Wes And Steph - DanDaDan Episodes 5-7

I've been putting off watching this anime for a while and wow, episode 7 was pretty heartbreaking. I wasn't expecting there to be any parts of this story that would make me cry. There's more to this anime than I realized, it's very good.

Christian F

2025-04-14 01:18:34 +0000 UTC

"She got teabagged spiritually" 🤣🤣🤣

Christian F

2025-04-14 00:39:14 +0000 UTC

1:11:14 I think Aira made a little white lie there. She knew that this wasn't her own, but she wanted them to have closure ;_; 1:12:40 the fear of the unknown is the absolute scariest, that's why the probably left it open. Or censorship... it is a grim topic after all. I won't go into detail, but someone I knew had something similar happen to them after their family got involved with the wrong crowd. And even though it didn't happen to me, it was still heart-breaking and gut-wrenching. So this not only caught me off guard, I needed to pause this for a few hours before I could resume watching. Damn you DanDaDan, where are my silly dick jokes, sexy grandma's and awkward budding relationships 😭? Gotta give credit to the author though (and the animation team with their crazy matching visuals), even though they hurt me with this one, for portraying this so well.

Peter Butchens

2025-01-09 01:38:59 +0000 UTC

17:26 Momo didn't have to laugh THAT hard 😂 But damn series, now I'm speculating about why he didn't notice that his balls were gone, too. 😆 24:06 Oh, he's on first name basis with grandma in this form? He did call Ayase "Momo-chan" while in that form, too. Is he more flirtatious like this in addition to being negative? 54:30 it's cool that this show shows that okarun might have these powers, but doesn't know what to do with them, much less fight since he has never fought before, instead of being a crazy fighter from the getgo. 57:20 here too, often anime characters get all flustered having to do cpr on the opposite sex, even in dire situations, but they're just purely concerned and help in the way they learned. ...damn, I was not prepared for episode 7....damn

Peter Butchens

2025-01-08 17:05:42 +0000 UTC

Yea, but it all depends on how much you relate with the character. They may not even cry with Made in Abyss if they don't find the characters relatable. And as the other comment said, this was a random character that only introduced for one episode, which is impressive.

Nabi

2024-12-28 15:27:50 +0000 UTC

Nah, Berserk is not sad; it gives you depression and makes you angry.

Claude

2024-12-25 05:37:32 +0000 UTC

why is senku here

Jin Noodles

2024-12-24 01:14:20 +0000 UTC

I mean for me the most iconic intros are from Call of the Night xD

Giuliano Venturo Gonzales

2024-12-18 22:56:09 +0000 UTC

Same, both are brutal Berserk and Made in Abyss but horror and sadness are pretty subjective. The most brutal scene for me after 600+ animes was in horimiya when he speak with his younger self, for me that scene just destroyed me and I still can't watch it without dying inside which I just won't find anywhere else. I knew for sure this scene can effect way more those with a parent lost or with kids, it's not about "the scene" but more on how that scene speaks "just to you". That's why I feel like animes in general are just better than most series or movies some emotions are just able to be expressed via art rather than an speech or emotion of a "real person"

Giuliano Venturo Gonzales

2024-12-18 22:54:11 +0000 UTC

That's not the same thing, this episode did everything to make you emotional. It wasn't just a mother losing her child, she did everything for her daughter, she knew she was miserable and didn't have money but she wanted to bring just a little happiness for her and be a good mother nonetheless. Her daughter was her only light in her miserable life. It's horrible to remove that from her, those 2 didn't ask for much from life, yet it seems it was too much. Now, imagine how it must hit those two reactors, who are very devoted parents and who emphasized several times how family was important for them. You'll probably never find anything, in almost all of anime history, that will break them as much as this episode.

Fabien

2024-12-16 00:43:08 +0000 UTC

I watched probably more than 100 animes, there is not a single anime which made me cry with a random side character developed in only one chapter like they did with dandadan. Berserk is dark and brutal. But this story with the mom is realistic, the music and the realisation is perfect. This hurt me more than the eclipse in Berserk. Because it's relatable, you can easily imagine being this mom.

dolo

2024-12-15 16:30:03 +0000 UTC

This episode makes me lose so many tears, I even start tearing up from my nose.

Bocchi In Shadow

2024-12-14 14:48:52 +0000 UTC

They're a duo, actually.

Didier

2024-12-13 10:01:13 +0000 UTC

lmao if they reacted like this to Dandadan, imagine if someone made them watch Berserk or Made In Abyss. They would straight up trauma-bond over this shit.

Didier

2024-12-13 09:59:33 +0000 UTC

❤️❤️❤️

Wes And Steph

2024-12-12 00:23:43 +0000 UTC

I think you can watch the OP. I don't think you will realize anything is a spoiler until after it happens. It's such a banger, the music and the animation. I should also emphasize that any "spoilers" aren't really spoilers. For someone like me who has up to date with the manga, it's just like, "oh, yeah that character, I guess they're going to be in this first season."

Steven

2024-12-11 01:10:22 +0000 UTC

As for Acro Silky’s daughter, we can only hope she’s in a more fortunate, kinder world

Nyctophobiasm

2024-12-10 23:52:57 +0000 UTC

okarun's balls are huge

kinetic98

2024-12-07 17:47:42 +0000 UTC

The show take a turn I thought it was only a funny show

king khaled

2024-12-07 08:00:38 +0000 UTC

Yes, this is Aira telling this. But she has no idea what happened to the daughter. From my point of view, these words and the shot in the manga where we see mother and daughter together is a wish...and subject to everyone's interpretation of the daughter's fate.

GTB

2024-12-05 18:40:10 +0000 UTC

they dont need to animate an extra outro. put another song that fits the mood, fade to black and roll credits.

Honeybadger

2024-12-05 11:52:28 +0000 UTC

Cried like no tomorrow, then went and hugged my mom, who is 73, and bought her a cake, and spent the day with her just to do things that she wants. Parents sacrifice a lot for us.

Oleksandr Ivasyta

2024-12-05 10:05:19 +0000 UTC

It’s probably a lot of extra work and cost to create a custom ending for just one episode, especially with high production value anime like JJK or Dandadan. I’m perfectly fine if the studio scales back on things like that to avoid overworking the animators. The only alternative might be to cut or shorten the outro (if that’s even possible or allowed, no clue), but that could end up feeling awkward as well.

Rockycitygirl

2024-12-05 09:00:42 +0000 UTC

Y’all know what’s crazy is that out of all the stories in vast Dandadan universe, I would rank Acrosilky’s third for emotional depth and impact. The author expressed that they felt very insecure about their storytelling ability, but they are actually incredibly at it. Future arcs have even more heartwrenching and beautiful stories… IYKYK.

Whammadoodoo

2024-12-05 08:37:31 +0000 UTC

The intro is made by creepynuts. He’s already made 2 iconic intros I hope he keeps thriving. I mean his intro to the anime Mashle became so popular now we have this. His vibe is different man

Gatha Naranath

2024-12-05 08:11:18 +0000 UTC

Episodes 6 and 7 were just so heartbreaking. When I watched them I was sobbing so hard, but honestly these kind of emotionally deep episodes are what determine if I love a show or just like it.

DanielleM

2024-12-05 05:09:48 +0000 UTC

Episode 7 might be one the most heart breaking episodes I've ver seen in an anime. It's so cooky and weird and epic then BLAM, take that heart!!!

Joshua Finkelstein

2024-12-05 04:30:26 +0000 UTC

nvm

kinetic98

2024-12-05 03:30:17 +0000 UTC

A heartbreaking episode that came out of nowhere, and it was so, so well done - especially in a show like this, where you wouldn’t expect such a tragic story. I can’t imagine how much harder it must hit for actual parents and was already feeling bad for you two when the episode started. Still so fascinating how much emotion and impact can be conveyed with almost only visuals and music. That backstory was crafted amazingly.

Rockycitygirl

2024-12-05 01:36:20 +0000 UTC

The tonal shift in this episode was so well made. It already started with Airas death. When they tried resuscitating her, you'd expect from a comedic show that they would make a joke about okarun and Airas lips touching, but there wasn't any joke. Momo's voice became increasingly panicked and desperate. It conveyed the seriousness of the situation incredibly well. And it climaxed in this absolutely gut wrenching backstory. Author did an immaculate job. And then the animation studio decided to pull a "JJK "YoU aRe My SpEcIaL"" with that fun upbeat outro immediately after 😭😭

Honeybadger

2024-12-05 00:31:05 +0000 UTC

The mom didn’t die chasing after the car. She went up to the roof of a tall building and danced atop it, eventually leaping off to her death. That’s why after her leap you hear the “thud” of her hitting the ground. It’s explicitly shown in the manga but they made it more vague and “artistic” in the show for censorship reasons. Also in the manga it is heavily implied that the daughter died soon after the kidnapping. At the end of the manga chapter, you see the mom’s spirit reunite with her daughter’s spirit, looking the same.

Jimbeezee

2024-12-05 00:16:49 +0000 UTC

Soooo many typos and unfinished thoughts 😂 but too long to go back and fix.. sorry about those

Chels

2024-12-04 22:54:03 +0000 UTC

I knew this episode would hit you guys hard.. 🥺 it sidelined me so bad too. One minute entertained and dumbfounded by how ridonkulous the show is, the next? 🌈trauma🌈 I knew there would be a tragic story behind why she's looking for her baby, but I didn't expect they beautiful, but horrible flashback since they skimmed it with Turbo Granny's girls, but generally this show doesn't seem to cover just any youkai. There is a section or breed of spirit in Shinto specifically born of resentment/regret called Onryou (heavily geared toward women, but modern times, there have been male ones too) which is what stories like the ring, one missed call, and the grudge are based off of, where traumatized, bitter, regretful, and wronged women leave such a spiritual thumb print, they become a type of youkai that haunts an area with a certain attribute related to their burden, and the only way to purify them is by releasing that burden, so whenever I see Onryou in movies and shows, I try to strap myself in for an emotional ride, but this show has been so chaotic and ridiculous, I was NOT prepared! Oh, and prostitution is kind of a open-secret in Japan. Very prevalent and easy to get access to, and not always a situation like we here in America imagine with it, where you have pimps kidnapping and forcing or manipulating young people and taking a majority of the profit, though that does happen. Personally, my friend worked as a Host and was a vocalist in a vkei band, and he was extremely open to me that he was also prostituting himself on a forum that many underground vkei artists used (in fact he has a bit of a reputation for getting fished, where someone pretends to be asking for services to draw an artist out, just to blast them all over social media for being a whore and make fun of them) so I'm split in mindset on this topic.. on one hand, if someone wants to use what they got to make money and have fun with it, sure.. it's their body, why can't they choose that option? Like in my friends case. But I also watched how predatory the job was for him, and I also see how if you have that door open, not only the willing are going to walk through it. Or what concerns me most, there is teens doing sex work and putting themselves in dangerous situations. My friend said he started when he was 14 because 13 is the age where you can avoid real trouble. He's told me about how working as a Host, (under the legal age of drinking btw, which he said is also pretty common) they kind of form comraderie with Hostess club and Soap houses (a legal loop-hole for prostitution) and you'd often find workers lying about their ages in order to work there. He said that the gap between the economic situations can be so unforgiving and most companies don't want to hire you unless you went to a good HS and University, you don't have kids as a woman, and are under a certain age, and it sort of forces young people into predatory work that doesn't have these qualifications.. Anyway, ep 7 and Wes and Steph's reactions kinda got me thinking about, I guess, the American lens of sex work vs the Japanese lens, and thinking about how I feel about sex work in general. I think up to now, I took on the frame of mind of my friend, that yes, there is a predatory nature to it, but it's up to the individual, so my initial reaction to seeing the mom was "oh poor mom, she has to do such shitty work and work to death" (vs how I look at it in America, where I think "oh poor people being trafficked") but I think we all know what that little girl was being abducted for, and how that came to happen to her. Whatever connection the mom had for selling herself, it's highly probable that they knew she had a daughter, and when she couldn't pay them enough money, her daughter became collateral (historically a common practice in Japan that was legal up to the 1800s, so still something loan sharks and certain yakuza groups still have as common practice from what I understand) Long winded way of saying that this was a super heartbreaking, but good way to touch on a very realistic situation and covers a topic that I think has reasonable, but lacking, discourse in. It's something I want to research further into, but if anyone braved my mental spillage that is this comment, I'm curious about your thoughts on the subject!

Chels

2024-12-04 22:05:44 +0000 UTC

As good as that last episode is, I wonder if maybe they could have replaced the upbeat ending song with something else just for that one episode - quite a harsh tonal shift after such an emotional episode. I remember Delicious in Dungeon also had a similar tonal whiplash in one of its episodes.

Leonard Martinez

2024-12-04 21:41:52 +0000 UTC

Yeah I get it Steph. I don't do well with these kinds of storylines either. I was bummed out for quite a bit after I first watched this.

Tuny kun

2024-12-04 20:59:58 +0000 UTC

I came here for peepee and balls joke, not this...

Hayate

2024-12-04 20:57:36 +0000 UTC

Thank you for watching this even though it definitely hits even harder for you two than it does for me. This hurt bad and caught me off guard as well. The show is beautiful and the way they executed this in the anime was really well done especially with the dance scene and the voice acting in this show is stellar. This is probably the hardest watch I've had in anime. I think only the berserk manga has scenes that made me feel sick to my stomach like this did.

Paragohn

2024-12-04 20:54:00 +0000 UTC

The soundtrack was made by the same composer that did the soundtrack for Chainsaw Man, and the author was an assistant to the Chainsaw Man author

Exit

2024-12-04 20:28:52 +0000 UTC

I think Aira’s final lines of “let THEM” move on to a kinder world is meant to imply that the daughter is also dead, though we’ll (hopefully) never know the circumstances. I do wish she could have been roped into the narrative somehow, but it seems that was never the intention

Crofo

2024-12-04 20:21:27 +0000 UTC

And here I thought it was a show about balls

Mo

2024-12-04 20:12:58 +0000 UTC

This episode really got me ugly crying and the POV scene where she runs always ties a knot in my throat Stories about Yokai are usually an occasion to explore real life human tragedies as they are what turned them into monsters. So what I'm trying to say is there is more down the line 😅 Yokais are also used as a twisted mirror of mankind in different ways not only in Dandadan but also Bleach, JJK, Demon Slayer etc Also I won't bother you with that anymore but I strongly recommend watching the dub as the dialogue translations hit much more imo

Salahadine Abaine

2024-12-04 20:09:37 +0000 UTC

There's also a wordplay with the golden balls in this show. Golden balls is Japanese is "kin no tama", and if you say it like "kintama" it also means testicles.

Ruslan

2024-12-04 20:02:53 +0000 UTC

Don't worry. Watch the opening. There's no spoilers whatsoever.

Runhua Tang

2024-12-04 19:45:46 +0000 UTC

hate to say this, but this is much better.

Calt Being

2024-12-04 19:37:05 +0000 UTC

Sad fact, but in the manga they make it more clear that the daughter was already dead, that's why aira asked for both of them to be taken to a kinder world

QuanArt

2024-12-04 19:34:45 +0000 UTC

Turbo granny in the outro is using the blow dryer on her face because she misses going fast.

Deus Mercurius Magna

2024-12-04 19:25:47 +0000 UTC

In manga, there i panel where after her death, she reunited with her daughter. So it wasnt said but by this panel, you can presume that she died.

LOLlamerLOL1

2024-12-04 19:20:23 +0000 UTC

I don't want to be the bad guy here, but the author never disclosed what happened to the daughter. As a result, readers have presumed the worst-case scenario that could happen to someone after being kidnapped by a human trafficking ring.