 They say that in space No one can hear you talk to your skeleton backpack and of course turn people into skulls to trade them in for currency Hey everybody, welcome back to a We Can Geekdom Geo here and today We're doing a first impressions video on Kyu Hayashida's manga Die Dark. Her latest work Just came out published in North America, got my hands on volume one, read it and here are my first impressions Right away. I gotta say if you're a fan of Dorohedoro, this will be right up your alley. It is fantastic It is macabre Glorious and dirty to look at but oh so well drawn the story stars the character Zaha Zanko Who has great and terrible powers? They say if you possess his bones you will be granted any wish so essentially the Young man has a hit on his head throughout the galaxy as multiple people are after him for You know to claim such a wish We don't really know if that's true or not But that is what the rumor is saying across the galaxy This is a manga that takes place in space and you have characters traversing the multiple galaxies and all that stuff in really disgusting looking and in quite imaginative Spaceships as they're searching for What is essentially a pirate booty the quirky thing is that Zaha Zanko is this teen aged kid Who doesn't really let that stuff get to him and he still his upbeat self even though he's aware of the stuff That's happening. He's still going to go after several dubious characters like the beginning chapter of the story He still maintains his joyful self and that I found really awesome You don't have a lot of characters like that in a setting like this Obviously if it were a shonen jump title you would have a happy-go-lucky protagonist but on something from the twisted mind of Q. Hayashita I wouldn't have expected that but then again, I get some really weird vibes from this manga It reminds me too much of adoro hedoro. That's a good thing and on a somewhat smaller scale That's a bad thing. You see several of the characters their art and their character designs I should say kind of remind me of the characters of that other manga. There is a female Character in this who is sort of this merchant seller immediately I thought oh, it's Nikkaido from Doro hedoro so it's stuff It's moments like that where it just reminds me that I am reading a new manga But it kind of looks like the older one, but that's not something that would stop me from enjoying die-dark I think it's a well-constructed story with a really cool protagonist Something really unique is that he has this skeletal buddy called a vacuum who is We don't know yet his full backstory But essentially is this backpack looking dude who transforms into this giant skeletal creature and is able to assist Our main protagonist, but also care for him. They have a really nice relationship It's Zaha and a vacuum and you see that in the middle of the book when they go into a flashback Examining our main protagonist back story a little bit back when he was eight years of age And he wandered into this academy at the request of a vacuum So you know suit to sort of protect him there for as long as possible and over there You find out more secrets about what could possibly be his Courage and all that stuff the main appeal obviously aside from the beautiful art is just the The author's vision. It's so chaotic and wonderful to have Creative plots like this is really cool I like when a creator takes chances and creates something that is uniquely them and doesn't adhere to any sort of formula You know what I mean? I mean, where else can you get stuff like this where you have a character? Floating through space with a dark cloak a dark axe and this mask that looks really badass and creepy as he's Chopping down bad guys turning them into skeletons because he wants to buy a Spaceship and the actual spaceship the currency that is using is these bones and when he turns them in he finally gets A ship and it turns out sort of to be this anthropomorphic Thing that turns into a giant ship and he's gonna use it to traverse the Alternate Reality of the universe and it's not specifically stated at the beginning But there's this there are two versions the regular universe that people are traversing through and there's this dark universe laying underneath or something and I guess the main goal of the Duo here is to traverse that and find whomever spreading the rumors about this curse this wish granting ability that Zanko's body possesses. We don't really know yet. What's going to happen, but that's half the fun obviously they meet several other characters like Death here who I'm not going to spoil but I thought was an excellent character and really there's a lot of Humor to this story. Yes, it's gritty grotesque macabre and awesome looking But it also has that signature style and humor that Ayashita is known for if you've read Dorohedoro that silly slapstick humor and the quirky dialogue is ever so present here with of course a vacuum and The interactions between him and Zanko and of course Shimada death right here Just really awesome funny cool stuff. I can't wait as a first impression spaces I absolutely loved it and I highly recommended this is rated for older teen of course is published by the folks at seven C's It's smaller than your regular manga, which a lot of people were upset about but I kind of like this digest size It's kind of cute and the presentation overall is fantastic. They preserved all the Colored pages which is awesome. I always love seeing colored pages in manga and you have some really wicked Displays here which benefit from that. I like that it has all the illustrations and the colored chapters as well and Not on a whole lot of back matter there is a bonus chapter story as well as a crossword puzzle which I Was not expecting to see in a manga But hey, 2021 now. I've seen everything overall. Yeah, I really enjoyed die-dark. I am looking forward to volume 2 I believe volume 3 came out in Japan, but we still don't have that Solicited but nonetheless super excited about this series Interested to see where it goes. Have you read die-dark volume 1? Are you reading the series as it comes out? Let me know in the comments section down below and also let me know if you're a fan of Q Hayashida, whichever works as your favorite and if you choose Doro Hedoro What's your favorite character from Doro Hedoro? 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