DanDaDan: Episode 7 FULL LENGTH Reaction!
Added 2025-03-04 18:00:02 +0000 UTC*DANCING HEADPHONE WARNING*
There are episodes sometimes in anime that are just...flawless. This is one of them - particularly a 10 minute segment that reduced me to a puddle of emotions. I did not see backstory of a ghost being as powerful as it was but here we are!
Oh, and Ken and Momo are still adorable and there were some crazy twists this week! Let's talk about this masterpiece of an episode!
LINK TO REACTION: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/BxrtwENefPpaxtXei6Lakm?
Thank you for watching with me and for all the support!
Comments
I do agree 100% with that - she probably should not have been allowed in there if he was keeping that stuff just LYING AROUND and all!
Romaniablack
2025-03-22 21:52:02 +0000 UTCYeah i wouldn't claim it's an easy topic or that the same answer is always right. Maybe my first reaction was a bit harsh on Aira's dad, but if nothing else he needs to lock his study.
Christopher Pettersson
2025-03-19 21:32:20 +0000 UTCI think it just depends on the family and their own decisions. :)
Romaniablack
2025-03-17 00:20:39 +0000 UTCMight be more of a cultural thing than i thought, my personal inclination is trying not obfuscate things for children (just tweak things to age appropriateness). The only professional guideline i've ever recieved on this matter was when when we sadly had a student death at my school, and the instructions we got from the counselor was to not use any flowery language or use words that could make things ambiguous when we spoke to our students about it.
Christopher Pettersson
2025-03-14 21:31:31 +0000 UTCThat's fair - a lot of parents and family I know do that when people pass away, so I didn't think much of it in the moment. Thanks!
Romaniablack
2025-03-11 22:43:37 +0000 UTCI'm sure he did his best and with the best of intentions, i'm just saying that telling a child her dead parent has gone far away but is coming back in the future isn't the ideal way of handling it. Ah, i would of course never write anything i consider a spoiler and i'm not a manga reader so i have no future knowledge, i'll just leave it at that.
Christopher Pettersson
2025-03-10 13:52:21 +0000 UTCThis episode just came out of nowhere and smacked me like a truck. I expected a flashback, but this was just FLAWLESS - it could have not been better for me! Every second of that flashback was just perfection! Every element, the animation, the sound, all of it! And the chase scene was honestly circa early Season 3 of AOT to me - it was so good! I do appreciate seeing Aira with more layers! I hope that keeps going! I definitely loved that last moment of Aira choosing to help Silky move on! Oh yeah, I definitely see in Aira a character from Bloom Into You, so hopefully we might get more into her character as the series goes! Thank you for the comment!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 04:18:05 +0000 UTCI was not expecting this flashback to be so powerful but it was SO good! I’m not going to judge her dad too much yet - we definitely need to see more with Aira and her dad first, so we shall see. The mother’s flashback just broke my heart - such a complete story in a solid 10 minutes. That is is a fair point about Turbo Granny - just a note - the mods sent me your message with the line(s) after “...I think…in other places where girls had been killed.” they were marked out for me to not read, just for notes on spoilers in the future. And yeah, the aliens and ghosts are definitely…on opposite ends of the spectrum. Thank you for the comment!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 04:08:02 +0000 UTCIt was so powerful! I'm not sure? If it wasn't in the introduction for this episode, it will probably be next week - but if there are comments that will be discussed, it'll be this episode or next week for those episodes. At least for the comments I thought to bring up. Thanks for the comment!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 03:58:58 +0000 UTCOooohhh, that is really rough that she potentially jumped to her death. 🙁This episode was so sad! The only thing I can make is that Turbo Granny is a spirit formed from the unrest spirits of the women left in the tunnel after being murdered, or she is formed from that negative energy they left behind? I do agree, she did try to murder/eat Ken and Momo and probably would again if she had power - maybe not having power will let her change her perspective - maybe like Vegeta from DBZ? 😛 Thank you for the comment!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 03:55:25 +0000 UTCSuch a masterful episode!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 03:52:09 +0000 UTCThis episode is so gorgeous and flawless to me! I just lived -- and cried -- and I blame no one that did the same! Thank you for the comment!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 03:50:52 +0000 UTCRight?! This episode was so flawless to me!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 03:50:27 +0000 UTCAnd yeah, this episode was completely out of left field but didn't feel out of place, either!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 03:48:26 +0000 UTCI would not have been able to do it without crying into my lunch!!! Thank you for the comment!
Romaniablack
2025-03-10 03:47:12 +0000 UTCGirls weren't attacked there, they were kidnapped elsewhere, taken there and murdered. Now if she's in the tunnel to protect against people who would disrespect their memory thats cool, but a different thing entirely.
Nicholas
2025-03-05 21:44:56 +0000 UTCIs there a dry eye anywhere? This episode never fails to make me sob, I swear. So, I remember first watching the series as it came out, and at the end of episode 6 I was a little apprehensive about this one; I felt in my bones that this episode was going to be emotional, solely based on the fact that episode 5 had touched my feelings and made me share a tear or two. I was mentally prepared for Dandadan to be a show that could pull depth of character as much as comedy; but I was NOT prepared for the way this episode took my breath away and made me downright sob; this wasn't a little feeling, this was an ache put into my heart very carefully. Truly, this is a master piece of an episode. I mean, while there are so many things I can praise about it, I just can't stop being awed by the way, and I'm also very pleased with it, that they decided to use barely any dialogue to tell the flashback, and how that made everything hit so much harder. There was no need to have her talking for us to know, to understand viscerally just how much she Acrobatic Silky loved her daughter and the sheer joy that she brought to her life even when she was exhausted from daily life, and depressed to boot. You see it in the way that she is nothing but curved lines when she arrives home, slumped, weighted down by shame and pain and exhaustation, but the *moment* that she sees her daughter she straigthens up, all those curved lines become striaght ones, energy enters her frame and the toll of what she needed to do to keep her daughter safe and happy left her for just joy and gladness. And it makes me so emotional to see it; how that simple animation translates so much feeling. It's not just that moment, of course, as you can see it through the whole flashback, but the use of silence and just emoting was spectacular. And then you have the chase scene. After having the soft, beautiful piano music as background for most of the flashback, the silence, letting only the ambience noise convey the desperation that Silky was feeling was really effective. That combined with the first person POV of the camera and how it felt so frantic... I feel chills every time I see it. Sobbing is the best descriptor for what this episode brings out of me, every time. Getting to see Aira be more human and not just this vain girl just added to the overall heavy feeling. The parallel of Aira, a daughter without a mother, and Silky, a mother without a daughter, meeting and becoming something important in each others' lives, even if at different points of their lives (because there's no way this experience didn't affect Aira somehow, I think) makes me really emotional as well. It's a heartbreaking parallel. Aira's dad's words to her seemed so important to me, as well. Him telling her that she needs to make her mother proud when she comes back seems to tie well into Aira's mentality that she is a hero of beauty (or however she worded it). I'm sure the dad just wanted to comfort his daughter after having such a tragedy happen to her so young, and give it a sense of purpose instead of letting her feel lost, but putting it like that really feels like he put this huge burden on her tiny shoulders. In any case, it made me see Aira in a more favorable light, after watching this episode, and that is not something I thought was going to be possible.
Alexandra Q
2025-03-05 05:38:13 +0000 UTCThat scene with the mom dancing before she jumps confused me upon first watch and the genuine shock I felt when I read the discussions after finishing the episode was not a fun addition to how this episode made me feel. Truly, what a master piece of an episode.
Alexandra Q
2025-03-05 05:23:06 +0000 UTCShe haunted that tunnel where girls would be attacked, I think that gives her some brownie points even if she is an asshole.
Alex Kornejo
2025-03-05 04:25:35 +0000 UTCOut of nowhere, and like taking in the happy blooms of bundles and bundles of flowers, we have a nice moments' reflection, only to see we're at a funeral and hit sadness and horror. What a strong, tragic and well written story/episode.
L Freya
2025-03-05 03:32:33 +0000 UTCthis was definately a very powerful episode. I can understand why it was the focus of this dense discussion. did I miss the ep 4-5 comment reactions? or will those be next week?
Zeekutar The Immortal
2025-03-05 03:28:50 +0000 UTCWell that took a turn, DanDaDan hadn't properly prepared us for a flashback quite like that. And the show didn't wait long to show Aira in a different light either, feels like her dads mishandling (even when it came from good intentions) of helping Aira through losing her mom was the first step in giving her some complex of being "perfect" that has led her to a very weird place. What gets me his hearing Silky saying that her daughter would have been better off if she hadn't been born as her child. When she buys the dress we see her take money from an envelope, later when the men takes the daughter we see one of them looking through another (or the same) one. I think she took some of the money she was using to pay them off with to instead buy the dress and that is why they came to her home and why she blames herself for what happened. Turbo Granny came to the tunnel where murdered girls had already formed the crab spirit and then she merged with them, i think Momo's grandma also said that TG had been spotted in other places where girls had been killed. The analysis of TG and the running can still be spot on as i'm sure there is some story behind her and why she is the way she is. So all the aliens we have seen thus far have been weird perverts that are after people's genitals and all the spirits have been girls/women horribly abused (well, pending that TG backstory), not sure what to do with that information but seems Ken bet on the wrong team when he was a young child.
Christopher Pettersson
2025-03-04 22:23:12 +0000 UTCIt's easy to miss because there's so much going on but the mom didn't die on the street. She danced with the sky reflecting on water - where can you see the sky in a city? The dance ends with a leap into a fall, and we see moments with her daughter before we hear a wet thump. Also why do people just assume that Turbo Granny is nice? She was trying to murder/eat Ken and Momo 3 episodes ago.
Nicholas
2025-03-04 21:21:49 +0000 UTCNot that it's any easier watching it in the privacy of your own home, just a lot less less awkward. It's not a uncommon take but the fact that the 'haha quirky show with naughty jokes' pulled an episode like this recalibrated everyone's expectations.
Alex Kornejo
2025-03-04 21:09:14 +0000 UTCI was crying before the flashback even started😭😭rewatching this ep is sooo hard it's BEAUTIFUL
Butthead faxe
2025-03-04 19:37:26 +0000 UTCDo you know how hard it is to watch this episode at lunchtime in the break room? It was damn hard! 😭
Moominkomet
2025-03-04 18:38:06 +0000 UTC
