Dead Man's Switch

Description

We’ve all had that nightmare where we’re late for a test, right? How about the one where your teacher’s trying to kill you?! Just me, huh? Guess it’s only fair then that I woke up in an actual zombie-infested nightmare! Almost everyone on my campus has become a creepy, flesh-eating monster! Except for this one ax-wielding badass named Youngwon Ki. He seems perfectly fine with all the chaos. I’m glad he’s here, but I don’t get why he acts like we’re close! (Source: Tapas)

Official Webtoon:
Ridibooks, Bomtoon, Lezhin, Mr Blue

Official Translations:
English, Spanish
Japanese: Beltoon, Lezhin, Comico, cmoa

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

Deadman Switch (Novel) (Adapted From)

Associated Names

Dead Man Switch

Deadman Switch

デッドマン・スイッチ

데드맨 스위치

데드맨스위치

Groups Scanlating

Cadre Scans

Latest Release(s)

c.20-22 by Cadre Scans 2 years ago

c.18-19 by Cadre Scans 2 years ago

c.17 by Cadre Scans 2 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

67 Chapters (Complete)

S1: 39 Chapters (1~39)
S2: 27 Chapters (40~67)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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User Rating

Average: 8.2 / 10.0 (72 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.64 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 17th, 2025 8:10pm PDT - 2 weeks ago

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Genre

Drama Horror Mystery Romance Yaoi
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Blühen

Serialized In (magazine)

Ridibooks (Blühen)

Lezhin (Blühen)

Bomtoon (Blühen)

MrBlue (Blühen)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #666

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Monthly Pos #1243

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3 Month Pos #2023

(+77)

6 Month Pos #2021

(+589)

Year Pos #1461

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List Stats

On 254 reading lists

On 144 wish lists

On 141 completed lists

On 4 unfinished lists

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Mediocre in every way...

by StellaStar1
6 days ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

This has all been seen before. Nothing new to write home about. While it's not a bad yaoi per se, and everything was okay, but only that... Okay. Nothing impressed me, nothing intrigued me... The seme had some good moments, but I somehow feel they botched up his character by making him a wierdo but not a true, full blown wierdo. They tried taking the middle road and it blanded his character somehow... The story, the ML, the ending... It was all so... Meh. Expected. No real mystery. While it did keep my interest enough for me to finish it, I know I'm gonna forget this in 10 minutes.

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nice plot

by Madawac
1 month ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

the plot was good ... the non consent was a big turn off ... why most of korean writers like to include this :(

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this one cooked

by milkmommy
4 months ago

Rating: N/A

The plot was absolutely amazing. This thing had me on the edge of my seat the WHOLE. ENTIRE. TIME. Also, the amount of romance to plot was perfect and seemed appropriate for the setting. That said, the ending was too rushed for my taste, but the whole story prior was just so enthralling it's totally fine. There are side stories in the novel so I'm hoping they get adapted too

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[Sexual assault in BL list]

by coffeedrinker2
7 months ago

Rating: N/A

ch33: bottom repeatedly asks the top to stop, insisting he doesn’t wanna have sex where they are. the top doesn’t stop.

ch36-37: happens again, mc is constantly begging to stop/saying no

[only read up to ch40 currently]

... Last updated 7 months ago

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Hohyun

by TiredandDeadInside
10 months ago

Rating: N/A

Hohyun, the MC, is a useless little shit. Morose, timid and hides behind his "nice guy" facade in order to not take any responsibility. Like, at all.

I was sympathetic at first because I don't like confrontation either. In fact, there were times in my life that I knew I'd be in danger if I didn't speak up...yet, I still didn't. I wanted to avoid attention but instead got more of it because I didn't do the smart thing and speak up to get help.

Here, however, Hohyun is faaaar too passive. Things happen to him. He doesn't question Yongwon's familiarity. He doesn't try to find out ways to contact the outside world. He's not actively trying to find a solution. He's not actively trying to do ANYTHING.

He should have logically pointed out Yongwon and he brought food in ch.16. There was zero strategic need to keep that all in his head and get heartburn from the indignity and unfairness.

They didn't barge into this other area. They were invited in because they had food. Of course the new group they joined are ungrateful. Now they're being kicked out/forced to go find more food because this new group is too cowardly to do it's own scavenging. There's more of them so Yongwon and Hohyun wouldn't really win in a fight.

Frustrating so far.

... Last updated 10 months ago

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Hmm---oddly compelling

by CCheshire
10 months ago

Rating: N/A

I read up to ch 54 and my main thoughts were that I wish it wasn't 1. Non-con in the first early scenes I kept thinking it dragged the LI down 2. Almost every other person they meet seems to be evil.

I know survival horror is already niche so I can't really compare much to other longer series too. Although I'm not into horror I liked the art so here I am. So far I feel like it could wrap up in 2 Seasons which is great since I can feel like the main plot twits have been revealed already.

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I need more please

by Zohna
2 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I love this story, please can we have some more episodes

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