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Review | Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Part 2 movie review – sci-fi anime ends in chaos

  • The aliens have landed and the action is rolling in Part 2, but the protagonists have far more pressing, personal matters to attend to

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A still from Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Part 2 (category IIA, Japanese), directed by Tomoyuki Kurokawa and voiced by Lilas Ikuta and Ano. Image: Inio Asano/Shogakukan/Dededede Committee

3/5 stars

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The second half of Tomoyuki Kurokawa’s sprawling science fiction extravaganza – which sees life go on in Tokyo despite the alien spacecraft that have hovered over the Japanese city for years – dives right back into the action at the exact cliffhanger moment that closed out Part 1.

A military strike on one of the smaller spaceships triggers a multitude of diminutive extraterrestrials to literally rain down upon the city. As they scatter to its four corners, we are warned that this point marks exactly six months until the end of humanity.

It is the kind of news that would send any normal human running for the hills, but Kadode and Ouran (voiced by J-pop starlets Lilas Ikuta and Ano, respectively) have more pressing matters.

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Part 2 Trailer - English subtitled

High school is officially over, and they are now free to start university as strong, independent young adults. Disturbingly, that means that Kadode wastes no time in shacking up with her former teacher, Watarase, for a heated and relatively short-lived relationship.

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Ouran gets together with Obu (Miyu Irino), a strange young man who resembles a boy- band idol who went missing on August 31 three years earlier – the day the aliens arrived.

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