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ネクロマンス #1
Necromance Vol. 1
A thrilling fantasy romance between a hero and a priestess–that starts with the hero’s death!
In the final battle with the Demon King, Shibuki performs the ultimate sacrifice, dying to protect his childhood love. His only regret is not confessing before his demise. Luckily for him, it seems God has other plans for this Hero and Saint duo. Shibuki rises from the dead during his own funeral! Shibuki’s new chance at life isn’t all it appears, for it’s no “life” at all. The Demon King laid one last curse on him during their duel, and now Shibuki is undead! To be freed from the grievous curse of undeath, he and his team must hunt down and defeat the Demon Lord once and for all! Again!
In the final battle with the Demon King, Shibuki performs the ultimate sacrifice, dying to protect his childhood love. His only regret is not confessing before his demise. Luckily for him, it seems God has other plans for this Hero and Saint duo. Shibuki rises from the dead during his own funeral! Shibuki’s new chance at life isn’t all it appears, for it’s no “life” at all. The Demon King laid one last curse on him during their duel, and now Shibuki is undead! To be freed from the grievous curse of undeath, he and his team must hunt down and defeat the Demon Lord once and for all! Again!
200 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2019
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October 22, 2021
Shibuki was struck down by the demon lord just as he was defeated, but you can’t keep a good hero down. Shibuki springs back to “life”, except he’s now one of the undead. Which kind of matters when his newly betrothed, Surfi, is a holy priestess whose very touch sets him on fire. Literally.
The addition of the whole undead thing adds a little bit of pop to what would otherwise be generic fantasy manga #408, but otherwise this book’s as by the numbers as you can imagine it being.
Still, the reversal of Shibuki already having established his bonafides in respect to his feelings for Surfi and now being unable to act on it while both of them are quite up for hanky and/or panky is a pretty nice change of pace.
It allows for them to be a lot cuter than if we were enduring the courtship phase (and there’s a great deflation of an obvious rival practically immediately) for the nth time.
While large swaths of its jokes are very ‘shrug’, there are definitely some fun ones with respect to Surfi, who is idolized by the populace to the extent that she has special edition statues in various towns and tons of limited edition merchandise.
The undead wrinkle is also used to goose the story a little too - how do you cope when healing magic will now hurt you? What do you do when the magic sword bequeathed to you is now deadlier to you than the enemy? When the quest proper is straightforward, asking the little questions like this is a smart call.
Of course, while it looks like this book is prepping to be pretty tame, minus the couple hi-jinx, it turns out that it’s saving all its horniness for the latter parts. You can see the warning bells when the all the men, save Shibuki, are conveniently excised from the party, leaving us with our leads and a tsundere sorceress.
Vanilla the Succubus (cough) enters the picture next and while you wouldn’t have thought so, this book is the end point for skimpy costumes without the character being flat-out nude. I mean, succubi gonna succubi, but I blinked twice at that one - she’s practically a cosplay dare.
Besides her desire to land Shibuki, Vanilla does provide some interesting friction - she turns out to have a fairly sad backstory that gins up some sympathy and there’s a clever wrinkle with her being able to heal Shibuki while Surfi cannot. That goes over as well as you’re expecting.
If anything, the characters are the biggest letdown - the camaraderie between our main trio is quite evident, but even the undead thing doesn’t really change that Shibuki is the archetypical teenager hero with all the snuck porn that entails.
Surfi’s whole holier-than-thou thing can occasionally come across as Bible-equivalent-thumping, even if she does sometimes quote scripture to suit her own needs and definitely has a less pure side. She’s mostly okay, but you may easily find her grating.
The tsundere sorceress is a tsundere sorceress.
3 stars - average book is average. I don’t think this distinguished itself enough for me to really bother keeping up with it, but if you haven’t had your fill of these sorts of stories yet, you could do worse (and better).
The addition of the whole undead thing adds a little bit of pop to what would otherwise be generic fantasy manga #408, but otherwise this book’s as by the numbers as you can imagine it being.
Still, the reversal of Shibuki already having established his bonafides in respect to his feelings for Surfi and now being unable to act on it while both of them are quite up for hanky and/or panky is a pretty nice change of pace.
It allows for them to be a lot cuter than if we were enduring the courtship phase (and there’s a great deflation of an obvious rival practically immediately) for the nth time.
While large swaths of its jokes are very ‘shrug’, there are definitely some fun ones with respect to Surfi, who is idolized by the populace to the extent that she has special edition statues in various towns and tons of limited edition merchandise.
The undead wrinkle is also used to goose the story a little too - how do you cope when healing magic will now hurt you? What do you do when the magic sword bequeathed to you is now deadlier to you than the enemy? When the quest proper is straightforward, asking the little questions like this is a smart call.
Of course, while it looks like this book is prepping to be pretty tame, minus the couple hi-jinx, it turns out that it’s saving all its horniness for the latter parts. You can see the warning bells when the all the men, save Shibuki, are conveniently excised from the party, leaving us with our leads and a tsundere sorceress.
Vanilla the Succubus (cough) enters the picture next and while you wouldn’t have thought so, this book is the end point for skimpy costumes without the character being flat-out nude. I mean, succubi gonna succubi, but I blinked twice at that one - she’s practically a cosplay dare.
Besides her desire to land Shibuki, Vanilla does provide some interesting friction - she turns out to have a fairly sad backstory that gins up some sympathy and there’s a clever wrinkle with her being able to heal Shibuki while Surfi cannot. That goes over as well as you’re expecting.
If anything, the characters are the biggest letdown - the camaraderie between our main trio is quite evident, but even the undead thing doesn’t really change that Shibuki is the archetypical teenager hero with all the snuck porn that entails.
Surfi’s whole holier-than-thou thing can occasionally come across as Bible-equivalent-thumping, even if she does sometimes quote scripture to suit her own needs and definitely has a less pure side. She’s mostly okay, but you may easily find her grating.
The tsundere sorceress is a tsundere sorceress.
3 stars - average book is average. I don’t think this distinguished itself enough for me to really bother keeping up with it, but if you haven’t had your fill of these sorts of stories yet, you could do worse (and better).
January 6, 2023
DNF at 63% (Chapter 2)
Don't like the scene on these last pages. I get it's a succubus but still. Also don't like the way she was drawn. I would like to avoid this as much as possible. This is a personal preference, for if you don't mind or enjoy it, have fun reading
Don't like the scene on these last pages. I get it's a succubus but still. Also don't like the way she was drawn. I would like to avoid this as much as possible. This is a personal preference, for if you don't mind or enjoy it, have fun reading
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September 12, 2022
This story is cute and cool. Nice to have a book where they arent tiptoeing around their feelings. Want the next book 😀
April 8, 2022
Concept sounded fun, as it surrounds the engagement of an undead soldier and a holy mage. Such a match requires that both parties remain untouched by eachother lest (slapstick) pain ensue. It gets pretty stupid and pervy though. Not my jimmy jam.
June 18, 2024
The premise is interesting... A party of heroes band together to strike down the Demon King, ultimately losing one of their members in the process of 'winning' the fight. At Shibuki's funeral, he suddenly comes back to life through God's power, only to find out he has been afflicted with the curse of undeath. The woman he loves, a fellow hero, is God's chosen and cannot embrace him because of her potent holy magic. In order for this budding relationship to bloom, Shibuki and company must once again journey to strike down the Demon King... for good!
The whole thing is... this story doesn't really go anywhere after 5 volumes. They find the first Grand Saint, some random elves, regroup with other members of the party, stop an underling of the Demon King... and that's it. It ends rather abruptly.
I was expecting to see that the first Grand Saint's party mirrors Shibuki's party, but that entire subplot had no time to go anywhere.
I would not recommend. I only started reading because I'm looking for finished series on MangaDex.
The whole thing is... this story doesn't really go anywhere after 5 volumes. They find the first Grand Saint, some random elves, regroup with other members of the party, stop an underling of the Demon King... and that's it. It ends rather abruptly.
I was expecting to see that the first Grand Saint's party mirrors Shibuki's party, but that entire subplot had no time to go anywhere.
I would not recommend. I only started reading because I'm looking for finished series on MangaDex.
March 1, 2025
Had good elements of fantasy but with a bit too much fan service along with an almost nude character that will surely by book number two, cross the border from safe to "yep that's basically porn". I didn't know going into this based on the cover art, that we were going there. But besides the horny book, there are some interesting characters like the zombie fella. The demon shop was neat and Nyco is probably my favorite character because shes keeping it real while hiding her true feelings for Shibuki. She's strong willed and I like that but I can already see where this series is headed and my opinion about her, if I kept reading, might change based on what the author wants to do with her (or to her...ugh).
I can't stomach stuff like this sometimes when it's thrown into your face. I just wanted a cute romantic fantasy adventure. But It's just distasteful. I'm probably not going to continue reading.
I can't stomach stuff like this sometimes when it's thrown into your face. I just wanted a cute romantic fantasy adventure. But It's just distasteful. I'm probably not going to continue reading.
October 3, 2022
While scrolling through Seven Seas manga, I found this series. It looked cute and it was only five volume so I thought I would give it a try.
After defeating the Demon King (because that is always the objective lol), Shibuki is killed in battle. He regrets not being able to tell his childhood friend and Priestess how he feels after he decided he would after the battle.
Waking up at his own funeral, causes a relief to the group but soon find out that the Demon King gave the Hero a curse to be the undead.
Now they must journey again to defeat the Demon King.
Shibuki tells Surfina how he feels and they become engaged. But because of his undead status, they are unable to touch as her touch burns him.
The addition of Vanilla, a succubus who likes Shibuki made me laugh. It was cute and had some humor so I will continue to read the second volume.
After defeating the Demon King (because that is always the objective lol), Shibuki is killed in battle. He regrets not being able to tell his childhood friend and Priestess how he feels after he decided he would after the battle.
Waking up at his own funeral, causes a relief to the group but soon find out that the Demon King gave the Hero a curse to be the undead.
Now they must journey again to defeat the Demon King.
Shibuki tells Surfina how he feels and they become engaged. But because of his undead status, they are unable to touch as her touch burns him.
The addition of Vanilla, a succubus who likes Shibuki made me laugh. It was cute and had some humor so I will continue to read the second volume.
December 22, 2022
During battle with the Demon King, seventeen year old paladin Shibuki sacrificed his life to save his crush, fifteen year old cleric Surfinia. Shibuki rises from the grave, joining the ever growing army of the undead, to continue the epic battle against the Demon King. Of course, undead Shibuki must now confess his undying love to Surfinia whose divine touch destroys undead abominations like Shibuki. Joining this doomed quest, is seventeen year old sassy sorceress Lycoris. In case you haven't guessed, this is a delightfully silly and playfully sexy Dungeons & Dragons themed romance series about the power of love. Unfortunately, the series has ended after only five books!
December 6, 2025
The story is an interesting mix between a romance and a standard hero-defeats-demon story. The idea of an undead character that can't touch his holy-magic girlfriend gives this a fun bit of drama. Bit of fan service with the succubus, but I can see how she will fit in this new party forming. Love Surfi's powerhouse performance at the end. She may seem sweet but she's got a powerful side which I enjoy.
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September 26, 2022Hero defeats the Demon King, only to die in the attempt. All without sharing his love for his Surfi. This is complicated when he is resurrected, only to find out as a newly made zombie that he can't touch Surfi, the holy Priestess. So a new adventure is started to track down the Demon King (Who did not Die) and fix the issue.
June 9, 2022
I thought this book was fantastic! Another great manga book that I have read. Although it does have romance so that may be why I like it. The only thing I didn’t like about it was a certain character that was just weird for me. But overall great plot and can’t wait to read the next one! 4/5 stars.
July 24, 2022
I've really liked the start of this series!
The characters are all rather likeable so far and the relationship that has taken front stage is rather cute with the circumstances that have halted any further developments of there relationship. I'm rather curious at what else this series will contain!
The characters are all rather likeable so far and the relationship that has taken front stage is rather cute with the circumstances that have halted any further developments of there relationship. I'm rather curious at what else this series will contain!
April 26, 2022
Interesting premise, but I am not sold on the characters yet.
May 3, 2022
I actually enjoyed the story. It’s cute
June 4, 2022
Take a drink every time a manga has "demon king" in the plot. ugh.
April 9, 2023
I really like it. The plot was scrumptious but i cant find vol. 2 in stores
December 9, 2023
It’s pretty cute!
September 25, 2024
Wow didn't remember how boring and had fan service in it it's a no for me
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