Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction Chapter 100 Discussion

Touka said:
Loved the Doraemon reference from Demon+Ouran, fits well with all the time-travelling hijinks. Also love the title cards — Asano does those better than anybody. The ending seems both uplifting and cryptic. The main gang live their lives rather contently, Kadode and Ouran are unbreakable, but Isobeyan mysteriously returns alongside a curious dot in the sky. Seems like there's some sort of space-time overlap happening.

There are definitely lingering questions, but I love that some of the mysteries remain obscure. Though it would have been nice to see the outcome of some of the other characters, especially Kadode's dad. The note on the final page says; "their story continues," not sure if that's in the sense that the characters will live on, or if Asano plans to do more with them. I'm excited to go back and read the manga from the beginning. I bet there's a bunch of stuff in the earlier volumes that'll have much more significance the second time 'round.

nicoxas said:

But ours Kadode and Ouran basically are dead, the manga itself had stablished how time lines and spirits works.

DeltaBay said:

I don't think they are dead, it is shown that people outside of Tokyo survived and we were given small glimpses of hope that they are both out there somewhere, only to be heard in the end in this other world and they even left a copy of Isobeyan on the table. To further confirm it was them from that specific timeline we know that Kadode calls Ouran "Ontan" and that is exactly what the two from the unaffected timeline have heard. They also said that getting close to them would "distort the timeline". I don't doubt for a second that they survived as they were not in Tokyo at the time of explosion and Ooba kun was seen alive and well too, maybe he helped them as well in some shape or form, who knows? I sure hope we see some more of them, I miss them sooooo much!

nicoxas said:

But ours Kadode and Ouran basically are dead, the manga itself had stablished how time lines and spirits works.

Xenocrisi said:
And what’s happened to Ooba anyways? Did I miss anything? Was he just killed off screen like that by that crazy guy? He doesn’t exist in this timeline I’m guessing?

NomeLucas said:

If Kadode and Ontan are dead why would Asano put in chapter 97 a dialogue between Kadode's father and Makoto says that the demons (Kadode and Ontan school group) were probably fighting inside a robot in the previous chapter and he thinks they are still alive? I don't think Asano would put this dialogue out for nothing.

There is also a monologue from Kadode during the explosion, that even if humanity ended she will continue to live if Ontan is on her side.

I hope Asano does a live or an interview for some magazine explaining this ending.

CrazyBear said:


As for Ai and Rin being absent....what if they originally were invaders that took over bodies...? Ai and her family originally lived in a 8/31 disaster zone. Rin, well, we know almost nothing about her. Both are childhood friends from elementary, supposedly. And both of them are way too nice and pure in personality, it’s suspicious!!

OhmyFohmy said:


The Kadode and Ontan we see at the end are 4 years further into the timeline than we ever saw them in the previous timelines - I don't see why they couldn't have just made a new friend or two in the mean-time (besides, one of them is the friend who died early on, Kohuirimaki's girlfriend).
With no invaders who knows how their time after school may have been, it's unlikely they would have joined the occult club at least, and ouran has a fairly different personality entirely, closer to the firs timeline where she only was friends with Kadode.
There's nothing to say Ouran and Rin just weren't around in Tokyo on that day though, we only saw one day afterall.

removed-user said:
Ima come out and say it: I hate the ending.

I really loathe the trope of using time travel as a means to alter an entire timeline in your story. It's what led to Summertime Render having a trash ending, and its what led to this having an equally bad ending. It's just such a lazy way of resolving things and it almost feels like Asano thought he made a massive mistake killing off so many characters that he wanted to fix it with one simple reset button. It's just lazy writing; it's almost like he was pressured into giving the series a happy ending after the nuke was launched.

nicoxas said:



I feel like most of people couldn't understand, but the point here is that those aren't the Ouran and Kadode we wen't all the manga, they're just them in a world that hasn't been destroyed or dealing with the invaders sort of way. Basically these Kadode and Ouran had the chance of living a normal life.

But ours Kadode and Ouran basically are dead, the manga itself had stablished how time lines and spirits works.

I think these chapters as an epilogue for everything the manga went trough, all the plots ended in chapter 87 with Kadode and Ouran facing the explosion. What we have left in the next chapters are the remains of the broken world that was left after that. 

Chapter 100 is a  good conclusion. The possibility of a normal life that the girls never had.

--Maple-- said:
I wish the story would've continued from the post-apocalyptic 8/32 timeline. I think exploring a new timeline was unnecessary. It's not like that timeline is going to alter the current timeline anyway. The 8/32 world had so much to offer, so much potential. And it also seems like Ontan and Kadode managed to survive. They weren't in Tokyo at the time of the explosion. Also, Makoto mentioned to Kadode's dad about "The Demons", and that wouldn't have been for nothing. Furthermore, alt-reality Oran and Kadode heard our timeline Oran and kadode's voices and supposedly received a copy of Isobeyan from them. It seems like this time they were actually time travelling, because Kadode mentions space-time collapsing, if they venture too close. However, I'm not sure what the purpose of dropping the Isobeyan manga was, maybe because in this timeline they don't have it. It would've been much more interesting to explore the story from Ontan and Kadode's pov with the whole gang, I'm curious about what they were up to during this time. It's a shame the manga ended this way, but that's Inio Asano for you.

Touka said:
Loved the Doraemon reference from Demon+Ouran, fits well with all the time-travelling hijinks.

CrazyBear said:
Isobeyan the manga does not exist. Why?