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| She is tangled in the ceiling. Together forever. Out with one kick. A dimensional punch. A slight problem. Heart massage. Transpher aura. Soul jumper cables. Sound watching down the street. She dances into demonhood.she remembers the wrong child. The crumbles. The void. Finding peice lies in her heart. Love at last. The happiest in the universe. Guide them both to a kinder world. 5 what an ep. |
| What a cheap tear-jerker. I wonder if among hundreds of sentimental responses to this episode, anybody ever questioned, even for one second, why did the "bad guys" in this flashback suddenly appeared out of nowhere? The mother's responsibility for endangering (and ruining) her child's life was left completely unaddressed. Japan is not some third-world shithole. Angry men do not randomly appear out of nowhere wrecking apartments and kidnapping children. So I guess those were supposed to be yakuza/loan sharks? But in a country like that, an adult working 3 jobs in addition to whoring herself out should be able to make enough cash to support herself and a child. So by involving herself with criminals, the mother endangered her child. Yet the story doesn't put any blame on her. That sentimental send-off by Aira loses it's charm when you consider what became of her real daughter. Was she sold into slavery? Or made a child prostitute? Or killed and harvested for organs? Or all of the above? Nah, doesn't matter. What matters is that Aira hugged Silky and called her Mommy. I feel pity towards the girl whose mother didn't know better than to involve herself with criminals. But not towards the mother who was so irresponsible. |
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| I cried my heart out T-T, I felt so bad for the poor woman; why did they have to ruin her little precious world with her daughter </3. Best ep for me |
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| Best mini arc from this series. Props to the animator. That was bloody. |
| The absolute best episode I've seen all year even over some of my favorite series. The animation, the soundtrack, the story... Acro Silky really touched my heart, and her heart was human at the very end. I'm going to call my mom and cry now on Christmas Eve. What a banger. |
| Easily the most jaw-dropping episode of Dandadan by far! Acro Silky's backstory is THE reinforcement that portrays Dandadan as a whole as not just a simple silly shonen with aliens and spirits. It is also capable of delivering a dark depressing backstory for even a side character. Damn, take any single parent's life story and you'll hear how much struggle they have and need to go through in order to support themself and their child(ren) all on their own, particularly more true for single mothers. This is a story of a single mother doing all kinds of odd jobs and even prostituion to give a good life for her daughter. Their life is humble but it's a happy life, as long as the daughter stands by the mother. They both could smile towards a brighter tomorrow. Until the typical parasitic debt collector decided to visit, abusing the mother until she's all red and blue as well as kidnapping her only source of happiness in her life, her daughter. A part of me felt so eager for the mother to push through with all her cuts and bruises, surely her motherly instinct and the rush of adrenaline would give her the power and speed that would allow her to save her daughter right? But of course, reality is not such an idealistic place. It's depressing knowing that she didn't even die because of her injuries, the event that unfolded gave her such an overwhelming repair that all she could do was do one last ballet dance the way she taught her daughter, and leapt off the roof towards the afterlife. It's only when she was mistaken as Aira's mother that she found a purpose, long after her own death. Airi's warm hug and declaration of love is exactly the closure a grieving mother needed. The anime adaptation should've clearly shown the leap of death. Movie-grade episode. |
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| This episode fucking broke me, dude. For real. I was not expecting this show to go there. |
| I wasn't expecting to bawl this hard with DanDaDan. That was so beautifully depressing and the execution was stellar. Devastated. |
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| What a masterpiece of an episode. It ripped my whole heart out, but it did so beautifully. Breathtaking music, animation and story with few words is all it takes for a perfect portrayal of mother's love. Unfortunately, there is one person, who won't be able to live in peace and that is the little girl who was taken and most likely fell victim to human trafficking. |
MiamoreCashDec 27, 2024 8:38 AM
| Great episode. Im glad it ended well |
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| I skipped this episode because i just simply will not subject myself to this AGAIN. One of the saddest, if not The Saddest, arcs in Dandadan. |
| Holy shit, did not expect this. Really well told backstory the dance lady. How 1 episode could encapsulate an entire person's life so well is incredible. I think the daughter laughed a little too much when she first saw her mom, but otherwise this was a phenomenal episode. |
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| Sad what happened to that family |
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| Momo pumped Aira's heart directly as if she were Jotaro. Acro Silky got involved with some Yakuza or something when she was human? Just by chance, she, who had a daughter taken away, and Aira, who's real mother died, met and she latched onto it as that encounter as the only comfort she had. |
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| Beautiful episode, I felt so bad during the mother and daughter backstory... she only wanted her daughter happiness :( Even sadder that she thought Aira was her daughter because she mistook her for her mother, now she even made the sacrifice to give her aura to revive Aira, RIP. |
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