is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshifumi Tozuka. It has been serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine since January 2020, with its chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes as of October 2023. An anime television series adaptation produced by David Production and TMS Entertainment premiered in October 2023.
Synopsis
Fuuko Izumo is a suicidal girl who has been living in seclusion for 10 years since an incident that left more than 200 people dead, including her parents, when she was eight years old. Following the completion of her favorite long-running girls' manga series, Fuuko decides to commit suicide. She is tormented by the fact that she cannot be touched by anyone due to her "unluck" ability, which brings bad luck to anyone she comes into contact with in the flesh. She meets an "undead" man who has amazing regenerative abilities and who desires to die the best death possible, disliking his immortal life. For the sake of convenience, Fuuko names him Andy because he is undead, and they begin to work together. However, they soon see themselves chased by the , a mysterious organization.
Eventually, an assassin of the Union called Shen tells them that the organization has a special team consisting of 10 people with special abilities, and that by joining the team, they will no longer be hunted, so the two decide to join in order to attain Andy's wish for "the best death", and face numerous enemies and the mysteries of the world.
The missions of the team are proposed by a book called , which has supernatural powers. There are people with the ability to negate the rules of the world called . The Union is an organization of Negators specialized in the hunting of or Unidentified Mysterious Animals, creatures that are the embodiment of the Earth's rules (like thirst and decay) and are created by God as both the objectives for the quests provided by Apocalypse, as well as punishment for failing them. They also must defeat a group of Negators that opposes the Union called and , beings chosen to do God's bidding.
Characters
Main characters
An 18-year-old girl who teams up with Andy. When she was a kid, her Negator ability awakened and she accidentally killed her parents, along with other people, in a plane crash. As such, she became severely asocial out of fear of harming others with her ability, becoming suicidal until meeting Andy. Her Negator ability, "Unluck" causes whoever touches her skin-to-skin to die after losing all of their luck. Following the events of the Ragnarok arc, she becomes the new leader of the Union in the 101st loop.
A suicidal and reckless man who teams up with Fuuko. He is obsessed with finding a way to kill himself and takes an interest in Fuuko for her Unluck ability. His Negator ability "Undead" prevents him from dying and he can use his regenerative abilities to do a multitude of things, such as firing his finger like a bullet. He has a card in his head that, when removed, releases a second personality called Victhor. A running gag is his clothes being destroyed, as he can not regenerate them, but this stopped when he tames the UMA Clothes. It is later revealed that Andy is one of the only people aware of the loop, as his powers means he does not die when the world is reset.
The Union
The leader and founder of the Union along with Victor. Her Negator ability "Unjustice" allows her to force targets to enact the opposite of their sense of "justice" by looking at them. She has tamed the UMA Move, which is the Union's main mode of transportation. After the Unbelievable arc, she reveals that the world is stuck in a time loop and she keeps her memories by using an artifact called the "Ark," and has lived for millions of years accompanied by Victor so that they may finally kill God. Fuuko replaces her as leader of the Union for the final loop.
A Chinese martial artist who is very perky. His former Negator ability, "Untruth" allowed him to make his targets do the opposite of what they intended to, so long as he was looking at them with at least one eye and was fond of them. He also carries a "Nyon-Kinko Staff" artifact which can extend and contract long enough to reach space, as well as a rideable cloud named Kinto-Un. After his battle with his master resulted in his death, Mui used an artifact to revive him as a Jiangshi, losing his Negator abilities but keeping his natural martial arts skills.
Shen's subordinate. Before the Union's battle with Feng, Shen's master, she was Shen's assistant. Though she has no ability, she makes up for it by using Artifacts and Martial Arts. After Shen's death, "Untruth" was transferred to her.