Dan Da Dan’s Freaky First Chapters are Out there to Learn for Free

This week marked the debut of Dan Da Dan’s anime adaptation, one thing people have been looking forward to for a very long time. Excellent news: not solely have audiences taken fairly a shine to it, Shonen Leap is constructing on the anime’s momentum by making the manga’s opening act open to everybody, membership or no.

From now till…every time Shonen Leap says so, the primary 5 chapters of Yokinobu Tatsu’s supernatural romcom are free for everybody to learn for a “restricted time.” It’s one thing we noticed final 12 months with One Piece: to coincide with Netflix’s live-action adaptation, the primary 12 volumes of the continuing sequence—aka, all the East Blue Saga—was made free in almost two dozen languages. Dan Da Dan can solely give so many chapters away (by this Sunday, it’ll have hit 169 chapters), but it surely’ll offer you a good suggestion of what to anticipate from the sequence.

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For those who’re attempting to find out how a lot territory the primary season of the Dan Da Dan anime will cowl, its first three episodes totally adapt chapters 1-4 of the manga correct, whereas episode 4 appears primed to deal with most (if not all) of chapter 5 by November. Shonen Leap clearly hopes this sampling will entice you adequate to join their membership and maintain binging, or on the very least, choose up the collected volumes as you’re employed your manner by means of the sequence. And if you happen to don’t need to do any of that, there’s at all times simply watching the anime itself and studying in regards to the sequence’ inevitably wacky twists and activates a week-by-week foundation with everybody else.

So if you wish to see what Dan Da Dan’s all about, give the primary 5 chapters a shot proper over on Shonen Leap’s website. When you’re right here, inform us what you considered the manga’s first episode down within the feedback beneath.

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