{"id":644192,"date":"2024-11-14T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dan-da-dan-episode-7\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:20:00","slug":"dan-da-dan-episode-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dan-da-dan-episode-7\/","title":{"rendered":"#DAN DA DAN Episode 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Storyboard artist: <\/span>Shuto Enomoto <\/b>(also animation director for this episode)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Episode director: <\/span>Kotaro Matsunaga<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Script<\/a>writer: <\/span>Hiroshi Seko<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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DAN DA DAN<\/span><\/i> Episode 7 concludes the Acrobatic Silky conflict and, in the process, gives us what I think is the series<\/a>\u2019 best episode yet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The frenetic first-person running scene at the very beginning is an early indicator that this would likely be a pretty well-done and immersive episode, and it definitely lives up to expectations. While the action in the avan (i.e. the pre-opening song section) is relatively brief, it nevertheless serves up a chase that sells the warehouse\u2019s three-dimensionality through its compelling <\/span>layouts<\/span><\/a>. There are many satisfying shots both during and immedia<\/a>tely after the battle, with one of my favorites showing Aira falling and sliding across the floor. The cut ends with her head close to the camera, while the rest of her body is angled forward, and I liked both the perspective drawings themselves and how they make a simple moment memorable. Momo\u2019s off-model comedic expressions also deserve a small shout-out.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The fight ends with Momo and Okarun outsmarting Acrobatic Silky to render her vulnerable to a powerful attack from Okarun. However, there\u2019s no room to celebrate the yokai\u2019s defeat or the retrieval of Okarun\u2019s ball. Up till this point, it seemed that Aira was only unconscious, but Turbo Granny reveals that she\u2019s actually dead \u2014 a genuine surprise \u2014 as being eaten by a yokai is fatal for a regular human. There seems to be no hope for her until Acrobatic Silky proposes that Momo use her psychic powers to transfer the yokai\u2019s aura, which is likened to a battery for organisms, to Aira.<\/span><\/p>\n

Momo learns about the yokai when she comes into contact with Acrobatic Silky\u2019s aura, leading to a lengthy flashback that will likely be on viewers\u2019 minds after the episode. Through it, we learn of Acrobatic Silky\u2019s past life as a struggling single mother with a young daughter, and the reason for her current yokai form\u2019s dress and dancing traits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The flashback emphasizes weighty character animation, which makes it that much easier to view parent and child as real people and empathize with them, especially when our first look at the daughter\u2019s beaming face is through the mother\u2019s eyes, in first-person. The approach also makes it extra gut-wrenching when we get to the scene of Acrobatic Silky being forcibly separated from her daughter by debt collectors, suffering wounds in the process. This leads to the dash through the 3D neighborhood from the beginning of the episode, but now with context that drives up the feeling of doomed desperation that the blurred vision, constant motion, and groans had already conveyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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