Apesar da ameaça contínua de invasores selvagens e contaminação por raios A, as pessoas ainda estão se mudando para Tóquio para encontrar oportunidades e a si mesmas. Afinal, a probabilidade de ser esmagado por uma nave invasora ainda é extremamente baixa! Enquanto isso, Kadode e seus amigos começaram a universidade, onde devem enfrentar a crise de escolher em qual clube escolar ingressar - uma decisão crítica que afetará o resto de suas vidas!
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).
At this point, I’m eager to learn more about the invaders.
The final chapters are always the most exciting, and while I love Inio’s dialogue and character development, I find myself craving more answers and information about the invaders.
I’m hoping we’ll get more insight into them in the next volumes, though I have my doubts. Unfortunately for me, it seems likely that Inio will maintain this slower pace right until the end.
Things are heating up on all fronts as alien movement from the mothership continues, as do the plots to murder them by various factions. This is one beautifully drawn, politically complex tale, where conflicts between and among humans and aliens intensify. No one seems to agree on how to proceed, as the mothership hovering over Tokyo (in its third year) is smoking more every day. It's ominous; if it explodes--shot down, or blows up on its own--will it lead to the end of the world through nuclear annihilation?
This series continues to be timely in terms of world events, as yet another war threatens the stability (or continuing the instability) of the planet. And we still face numerous global crises, of course.
In one brief interlude we see that the proliferation of satellites emanating from the mothership are less of a concern to people peering into their phones on the morning trains than the break-up of a popular musical group (see the social media hits of Kim and Kanye and and so on versus Ukraine).
Japanese politicians and the military want to leverage the crisis to wrest world domination from the hands of China and the USA, if at all possible. Vigilante citizens randomly kill the invaders even as the student protest movement splinters. What will it mean to really enact the pro-alien resistance movement?
I am not so deeply connected to the two main characters, Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa Ouran, as I am in many manga series, but this is in part because of the complex and ambitious political landscape Asano explores with his wide-angle lens. But I have heard the series ended last month, so I am hoping we will get translations of these final volumes this year.
DDDDD really took a dramatic turn with the past couple of volumes. The seeming end of the world gets closer by the minute, the global political tension and existential dread is starting to get out of hand, and it's all suddenly very dark and gloomy in the world that once felt so indifferent and carefree about being invaded by aliens. I appreciated getting more alien perspective in Ooba chapters of this volume, and Futaba's pro-alien activism was really interesting as well. Overall, another great volume from one of my favourite manga series, and once again I can't wait for the next book.
This series is doing a good job of upping the stakes for its "arena subplot", a better one in fact than the cult subplot in "Oyasumi Punpun", but in that case the subplot existed for very different reasons. Since the alien mothership arrived in Japan more than three years ago, the country has become the focus of the world. The need to develop stronger weapons has brought in foreign investment and created economic booms across the country. Along the way the politicians and industry leaders realized that those aliens were mostly harmless, but at this point keeping them in the eyes of the public as terrifying foes will strengthen the country, so they stage periodic alien raids to keep the patriotic flame burning in the public, even going as far as pushing some groups of aliens into public areas so the military can promote its capabilities.
However, the biggest development has consisted in some Japanese industry leaders having .
Meanwhile the industry leaders, along with the highest ranking politicians, have realized something regarding the mothership and the new energy source that they would have known before if they could understand the aliens' language: .
The aliens stuck on Earth, facing extinction, have .
The author focuses a bit on a recurrent character, a member of the military that gets dispatched on alien hunting raids. During one of the government stunts where they pushed some aliens into a college campus (in fact the college campus our girls attend, and they got to witness all of it), this soldier guy .
One of the girls was involved in a resistance group against the government's handling of the alien menace. The group keeps losing steam and members. The leader of the branch the girl belongs to is getting worried, because there are internal rumors .
The disguised alien, who now lives in the conspiracy theorist girl's apartment, has become a good friend and gets involved in the general shenanigans the group goes through. As his personal arc he has to balance how he appreciates some kind, funny or generally OK humans like the group of girls, with the fact that many other humans are exterminating his kind. By the end of this volume, as the disguised alien .
I bought the thirteen volumes of "Oyasumi Punpun" published in my language; I usually avoid reading anything in Spanish, because the people translating most works these days in this country distort the original words through colloquialisms; many times I don't even understand or hadn't heard before those expressions, maybe because the translators originated from an area of the country, Cataluña, not known precisely for how widely Spanish is spoken. In general, they just don't seem to respect the original materials enough to represent the scripts faithfully. However, it's a series that I needed to own and keep near for the rest of my life. I'll start rereading it as soon as I finish with this one. "Dead Dead Demon's etc." isn't remotely as compelling as "Oyasumi Punpun", of course (nor does it try to be), but it's the kind of story you can read without feeling like your heart is leaking blood, and that after finishing it you will understand better others who have finished it, as member of a private fellowship of sufferers. Unfortunately, Asano seems to be producing this series rather inconsistently, mixing it with more serious projects, so its ending might be a long ways off.["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>
Die Bücher dieser Reihe scheinen häufiger einen etwas zähen Mittelteil zu haben, aber zum Ende hin, also etwa das letzte Drittel, war wieder exzellent. Leichte Tendenz zum Cliffhanger also, ohne dass der Band mit einem Knall aufhören würde. Eher mit einem spannenden Ausblick.
Es haben sich drei Haupt-Erzählstränge herausgebildet: 1. die Planung des Attentats der SHIP-Leute bei der Einweihung des Stadions, 2. der drohende Absturz des fremden Raumschiffs aufgrund des defekten Antriebsystems, und 3. der Alltag der Hauptfiguren um Kadode und Ontan.
This story is taking a much darker turn, that's for sure, with some extreme activism and the violent treatment of the invaders being more prominently displayed in this volume.
The last couple chapters here were both minimalistic and very interesting, as the dialogue is portrayed from the point of view of Oba, and in Invader language.
The major plot might not advance much, with the end of the world being still imminent and slowly approaching, but this was a delightful addition to the series nonetheless.
Finally picked it back up since December last year. Maybe it's the apocalyptic vibes, but this is so much more relevant in 2020. I've always loved how in this invasion we follow normal people struggling. Everyday life still goes on but in an abnormal context.
Watanabe. Bro. That part with Kadode was kinda funny. Glad it didn't go anywhere cause-teacher. Also he seems like an ass.
Oda. His story is so interesting and we get to learn more about it in this volume. Dunno where his story will lead and where he will side in everything.
Loved the surprise birthday party side story. So nice.
This volume left me assured of my love for it. The art. The ART. The characters and plot. Everything makes this world so real.
Those last two chapters... wow, Asano. Way to keep me on the edge of my seat. That’s some good storytelling. Comparing this volume to the first is night and day in terms of intensity. I did like the quirky slice-of-life vibe to the early volumes, but I’m equally impressed with the dramatic turn of this one. I really like how the story has progressed into this existential dread-filled apocalypse. This series remains very unique.
I've figured out why my appreciation of this series doesn't match its quality. No entity or person in this book escapes its satire; all are "deplorable" to some degree. I like stories where I can relate to one of the characters. This story has no such character for me.
Volume 6 finally has a picture of the American president Padron. He's just who you thought he was.
ᗪᖇᗝᗪ乙Ƴ ᗝᗷƳᗯᗩ丅ᗴᒪᗴ ᒎᗩᑭᗝᑎᎥᎥ! Od dnia dzisiejszego macie pełne prawo do samoobrony przed najeźdźcami. Rząd ogłosił nowe zasady walki przeciwko kosmitom. Czas najwyższy sprzeciwić się inwazji i pokazać wszystkim, kto tutaj rządzi!
„Życie polega na nieprzerwanym radzeniu sobie z tym, co zgotuje nam los”.
Nowe zaawansowane technologicznie roboty zaczynają patrolować ulice Tokio i stają się dla obywateli symbolami chwilowego bezpieczeństwa, spokoju i porządku. Gdy rząd ogłasza informacje pozwalającą cywilom zabijać obcych, prywatne korporacje chętnie dołączają do walki z przybyszami. Tymczasem urokliwa Oncia niespodziewanie spotyka na swej drodze dość osobliwego kosmitę podającego się za człowieka, którego bez zastanowienia sprowadza do mieszkania swojej przyjaciółki, Kadode.
A podobno tego dnia wszystko się zmieniło, a jednocześnie nie zmieniło się nic...
„Nie wiem, co Onci chodzi po głowie”.
Nietuzinkowy, nieco pokręcony, ale zarazem przerażający świat, w który wciąga nas Inio Asano jest czymś niebywale zachwycającym, ale również dosyć kontrowersyjnym. Wojna z kosmitami nadal trwa, nie widać jej końca i co gorsza - zbiera za sobą spore żniwa. Od tego tomu pojawia się więcej rozlanej krwi, a tematy polityczne zostają częściej przytaczane niż dotychczas, przez co w niektórych momentach można już odczuć ich ciężar. Nie jest on jednak tak przytłaczający, jak w innych dziełach tego autora i raczej stawiana jest tutaj pomiędzy tym odpowiednia równowaga.
Ponadto nareszcie możemy poznać też bliżej naszych przybyszy z kosmosu. Fakt faktem nie łatwo ich na początku jakkolwiek zrozumieć, bo porozumiewają się w dziwnym języku, ale nie stanowi to żadnej przeszkody komunikacyjnej między czytelnikami, ponieważ ich emocje można łatwo odczytać z samych ilustracji. Ilustracji, które nadal zachwycają swoją innością oraz wyjątkowością i tak, jest to tytuł dosyć specyficzny, ale jak najbardziej godny mojego polecenia. Akcji tutaj co niemiara, a bohaterowie są świetnie napisani, więc serio pytam się, czego chcieć więcej?
„Jak myślisz, czemu najeźdźcy tu przybyli?”.
W dalszym ciągu jestem podekscytowana faktem, że doczekamy się dwóch długometrażowych filmów twórczości tego mangaki i mam wielką nadzieję, że pojawią się u nas one w kinach. Ten tytuł jest nie tyle dobry, co wręcz zaskakująco przebojowy, dlatego powtórzę się znowu - koniecznie szybko po niego sięgnijcie.
„Kocham cię, Isobeyanie!”. Ograniczenie wiekowe: 16+ TW! Wojna, polityka, psychologiczne, przemoc Wydanie 2 w 1
I'm consistently impressed with this manga and the way it handles issues that feel essentially timeless and highly relevant to the past couple of years. The volume starts with Kadode finally ending things with Watarase (the teacher). I hope it's done, but who knows if he'll be back since this series likes to bring folks back. We've also got the S.E.S. girl, Sumaru, meeting with the president of the company Takarada to be shown the interior of the escape ark disguised as a stadium. The more that this private corporation becomes involved the more troublesome things to get, their profiting off of violence is something too relevant to human history. A great chapter that happened in the middle of this volume, was scenes of our main players interspersed with a government report being read to the Prime Minister, who cares more about moe girls than the actual politics. When this manga plays with the format of story telling I'm always impressed and excited to read about it. Basically we have the government (who is in the hands of SES and looking to use their violence against the aliens as a way to prove themselves to the world,) the Youth United Front which is a group of youths looking to kill all the invaders personally but running into issues with the state sanctioned killers, and SHIP which has been working hard to peacefully get people to stop supporting the invader killings. Futaba plays a role here as she believes in the peacefully methods and what the group stands for, but now her beliefs are being used to potentially get her to shoot the politicians. So much for peaceful. Kadode's mom is doing fine at the moment up in Nagano and even gets a news special done for her. Oba, the alien everyone has been hanging out with, is revealed to be an invader who was put into a human body when their ship crashed and after a run in with the invader who has been in the background this whole time he decides he needs to set off and try and stop the extremists from blowing up the ship. Also, turns out that the alien's look a lot like us inside their cute little helmets, which isn't too surprising.
Creo que este volumen maneja muy bien la cuestión de la violencia, mostrándola de manera equilibrada en ambos bandos.
Por un lado, el grupo SHIP, que busca proteger a los invasores, se da cuenta de que los discursos pacíficos no son suficientes. Ante la falta de resultados, sienten la necesidad de dar un paso más allá, recurriendo, paradójicamente, a la violencia como medio para lograr sus objetivos.
Por otro lado, el gobierno despliega todo su arsenal para consolidar su posición en la carrera bélica. Su negativa a compartir conocimientos con otras naciones genera tensiones internacionales, lo que agrava aún más el conflicto.
Además, el flashback sobre lo ocurrido en el 31-A está muy bien logrado. Nos permite entender de manera más clara lo que realmente pasó, brindándonos una visión mucho más precisa de los acontecimientos y su impacto en la historia actual.
We discover just how much the humans and aliens have in common in this one. Tensions continue to rise between humans and invaders, humans and other humans, and invaders and other invaders. The ultimate plans from S.E.S. also come to light. Both Futaba and invader Oba have new missions to consider, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. I can’t say enough how stunning the visuals are in this series. I’m happy (and then depressed into sadness by the story) to revisit each volume as new ones are released.
This series is getting so bleak at times. Inio Asano’s work seems to resonate with me though. This seems so plausible, if invaders came here, I could definitely see it going exactly this way. I guess I’m a pessimist. But, there is the contrast too. He shows the good side of humanity too. The characters are great. It can get funny at points & there are humans who want to co-exist with the Aliens. Will it all go to crap & we’ll get de-de-de-de-destruction or will we co-exist? Or something in between. Either way I’m looking forward to finding out.
Cuando los personajes protagonistas pierden el primer plano para ser ocupado por el tema militar, la narración se empantana. Y en este tomo ocurre demasiado. Afortunadamente los alienígenas ocupan al final el foco y vuelven a surgir algunas de las ideas que más molan de la serie (la aceptación del diferente, los inmigrantes bajo el umbral de la percepción de una sociedad inmunizada ante su presencia y sufrimiento...)
Ma tu, dove è che vai? Ancora non riesco a capire come Asano voglia portare avanti la storia, dubito che lui stesso lo sappia. Spero in qualche maggior chiarimento nel prossimo volume, soprattutto sul ruolo del piccolo invasore trapiantato nel corpo del ragazzo umano.
Vamos profundizando en lo que toca a los invasores y los diferentes movimientos ciudadanos y de los gobiernos... La cosa se pone cada vez más interesante.