Dandadan Story Arcs in Order

Dandadan breaks cleanly into arcs, and the Fandom wiki bundles those arcs into bigger sagas based on what the heroes are actually chasing at the time. Here's the reading order, a sentence or two each, kept light on spoilers. Quick heads-up before you scroll: the arc names are fan shorthand, usually borrowed from the main villain, the setting, or a theme, so don't be shocked if you've seen a slightly different label somewhere. The order and chapter ranges below match the wiki's arc list. And yes, that first saga is named after Okarun's stolen "kintama," because hunting it down is the engine the early story runs on.

Kintama Hunt Saga

Turbo Granny Arc (ch. 1–8). The opening sprint. Momo and Okarun bicker about ghosts versus aliens, find out both are real, and Okarun walks straight into a tunnel curse from Turbo Granny while Momo's psychic side wakes up against the Serpo. Everything that follows starts here.

Acrobatic Silky Arc (ch. 9–17). One testicle still on the loose. The trail leads to classmate Aira Shiratori, who's being stalked by Acrobatic Silky, a contortionist yokai with very bad intentions.

Serpo Arc (ch. 18–27). The Serpo come back for round two, this time dragging along Nessie and a Dover Demon, all to rip Okarun's Turbo Granny powers off him. Aira picks up a new ability of her own in the scramble.

Cursed House Arc (ch. 28–50). Momo and Okarun agree to help childhood friend Jiji clear a spirit out of his house. Should've been routine. Then his landlords, the Kito Family, drag the whole thing somewhere much, much darker.

Evil Eye Arc (ch. 51–62). The Evil Eye is sealed inside Jiji now, which means the group basically has to babysit him around the clock. After one too-close call, Okarun goes back to Turbo Granny to get stronger.

Kaiju Arc (ch. 63–73). They think they're closing in on the second kintama. Instead a towering kaiju lands on them, and they have to make it up as they go with new allies, Kinta Sakata included.

Space Globalists Arc (ch. 74–120). The big one. The heroes scramble to stop a faction of alien "globalists" from summoning an invasion force, Momo spends her nights dodging Reiko Kashima, and nobody can agree on whether Bamora is friend or threat.

Onbusuman Arc (ch. 121–128). Class rep Rin Sawaki hands Okarun's missing kintama to the police as lost property, of all things. Before anyone can deal with that, the group helps exorcise a yokai haunting her.

Danmara Arc (ch. 129–165). Turns out the second kintama belongs to Unji Zuma, who needs its power to beat a cursed diorama called Danmara. Momo gets trapped inside the game and has to walk Unji through facing his own past.

Ultimate Yokai Saga

Kozuka Knives Arc (ch. 166–191). Kami High outcast Koki Yukishiro gets strong-armed into hunting Momo's power. That kicks off a grinding campaign from the Orchestrator's subordinates, all of them swinging power-stealing knives.

Typhoon Human Arc (ch. 192–200). A flight to Shimane goes sideways when a vengeful Kito Family hijacks it. Then a colossal Typhoon Human cryptid shows up and threatens to take the whole plane down.

Shimane Arc (ch. 201–211). Momo, Unji, and Daiki race to use the Uchide-no-Kozuchi to lift their worsening curses before the Orchestrator gets to them first.

Six Curses Arc (ch. 212–present). Momo comes home with amnesia. She's forgotten the paranormal, and worse, she's forgotten Okarun, who decides he'll just rebuild the whole thing from zero. All of this while the Family gets hunted by enemies linked to Count Saint-Germain's associate, Vlad of the Black Paladins.

And that's where the manga currently sits, mid-arc, still going. If you'd rather know the cast before diving in, our cast breakdown and the full character database are the place to start. Once the chapter ranges are stuck in your head, go put them to use in Higher or Lower mode.