The premiere of the new episode of the anime adaptation of the manga DAN DA DAN has caused a furore on social media, generating a lot of comments and reactions among the otaku community. This episode, titled ‘Towards a Compassionate World’, presents the story of the yokai known as Acrobatic Silky, a mysterious spectre that has been haunting Aira Shiratori and made its first appearance in the sixth episode of the series.
However, why is the seventh episode of DAN DA DAN being so much talked about in the otaku community to the point of being trending on social networks? We’ll give you the answer below.
New episode of DAN DA DAN makes everyone cry (Spoilers)
As previously mentioned, in this episode we are introduced to the story of the yokai ‘Acrobatic Silky’, a spectre who in her human life was an indebted woman living with her only daughter.
Throughout the scene where we are shown Acrobatic Silky’s past life, we can see her relationship with her daughter and in the sequence we can see how she was teaching her daughter dance steps in a hobby they both enjoyed together, to the point of buying her a dress to make her daughter happier.
However, this provoked the anger of the people to whom he owed money and in an abrupt change that surprised many, we can see how these people break into his house with the aim of taking his daughter. Seeing the situation, she tries to escape with her daughter, but in the struggle, she is knocked over a glass door, which causes deep wounds in her arms and the kidnappers take her daughter away.
In a desperate attempt to run after the kidnappers, she falls to the ground on the street, leaving us with one of the scenes that managed to move more than one person to the point of tears, and the soundtrack, along with the incredible work that the animation studio Science Saru has done to animate this scene achieved its goal.
After losing track of the kidnappers and watching the van vanish down the road, Acrobatic Silky begins to show off his dancing talent, displaying his moves in the middle of a city illuminated by night lights and a sky full of stars.
In one shocking leap, the scene reveals his true intention: he decides to end his life by throwing himself off a building. As she falls, memories of her time with her daughter emerge in her mind, culminating in an emotional ‘Mom, thank you so much for everything’ at the end of the sequence.
But it doesn’t end there, as the seventh episode of the anime DAN DA DAN has another key moment: the scene in which Acrobatic Silky begins to fade away after transferring her aura to save Aira Shiratori, who has followed her as if she were her daughter for the past ten years.
In this sequence, we see how the yokai remembers his real daughter, wishing he could have had a better life and spent more time with her, although he regrets not having been able to offer her a happier life. It is then that a revived Aira runs to her, gives her a tight hug and dedicates words of affection and gratitude to her, speaking to her as if she were her daughter.
Along with these words, Aira mentions that she will be praying that the yokai and her real daughter can find peace together in a much more compassionate world.
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The manga DAN DA DAN is written and illustrated by Yukinobu Tatsu and has been published in Shueisha’s ‘Shonen Jump+’ service since 6 April 2021. Currently, Shueisha has collected the DAN DA DAN manga into 16 volumes in total and has more than 6 million copies in circulation. In November 2023, Shueisha confirmed that Yukinobu Tatsu’s manga, Dandadan, will have an anime adaptation.
The respective anime adaptation of the manga DAN DA DAN made its global premiere on 4 October this year on the Netflix platform and has been dubbed into English. The anime studio Science Saru is in charge of its production and the series will have a total of 12 episodes. The series is streaming legally on the Netflix platform, although it has also arrived on the Crunchyroll platform.
The anime DAN DA DAN has the following description: The story follows Momo Ayase, a young woman who, after an aggressive rejection, becomes involved in a chance encounter with a bullied boy. This mysterious young man, passionate about the occult, tries to find common ground with Momo, who, in turn, professes a belief in ghosts.
What begins as a dispute over the real and the imaginary becomes a wager that leads both protagonists to separately explore places associated with both the occult and the supernatural. The surprise comes when they discover that both dimensions coexist, triggering a series of surreal events.
As they immerse themselves in this world where the inexplicable intertwines with the everyday, Momo and the boy embark on an adventure to restore the balance between the supernatural and the real.