Undead Unluck

After reading the conclusion of her favorite manga series, Fuuko Izumo finally feels ready to end her existence. For the past 10 years, Fuuko has been afflicted by a condition that brings extreme misfortune to anyone who touches her. This has had a drastic effect on her surroundings, even inadvertently resulting in the deaths of those around her—including her parents.

As she stands on a bridge above train tracks, Fuuko is touched by a strange man, causing the footing underneath him to break and dropping him in front of an oncoming train. However, when Fuuko finds the man's corpse, she discovers that his body is regenerating and that he is coming back to life.

The man, whom Fuuko names Andy, is immortal—and like her, he also wishes for death. Initially dismissive, Fuuko eventually decides to team up with Andy to give him the best death possible; but a mysterious organization lurks in the shadows, hoping to take advantage of the duo's bizarre abilities.

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Undead Unluck ranked first in the Best Printed Manga category at the sixth Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards in 2020. It ranked 14th in the 2021 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division and sixth on Honya Club's Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2021 list.

The series was published digitally as an English simulpub through MANGA Plus. The volumes have been published in English by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint since May 4, 2021. It has also been released in Italian by Panini Comics since November 11, 2021.

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Jan 26, 2025

ClayP

Recommended

I guess it's fitting to write a review now that the series ended today, and man I have to say it was a fun ride!

I was recommended this manga over 3 years ago (i think) and I'll be honest, I really struggled to get into it at first. Despite the interesting premise and great power system (genuinely one of the most fun and busted I've came across in manga lmao), I didn't enjoy a lot of the character dynamics of the bat. I definitely understand why people have criticisms of the early story and that's why the anime didn't land amazingly (on top of the ...

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Feb 25, 2021

Half-Gifts

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (39/239 eps)

(Review up to ch. 39, score subject to change)

I've fallen a bit out of touch with what's new in manga and anime over the past couple of years, so I decided to cop a subscription to the Weekly Shonen Jump app to get an overview of up-and-coming series. I already have a few ongoing series on my radar, but I started with Unluck x Undead at the suggestion of a friend. Sure, it's another shonen joint about eccentric, superpowered demigods, but I was intrigued by its central concept of Negation. The abilities of UxU's protagonists subvert the laws of universe, which can be a help ... or a hinderance depending on their user's creativity.

My first impression of the series was the frenetic pacing of its first few chapters, which rarely lets up. There's very little in the way of exposition and world-building, which means by the time you've reached the fifth chapter, you'll get the gist of the story, the cast, and the stakes. It's a welcome alternative to a cookie-cutter backstory and one-by-one introduction to characters, and the dynamic between protagonists Fuuko and Andy is original enough to create interest off the bat. As the pair are adults, we're spared your typical high school setting and puerile antics for a more complex relationship with romantic tension that's directly linked to their powers.

Unfortunately, because UxU never really lets off of its plot-driven gas, Fuuko and Andy feel wooden as individuals. The latter's design is generic, and his overconfident veneer is only occasionally removed via an artificial plot device. Fuuko's the more interesting protagonist on paper, though as other reviewers have suggested, we could spend more time getting to know her better. Shonen jump already has a dearth of multi-dimensional female protagonists, and having Fuuko play sidekick is a wasted opportunity. She's also the butt of some ecchi gags leave a bad taste in my mouth. Luckily, UxU gets significantly less horny as the story progresses: it's better for it.

Where the series succeeds is in its willingness to take wild risks and flirt with meta-referential humor. The central conflict between the union of Negators and God itself leads to an onslaught of ridiculous plot twists (including the earth expanding into an entire galaxy, each country occupying a different planet), and the weirdness of it all is a running joke in the story. Where I've left off in the series, our heroes are in pursuit of a mangaka whose writing has predicted the events of the story thus far — which may explain some of the existential confusion that I've experienced while reading. It's not as successful a deconstruction of shonen tropes as, say, Mob Psycho 100, but I've found UxU to be pretty promising. I forsee it continuing to improve as it goes on.

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Feb 27, 2025

_Bubassotto_

Not Recommended

Preliminary (144/239 eps)

The work has a good initial idea but a lot of holes!

Reading Undead Unluck I had this impression that the work did have a good premise but that it dragged on for too long, making me notice some holes in the work. The work itself is fun at the beginning when you are getting the idea of the world that they want to present to you, but after that it gets very boring, it is always like "a strong adversary appears, defeats the beast and another stronger adversary appears". This kind of thing is very, very noticeable, even more so at the time it was ... released when, for comparison, we had Jujutsu Kaisen which did a much better job with its antagonists (in this case the curses). If we are to compare them, the UMAs are pretty mediocre, at the beginning they were impressive but then every UMA that appeared could destroy the entire universe, very boring. While reading this work, I had the idea in my head for several moments of "I hope it ends soon" because I couldn't stand to read this work anymore since it has a lot of dragging in it from the middle to the end and by that half I couldn't stand to read a single chapter of this work.

Another point to mention is that this work has an empty universe, nothing besides the characters of the work has any relevance, the world is lifeless, it seems that if everything ended it wouldn't be missed since there is nothing in this universe that makes me captivated by this world and want to see it well. In general, my rating is a 4 because they let the chance to make a good work slip through their fingers, they had a protagonist with an interesting ability, a different power system and interesting characters but left that only as a promise.

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A obra tem uma boa ideia inicial mas muitos furos!

Lendo Undead Unluck tive essa impressão de que a obra teve sim uma boa premissa mas que foi se arrastando por tempo demais fazendo que eu notasse alguns furos na obra. A obra em si é divertida no começo quando você está pegando a ideia do mundo que querem te apresentar mas depois disso a coisa fica muito chata, fica sempre em um "adversário forte aparece, derrota o bicho e vem um outro adversário mais forte", esse tipo de coisa é muito mas muito perceptível, ainda mais na epoca que estava lançando que para comparar tínhamos Jujutsu Kaisen que fez um trabalho muito melhor com seus antagonistas (no caso as maldições) se formos compara-los, os UMA são bem meia boca, no começo até impressionavam mas depois todo UMA que aparecia podia destruir todo o universo, muito chato. Enquanto lia essa obra por vários momentos tive a ideia na minha cabeça de "tomara que acabe logo" pois eu não aguentava mais ler essa obra já que tem muita enrolação nela da metade pro final e nessa metade eu já não aguentava mais ler um capitulo sequer dessa obra.

Outro ponto a se citar é que essa obra tem um universo vazio, nada além dos personagens da obra tem alguma relevância, o mundo é sem vida, parece que se tudo acabasse não faria falta ja que não tem nada nesse universo que faça com que eu me cative por esse mundo e queira vê-lo bem. Em geral minha nota é um 4 pois deixaram a chance de fazer uma boa obra escapar pelos dedos, tinham um protagonista com uma habilidade interessante, um sistema de poder diferente e personagens interessantes mas deixaram isso só na promessa.

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