Jason Bradley Thompson
April 27, 2016 
When Earth is invaded by dragons—giant reptilian monsters—tween siblings Mitsuki and Yuu are separated and their town and family are destroyed. Three years later, Yuu has grown into a young man doing unsavory jobs to survive, when he’s summoned to appear at Midgard Academy, a secretive island school where his sister Mitsuki is student council president. But she’s not the same little girl she used to be: now she’s in charge of training the “Special Ds” whose dark-matter powers alone give humanity a chance to defeat the dragons.
There’s just one catch: “Special Ds” are all girls, except for Yuu, and our hero has barely arrived on the island before he trips over naked “D-Girl” Iris Freyja who lost her swimsuit while swimming. “I’m not an idiot!” she insists. “I’m not an idiot or an airhead or a straggler!” Yuu soon meets the rest of the all-female cast, who have names like Firill Crest, Lisa Highwalker, and Ren Miyazawa (Okay, that one’s normal).
That’s when Mitsuki reveals the true dark secret of the D-Girls: they’re actually female dragons in human form, and if the giant dragons can find them and mate with them, they will transform against their will and give birth to a brood of dragon young! “This modified island is a fortress specifically built to intercept dragons! In short, Midgard is an interception base that exists to fight off males starved for females!”
Based on a light novel series, Unlimited Fafnir graverobs themes from better manga and anime 
(Evangelion, every boy-in-a-girl’s-school story) and puts the nail in the coffin with terrible, generic art. Typical for a poorly paced adaptation of a light novel, they don’t actually encounter a dragon in Volume 1: instead, Yuu and the D-Girls spend 200 pages training to use their superpowers X-Men Academy style, while Iris hits on Yuu and flashes her nippleless breasts.
The relationship between Yuu and Iris is a particular low point; she just wants to have sex with him because if she’s not a virgin she’ll lose her dragon powers, while both Yuu and Mitsuki reassure Iris that they won’t let her transform into a dragon, they’ll kill her first. A heroine whose dearest wish is to get pregnant, lose her superpowers, and/or get killed—that’s great! But ultimately it’s not the turgid, clichéd story but the bland art that makes this watered-down broth of a manga unreadable.
publisher: Kodansha Comics
story: Tsukasa
comic: Saburouta
character designs: Riko Korie
rating: 16+
