Dandadan Chapter 45

Chapter 45 resolves the immediate biological threat: sunlight and Momo’s intervention dry the Tsuchinoko until it appears defeated, only for it to regurgitate the Kito Family and reveal their role in keeping the volcano calm through ritual offerings. The eruption that follows reframes the villagers’ actions as a painful trade-off between safety and sacrifice.

Momo’s quick thinking—using the Tsuchinoko’s body as a makeshift pump to channel water to the hot springs fountain—combines grotesque ingenuity with heroism. The chapter weaves physical comedy into high stakes: plugging the fountain with the worm’s remains and turning the creature into a water source is both absurd and literarily apt.

As the arc’s immediate crisis subsides, Chapter 45 asks harder questions about responsibility and tradition: who bears the burden for a community’s survival, and at what moral cost? The dandadan manga keeps its blend of oddball solutions and ethical inquiry front and center as it moves toward the next arc.