Dead Rock is the story of one demons time in the greatest demon school of all. See Yakuto has a goal. A goal so crazy that everyone believes he has a death wish. And the only way to achieve it is to gain knowledge and power at this hellish institute. Together with the crew of demons who have the misfortune of being his classmates, he will do everything in his power to achieve his goal. Even killing the teachers. But first, he has to pass the entrance exam.
Our cast is as diverse and crazy as ever. From birds to humanoid creatures to whatever this guy is, there is always a crazy new friend to meet.
Everyone also has crazy powers based off the type of demon they are. And of course, given it's a Hiro Mashima series, Yakuto has dragon powers.
Our main boy might look like a precious little bean, but he has some crazy strength! The series even starts with him killing a bunch of the other entrance examees!!!!
The comedy is definitely on point for this series. From Yakuto just being a sweet goof, to the chaos of turning a classmate into a puppet, to one of the gals falling in love because of Yakuto being insane, there are jokes and gags everywhere. Which I feel is very important for a series like this. This one is a little darker especially at the start so I think the humor was needed.
This series does have alot of death right at the start. From killing classmates and giant bugs during the entrance exam to killing teachers and students once class is in session it seems no one is safe. This also means this one has a lot of crazy fight scenes right off the bat too! Everyone has such cool powers, even if some of them may weild them a tad too recklessly.
The art on this one definitely more reflects his newer style, feeling softer than his earlier works. It's much more reminiscent of Edens Zero which has some amazing art. It leads to an interesting contract between this dark world full of greusume demons and the soft look of everyone.
This one is definitely a series that started off with a bang. If you like Hiro Mashima's other works, or things like Welcome to Demon school Iruma-Kun or Assassination Classroom then this one may be up your alley. I will admit though this is the one series of his that I do have some issues with but since those are spoilers I want to give fair warning. This review is about to leave the spoiler free zone.
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When I grabbed this I was a little hesitant to begin with as I not super into the whole protagonist is a demon thing. Just not my vibe. But I was willing to look past it. The other big issue though is Yakuto's goal. His goal is to kill the being who calls himself god in this world. Which I do not know how I feel about this. This is a world though with many gods and Yakuto's reasoning behind why he thinks god needs to die makes sense. But it is some thing that I am unsure about. This is my only issue though with this one.
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