Yukinobu Tatsuโs Dandadan began on Shonen Jump+ in April 2021. Momo Ayase believes in ghosts and thinks aliens are nonsense. The UFO obsessive in her class believes the opposite. To settle it, she heads for a UFO hotspot and he heads for a haunted tunnel.
They were both right. He comes back cursed, picks up the nickname Okarun, and she wakes up with psychic powers. What keeps the series working is that the supernatural brawling never displaces the teenagers underneath it. Fights end, school resumes, and a sincere scene is usually followed immediately by a stupid joke.
The art is a large part of the appeal. Dense backgrounds, inventive yokai design, and page rhythms that change from spread to spread got attention from the earliest chapters. It also matters that the adults do things: Momoโs grandmother Seiko, a working medium, is one of the strongest characters in the book.
Twenty-four volumes are out, with a twenty-fifth on the way. Science SARU animated the first season in 2024 and the second in 2025, and a third season is confirmed for 2027. MANGA Plus and VIZ carry the manga in English.
