Dandadan Episode 7 Discussion

FMmatron said:
Holy,they cooked so damn hard. Thought it was a pretty nice tragic backstory in the manga, here I was left speechless. Science SARU elevating the emotional highs to another level altogether. This may be the adaptation that will bring them universal recognition within the anime community.




Here's the ballet scene from the manga. Anime was quite a bit subtler about it's implication (and the prostitution as well)

gavingwhiz said:
It's frustrating how this show is so well-animated for how...

I don't know how to describe this. It feels like the script is lower quality than the show is, if that makes sense. Like a sauce that's not properly emulsified. There's core ideas that are awesome, but then there's core ideas that feel like they exist purely to generate infinite plot points for a manga or 60 episode anime season. Plot points that will feel under-baked if wrapped up in a 12 episode season.

And there's also the fact that this show is so HORNY yet hasn't done much to justify that, let alone justify the tonal hard shifts that come when it decides it's time for The Serious Episode where Things Are Serious and Sad, Actually.

The premise of what happens with the ghost and her backstory is perfectly fine and in a vacuum it's potentially a great episode.

In the same way Dandadan has not really justified the almost-rape scene in the first episode as a cheap power-activation gimmick, it didn't really earn switching from "look, the hot grandma's not wearing a bra so her boobs bounce when she runs!" to "actually this ghost you thought was just goofy evil is a sex worker who died under traumatic circumstances and we're gonna make you watch that happen."