Undead Unluck’s Biggest Manga Flaw Will Make It the Perfect Anime

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Undead Unluck chapter 95!

Fans understandably can’t stand anime filler episodes, but if Undead Unluck ever got adapted these annoying episodes could actually fix the biggest flaw in the manga.

Anime usually begin airing when mangakas are still writing the original manga that inspired the adaptations. Studios generally resort to fillers when the anime catches up to the manga so that the mangaka can write more chapters that will later be adapted into episodes. Fillers, however, are notoriously bad, especially in comparison to canon, and as a result, fans usually stop watching the show until the normal story captured in the original manga resumes. Ironically, Shonen Jump‘s current practice might make these fillers a necessity going forward as the manga anthology currently pressures mangaka to expedite their stories to capture readers’ attention (sometimes through time jumps) because if the manga doesn’t meet a certain threshold by a particular chapter, the anthology axes the series.

Shonen Jump‘s business tactic undoubtedly affected mangaka Yoshifumi Tozuka when writing Undead Unluck. Interestingly, most series are cancelled around chapter 19, and that’s when Tozuka incorporated a massive time jump to most likely keep readers on their toes (and prevent Shonen Jump from canceling his series). Before that pivotal installment, the manga basically followed the Union, a specific group of superpowered individuals known as Negators. The Union always met at a certain time to receive a mission from a terrifying sentient book aptly named Apocalypse. By chapter 19 of the manga, one of the main characters named Fuuko Izumo falls unconscious after a particular mission, and when she awakens, numerous missions have occurred. This time skip undoubtedly expedited the story and ended the seemingly mundane pattern where the Union just completed one mission after the other. Although there’s a regular mission once Fuuko awakens, it’s an important quest and needs to be the main focus as it leads to them meeting and recruiting Chikara, a Negator with Unmove. Although the three quests that Fuuko sleeps through are undoubtedly relatively minor, they are still missed opportunities and could potentially make for great filler episodes.

In fact, the first of these three quests is especially important to Undead Unluck because it involves Negators Juiz, Billy and Tatiana. Those characters later become incredibly important as Billy soon betrays the Union and joins the bad guys. Readers are undoubtedly interested in seeing more of him before his defection, especially his interactions with Tatiana because Billy’s betrayal later cuts her character to the core as she cares a great deal about him. Her initial reaction when she learns Billy was using her felt random at the time since their relationship was never explored until he announced his defection. Additionally, anything involving Juiz is especially important to readers now as the manga later reveals that she has been traveling back into the past every time their world is destroyed by Undead Unluck‘s dark God. And this is only mentioning the first out of the three quests that are skipped over.

If Undead Unluck ever gets adapted as it rightly deserves, then the studio that takes the contract could use these skipped quests as fillers should the adaptation require any. That’s assuming, of course, that Undead Unluck won’t end soon as mangaka Yoshifumi Tozuka just teased in chapter 95 that Juiz doesn’t have enough fuel to go back into the past should God destroy their world again. Hopefully Undead Unluck will continue for much longer, not just because the manga‘s story is compelling, but so its adaptation could explore these missed opportunities.

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