D3, a new shot from the minds behind The Promised Neverland, follows a young girl who is targeted because of her scientist father.
Promised Neverland became extremely popular after the first season of the anime adaptation. In the opinion of many viewers, although the second season was a huge drop in quality, it remains a fairly popular production to this day. The manga ended before the anime, and its creators moved on to new projects
Following in the footsteps of photographer Spirit Saburi Kono, D3 is a new one shot from the minds behind The Promised Neverland, about a young girl who becomes targeted because of her scientist father. While it’s only a one shot for now, there’s always the potential for the one-chapter manga to become an official series on the Shonen Jump pages. Now available for free through Shonen Jump and Viz Media, here’s what D3 is about and the obvious sci-fi influence the manga wants to address.
The Premise of D3
The main character of D3 is a girl named Saho, who is credited with being the reason behind the success of her robotic genius father. In fact, this is because she was simply tinkering with his computer, allowing her father to crack the code and have great success with robots. This leaves the world at large with different opinions about Saho, for better or for worse but all extreme.
Her devotees, rival companies trying to take her down, and those who hate the rise of robots see her as the ultimate harbinger of humanity’s doom. As a result, she has become quite used to defending herself against anyone who threatens her. That is until her father assigns her a cyborg bodyguard named DC3, but Saho is uninterested in the robot’s help. Only after the threats to her life increased did she change her mind, trusting DC3 more when things got tough.
Can D3 Be The Next Super?
The series really has the potential for success, although this is based specifically on how well it spiced up the material. The story plays out like a mashup of both Home Alone and The Terminator, with a resemblance particularly hard to ignore: Saho essentially plays Sarah or John Connor, hunted by a variety of different forces, worlds and powers. The force sees her as a threat in some way. Likewise, her cyborg bodyguard deployed to help keep her safe is the protector of the Terminator itself, specifically the protective variant of the T-800 in Terminator 2. .
While some of these stories and elements may seem a bit cliché and cliché at this point, it looks like D3 will be able to continually remix them enough to stay fresh. After all, the story also shares some of the foreshadowing tone of The Promised Neverland, which also features kids in constant danger. It’s clearly a more science-fiction based story than the duo’s previous hit, however, has historically been less popular in shonen anime and manga than other genres.
Still, there’s certainly potential for a longer version of the story that’s more world-wide and showcases more of how Saho must begin to defend herself amid her immense disgrace. . Said continuation, unlike a wilderness, is yet to be promised, so it’s unknown if fans of Shirai and Demizu’s work will get to see more of this world.