Three years ago, the arrival of the “Invaders” over Tokyo sparked the greatest war humanity had ever faced. The Japanese government scrambled to fight back. Weapons were mass-produced, sparking controversy and pacifist movements. Despite the tense and precarious state of their environment, 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 as much as on human nature and growing up in a turbulent and uncertain world. [MAL and Wikipedia]
Being the latest lengthy installment in Inio Asano’s larger body of work, the manga for Dead Dead Demon’s continued in the tradition of Asano’s striking direction for paneling and backgrounds, with frequent use of photographs that have been digitally altered and drawn over. The realness of these locations was highlighted in the anime by situating illustrations of the characters directly over some unchanged photographs depicting manga background spots, now in full color.
