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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
slow-paced
“Try talking to her. It might change the world.”
The final volume! As bleak as this series was (and this one opened bleaker than ever), Asano chose to end the series on a high note. One amazing friendship may have the power to change the world! Like so much manga & anime, yes, that seems to tend toward the simplistic & sentimental, but honestly, just getting to see these friends together one last time put a smile on my face. Long live Kadode & Ontan's friendship!
The final volume! As bleak as this series was (and this one opened bleaker than ever), Asano chose to end the series on a high note. One amazing friendship may have the power to change the world! Like so much manga & anime, yes, that seems to tend toward the simplistic & sentimental, but honestly, just getting to see these friends together one last time put a smile on my face. Long live Kadode & Ontan's friendship!
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
it was all pretty good. i see a couple people not liking the ending, which i understand. to me it captures a funny feeling in life, where you feel significant but somehow unrelated to anything happening around you. there are many instances of people acting a certain way for the sake of other people, and those people acting a certain way for others, on and on, an interconnected web that makes causation seem completely ephemeral, unreal. maybe if you get fat, the world will end.
not sure what i'm trying to say here. maybe it's really cheap to say "it's a manga about how nothing makes sense".
you change everyone in your life, even if you don't realize it.
for you, i will become a demon
not sure what i'm trying to say here. maybe it's really cheap to say "it's a manga about how nothing makes sense".
you change everyone in your life, even if you don't realize it.
for you, i will become a demon
This volume felt heavily of being a different series and I wasn’t crazy about that because it had the feeling of losing the emotional stakes that had been developed in the pre-end of the world part. First off, we didn’t get to spend anytime with our core cast until the very final chapters…and even then it was a parallel version of them. That’s probably my biggest qualm with the ending, it’s out of left field and not thematically cohesive with the rest of the series. Basically we have Kadode’s dad exploring the post explosion world where there’s a lot of wild action with the robots and basic snapshots of characters we had gotten to know. I really don’t think the whole parallel world option needed to be explored, because it gives the story this cheap escape to a “happy” ending that just felt shoehorned in. I think it’d have made more sense to end the story at the beach, the summer memories made and the world ending at the same time. This volume feels more like an epilogue to the main story than anything.
I feel really mixed about the ending of Dedede because I enjoyed pretty much the entire series, but this last volume was just so disappointing. It was strange to talk more about characters that didn't really show up and I wish it focused more on the main girls instead of those characters. There were a lot of loose ends leftover but I think that is a part of Asano's writing for endings in general. It also felt rushed and I think it's cause Asano lost steam or was uninterested after a bit, which really sucks because this Dedede was really strong throughout its run. Overall, I really enjoyed Dedede just the last two volumes were pretty weak to me.
Wtf was that? So unfortunate... the series had so much potential. If some of the events early in this volume had happened earlier in the series to connect all of these extra characters together, it might have made more sense. But honestly, all the meaning and deeper messaging I thought were going to be the through lines of this series were dropped for some "if you go back far enough in the future then you can solve all problems" despite that being proven otherwise in earlier volumes. I don't know, I'm just incredibly disappointed by how incoherent and meaningless this series became in this volume. I really feel like this was a result of some rush on production and Asano having to make an ending out of whatever he had released when his publisher gave him the call.
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated