Just like with shows like Gintama or Higurashi, the crazy tone makes the serious and emotional moments even more impactful when they happen. We are used to seeing the characters in a lighthearted and funny way, so watching them face deep emotional conflicts adds a powerful emotional impact.
I don’t know that Dandadan necessarily tries to humanize *all* of its villains, but by their very nature evil spirits are often created by tragedy and humans as fundamentally empathetic creatures are receptive to that. I will also say that this series has a *lot* of empathy for women specifically, and an understanding of the often gendered nature of the violence they experience. The aliens are, also by their nature, somewhat less sympathetic than the spirits, with some exceptions.
That's actually what I like about Dandadan in that gives a bit of nuance to spirits. I feel that sometimes people mistake a demon from hell and an "evil" spirit as one in the same when the former is innately evil but the latter was created. "Evil" spirits are created from what they had experienced in life which causes a large amount of emotion (commonly such as that of regret or anger) which ultimately prevents them from moving on.
I wonder if we will ever get to see a evil spirit who is just the spirt of a evil person. Aliens are well Aliens, humanizing them would be pompous. They aren't evil the same way a Lion isn't evil for eating a Deer. They are doing what is right by their species. Also I would disagree with the "women specifically" part. Aside from the crab spirit nothing was about gendered violence. Acrobatic Silky was simply about what happens when you are in debt of the wrong people. You can replace Mother and Daughter with Father and Son and it would still be same.
Ikr. To be honest while reading I was just depressed and moved on. But this time watching it Idk, it really got me this time, making me cry and all. Good stuff
@@shadowlag6120yeah this one definitely up there in my favorite arcs just cause of the backstory, but this episode blew my expectations completely out the water. Only two other arcs really come close in terms of sentimental value
Not trying to be cynical but like when I heard some people ask that and claim the kid is going to show up later as a teen......yeaaaaaah, they don't get how loan-brokers/Yakuza operate lol (or just scummy people in general). They aren't just going to sell this kid to like some rich family and have her grow up normally XD. It'll come down to trafficking, it always comes down to being sold into sex work.
For conformation that anime watchers miss on first watch to make it even more depressing. She lived alone with her daughter and wanted the best for her and saw the dress (possibly for ballet) maybe cause she never had the economy to strive for her dreams as a kid. She forced herself to work two diffrent jobs and not only that also work as a sex worker (The hotel putting money on the side was her getting paid after a night). She went trough all this effort to give her happiness aka the dress she gave her. The dance with the sky glaring on the roof was the lead up to her ending it all, jumping off the roof doing what gave her the most happiness, in her final moments jumping off that roof. You guys should definitely go checkout some of these panels of the manga (I think for censory purpose they didn't clearly show her on the roof, but the is an amazing panel of her final moments jumping of that roof overlooking the scenary, its just truly amazing. It's just amazing that they could do all this in one episode with the emotions.
My theory is that silky was probably a rising star in ballet but got pregnant and was forced to retire before making a name for herself, regardless she had her child and the dad was either a higher up and left or died with debt that silky is trying to pay off or its just regular loans she took to better provide
As a manga reader, this episode absolutely went above and beyond. While Acro Silky’s backstory in the manga was tragic and brutal, it was only about 8 pages. Science Saru turned it into a whole movie. The new dialogue, the detail of the brutality the mother went through with the glass shards, the POV shot of her running, the scene of her dancing on the water, Aira’s mom getting prepped for cremation. All of that was anime-original. The studio truly knocked it out of the park. If I hadn’t already read it and been expecting pain, I definitely would’ve started bursting into tears by the end of it.
They also messed it up, because a lot of viewers aren't picking up that's she was selling herself. They went too far with the censorship to the stories detriment.
@@jossland1628 it wasn’t censorship they just did it differently. I’ve never read the manga and I knew exactly what was happening the whole time. I didn’t need to see anything more and when she was dancing and then falls I assumed she’d ended her life. It’s not hard to pickup these things some people just don’t pay attention to
@@jossland1628 it was clear as day my friend. People leaving money on the nightstand, she waking up single afterwards and all. Manga was good but this episode is a masterpiece alone
evweryone keeps saying this but it was pretty obvious. you could see the horizon and then she was over empty air then seemed to be falling then when it went dark there's a crunching thud as if she fell
@@kvltslime2261 I mean in the manga there was a whole panel with her and and the building in the frame. I can see some people not catching that in the anime
@@kvltslime2261nah you’d be surprised, a lot of reactors thought she bled out in the street scene and the dancing scene was some kind of symbolic thing or smth.
Didn't catch that at all and I am usually pretty good at it. When knowing it, you can see it but the magical looking reflection of the sky she was dancing on made it look way more metaphorical. Also afterwards she just went up a building and jumped (danced) off it, kinda strange she didn't try to get her daughter even if it may be pointless.
They're not demons, they're spirits that became twisted for being around so long and letting their emotions warp them. Turbo Granny just doesn't want to move on.
Yeah I actually found myself with tears and welled up. Insane the Alien Weenie ghost fighting show just did this so suddenly and so well. I was shocked when the entire show just changed suddenly and then THAT? wow
For context Mom was doing odd jobs for money to support her daughter, even doing prostitution eventually borrows money for the dress and she didn’t make the money back so they took the kid, it’s implied the kid is never found and the scene where she is dancing is her dancing on the edge of a building as she leaps off, I do love the anime interpretation but it’s more ambiguous what happens to her and the child
What a beautiful ending, what narrative symmetry. Aira- a child without a mother, gets to understand the immense love and care her mother felt for her. And in return, she gets to tell Silky- a mother without a child, that her daughter must’ve felt that their time together, however limited, was precious, fun, wonderful, a life worth living. That’s the kind of experience that changes a person, how will it change Aira? Especially now that we know her conceit was at least partially the result of a confused and lonely child trying to internalize the vaguely communicated expectations of her late mother. I love this show so much.
Oo, had _not_ previously caught that this was also an angle. For a while thought that it was entirely for Silky’s sake, me completely forgetting that Aira got a refresher on losing her own mother near the same time that Silky imprinted on her.
She was a single mother in debt and doing multiple jobs including sex work to pay it along with supporting her daughter and spends the debt money on a dress for her so the loan sharks came to collect taking her daughter as payment
@@junglekxngtalksanime They don't edit this themselves, they have editors on payroll. They just hit record and send the footage, they are not small reactors anymore. My feedback was valid, relax.
One of the things that upsets me so much about this episode is when Silkie was talking about how bad of a mom she was, even tho she was the best in a situation like hers. She felt so guilty even tho she gave everything for her daughter
Yeah, it's a pretty common sentiment that this is doing what Demon Slayer does, but to a much greater effect. I like Demon Slayer too, for what it is, but this just hits harder. The way Silky's and Aira's stories compliment each other, and the sheer brutality of what happened to Acro Silky before her life ended is heartbreaking. Demon Slayer's backstories are sad, but they're also pretty generic. It always boils down to, "and then a demon attacked."
Having been following the Dandadan manga since day 1, the one thing I have noticed is that each time they do show these tragic backstories for the spirits they are usually born from societal failings. Makes the audience empathize and feel the sadness far more effectively when it is rooted in real/relatable/understandable misfortune versus stock anime contrivances.
I think the spirits in DandaDan are more fundamentally neutral, or at least more capable of living with them. Instead of being man eating demons, they only really hurt people that cross certain boundaries, break certain rules, or are connected to them in some way. For example, Turbo Granny would have been content to remain in her cave not bothering anyone if Okarun hadn't gone in. There's also a certain revelation Okarun has later that suggests that their existence is overall beneficial to the people of earth.
And there is the HEART. This is what cements the series as one of the best. Dandadan is a mix bag of genres and makes everything work for it. And this isn't just a one and done, you'll have more moments like this.
Her mom's end performance also showed that she could've been a talented ballerina, if only she wasn't tied up in whatever situation she was in. It was a part of herself she had to give up to provide for her daughter and fend off the debt collectors.
@@AR-yd2nd I really think that lifting things and throwing them is technically much easier for your telekinetic abilities to execute, especially considering that in Momo's case she uses them as two ginormous hands. And ripping this kind of zip off her hands would also be extremely painful - if you just use brutal phisycal force on this plastic thing, you can just simply hurt yourself very bad, and she didn't really have a moment to even try it, so No doubts that Momo can actually rip zips and destroy things, but in this case it was kinda the most unsafe thing to do
@@eugenetrue3574 I have some experience in breaking zip ties on my wrists and I can assure you it's not that painful Looking for a in-universe explanation is kinda futile, the plot demanded her to be tied up and that's fine
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that Dandadan pulls off what Demon Slayer tries to do with the backstories. Demon Slayer feels manipulative, meanwhile Dandadan feels honest
@joshbourne9679 yeah same, I watched it in sub but I don't mind if they watched it in dub. I just find it annoying that they can't stick to one Blind Wave watches it in dub and I still enjoy their reaction
yeah when they were first deciding to watch it in sub or dub it seemed like some preferred dub and annoyed with sub and vice versa. and they just can't decide. it is annoying
I get they found it funny when the switch to dub caused so much outrage and they had some fun with it. Fine. But they are basically turning this reaction series into a joke.
From what I understood, the mom was a prostitute for the Yakuza and was also working multiple side jobs (janitor, cashier, etc) and she was paying money to the Yakuza. She saw the dress and she bought it with the money she was supposed to give them (that's why there were multiple scenes of her counting the bills) and when the Yakuza came to collect the money, she was short. They beat her up and took the kid, probably for human trafficking. She chased the car but collapsed from her injuries. After she woke up, she danced on a rooftop and then jumped. The thud that we hear on the black screen is her hitting the ground. At the end she was able to reunite with her daughter when Aira hugged her which pretty much implies that her daughter is already dead. A very heartbreakingly beautiful episode
Love this series. This episode is a tear jerker. What great storytelling, animation, and music. I noticed you guys didn't catch that the mother was a lady of the night. That's where the cash was coming from and why she was tired during the day.
It is most likely yakuza (japanese maffia) owing them money, they realized she didn't have enough and took her kid as the rest of the payment. Sadly yakuza aren't connected to anything good and mostly likely got trafficked. In the manga we get a panel that shows her and the daughter in heaven so they most likely got together at the end, hopefully!
Reading this arc for the first time, it wrecked me. Didn't think a manga about a boy trying to find his missing balls got this in it. It's one of my favourite arcs till this day.
@@Shady_bryeah I’m only looking forward to sub so seeing this is disappointing as eff lol and also very confusing but I guess they think it’s funny? Don’t think I’ll watch this reaction anymore
@@michaelbagasan2629 In an attempt to appease sub watchers and dub watchers they've... annoyed both. I don't know. I had to stop watching this reaction. I don't care if people prefer one or the other but holy shit just choose.
Its kinda difficult to interpret what's going on but if people didn't understand she was a prostitute, at the end she kills herself by jumping off the roof of the building. Who knows what happened to her actual child tho
The anime didn't do a great job of showing it but at the end of that starlit ballerina scene in the rain, the woman *jumped off a building*. She didn't just start wandering around and turn into a yokai, she was so overcome with grief that she couldn't take it anymore 😭
Take away “their” pain grant “them” peace grant “them both” to a kinder world unfortunately her real daughter passed away too sold and mistreated after she was taken away…
Guys, y'all are optimistic, and I can't fault you for that, but the implication is that the daughter is dead. Children don't typically survive getting trafficked like that by organized criminals.
Lady did everything for her daughter, even sold her own body, used some of the money to buy a dress for her child's birthday, the pimp found out about it, go to collect the rest of the money, beat her down, stole the child, the mother jumped off the roof of a building.
The background of the story is set in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. After that time, due to the economic collapse in Japan, a large number of people faced layoffs and bankruptcy. At that time, many people did not realize how bad the economic situation was and chose to borrow loan sharks from the underworld in order to start over. But later they found that not only could they not start over, they could not even repay the loan sharks, so they had to use various methods to make money. This led to the tragedy in the film that the underworld violently collects debts and even abducts children.
My husband lost her mother when he was 18 so this episode hit him in the feels he and his sisters were raised by her with no support working trough her bones for them till she got sick with cancer and passed away 😢 she sounded like a great woman may her rest in peace
Dandadan: *Throws a backstory at us about the curse* Everyone: 😭😭😭😭😭 Demon Slayer: *Throws a generic backstory after every demon* Everyone: 😮💨😮💨😮💨🙄🙄🙄😑😑😑
science saru is Cooking this Episode Gonna add the topping, i understand some people doesnt really realized. 13:14 But Acro Silky, After She cant catch up with the Car Scene, She Actually Dancing Ballet's on rooftops. Science Saru Cooking and (kinda Censored it) And The Falling Transition and Hearing the SNAP/Cracking Sound in the end. You can put 2&2 together. She Jump 😔😔😔😭😭😭
When i heard of Dandadan i didnt read it at first. When i got absolutely hooked on mangas, i tried it as one of the first recommendations and caught up in a couple of days. Its one of mangas and anime that really speak to my weird curiosity. I expected great things from a anime adaptation but this... This is one of the best adaptations ever. Its like Jojo and CSM that really try to recreate the spirit of the manga and translate it to new applications of the animation. It feels cinematic, the music is incredible. And like those shows, its an anime that really makes me hyped for the next seasons because i know which scenes would be improved and i want to see how.
18:05 so as far as Mickey saying the demons in DS were kinda shitty people that got turned into demons and ended up even more shitty things, whereas the spirits of Dandadan are more innocent souls trying to do right the wrong they did but obviously through shitty acts.
This adaptation was Speachless... 1:00 Be careful what you ask T_T... A totally different battle from the previous one. I can't believe that in just 7 episodes I feel so much excitement for an anime. Adaptation, direction, sound, ANIMATION.
The show doesn't make it as explicit as the manga, those guys were moneylenders who went to get what they owed, and when it wasn't enough they took their daughter, it's not known if it was to sell her or sell their orgones but what is understood is that she died, Sliky lost everything, her only purpose of doing everything and continuing, that's why she decides to do one last dance on the roof of a building, ending with a jump that ended her life (the sound you hear is her fall).
What do you think it happpens to that girl? They took her to pay the debt so probably end up with some predator who bought her like Diddy parties, it´s so fucked up that things like that actually happens
In the manga she appears next to the mother in the panel with the phrase "let them go to a kinder world" so she most likely was a victim of organ trafficking.
Yeah sounds impossible, yet with Maria Luisa Clare, I've come to the conclusion that financially anything is possible. I got my self my dream car 🚗 just last weekend and a whooping $320k in savings already, My journey with her started after my best friend came back from New York and saw me suffering in debt then told me about her and how to change my life through her. Maria L Clare is the kind of person one needs in his or her life! I got a home, a good wife, and a beautiful daughter. Note!:: this is not a promotion but me trying to make a point that no matter what happens, always have faith and keep living!!
Guess what? This isn't even the saddest backstory DanDaDan has to offer. Acro Silky' tragic past is just the first layer of DanDaDan' plethora of depressing backstories.
For her daughter she was sold into the sex trade. Her mother was a prostitute her pimps came to her house because they felt she was shortchanging them on money and they took her daughter as collateral and she was never found so she’s around the same age as the main character so she’s 16 or 15 that means she’s been in sex trade for 10 to 11 years. And the sad thing is that the memory of her mother, which probably was bringing her whatever little comfort that she has in the hell that she’s living in has now been taken away from her because her mother‘s spirit went to the void.
@@joelsasmad In the manga there is a panel at the end of this episode that shows that the daughter was reunited with the mother in the afterlife, so whatever happened to her, the girl died shortly after she was kidnapped.
@@jarvisfowlkes3200 I was hoping that maybe her daughter was still alive, but considering she would still be within a sex trafficking ring maybe it’s for the best that her daughter is no longer living. This was just a truly sad and beautiful episode. The animation team just knocked it out of the park.
They were laughing before anyone was even speaking, they are clearly laughing cuz of the absurd grotesqueness of the scene. What are you talking about?
Is there anyone who isn't native English that prefers the English dub over the japanese original dub? I bet that I could count them on my left hand fingers
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say they took the daughter for human trafficking reasons since the mom couldn’t pay, shits diabolical but I’ve heard of some real monsters doing that type of thing.
I get that it's a bit inconsistent with them going back and forth between dub and sub, but do that many of ya'll have to dislike the video? The dub isn't bad and most of their videos are subbed.
Also I don’t know if you knew this but there two groups that watch the sub and this group watch the dub on the normies channel so either don’t watch them or wait for them to upload the other group reaction.
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Make up your minds and choose a damned language. This fuckery must be Suraj's fault.
The mom was prostitue if you didn't understand.
Just like with shows like Gintama or Higurashi, the crazy tone makes the serious and emotional moments even more impactful when they happen. We are used to seeing the characters in a lighthearted and funny way, so watching them face deep emotional conflicts adds a powerful emotional impact.
Hey, I'm not sure if you guys have seen the trailer for Secret Level, but it looks like something that's perfect for you.
Can you stop this english dubbed and subbed transitions
Why is the goofy weenie and banana anime making me cry?
Is just the begining
When the goofy anime for hands! I never underestimate the goofy shows, they can hit just as bad!!
Why is it a soap opera 😂
Gintama fans: "first time?"
I don’t know that Dandadan necessarily tries to humanize *all* of its villains, but by their very nature evil spirits are often created by tragedy and humans as fundamentally empathetic creatures are receptive to that. I will also say that this series has a *lot* of empathy for women specifically, and an understanding of the often gendered nature of the violence they experience.
The aliens are, also by their nature, somewhat less sympathetic than the spirits, with some exceptions.
If this arc was about motherhood, then the next is about fatherhood. If you know, you know
@ *Chiquita ewe muy cry!* 😭
That's actually what I like about Dandadan in that gives a bit of nuance to spirits. I feel that sometimes people mistake a demon from hell and an "evil" spirit as one in the same when the former is innately evil but the latter was created. "Evil" spirits are created from what they had experienced in life which causes a large amount of emotion (commonly such as that of regret or anger) which ultimately prevents them from moving on.
I wonder if we will ever get to see a evil spirit who is just the spirt of a evil person. Aliens are well Aliens, humanizing them would be pompous. They aren't evil the same way a Lion isn't evil for eating a Deer. They are doing what is right by their species.
Also I would disagree with the "women specifically" part. Aside from the crab spirit nothing was about gendered violence. Acrobatic Silky was simply about what happens when you are in debt of the wrong people. You can replace Mother and Daughter with Father and Son and it would still be same.
@@ma.2089 It's a very long time before we reach that arc.
As a manga reader, I already saw this coming. But that doesn't make the moment any easier.
Ikr. To be honest while reading I was just depressed and moved on. But this time watching it Idk, it really got me this time, making me cry and all. Good stuff
@@shadowlag6120yeah this one definitely up there in my favorite arcs just cause of the backstory, but this episode blew my expectations completely out the water. Only two other arcs really come close in terms of sentimental value
I read this part in the manga years ago but it did not hit me near this hard
Vamola? @@Xavier-nl4ns
Hits even harder animated
"What happened to the kid"
So innocent...
Probably organ trafficking...
sold to human traffickers... likely dead
Not trying to be cynical but like when I heard some people ask that and claim the kid is going to show up later as a teen......yeaaaaaah, they don't get how loan-brokers/Yakuza operate lol (or just scummy people in general). They aren't just going to sell this kid to like some rich family and have her grow up normally XD.
It'll come down to trafficking, it always comes down to being sold into sex work.
@@krismarshall3803 It is even worse implied in the manga. That she is probably dead. Probably from organ harvesting.
@@krismarshall3803 she might show up as a different spirit honestly
For conformation that anime watchers miss on first watch to make it even more depressing. She lived alone with her daughter and wanted the best for her and saw the dress (possibly for ballet) maybe cause she never had the economy to strive for her dreams as a kid. She forced herself to work two diffrent jobs and not only that also work as a sex worker (The hotel putting money on the side was her getting paid after a night). She went trough all this effort to give her happiness aka the dress she gave her.
The dance with the sky glaring on the roof was the lead up to her ending it all, jumping off the roof doing what gave her the most happiness, in her final moments jumping off that roof. You guys should definitely go checkout some of these panels of the manga (I think for censory purpose they didn't clearly show her on the roof, but the is an amazing panel of her final moments jumping of that roof overlooking the scenary, its just truly amazing.
It's just amazing that they could do all this in one episode with the emotions.
My theory is that silky was probably a rising star in ballet but got pregnant and was forced to retire before making a name for herself, regardless she had her child and the dad was either a higher up and left or died with debt that silky is trying to pay off or its just regular loans she took to better provide
I thought it was pretty obvious. Everything you just wrote
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Then who is the father Aira is with when she saw her again?
@@thepinpointking1884Aira's blood father. Feel like that's very apparent
As a manga reader, this episode absolutely went above and beyond. While Acro Silky’s backstory in the manga was tragic and brutal, it was only about 8 pages. Science Saru turned it into a whole movie. The new dialogue, the detail of the brutality the mother went through with the glass shards, the POV shot of her running, the scene of her dancing on the water, Aira’s mom getting prepped for cremation. All of that was anime-original. The studio truly knocked it out of the park. If I hadn’t already read it and been expecting pain, I definitely would’ve started bursting into tears by the end of it.
They also messed it up, because a lot of viewers aren't picking up that's she was selling herself. They went too far with the censorship to the stories detriment.
@@jossland1628 it wasn’t censorship they just did it differently. I’ve never read the manga and I knew exactly what was happening the whole time. I didn’t need to see anything more and when she was dancing and then falls I assumed she’d ended her life. It’s not hard to pickup these things some people just don’t pay attention to
@@jossland1628 it was clear as day my friend. People leaving money on the nightstand, she waking up single afterwards and all. Manga was good but this episode is a masterpiece alone
I think the manga scene wouldn't be able to pass censorship in Japan if shown in anime.
How did this get 50 likes....
It's not as obvious in the anime but she died by dancing off the building in that scene
evweryone keeps saying this but it was pretty obvious. you could see the horizon and then she was over empty air then seemed to be falling then when it went dark there's a crunching thud as if she fell
@@kvltslime2261 I mean in the manga there was a whole panel with her and and the building in the frame. I can see some people not catching that in the anime
@@kvltslime2261nah you’d be surprised, a lot of reactors thought she bled out in the street scene and the dancing scene was some kind of symbolic thing or smth.
@@tomwang7469 just cuz it’s explicit in the manga doesn’t mean the anime isn’t any less obvious.
Didn't catch that at all and I am usually pretty good at it.
When knowing it, you can see it but the magical looking reflection of the sky she was dancing on made it look way more metaphorical.
Also afterwards she just went up a building and jumped (danced) off it, kinda strange she didn't try to get her daughter even if it may be pointless.
In the manga it’s implied child trafficking and they meet in the afterlife. 😢
They're not demons, they're spirits that became twisted for being around so long and letting their emotions warp them. Turbo Granny just doesn't want to move on.
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Love persevering
I only got tear-eyed reading the manga but I actually cried watching this episode... best anime adaption I've seen in a few years.
Yeah I actually found myself with tears and welled up. Insane the Alien Weenie ghost fighting show just did this so suddenly and so well. I was shocked when the entire show just changed suddenly and then THAT? wow
For context Mom was doing odd jobs for money to support her daughter, even doing prostitution eventually borrows money for the dress and she didn’t make the money back so they took the kid, it’s implied the kid is never found and the scene where she is dancing is her dancing on the edge of a building as she leaps off, I do love the anime interpretation but it’s more ambiguous what happens to her and the child
Yeah the only thing left to the imagination is the fate of the daughter.
I don't think it's wrong to say that she borrowed money to buy the dress.
It is possible that there was some kind of debt in the first place.
@@Beast-Senior-24 No father in the picture, could be his debt and something happened to him so it passed to his wife.
@@ma.2089Spoiler: When silky goes to heaven, she reunites with her daughter implying she died young
@@yuvrajsinghpanjeta9444Aww, thats sad asf, but at least she's at peace with her daughter
Expected you guys to be muted. Now I'm disappointed.
What a beautiful ending, what narrative symmetry. Aira- a child without a mother, gets to understand the immense love and care her mother felt for her. And in return, she gets to tell Silky- a mother without a child, that her daughter must’ve felt that their time together, however limited, was precious, fun, wonderful, a life worth living.
That’s the kind of experience that changes a person, how will it change Aira? Especially now that we know her conceit was at least partially the result of a confused and lonely child trying to internalize the vaguely communicated expectations of her late mother.
I love this show so much.
Oo, had _not_ previously caught that this was also an angle. For a while thought that it was entirely for Silky’s sake, me completely forgetting that Aira got a refresher on losing her own mother near the same time that Silky imprinted on her.
The thud after the dance scene was her throwing herself off a building roof.
She was a single mother in debt and doing multiple jobs including sex work to pay it along with supporting her daughter and spends the debt money on a dress for her so the loan sharks came to collect taking her daughter as payment
Imagine missing the mom was selling her body because you were over-extending a bit.
Hated that. They talk too much. I know the reactors should talk, but they talk TOO much.
@@SDWorksYT fam they pick up on things they miss when editing or looking through comments, relax
@@junglekxngtalksanime They don't edit this themselves, they have editors on payroll. They just hit record and send the footage, they are not small reactors anymore.
My feedback was valid, relax.
One of the things that upsets me so much about this episode is when Silkie was talking about how bad of a mom she was, even tho she was the best in a situation like hers. She felt so guilty even tho she gave everything for her daughter
as a Brazilian viewer, i forgive you editor..
I really don’t mind dubs but the constant switching is a little bit jarring
"Let them live somewhere, where no one will hurt them... Let them live happily... In a kinder world" - Dandadan, ch 17
Yeah, it's a pretty common sentiment that this is doing what Demon Slayer does, but to a much greater effect. I like Demon Slayer too, for what it is, but this just hits harder. The way Silky's and Aira's stories compliment each other, and the sheer brutality of what happened to Acro Silky before her life ended is heartbreaking. Demon Slayer's backstories are sad, but they're also pretty generic. It always boils down to, "and then a demon attacked."
Having been following the Dandadan manga since day 1, the one thing I have noticed is that each time they do show these tragic backstories for the spirits they are usually born from societal failings. Makes the audience empathize and feel the sadness far more effectively when it is rooted in real/relatable/understandable misfortune versus stock anime contrivances.
mostly we relate to silky story easier coz of the setting modern time ig thats why the feels hit better. A mother and son tragedies never fail
I think the spirits in DandaDan are more fundamentally neutral, or at least more capable of living with them. Instead of being man eating demons, they only really hurt people that cross certain boundaries, break certain rules, or are connected to them in some way. For example, Turbo Granny would have been content to remain in her cave not bothering anyone if Okarun hadn't gone in. There's also a certain revelation Okarun has later that suggests that their existence is overall beneficial to the people of earth.
@@chinaman8888 except reiko. That girl keeps on hating.
@@chinaman8888 yeah it's much easier to sympathize with, "I was poor and abused," versus, "a monster ate my family."
And there is the HEART. This is what cements the series as one of the best. Dandadan is a mix bag of genres and makes everything work for it. And this isn't just a one and done, you'll have more moments like this.
Her mom's end performance also showed that she could've been a talented ballerina, if only she wasn't tied up in whatever situation she was in.
It was a part of herself she had to give up to provide for her daughter and fend off the debt collectors.
6:10 i wont stand for the sakura disrespect lol...she massaged narutos heart w her hand and chakra when the 9 tails got taken out by madara.
don't you dare compare Momo-chan to that useless bih
Every thumbnail has people in tears
The normies: "Ew is that a fucking child?!"
you literally saw momo throw cars at a giant crab n u think she cant lift a steel beam?! 😐
If it didn't happen 5 minutes ago they can't remember it.
You'd think she could break the zip ties, and yet
@@AR-yd2nd I really think that lifting things and throwing them is technically much easier for your telekinetic abilities to execute, especially considering that in Momo's case she uses them as two ginormous hands. And ripping this kind of zip off her hands would also be extremely painful - if you just use brutal phisycal force on this plastic thing, you can just simply hurt yourself very bad, and she didn't really have a moment to even try it, so
No doubts that Momo can actually rip zips and destroy things, but in this case it was kinda the most unsafe thing to do
@@eugenetrue3574 I have some experience in breaking zip ties on my wrists and I can assure you it's not that painful
Looking for a in-universe explanation is kinda futile, the plot demanded her to be tied up and that's fine
I still like Japanese dubbing
2:51 “Has he kicked?”
“. . .He runs.”
Lmao that pretty much sums it up my boy is not a fighter like that yet.
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that Dandadan pulls off what Demon Slayer tries to do with the backstories. Demon Slayer feels manipulative, meanwhile Dandadan feels honest
I think it helped that it was preceded by Silky willing to sacrifice herself for Aira so the backstory felt more genuine
When people realize dandadans genre is gut puncher
Next Week they're just gonna Read The Manga 😂
I like both sub and dub but the constant switch between the 2 is kinda annoying
But thats just me tho
@@noorandraahimsa7562 I don’t even hate the dub I prefer the sub but when they keep switching it’s just like why ready to it here at all anymore
@joshbourne9679 yeah same, I watched it in sub but I don't mind if they watched it in dub. I just find it annoying that they can't stick to one
Blind Wave watches it in dub and I still enjoy their reaction
Its extremely annoying, i cant explain why lol
yeah when they were first deciding to watch it in sub or dub it seemed like some preferred dub and annoyed with sub and vice versa. and they just can't decide. it is annoying
It’s so weird of them to
Iam sorry just asking. Didn't the guy with the glasses made a video about leaving normies or something, and he is still in reactions?.
Can you guys stop with the constant switching of the dub/sub? Like what the fuck is going on?
I get they found it funny when the switch to dub caused so much outrage and they had some fun with it. Fine. But they are basically turning this reaction series into a joke.
From what I understood, the mom was a prostitute for the Yakuza and was also working multiple side jobs (janitor, cashier, etc) and she was paying money to the Yakuza. She saw the dress and she bought it with the money she was supposed to give them (that's why there were multiple scenes of her counting the bills) and when the Yakuza came to collect the money, she was short. They beat her up and took the kid, probably for human trafficking. She chased the car but collapsed from her injuries. After she woke up, she danced on a rooftop and then jumped. The thud that we hear on the black screen is her hitting the ground. At the end she was able to reunite with her daughter when Aira hugged her which pretty much implies that her daughter is already dead. A very heartbreakingly beautiful episode
Love this series. This episode is a tear jerker. What great storytelling, animation, and music.
I noticed you guys didn't catch that the mother was a lady of the night. That's where the cash was coming from and why she was tired during the day.
It is most likely yakuza (japanese maffia) owing them money, they realized she didn't have enough and took her kid as the rest of the payment. Sadly yakuza aren't connected to anything good and mostly likely got trafficked. In the manga we get a panel that shows her and the daughter in heaven so they most likely got together at the end, hopefully!
Reading this arc for the first time, it wrecked me. Didn't think a manga about a boy trying to find his missing balls got this in it. It's one of my favourite arcs till this day.
This is one of the few times I truly believe an anime has taken its source material and and taken it to the next level.
Dang, it wasn't a lie this time. It was actually dub 😭
I'm so confused why we're jumping between dub and sub
@@Shady_bryeah I’m only looking forward to sub so seeing this is disappointing as eff lol and also very confusing but I guess they think it’s funny?
Don’t think I’ll watch this reaction anymore
@@michaelbagasan2629 the dub is better anyway
@@michaelbagasan2629I never watch but dub in this is good wdym. Sometimes you need to let your prejudice go, and just feel and enjoy it.
@@michaelbagasan2629 In an attempt to appease sub watchers and dub watchers they've... annoyed both. I don't know. I had to stop watching this reaction. I don't care if people prefer one or the other but holy shit just choose.
Its kinda difficult to interpret what's going on but if people didn't understand she was a prostitute, at the end she kills herself by jumping off the roof of the building. Who knows what happened to her actual child tho
And this is still the 3rd saddest backstory in Dandadan yet.
The anime didn't do a great job of showing it but at the end of that starlit ballerina scene in the rain, the woman *jumped off a building*. She didn't just start wandering around and turn into a yokai, she was so overcome with grief that she couldn't take it anymore 😭
No they did it on purpose
@@Z-KillerEdits Well yeah they did it on purpose, but its a lot less clear what's going on than in the original.
@@MagicalAtoll7814 well it’s for the reactors to piece it together of what happened but yeah
If the city skyline, the lights shifting as she rotated in the air, and violent THUD sound didn't give it away, then people weren't paying attention.
@@Amuro1X"People weren't paying attention." You just described the Normies.
Take away “their” pain grant “them” peace grant “them both” to a kinder world unfortunately her real daughter passed away too sold and mistreated after she was taken away…
I have watched a lot of reactions for this episode but this was the only one where i could not feel emotions from any of them
Guys, y'all are optimistic, and I can't fault you for that, but the implication is that the daughter is dead. Children don't typically survive getting trafficked like that by organized criminals.
This is why this manga is so popular
It's what it does best.
Lady did everything for her daughter, even sold her own body, used some of the money to buy a dress for her child's birthday, the pimp found out about it, go to collect the rest of the money, beat her down, stole the child, the mother jumped off the roof of a building.
I hope y’all ignore most of the downvotes by the sub-only garbage-babies. Repping both sides is a cool thing to do.
Are the gonna pick dub or keep switching?
This episode was the equivalent of Tanjiro seeing the backstory after killing a demon in demon slayer
The background of the story is set in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. After that time, due to the economic collapse in Japan, a large number of people faced layoffs and bankruptcy. At that time, many people did not realize how bad the economic situation was and chose to borrow loan sharks from the underworld in order to start over. But later they found that not only could they not start over, they could not even repay the loan sharks, so they had to use various methods to make money. This led to the tragedy in the film that the underworld violently collects debts and even abducts children.
dub week? skip week
My husband lost her mother when he was 18 so this episode hit him in the feels he and his sisters were raised by her with no support working trough her bones for them till she got sick with cancer and passed away 😢 she sounded like a great woman may her rest in peace
"Anime CPR, we've never seen that before."
Sakura Haruno/Uchiha: "Am I a joke to you?" 🤣
17:34 LET HIM COOK!
Akaza ? Ain't it?
Acrobatic silky's lines include words that were popular in the 1990s, so it may be during that period that he transformed from human to monstrous.
This episode was heartbreaking. This show is so good
Why is Mickey Mouse still here? Didn't he leave? Bro ruined parts of the reaction by distracting the others from actually watching.
He always does this shit
Dandadan: *Throws a backstory at us about the curse*
Everyone: 😭😭😭😭😭
Demon Slayer: *Throws a generic backstory after every demon*
Everyone: 😮💨😮💨😮💨🙄🙄🙄😑😑😑
This episode made me straight up cry. A 37 y/o x con high school drop out. Peak entertainment.
science saru is Cooking this Episode
Gonna add the topping, i understand some people doesnt really realized.
13:14
But Acro Silky,
After She cant catch up with the Car Scene,
She Actually Dancing Ballet's on rooftops.
Science Saru Cooking and (kinda Censored it)
And The Falling Transition and Hearing the SNAP/Cracking Sound in the end.
You can put 2&2 together.
She Jump 😔😔😔😭😭😭
If you do watch it muted, remember muted English is about 10 times better than muted Japanese.
Nah they should watch it blind. Preferably in English cuz I don’t know if they understand Japanese without subtitles.
Amateurs, ASL is the way to go😌
When i heard of Dandadan i didnt read it at first. When i got absolutely hooked on mangas, i tried it as one of the first recommendations and caught up in a couple of days. Its one of mangas and anime that really speak to my weird curiosity.
I expected great things from a anime adaptation but this... This is one of the best adaptations ever. Its like Jojo and CSM that really try to recreate the spirit of the manga and translate it to new applications of the animation. It feels cinematic, the music is incredible.
And like those shows, its an anime that really makes me hyped for the next seasons because i know which scenes would be improved and i want to see how.
18:05 so as far as Mickey saying the demons in DS were kinda shitty people that got turned into demons and ended up even more shitty things, whereas the spirits of Dandadan are more innocent souls trying to do right the wrong they did but obviously through shitty acts.
Not true
I like the effort put in to make this uncomfortable
This adaptation was Speachless...
1:00 Be careful what you ask T_T...
A totally different battle from the previous one.
I can't believe that in just 7 episodes I feel so much excitement for an anime.
Adaptation, direction, sound, ANIMATION.
The show doesn't make it as explicit as the manga, those guys were moneylenders who went to get what they owed, and when it wasn't enough they took their daughter, it's not known if it was to sell her or sell their orgones but what is understood is that she died, Sliky lost everything, her only purpose of doing everything and continuing, that's why she decides to do one last dance on the roof of a building, ending with a jump that ended her life (the sound you hear is her fall).
What do you think it happpens to that girl? They took her to pay the debt so probably end up with some predator who bought her like Diddy parties, it´s so fucked up that things like that actually happens
In the manga she appears next to the mother in the panel with the phrase "let them go to a kinder world" so she most likely was a victim of organ trafficking.
I'm feeling really motivated.
Could you share some details about the bi-weekly topic you brought up?
Yeah sounds impossible, yet with Maria Luisa Clare, I've come to the conclusion that financially anything is possible. I got my self my dream car 🚗 just last weekend and a whooping $320k in savings already, My journey with her started after my best friend came back from New York and saw me suffering in debt then told me about her and how to change my life through her. Maria L Clare is the kind of person one needs in his or her life! I got a home, a good wife, and a beautiful daughter. Note!:: this is not a promotion but me trying to make a point that no matter what happens, always have faith and keep living!!
I got started with a miserly $1500. The results have been mind blowing I must say TBH!!
What is the best way to get connection to that woman y'all mentioning and speaking bout?
There is her line!!! under this comment!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🔁 Just put the digits together.
Love the tienes for these reactions 😂😂 Keep it up editor 🙌
IDK if i'll survive our cutest girl's animated backstory...... The only child of Sumer.......
Guess what? This isn't even the saddest backstory DanDaDan has to offer.
Acro Silky' tragic past is just the first layer of DanDaDan' plethora of depressing backstories.
rightttt 😭
Brella Boy
I’m glad you guys stayed with the dub!!!
Cap 1: Hahaha turbo old lady
Cap 7: . . . ಥ_ಥ)
Watch next episode in braille or hand signs 🫷🫴👊👌🤏✋👈🤙✊
For her daughter she was sold into the sex trade. Her mother was a prostitute her pimps came to her house because they felt she was shortchanging them on money and they took her daughter as collateral and she was never found so she’s around the same age as the main character so she’s 16 or 15 that means she’s been in sex trade for 10 to 11 years. And the sad thing is that the memory of her mother, which probably was bringing her whatever little comfort that she has in the hell that she’s living in has now been taken away from her because her mother‘s spirit went to the void.
I wonder if we ever might find out what happened to her daughter? It sounds like a perfect recipe for Aira to have character development/focus.
It pretty much implied she's dead you don't know how long it was after she died and when she ran into Aira
@@joelsasmad In the manga there is a panel at the end of this episode that shows that the daughter was reunited with the mother in the afterlife, so whatever happened to her, the girl died shortly after she was kidnapped.
@@jarvisfowlkes3200 I was hoping that maybe her daughter was still alive, but considering she would still be within a sex trafficking ring maybe it’s for the best that her daughter is no longer living. This was just a truly sad and beautiful episode. The animation team just knocked it out of the park.
In the manga, it is implied she was reunited with her daughter, which means she died as a child
Ep. 1-6: This anime is so wacky and crazy. The memes bro, the carlton, banana.
EP. 7: 😓😢 bruh..
Kinda sad they didn't get to hear it in Japanese the pain in the voices is so much more vivid and the emotions go so hard.
Next title “Watched Backwards by Popular Demand”
I was not ready for this episode. I really cried. Wow. This show.
7:03 see how stupid the English dub is? This was supposed to be a sad/desperate scene but it made you laugh because of the delivery of the lines lol
I thought it was pretty good but I guess it's just a battle in the never-ending Sub vs Dub war. As long as they enjoy it, it's cool.
They were laughing before anyone was even speaking, they are clearly laughing cuz of the absurd grotesqueness of the scene. What are you talking about?
Nice
You made a non issue
Not a dub problem, they were laughing already before the timestamp because how else do you react to a mf breaking their jaw ON PURPOSE, cut it out man
She was a prostitute(hense yakuza like thugs) and workin 2 other jobs, y'all watchin dubbed already lets keep up
the story was already rough in the manga but the anime hit me like a truck, i was crying before sht even hit the fan😭
This is the same anime that started with "give me your banana organ" btw 😭😭😭
Is there anyone who isn't native English that prefers the English dub over the japanese original dub? I bet that I could count them on my left hand fingers
I, and many others are. We just aren't as vocal or whiny compared to sub-elitists like you.
stop switching
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say they took the daughter for human trafficking reasons since the mom couldn’t pay, shits diabolical but I’ve heard of some real monsters doing that type of thing.
Gotta give it to Acro-Silky. A fighter of a mother till the end😢✊🏾
for non manga reader, this so hurts. we're not ready for this backstory 😢
I was not expecting to get so emotional on only the 7th episode of a new anime
the daughter is dead
there are rules in almost all countries for showing suicide scenes, so they are displayed symbolically
Surprised none of you cried
This episode was truly beautiful Dan Da Dan is definitely up there with JJK, Chainsaw Man and the rest. The episodes just keep getting better!!
These titles are getting out of hand 😂 Love you guys for it
Wait ion get it 😅
@@cjjackson2423 Look at the titles of all the dandadan reaction episodes
Yeah it's great lol
I get that it's a bit inconsistent with them going back and forth between dub and sub, but do that many of ya'll have to dislike the video? The dub isn't bad and most of their videos are subbed.
Dubbed version for this episode... what a decision.
Stop with the constant switching, if you wanted to watch this on dub then do it already
They can do whatever they want, you need to stop judging when you’re the one watching what they post…get out of here.
Also I don’t know if you knew this but there two groups that watch the sub and this group watch the dub on the normies channel so either don’t watch them or wait for them to upload the other group reaction.
Same. This switching is annoying af.
Counterpoint: no
@@H8B7L read my comment