Undead Unluck Just Became Shonen Jump's Most Tragic Series
Warning: this article discusses suicidality and includes spoilers for Undead Unluck chapter 94!
A tragic theme Undead Unluck introduced in its very first chapter just resurfaced after the Shonen Jump manga created the false impression over the last 60-or-so chapters that love and friendship had conquered all.
Undead Unluck began on an incredibly dark note for a shonen. A girl named Fuuko Izumo, whose Unluck power causes fatal accidents to befall those who touch her, tries to end her life in the opening pages. A man named Undead Andy saves her, but he has ulterior motives. He's an immortal tired of living and, in all his travels, he never had so much hope as he does now. He views her Unluck as the only force capable of trumping his eponymous power. The two are literally bonded by a desire to die. But the longer they fight alongside each other, the less they begin to speak of wanting to die. They both make friends who they cherish and want to protect, and even more touchingly, Fuuko and Undead Andy fall in love with each other. But chapter 94 by Mangaka Yoshifumi Totsuka just brought this dark theme back for the first time in a long, long while.
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After a pivotal fight won by Fuuko, Undead Andy first comforts her, telling her that she gave her opponent the satisfying death he always wanted. But then he says "I gotta envy him. It reminds me that I wanna die like him too." He doesn't stop there. Undead Andy soon goes on a tirade about all the ways she can help him die, which readers were led to believe he'd given up on long ago. As early as chapter 28, Undead Andy made a stunning admission that dared readers to hope that he was beginning to love life just like Fuuko.
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