The first few chapters are far more perverted and ecchi than later on. Fans often tell others just to skip those as it's not indicative of what the series is really like. Victor: Basically, this loop thing will warp you to a newly formed earth, effectively making it a time warp that only goes to the future. Andy finds Fuuto, the MC of the show who has disaster happen to anyone that touches her. Andy is considered an Undead, and wants to die, so he believes his only hope from a “grand death” is to fall in love with Fuuto. I love Andy as a character because he’s so optimistic no matter the challenge, and he’s overall hilarious especially when he cuts his legs off to get a power Chapter 26 confirms that Billy is blind, but there were several hints to this fact in past chapters. Notably, he doesn't realize Tatiana is aiming her weapons at him under Juiz' power and instead just notes that the room has gotten hotter in chapter 9, he doesn't know what's going on when Fuuko wraps her shirt around Victor in chapter 17, he could only tell that Fuuko had a good gun based on the sound of the gunshot in chapter 18, and he has no idea what was going on when Juiz destroyed the alien spaceships in Chapter 20.

After a whole arc where the world ends, with everyone aside from the two gods, Fuuko, and Andy dying, the next few chapters are about Fuuko rebuilding the Union better than before and are significantly lighter in tone - particularly with Fuuko being able to Set Right What Once Went Wrong for Ichico, Gina, and Void. Unwinnable by Design: Implied. Luna mentions that they made three ultra powerful artifacts that would help aid the Negators in the final battle against Sun, but even in their strongest showing, only two of them were able to appear and at best stall Sun's assault. Fuuko hypothesizes that they can't win because the third relic never appeared in any of the previous 100 loops (aka 455.52 billion years), and will only manifest in the 101st. Only Six Faces: Tozuka has a distinct tendency to draw his male characters with similar faces, regardless of any other differences in their designs; it's especially noticeable on Andy and Void. Loveridge, Lynzee (June 19, 2020). "Nominees Announced For Reader-Chosen Tsugi ni Kuru Manga 2020 Awards". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on July 16, 2020 . Retrieved June 19, 2020.I do have mixed feelings about this anime. The first two episodes were exciting, but then the last two kind of lost me due to the silliness of certain things about the show.

The Union and Under are this to each other. Both are groups made of Negators who have come together to achieve a goal, but while the Union all are united under the single goal of killing God to protect the world, Under are united by their mutual interests and have different goals depending on the member. Also, while both groups are willing to kill other Negators outside of their ranks, the Union only does so to keep the rest of the world safe, while the hunters do so simply because they deem them useless. Individual members also act as foils to one another as well.

Undead Unluck contains examples of:

Semantic Superpower: The nature of Negators' powers is rooted in the ability to negate the very rules of the universe, so many of their abilities play into perception and the limits of the very concept they're based upon. In the 101st Loop, part of Fuuko's plan to Earn Your Happy Ending for every single Negator is to sometimes invoke the activation of their negation-based tragedy, then avert it at the last second, leaving them with the power, but sometimes manifested in different ways than their prior incarnations due to the current versions having a different outlook from Fuuko's efforts. This is best shown with "Unseen", which originally just turned the user invisible when he closed his eyes, but the 101 version can extend this to outright erasing things that could allow him to be detected, like his weight and can even turn his friends invisible due to the phrasing of his rule that lets him turn anything belonging to him invisible too. The Summer Arc has Feng, an Under member sent to capture Fuuko who also has an interest in Shen. He ends up forming a Villain Team-Up with the titular UMA Summer as well, whom he helps grow by feeding it explosive material. Psychometry: Certain artifacts will funnel visions into the mind of the person touching them the first time they touch them. These images are later revealed to be visions of past loops. As the episodes pile up one by one, the more interesting it starts to get. However, don't take the ridiculousness of this Anime at face value, because it is hiding some major things which looks like betraying the tone. If the ending theme is anything to go by, it might not be all gags and jokes for much longer.

Space Is Noisy: During Spoil and Victor's battle, both combatants are able to talk to one another despite being in space. The original one-shot has a few differences from the serialized first chapter: Fuuko was about 10 when her parents died rather than 8, and part of the story involves her figuring out how her power can affect more than one person, Andy has dark roots and the card in his head is an ATM card, the Scarred Man is part of an Under-like group seeking violent revenge on a world that discriminates against them, and there's no To You, From Me. Cast Full of Pretty Boys: The majority of the male characters are easy on the eyes and tend to have a Heroic Build, to the point that even the Older Than They Look Mad Scientist with Creepy Shadowed Undereyes still manages to be a Hunk. Family Theme Naming: The Vorgeil family. Ichico is spelled with the Japanese number for one, Nico with two, and their daughter Mico with three. Void in his prime and at the time of his abilities manifesting heavily resembles Balrog in his Street Fighter V-era outfit.Seasonal Baggage: Apocalypse assigns four quests to capture or neutralize UMA Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter all at once. Product Placement: During Fuuko's trips through Andy's memories, Andy pulls out a "new beer" (Budweiser), label and all, and comments on how much he likes the taste. It's also mentioned as one of Andy's favorite foods in his profile. When they introduce Gina, that’s when things started to fall off for me. Her power was just corny and took away from the show a bit.

Fuuko's favorite manga is To You, From Me. You-Me's cover in the first episode of the anime also resembles the manga's first volume cover. Episode of the Dead: The fight against UMA Spoil takes place in the small U.S. town of Longing, where Spoil has turned the majority of the populace into zombies. A light novel by Sawako Hirabayashi (不揃いなユニオンの日常 Fuzoroina Yunion no Nichijou, roughly translated as Irregular Union's Daily Life) was released in Japan in February 2023. Both Juiz and Under's Leader (a.k.a. Billy) lead their respective organizations with the goal of killing God, recruiting other Negators to help achieve their goal and sometimes doing unsavory things to achieve what they want. That said, Juiz ultimately wants to protect the entire Earth from God and its rules and does what she does for the sake of everyone, while Billy only cares for Negators and is perfectly willing to sacrifice the masses to do so.

Ending Theme

Then there's chapter 138, where it's revealed this is one of Apocalypse's powers, which he uses as a penalty if the Roundtable passes on all of his quests by skipping the outside world a year into the future. This is exactly what Fuuko wants, however, as there's an almost 30-year gap between the earliest Negators she knows (Gina, Nico, and Ichico) and the next generation (Billy, Rip, etc.), and she doesn't want to risk losing anyone on a quest in the meantime. After several chapters of Billy betraying the Union and stealing the Round Table, chapter 37 features a relatively light story of Fuuko and a few other Union members creating their own manga so they can break into Shueisha to investigate To You, From Me. The Spring Arc has two: the titular UMA Spring, whose takedown is the main driver of the arc's events, and Under, who aim to be the ones to kill it.