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DEAD Tube #1

DEAD Tube ~デッドチューブ~ 1

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映画研究部に所属する業得学園2年・町谷智浩は学園トップクラスの美少女・真城舞に、ある日突然、声をかけられる。なんでも2日間だけ、24時間完全密着の撮影をしてほしいとのこと。同行する町谷だったが……!? 実力派タッグが放つ戦慄の学園スリラー!!

212 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 20, 2015

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Mikoto Yamaguchi

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Profile Image for Vicenta.
135 reviews
October 22, 2018
I was just looking for any manga or book with a yandere love interest. Maybe for educational purpose? Anyway I came across this one and ... lol wtf. Basically r/watchppl... (you know which subreddit) the manga but with nudity and girls flashing their tits and then got brutally killed. Honestly, it's just a torture porn for me.
367 reviews2 followers
July 18, 2017
Oh this is sadistic.

Great start in chapter 1 (If you like that, check out the movie Creep)

I like the characters.

I like how unpredictable Mai is.

Love the set-up for the next challenge.

Hate the censorship. I know it's Japan and that's a thing, but it's so jarring to see the worst acts humanity has to offer, but there's glowing white spots where genitalia should be. It makes it less immersive.
Profile Image for Vanessa Maran.
76 reviews5 followers
August 24, 2017
"Ricco di scene estreme e splatter, riprese nel manga da un protagonista insicuro e passivo, Dead Tube è un fumetto capace di farsi leggere in fretta grazie al ritmo repentino delle sue rivelazioni, provando di essere un buon compromesso tra ecchi e gore che soddisferà i fan di entrambi i generi".

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Profile Image for Dutchess.
185 reviews12 followers
May 20, 2020
This isn't anything more than torture porn, and at times just porn. I'm also getting satirical vibes, as a commentary on YouTube and viral videos as a whole, but I don't find it particularly funny. What is this manga trying to say? Is it horror? Comedy? Is this a hentai and I'm just uninformed?
Profile Image for Annie.
374 reviews14 followers
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September 7, 2016
Totally forgot to add this in here.

Psst...this is basically torture porn so beware before reading.
Profile Image for Century .
68 reviews
May 24, 2019
This series is not for the faint of heart. I found this series after reading killing stalking. I wanted some interesting gore and now I have found it! Great series!
Profile Image for Katelyn.
184 reviews53 followers
October 7, 2019
This was pretty messed up. However it was damn good, and I’ll be continuing with this series. This is very clearly for mature audiences only.
Profile Image for ✿ K.B ✿.
394 reviews78 followers
September 11, 2019
It's dark and psychological. It has grotesque scenes and dark comedy. At first it's a little confusing, but after 3 volumes you get the idea of what Dead Tube actually is and how it works. This volume introduces the main two characters and name drops Dead Tube. The second to third volume is when Dead Tube is introduced in detail. And from third to fourth volume and beyond a lot of stuff happen, new characters are introduced and then killed. Circle of life. Lol! It's fun if you are into this kind of fun.
Profile Image for GiGi.
923 reviews5 followers
July 13, 2020
I want to give this 3 stars cuz some twisted part of me kinda enjoyed this but.... It's simply not good
Profile Image for Takuma Inoue.
3 reviews
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December 2, 2019
If you want to read this book you will be confused by this manga’s conceptions.
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10 reviews
July 1, 2025
could've been great. keyword : could. 💔
Profile Image for Ivy.
30 reviews
August 8, 2020
This was genuinely like nothing I have ever read before. From all the mangas I've read and will read in the future, this will probably remain one of the most memorable ones.

The manga series itself can very easily be classified as revenge porn. The images, plots, and characters are all so messed up. I would never recommend any of my Goodreads friends read it. Cuz DON'T. Honestly. The entire manga is just so...disgusting.

In this world, there is something called "DeadTube." It is similar to how YouTube and Twitch work but with a dash of horror and maturity. Well, maybe not a dash but a whole truckload. It is essentially a death game where the participants are drawn into the loop of providing entertainment for their audiences. If their content is not satisfactory, there will be consequences from those who run DeadTube. And how do you keep you audience entertained you might ask?

With gore, sex, murder, rape, betrayal, and every unimaginable thing you could think of. The creator willing to go the furthest for fame will stand on top of this bloody world of DeadTube.

People who "innocently" join DeadTube are inexplicably drawn into this downwards spiral where they will have to provide increasingly intense content with every upload to their bloodthirsty and eager fans.

If this doesn't sound like trouble to you, I don't know what does. This is a dream gateway to the ninth circle of hell.

So why the high rating you might ask? Sure, I would never recommend this but it does leave a question to be begged. How far would we go for views? For a single click on that like button? There is no denying that there is constant competition in the entertainment industry for who is able to pull out the best content- the one that has the most shock value- and just how much money you will be able to rake in. YouTube drama, of course, is nothing compared to the extent this manga goes to but you can't deny the social commentary is there. Like in DeadTube, the decisions in which we make to earn that small moment of online fame will leak into our private lives. Even if in the slightest ways.

Despite the manga's intention to "teach" its readers the horror of the entertainment industry, I will say it goes too far. It is definitely fucked up and not okay. The manga is not for most people.

Profile Image for Languid.
7 reviews22 followers
July 25, 2016
This thriller is complete with wondrously psychotic characters - characters that are purely normal human beings, but given a different light to experience and shine through, through a video sharing website called Dead Tube. In Dead Tube, the more viewers you have can fetch you real money in the world - but has it's downsides if you don't have enough. And the children involved - not to mention adults, of course, have found out that the best way to gain viewers is pure gore. The implications of this are well explored in the ongoing series, and the talk of camera techniques are just an add-on. Ones who enjoyed Psycho-Pass or Another would surely enjoy Dead Tube.
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272 reviews9 followers
August 23, 2021
This manga has such a revolting plot but it’s so enjoyable. Such a guilty pleasure series for sure.

We follow Tomohiro who gets asked to film a girl named Machiya. He films her as she does mundane tasks as well as filming her having sex. The volume takes a drastic change when he records her as she murders someone for a website called DeadTube.

This was a really great manga but I do wish they talked more about what DeadTube is because i am having a hard time understanding parts of it that they mentioned. Anyways I can’t wait to read the next volume!
Profile Image for Roma.
775 reviews25 followers
December 11, 2016




The story's a death game. It's just so dark and twisted I would not recommend this book to any of my friends. It's effed up.







Makes me wonder how in the world was this classified under Shounen.




Profile Image for Nicholas D.
1 review
May 23, 2019
Deadtube is an interesting series but an amazing one indeed!!
Profile Image for Wilfrid Kirby Clarke.
9 reviews1 follower
August 30, 2023
Not entirely sure how many chapters are in this volume 1 book as I'm reading from an online source, but I read the first 5 chapters today and am logging because it felt like the right break off point as I think it's where the book ends.

I don't really have many reference points for this as I'm in my early days of getting into manga but... Trashy, very trashy. Not currently convinced it's any good, the characters don't seem very layered and the potential for social satire is hinted at but not quite fully there yet if it does show up in later chapters ("Dead Tube" has only just been name dropped by the end of chapter 5). There are a few fun twists, Mashiro Mai makes for quite a threatening and unpredictable villain, and there's enough nudity to keep things entertaining. It certainly opens strongly with the first chapter.

Might come back to this and read the next set of chapters, but a solid chance I may not as it's nothing particularly striking.
Profile Image for Kimberly Godwin.
Author 26 books54 followers
October 6, 2023
Content Warnings for the Series:
Bullying
Self harm
Violence against children
Violence against animals
S. Assault
Depictions of abuse
Torture
Kidnapping
Physical Abuse
Stalking
Graphic Violence


This is a series that earns all the trigger warnings and advisory stickers. It's deranged, gory, and full of trauma. Under all the blood is social commentary about consumption of curated content on social media and what lengths creators will do for content. But it has a lot of really messed up scenarios portrayed brutually. This isn't for the faint of heart.
Profile Image for あえり.
60 reviews2 followers
April 23, 2024
okay i’m gonna be honest here.
this is just straight up porn hidden under the “yandere serial killer” plot.
also how the main character is so OBVIOUSLY based on a basic incel’s fantasies is just crazy.
also the story doesn’t really makes sense to me, don’t know if it’s just me but how they’re killing so many people super quickly just isn’t really realistic.
maybe i didn’t enjoy it because i’m a girl but whatever i wasn’t expecting this AT ALL

also the permanent nudity is crazy like you don’t need to draw naked women on every page i promise you you’ll live.
Profile Image for Calie.
227 reviews
August 4, 2023
Un savant mélange à la King's Game et Schol Days (ceux qui ont vu l'anime savent de quoi je parle). C'est gore et parfois dérangeant dans les visuels mais l'intrigue est hyper prenante et ce rebondissements final donne clairement envie d'en savoir plus. Je pensais que je n'aimerais pas ma lecture vu les avis négatifs et pourtant...J'avais déjà lu une autre œuvre de la collection borderline de cette même maison d'édition et j'avais beaucoup aimé; à voir par la suite.
Profile Image for Anytha Manson.
162 reviews2 followers
July 25, 2017
Une sympathique lecture, un peu morbide, mais c'était le but nan'? J'ai été tellement surprise de la fin.. on est en pleins dans du snoof movie je et j'ai un peu le sentiment qu'apprécier ma lecture faisait de moi une personne dérangée. Mais étant une personne bizarre, j'ai adoré ma lecture qui a duré une heure.

J'achèterai la suite bientôt'!
1 review
June 10, 2021
Thoroughly enjoyed the artwork by the mang-baka, but was too sexually suggestive for my preferred Christian narrative. I feel that this outshined the situational gore which should have taken the spotlight. This would have added an intricate layer of personability to me, rather than simply focusing on the sexual tones.
Profile Image for Nats Lakkatham.
276 reviews5 followers
September 7, 2024
- Deadtube เป็นมังงะแนว survival psychological thriller
- เนื้อหา 18+, มี sex และความรุนแรงแบบโจ๋งครึ่ม
- แสดงมุมมองตัวละครได้ดาร์กมากๆ
- การจะทำร้ายจิตใจคนก็แสดงออกมาเลย ไม่ว่าจะถูกซ้อม ถูกตี ทรมาน ขข*
- เนื้อหาแบ่งเป็นตอนๆ ยาวๆ มีพัฒนาความดิบของตัวละคร
- นำตัวละครบางตัวกลับมาแบบชุบชีวิต 55+
- บางแนวเป็นแบบสืบสวนสอบสวนที่ดำเนินเรื่องอย่างโหดๆ
- สนุกดี
Profile Image for Curious Madra.
3,083 reviews120 followers
January 7, 2019
Yeah got pretty bored tbh after the 8 chapters, its like a even worse version of corpse party but with added fan service and adding in badly developed characters who act like they are from other manga...
Profile Image for Jorge Veronica Maldonado.
157 reviews2 followers
July 22, 2023
if the Darkweb was a manga.

That's it.

That's the review.

Loved it; some volumes are incredible, other arcs fell a bit short, but overall the story as a whole has developed and its gotten pretty good. I've enjoyed it so far.
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