Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, also abbreviated as DDDD, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from April 2014 to February 2022, with its chapters collected in 12 volumes. Viz Media licensed the manga for English release in North America. The story follows two young women, initially high school seniors and later college students, struggling with the mundanity of life after an alien spaceship appears over Japan.
A two-part anime film adaptation produced by premiered its first part in March 2024, with the second part premiering in May of the same year. An 18-episode original net animation series edition of the films streamed worldwide on Crunchyroll from May to September 2024.
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
Three years before the events of the story, on August 31, an alien spaceship appeared over Tokyo. Although it has not attacked, the Japanese government, seeing it as a potential threat, unsuccessfully tries to destroy it. The situation leads to a cold war between the humans on Earth and the invaders in the mothership above the Tokyo skyline. There is further conflict between political groups who want to eliminate the aliens, called "warctopuses," and those who want to negotiate peace, called "peacesquids". Despite the tense and precarious state of the world, high school students Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa Ouran live their lives with some semblance of normalcy. The focus of the story is not on the alien invasion but on human nature and growing up in a turbulent and uncertain world.Characters
Main characters
;Kadode Koyama;Ouran Nakagawa
Supporting characters
;Kiho Kurihara;Ai Demoto
;Rin Hirama
;Futaba Takemoto
;Makoto Tainuma
;Keita Ōba
;Kenichi Kohiruimaki
;Naoki Watarase
;Hiroshi Nakagawa
;Nobuo Koyama
;Isobeyan
;Debeko
;Head of the Invaders
;Ojiro-senpai
;Hikari Sumaru
;Takarada
;Tarō Miura
;Ogino
Media
Manga
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, written and illustrated by Inio Asano, was first announced with the tentative title Honobono Fūfu. The manga started in Shogakukan's manga magazine, Big Comic Spirits, on April 28, 2014. The series went on hiatus multiple times. It finished on February 28, 2022. Shogakukan collected its chapters in twelve volumes, released from September 30, 2014, to March 30, 2022.Viz Media announced at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con that it had licensed the manga in North America.
Anime
In March 2022, it was announced that the series would receive an anime adaptation produced by 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. The first part premiered in Japanese theaters on March 22, 2024. The second part was originally scheduled for April 19, but was later delayed to May 24 to improve the film's quality. The first part features the theme song "ZeZeZeZettai Seiiki", performed by Ano feat. Lilas Ikuta, while the second part features the theme song "Seishun Ōka", performed by Lilas Ikuta feat. Ano.An 18-episode original net animation series edition of the films streamed worldwide on Crunchyroll from May 24 to September 20, 2024, featuring new footage not included in the theatrical release, written by Takaaki Suzuki. The opening song is "Shinsekai Yori", performed by Ano and Lilas Ikuta, while the ending song is the film's first part theme song "ZeZeZeZettai Seiiki" for episodes 1–8, and the second part theme song "Seishun Ōka" for episodes 9–17. released the episodes in Japan on a limited Blu-ray Disc box set, which became available for purchase through its online store on December 4, 2024.
Reception
By March 2022, the manga had over 3 million copies in circulation.Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, alongside PLINIVS, placed eighteenth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2016 ranking of top 20 manga for male readers. It won the French award of "Daruma for Best Drawing Manga" at the Japan Expo Awards in 2017. The series was chosen as one of the best manga at the San Diego Comic-Con Best and Worst Manga Awards of 2018. The manga received the Attilio Micheluzzi Award in 2018 for Best Foreign Manga. The series won the French Konishi Prize for the Best Translated Manga in 2019. In 2021, along with Police in a Pod, Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category. It was also awarded an Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2022.
The manga was nominated for an Eisner Award in the category "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia" in 2019.