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| Momo's plan really was nice. Granny cat using a cell really was quite the amusing image. Single parent familes sure have it rough. But the insight into what happened sure was something. A perfect contrast of joy and despair. If only the father was there to support them from the start though. In the end im glad that Aira was able to say her goodbyes and that silky was able to depart with no regrets. |
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| This is the worst episode so far and the only one I disliked. I doubt it will be a issue since the backstory is done. Mad respect to the animators though. 2/5 this ep I seen a million pity backstories and my stance rarely ever changes on them. |
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| Yooo... I came here like every week to watch some funny ass stuff, not to end up feeling like shit 😭 Haven't seen something this sad in a long time, damn. I hope Aira stops being a bitch now and becomes an actual good person. This show is so good 😭😭😭 |
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~ Btw, cry about it.  |
Reply to MegamiRem
I knew this was coming but it still hit hard. Ofc going in without knowing would have left an even bigger impact but I already got that when this chapter came out. To date haven't forgotten and never will. She worked so hard to raise her daughter. Why is the world such a cruel and shitty place. Props to science saru for adapting this so well. The way they animated her desperated chase from first perspective view and the entire backstory sequence or the episode in general was phenomenal.
| @MegamiRem Hi there I'm one of those who knew nothing....to say hit hard is like saying the meteor that took out the dinosaurs was a pebble....I'm just done after that episode. |
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Reply to rohan121
This is the worst episode so far and the only one I disliked. I doubt it will be a issue since the backstory is done. Mad respect to the animators though. 2/5 this ep
I seen a million pity backstories and my stance rarely ever changes on them.
I seen a million pity backstories and my stance rarely ever changes on them.
| @rohan121 I'm curious to know what you didn't like about the backstory - I'm not sure I'd classify it as a "pity backstory". It was intentionally sad, yes, but it's more meant to be an explanation for the spirit's actions. Based off Turbo Granny and the Earthbound spirit's (not sure if it had a name other than that) backstories, it seems like all of the spirits will have some sort of tragic backstory. After all, that's why they became spirits in the first place. |
| that backstory holy shit that was so good fr caught me lacking got me tearing up lmao |
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| What a sad backstory. I want to bring justice for them. I hate people who hurt other people. |
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Reply to ExpandCheese
@rohan121
I'm curious to know what you didn't like about the backstory - I'm not sure I'd classify it as a "pity backstory". It was intentionally sad, yes, but it's more meant to be an explanation for the spirit's actions.
Based off Turbo Granny and the Earthbound spirit's (not sure if it had a name other than that) backstories, it seems like all of the spirits will have some sort of tragic backstory. After all, that's why they became spirits in the first place.
I'm curious to know what you didn't like about the backstory - I'm not sure I'd classify it as a "pity backstory". It was intentionally sad, yes, but it's more meant to be an explanation for the spirit's actions.
Based off Turbo Granny and the Earthbound spirit's (not sure if it had a name other than that) backstories, it seems like all of the spirits will have some sort of tragic backstory. After all, that's why they became spirits in the first place.
| @ExpandCheese Judging by his anime list and favourites you can already tell he is a hentai addict. Came here for some ecchi comidy but end up getting a tragic story about a mom and her daughter. That's why he might be disappointed, Guys like this appreciate this kind of story only in case of NTR Hentai. |
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 Wow, a 2016 shounen manga invented tragic villain backstories. The more you know. Go take a walk, you sound pressed. @Ionliosite2 1k+ viewed, 4 mean score. lol'd. |
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Reply to ZXEAN
@ExpandCheese Judging by his anime list and favourites you can already tell he is a hentai addict. Came here for some ecchi comidy but end up getting a tragic story about a mom and her daughter. That's why he might be disappointed, Guys like this appreciate this kind of story only in case of NTR Hentai.
| @ZXEAN Ah...I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but taking a peek at completed anime vs dropped anime, that would certainly explain it... |
| If there's one thing this show never fails at it's being incredibly jarring. |
| peak episode for real, came completely out of nowhere so it really was hard trying not to cry since that was the last thing I expected from a show like this; I think that might be my episode of the year honestly |
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| This episode was perfectly done. It genuinely brought me to tears with the story. The only thing a bit jarring was the opening and the ending coming suddenly in middle of the tragedy. |
| I cried, very good episode. Sucks that the little daughter is probably a sex slave or something. Really hard to think about. Good episode very sad, nice on my new 2K monitor :) |
| I loved it in the manga. They NAILED it here in the anime. The direction was so good, they added some extra scenes but I like how there was no dialogue(or just minimal) like the manga. The dancing on the terrace panel is one of my favorite panels in all of Dandadan and they did it to perfection. Absolute 10/10, Science SARU cooking big time. |
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