Steven Yeun - gamebastion.com

If you’re anything like me, a human being with eyes and ears and a functioning brain, it’s safe to say you’ve probably witnessed quite a lot of upsetting shit over the past five years, to say nothing of the last three weeks. In the words of a malfunctioning spambot posing as a horse, “everything happens so much,” and often our immediate response to cope with the onslaught of existential dread brought on by a clusterfuck of intersecting crises is to simply try not think about everything all at once, if at all. Dissociate, compartmentalize, and go about your regular routine as best as you can. I get it — believe me.

Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction, the new apocalyptic sci-fi anime from Production +h, understands this feeling on such an intimate level, you might find yourself wanting to turn it off from how real it gets. You should watch it though, because it’s great, even when it makes you cringe out of embarrassment, discomfort, and occasionally horror.

Based on Inio Asano’s 2014 manga series, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction (or Dead Dead Demons for short) centers on the story of Kadode Koyama and Ouran Nakagawa, two childhood best friends attending high school after an alien mothership appears in the skies over Tokyo. Despite the mass hysteria and death left in the wake of the ship’s arrival, neither Kadode nor Ouran seem particularly phased by this event. In fact, the same could be said for most of the people around them. It’s just like what Steven Yeun’s character Squeeze told Cassius Green in Sorry to Bother You: If you get shown a problem, but have no idea how to control it, then you just decide to get used to the problem.

Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction isn’t exactly what you would call a conventional alien invasion story. In truth, it’s a pitch-black coming of age comedy about a group of crass, disaffected teenage girls growing up in a patently absurd time where the existence of advanced extraterrestrial lifeforms is treated with same

Steven Yeun