Dandadan
- Genre: action comedy drama ecchi horror mature mystery romance school life sci-fi shounen supernatural
- Author: tatsu yukinobu
- Artist(s): tatsu yukinobu
- Year: 2021
- Original Publisher: shueisha
- Status： Ongoing
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21st century absurdity adapted to anime aliens appearance changes appearance different from actual age attempted rape award-nominated work award-winning work blackmail character development character growth comedic facial expressions comedic misunderstandings comedic undertone comedic violence curses dead family members dead parents dirty jokes enemies become allies enemies become friends exorcism exorcists facial expressions fashionable female lead flashbacks foul-mouthed characters friendly male lead friendship genocide ghosts glasses-wearing male lead glasses-wearing protagonist gyaru gyaru female lead harem subtext high school high school students invaders invasions japan kaijuu kidnappings life-changing events love polygon love triangles male demographic with female lead modern era murders odd situations onmyouji parody partial nudity piloted robots possession prostitutes prostitution romantic subplot running gags sci-fi elements science fantasy sexual assault sexual harassment sexual innuendo sharp-tongued characters shiro gyaru shrines shy male lead shy protagonist sociopaths strong characters student-student relationship suicides super powers technology teenagers tokusatsu tragic past transformations ultraman unrealistic fighting unscrupulous characters unusual first meeting urban fantasy urban legends urban setting violence weak male lead weak to strong world destruction youkai young female lead young male lead
Rating(3.9 / 5.0, 16 votes)
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Popular Reviews
This manga is a ride. The plot is unusual, the characters are great, the pacing is great, and the humor is hilarious. If you can get over the weirdness, it's a gem.
I am gonna subtract one point for the occasional needless over-sexualization of underaged characters (does the MCs clothes really have to conveniently burn/fly/rip off all the time?) - but as a whole, the story is too much of a masterpiece to rate it any lower.
A lovable, fluffy coming of age story, mixed with gruesome tales of lost lives, amazing humour, GORGEOUS ART! (so many new wallpapers hehe) and I adore the two protagonists who equally lead us through this story (was expecting the ML to be the carrying protagonist due to this being Shounen).
Now, as the other comments have already mentioned, there is A LOT of mention of sexual topics and they're shown pretty graphically. I mean it's not Smut but it is Ecchi and I have not seen any site tag it correctly which is a bit worrying. If I had read that in public I would have died of shame!
j4mag’s comment describes it neatly imo.
weird comedy, sometimes kinda out of place but besides that the comic is written/drawn really skillfully.
Don’t pick it up if you dislike sexual humor
Right so the premise of the story is about a gyaru and nerd duo who go around exploring occult stuff, right? Well, kinda. It's also about how the ghosts keep stealing the protagonist's johnson. Never have I seen a series where complaints about how the protagonist has no balls would be so literally true.
The punchlines all lean on the absurd, from absurd monsters, absurd personalities, and absurd situations. Suspension of disbelief is so shattered by halfway through chapter 1 that it's clear the series is much more a parody of battle shounen than a battle shounen in and of itself.
From that lens, the constant cliffhangers and dearth of developed characters is fine. That said, the series' constant flitting between one-note comedy and melodrama robs both of their impacts. When none of the punchlines land, and when the drama feels superficial due to a lack of immersion, a lulsorandum premise can only take the series so far. 7/10. It's not garbage, I guess. At least it's not another generic isekai.
PS: a bug on the Pair of 2+ website replaced half of chapter 5 with an unrelated soccer manga, and I finished the chapter half-convinced it was making fun of the nonsensical extended metaphors prevalent in so many shounen. It wasn't, but it would be on-brand.
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