-life tirades for a serie that has a "heist" and a "tourney" episode in my opinion. I'm also not a fan of White Chain's and Cio's new looks, they both feel like a massive downgrade from the original one.
October 28, 2024
4.5* | 9/10
September 30, 2025
NOOOOO CIOOOOOO
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 30, 2025
I love this series, the illustrations gorgeous and the worldbuilding is so vast and expansive, good job TPM
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