Undead Unluck’s Best and Worst Fight Has a Beautifully Heartbreaking End

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Undead Unluck chapter 93!

One of Undead Unluck‘s most annoying battles just concluded in what can be referred to as the Spring arc. Ironically, mangaka Yoshifumi Totsuka couldn’t have written these chapters any other way because of how perfectly it aligned with the inherent attributes and power of the battle’s hero, Fuuko Izumo.

Fuuko Izumo wields one of Undead Unluck’s eponymous powers but has always relied on the protection of her partner Undead Andy. As a result, she doesn’t her own – until now, when she had to battle against the Spring UMA. She was perfect for this confrontation because she wields Unluck, and the Spring UMA’s abilities revolve around games of chance. The strength of Fuuko’s Unluck also add another odd dynamic because the more she cares for the person who will get hit with her Unluck, the more powerful the unluck she can inflict on them. So as her anti-luck clashes against games where luck is ironically absent, her only move left was to learn more about her opponent to enhance her powers.

Readers of Undead Unluck who don’t enjoy game-based fights have been suffering in silence for 10 chapters since it became apparent in chapter 83 how the arc would unfold. It would have been more tolerable if Fuuko just had to beat the Spring UMA in one game, but there were many, and they had several rounds. In what made Fuuko’s involvement even more necessary, one of the games involved making one of her friends into a top to engage in a twisted Beyblade, and she chose Isshin because she was somehow related to the Spring UMA. This was important since it would help Fuuko get to know Spring. As readers would soon learn, Isshin is a descendant of the first human whom the Spring UMA connected with. Their friendship meant more to Spring because it blossomed during a time when humans feared him, for the season of spring is connected to cherry blossoms that symbolize death. In a twist, Spring UMA would later cause the death of Isshin’s descendant, something which had understandably haunted him for generations. While all of this tragic backstory was enough to get Fuuko to care for Spring, the end was especially poignant when Isshin reveals that she was named after cherry blossoms, proving that her family didn’t hold a grudge. Everyone cried, then Spring died.

While one of the most emotional moments in Undead Unluck, all of this passion was buried beneath the interminable wave of games that plagued the whole battle even though they were a necessary part to further accent Fuuko’s intrinsic connection to the entire conflict. Similarly, readers were lost for a majority of the arc’s starting chapters with the sudden introduction of Isshin’s character as they tried to understand why she was important. Knowing her connection to Spring would have helped readers get more invested in the story, but Undead Unluck obviously couldn’t reveal everything at once because then Fuuko would have had enough emotional details to kill the Spring UMA immediately. Fuuko needed to ironically take part in luck-free games to use her unluck powers.

Apart from building Fuuko’s character, Undead Unluck has been leading to this moment since chapter 30. A few chapters before, Fuuko and Undead Andy joined a group known as the Union whose members are forced to accept and complete quests from a sentient book named Apocalypse to avoid the world’s destruction and to kill Undead Unluck‘s sadist and twisted God. By chapter 30, Apocalypse truly fulfilled his name by opening all of the remaining quests: Taking down the Spring, Autumn, Summer, and Winter UMAs. Spring was the last one. This new chapter was a massive turning point for Undead Unluck as it heralded the end of an era that began more than 60 chapters ago.

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