Denma

Denma () is a South Korean webtoon written and illustrated by , colored by Seunghee Hong (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 (テンマ, Tenma), English and Simplified (颠玛, Diānmǎ) & Traditional Chinese (顛瑪, Diānmǎ) by WEBTOON. The new English version is updated at every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Overview.
The takes many names from the Bible. In the interview, the author told, 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 '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 fighters' 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 plot for 《Rami Record》 is in Episodes below.
The panels arranged vertically. But in Korean version, Japanese version, Chinese version, 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 people 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.
This work has many Quanx abilities where the name is not revealed correctly. The abilities to have a name are Equivalent Mass Exchange → Equivalent Mass Substitution, Cube, Electromagnetic pulse link, Anti-gravity link, Planar Constraint, Marionette, Space Distortion, Inhuman strength link, Healing link, Acceleration link, Energy Adjustment and Transmission, Teleportation link (Interplanetary teleportation link), Bang, Quanx Detection, Reflection link, Explosion link, Penetration, Telepathy link, Hallucination link, Barrier, Summon Otherworldly Creatures, Nothingness.
The unnamed abilities are Joining link, Fire manipulation link (Firebreathing), Control Transcriptomes, Concussion beams, Shock wave link, Time Stopping, Psychokinesis link, Psychometry link, Cutting link, Partial Teleportation link, Gravity manipulation, link, Energy Ball, Earth Mimicry, Binding, Repulsion, Gas Mimicry, Liquid Mimicry, Shapeshifting link, Detection of reaction of living body, Multi Dimension.
In the early part of this work, the "energy colour" of the Quanx effects are not shown correctly. Dike, Denma, Maggie Or it's appeared the white impact effects. Edrei But the story goes on, the effects are described as having a colour dimension. Edel's Quanx energy color is white and contains mainly orange → orange. Max is yellow. Hoon is green. However, it's mostly depicted in orange. Korah, Jet, Denma, Dike (spoiler) Of course, the white impact effect continues to appear at Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 as well. Chapter 2, Chapter 3 (spoiler) 
Transcriptome () is Quanx's interactant, like the Transcriptome. They're ivory, and looks white with the Georg filter. Given the nature of the 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 that centered around an intergalactic courier delivery service called Silverquick.
Silverquick is an intergalactic courier services 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.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
So, including the same worldviews, the 《Iron Dog John Doe》 (1998), (2008) and Web fictions (2017), this is arranged in chronological order. This includes episodes that are predominant in the past.
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.
Nobles.
Here includes slaves, servants and bodyguards of the nobles.
Production.
In South Korea, the author is often criticized because his serialized work is delayed frequently. Because of this, fans have created applications that let people know when the author's work is updated. Most of the applications' names are derived from the name of "White Police Guards", which appears in the work. 덴경대 집합 The majority of applications have a white 100 image on an orange background. Because White Police Guards members gather to the masters of the Gosan family when they saw hologram with white 100 on the orange background.
Serialization of the Korean Denma was interrupted from Chapter 2 Ep. 2 - Kuan's Fridge (180) - #715 (29 July 2014). And the series returned 6 July 2015. The author received protests from many readers because of this interruption. However, as the author revealed the peripeteia, the fans come back again and regained the work's popularity.
It was again interrupted from Chapter 3 Ep. 1 - Dike (41) - #1041 (4 August 2017) and it returned 12 August after attending his mother-in-law's funeral.
The English version available on WEBTOON is same here. Translation of English Denma (Old English version) was interrupted from Chapter 1 Ep. 12 - Sixteen A.E. (1) - #145 (5 November 2015) and return on 7 January 2017. New episodes are translated on 15 July 2017, Chapter 1 Ep. 12 - Sixteen A.E. (2) - #146. Also the English version is far behind the native Korean version.
In the English version, they skipped Rami Record. The reason why this work isn't translated is presumed to be the religious problem (Christianity) and the political problem (North Korean defectors) of chapter 1. Therefore, this work has no official translation. It may be due to copyright problems with Yahoo!, but the Japanese edition has been translated and the title is (S.E.) ラミレコード.
Media.
On 7 November 2016, Air Seoul announced that it had collaborated with Naver WEBTOON to produce safety video. Some of the works shown here include Denma, The Sound of Heart, and Noblesse. At this time, Denma, Cell, Quai, and Adams are appeared.
Volumes.
On 19 December 2014, Neo-Cartoon (), the subsidiary company of Consonants and Vowels () has announced that Denma will be printed soon. And on 20 January 2015, it published one to three books. Volume 1 is published until Chapter 1 Ep. 9 - A.E. - #37, volume 2 is Chapter 1 Ep. 11 - A.E. - #87, volume 3 is Chapter 1 Ep. 13 - Marionette (3) - #157.
Volume 4 has been published on 26 January 2016, it's until Chapter 1 Ep. 15 - God's Lover (46) - #241.
Volume 5 has been published on 12 February 2016, it's until Chapter 1 Ep. 16 - A.E. (1-4) - #322.
Volume 6 has been published on 3 November 2016, it's until Chapter 2 Ep. 1 - A Catnap (110) - #432.
Volume 7 and 8 has been published on 20 March 2017. Volume 7 is until Chapter 2 Ep. 2 - A.E. (12) - #519. Volume 8 is until Chapter 2 Ep. 2 - Kuan's Fridge (77) - #608.
Volume 9 has been published on 30 April 2019, it's until Chapter 2 Ep. 2 - Kuan's Fridge (178) - #709.
Volume 10 has been published on 30 May 2019.
On 25 June 2018, Neocartoon says, Chapter 2 of the Part 2 of set will be composed of Volume 9 ~ 13. 
Volume 14 ~ 19 has been published on 28 May 2020.
And has been published on 25 July 2017, it's until Chapter 2 S.E. Rami Record (4) - #511.
Mobile games.
In September 2015, 5 characters from Denma were added as player characters in South Korean company Dryad's 2015 mobile game Yo! Villains. The villains (characters) of Denma, Dike, Jet, Edel, God were released. Cell was released by NPC. Lot () was released on 11 December 2015. Gosan, Balak, Nell were released on 15 January 2016. The service was terminated on 5 April 2017.
South Korean mobile game company New.f.o produced a mobile video game adaption of "Denma with NAVER WEBTOON", launched on Google Play on 26 October 2016. The characters of Denma, Hardok, Max (dog), Cell, Savoy (Boyle's junior), Gaal, Uriel, Jet, Adam, Crying Daddy, Dike, Guyrin, Hades, Hoon, Randolph, Bon, Max, Andante () (game's original character), Rami, Gatsu, Abigail, Mirai, Bala(c)k, Tear, Lot, Dark Lord Lot () (hyper, game's original shape), Gaya, Haggler, Gongja, Nell, Daniel, Hellman Sharp () (hyper), Edel, Min-G, Director Bala(c)k (hyper), Haaken (game's original shape), Honma (game's original shape, clothes he wears), Assassin Haaken () (hyper, game's original shape, clothes he wears) are released. Jiro is 11, Ayn (Since his clothes is a spoiler, it's replaced by the first appearance) is 17, and Purgee Jiro () (hyper) is released on 25 November 2016. God is 1, Federick is 9, Giyeok () is 21, Agnes (hyper) is released on 29 December 2016. Rieul () is 5, Naomi is 12, Gauss () is 19, Hador is released on 25 January 2017. Yahwah (hyper, game's original weapon) is 1, Edrei is 16, Guardian priest Edel (hyper) is released on 28 February. Aaron is 16, Count El (hyper) is released on 30 March. Gyu-oh is 13, Dike the Invincible Death (hyper, game's original shape) is released on 27 April. The clothes that the characters linked here are wearing the default skins of the characters. It may not be the first ch. (chapter) in which the linked character appears. There may be characters that haven't yet appeared in the English version. The service is terminated on 31 July 2019.
In January 2018, Since Times signed an intellectual property contract. Since Times will use this to show casual RPG. Later, it is revealed in July of the same year that a mobile strategy card RPG "Densinma with NAVER WEBTOON" () will be released. This is a game with 3 webtoons. One is Sindorim () and the other is I'm a Middle Schooler Becoming the Demon Lord (). On 19 February 2019, the game company releases its brand page and begins to make advance reservations. It's launched on Google Play on 2 April 2019. The characters of Dike, Gongja, Lot, Abigail, Dr. God (), Yahwah, Ran, Hades, Bala(c)k, Gatsu, Eunguy, Transcriptome Adam (), Edel, Jet, Denma, Gaal, Arcel, Cat God () are released. Duke Gosan is released on 15 May. It may not be the first ch. (chapter) in which the linked character appears. There may be characters that haven't yet appeared in the English version. The service will be terminated on 31 October 2019.
Music.
On 30 September 2015, South Korean singer-songwriter Baram Kim (Kim baram) released a song 「I Need to Go Home Now」 () from Chapter 1 Ep. 15 - God's Lover (73) - #268 on YouTube. On 13 November 2017, he released the song on Musician League of Naver Music.
On 23 July 2017, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist Peri Kim (Kim peri) released an inspired piece of 「Space Cat」 from God's Lover. The lyrics were written at the Dr. God's viewpoint. On 30 August and 2 September, he released a room version and a video, which he directly sang the song, on Musician League of Naver Music.
Web fictions.
The web fiction series have been serialized. It's authored by Dcdc. The first volume, The Puppet Show was serialized on 1 April 2017. The second volume, The Idolatry was serialized on 30 June. The third volume, The Love Sick is serializing on 8 December. But it was interrupted on 11 January ~ 2 February 2018. The novel volumes will be published in April. This is completed on 4 March 2018.
Jacobo is the main character of The Puppet Show. Gaya and Daniel are the main character of The Idolatry. The Planar Constraint Quanx is the main character and an Equivalent Mass Substitution Quanx, a Taija race telepath Quanx, a middle-aged woman, a drug addict Teleporting Quanx is the characters of The Love Sick.
Eventually, their episodes will be published as 'Another Episode (A.E.)' each on 20 August 2019. Part 1, <The Puppet Show> is renamed to 'Physical Error Occurrence Report: Denma Episode 1'. Part 2, <The Idolatry> is renamed to 'Those Who Harvest Stars: Denma Episode 2'. Part 3, <The Love Sick> is renamed to 'The Sanctuary of the Planet Gaia: Denma Episode 3'.
The episode "Physical Error Occurrence Report: Denma Episode 1" is an exciting story based on the "Marionette" episode, featuring the early episode of webtoon "Denma". The main character, 'I (Jacobo)' is a Marionette Quanx and assassin. The assassination using this ability is neat. If you control and kill the object, it is enough. Even if the kind of person who reads the memory examines the murder scene, the evidence can't be found. The users can disguise themselves as suicide or an accident. And one day, Dudan's wife, Madina, comes to 'I'. Dudan is a powerful boss of this planet's gangland. And she asked 'I' to kill his husband. 'I' is embarrassed and he doesn't know what to do, but he reject it because it is impossible. There is a person who come to the office of 'I' afterwards, and he is Dudan. Dudan ask 'I' to perform her request to kill himself.
The episode "Those Who Harvest the Stars: Denma Episode 2" was intended to contain a mood similar to the political drama of the Gosan family and El family in the galaxy-scale of Denma's middle story. Through this political drama, writer Dcdc deals with Quanxs' solidarity and the disintegration behind it. The main character is Caesar, the leader of the planetary synagogue blank group, and his pupils who are Gaya and Daniel. Caesar is a symbolic person who has earned the pioneer status of the U.C.S. as a representative of the planet Synagogue, a transitional resident planet, gathering Quanxs who have no place to go. But the planet is faced with a number of crises, such as insufficient housing space, refugee management problems, and tax pressure. Gaya thinks a new idea as she struggles to come up with countermeasures. It is the plan to attend the inter-planetary talks and propose investment attraction. And the talks are held in Kuan's Fridge!
"The Sanctuary of the Planet Gaia: Episode 3 of Denma" is an episode that Dcdc has recently released the atmosphere of "Denma" which has succeeded not only in the alienation of space but also in the description of the individual characters involved in the incident. The background of this episode is planet Gaia. Gaia is a planet Quanx which is rarely observed in the universe eight. That planet is supposed to be a divine being with enormous power, but the details are strict. On the surface, that planet is denominated as a religious group, but in reality it is a place where terrible secret experiments are conducted under the control of a cult, 'Church of Madonna'. And there were characters going in there to infiltrate, the characters of the five main characters are humorous. The mission has begun! The delightful five people are ordered by the elder, to steal the 'seed of God' to Gaia.
Model figures.
Team Imitatros (WindMill) is makes the model figures. The model figures of Directors of Silverquick's station 7, Beer-Lahai-Ros Imitatros, Experimental animal were released. The model figures of Lot, Federick, Haggler, Gosan's cousin, Duke of Gosan (explanation) were released. They're released on 6 March 2017.
The model figures of Denma, Quai, Cell, Cell's Avatar were released by GNFTOY on 27 November 2015. These products can't be purchased in 2018.
The model figures of Lot, Gongja were released by GNFTOY on 15 September 2017. Then the model figures of Jiro (Spoiler), Gaya, Tiptoe were released on 2 February 2018. In the same year, Gongja dress version, Tiptoe was released by GNFTOY on 4 September. The design has been made by Team Imitatros (WindMill), which is mentioned above. In 2019, Edel was also released on 1 February. These products can't be purchased.