デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 11

デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション [Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction] #11

by Inio Asano

その日、人類は終了しました。

「世界中の人を敵に回しても、
私だけは味方になってあげますよ。」

暗躍する野望、暴走する国家。
そして、ついに訪れる人類終了の日。
世界と恋の狭間で、少女達は―――

第66回 小学館漫画賞 一般向け部門受賞。
漫画表現の極限に迫る、クライマックスへ!!
もう読まざるを得ない、最新第11集!!

Genres: Manga, Comics, Science Fiction, Seinen, Drama, Comics Manga, Slice Of Life

204 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2021

About the author

Inio Asano (浅野いにお, Asano Inio) is a Japanese cartoonist. He is known for his character-driven stories and his detailed art-style, making him one of the most influential manga author of his generation.
Asano was born in 1980 and produced his first amateur comics as a teenager. His professional debut happened in 2000 in the pages of the magazine Big Comic Spirits. Since then, he has collaborated with most of the major Japanese magazines of seinen manga (comics for a mature audience). Among Asano's internationally acclaimed works are: the psychological horror Nijigahara Holograph (2003-2005); the drama Solanin (2005-2006); the existentialistic slice-of-life Goodnight Punpun (2007-2013); the erotic A Girl on the Shore (2009-2013); the sci-fi Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (2014-2022).

Reviews

[Urbon Adamsson · Rating 4 out of 5]

The entire series was worth it just to experience this volume.

Absolutely incredible.

[Ignacio · Rating 5 out of 5]

El momento esperado llega y la deflagración (en el fecha ideal para ponerla en marcha) se amplifica con toda la confusión, el ruido, la alienación, la ceguera, las ganas de vivir a su alrededor. Los ecos no sólo remiten a las bombas atómicas sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki. Además de los omnipresentes guiños a Doraemon, hay múltiples rimas con Akira al retomar Asano muchos de sus temas tres décadas más tarde, alejándose todo lo posible de la repetición, volviendo a una multitud de cuestiones allí tratadas desde un presente muy diferente. Pocos tebeos hay que capturen la complejidad de la actualidad política, social, cultural contemporáneos como este. Por cierto, mola que en un tebeo tan bien dibujado todas las personas que colaboran con el autor principal vean su nombre reconocido en los títulos de crédito más poblados de la historia del manga.

[Ami 乁⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠o⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠ㄏ (written by Jane Austen) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 stars)

We're finally reaching the finale!

[Ray Rappisi · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars for the incredible artwork. Love having ‘You know who’ disposed of in that way, had me laughing. Overall though, very depressing and dark. I always come out of this manga numb and this volume ratchets it up to 11 😉

[Estibaliz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This second to last volume was absolutely stunning: full-throttle shocking, highly emotive (Hiroshi!), and with an utterly intriguing ending that might change things a lot.

With just one volume to go, it's hard to imagine how this wholesome and dark story might end, but I'm just hoping it will deliver.

In any case, and while looking forward to volume 12, I'm already willing to declare this is not only my absolute favorite series by Asano, but also one of my favorite manga series from the last few years. No doubt, no question.

[The Rev. Dr. Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

What this Inio Asano series lacks in crude bird drawings, is made for in ridiculous plot twists that don't really change the whole story much, but add a solid 3 extra chapters to the run time of this series.

[Alba Munarriz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shit has officially gone down

[Solim · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5 The art alone on this volume is mind-blowing. Hope the final volume goes out with a bigger bang!

[Compass · Rating 2 out of 5]

So even Japanese manga authors are afflicted with TDS in the modern age? He's hinted in this direction before but really lays his cards on the table in this volume and even implies CNN is a legitimate news organization. Joke's on me, though, I'm eleven volumes in, fml.

[Baylor Heath · Rating 4 out of 5]

“That day, I saw a large pillar of light near Tokyo. I was neither afraid nor sad. Instead I was relieved…that the inevitable day…had finally arrived.”

This series, which I have now caught up with, has always been about that nagging dread of the inevitable and how we deal with, or importantly, don’t deal with and refuse to look away from it. Like TS Elliot said, “humankind cannot bear very much reality.” This volume specifically showcases our ability to deny and rationalize destruction, not only when it’s on the horizon, but threateningly right in our faces:

“Maybe we should leave Tokyo.”
“Oh, you saw that incident on TV? Eh, don’t overreact. Anyway, I have to make a delivery today.”
“Yeah, I know but—“
“It’ll probably be fine. We’ve been through these scares before.”

“Lots of small [invader ships] today, huh?”
“And the mother ship’s leaning way over.”
“I guess…some days are like that.”

But what happens when the dreadfully inevitable finally occurs? It seems this series is not ending soon and intends to explore that question. Will our endearing & frustrating characters continue to look away from destruction or finally stare it in the face and take responsibility for their complicity in it? (Probably the former because this series is consistent in its darkly pessimistic view of human nature). I’ll be eagerly waiting for April 2023 to find out.

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Volume eleven of this apocalyptic series and the shit has now actually hit the fan. I'll leave it at that, but I had been wondering if anything would really happen. And it does. Or it begins to, in a big way. And as has largely happened all along, everyone seems to be largely unconcerned, adults telling kids "oh, don't worry, we've had scares before, I gotta go to work," and so on. So the enormity of this moment occurs, I up my rating to four stars. The artwork is terrific, and I am interested as things more forward whether this business-as-usual ennui and materialism lasts or whether the revolutionary teens can actually move things in a useful destruction. Or, you know, the world just ends, with either a bang or a whimper, as T.S. Eliot suggests.

[Ariz]

The penultimate volume. Things get de-de-de-de-destructive. It's sad, but we were warned. And so were they. The ending was especially wild. The surprises don't stop coming. I don't know what role Nobuo will play, but I did wonder if there were more invaders living amongst the people. Last volume I did note that Mr. Koyama looked similar to Watarase which is probably not accidental.
I have so many questions. Like what happened to Oba? And the world didn't really "end" quite yet. What is the fate of the saucer?
So many questions to wrap up in the last volume. There are a lot of things to reflect on in this series. I do wonder what note it will end on. Positive? Hopeful? Defeatist? I have a hunch it might lean pessimistic, but there's a chance it will be nuanced.

[Philip McCarty · Rating 5 out of 5]

And just like that the world comes crushing down. This is the volume where the foretold moment of humanity's destruction occurs in a blaze of shattering and deconstruction. It's sad to read through, but what surprised me about this is how our heroine's are not there, yet the brother does die in the blast. The standout moment for me is with Ouran and Kadode sharing a kiss and then going back to their usual shenanigans. It's the brightness of love against the overwhelming sense of despair taking over everything else.

[Peter Kan · Rating 4 out of 5]

ต่อให้โลกนี้จะเปลี่ยนไปเท่าไหร่ หรือไม่เหลืออะไรสวยงามอีกต่อไป ผมก็ยังนึกถึงคุณอยู่เสมอ
ผมที่เป็นคนร้ายในสายตาของคุณ ผมที่ยังยืนอยู่กับที่ ผมที่ไม่รู้ว่าจะต้องทำอะไร ผมที่เลือกที่ปล่อยให้เวลาทำงานไปจนกว่าทุกอย่างจะสายเกินแก้

[Cassie Fleurs · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love this so so much

[Mateen Mahboubi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Are we getting towards the end. I'm starting to lose the high hopes that I had for this in the early volumes but it's still got some interesting ideas here and there.

[alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

emotional rollercoaster😳😱😭🥰🤯
8•32?! coma?

[Ari · Rating 5 out of 5]

i sobbed over every page of this volume and now i have to return it to the library tear-stained. have a palate cleanser ready.

[Marco · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chissà cosa si inventerà per il finale, intanto preparo i fazzoletti.

[Irati Azpeitia · Rating 5 out of 5]

QUÉ !!!!!!!!

[Marcin Wichowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

👌🤩🦾👽

[Lain Edwards · Rating 5 out of 5]

8/32 is crazy

[🍓 Carson 🍓 · Rating 4 out of 5]

So funny to me how Donald Trump is just casually a character in this series, and then he just Fucking Dies for no reason

[Dani Wladdimiro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Explotó todo, se juntaron personajes, revivieron a otro, y terminó siendo el declive de la civilización humana. Fin del tomo.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Penúltimo tomo de otra obra maestra de Asano.

[Léa · Rating 5 out of 5]

c'est de la folie pure

[Bailey Renalds · Rating 5 out of 5]

So fucking good

[Jacob Rottmann · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm tired of these political conspiracies being unresolved. Maybe part of the point is that the public can never know everything, but it doesn't make for a satisfying read. The art continues to be incredible and Asano's depiction of society as it reacts to literally immediate destruction is also excellent. 6.75/10