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Nov 14, 1:06 PM
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It was absolute cinema
Nov 14, 1:09 PM

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@IFinallyMadeAMAL Yeah this anime would have been rated better without all the intentional sexual innuendo/ jokes from all the previous part.
It's hard to ask my friend/ family to watch this knowing it has a pretty NSFW first episode. They'd just drop it after 1st ep and call me a pervert.
@Ventus_S Facts -- I hate when anime.
Nov 14, 1:13 PM
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Jan 2020
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They had no BUSINESS dropping such a banger of an episode out of nowhere
Nov 14, 1:18 PM
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Dec 2023
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its so much better than in the manga
Nov 14, 1:19 PM
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Aug 2022
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Masterpiece incredible

Nov 14, 1:22 PM
🥊 CHAMPION 🥊

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Apr 2016
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sad past! She died and her daughter was kidnapped!!!
Horrible!!!
kekeke
Nov 14, 1:24 PM
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Jan 2019
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This episode is truly PHENOMENAL. One of the best anime backstory of all time. It was done BEAUTIFULLY, truly generational episode and I’m here to witness it.
Nov 14, 1:25 PM
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Jan 2022
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Absolute cinema.
Nov 14, 1:27 PM
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Aug 2021
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I really wasn’t expecting that. I hope that doesn’t happen again. Demons are demons: I don’t want to know how they became one.
Nov 14, 1:28 PM
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Jul 2024
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A rare episode that transcends past just being “entertainment”. This was important. Bravo!
Nov 14, 1:29 PM
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May 2022
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It’s just beautiful. 100/10 episode I can’t💔
Nov 14, 1:29 PM
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Apr 2021
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This is what I like about anime. This is what anime is capable of rather than the manga. It can do what a manga/ln couldn't.

When I read the manga specifically this chapter, I just scrolled past through the pages without thinking much. It didn't make me cry... Maybe cuz my pacing of scrolling through the chapters didn't affect my emotions much and I was left speechless with many emotions in me. I was confused, so I took a break and continued like nothing has happened.

But then when I watch the anime knowing what's going to happen, only thinking how they will adapt this series, I cried... Just how science satu adapt this piece of fiction and how they can make me feel these types of emotions. The soundtrack was amazing, the voice acting superb, the visuals gorgeous, combined with this storytelling, I cried like a baby. In fact I think I cried 4 times when watching this. This is why watching an anime sometimes hits differently than reading the manga. I'm not saying the manga was bad, but just the capability of a show being animated can give of a different vibe as long as the animators and staff behind this put their heart and soul to do the manga justice.

Thank you science saru. Thank you Dandadan
Nov 14, 1:30 PM
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Jan 2022
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Dandadan casually dropping the greatest villain backstory of all time
Nov 14, 1:31 PM

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Jul 2024
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Wow. Just wow. Is there nothing this can't do well?
Nov 14, 1:35 PM

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May 2023
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I never expected to see a backstory that sad on this show, Science Saru cooked on this episode.

😭 😭 😭
Nov 14, 1:38 PM
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Jun 2020
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Absolute Cinema, even made me shed a tear
Nov 14, 1:40 PM

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Jan 2021
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Daamn, this episode hit HARD
Nov 14, 1:40 PM
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Jul 2024
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holy smokes, this episode cooked really well
Nov 14, 1:42 PM

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Dec 2017
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I'm speechless. I thought we were going to be going on a silly quest for balls and then suddenly I'm hit with the most heart wrenching story I've witnessed in recent memory. I have no idea what to expect from this series anymore but wow, that was a piece of art. Saru really outdid themselves, even Okarun's transformation scenes were smooth AF.
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Nov 14, 1:43 PM

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Masterpiece episode ending got seriously crippled by this upbeat ED song, poor direction choice.
@Zarutaku

Thought directors learned from the past, but it was HxH episode 135 all over again, lmao(there it was even more hilarious)

One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron


Nov 14, 1:43 PM
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May 2022
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IM HEARTBROKEN. 。゚(゚´ω`゚)゚。
Nov 14, 1:45 PM
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Jun 2023
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Bro fuck this episode... the fact that this show actually made me cry, bravo 👏🏼 such a beautiful, well done episode! I was not expecting no tear-jerker at all, 10/5 episode!
Nov 14, 1:47 PM
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Feb 2018
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The best and most heartbreaking episode so far
Nov 14, 1:49 PM
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Sep 2024
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How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful! No matter how much I praise this episode, I won't be able to convey enough of what I felt watching it. Simply cinema!
Nov 14, 1:57 PM
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Dec 2023
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Top 5 anime episodes of all time. Easily.
Nov 14, 1:58 PM
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May 2021
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Holy sh*t, the feels were hit on this one.
Nov 14, 1:58 PM

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Mar 2014
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One of the best episodes I've ever watched in an anime/series/movie. Ever.
Nov 14, 1:59 PM
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Oct 2020
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Some missing informations, like who are those guys and where's her real daughter now. Also, I feel like nitpicking but anyone could counter an emergency situation so I've to mention that that's a wrong way to CPR.
@phantomfandom her daugter is aira
Nov 14, 2:01 PM

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I curse whoever made this backstory 1000 needle stabs.
I nominate whoever made the ending the Nobel Peace Price.

Turbo Granny is a bit of a bitch, but she's not that bad and cooperates, also is the vibe of the ending.

I almost had to put this on my "on-hold" list but made it through. I will not be rating this episode. Originally I thought it was just some psycho-bitch who became a serial killer because some random girl called her mommy, but as soon as the back story started, and mean AS SOON AS IT STARTED, I started getting emotional and had to pause at one point while I had a mental breakdown (if I was normal, I would only cry, but unfortunately have LOTS of trauma and such) for a decent amount of time. When came back to continue, I continued to cry and breakdown, but was more happy tears towards the end.

I was originally expecting stories like this for all opponents (kind of like with Demon Slayer) where they weren't evil, or even decent, but the world they live in turned them evil. That is what happened to this mother. She was a decent woman who loved her daughter and unfortunately was repetitively raped (heavily implied) to be able to keep her. The world they live in though, set her up to appear originally to be a psycho-bitch. In the end, she did the right thing, what she always wanted, to protect her daughter, even if Aira was only confused as her daughter due to totality of this worlds shitty nature.

I will be severely disappointed if this doesn't cause character development to Aira, she really started on a good path with this episode. Momo & Ken are very good people. (I wonder if those other 2 girls that in our world would be dead or hospitalized are doing hahaha)

Nov 14, 2:02 PM
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I'm crying, great episode <3
Nov 14, 2:05 PM

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Tragic... I knew she would have a tragic backstory, but it was still hard to watch.

Didn't expect Aira to die. I mean, she was a bitch, but didn't deserve death...

I suppose both Momo and Aira saw Silky's flashbacks. I wonder how much Aira will change from now on.
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Nov 14, 2:06 PM
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As a manga reader of Dandadan before it had an anime, this is exactly how i saw it in the manga, the audio, the visuals, the backstory. Science Saru 10/10 episode, this is my new all time favorite anime episode.
Nov 14, 2:10 PM
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Oct 2020
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Jesus, that glass tearing into the skin was fucking brutal!!

Also for the manga readers are there any males figure heads in the story? Looking at it now the whole cast is pretty much female. Plus it seems there is a motif centered around protecting women. (I.e turbo granny and now ballerina mom.)
@Mariklyn there is one more male but he will come later in this season
Nov 14, 2:12 PM

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For a series that revels in being crazy and hilarious in many ways, this episode was the complete opposite of that and one that I could never have expected to see happen.

Acro Silky's backstory was one emotional ride. The production values for this flashback, especially the POV scene, was simply beautiful, which is a standout for an episode already very high in terms of quality put into it. Not only that, the soundtrack helped to portray the happiness and the sadness that the flashback had in store and it REALLY was brutal and dark with the way it went.

In the end, seeing Aira give Acro Silky a comforting hug as she disappeared for good was another hit in the feels. Admittedly, I can't really think of anything else to say in terms of praising this episode more other than to say that this is easily the best episode of Dandadan so far and definitely one of the best episodes of this year.
Nov 14, 2:14 PM

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The direction was a visual masterpiece on top of the beautiful soundtrack. This was the best episode out so far.


“You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!”
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Nov 14, 2:15 PM
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Some missing informations, like who are those guys and where's her real daughter now. Also, I feel like nitpicking but anyone could counter an emergency situation so I've to mention that that's a wrong way to CPR.
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1. Her daughter was kidnapped, why on earth would we know where she is now.
2. You should be able to reasonably infer who those guys are if you have a semi functioning frontal cortex
3. He’s a high schooler who has no clue how to do CPR so ok weird nitpick considering it makes more sense that he would do it wrong
Nov 14, 2:15 PM
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Jun 2022
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Made me cry like a baby, damn 😭
Nov 14, 2:16 PM
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Oct 2023
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Best Episode so far.
Nov 14, 2:23 PM
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Jan 2020
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o melhor do ano, apenas
Nov 14, 2:30 PM

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Apr 2016
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Pixar wishes they could make something as beautiful as that montage in the middle of this episode but they could never
Amazing and emotional episode, one of the best I've seen all year!
Nov 14, 2:38 PM

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perfect adaptation of, to me, the darkest part of dandadan by far and science saru did it absolute justice. The scene were Aira ran towards her "mother" and you see the pov shot of her child running towards the door and when it opens it pans into the total of the hug... it wasn't framed as impactfull in the manga and oh man it got me good. Aots for me.
Nov 14, 2:42 PM
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Dec 2020
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A rollercoaster of emotions
My candies:
Nov 14, 2:42 PM

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WHAT THE FUCK 😭😭😭😭 I WASNT EXPECTING TO CRY FIRST THING IN THE MORNING I just woke up bruh 😭😭😭

This show is something special man
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Nov 14, 2:42 PM
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To be honest it's a great episode than last time, this time is another banger episode, i like to watch the transformations from Normal Okarun to Yokai mode. Aira's memories flashback, more and more. Absolutely awesome!
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Nov 14, 2:42 PM
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Jun 2021
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I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying 🥹
Nov 14, 2:45 PM

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Jun 2021
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Two words.

Fucking brilliant.
Nov 14, 2:48 PM

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Nov 2013
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Some missing informations, like who are those guys and where's her real daughter now. Also, I feel like nitpicking but anyone could counter an emergency situation so I've to mention that that's a wrong way to CPR.
@phantomfandom By the looks of it, those guys are mobsters a.k.a Yakuza. They were there solely for the money it seems.
Someone posted the manga end page showing mom together with the daughter so we can assume they both died and passed on (hopefully reuniting in the afterlife).
Those bastards likely killed the kid and harvested her organs. She was too young to earn money for them and if Yakuza were there for murder, they'd kill the two at home. Even mom died due to injuries that wasn't inflicted directly by mobsters.
I wonder if mom owed money to those bastards. We saw her whoring herself, but they didn't show if she stole money or borrowed it from shady people.
About CPR, unfortunately tons of people IRL have no idea how to do it properly or how to do it at all, so it wasn't surprising at all.
Nov 14, 2:48 PM

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Nov 2017
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Aira's flashback with her mother is touching! And the first person view is amazing! This is the best episode so far!
Nov 14, 2:59 PM
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Feb 2022
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This episode is what demon slayer wishe's it could be!
Nov 14, 2:59 PM
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Jul 2022
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Damn... the only word that I got in mind is damn... Before the opening I got stunned and at the ending I couldn't even move this episode was really heartbreaking but so good, it felt like watching tour lie in april for the first time... Really a master-piece, I don't know what's coming next but I hope it goes on the same line and the animation god damn it I love it!
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