Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (Japanese: デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション, Hepburn: Deddo Deddo Dēmonzu Dededede Desutorakushon), also abbreviated as DDDD, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from April 2014 to February 2022, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga for English release. The story follows two high school girls who struggle with the mundanity of life after an alien spaceship descends on Japan.

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kadode Koyama
デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション (Deddo Deddo Dēmonzu Dededededesutorakushon)
Genre	Post-apocalyptic^[1] Science fiction^[2] Slice of life^[3]
Manga
Written by	Inio Asano
Published by	Shogakukan
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	April 28, 2014 – February 28, 2022
Volumes	12
Anime film series
Directed by	Tomoyuki Kurokawa
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Taro Umebayashi
Studio	Production +h.
Released	March 22, 2024 – May 24, 2024
Films	2
Anime and manga portal

A two-part anime film adaptation produced by Production +h. premiered its first part in March 2024 and the second part is set to premiere in May of the same year.

By March 2022, Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction had over 3 million copies in circulation. In 2021, the manga won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category, as well as the Excellence Award of the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2022.

Plot

A large spaceship appears over Tokyo three years before the story starts. A one-sided war against the seemingly harmless aliens ensues, sparking controversy and pacifism.

Despite this unique and tragic event, high school girls Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa Ouran behave as if nothing has changed. They live their days like they always have. The focus of this story is not the alien invasion, but human nature, dialogue, growing up, and life.

Characters

Kadode Koyama (小山 門出, Koyama Kadode)

Voiced by: Lilas Ikuta^[4]

A girl in her third year of high school. She loves the iconic manga character Isobeyan.

Ouran Nakagawa (中川 凰蘭, Nakagawa Ouran)

Voiced by: Ano [ja]^[4]

Ouran is a very flamboyant girl, who often rambles on about her goal to enslave or lead the human race to destruction. However, despite her seemingly flamboyant and sociable personality, Ouran tends to only show her true self to her friends and family. She is Kadode's best friend.

Kiho Kurihara (栗原 キホ, Kurihara Kiho)

Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki^[5]

Ai Demoto (出元 亜衣, Demoto Ai)

Voiced by: Miyuri Shimabukuro^[5]

Rin Hirama (平間 凛, Hirama Rin)

Voiced by: Saeko Ooki^[5]

Futaba Takemoto (竹本 ふたば, Takemoto Futaba)

Voiced by: Azumi Waki^[5]

Makoto Tainuma (田井沼 マコト, Tainuma Makoto)

Voiced by: Ryoko Shiraishi^[5]

Keita Ōba (大葉 圭太, Ōba Keita)

Voiced by: Miyu Irino^[5]

Kenichi Kohiruimaki (小比類巻 健一, Kohiruimaki Kenichi)

Voiced by: Koki Uchiyama^[5]

Naoki Watarase (渡良瀬 直樹, Watarase Naoki)

Voiced by: Taito Ban^[5]

Hiroshi Nakagawa (中川 ひろし, Nakagawa Hiroshi)

Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe^[5]

Nobuo Koyama (小山 ノブオ, Koyama Nobuo)

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda^[5]

Isobeyan (イソベやん)

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita^[6]

Debeko (デベ子)

Voiced by: Tarako^[6]

Head of the Invaders

Voiced by: Naoto Takenaka^[7]

Ojiro-senpai (尾城先輩)

Voiced by: Chiharu Sawashiro^[7]

Hikari Sumaru (須丸光, Sumaru Hikari)

Voiced by: Saori Ōnishi^[7]

Takarada (宝田)

Voiced by: Kenichirō Matsuda^[7]

Tarō Miura (三浦太郎, Miura Tarō)

Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi^[7]

Ogino (荻野)

Voiced by: Masafumi Kobatake^[7]

Media

Manga

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, written and illustrated by Inio Asano, was first announced with the tentative title Honobono Fūfu (ほのぼの夫婦, "Tender-hearted Couple").^[8][9][10] The manga started in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits on April 28, 2014.^[10] The series went on hiatus multiple times.^[11][12][13] It finished on February 28, 2022.^[14][15] Shogakukan collected its chapters in twelve tankōbon volumes, released from September 30, 2014,^[16] to March 30, 2022.^[17]

Viz Media announced at Comic-Con International 2017 that it had licensed the manga in North America.^[18] The manga has also been licensed in Brazil by Editora JBC,^[19] in France by Kana,^[20] in Spain by Norma Editorial,^[21] in Germany by Tokyopop,^[22] and in Italy by Panini Comics.^[23]

Volumes

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	September 30, 2014^[16]	978-4-09-186500-7	April 17, 2018^[24]	978-1-4215-9935-9
2	February 27, 2015^[25]	978-4-09-186857-2	July 17, 2018^[26]	978-1-4215-9956-4
3	August 28, 2015^[27]^[28]	978-4-09-187260-9 978-4-09-159212-5 (LE)	October 16, 2018^[29]	978-1-4215-9958-8
4	February 29, 2016^[30]^[31]	978-4-09-187563-1 978-4-09-941867-0 (LE)	January 15, 2019^[32]	978-1-4215-9959-5
5	September 30, 2016^[33] September 28, 2017 (LE)^[34]	978-4-09-187829-8 978-4-09-941880-9 (LE)	April 16, 2019^[35]	978-1-4215-9960-1
6	May 30, 2017^[36] May 26, 2017 (LE)^[37]	978-4-09-189567-7 978-4-09-941890-8 (LE)	July 16, 2019^[38]	978-1-9747-0786-7
7	August 30, 2018^[39]^[40]	978-4-09-860100-4 978-4-09-943025-2 (LE)	October 15, 2019^[41]	978-1-9747-0787-4
8	June 28, 2019^[42]^[43]	978-4-09-860354-1 978-4-09-943052-8 (LE)	June 16, 2020^[44]	978-1-9747-1531-2
9	December 26, 2019^[45]^[46]	978-4-09-860520-0 978-4-09-943058-0 (LE)	January 19, 2021^[47]	978-1-9747-1889-4
10	December 25, 2020^[48]^[49]	978-4-09-860834-8 978-4-09-943077-1 (LE)	September 21, 2021^[50]	978-1-9747-2520-5
11	July 30, 2021^[51]^[52]	978-4-09-861157-7 978-4-09-943089-4 (LE)	August 16, 2022^[53]	978-1-9747-3010-0
12	March 30, 2022^[17]^[54]	978-4-09-861293-2 978-4-09-943102-0 (LE)	April 18, 2023^[55]	978-1-9747-3630-0

Anime

In March 2022, it was announced that the series will receive an anime adaptation produced by Production +h.^[56] It was later confirmed to be a two-part film adaptation directed by Tomoyuki Kurokawa, with a screenplay by Reiko Yoshida, character designs and chief animation direction by Nobutaka Ito, and music composed by Taro Umebayashi.^[57][58] The first part premiered in Japanese theaters on March 22, 2024.^[4] The second part was originally scheduled for April 19, but was later delayed to May 24 to improve the film's quality.^[59]

Reception

By March 2022, the manga had over 3 million copies in circulation.^[60]

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction placed eighteenth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2016 ranking of top 20 manga for male readers.^[61] It won the French award of "Daruma for Best Drawing Manga" at the Japan Expo Awards in 2017.^[62] The series was chosen as one of the Best Manga at the Comic-Con International Best & Worst Manga of 2018.^[63] The manga received the Attilio Micheluzzi Award in 2018 for the Best Foreign Manga.^[64] The series won the French Konishi Prize for the Best Translated Manga in 2019.^[65] In 2021, along with Police in a Pod, Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.^[66][67][68] It was also awarded an Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2022.^[69]

The manga was nominated for an Eisner Award in the category "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia" in 2019.^[70]

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External links

• Official website at Big Comic Bros (in Japanese)
• Official anime website (in Japanese)
• Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction on Twitter   (in Japanese)
• Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia