Dandadan mouse pads for the desk

Padrift makes these Dandadan mouse pads and desk mats from original art inspired by Yukinobu Tatsu's ghosts-versus-aliens manga, printed edge to edge on 3 mm neoprene with a fabric top, a non-slip base and stitched edges. You can choose a size anywhere from an 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) mouse pad to a 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm) mat across the whole desk, eight steps in all, and we print each one to order.

Everything in the series lives on this page: Momo and Okarun, Turbo Granny, Grandma Seiko, the aliens, the yokai, the friends who get dragged in and the color-soaked style of the anime.

One bet, two believers

Dandadan launched on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ in 2021. Its creator, Yukinobu Tatsu, previously worked as an assistant on Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga before launching his own. Science SARU's anime adaptation premiered in October 2024, with a second season in July 2025 and an opening theme, "Otonoke," by Creepy Nuts.

The premise starts with an argument. Momo Ayase, a high school girl, believes in ghosts but not aliens. Ken Takakura, a classmate obsessed with the occult, believes in aliens but not ghosts. They bet on it: each visits a place the other swears is haunted or visited. Both turn out to be right. Momo is abducted by aliens and discovers psychic powers; Ken meets a vicious yokai called Turbo Granny, who steals something very personal from him and leaves him with her power instead. Momo starts calling him Okarun, partly because his real name is also the name of her favorite actor.

Split down the middle

That opening bet suggests a desk layout of its own. A Dandadan design can divide the mat in two: ghosts, shrines and yokai on one half, saucers, tractor beams and gray aliens on the other, with the keyboard sitting right on the line between belief systems.

Decide which side goes under your mouse hand. The busier half, usually the aliens with their beams and machinery, works better at the far end, beside the keyboard, where you can see it; the quieter half, with mist and paper talismans, can sit under the mouse without much being lost. On an XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), both halves get enough room to read.

Momo's power

Momo's psychokinesis lets her grab, lift and throw things, people and spirits included, and the anime shows it as a glowing aura reaching out from her. She is loud, stubborn and fiercely loyal, and her power is a good match for her personality: it hits first and asks questions afterward.

Design-wise, that aura is a great way to frame a keyboard. A Momo design with her energy flaring out from one end of the mat lets the glow wrap around the typing area without covering a face. It suits a desk with a single strong backlight color, so the aura and the lighting feel like one effect.

Okarun at full speed

When Okarun channels Turbo Granny's power, he changes completely: his hair stands up white, his face takes on a wild grin full of teeth and he moves faster than anything around him. The rest of the time he is a shy boy in glasses who can barely talk to Momo.

Speed suits a gaming mat. A transformed Okarun streaking across a long pad, with motion lines trailing behind him, gives the art a sense of direction that follows your mouse. In shooters and other fast games, the fabric surface lets the mouse travel evenly, and the grippy base stops the mat from shifting during quick flicks.

Turbo Granny

Turbo Granny comes from a real Japanese urban legend about an old woman who runs alongside cars on the highway at impossible speed. In Dandadan she is terrifying at first, then gradually becomes a grumpy, foul-mouthed member of the cast after her spirit ends up stuck in a lucky-cat figurine.

Her two forms make very different desk art. The original yokai, racing through a dark tunnel, suits a dark desk and a horror-game fan. The figurine version suits a small pad: a round lucky cat with an annoyed expression in the corner of an 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad is funny to anyone who knows the series and charming to everyone else.

Grandma Seiko and the talismans

Momo's grandmother, Seiko Ayase, is a spirit medium with a sharp tongue and a lot of experience with things that go bump in the night. She is the one who explains what Okarun has become, trains the kids and occasionally saves them, usually while complaining about it.

Spirit work invites imagery such as paper talismans, salt and shrine gates, and that makes a clean, graphic design: red and black characters on cream paper, a torii gate against night sky. A talisman pattern runs well along the back edge of an M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm), and gives a compact keyboard a protective frame.

Serpoians and the Flatwoods monster

Dandadan's aliens borrow freely from real UFO lore. The Serpoians who abduct Momo take their name from a well-known UFO story, and the series later brings in the Flatwoods monster, a towering figure inspired by a famous 1952 sighting in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

Alien art has the look of a vintage sci-fi poster: silver saucers, green beams, starry skies and spindly figures. A design like that suits a dark desk with green or cyan lighting and a black keyboard, and it pairs naturally with space games, sci-fi podcasts or a shelf of conspiracy books.

Acrobatic Silky

Not every spirit in Dandadan is a joke. Acrobatic Silky, a tall, long-haired spirit tied to Momo's classmate Aira, turns out to carry the story of a mother and her daughter, and the anime tells it in an episode that is quiet, painful and very different from the chaos around it.

A design that draws on that episode suits a more serious desk: muted reds, dark gray and soft light rather than neon. It is a good choice for someone who came to Dandadan for the comedy and stayed because it could also break their heart.

Science SARU's color

The anime's look is loud and fast: pink and cyan glows, acid greens, deep purples and sudden switches to stark black and white. The opening, set to "Otonoke," is a burst of shifting color and movement, and it shows how freely the studio treats every frame.

That palette loves RGB. A Dandadan design in magenta and cyan on black looks alive under a matching backlight, and it ties together a keyboard with colorful keycaps. If your desk already has a strong lighting color, pick a design that leans on it: pink for a pink setup, green for a green one.

Tatsu's ink

In the manga, all of that color is replaced by some of the densest, busiest ink in current manga: crowded panels, speed lines, screaming faces and creatures with a hundred details. It is a completely different experience from the anime and suits a different desk.

If your keyboard, mouse and monitor are all black or white, a manga-panel design with no color at all matches them. Keep the most detailed panels along the back edge of the mat, where your hands won't cover them, and let simpler panels or white space sit under your wrists.

Jiji and the cursed house

Momo's childhood friend Jin Enjoji, Jiji to her, arrives later in the story with a problem: his family has moved into a house with a very bad history, and something in it has its eyes on him. His arc brings a new kind of horror to the series, closer to a haunted-house film than an alien chase.

Haunted-house art, with dark corridors, flickering light and something watching from a corner, suits a dark desk and a player who likes horror games. Keep the creepiest detail at the far end of the mat, so it stays in the corner of your eye as you work.

Crushes and chaos

Under the monsters, Dandadan is a romantic comedy. Momo and Okarun fight side by side, misread each other constantly and blush at the worst possible moments, and the series takes their awkward feelings as seriously as any battle.

A lighter design, the two of them back to back, or a goofy scene with Turbo Granny's figurine and the gang, suits a bright desk, a dorm room or a shared setup where not everyone wants a monster staring at them. A pastel version in pink and soft blue works on a white desk.

A desk for late nights and strange stories

Dandadan suits the kind of desk where the evening goes to horror games, cryptid videos, ghost-story podcasts or late-night manga reading. The cushioned neoprene keeps a long session comfortable, and a dark design hides the inevitable snack crumbs until morning.

If the same desk handles schoolwork or a job by day, a split ghost-and-alien layout is a fair compromise: lively enough for gaming, graphic enough to look intentional on a video call.

Sizes for a Dandadan desk

Sizes are set per design, so the product page is where to confirm them. Here is where Dandadan art lands on a desk.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	Turbo Granny's lucky-cat figurine
Laptop or reading corner	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	A single manga panel
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	A strip of paper talismans
Keyboard and mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	Ghosts on one half, aliens on the other
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	A saucer over a night city
Whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	Okarun racing end to end

L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), and 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm), are the in-between options, one for longer keyboard strips and one for wide desks of medium depth.

Gifts for a Dandadan fan

A Dandadan pad suits someone who reads each new chapter the day it drops, someone who discovered the anime through "Otonoke," a horror fan, a UFO enthusiast or a friend who still quotes Turbo Granny. Pick the lucky-cat figurine for a small, funny gift, the split layout for a gamer and Momo and Okarun together for someone who is in it for the romance. For a desk you haven't measured, go with XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm); a keyboard and mouse fit on it with room left over, and it suits most desktops.

Count on 1–3 business days for printing; after that the pad leaves Turkey, and US deliveries typically need 2–5 business days more. Ordering about two weeks before a birthday keeps it stress-free.

Keeping neon bright

Bright pinks and cyans stay vivid on a fade-resistant print, but light dust and oils dull them over time. A weekly once-over with a damp cloth keeps the colors sharp. When that isn't enough, run a few inches of lukewarm water into the sink, add a drop of mild soap, work it over the fabric with your hand and rinse the soap out completely. Roll it up inside a dry towel, squeeze gently, unroll it and let it finish drying on a flat surface. Washers, dryers and irons will ruin it, so they never come into it.

A note on names

Dandadan and the names of its characters, spirits and aliens appear here only to describe what inspired our art. Padrift has no affiliation with Yukinobu Tatsu, Shueisha or Science SARU, and the pads are not sponsored or endorsed by any of them.