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 Wow, that was truly a heartbreaking backstory. And the quality overall of this episode was off the charts. |
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| In the manga, I thought it was an amazing chapter, but this adaptation not only does it justice, it does it better. The attention to detail here is truly touching. Aira and she weren’t biologically related, but they were connected spiritually. Both lost someone dear, and their hearts reached out to one another. After so much time and pain, she finally found some peace. I was expecting a good adaptation of the story, but the level of Science SARU is delivering deserves a standing ovation. |
 ㅤㅤ I love Nao Tomori ♡ ㅤㅤ友利奈緒のことが大好きです ♥ |
| probably episode of the season so far. i knew what was coming and it was still heavy, especially for an absurd show. directing and visuals were so good and tatsu REALLY cooked for the first time with this, i remember locking i here even though i already liked it from the start. |
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| That might be one of the best episodes of anime that's I've watched, at least recently |
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| I don't care about the sentimental part, overall good episode tho. |
Reply to phantomfandom
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 I'll remember that the next time I'm about to literally squeeze someone's heart with my aura hands. |
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Reply to James-LastOmnic
Heres comes the crybait.
The worst influence Kimetsu had on the manga industry was making authors believe cramping some hyper melodramatic backstory to a side villain from absolutely nowhere was good writing. Nevermind the worst thing is that they are absolutely right and people will eat that up completely without even considering it.
For sure I'm really buying this sudden surge of extreme violence with the murder of a poor woman and the kidnapping of her kid for a bit of money from 2 completely unnamed dudes with not even their faces shown. Did she fucked over the yakuzas? Did she had debt so insane someone threaten to take her child if she didn't paid? That's what I choose to believe because for all we know this is the most brutal and uncalled for payoff with a total absence of setup.
Obviously the emotion conveyed here is "look how unlucky she is, she didn't deserve any of this", but I don't think fictionnal characters as people, they are merely writing devices, and in this case putting such an amount of brutality just for the sake of making the audience cry without any justification is quite frankly, pretty cliche and cheap.
However what I will not deny is that beautiful directing and that magnificent piano track, didn't expect less from Kensuke Ushio, composer of Ping Pong's ost, one of the greatest soundtrack of all time, but still top notch.
My biggest concern for sure is this will be praised so highly that even people saying it's the best episode ever created wouldn't even be hyperbolic. Unfortunately for me, I have grown up of only having emotional response towards art and media and I can only conclude this was wildly incoherent tone shift for an action/romance shonen to switch from fighting wacky ghosts/aliens and finding the main dude's balls to the painful life of a single mom trying to raise her child while crippling in debt.
You could just write one shots if you want to do this kind of tragic silent short movies with overlaying music, insert them in a shonen which will switch to crude comedy next episode feels more of a petty attempt to catch an unsuspecting audience than anything else. But what do I now anyway, this episode will make the show go from 8.60 to 9.05 I guess lmao.
The worst influence Kimetsu had on the manga industry was making authors believe cramping some hyper melodramatic backstory to a side villain from absolutely nowhere was good writing. Nevermind the worst thing is that they are absolutely right and people will eat that up completely without even considering it.
For sure I'm really buying this sudden surge of extreme violence with the murder of a poor woman and the kidnapping of her kid for a bit of money from 2 completely unnamed dudes with not even their faces shown. Did she fucked over the yakuzas? Did she had debt so insane someone threaten to take her child if she didn't paid? That's what I choose to believe because for all we know this is the most brutal and uncalled for payoff with a total absence of setup.
Obviously the emotion conveyed here is "look how unlucky she is, she didn't deserve any of this", but I don't think fictionnal characters as people, they are merely writing devices, and in this case putting such an amount of brutality just for the sake of making the audience cry without any justification is quite frankly, pretty cliche and cheap.
However what I will not deny is that beautiful directing and that magnificent piano track, didn't expect less from Kensuke Ushio, composer of Ping Pong's ost, one of the greatest soundtrack of all time, but still top notch.
My biggest concern for sure is this will be praised so highly that even people saying it's the best episode ever created wouldn't even be hyperbolic. Unfortunately for me, I have grown up of only having emotional response towards art and media and I can only conclude this was wildly incoherent tone shift for an action/romance shonen to switch from fighting wacky ghosts/aliens and finding the main dude's balls to the painful life of a single mom trying to raise her child while crippling in debt.
You could just write one shots if you want to do this kind of tragic silent short movies with overlaying music, insert them in a shonen which will switch to crude comedy next episode feels more of a petty attempt to catch an unsuspecting audience than anything else. But what do I now anyway, this episode will make the show go from 8.60 to 9.05 I guess lmao.
| @James-LastOmnic I pretty much agree with you, I can't understand what was so good in this episode that made people praise it to high heavens, I thought people made fun of things like Kimetsu no Yaiba when they give a sad backstory to the villain of the week. I don't mind when villain get a backstory and I actually welcome it, but I hope it isn't some kind of one-off villain that we will probably never see again, like, I don't think we even know which was Acro Silky's name before turning into that. Actually, I'm not surprised about this kind of writing, and I wouldn't totally blame Kimetsu no Yaiba for it, that series didn't invent sudden sad backstories, but the problem is that the author was Tatsuki Fujimoto's assistant, and if you have watched or read Fujimoto's work you'll see he likes to add things to just shock the viewers, you can see something like the recently released Look Back for example, but Fujimoto tends to be even more vapid than just saying "please cry". I know I don't control people's emotions, so it's fine if they cried and that made the episode their best episode of 2024, but this episode wasn't particularly special even between battle shonen's emotional episodes. |
| This is THE anime episode of the year. Thank you Science Saru and episode director. |
| Oh my god, I was not ready for that, I am a sobbing mess |
| This is going to be that episode this season that tugs on your heartstrings. You get a look as to what made Acrobatic Silky. What connection Aira has to her. Along with Aira's mother. Even Momo couldn't take it and she's a hard nut to crack. |
| Damn man... Is this even a Shounen manga, cause the heavy theme made it feel like a Seinen manga wtf... Sad tears were shed, lots of them. 5/5 episode, absolute masterpiece. 💔💔💔  |
| Yea idk why some people here consider this crybait. A flashback that’s actually done well….little to no dialogue, just showing as much as possible with the visuals and the directing. Regardless of whether or not one “felt anything” during this episode, it doesn’t take more than two brain cells to at least acknowledge there’s genuine pathos there, even if it’s merely within a single short timeframe. There’s plenty of other examples that would better qualify as so-called “crybait”, anyways. They did it extremely well for what it’s worth, considering the identity of Dandadan in general. Amidst the constant chaos and nonstop mayhem, there’s occasional moments of respite from that “normality” like this. TLDR; it’s great, haters coping. |
RyuseishunNov 14, 6:22 PM
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| Holy shit, didn't expect to care about such a minor character so much within half an episode Dandadan really is so good |
| Acrobatic Silky back story was so damn heart breaking and beautiful. 🥺❤️ Bro I cried so much. I think she get to rest in peace in her final moments, she deserves it. Damn studio Science Saru. 🔥🔥🔥 |
| Oppai check! 111 cm: Hancock 110 cm: Zoro 100 cm: Robin |
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