Descendants of Darkness, Vol. 1, 1

by Yoko Matsushita

Book Overview

Asato Tsuzuki works as a shinigami, or 'Guardian of Death', in the Ministry of Hades. It's his duty to make sure that the souls of the dead reach the afterlife, but contrary ghosts and humanity's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591165075
• ISBN13: 9781591165071
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Viz Media
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Not what I thought

This came to me highly recommended, so I got the first one for free with my reading rewards. Have to say, not the most drawing start. I like things that draw me in fast and are able to keep me interested. The main character is pretty cool, though the partners he keeps getting all look exactly the same which made me super confused for awhile. The villain caught my interest but that wasn't until the ending. It was okay, might try to find it online to read and if it grabs me to finish, I might buy the rest of the volumes.

It doesn't matter if it's you or me...

for we are all descendants of darkness! this line, quoth the beautifully evil Dr.Muraki, is the title of one of the most potentially fascinating manga I have ever read. A plethora of detailed artwork and ridiculous, easy-to-realte-to (I think) characters are what make this could be cliche manga a diamond in the ruff. Long dead Tsuzuki is the desert obsessed (and totally gorgeous)agent of the Ministry of hades, where very attractive men (with the exception of chief Konoe) keep the troublesome spirits of the dead in line. Even though the mebers of Hades would drop Tsuzuki like a plate of hotcakes if they could(he's kind of annoying, but liakeable, unlike a certain cliche manga female character I could mention coughUsagicough), they won't because, despite his looks, he's one of the most powerful agents of death that they've got. After losing yet another partner, Tsuzuki ends up with Hisoka, a babyfaced, bigeyed (and dead) sixteen year old as his second in commmand. Hisoka dislikes Tsuzuki (he kind of dislikes everybody, but his cold and unfeeling nature is just a cover for a heart tha, deep down, wants to know why he died. The two main characters are soon matched against the evil, sadistic, possibly psychotic "Doctor" muraki, whose strange attraction (is it really so strange?) to Tsuzuki and possible connection to Hisoka's past lead to them meeting him many more times.... and so goes the pretense of DoD. To contradict anything you may have heard, DoD is not a yaoi series. It is a higly complex and intricate shojo story, and reading the first volume immediately causes you ot beg for more. ^^

Dark = Sexy

The main characters in this manga are utterly hilarious...in a good way. This is way an intro to the characters, so we don't know too much about them yet. But what you do find out is sweet, and romantic, and funny. I can't wait to read the next book.

Cute XD!!

On a whim I picked up this manga. How very glad I am that I did. I am planning on getting the entire set so it really must be good ni?

Some sexy boys playing detectives

This story is my personal favorite. I waited for the manga to come out for a long time, and now that it finally has, I am very glad. The anime is very beautiful to watch, but the books are more entertaining because they go in much more detail. The story is mainly about Tsuzuki, god of death, and his hot partner, Hisoka, and their adventures as they try to fix the beauro's problems. The manga is really funny, with Tsuzuki slacking off all the time and eating apple pie whenever he can, and Hisoka mainly grumbling and sneering at everyone, which doesn't make him any less cute. Muraki is the sadistic villan of the story, and though he does very mean things to Hisoka, which I highly do not approve of, he is still very interesting character and gives the story more feel. I can't wait for volume #2.