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The ballet scene reminded me of my favorite scene of all time. An ice skating sequence from death parade. You watch them dance and it’s one of the most beautiful things until it suddenly goes black and reality sinks in. You were just in their imagination. It’s a beautiful tragedy

The way you explain things. I thought I already understood enough but you just go even deeper into things and it’s incredible. Thank you for your videos!

Beautifully said about how the "mature" scenes were handled, when a story wants to go on a topic on a serious subject, it needs to be done well. That is what makes this series so good, it takes risks to show these serious scenes because this shit happens in real life despite how sci-fi this show can be. The author has done amazing on writing the show, and the animators have been lights out and practically flawless in their works

Amazing breakdown! God bless ya and Jesus loves ya!

00:10 "What is wrong with me?" Nothing! Ken and Momo are relationship goals! I will die on this hill! I am SO looking forward to the next Science Saru release in 2026 of a manga faithful Ghost in the Shell anime!! The DanDaDan adaptation has given me faith in their ability to adapt one of the touchstones of my anime fandom, and I am stoked for it! It's a great time to be an anime fan, y'know?

I actually love Kensuke Ushio so much because he has done the background music on multiple familiar anime such as A Silent Voice, Devilman Crybaby, and even Chainsaw Man! His works are beautiful, and I was surprised (not really) to find out that he worked on my current fixation: DanDaDan!

Kindness

There is actually a "rule of 3" 😂

You know that Trussardi is a well know stylish brand both in Italy and Japan right?!

bruuuuhhh... when the animated Jman puked on the litle girl carrying a tray which has rice balls on it I wheezed and laughed so hard! 😝 I didn't expect it to be so funny! I would usually keep my straight face over any lame jokes on the internet! but this one?? this is definitely a surprise! 😝 LOL

DanDaDan is one of the few anime that didn't show a tragic *tragic* backstory that just tells us the character, they show us their *prospective!* Like yes, it's tragic and all, but when you want the audience to sympathize with an antagonist that has all the reason to be evil, but is good at heart; then this is the correct way.

Loved this episode so much I subscribed to Shonen Jump and read all existing 175 chapters in a weekend. It’s really good. I’m excited to see the adaptation

Bro I thought the title said how to adapt a backflash

Part 4 is actually my favorite part lol

Instead of straight up recreating flashback they decided to ADAPT it, anime never should be frame by frame copy of manga

watching the anime. holy crap this whole 7 episodes so far have been phenomenal. I cried like a baby at a couple parts.

Unfortunately the show failed to account for one thing - how am I supposed to see all the subtle details with all the tears in my eyes??

My thoughts on silkys hair , possibly just spitting ideas is that probably when she was abused by men as a sex worker it is known that they pull women’s hair doing the things they do during that process which probably made me her feel not in control just like how when also her hair got pulled n shoved to the glass door which got her injured . Now in her yokai she has now takin back the control of her hair. It’s just a thought .

shit made me tear up

Time to watch all the videos in this series again!

The anime amps up the sexualization of the characters, it seems to be a quirk, if you will, of anime to take something like that and emphasize it even if it's not relevant. That's not to say that there isn't any overt sexualization in the story, there is; when it's animated they add more. The scene where Momo is listening to her grandmother's words in accessing her chi, where they focus starting at her groin? That's not in the manga. ---------------------- This backstory in the manga made me sad. Definitely made both aira and Acro-Silky sympathetic. And I knew that once translated to animation with sound and light and color, that scene had the potential to be even more powerful. I underestimated just how much more it could be. The manga did elicit a tear or two from me. The anime destroyed me.

18:25 I cried 😭😭😭😭😭

Wasn't sure is Dandadan was anime of the year Now im certain it is

This was wonderful

the sexualisation is such a touchy subject but i genuinely think it's done on purpose to make sure the audiences, who are used to fanservice, hentai, and general sexual depiction in anime, are brought to discomfort because that scene was very much a sexual assuault scene and shouldn't be any source of pleasure for anybody. The victim is a minor, not consenting, and is treated in ways other anime could easily make a gag out of. Its uncomfortable for a reason. and with knowledge to the manga, it establishes a norm that these characters would rather get naked and save their lives than remain clothed and closer to dying in these alien/supernatural situations. If anything, the sexualisation comes from outside sources in their lives (the aliens, the spirits, their peers, and the audience). Death is very much a real threat to all of them, and as Aira's establishment in the story, they're very much constantly escaping these threats through the skin of their teeth.

In terms of that "Rule of 3" you mentioned, we also got 3 shots of Acro Silky's Timer. This wasn't in the manga but The first 2 times we see it, is during her Escort Work. The Final Time we see it, is when she's using it while Cooking Dinner. This could imply that she gave up being an escort to focus on her daughter. This also leaves the ending a lot more open-ended, in terms of why her daughter was taken away from her.

Have you watched Kids on the Slope? I feel it also scratches that more mature itch but I am very biased as a band nerd.

Bro pointed out the tissues and the phone, but completely missed the two used condoms. DanDaDan backstories just get more and more heart wrenching through the series.

u dont need a face cam my guy

I actually really appreciate the elements they left out of the manga. Science Saru refuses to focus on the men she's with, because it isn't their story, it's hers. They're a job in many ways like the others. This story is of a single mother finding any way to care for her daughter, a daughter she loves so dearly and loves her in return. They back off in the framing of her jobs because the jobs, just more means to an end, divorced from the focus. Meanwhile back home, the shots are angled low, looking up at her, implying their coming from Silky's daughter, watching their hero of a mom. And finally, even as the assault plays, we're 100% focused on Silky and her daughter, their victimization, her daughter's kidnapping, and inevitably Silky's death dash through the wet, dark, sketchy streets. Never once are the nameless men even given faces, cause it's still Silky's story. The framing is so pointed in it's purpose that this episode alone would rival the best of classic art house films in direction. I am forced to wonder if I would have ugly cried half as much if SciSaru wasn't so expert in their use of film language.

When i read the manga first, i don't really feel a thing, just a bit sad that is with how the acro silky backstory. But when i watch the anime, i cry so hard that i feel like sobbing everytime i watch other people reaction, i don't know how they do it, if it is the piano ost in the background, or the shaky camera movement, or just overall vibe that the anime gave. Everything is perfect 🥹

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 NO WORDS, JUST 👏🏻👏🏻

Both goated, no one is better.

Re: Silky's hair: In Japanese folklore long hair was traditionally associated with beauty, femininity, and wealth. Therefor long, disheveled hair on a monster is a perversion of what is seen as delicate femininity. Additionally, women's hair is usually left loose when the body is dressed after death. In terms of pop culture influence of this depiction, there was a famous yurei from the Yotsuya Kaidan named Oiwa who was said to have been poisoned by her husband. The poison disfigured her face and caused her long, beautiful hair to fall out in clumps. This was depicted on stage by actors in outrageous wigs, and may be a major factor in how many female Japanese ghosts are depicted now. The most well-known inheritor of this look is probably Sadako from Ringu.

I loved this Animation Studio since I've seen "Keep your hands of Eizouken!" And I was sure they'll give us a great adaptation.. But they keep blowing my mind! And I can't avoid crying every time I hear the music of the flashback

I knew it was gonna happen... I knew the end of her character... But fuck... I shed tears...

You forgot to mention the condom 7:36

Its so true, ngl most of the time when one piece has "good animation" its just really colourful and when impacts happen, yes it's a lot of fps. But.... when anything else is shown it looks really really choppy. Thats why i dropped one piece anime and continued manga only

It was too long, both Manga and Anime. It was unnecessary, and is immediately forgotten in the story. It’s a shoe-in to make you care about the new main character, but wasn’t about her. Also it is completely forgotten, has no weight on that main character, and is a low-blow tear jerker that has no weight itself. Dandadan is good, but this was a waste of time and I skipped it both times. It’s a weird departure that uses suicide to get you to care about a side character that has 2 seconds of worth, and gives a false weight to a main character that, again, completely forgets about it and even during that part of the story is completely disconnected from that main character. Okay, great, it was well-made and so beautiful. Nah, it was simplistic and every thing used to get you to cry was uber-cliche and very shallow. Watch the mother dance to her death, so sad right? Yea, real sad the women immediately gives up and then over-dramatically jumps leaving her kid in the care of thugs. Way too much, completely drags the tone of the story down, and not to a deep place, just a shallow tear-jerker full of real obvious ploys to fake a sentimental scene at the end, to fake meaning so you can fake like a character that you already liked because she was interesting. It was a shoe in so the girl could get powers, and was unnecessary, it brings Dandadan away from greatness and makes it that much more like the regular slop. It’s the only part of the Manga that sucked, and it sucks that they just did the same thing in the Anime. Maybe one to one adaptation really isn’t good, because someone should have said, “half-an-episode to a character that will never matter again to create sentimentality for a character we’re already fond of? That’s stupid, make it about the character that’s gonna stay, not some side crap. I mean, how does this whole scene make the audience care about the pink hair girl? It doesn’t. Cut it down, make it about the actual character they’ll be seeing for the REST OF THE SERIES, and stop trying to use shallow sadness for effect. The rest of this is good, why do we need this waste of time?”

The Dandadan directors accounted for the viewers being culturally aware of Japan. The room we are first introduced to Silky's human life is actually a love hotel, which for those who don't know are brothels. Like in the West and in Japan's past it is common for their workers to belong to a gang and they have to pay off a debt built from years of providing for the girls. Because of this cultural norm it isn't necessary to verbally state those pieces of information

I'm an anime only Dandadan enjoyer, so I didn't know that silky died from falling. I thought that she was attacked again in the street and was having a near death experience. I perfer my initial interpretation because silky seemed like such a determined woman in both life and death that her deleting herself instead of trying to do whatever it takes to get her child back didn't occur to me.

Great video and analysis

Yo, I know it didn’t perform that well, but it would be really cool to keep seeing reaction vids from you. I never really watched reaction content until this show because I thought they were all kind of cheap and mindless, but seeing the first impressions on a show I like from someone who’s clearly actually super passionate about animation and storytelling was pretty fun. As good as the discussion vids are at talking about what was funny or cool about an episode, it doesn’t quite hit the same as actually seeing someone enjoy it. Either way, glad this vid brought me to your channel, looking forward to more of your stuff

Yo, I know it didn’t perform that well, but it would be really cool to keep seeing reaction vids from you. I never really watched reaction content until this show because I thought they were all kind of cheap and mindless, but seeing the first impressions on a show I like from someone who’s clearly actually super passionate about animation and storytelling was pretty fun. As good as the discussion vids are at talking about what was funny or cool about an episode, it doesn’t quite hit the same as actually seeing someone enjoy it. Either way, glad this vid brought me to your channel, looking forward to more of your stuff