"They're gonna BLAST us with this one!" nah. More of a pummeling than anything.

always come to watch the sexy nerd with big tatas...

Why they cheer for arya getting the blinded juice?

Acro Silky died around the late 80's so her daughter if she is still alive ( Sadly doubt it) would be in her mid 40's . This episode is depressing especially if you're a single mother with a daughter like I am. It just wrecked me emotionally was not good for a whole day after watching this episode 😭😭

I want to see your reaction to the new season so bad guys

This episode is such a massive emotional and tonal whiplash compared to rest of the show to that point. Could not have been less prepared. Found it deeply affecting. I ugly cried intermittently all night after first seeing it. Not usually huge on anime. I enjoy it, but usually in a kind of ironic way (I default to comedies). Acro-Silky's backstory is antithetical to my general feelings towards anime and manga, and has opened my awareness of just how impressive anime can be as a story-telling medium. I generally find it hard to empathize with the over-stylized settings and characters in most anime productions. For me, this is often an interest killer; if I can't empathize with characters, I have difficulty liking them, and no likeable characters means I end up not caring. This episode's Silky micro-narrative is a masterclass in creating and then reinforcing empathy in the audience; they utilize gritty, raw, and believable motifs so that the audience feels what Silky feels: the exhaustion, the indignity, the daily grind, the confusion, the despair, the physical pain, and also the love/bond. This is of course in addition to the impressive animation techniques, and a fantastic score. Then, when the gritty story is largely concluded, they have the breathtaking dancing/suicide scene: they return to a stylized and magisterial presentation, but retain the motifs (and thus, empathy) from the preceding memories. It's a stunning crescendo that pays off the audience for becoming emotionally invested. I can't help but notice the similarities between Silky's story and the archetypal imagery of a rape victim's recovery of their dignity, body, agency, and identity. Silky, has been metaphorically raped (and probably actually raped: single mother, sex worker owned by pimps/loan-sharks, no social safety net): her suicide is at once morbid, but also gorgeously arresting; at her lowest point, resigned to death, she appears her most powerful and beautiful. The imagery is ethereal: her feet gently float impossibly into frame; the city lights blend into the sky; she appears to literally be dancing on water (just fallen rain, but striking nonetheless). It is one of the most earned stylized moments I've ever seen in anime, or even animation for that matter.

Watching it again, it doesn't seem like it was that bad. :)

With all the random shit that happens in Dandadan, they manage to pull out this tear jerking episode.

The tonal shift with turbo granny in the ending gave me real JJK "You are my special" flashbacks 😂

Nice episode but the dub version 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

The episode doesn't fail to make me cry 😭

Damn that was amazing.

I watched this anime with my partner each week because we both agreed this was our whacky fun anime time. At the end of this episode, between sobs, I said to them "How could funny ball anime DO this to me?!"

The most painful scenes are 'healing ones'.🤣

9:10 "now check out if there's a butthole!!" 🤣

When you guys were hesitant after the first episode I was PRAYING that you'd keep with it just for this. It was a real treat to be able to experience this episode again with y'all

Oh yeah yall this the one I said made me cry on one of your first episode reactions lol... I remember telling my friends the plot is around a guys balls but it somehow made me cry too lmfaooo

I watched this on my own channel then watched it 7 more times and cried every time…. I initially thought it was her daughter, I was sad and angry…. But after understanding it, I was worst

This is what we’ve all been waiting for since the FMAB lack of tears

Season 1 Episode: Pain. Yeah that's what the title of the episode truly is. BTW, you may learn something that every "yokai" or vengeful spirit in DDD has tragic back story of their lives and deaths that leads them to who they are. They basically normal human, it's just that they happened had some "unfinished business" before they died. Meanwhile, the aliens in DDD is the real bad guys. Well.. not all tho.

Sad to say, unfortunately the manga (and more subtly the anime) leave it clear that the little girl also passed away. Given what those men did, you can imagine horrible life they forced her to have. That's why Aira prays for BOTH of them to go to a kinder place. The girl is also gone. 😢

I'm scared to watch at their reactions to the seggs scene LOL.

so many banger one liners today sean: cancer would've been so much better morgan: she saw that episode too sean: eat my fcking ass lala land

craziest part is the backstory ain't more than 10 pages of silent drawings which could've been adapted into at best 3-4mins of story but the production team took insane creative freedom & yet showed respect to such a delicate matter..... this episode killed all my fears about "how will DANDADAN get adapted as an anime"

The moment Aira took that first step towards Silky i lost it 😢

Cap 1:.😂 Cap 7: ....

Yeah, i'll cry another time watching this one

"Season 1 Episode Pain" got me good!😂😭

Alex Hirsch: And now, I'd like to introduce everyone to Pacifica Northwest. She'll be playing the role of stereotypical rich-girl bully that every great Disney cartoon has. Audience: Boo! She's the worst! I hope you put her through the wringer! Matt "Funny Frog Guy" Braly: Oh, don't worry. I've got _big_ plans for her later on!

Its cool to remember that Aira is the only one of the kids with the ability to say what people want to hear, so, the only one who could give Acrosilky her sendoff

I've watched so many reaction videos of this episode, yet you guys are the only ones that have have made me cry. 😭

SO MUCH said in little details, like the ballet shoes was too big for the kid, cause the mother doesn't had the money to buy the actual size. And in the hotel where she wakes up, there's opened preservatives near the bad and in the trash. And the frame rate of the animation in the flashback is different to give a sense of reality. Great directing!

Episode 7 breaks everyone

I've seen this so many times now but it still leaves me teary eyed 😢

Aira said "guide them both to a kinder world" the daughter is dead too :(

11:42 "what a pain" O.O sean bro! the villain in my story need your voice!

I waited for this day.

Best episode of the season

Unfortunately I believe it is canon that Acro Silky’s daughter is also dead. No confirmation as to how but we can assume likely some trafficking.

Man, I signed up for zany wacky paranormal hijinks and a sweet, cute modern love story. Then outta the blue they got me crying until my eyes melt out of my head and my soul drifts through the ceiling 😭 This is the episode that cemented this show as top tier, for me

I didn’t catch that she was a sex worker or that she killed herself on my first watch. It’s so subtle and well done.

This is a rough one. Incredible episode but I could only watch it once. Gut wrenching.

theres an anime series called wonder egg priority that used to end episodes on like the most traumatising depressing notes and then the happy ass ending song would abruptly kick in lmao it was such a shock to the system every time, your guys reaction to the ending of this episode reminded me of that a lot lol

I mean ..... The implication that Aira wished for the mother and the Daughter meet and finally find peace in the afterlife together sure doesn't align with your hopes that she just got adopted and is living the life 😅.. Criminals selling children don't usually much care for doing background checks after all-

Episode of the year.

Out of nowhere a silly show like this annihilates your feelings like a sledgehammer to the heart. Dandadan is something else.

Did i already watch the uncut on patreon? Yes. Am i watching this again? Also yes.

Acro Silky's life and death took place closer to the 80s. She was a ghost for 20 something years before Aira noticed her.

Saddest episode ever? I think you mean the saddest episode so faaar *Homer Simpson intensifies*