The manga does have a lot of references to Ultraman and something that's cool is that the beginning colored shots of the Dandadan opening are references to old Ultraman openings. The freeze frame shot of Momo doing her roundhouse kick also looks like Ultraman for a moment (her earrings tilt up and look like the eyes).
DanDaDan is one of the few Manga I read almost every new issue. Super happy they went all in with the animation, if you go look at the action screens the impact frames are insanely cool to look at. Few fun background facts: The Author of Dan Da Dan worked as Fujumoto's assistant during Chainsaw Man part 1. Ken Takakura was a Japanese actor who was known as the "Japanese Clint Eastwood." He was famous for being the stoic badass. Granny's Voice actor Is the same as Monkey D Luffy, and Dan is the same as Tanjiro from demon slayer.... So Luffy wanted to gobble Tonjiros knob.
@@TheGenreVerse And as a capper, the English VA for Turbo Granny is the same one as Rita Repulsa from Power Rangers. So picture Rita when Granny talks about weiners. 😂
Granny proposed a fair trade..... 👟 Edit: also about the one girls make up, it's a subset of Gyaru fashion, Ganguro or Yamanba I believe, more heavily tanned + very flashy and overstated makeup that is in sharp contrast of their tan.
Just to add a little bit. This trend started as a way to protest against the beauty standard of Japan that is why it looks over exaggerated. So these girls are seen as rebels and outcast which says a lot about momo becuase she doesn't judge a person from the outside and is happy to be friends with good people (her friends do care about her as shown in the epsiode).
I'm surprised nobody noticed the orange fella or parody of him holding up a signed bill on the UFO magazine at 6:50. The anime even mentioned the U.S. Space Force, and the Space Force happened to be formed under that guy's administration.
@@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache they probably trying to stay away from politics, so they went with ambiguous white guy figure as US president which ironically ended up looking like Trump.
In the manga the scene where Ken shows Momo the magazine it shows a pic of former US president Barack Obama but they scrapped that part of this episode. I'm commenting this because it's something I noticed and thought it was funny in the manga 😂. The IRL cultural references are great, I'm sure they'll incorporate them in the anime.
Any place with violent death, suicide, betrayal, death in childbirth, grudges, death in sea disasters, great shame, etc. Japanese ghosts - yurei - often have motivations that are basically the same as western ones, aside from technical spiritual details associated with Japanese religions. The "standard trope" of what everyone expects the most stereotypical ghost to be like (often dressed in white burial kimono, tangled hair,, lacking feet and floating) but there are plenty of other types. The major difference from the US is that female ghosts tend to be the most powerful (Japan's top three legendary ghosts are all women), and like some other cultures (e.g., Ireland, Scotland, China, the Philippines, etc.), Japan has a huge traditional folk taxonomy of ghosts with many subtypes. There are the major categories like onryo (for vengeful ghosts with a grudge) or ubume (ghostly women dead in childbirth) but there are all sorts of specific subtypes who return for more obscure reasons and appear as hags, balls of flames, demonic figures, etc., most of which derive from popular collections of regional ghost stories published in the 19th and 20th centuries, along with some traditional hauntings of famous castles and other places that date back to feudal times.. On top of that are a wide variety of modern urban legends similar to the Vanishing Hitchhiker types and some unique Japanese cultural traditions -- for example, at one time it was common in Shinto tradition to make human sacrifices of criminals (or others) to gods at major infrastructure construction sites by burying the victim in the support pillar of a bridge, the foundation of a building, castle, or dam, etc. and these legends also naturally provide a nice source of ghosts. There's also the old "we built a skyscraper over x without doing proper diligence, and spirit is restless" It is also worth distinguishing between traditional folktales and ghost stories on the one hand which use all this taxonomy, and what any modern Japanese "ghost hunters" do, who are more likely to use western-influenced terminology and paranormal jargon rather than the traditional names.)
Thanks for sharing this. I generally assume things like this are similar across many, if not most, cultures. However, I'm always interested in learning about the differences and how/why they came to be differences. There's only so much you should (there's a lot you can) infer from media though... 😆
In Japan there's a subculture known as Gyaru. Its characterised by freedom, individuality and non conformity and all that jazz. The heavy tan and wierd makeup are pretty much symbols for it...though like all subcultures I think most all of them look the same.
@@TheGenreVerse It's kinda like a spectrum. At the lower levels, you get the slightly flamboyant but otherwise normal look. At the more hard-core levels, well.....
Yeah, that alien do look like something from Ultraman, and i remember watching it too, just don't remember from which Ultraman series it was. In the show the alien would walk slowly and teleport here and there also use a gun to capture human.
He's my (Kyle) best friend for the last 24 years! All 3 of us were Army brats that lived on Fort Campbell and went to Fort Campbell High. It is a bit more difficult to have a 3rd reacter who is in another state, but even if he were here, he'd probably still be the quietest. That's just him... He is the husbando after all... You're never supposed to actually have your husbando IRL anyways... 😆
As everyone have already mentioned that girl with a weird makeup is a gyaru. In the west, I've seen many times where they confused the gyarus as being black characters just because they have a darker/browner skin. But in reality, they actually uses a tan.
I am pretty sure that the main female character is a Gyaru and her friends are 100% Gyaru girls. The one with the tan is a ganguro style Gyaru, The other is a Hime Gyaru XD, And Momo is a Gal.
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you should search for Gyaru , it'll explain why the girl look like that , it's one of their fashion subculture there in Japan, it's a very old style came from 1970s i think
3:40 Compared to other reactions I've seen, calling the OP song "pretty decent" is a scathing criticism 😂 Creepy Nuts are wildly popular, especially since their OP for Mashle season 2 went viral, so people have been hyped for this OP
Sorry... it works for it, but I guess I don't have "that itch" for it to hit harder. It isn't bad in ANY way... I hope people remember that neutral is a perfectly acceptable and real position to have 🤣
@@TheGenreVerseTotally agree, and I wasn't trying to say your guys' take was a bad one. Just thought it was funny to hear a neutral opinion after hearing so many people lose their minds over it.
TO ANSWER QUESTION ABOUT JAPANESE GHOST LORE: usually hospital, abandoned warehouse, deserted town, rural villages with ancient folktale, a house with horrid story, abandoned shrines, and so on are places you often see occult things. Another source of occult in japan is local URBAN LEGEND which can be weird and basically lame sounding but they are creepy to the city folks there. Tbh, anime and manga with these genres aren't new. The problem is old anime fans watch it, calls it mid subjectively, and never looked back even though its probably different depending on who you are. So alot of the new anime fans never knew those shows from back then that would explore these myths and lore and occult cliches. Ghost in Japan are a culminations of their own occult things mixed with western ones. This is why shows like JJK is a mix of curses that is japanese theme and western theme.
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The manga does have a lot of references to Ultraman and something that's cool is that the beginning colored shots of the Dandadan opening are references to old Ultraman openings. The freeze frame shot of Momo doing her roundhouse kick also looks like Ultraman for a moment (her earrings tilt up and look like the eyes).
Thanks for verifying my anime/tokusatsu street cred!
DanDaDan is one of the few Manga I read almost every new issue. Super happy they went all in with the animation, if you go look at the action screens the impact frames are insanely cool to look at.
Few fun background facts: The Author of Dan Da Dan worked as Fujumoto's assistant during Chainsaw Man part 1. Ken Takakura was a Japanese actor who was known as the "Japanese Clint Eastwood." He was famous for being the stoic badass. Granny's Voice actor Is the same as Monkey D Luffy, and Dan is the same as Tanjiro from demon slayer.... So Luffy wanted to gobble Tonjiros knob.
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@@TheGenreVerse And as a capper, the English VA for Turbo Granny is the same one as Rita Repulsa from Power Rangers. So picture Rita when Granny talks about weiners. 😂
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Granny proposed a fair trade..... 👟
Edit: also about the one girls make up, it's a subset of Gyaru fashion, Ganguro or Yamanba I believe, more heavily tanned + very flashy and overstated makeup that is in sharp contrast of their tan.
Thanks for the info!
Just to add a little bit. This trend started as a way to protest against the beauty standard of Japan that is why it looks over exaggerated. So these girls are seen as rebels and outcast which says a lot about momo becuase she doesn't judge a person from the outside and is happy to be friends with good people (her friends do care about her as shown in the epsiode).
I'm surprised nobody noticed the orange fella or parody of him holding up a signed bill on the UFO magazine at 6:50. The anime even mentioned the U.S. Space Force, and the Space Force happened to be formed under that guy's administration.
Completely missed that! 😂
The funny thing here is in the original manga, it was Obamna in that mag, not this weird Trump JFK fusion looking US president guy.
@@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache they probably trying to stay away from politics, so they went with ambiguous white guy figure as US president which ironically ended up looking like Trump.
Read it in another video but the comment was spot on, Dandadan scratches a bit of that itch a lot of us have had since the OG FLCL
In the manga the scene where Ken shows Momo the magazine it shows a pic of former US president Barack Obama but they scrapped that part of this episode. I'm commenting this because it's something I noticed and thought it was funny in the manga 😂. The IRL cultural references are great, I'm sure they'll incorporate them in the anime.
Any place with violent death, suicide, betrayal, death in childbirth, grudges, death in sea disasters, great shame, etc. Japanese ghosts - yurei - often have motivations that are basically the same as western ones, aside from technical spiritual details associated with Japanese religions. The "standard trope" of what everyone expects the most stereotypical ghost to be like (often dressed in white burial kimono, tangled hair,, lacking feet and floating) but there are plenty of other types. The major difference from the US is that female ghosts tend to be the most powerful (Japan's top three legendary ghosts are all women), and like some other cultures (e.g., Ireland, Scotland, China, the Philippines, etc.), Japan has a huge traditional folk taxonomy of ghosts with many subtypes. There are the major categories like onryo (for vengeful ghosts with a grudge) or ubume (ghostly women dead in childbirth) but there are all sorts of specific subtypes who return for more obscure reasons and appear as hags, balls of flames, demonic figures, etc., most of which derive from popular collections of regional ghost stories published in the 19th and 20th centuries, along with some traditional hauntings of famous castles and other places that date back to feudal times.. On top of that are a wide variety of modern urban legends similar to the Vanishing Hitchhiker types and some unique Japanese cultural traditions -- for example, at one time it was common in Shinto tradition to make human sacrifices of criminals (or others) to gods at major infrastructure construction sites by burying the victim in the support pillar of a bridge, the foundation of a building, castle, or dam, etc. and these legends also naturally provide a nice source of ghosts. There's also the old "we built a skyscraper over x without doing proper diligence, and spirit is restless" It is also worth distinguishing between traditional folktales and ghost stories on the one hand which use all this taxonomy, and what any modern Japanese "ghost hunters" do, who are more likely to use western-influenced terminology and paranormal jargon rather than the traditional names.)
Thanks for sharing this. I generally assume things like this are similar across many, if not most, cultures. However, I'm always interested in learning about the differences and how/why they came to be differences.
There's only so much you should (there's a lot you can) infer from media though... 😆
In Japan there's a subculture known as Gyaru.
Its characterised by freedom, individuality and non conformity and all that jazz.
The heavy tan and wierd makeup are pretty much symbols for it...though like all subcultures I think most all of them look the same.
I know of Gyaru, but I thought they went for the 80s mall chick look...
@@TheGenreVerse
It's kinda like a spectrum.
At the lower levels, you get the slightly flamboyant but otherwise normal look.
At the more hard-core levels, well.....
The ones that wear the heavy white makeup like that are called "manba gyaru" @@TheGenreVerse
Thanks for the reaction guys! Glad you enjoyed Dandadan episode 1.
Yeah, that alien do look like something from Ultraman, and i remember watching it too, just don't remember from which Ultraman series it was. In the show the alien would walk slowly and teleport here and there also use a gun to capture human.
Validation! 😆
By the way, Dandadan's author was previously the assistant of Fujimoto, author of Chainsaw Man.
I can also feel that banana strike 😂
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Dandadan Mankaga Tatsu is actually a close friend to Fujimoto (CSM) and inspired each other
the best Anime this season! :D
brother on the right look like the third wheel
He's my (Kyle) best friend for the last 24 years! All 3 of us were Army brats that lived on Fort Campbell and went to Fort Campbell High.
It is a bit more difficult to have a 3rd reacter who is in another state, but even if he were here, he'd probably still be the quietest. That's just him...
He is the husbando after all... You're never supposed to actually have your husbando IRL anyways... 😆
As everyone have already mentioned that girl with a weird makeup is a gyaru. In the west, I've seen many times where they confused the gyarus as being black characters just because they have a darker/browner skin. But in reality, they actually uses a tan.
dope set up on the background
Thanks!
I am pretty sure that the main female character is a Gyaru and her friends are 100% Gyaru girls. The one with the tan is a ganguro style Gyaru, The other is a Hime Gyaru XD, And Momo is a Gal.
See I think Gal style when I hear Gyaru... Thanks for the info and clarification!
@@TheGenreVerse yw, I enjoyed your reaction 😆
I feel old remembering ganguro girls in manga in the 90's. The face thing being a rebellious thing I get but it was always weird.
unrelated to this show. Have you guys watched Re:zero on your own?and if yes do you intend to react to season 3 or not?
Re: Re:Zero... Stay tuned into next year...
@@TheGenreVersei definitely will, love your reactions
Close replacement to shikanokonokonokokoshitantan
Close... 😆
Holy crap, Drew Carey Show reference XD
YESSSS!!!!!
この声優のキャスティングは素晴らしい。
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Thanks! Didn't know that 😆
you should search for Gyaru , it'll explain why the girl look like that , it's one of their fashion subculture there in Japan, it's a very old style came from 1970s i think
I thought that was a thing where they emulate 80s chicks that were into the mall and were very western based...
Waiting for Blue box to
3 shows we want to cover hit on Thursday, I'll get Blue Box and 365 Days out ASAP.
@@TheGenreVerse Yeah Thursady is a full day this session
The girl isn't tanned she is Gyaru right?
yep 100%
I always thought of that subculture as more like 80s/early 90s Mall girls...
She literally stole his winne no joke 😂
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Dandadan 10/10 manga and the anime will be great to. But tbh even the production was done befor broadcast it was still rusht as hell
3:40 Compared to other reactions I've seen, calling the OP song "pretty decent" is a scathing criticism 😂
Creepy Nuts are wildly popular, especially since their OP for Mashle season 2 went viral, so people have been hyped for this OP
Sorry... it works for it, but I guess I don't have "that itch" for it to hit harder. It isn't bad in ANY way... I hope people remember that neutral is a perfectly acceptable and real position to have 🤣
@@TheGenreVerseTotally agree, and I wasn't trying to say your guys' take was a bad one. Just thought it was funny to hear a neutral opinion after hearing so many people lose their minds over it.
so, which gilf lover wanna let luffy gobbled their winnie?😂
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TO ANSWER QUESTION ABOUT JAPANESE GHOST LORE:
usually hospital, abandoned warehouse, deserted town, rural villages with ancient folktale, a house with horrid story, abandoned shrines, and so on are places you often see occult things. Another source of occult in japan is local URBAN LEGEND which can be weird and basically lame sounding but they are creepy to the city folks there.
Tbh, anime and manga with these genres aren't new. The problem is old anime fans watch it, calls it mid subjectively, and never looked back even though its probably different depending on who you are. So alot of the new anime fans never knew those shows from back then that would explore these myths and lore and occult cliches.
Ghost in Japan are a culminations of their own occult things mixed with western ones. This is why shows like JJK is a mix of curses that is japanese theme and western theme.
THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
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Turbo BBA is ruffy?
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