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“Shy pop-loving boy leads vulgar metal band DMC as alter-ego Krauzer II.”
DMC: Detroit Metal City
デトロイト・メタル・シティ
8.03
772 rank · 16,664 readers · 449 favorites
Seinen
Gag Humor
Music
Comedy
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Synopsis
Shy pop-loving boy leads vulgar metal band DMC as alter-ego Krauzer II.
Souichi Negishi is a common boy, timid, quiet. He loves flowers, walking and musical hits like the ones that radios play. But he is also Krauzer II, leader of Detroy Metal City (DMC), the most popular underground metal band of Japan! Souichi would like to change his life and start to play Swedish pop songs with peaceful and loving lyrics instead of the violent and vulgar ones of DMC, but when he is playing with his band he completely changes his attitude and behavior...
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Community consensus
Derived from 7 sampled reviews
7.7
/10
What 7 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 9
σ 1.67
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Mostly aligned
σ 1.67 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.29
Running avg · Aug 2008 → Nov 2019
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “detroit metal city is very laugh-full it's about negeshi, a very calm guy, who been the leader of a metal band. the drawn are not very pleasure but the comedy is very very good and if you're a...”
- 10 “When i herd about D.M.C. I wasn't expecting much and i was wrong. I read many many different mangas but this is my firs review that is because this manga blew my mind, this manga is on a completely...”
- 9 “"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." These were the only words i could think when I came to the final page of the last volume of Detroit Metal City. It's main story revolving...”
Verbosity
Short · 57%
Medium · 14%
Long · 29%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 114 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 15h 12m approx
- Published Apr 2005 – Apr 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1558 catalog