Dandadan

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Apr 6, 2021 to ?

Genres: Action, Comedy, Supernatural

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump+

Authors: Tatsu, Yukinobu (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.45¹ (scored by 74,228 users)

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Ranked: #195²

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Popularity: #45

Members: 203,517

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MangaShounen Jump+Tatsu, Yukinobu (Story & Art)

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Dandadan

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After being aggressively rejected, Momo Ayase finds herself sulking when she stumbles across a boy being bullied. Saved by her rash kindness, the occult-obsessed boy attempts to speak to her about supernatural interests he believes they share. Rejecting his claims, Ayase proclaimed that she instead is a believer in ghosts, starting an argument between the two over which is real.

In a bet to determine who is correct, the two decide to separately visit locations associated with both the occult and the supernatural—Ayase visiting the former and the boy visiting the latter. When the two reach their respective places, it turns out that neither was wrong and that both the occult and ghosts do exist.

This marks the beginning of Ayase and the boy's adventure, as they attempt to fix the surreal, supernatural, and occult elements around them to return to a normal life.

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Dandadan ranked fourth in the 2022 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division. The manga was nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022 and ranked seventh in the final ranking.

The series has been simulpub digitally in English through MANGA Plus. The volumes have been published in English by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint since October 11, 2022. It has also been released in Italian by J-POP since September 21, 2022.

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Apr 15, 2021

KatoWorks

Recommended

Preliminary (1/? eps)

Instead of listing the famous names that recommended this manga, I want to clearly state my thoughts about this beginning premise.

-Okay typical school setting
-Occultic science fiction shit
-What the fuck

Some of the shit we've seen in the first chapter alone can be taken extremely out of context, in which I compare this part to the random shit I've or you've seen in Fire Punch (Author was an assistant under Fujimoto).

While there isn't much to go on, I can sorta guess the route we are taking... Honestly, the first chapter was so random I wouldn't even know. I would like to think of it as some sort ...

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May 3, 2021

AvoidLight

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/? eps)

This is a really creative story, probably one of the most creative stories out right now. The characters are funny and how the 2 protagonists interact is amazing.

but....

I have a problem with the story at the moment. it kind of feels like the mangaka doesn't know what he wants to do. Its a really creative story but everything feels rushed and like a lot of stuff is getting thrown at us.

Its not too fair to shit on the manga right now, i do expect this to pick up soon since its only on 4 chapters but at the moment I don't think this is ...

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Sep 29, 2025

tokomata

Not Recommended

Preliminary (86/? eps)

Yokai-Pokemon/Zatchbell x Cabin in the Woods x Chainsaw Man x Toshi Densetsu
Random and goony for the sake of random and goony. Like cracking a 9/11 joke in kaguya sama, no connection. But haha banana ecksdee banana geddit? I'm 8 btw. Wait no, there is sob murderporn backstories for villains, be serious!!
Fast paced Cocomelon colors release dopamine and sertonine in me crowd.
mfs will say <manga> is done by assistant to Fujimoto but won't be able to name the assistants themselves. Applies to Centuria and SxF too. If that is not obvious inorganic PR for Cult of Personality, to promote a work while suppressing the work's creator, ... idk what to think of people who can't find patterns. Typical cookiecutter jump weekly shonen. TL note: Shonen means naive chunni toddlers

Story-4/10 Really just a Disney plot but with ecchi for the teenagers and a sob-backstory sympathizing with murderers at the end of every arc. Extremely formulaic, zero progression, it's been so many years and still nth character keep joining the crew and has an anthropomorphic pokemon familiar etc.(Edit: How long did it take to title drop and start the actual core arc huh? how long did it take to find balls?) .

Art- 3/10. Author only knows how to draw DETAILED cute girls often in panties sometimes getting groped, and maybe few edgy "s0ft sEiNeN" tokyo ghoul male faces. Not even the monsters are well drawn. All ghosts have looong teeth for forcing that disconcerting horror feel, most are tall like hachisakusama. The aliens are mostly horni. The environment visuals are simplistic. Like we get it you can draw a city,.

Writing- 5/10. The long term plot is terrible but on a micro-level, dialogues are good.

The only reason it's rated extra high is because CSM author promoted his assistant's work. Its CSM lite: no gore, heavy ecchi, and same endless....endless action. Arcs are beginning and ending in the fictional world within a matter of 1-2 days. Like go to school, bam! umpteenth monsta in school arc; returning home from school and bam! another new monsta arc.
All the monsters be it aliens, spirits and the rest are varied free for all everywhere and just...whatever; like the monsters in OPM and Cabin in the Woods. At least in OPM and Cabin it is relevant.

A good quarter of the chapters showcase fillery monster of the ((half) (school)) day. Whats annoying is the nested arcs. Oh, the crew has to wait for the next night to meet XYZ monster again? Why skip to the next night when you can experience a different monster arc in the morning between.

At first the Earth doesn't know about aliens, spirits and the rest; but within 20 chapters, author ran out of ideas to keep them "hidden" in that world, and so went full CSM way in normalizing XYZ monster carnage as daily society life. But unlike how in CSM that was the premise from the beginning, here it is obvious its from a lack of creativity. Normal people sees wanton destructions or super/para-normal stuff and dumb enough to forget it next chapter or write off as some trick in the mind.

Half hearted attempts to make some monsters eerily scary. Mieruko-chan is so much better in this and yet rated low because it did not have a bigwig promoting it. The scare attempts are there but always fall flat. Myriad plotholes everywhere. X monster can't physically fight in Y environment, few chapters later he can without explanation. If you don't want one single crass dickjoke get reused for the 86th time, then watch "Ore no Kokan wa Bishoujo Datta no ka" instead

Read if you prefer cute girls getting sexually assaulted for shock value or lighthearted "fun", or prefer mindless shonen *cough*WWE wrastling*cough* action every week.

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