Denma () is a South Korean webtoon written and illustrated by and colored by Hong Seung-hee. Started on 8 January 2010, this manhwa was released on Naver WEBTOON, where it continues to be published. It has been translated into Japanese, English and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. The new English version is updated Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Overview The author takes many names from the Bible. In the interview, the author said he was reading the Bible at that time and got many names, so he used them randomly in Denma.
The world view of Denma is the same as the author's previous works, Iron Dog John Doe (1998) and (2008). According to the interview, 《Iron Dog John Doe》 was serialized in the manuscript "Young Red", "Comic King" published in Mr. Blue. It's a SF with a theme of violence. The title meaning that the 'dog made of iron has no trace'. The first idea was a school violence, but in 1997 of South Korea, this a time when the violence situation in the school is being discussed. So, if the author deal with the school violence, he thinks that it would change the sanction to SF. It's a story about the background setting of the virtual state of the "Cadet General Country" in the ambiguous era setting "Gwangmu 25th year". Its time background is roughly between Denma Chapter 2 A Catnap and Chapter 1 Sixteen. It's a world view of the neighborhood (administrative district) of country Enoch of planet Gaia of the universe eight. It's a somewhat absurd story that the conscription chiefs are fighting and fighting with the fighter. The Ssaurabi arms are all converted to cyborgs. It's a story where many weird weapons come out and frantic fight so it's a work aiming pure violence. The protagonist is Abigail, who's fighter (iron dog), and Eugene (young) appears.
The panels arranged vertically. In the Korean, Japanese and Chinese versions, it is usually read horizontally. In the old English version, it was also read horizontally, but later in the new English version, it was changed to the infinite canvas.
The fan of this work is called Denma's Police Guards and its motif to White Police Guards. The fans call some episodes where the work has binge watched and relaxing space is 'rest area'.
From 2019 May, the webtoon rating system is implemented. This work's rating is 15, which is the webtoon intended for readers 15 and over.
Setting Quanx refers to superhumans with abilities that can't be explained by the laws of physics or by animals, include humans unaware of the conditions governing these abilities. There are Quanx that have various capabilities across the various universes. Although Quanx abilities defy easy categorization, it is not uncommon for various groups to attempt to kidnap and study Quanx, because once they are able to develop Quanx abilities as a practical product, it makes a huge amount of money. In addition to regular Quanx capabilities, it is also possible to develop Hyper-Level Quanx abilities. Even regular Quanx's injuries are abnormally fast-healing, and they are immune to diseases. Usually Quanxs are born naturally, but under certain conditions, two Quanxs may be "mated" and both a, Quanx and Transcriptome is made. The Hyper-Quanx also exist, and they're with 2 or more powers.
Object Quanx is among the Quanx. Kuan's Fridge and rooms of Silverquick are exist. In general, big object Quanxs can't make Transcriptomes, and it's because the system gets overloaded to make up for the overwhelming error, actually, there were a bunch who got overly curious, and made a simulation about this, they hypothesized they can make a Transcriptome out of this sort of object Quanx. Surprisingly, if the physical error exceeds a certain point, there can be a massive explosion when the object Quanx and its Transcriptome combine, massive enough to blow up an entire planet. The object Quanx Transcriptome is one of the most fiercely competed secret project done by the universe eight munitions industry, and powerful enough to blow up the entire planet, the people think they'll earn the supremacy of the universe eight if they succeed, and those arms manufacturers have placed object Quanxs in every planet as if they're competing, and these so-called Hell Gates represent their confidence and will that they'll win in the competition, and Sten Industry is ahead of everyone else in this field, the one that the El family holds the largest share of.
Transcriptome () is Quanx's interactant, like the Transcriptome. They're ivory, and looks white with the Georg filter. Given the nature of these, they're more likely to be used for control than protection. No physical attack works against them, but Gaal defeats Adams with the booster gun that Mirai gave him. They have an ego and they're able to eat and drink. The control Transcriptomes users are able to use them as an avatar, such as Camael. Usually, Quanxs are born naturally, but under some conditions (involving multiverse overlap), "mating" experiments are possible resulting in the production of both Quanx and Transcriptome. Adam, Camael and things in Church of Madonna (Internal Affairs, Prison Abronah) have been produced in this way.
Mating () is another phase of Dummy experiments after the biodummy course. "Dummies" are created by the implantation of a consciousness into a body, whereas "mating" involves combining one consciousness with another. Even planets that allow artificial neuronal cell procedures, strictly forbid "mating" with absolute regulation - because the outcome is unexpected, which is a secret kept by the U.C.S., unknown to the outside world. It's the connection between the sockets that is just forbidden, so the people can make Quanx and Transcriptome to one out of 100 samples. When this occurs, a conflict arises between the two consciousnesses, in which they compete with each other, and as a result of the contradiction, a subconscious infiltration occurs on one side of the other. Finally, a resolution appears between the two consciousnesses, and they find stability in mutual denial by each shifting to different dimensions, without affecting the same space and position. In order to compensate for the physical abnormality so incurred, the Transcriptome of the Quanx appears.
This work has many planets where the name is not revealed correctly. The planets to have a name are Urano, Terra, Thesis, Carlburn, Recca, Kadesh, Barnea, Silverquick's station 7, Negev, Winnova, Even, Goble, Bayeux, Toshka, Jato, Mayork, Tulou, Bella, Gaia, Gout, Aorica, Yana, Moab.
The world of this work, humans and many other alien races such as Ephraimites, Negevians, Devarims, etc. live. It's called the universe eight (), in which there is the United Council of Space (U.C.S.). The nobles () are rulers of various districts within each planet, and there're Dukes, Counts or Earls, and Barons, Marquesses (but Viscounts are not yet confirmed in the English version). Each layer of nobility maintain guards. The guards of the Gosan family are called White Police Guards. (In fact, "White Police Guards" isn't a direct translation... Gyeong () means guard (), so "police" is not the direct meaning. "White Centum Guards "or "Whitered" is a more direct meaning.) There is also gangland. The Emperor is the master of the black market. 20 years ago, maybe the king of Aorica was the master of the black market. The many religions such as Church of Madonna (), Goel, an Orthodox Church, and Nut exist. Also T.A.Q. (Troops Associated with Quanxs), a.k.a. Carlburn's Quanx Legion or Unit or Squad is exist. There's a relationship diagram created roughly by a web magazine.
Plot Denma is a space opera centered around the intergalactic courier delivery service Silverquick.
Silverquick is an intergalactic courier service that hires "Quanx" with special abilities as delivery men. Dike, or "the Merciless Death of Planet Urano" contracts to Silverquick, subsequently and becomes trapped inside a body of a small child named Denma. He takes off on a journey of making interstellar deliveries and reclaiming his body in hope.
In Chapter 1, there're individual episodes to watch and intervene in various people's stories, and the stories of individual characters who're tied up by Silverquick, the vicious company. Furthermore, in Chapter 2, the story continued to expand with the Church of Madonna, which is the religion behind the Silverquick, and various multi-cosmic concepts that are the root of this church, and the veiled enmity between the nobles. And in South Korea, the Chapter 3 is going on.
Episodes
In this work, Season is used as Chapter. And the chapter of one Episode is used as Part. Here, chapters can be confused with Chapter, so use chs. The number in brackets, in bold, is total number of chs. (chapters) A.E. means Additional Edition. It's a prologue or, an epilogue or, a combination of prologue and epilogue. Put these in the total number of chs. (chapters)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
So, including the same worldviews, the 《Iron Dog John Doe》 (1998), 《Rami Record》 (2008) and Web fictions (2017), this is arranged in chronological order. This includes episodes that are predominant in the past. 《Rami Record》 → 《Iron Dog John Doe》 → 《Denma》 Chapter 2 Ep. 1 - A Catnap → Those Who Harvest Stars: Denma Episode 2 <The Idolatry> → 《Denma》 Chapter 1 Ep. 11 - Sixteen → The Sanctuary of the Planet Gaia: Denma Episode 3 <The Love Sick> → Physical Error Occurrence Report: Denma Episode 1 <The Puppet Show> → 《Denma》 Chapter 3 Ep. 1 - Dike → Chapter 1 Ep. 15 - God's Lover (past time) → Chapter 1 Ep. 1 - A Dog of Pamana ~ Chapter 1 Ep. 11 - Savoy Gaal = Chapter 1 Ep. 14 - Pigear → Chapter 1 Ep. 15 - God's Lover (present time) → Chapter 1 Ep. 16 - A.E. → Chapter 2 Ep. 2 - Kuan's Fridge → Chapter 2 Ep. 3 - The knight → Chapter 3 Ep. 2 - Epilogue
Characters Because there are so many characters in this work, they wrote it as an article in a web magazine.
There are characters appearing in the motif of the existing Korean singer. Min-G is motif to Minzy. And Z-Dragon is motif to G-Dragon. T와이스 () is motif to Twice, but the names of characters intactly appeared as Tzuyu, Mina, Sana.
Silverquick Denma (): He first appeared in Chapter 1 Ep. 1 - A Dog of Pamana (1) - #1. Originally he was Dike () 'The Invincible Death () of Urano', and he was deceived by Silverquick, and he was used by neuro-scanning technique to enter a young child, Denma, and works as a deliverer. He's an Equivalent Mass Exchange Quanx. Although the name of the webtoon is Denma and the name of the main character is Denma, but he doesn't appear often. So the rumor that Denma isn't protagonist of Denma is constantly raised. However, the significant words of Korah () and Jiro, who're Memory Reading Quanxs, and the scenes of the situation at the time when Yahwah discovered Denma, raise doubts as to whether or not Dike is in Denma's body, and it made the readers shocked and confused from the moment Master Sergent Hador took off his mask. It is becoming known that he is carrying out a project called 'Project Denma' at Church of Madonna, and his identity is gradually falling into the labyrinth. It's hard to know how much his Quanx power is compared to the average of the Silverquick deliverers. But the Equivalent Mass Exchange is a very rare technique in this work. On the other hand, in the Quanx fight, he needs to confirm the coordinates using the goggles. On both his palms there is a circle and its image which is El was ejected to Dike. This image is a sign of a person who is owned by El. He and Dike appeared as a villain in Yo! Villains. And they also appeared as the characters Denma with NAVER WEBTOON. They appeared as a hero in Densinma with NAVER WEBTOON.