Staff Pick
The Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction series is a slice of life with an alien invasion serving as background noise, centered around a teenage girl and her friend as they stumble toward adulthood with nihilistic zest. Asano's art and storytelling are as stellar as always, and here he depicts a world that went mad long before the mothership appeared in the sky. Recommended By Cosima C., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
It's just an everyday apocalypse.
Three years ago the aliens invaded Tokyo. Nothing was ever the same again.
But after a while, even impending doom starts to feel ordinary.
The Japanese Self Defense Forces are still looking for a way to combat the looming alien threat three years after the invasion, but so far conventional weapons have had no effect on the mothership. Maybe it's time to try something unconventional. Meanwhile, Kadode Koyama is in high school. She and her best friend avidly track the aliens' movements on social media and less enthusiastically study for college entrance exams. When the end of the world is overhead, you learn to take things one step at a time.