Volume 1

Dead Mount Death Play, Vol. 1 is the first volume of the Dead Mount Death Play manga series.

Official Blurb
It's a showdown for the ages as the legendary hero takes on the corpse god necromancer, but when the dust settles, something isn't quite right... In the final moments of their epic confrontation, the corpse god's final gambit shot was wholly unexpected—reincarnation magic! Across space and time, a boy named Polka Shinoyama awakens feeling...not quite himself...... Who could've expected that the climactic battle between good and evil would turn out like this??

Chapters

 * Chapter 1
 * Chapter 2
 * Chapter 3
 * Chapter 4
 * Chapter 5
 * Chapter 6
 * Chapter 7
 * Chapter 8

Bonus Comics

 * Bonus Manga (two pages): Tsubaki Iwanome, Kōzaburō Arase, Saki Aikawa, and a colleague discuss Arase's profile picture.
 * Comic Insert No.1 (between Chapters 3–4): Shagrua Lugrid and Recuria Lofilardo peruse the Corpse God's books.
 * Comic Insert No.2 (between Chapters 7–8): Corpse God relates what he could achieve using magic from a costly necklace.

Episode 1: The Calamity, Alive and Well
This six-page short story, written by Ryohgo Narita, explores Shagrua's backstory and recounts the events that transpired in the aftermath of Corpse God's vanquishment.

Specimen 1: Real Polka
For the first entry of "an illustrated guide to Dead Mount Death Play," this one-page exclusive divulges the origin of the Polka Shinoyama-possessed shark plush in one paragraph. Three illustrations of the plush are provided for reference.

Special Thanks
The illustration included in the Special Thanks page features Corpse God and Misaki Sakimiya side-by-side, with the Polka-possessed plush squished between them.

Japanese Digital Benefit
The benefit for Volume 1, a single illustration drawn and signed by Shinta Fujimoto, depicts Corpse God holding a skull. This is the same illustration that appears in the English edition of Volume 1, albeit featuring text in Japanese rather than English.

International Releases

 * In the year following Volume 1's Japanese release, it was published in the North American and French markets by Yen On and Ki-oon respectively. Two years on, Volume 1 would go on to be published for Indonesian, German, and Polish audiences during late Autumn 2021. The Indonesian edition, published by m&c!, heavily censors pages with sexual content.