Of course not😊 while I was reading the manga, intense things always happened when entering a conflict, but when everything calmed down, we would be made to laugh at their silly behavior😁
i like the fact they dont just talk about aliens and yokais but managed to introduce the way one sad and poor soul could become an actual spirit.. with serious backstory
I'm Japanese, so I'll answer your question. In Japan, there is a belief that children up to the age of seven are half spirit, and children at that age can see many spirits and ghosts. This is a remnant of the time when medical care was not yet developed, and the mortality rate of children under the age of seven was high. That's why in Japan, there is a custom of celebrating a child's third, fifth, and seventh birthdays at a shrine as special occasions. The souls of children who survive the age of seven stabilize from spirits to human souls, and gradually lose their connection to the spirit world, and when they become adults, they are no longer able to see ghosts or Yokai. Aira was only able to see Acrobatic Silky, who had become a ghost, because she was still little kid. However, the moment Aira, a high school student, got her hands on Okarun's ball, her connection to the spirit world was unlocked, which led to the subsequent development of the story.
Hello! Thank you for the explanation! I'm Brazilian, and I didn't know about this detail. Although it's a bit sad (because of where it originated), it's also very beautiful, and understanding this helped me see the episode in a different light as well!
The interesting part of this, is that this also happened in the west where the supernatural was more dismissed. During the Victorian era especially, the idea of children being able to "see spirits" and be closer with "that world" was also really prevalent. A lot of old cultures surprisingly connected these two, probably all for similar reasons. This was one of my favorite topics to look into when it came to supernatural shit because there are so many possible ways to dive into this. Like the idea that of this, "people could have actually never believed in at the time", and could have just been purely used as a coping mechanism for adults that then became so intrenched in society it permeated that into culture.
@@BlinksTehShit You are right. Before the modern era, the death of children from illness or accidents was far more common in every country around the world than it is today. By interpreting this as a "return to the spirit world" rather than a permanent death, parents were able to overcome the unbearable grief of losing their children.
yes , not just Japan, but many part of Asia, the saying is that that's why there is a soft spot/a hole like in the back of the kid head and before it "closes" harden , that's when they can see spirits actually even in the west, while ppl dont believe in this as much, many parents have shared stories of how their kids would be talking to thin air or claim there are ppl there when there isn't ... of course to the west, they just say its coz they are just playing with imaginary friend or their brain is still developing
So right after this i called my mum, in the middle of the night. She didnt fully understand why a japanese cartoon had made her 31 year old son emotional. But i went on a rant about how she did a fantastic job and how no matter what happened me and my sister could handle ourselves. How after her divorce it never felt like i only had one parent, and i never even felt once i was missing something despite her doing it both. And then she cried because she said it meant so much to her to know we could do it without her, how that gave her emotional room to sometimes not do so well herself as well. Good episode.
Didn't occur to me how hard this ep hits for single mothers and those who grew up with one. For me it was coz I'm a parent of 3 kids (9y married). Seeing how much the Silky sacrificed to give the best life for her daughter to finally lose her despite everything... can't imagine how actual single mothers would react to watching this..
The 'thud' sound was basically Acro-Silky committing suicide. Due to censorship laws they had to add it subtly. The manga made it more explicit. She was dancing on a rooftop and then decided to jump off while dancing. She had to work multiple jobs throughout the day along with prostitution to support her daughter. It's implied in the manga that her daughter was also killed. Truly a tragic backstory ngl. I can confidently say that this episode is the best episode I have seen all year long. The music composer absolutely nailed it with the soundtrack throughout her backstory. (Fun fact:- the music composer is the same as chainsaw man.)
It's also implied by the final page of the chapter that both she and her daughter reunited in the afterlife as well. So, in a way her "death" here was kind of a good thing, now having her true human form back as well as her daughter.
@@Crossbones56 oh yeah... that was pretty dark too. After watching this ep, it got me thinking whether the other backstories were as good as this. I only thought of the Evileye one but it didn't hit as hard as this one. The umbrella one is closer in it's level of sadness but I think this one is worse. Btw, that cop persistently chasing after them was hilarious, lol 🤣
I'm kinda glad that they didn't show us the manga panel where Silky jumps off the rooftop after her dance. This scene already shows everything you need, and the sound of her hitting the ground makes it even more brutal. Also instead of the scene, where mom and her daughter are looking at the stars, in the manga we see both of their ghosts walking towards the afterlife together. So yes, the girl was killed shortly after being kidnapped
In Japanese general fiction, children have high spiritual senses so Aira was able to see spirits when she was still a child but as children grew up, their spiritual senses diminished.
Yeap, i almost shit my pants when my 4 yo niece pointed at my house gate and said "granny". I was holding her in my arm and i just stood there staring at the empty space for like 5 whole minutes 😂
Momo and Aira both received all those memories. The manga made it more clear with the final page of this chapter with mother and daughter holding hands and walking together towards a white light. Small children can often see things adults can't. That's why Aira could see her as a very small child that one time. Especially since her mother had just died right before that moment. So Aira was looking for her mother. Turbo Granny is really just old and cranky and doesn't sugar coat anything she says.
It's a pretty common trope that little kids / animals are aware of the presence of spirits, and Aira as a little girl was already looking for her mother, which might have made her more sensitive to the presence of the mother's spirit. This was SUCH a good episode.
I think Turbo Granny’s lack of compassion was more of an (other)worldly matter-of-fact approach. You gotta remember that she’s a) a yokai and b) has seen centuries of monstrous outcomes. She recognized that she, Momo, and Okarun couldn’t do anything for Aira or Silkie - it was up to them up save each other. Basically she’s just a big tsundere. She’s not actually callous.
Yeah, taking it from her persepctive as a yokai that has experienced seeing so many girls being mlstd and/or klld she probably has her emotion turned off
Also, Turbo Granny had seen docens if not more girls getting graped, tortured, killed and dismembered. By that point, she’s used to it. She most likely (it is unknown if she knew Acrobatic Silky’s story, but either way she can connect the dots) didn’t considered Silky’s story to be noteworthy compared to what she has likely seen.
Another perfectly crafted episode, with a few points worth mentioning: 1.From the money on the bedside table and the room's setup, we can infer that being a sex worker was one of her many jobs (this shows her willingness to do anything for her daughter). 2.From the comic, we learn that after waking up, she realized she had lost her daughter, which led her to jump off the building. 3.She actually became a wandering ghost for quite some time, having forgotten everything. Later, it was the touch of the pink-haired girl that brought back her memories, transforming her from an ordinary ghost into a vengeful spirit. Truly heartbreaking.
@@JusteAuHasard Although the author didn't provide a very direct answer, based on the surrounding details,based on the various details in the story, your conclusion is completely reasonable. There is a very high probability that it is exactly as you suggested.
@@JusteAuHasard One thing to note is that sex work isn't technically legal in Japan, so Acro Silky would have to be involved with the very wrong kind of people (for example, yakuza with very serious backing) to be able to take up that job. She might have been forced into it by them, who knows. And the people who are capable of that can be very ruthless.
@@hagahong3327 A former JAV actress Kaho Shibuya talks about taking a interview with for a JAV job on trash taste; As a curiosity and potentially a journalistic story as she was working for a paper at the time. She implied the yakuza would not take no for an answer and made her sign and she was bound by that contract for years. One of many unfortunate things that happened to her. A lot of that industry is extremely grim stories of eternal debt and terrible criminals and being shunned and excluded from society.
Man that episode broke me ... and even after watching a couple of reactions to it, it doesn't get any easier. I still burst out in tears every time. Just thinking about this episode gets me emotional.
Some unclear things: The "thud" was from the Mom. She was dancing in the roof for the last time and jumped off. You can see the stars in the background turning into buldings. It wasn't showed in the scene because the S word is sensitive in Japan. Aira was able to see her ghost before she got the golden ball simply because she was a kid. It's a common assumption that kids can see things like that
Yeah. And the child part wasn't unclear; the child either got trafficked or killed. Period. It was just too grim to show obviously, so it was heavilyy implied. Made me so shook
Attack on Titan, Heavenly Delusion and plenty of other anime have had very explicit suicide scenes. I think they didn't show it because it was just a cool directorial/stylistic choice.
Just to give you a heads up you will get more episodes like this every now and then and you would also get the nerd looking for balls stuff. Dandadan has many genres meshed together and one of them is tragedy.
Silky's rooftop dance was censured but masterfully created with the city lights in the background the water after the rain on the roofto, the edge of the building shown subtly and the use of sound "the thud" at the end to convey she died after jumping off the rooftop
Now you see everything this show/manga has to offer. It seamlessly merges comedy, horror, romance, and tragedy in a way that doesn't feel forced or awkward. It's quickly become one of my favorites and being caught up with the manga, it only gets crazier from here
some people said that child tend to see something adult can't see, such as ghost or imaginational friend. Aira seeing acro-silky when she was kid might be related to those believe
@@A-SUS someone mentioned that it's that plus she just witnessed her mother's death, so she was more attuned to deaths and ghosts than usual, even though at the time she wasn't fully aware of the concept of death
This gets explained later by Seiko. All kids have some ability to see spirits and yokai. They're more connected, then as they grow they lose that connection.
That ballet self-checkout scene was heartbreaking but beautifully done. Probably for the best that it wasn't thrown in your face as much as in the manga since that's a heavy and sensitive thing RIP Acro-Silky, another of anime's best parents🙏🏾
Dandadan can be anything you want it to be. They lure you in with the nutsack and then they hit you with feels, or laughs, or romance, or hype. The manga is masterful stuff and the adaptation is hitting all the right notes.
As a Mixed man, retired Army vet at 43 and happily married with 2 daughters. I can tell you the reality of this is exactly when women are choosing the Bears!
It's widely accepted (around the world) that the very young and the very old (as well as those close to death) can see spirits. The very young have not been conditioned to ignore them and the very old are keeping company with friends and family who have already parted. The manga was already heartbreaking. The way they adapted it here did take it up another level.
A lot of people seem to think that acro silky bled out on the street, but unfortunately, the scene of her dancing on the water, was actually her dancing on the ledge of a rooftop in the manga. I’m pretty sure you can figure out what that *THUD* means that follows afterward….
LETSGOOOOOOOOO Edit : also, your confusion about why Aira can see her when she was a child, is because in asia (at least in my country) there are many folktales about kids being sensitive to spirits. So everytime a kid talk to themself, or suddenly got distracted by something, usually they see a spirit around them.
Kids and animals i think. Which is why when anything supernatural happens, dogs would start barking and birds would start flying around. I'm lowkey under the impression that kids in american movies always have some 3rd eye as well tbh 😂
The dance it have to be censoured, the manga show clearly that she is dancing in a roof and at the end she jumps to her death. That was the sound, her falling into the ground
You and everyone who hasn't read the manga are in for such a wonderful ride. A sprawling, broad, hilarious, tragic, emotionally high and low epic love story that has everything.
This was an heartbreaker in the manga as well and I was kinda worried about how Science Saru would handle its adaptation, but holy shit if they didn't knock it out of the park. The music, the animation, the overall direction and pace of the scene. Everything was ON POINT.
Finally found my next piano piece! This is the first 2024 anime causing me to blame the rain while inside, and that melody is haunting but beautiful... much like the episode itself.
Aira learned Acro was just a stranger. Even so, she pretended to be her daughter to console her soul. Oh god, we wittnessed the born of another goddess heroine in this show.
It seems like her daughter died as well. Aira says "Take them to a more fortunate, kinder world" as a scene of them both plays. I was hoping we'd get to see her daughter grown up later but i found this out after searching it up. Man this episode is tragic.
@@StudioTera20 I checked these scenes in the manga and its more clear. The child and mom were holding hands in the afterlife. Unfortunately its 100% talking about them. Also the Yokai and mom are the same person so it cant be that.
15:30 In japanese folklore as well as many other cultures, it is believed that children and people who witness death closely, get a strong connection to spirits and are capable of seeing them. When Aira was a kid, she witnessed her mother die, so this along the fact of her being a little child, explains why she could see Acro Silky at that time, it is kind of implied in the manga as well as how Silky exactly died (the thump sound you mentioned), which is a very delicate subject in Japan.
Dont know if many of you noticed, but the shot she is dancing almost on top of water, you can see city lights and she falling down. She jumped from the top of a building.
ya that needed to be more obivous, i didnt even see it jst seen in comments it what the end was. shame they had to censor it. i thought she just got back up off the road then feel and died the first time.
14:00 They are a bit subtler than in the manga here, but basically since her daughter was taken and she was bleeding out fast, she jumped off a roof. That's what hte sequence on teh rooftop, fall and "thud" were.
the "thud" is the sound of falling when the silky acrobat lady commits suicide when she jumps from the roof of the building at the end of her ballet dance and not the stars but the street lights... because the suicide scene is very sensitive. in some countries it is displayed in symbolic form
In the scene where she's dancing, if you see the details, you can see the rim of the rooftop and as she makes that finale jump, you see a cut of the roof edge
@@natalimoina how so? It's quite a popular opinion that Demon Slayer doesn't really do a very good job in making you feel for most of the demons when we get their backstories, and even the best ones are nowhere close to this level. All of the most emotional moments are when the good guys are dying, like Rengoku or when Nezuko almost burned for example.
The urge to watch this episode all day but I'm halting it til I get home from work cause I read the manga and it was brutal I didn't wanna cry from work but yey Carlie and Ange reaction 🎉 Imma need to rehydrate soon😅
tissue box marked safe on this episode, we weren't if not looking for balls, we're bawling in this anime, well played seeing the thumbnail still makes me tear up a little bit
This episode implies that Silky was sleeping with people while working multiple jobs to support her child. In the end she ended up dancing to her demise from the roof & not being able to save her daughter, only reuniting in the afterlife. What a tragic masterpiece this was... tears
The dance scene was on top of a building rooftop. After scouring to catch up to her daughter and her captors, she decided to kill herself by jumping off of a building which is why we hear that thud after her dance. As for the girl, I can only guess that she's dead as well since Aira's words were "take them to a more kinder world" which would entail both Acrosilky and her daughter. The dudes were probably debt collectors or something of the like and took the girl to sell her off, sell her organs, or something else absolutely horrific. Either way, the reason I think that is because Acrosilky knew that when they ran off with her, it was all over for her, and thus why she killed herself. +Aira was probably able to see Acrosilky when she was a little toddler because kids have a bit more spiritual afinity compared to adults. So they lose the ability to see and interact with them as they get older unless they get activated again for good like with Okarun's balls
14:17 well if you take a look at the background where the mom is dancing. She is stranded by city lights and they are below her. She is in top of a building dancing one last time and then she jumped off. In the manga it was clearly shown that she was in a rooftop and then she did a huge pirouette jumping down. the reason things were censor is probably because time slots the show is airing in Japan and it can be a very sensitive subject. Japan has a huge suicide rate and is kinda taboo to show scenes like that.
When i heard of Dandadan i didnt read it at first. When i got absolutely hooked on mangas, i tried it as one of the first recommendations and caught up in a couple of days. Its one of mangas and anime that really speak to my weird curiosity. I expected great things from a anime adaptation but this... This is one of the best adaptations ever. Its like Jojo and CSM that really try to recreate the spirit of the manga and translate it to new applications of the animation. It feels cinematic, the music is incredible. And like those shows, its an anime that really makes me hyped for the next seasons because i know which scenes would be improved and i want to see how.
Another fantastic video, Carlie and Ange! 🙌 The opening scenes are absolute perfection - the creativity and detail put into each one just keep getting better and better! Ange, your work on these intros sets the vibe so perfectly, and it’s clear how much thought goes into making each one unique and captivating. Thank you both for all the hard work and dedication - it really shines through! Can’t wait to see what you have in store next. 💖✨"
15:20 She was definitely already a spirit, that's why she transformed straight away after 'realising' that Aira was her daughter (obviously not the case, but she genuinely thought she was). In fiction, children are often more open to those kinds of things than adults, so they can see spirits, and lose the ability as they grow up. EDIT: It seems like there is also more to it in Japanese culture specifically; NekoNekoKainushi's comment explains it better.
Not only is silky working multiple jobs, she’s also a prostitute, which is why we see her waking up in a love hotel with money on the desk from her client. And the scene of her dancing actually took place on the roof of the apartment but was censored due to sensitive subject matters. There were city lights, and the water is simply puddles from the rain. She jumped off the building and killed herself afterwards, which is why there is a loud stump and a blackout soon after. This anime is just incredible and has everything, and all of these are just put together beautifully :’)
In Japan stories and folklore often have children seeing spirits before aging out of it, so much so that many anime just assume you as a viewer already understand that.
I think was cutting onions or something.... what an episode. The mom dancing after what happened is her dancing of the roof of a building. Just... wow...
The mom sold her body to provide for the little girl. She took a little off the top to try to buy her girl the dress and her "handlers" found out they were short on her payment so they best her up and to the girl. Notice in the dancing scene, she's on a rooftop. It's an artful way of presenting she ended herself. The little girl sadly either died or was "put to work" by these horrible men. It's implied she died afterwards.
15:08 little kid often can see something like that actually, I believe some of them realize or not often have an imaginary friend cuz they can see, the scene showing information that she can see her the acro-silky lady there so she can see, no need to deny that information.
It shows the mother take an extra bill out of the envelope to pay for the red dress, also implied earlier by the oversized shoes, and her inability to afford proper ones. The mother was directly responsible for her child's life and circumstances, thus her feelings and responses at the very end. the fact that this hits so hard on people, and 95% won't catch all of the subtlety is honestly incredible on the studios part.
I think we all break when she says her child would be happier if she wasn't hers cause we become terrified of our mothers thinking that, I too, like many here, called my mom to tell her she did an amazing job and she was the best mother I could ever ask for
I think the fact that aira was so young when she first saw her probably has to do with the fact that in ghost movies and ghost documentaries they state that kids are more likely to see spirits and such
In many asian culture it is a common belief that kids can see spirits until certain age. Thats why some kids that can talk early will tell their parent they see certain things that adult cant see.
The scene where the lady were dancing was actually referring to her suicide by jumping off a rooftop, if you slow down the fps, you can actually see her dancing off the the edge of the building at the end, and the sound comes by…
As a dad this episode hurt me so god damn deep. They way the girl moves and shows happiness is so close to what I experience daily with my toddler that I could not to just cry. I've cried many times before while watching anime but I was almost hyperventilating after the episode. Even if this is fiction and even if you most likely never experience anything even close to as horrifying as this, you will need to keep in my mind that nothing is promised. Hug your loved ones and keep em safe as you can. This is what I got out of this episode. Also that misery really does like company. Cried once more even though I skipped a lot of the bad parts in this reaction.
I read the manga but i'll never though this anime's version was so awesome made (Animations & music). It's really a plus to the Manga, i re-discover this moment.The way we saw a story in 360° like the music box of a woman dancing.More infos about this poor woman, she worked in so many jobs even prostitution then when she lost her child, she made a last dance a jump from a building/balcony. Aira and the Yokai share a same pain, the lost of their loved one Mother/daughter and they share at the end this pain and this forgiveness/appeasement. Good job to staff who made this episode.
There'll be more deep stories in the future. To me dandadan is such a masterpiece because of how well it mixes so many genres in one big incredible well written story, but the anime is making it even greater if how well directed, animated and produced it's been. I'm updated to the manga and knew what was going to happen, still I got so shocked with this episode... beyond perfection
That dancing scene was to show that she jumped of a building(suicide) as she couldn't find her daughter and get her back. What happened to her daughter, you can imagine either she was sold off somewhere sketchy to make money for the loan sharks or she may have died for whatever reasons like resisting those loan sharks. The loan sharks could be either due to her borrowing money initially to start a living and find a roof for her daughter to live in or it could be a debt from her family or maybe a runaway husband and she has to pay off those debts. About Aira, it is said that most/some young children can see spirits and when they grow up they don't see spirits and some forget that they have seen spirits or they can't differentiate between spirits and humans when young.
Basically the mother used some of the money she owed to buy her daughter that dress, so they went to her house to collect something else in return. This obviously included her daughter
In the paranormal sense, many paranormal experts believe children can see ghosts. That is why there are many instances of kids having imaginary friends. The mother was a wandering ghost until aira rekindled in her the memory of her child.
The Anime is a bit censored but kind of explain everything actually. The manga is way more clear and here the info you could have missed: 1: The mother had debt from loan shark, she was cumulating 2 jobs + selling her body to pay the debt 2: She took a bit of her saving to buy a dress for the daughter, but the guys camed and she didnt had enough at that moment so they took the girl 3: On the dancing pannel, in the anime it is a bit unclear to be pretty beautiful with the sky reflection in the water. In the manga, she's on the top of a roof, do her last dance and backflip to the ground. 4: It's not trully telled what happened to the little girl, but in the last moment of the chapter when aira hugged the mother, there is a pannel with the mother and daughter appearing reunited (could be aira's wish, mother's wish, or just the reality of the 2 souls getting back together). But the way it's construct deeply implied that the daughter is probably dead long time ago (people mostly think the yakuza took the girl organs or slaved her) PS: Get a lot of tissue ready, between shonen fights, romances between okarun and ayase and funny daily life moments, this chapter was only the start of dramatic events in this manga.
Seems like this anime can be serious after all… Beautiful episode
Read the manga chapter 16-17 you will definitely love the art
Of course not😊 while I was reading the manga, intense things always happened when entering a conflict, but when everything calmed down, we would be made to laugh at their silly behavior😁
definitely, they're going for gintama trope.
Is amzing episode and şad one iş my top episode in show she borken mother l hope she rest in peçe with her baby the ost işamzing❤
i like the fact they dont just talk about aliens and yokais but managed to introduce the way one sad and poor soul could become an actual spirit.. with serious backstory
I'm Japanese, so I'll answer your question.
In Japan, there is a belief that children up to the age of seven are half spirit, and children at that age can see many spirits and ghosts.
This is a remnant of the time when medical care was not yet developed, and the mortality rate of children under the age of seven was high. That's why in Japan, there is a custom of celebrating a child's third, fifth, and seventh birthdays at a shrine as special occasions.
The souls of children who survive the age of seven stabilize from spirits to human souls, and gradually lose their connection to the spirit world, and when they become adults, they are no longer able to see ghosts or Yokai.
Aira was only able to see Acrobatic Silky, who had become a ghost, because she was still little kid.
However, the moment Aira, a high school student, got her hands on Okarun's ball, her connection to the spirit world was unlocked, which led to the subsequent development of the story.
「七歳までは神のうち」ですね
Hello! Thank you for the explanation! I'm Brazilian, and I didn't know about this detail. Although it's a bit sad (because of where it originated), it's also very beautiful, and understanding this helped me see the episode in a different light as well!
The interesting part of this, is that this also happened in the west where the supernatural was more dismissed. During the Victorian era especially, the idea of children being able to "see spirits" and be closer with "that world" was also really prevalent. A lot of old cultures surprisingly connected these two, probably all for similar reasons. This was one of my favorite topics to look into when it came to supernatural shit because there are so many possible ways to dive into this. Like the idea that of this, "people could have actually never believed in at the time", and could have just been purely used as a coping mechanism for adults that then became so intrenched in society it permeated that into culture.
@@BlinksTehShit You are right. Before the modern era, the death of children from illness or accidents was far more common in every country around the world than it is today.
By interpreting this as a "return to the spirit world" rather than a permanent death, parents were able to overcome the unbearable grief of losing their children.
yes , not just Japan, but many part of Asia, the saying is that that's why there is a soft spot/a hole like in the back of the kid head and before it "closes" harden , that's when they can see spirits
actually even in the west, while ppl dont believe in this as much, many parents have shared stories of how their kids would be talking to thin air or claim there are ppl there when there isn't ... of course to the west, they just say its coz they are just playing with imaginary friend or their brain is still developing
So right after this i called my mum, in the middle of the night. She didnt fully understand why a japanese cartoon had made her 31 year old son emotional. But i went on a rant about how she did a fantastic job and how no matter what happened me and my sister could handle ourselves. How after her divorce it never felt like i only had one parent, and i never even felt once i was missing something despite her doing it both.
And then she cried because she said it meant so much to her to know we could do it without her, how that gave her emotional room to sometimes not do so well herself as well.
Good episode.
Real🥺🥺
Better call her to stay with you once you are well settled. Good luck mate I'm rooting for ya 🙌🏿
Didn't occur to me how hard this ep hits for single mothers and those who grew up with one. For me it was coz I'm a parent of 3 kids (9y married).
Seeing how much the Silky sacrificed to give the best life for her daughter to finally lose her despite everything... can't imagine how actual single mothers would react to watching this..
prime example of somebody lying outta their asssss xDDDD
@@dieAlbaKids ouch an orphan looking for attention 😂😂
The 'thud' sound was basically Acro-Silky committing suicide. Due to censorship laws they had to add it subtly. The manga made it more explicit. She was dancing on a rooftop and then decided to jump off while dancing. She had to work multiple jobs throughout the day along with prostitution to support her daughter. It's implied in the manga that her daughter was also killed. Truly a tragic backstory ngl.
I can confidently say that this episode is the best episode I have seen all year long. The music composer absolutely nailed it with the soundtrack throughout her backstory. (Fun fact:- the music composer is the same as chainsaw man.)
ofc its the same composer I shouldve known, both such peak soundtracks
It's also implied by the final page of the chapter that both she and her daughter reunited in the afterlife as well. So, in a way her "death" here was kind of a good thing, now having her true human form back as well as her daughter.
wait until you see umbrella yokais backstory theres no end to tragic vents there and its dark too
There was 2 frames that shows edge of rooftop where she jumped.
@@Crossbones56 oh yeah... that was pretty dark too. After watching this ep, it got me thinking whether the other backstories were as good as this. I only thought of the Evileye one but it didn't hit as hard as this one. The umbrella one is closer in it's level of sadness but I think this one is worse.
Btw, that cop persistently chasing after them was hilarious, lol 🤣
I'm kinda glad that they didn't show us the manga panel where Silky jumps off the rooftop after her dance. This scene already shows everything you need, and the sound of her hitting the ground makes it even more brutal. Also instead of the scene, where mom and her daughter are looking at the stars, in the manga we see both of their ghosts walking towards the afterlife together. So yes, the girl was killed shortly after being kidnapped
That shit hurts even more.
im going to be honest, i prefer her being killed than her being "used" until she dies as a slave or "worker"
They sorta did
Damn the girl got killed ? If she still alive she would be as big as Aira, Okarun, abd Ayase 😢
@@easytomove Likely organ harvested by the debt collectors. Tragic as hell man.....
In Japanese general fiction, children have high spiritual senses so Aira was able to see spirits when she was still a child but as children grew up, their spiritual senses diminished.
Western fiction also does the same, children and animals tend to be more receptive to spirits.
well.. all of children around the world almost can see something that we adult cant see, thats why sometimes they have imagination friends.
@@hikari9433 yeah, but sadly some reactors still think Aira has spiritual power since child, so they were confused why Aira died after got eaten.
Yeap, i almost shit my pants when my 4 yo niece pointed at my house gate and said "granny". I was holding her in my arm and i just stood there staring at the empty space for like 5 whole minutes 😂
not only japanese u know, this is almost universal
It's peak but at what cost😭
Lmaoo
@@cjjackson2423 tf is there to laugh. Sick idiot.
Our tears 😢
@@hectorarango5504more like our souls
Okarun's Balls.
After many reaction rewatches I just noticed you can still see the glass shards in Silky's arm when she hugs Aira
another detail, AcroSilky cries clear liquid tears at the end. It was viscous, pus-like tears before.
Momo and Aira both received all those memories. The manga made it more clear with the final page of this chapter with mother and daughter holding hands and walking together towards a white light. Small children can often see things adults can't. That's why Aira could see her as a very small child that one time. Especially since her mother had just died right before that moment. So Aira was looking for her mother. Turbo Granny is really just old and cranky and doesn't sugar coat anything she says.
Hopefully they start next episode with them holding hands and moving to a kinder world
It's a pretty common trope that little kids / animals are aware of the presence of spirits, and Aira as a little girl was already looking for her mother, which might have made her more sensitive to the presence of the mother's spirit. This was SUCH a good episode.
Common fact*
I think Turbo Granny’s lack of compassion was more of an (other)worldly matter-of-fact approach. You gotta remember that she’s a) a yokai and b) has seen centuries of monstrous outcomes. She recognized that she, Momo, and Okarun couldn’t do anything for Aira or Silkie - it was up to them up save each other.
Basically she’s just a big tsundere. She’s not actually callous.
Yeah, taking it from her persepctive as a yokai that has experienced seeing so many girls being mlstd and/or klld she probably has her emotion turned off
Also, Turbo Granny had seen docens if not more girls getting graped, tortured, killed and dismembered. By that point, she’s used to it. She most likely (it is unknown if she knew Acrobatic Silky’s story, but either way she can connect the dots) didn’t considered Silky’s story to be noteworthy compared to what she has likely seen.
I hate and love how real this episode felt, the blurry, frames of the mom running, the voice, mannn
Another perfectly crafted episode, with a few points worth mentioning:
1.From the money on the bedside table and the room's setup, we can infer that being a sex worker was one of her many jobs (this shows her willingness to do anything for her daughter).
2.From the comic, we learn that after waking up, she realized she had lost her daughter, which led her to jump off the building.
3.She actually became a wandering ghost for quite some time, having forgotten everything. Later, it was the touch of the pink-haired girl that brought back her memories, transforming her from an ordinary ghost into a vengeful spirit.
Truly heartbreaking.
why did those guys beat her up? is it because of the debt?
@@JusteAuHasard Although the author didn't provide a very direct answer, based on the surrounding details,based on the various details in the story, your conclusion is completely reasonable. There is a very high probability that it is exactly as you suggested.
@@JusteAuHasard One thing to note is that sex work isn't technically legal in Japan, so Acro Silky would have to be involved with the very wrong kind of people (for example, yakuza with very serious backing) to be able to take up that job. She might have been forced into it by them, who knows. And the people who are capable of that can be very ruthless.
@@hagahong3327there are many ways to get into sex work, but yes she owed $
@@hagahong3327 A former JAV actress Kaho Shibuya talks about taking a interview with for a JAV job on trash taste; As a curiosity and potentially a journalistic story as she was working for a paper at the time. She implied the yakuza would not take no for an answer and made her sign and she was bound by that contract for years. One of many unfortunate things that happened to her. A lot of that industry is extremely grim stories of eternal debt and terrible criminals and being shunned and excluded from society.
I was crying my eyes out when I read the manga... animation and voice acting brings the beauty and sadness out of the panels
AND THAT DAMN SOUNDTRACK
Pussy
Man that episode broke me ... and even after watching a couple of reactions to it, it doesn't get any easier. I still burst out in tears every time. Just thinking about this episode gets me emotional.
Some unclear things:
The "thud" was from the Mom. She was dancing in the roof for the last time and jumped off. You can see the stars in the background turning into buldings. It wasn't showed in the scene because the S word is sensitive in Japan.
Aira was able to see her ghost before she got the golden ball simply because she was a kid. It's a common assumption that kids can see things like that
Yeah. And the child part wasn't unclear; the child either got trafficked or killed. Period. It was just too grim to show obviously, so it was heavilyy implied. Made me so shook
@@daniellaaa24 In manga they two meet eachother in the other side (cap 17 on the manga, last pannel)
Attack on Titan, Heavenly Delusion and plenty of other anime have had very explicit suicide scenes. I think they didn't show it because it was just a cool directorial/stylistic choice.
She was harvested for her organs iirc@@daniellaaa24
Excuse me, I wanted to see a show about a nerd looking for his balls. I didn't expect to get my heart broken
It's still about a nerd emoji looking for his balls, just expect to get slammed with horrific shit like this every now and then.
Just to give you a heads up you will get more episodes like this every now and then and you would also get the nerd looking for balls stuff. Dandadan has many genres meshed together and one of them is tragedy.
Silky's rooftop dance was censured but masterfully created with the city lights in the background the water after the rain on the roofto, the edge of the building shown subtly and the use of sound "the thud" at the end to convey she died after jumping off the rooftop
Had to rematch a couple of times but caught it at the end. Thanks for pointing that out. 👍
Now you see everything this show/manga has to offer. It seamlessly merges comedy, horror, romance, and tragedy in a way that doesn't feel forced or awkward. It's quickly become one of my favorites and being caught up with the manga, it only gets crazier from here
Me and my friend watch these together, and we were almost completely silent this entire episode
子供を持つ父親です。全ての親に見て欲しい。私は泣きました。比喩表現ではありません。アニメを見て泣きました。美しく、悲しく、温かい。そういうエピソードです。
I ugly cried twice watching this episode
Same I haven't even stopped yet
The piano quivering as acro silky broke down was just so good. They're doing an amazing job with the adaptation
some people said that child tend to see something adult can't see, such as ghost or imaginational friend. Aira seeing acro-silky when she was kid might be related to those believe
@@A-SUS someone mentioned that it's that plus she just witnessed her mother's death, so she was more attuned to deaths and ghosts than usual, even though at the time she wasn't fully aware of the concept of death
This gets explained later by Seiko. All kids have some ability to see spirits and yokai. They're more connected, then as they grow they lose that connection.
That ballet self-checkout scene was heartbreaking but beautifully done. Probably for the best that it wasn't thrown in your face as much as in the manga since that's a heavy and sensitive thing
RIP Acro-Silky, another of anime's best parents🙏🏾
Dandadan can be anything you want it to be. They lure you in with the nutsack and then they hit you with feels, or laughs, or romance, or hype. The manga is masterful stuff and the adaptation is hitting all the right notes.
As a Mixed man, retired Army vet at 43 and happily married with 2 daughters. I can tell you the reality of this is exactly when women are choosing the Bears!
兄貴のオープニングの演奏が毎回大好きです🎶
ダンダダン！ダンダダン！ダンダダン🎶
10 out of FUCKING 10. MASTERCLASS animation and storytelling. WAUW
It's widely accepted (around the world) that the very young and the very old (as well as those close to death) can see spirits.
The very young have not been conditioned to ignore them and the very old are keeping company with friends and family who have already parted.
The manga was already heartbreaking. The way they adapted it here did take it up another level.
A lot of people seem to think that acro silky bled out on the street, but unfortunately, the scene of her dancing on the water, was actually her dancing on the ledge of a rooftop in the manga. I’m pretty sure you can figure out what that *THUD* means that follows afterward….
LETSGOOOOOOOOO
Edit : also, your confusion about why Aira can see her when she was a child, is because in asia (at least in my country) there are many folktales about kids being sensitive to spirits. So everytime a kid talk to themself, or suddenly got distracted by something, usually they see a spirit around them.
Kids and animals i think. Which is why when anything supernatural happens, dogs would start barking and birds would start flying around.
I'm lowkey under the impression that kids in american movies always have some 3rd eye as well tbh 😂
18:15 "I can't see them having sad backstories"
OOOOOHHH BOY
Yeah about that... 😅
@@bluetone-amv nawh not spoiler valid comment lol
😏
Thankfully i dont remember them saying that or else i would've been spoiled on someone's backstory. Hope this comment gets removed.
The dance it have to be censoured, the manga show clearly that she is dancing in a roof and at the end she jumps to her death. That was the sound, her falling into the ground
@@bluetone-amv Read the manga
You and everyone who hasn't read the manga are in for such a wonderful ride. A sprawling, broad, hilarious, tragic, emotionally high and low epic love story that has everything.
This was an heartbreaker in the manga as well and I was kinda worried about how Science Saru would handle its adaptation, but holy shit if they didn't knock it out of the park.
The music, the animation, the overall direction and pace of the scene. Everything was ON POINT.
As soon as I saw it, I thought Ange would like when Okarun headbutted Silky it was paying homage to Baby Gohan headbutting Raditz.
Aaah, the classic Tanjiro headbutt. Good casting.
Finally found my next piano piece! This is the first 2024 anime causing me to blame the rain while inside, and that melody is haunting but beautiful... much like the episode itself.
one of the best episodes ( in any medium, any show) i have ever seen! ... how good a scene/sequence can be! how cinematic!!
“Alien don’t got a sad backstory, right?”
I can only say that “ Do not underestimate the power and mind of Yukinobu Tatsu”
Aira learned Acro was just a stranger. Even so, she pretended to be her daughter to console her soul. Oh god, we wittnessed the born of another goddess heroine in this show.
It seems like her daughter died as well. Aira says "Take them to a more fortunate, kinder world" as a scene of them both plays. I was hoping we'd get to see her daughter grown up later but i found this out after searching it up. Man this episode is tragic.
It could mean for the yokai and her mom to I think
@@StudioTera20 I checked these scenes in the manga and its more clear. The child and mom were holding hands in the afterlife. Unfortunately its 100% talking about them.
Also the Yokai and mom are the same person so it cant be that.
15:30 In japanese folklore as well as many other cultures, it is believed that children and people who witness death closely, get a strong connection to spirits and are capable of seeing them. When Aira was a kid, she witnessed her mother die, so this along the fact of her being a little child, explains why she could see Acro Silky at that time, it is kind of implied in the manga as well as how Silky exactly died (the thump sound you mentioned), which is a very delicate subject in Japan.
Dont know if many of you noticed, but the shot she is dancing almost on top of water, you can see city lights and she falling down. She jumped from the top of a building.
ya that needed to be more obivous, i didnt even see it jst seen in comments it what the end was. shame they had to censor it. i thought she just got back up off the road then feel and died the first time.
14:00 They are a bit subtler than in the manga here, but basically since her daughter was taken and she was bleeding out fast, she jumped off a roof. That's what hte sequence on teh rooftop, fall and "thud" were.
And this is why the material is so great. So fun great story and then hits u like a bus with the emotion and backstory. First of many.
Honestly I waited patiently for this once I watched this I knew Carlie was going to be devastated 😭
Also keep up the good work guys❤️
this episode really hit all the feels 😭
the "thud" is the sound of falling when the silky acrobat lady commits suicide when she jumps from the roof of the building at the end of her ballet dance and not the stars but the street lights... because the suicide scene is very sensitive. in some countries it is displayed in symbolic form
In the scene where she's dancing, if you see the details, you can see the rim of the rooftop and as she makes that finale jump, you see a cut of the roof edge
SHE JUST WANTED TO DANCE WITH HER DAUGHTER 😭
THIS is how you make the audience actually feel bad and sorry for a villain. ABSOLUTE PERFECTION OF DIRECTION! just PEAK!!🙌🏻
disney could never pull this stuff off AHJHAHAAHAHAAHAHA
disney trash btw
@@clover9725 i think this may be more of a jab at demon slayer
@@ssickhead1 it's a very poor and uninformed jab at demon slayer if that's what its meant to be
@@clover9725 watch better disney content
@@natalimoina how so? It's quite a popular opinion that Demon Slayer doesn't really do a very good job in making you feel for most of the demons when we get their backstories, and even the best ones are nowhere close to this level. All of the most emotional moments are when the good guys are dying, like Rengoku or when Nezuko almost burned for example.
The urge to watch this episode all day but I'm halting it til I get home from work cause I read the manga and it was brutal I didn't wanna cry from work but yey Carlie and Ange reaction 🎉
Imma need to rehydrate soon😅
tissue box marked safe on this episode, we weren't
if not looking for balls, we're bawling in this anime, well played
seeing the thumbnail still makes me tear up a little bit
I keep telling everyone this was one of the best episodes of anime I've seen in a long time. The soundtrack alone was simply amazing.
I love see every ep7 reaction, Everyone is so happy and cheery in the beginning 🩰
This episode implies that Silky was sleeping with people while working multiple jobs to support her child. In the end she ended up dancing to her demise from the roof & not being able to save her daughter, only reuniting in the afterlife. What a tragic masterpiece this was... tears
The dance scene was on top of a building rooftop. After scouring to catch up to her daughter and her captors, she decided to kill herself by jumping off of a building which is why we hear that thud after her dance. As for the girl, I can only guess that she's dead as well since Aira's words were "take them to a more kinder world" which would entail both Acrosilky and her daughter. The dudes were probably debt collectors or something of the like and took the girl to sell her off, sell her organs, or something else absolutely horrific. Either way, the reason I think that is because Acrosilky knew that when they ran off with her, it was all over for her, and thus why she killed herself.
+Aira was probably able to see Acrosilky when she was a little toddler because kids have a bit more spiritual afinity compared to adults. So they lose the ability to see and interact with them as they get older unless they get activated again for good like with Okarun's balls
feel like aira's backstory also explains why she has such a big ego. its her shield since she needs to be strong because her mom is gone
14:17 well if you take a look at the background where the mom is dancing. She is stranded by city lights and they are below her. She is in top of a building dancing one last time and then she jumped off. In the manga it was clearly shown that she was in a rooftop and then she did a huge pirouette jumping down.
the reason things were censor is probably because time slots the show is airing in Japan and it can be a very sensitive subject. Japan has a huge suicide rate and is kinda taboo to show scenes like that.
a mother will do everything to make her child happy ❤
When i heard of Dandadan i didnt read it at first. When i got absolutely hooked on mangas, i tried it as one of the first recommendations and caught up in a couple of days. Its one of mangas and anime that really speak to my weird curiosity.
I expected great things from a anime adaptation but this... This is one of the best adaptations ever. Its like Jojo and CSM that really try to recreate the spirit of the manga and translate it to new applications of the animation. It feels cinematic, the music is incredible.
And like those shows, its an anime that really makes me hyped for the next seasons because i know which scenes would be improved and i want to see how.
Another fantastic video, Carlie and Ange! 🙌 The opening scenes are absolute perfection - the creativity and detail put into each one just keep getting better and better! Ange, your work on these intros sets the vibe so perfectly, and it’s clear how much thought goes into making each one unique and captivating. Thank you both for all the hard work and dedication - it really shines through! Can’t wait to see what you have in store next. 💖✨"
15:20 She was definitely already a spirit, that's why she transformed straight away after 'realising' that Aira was her daughter (obviously not the case, but she genuinely thought she was). In fiction, children are often more open to those kinds of things than adults, so they can see spirits, and lose the ability as they grow up.
EDIT: It seems like there is also more to it in Japanese culture specifically; NekoNekoKainushi's comment explains it better.
Not only is silky working multiple jobs, she’s also a prostitute, which is why we see her waking up in a love hotel with money on the desk from her client.
And the scene of her dancing actually took place on the roof of the apartment but was censored due to sensitive subject matters. There were city lights, and the water is simply puddles from the rain. She jumped off the building and killed herself afterwards, which is why there is a loud stump and a blackout soon after.
This anime is just incredible and has everything, and all of these are just put together beautifully :’)
In Japan stories and folklore often have children seeing spirits before aging out of it, so much so that many anime just assume you as a viewer already understand that.
The director and the animators of this show really gave this episode justice. They really cooked
I think was cutting onions or something.... what an episode. The mom dancing after what happened is her dancing of the roof of a building. Just... wow...
The mom sold her body to provide for the little girl. She took a little off the top to try to buy her girl the dress and her "handlers" found out they were short on her payment so they best her up and to the girl.
Notice in the dancing scene, she's on a rooftop. It's an artful way of presenting she ended herself.
The little girl sadly either died or was "put to work" by these horrible men. It's implied she died afterwards.
15:08 little kid often can see something like that actually, I believe some of them realize or not often have an imaginary friend cuz they can see, the scene showing information that she can see her the acro-silky lady there so she can see, no need to deny that information.
Best episode yet
Anime only prolly didn't expect a series about ghost, aliens and balls to be this deep
It shows the mother take an extra bill out of the envelope to pay for the red dress, also implied earlier by the oversized shoes, and her inability to afford proper ones. The mother was directly responsible for her child's life and circumstances, thus her feelings and responses at the very end. the fact that this hits so hard on people, and 95% won't catch all of the subtlety is honestly incredible on the studios part.
Acrobatic Silky destroyed them, they're gonna need tissue supplies for future yokais 🌂☔
As a manga reader couldn’t be more happy with how this episode turned out cried first time watching it
The composer is a master of emotional gut punches; it's the same person behind A Silent Voice's OST.
Small children are said to be sensitive to supernatural stuff but lose this as they grow up
So little aira saw acro silky as a ghost
When you realize the true horror is not the Aliens or the Ghosts, but the inability of a Human to stand up for their loved ones
I almost skipped this reaction because of how this episode affected me as a father of a young daughter. Almost... Now I'm crying again.
dadandan has all
emotional, comedy, romance, highschool, action, good animation, alien stuff, ghost stuff, sci-fi etc.
the ost the dance the"i love you" man it just😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Im so sad when the kid cry and say thanks to her mom my heart is broke in thats adorable voice of child
I didn’t even notice the matching red dress 😭😭
Tip for the future of Dandadan, put a tissue box on the table...
In laughter and in sadness, a lot more tears will come..
I think we all break when she says her child would be happier if she wasn't hers cause we become terrified of our mothers thinking that, I too, like many here, called my mom to tell her she did an amazing job and she was the best mother I could ever ask for
The love of a mother is such a powerful force
I think the fact that aira was so young when she first saw her probably has to do with the fact that in ghost movies and ghost documentaries they state that kids are more likely to see spirits and such
In many asian culture it is a common belief that kids can see spirits until certain age. Thats why some kids that can talk early will tell their parent they see certain things that adult cant see.
The scene where the lady were dancing was actually referring to her suicide by jumping off a rooftop, if you slow down the fps, you can actually see her dancing off the the edge of the building at the end, and the sound comes by…
As a dad this episode hurt me so god damn deep. They way the girl moves and shows happiness is so close to what I experience daily with my toddler that I could not to just cry. I've cried many times before while watching anime but I was almost hyperventilating after the episode. Even if this is fiction and even if you most likely never experience anything even close to as horrifying as this, you will need to keep in my mind that nothing is promised. Hug your loved ones and keep em safe as you can. This is what I got out of this episode. Also that misery really does like company. Cried once more even though I skipped a lot of the bad parts in this reaction.
I read the manga but i'll never though this anime's version was so awesome made (Animations & music). It's really a plus to the Manga, i re-discover this moment.The way we saw a story in 360° like the music box of a woman dancing.More infos about this poor woman, she worked in so many jobs even prostitution then when she lost her child, she made a last dance a jump from a building/balcony.
Aira and the Yokai share a same pain, the lost of their loved one Mother/daughter and they share at the end this pain and this forgiveness/appeasement.
Good job to staff who made this episode.
Watch this episode in the middle of the night, alone, and cry like a baby.....
Every episode prior: I feel like I'm on shrooms
This episode: Crying a river
Every episode after: I feel like I'm on shrooms
My stupid ass were questioning why she uses a timer as an alarm.
Explain me I still dont undertsand
@@Janka-v6o pretty sure she gets paid by the hour
selling her body wich is why they leave money when they leave
@@clover9725 holly shit
@@clover9725 Yup the manga it's a bit more explicit about it, and the self checkout ballet dance from the roof top
@@clover9725 Actually true from the manga itself, it just most anime only didn't catch that
There'll be more deep stories in the future. To me dandadan is such a masterpiece because of how well it mixes so many genres in one big incredible well written story, but the anime is making it even greater if how well directed, animated and produced it's been. I'm updated to the manga and knew what was going to happen, still I got so shocked with this episode... beyond perfection
That dancing scene was to show that she jumped of a building(suicide) as she couldn't find her daughter and get her back. What happened to her daughter, you can imagine either she was sold off somewhere sketchy to make money for the loan sharks or she may have died for whatever reasons like resisting those loan sharks. The loan sharks could be either due to her borrowing money initially to start a living and find a roof for her daughter to live in or it could be a debt from her family or maybe a runaway husband and she has to pay off those debts.
About Aira, it is said that most/some young children can see spirits and when they grow up they don't see spirits and some forget that they have seen spirits or they can't differentiate between spirits and humans when young.
Basically the mother used some of the money she owed to buy her daughter that dress, so they went to her house to collect something else in return. This obviously included her daughter
In the paranormal sense, many paranormal experts believe children can see ghosts. That is why there are many instances of kids having imaginary friends.
The mother was a wandering ghost until aira rekindled in her the memory of her child.
The Anime is a bit censored but kind of explain everything actually.
The manga is way more clear and here the info you could have missed:
1: The mother had debt from loan shark, she was cumulating 2 jobs + selling her body to pay the debt
2: She took a bit of her saving to buy a dress for the daughter, but the guys camed and she didnt had enough at that moment so they took the girl
3: On the dancing pannel, in the anime it is a bit unclear to be pretty beautiful with the sky reflection in the water. In the manga, she's on the top of a roof, do her last dance and backflip to the ground.
4: It's not trully telled what happened to the little girl, but in the last moment of the chapter when aira hugged the mother, there is a pannel with the mother and daughter appearing reunited (could be aira's wish, mother's wish, or just the reality of the 2 souls getting back together).
But the way it's construct deeply implied that the daughter is probably dead long time ago (people mostly think the yakuza took the girl organs or slaved her)
PS: Get a lot of tissue ready, between shonen fights, romances between okarun and ayase and funny daily life moments, this chapter was only the start of dramatic events in this manga.