Dead Mount Death Play

is a Japanese manga series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Shinta Fujimoto. It began serialization in Square Enix's Young Gangan in October 2017. As of April 2023, the series' individual chapters have been collected into eleven volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by Geek Toys premiered, with the first cour aired from April to June 2023, and the second cour premiered in October 2023. Plot In another world, a hero named Sir Shagrua Edith Lugrid is about to finish off a powerful necromancer known as the Corpse God. However, the Corpse God uses a unique magic skill to reincarnate themself into another world, and ends up in modern-day Shinjuku, in the body of a boy named Polka Shinoyama who has just had his throat slit by an assassin. Thinking that this new world could provide the peaceful life he desired in the last one, the Corpse God takes on Polka's identity, and soon ingratiates himself with the Shinjuku underworld under a woman named Clarissa and her underlings. Characters A 16 year old boy who was murdered by a hitman who turned out to be Misaki. His body now hosts an otherworldly necromancer known as the Corpse God, who seeks the peaceful life he was denied in his previous world. Though there are fewer sources of magic in this world, the Corpse God can use Polka's body to summon skeletons of varying size, speak with dead spirits, and revive a corpse as a zombie with enough preparation. The original Polka's soul is transferred into one of Takumi's aerial drones, and then a shark plushie later on.