SO HEARTBREAKING! 💔 Dan Da Dan - 1x7 - To a Kinder World

[@TheReactPack]

Finished early, enjoy! www.patreon.com/collection/802458

[@اميرمادرا]

Is my top episode in show l hope she rest in peçe the best mother😢❤

[@FiragaJJC]

Just to point out... Aira didn't have psychic abilities. Children in general, and cats are more susceptible to see the dead than adults... plus the connection... Acrobat Silky lost her child while Aira lost her mom... that connection made Aira see her temporarily. Aira didn't have spiritual powers and was only able to see Acrobatic Silky again because of Okarun's ball.

[@anagramhound]

That "If you weren't born as my child, you would have been so much happier, I made you so unfortunate." is the strongest lines a loving mother could ever say. As a person who grew up with a struggling single mother, that lines alone hurt my chest so bad.

[@A-SUS]

Yeah, no matter how much i watched the scenes. That lines always makes me a bit hard to breathe from how painfull and sad it is

[@Atomicpowerz]

@@A-SUS same bro

[@ORO323]

Many of us grow up poor but are so very lucky to have loving parents who’ll do anything for us. I feel bad for those who never experienced such love.

[@Mugen3]

😭

[@Dinmc123]

the music of that scene is so on point, it's so gentle and slow in a really painful way

[@NezeruGaming]

She didn't just fall and bleed out. With the skyline in the background, she danced off a building to end her life. 😭

[@crispycreammcfly4782]

They make it more vague in the anime so easy to miss. It's still a beautiful scene. They probably had to do it because of airing restraints.

[@victordiasnogueira3068]

It's funny how they had to censor Acro's suicide, but had no problem with Momo's Alien probing scene lmao

[@mervynlarrier9424]

It's honestly not even really that vague if you look at it​ @@crispycreammcfly4782. I think most people don't make the connection because of how tonally different it is from the rest of the show. My girlfriend, for example, said that it did look like a city skyline when she was dancing but she wasn't sure. It's been like, 50/50 whether people get it on the first try, 75/25 on repeat watch

[@LeeAnnOfAlderaan]

@@victordiasnogueira3068 Japanese broadcast restrictions are kinda goofy. Chainsaw Man was loaded with blood and guts, but they had to blur out vomit. Spy x Family anime omitted references to nukes that were in the manga.

[@crispycreammcfly4782]

@victordiasnogueira3068 censorship is weird

[@MorgMoons]

One little detail I appreciate about this episode/chapter is that there was no unnecessary fuss about lips touching lips during the CPR part. It was treated with the urgency and desperation it deserved, could've easily been a throwaway gag in some other shows

[@jamesscott7215]

My boy Ken only gets flustered when the girls give him that energy back, but when things get serious he gets down to business

[@AnarchHive]

Yes, I noticed this too and I love how casual it was. It wasn't supposed to be funny or in any way weird, that a boy tried to reanimate her. It would have destroyed the feeling of urgency in this situation.

[@RoaringTide]

Yeah, I'll be honest, I didn't think this show could pull off anything serious. Up until now it's been nothing but goofy, which usually isn't my style. I like more of a balance - a bit more grit and maturity. That backstory was total whiplash, but wow, it made me more invested.

[@Scr4mbledM3ggs]

I also appreciated that. It was refreshing and very down to earth.

[@TerrelSam]

​@@RoaringTide This is the beauty of Dandadan. It perfectly balances Action, comedy, romance and drama

[@tercerocastero]

Turbo Granny and Ken did not see the story of Silky like Aira and Momo did, so they still just saw her as a thing, an enemy. The power of perspective can change how we see everything around us.

[@اميرمادرا]

I agree with you here l love his episode and şad one too her bucksotry hit me Hardand ost too l hope she rest in peçe 😢❤

[@aSSGoblin1488]

Turbo is the patron saint of unfortunate women or something. i think she is a kind spirit and acted callously towards Silky to prevent Momo from blaming herself. Turn that spiral into anger towards her words

[@AWSOM817]

@@aSSGoblin1488yes, if we don’t getting swept away by emotion then we could see the one that know how to address the situation was ManekiBaba, she acted callously to goad those who have power to change the situation to act. Heck they just tried to kill each other minutes before, only by dissing cold hard truth, the message was pierced through.

[@stanleyc6790]

I think turbo granny has seen lots of tragedies to know how terrible the story must have been for Silky to become a monster.

[@iczzephyr]

​@@aSSGoblin1488 I just suddenly realized this watching this reaction, and came here to say the same thing. I think this would be around the 10th time I'm watching but I only realized it now. Turbo-baba protects women, so she definitely was saying all that so that Momo would feel less bad for the Silky. However, she didn't hold back on what would happen to the Silky just in order to make Momo feel better and still explained everything. Truly a good grandma. And she also explicity stated that strangers can't do anything and that it depends on the Silky's heart whether she could move on or not, while knowing that Aira was listening and that Aira was someone important to the Silky. Which in turn spurred Aira to move. Granny single-handedly resolved 3 girls' trauma within minutes. Definitely the GoaT of the series. The side stories about her which is in the ED song makes her an even better character.

[@Okkotsu86275]

To say this episode caught me off guard would be an understatement. I thought we were going to get the typical Dandadan looney shenanigans and to a degree we did. But we mostly got a gorgeous tragic tale about motherhood, loss, and regret. This is the episode that changes the series from something really good to something truly great.

[@cornyboi932]

Be ready for it to happen many other times, Evil Eye next year is going to destroy a lot of anime onlys

[@Okkotsu86275]

@cornyboi932 I'm here for it. I like being destroyed 😂😂

[@danielk4335]

Next year? I thought it will be this season as we see that person in the intro.

[@rusalaquarina3515]

@@danielk4335 doubt it cursed house arc will get animated this season since its just 12 episodes. We are probably just gonna get the start of the arc then season end

[@AWSOM817]

@@danielk4335technically still s01 but cour 2 bcoz it is pretty large story, no way they adapted that this cour.

[@TheSledgehammer205]

For me, it's redemption for Aira-chan. Turbo Granny's cold-heartedness manifested big time, probably to provoke some reaction from Aira to fulfil Acro-Silky's desire for someone to call her "Mommy". Turbo Granny's phrase "there's nothing that strangers can do" is significant as Aira was not a stranger to Acro-Silky and was the one person left who could care. Aira's "Mommy, I love you" was the key for her to pass on.

[@julio1148]

I think Turbo Granny's coldness is for simpler reasons, she didn't see what we saw. Her attitude was consistent with how she felt about acrosilky last episode (a lower level yokai that is beneath her status). We know that she is capable of empathy from her backstory, but otherwise is quite sassy lol

[@BenganGamer]

​@julio1148 exactly just like how Okarun was about to obliterate her the moment Momo fell to her knees

[@TheSledgehammer205]

@@julio1148 Someone noted that Turbo Granny lack of empathy is because Acro-Silky "self-deleted". She may have comforted AS's daughter who may have been victimised.

[@ふゆ-j3l9n]

私もそう思います。ターボババアは傷つけられた女の子の霊を慰めていた。ターボババアは過去の話は見ていないけど、モモの様子を見たら、この怪物が可哀想な人だとわかっただろう。アイラに直接成仏させる方法を教えるのではなく、アイラが自分の思うように行動することに意味があったと思う。アイラの言葉は、母親に伝えられなかったけど伝えたい言葉だったのかもしれない。

[@geraldthegoose1685]

This episode was so sad that my sleep paralysis demon and FBI agent were comforting me

[@marianandnorbert]

mad respect that they came to the rescue, also same ; - ;

[@bluetone-amv]

Weirdo

[@اميرمادرا]

Me too my friend l hope you doing Will ❤

[@chaircheck2424]

Everyone's already said how good the scene of Acrobatic Silky dancing is, but I actually have a different favorite - it's the one after she meets Aira and fixates on her, and her hair suddenly starts to grow and pool around her feet, and it's her transformation from a ghost into a youkai. I love that one most of all.

[@Okkotsu86275]

The scene when Acro-Silky was doing ballet against the starry backdrop was one of the most tragic and gorgeous sequences I've seen in any show recently rather it be live action or anime. This episode was damn fantastic, be so very sad and painful.

[@endosym5023]

From what I understood, the mom was a prostitute for the Yakuza and was also working multiple side jobs (janitor, cashier, etc) and she was paying money to the Yakuza. She saw the dress and she bought it with the money she was supposed to give them (that's why there were multiple scenes of her counting the bills) and when the Yakuza came to collect the money, she was short. They beat her up and took the kid, probably for human trafficking. She chased the car but collapsed from her injuries. After she woke up, she danced on a rooftop and then jumped. The thud that we hear on the black screen is her hitting the ground. At the end she was able to reunite with her daughter when Aira hugged her which pretty much implies that her daughter is already dead

[@arifarrafi3302]

@@MarkyMarcSpector the dont tell us bro if its not even confirmed yet

[@noah1535]

Don't think she was working for the Yakuza, she was just paying money to them. The prostitution was just for making more money. If it was for the Yakuza specifically she probably wouldn't get money for it, it would just go to her payments instead of receiving money just to give those same bills back

[@ezrasalazar6995]

@@arifarrafi3302it’s confirmed

[@Kingujeii]

@@arifarrafi3302yea, it’s implied the girl is dead. Besides, where the story currently is, there’s no point in bringing the daughter back besides for a bit of fan service.

[@mrgsudo]

Most likely, the girl was kidnaped for organ harvesting.

[@gkamifrisk2046]

11:50 In the Brazilian Portuguese dub they added her screaming "DAUGHTER" and that made me cry too bro😭😭😭

[@shadowfox2120]

The manga implies that her daughter was killed unfortunately and they reunited after she passed.

[@hitachiuchihamagicwand2776]

I dont remember that. She just hopes that they reunite

[@peepoo_217]

@@hitachiuchihamagicwand2776it did also say something about hoping they both rest in piece implying they both died

[@biscuitman5388]

yeah the "send them to a kinder world" shows an extra panel where the mom and daughter are walking off holding hands at the end.

[@hitachiuchihamagicwand2776]

@@biscuitman5388 Thats just a flashback to when they were both alive. Realistically the daughter was probably sold off to be a sex slave

[@sliceoflifeanimeking1496]

Wait but wasn’t the woman Aira actually mom if so then I don’t get it when people say her daughter died too cause Aira is alive I’m confused

[@iczzephyr]

14:34 ​I just suddenly realized it while watching this part. I think this would be around the 10th time I'm watching but I only realized it now. Turbo-baba whole purpose is that she consoles women, so she definitely was saying all that for a reason. So she probably was being all mean like that so that Momo would feel less bad for the Silky disappearing if they're just a nobody. However, she didn't hold back on what would happen to the Silky just in order to make Momo feel better and still explained everything. Truly a good grandma. And she also explicity stated that strangers can't do anything, probably so Momo shouldn't feel guilty for what's happening. She cont'd to explain that it depends on the Silky's heart whether she could move on or not, while knowing that Aira was listening, and that Aira is someone who's important to the Silky, which in turn spurred Aira to act. Granny single-handedly resolved 3 girls' trauma within minutes. Definitely the GoaT of the series. Also, the side stories about her which are in the ED song makes her an even better character.

[@andyl2599]

There is a little fun fact (or in this week case not fun) about Acrobatic Silky real life origin. Acrobatic Sara Sara (Akusara) in some version of the story was described having a heavily scared left arm, in the manga version of Acrobatic Silky, she didnt have that details in both her human form nor yokai form. Anime made an easter egg-ish change to her, so there is the shot of her left arm getting cut and full of broken glasses in both form, which paying homage to that version of internet story. Also giving a round of applause to Mrs Kikuko Inoue, stunting performance in 2 eps, she was exciting about her part this week and stated giving all out. Blowing it out of the water even in her 60.

[@Meko5]

This episode really got me. The pain of what happened hammers in that reality of true horrors that actually exist in this world and the unfairness of it all, it just shatters the heart. What I took away from it was the ending, Airi, and Momo showing empathy and compassion from someone was once a threat, and to remember that everyone has a story, it could be good, it could be bad, but to treat everyone like Human beings and show compassion. This was a rough one, but a pill that I felt needed to be swallowed.

[@sigurdsd]

As a father of a 4 year old... this backstory hurt for real, specially not knowing what happened to the little one, and of couse I've been having actual nightmares about it.

[@karatebat5156]

In the manga, it's implied that the daughter ended up dying as well some time after she was kidnapped.

[@sigurdsd]

@karatebat5156 yeah but what they (yakuza involved in sex traffic?) might had done to a 5 year old girl before she died it's just too much. And I know it's just a fictional character but man this broke me fr

[@Astravall]

I don't know why i'm doing this to myself ... every reaction i watch of this episode i hurts just as much as the first time i saw the episode and i cry, yet i keep watching.

[@CharTurner6928]

I can't bring myself to watch all my favorite reaction channels for this episode. This episode was too much emotional devastation!😭😭

[@dreadogastusf3548]

"And you bleed just to know you're alive." IRIS-goo goo dolls

[@pollomaniac]

this is my 4th reaction video to this episode and yeah it hits even more becouse in every video ive been reading more details about what happen to the mom and the daughter :(

[@angelramirez936]

My first reaction video to this episode and I was bawling worse than when I read the manga. Acro-silky’s backstory caught me off guard, but I reined in my tears since I was reading in public. Here in the comfort of my own home watching and reacting to the anime though? Complete mess

[@philfedora495]

Its the hallmark of a great show when they can make you laugh and then cry in the same episode.

[@susiemartinez8983]

The line that broke me was, "I won't forget". It both comforted me and broke me at the reality of the situation.

[@AndresGomez-ct7qb]

3:26 The 'golden nugget' thing is closer to home than you'd think. Commonly, balls are refered to as Kintama, literally golden balls. Which more than likely why they're portrayed like that. Also, that's the play on words that the goat series 'Gintama' comes from. Although I doubt many people are familiar with that show anymore, sadly.

[@javiknight20]

They don’t portray it as well as the manga but her daughter died too, that’s why Aira wishes for both of them to go to a kinder place.

[@sliceoflifeanimeking1496]

Wait but wasn’t that woman Aira actually mom or no???

[@rusenakman]

How she learn that?

[@TheReactPack]

Ugh that hurts my heart -Morgan

[@sliceoflifeanimeking1496]

Wait but wasn’t the woman Aira actually mom if so then I don’t get it when people say her daughter died too cause Aira is alive I’m confused

[@Assenzio2068]

@@sliceoflifeanimeking1496 No, the lady lost her daughter and jumped off the building, aira lost her mother (you can see her with pink hair in a coffin) due to illness. Aira saw the ghost of the silky lady, that's why she thought she was her child

[@Runo1923]

The director said: I AM GOING FULL ARTISTIC

[@5HeadTaste]

Silky ripping her mouth open reminded me of Pitou in HxH breaking her arm 😭

[@lazydaze6]

I instantly thought of that too! Lol

[@omarakream0391]

A single mother living off multiple part-time jobs and selling hersel her daughter is taken away by debt collectors she can't find her daughter and in despair jumps to her death tragic end😭

[@omnomnomnomm]

what i like about the Yokai is: they're not entirely evil like some common mindless evil villain trope who wants to end humanity just for the sake of it. they're just normal people, who died horribly (or not naturaly). and the fact that their soul couldn't reach "heaven" is because they still hold grudges for dying unfairly. they're body is already dead but their soul latches itself to our world cause they still can't accept that they're dead. it's kinda sad but i think it adds more depths to their presence

[@tencrotch9835]

I've been waiting for you guys' reaction to this episode!! I love how the studio took creative liberties with how they told acro-silky's story

[@taiyooryo5938]

アクロバティックの娘の鳴き声がリアル過ぎて心が壊れる

[@SDWorksYT]

This and the first 10 minutes of Up are the only pieces of animation to ever make me cry. This shit hit hard bruh ! Love this show ! ❤

[@TheReactPack]

It is so beautiful!!! 😭 -Morgan

[@CocoCrumbs03]

You should watch Anohana if you want to cry a lot 😭

[@EggsAndBacon14]

"a silent voice" will also crush you.

[@harrymccafferty8702]

Grave of the Fireflies is still maybe the saddest thing I've ever seen

[@SenseofNoneYT]

Can't get over this episode. I scoured for reactions and it still gets me every time I see it. Every bone in my body wanted to tear those guys apart for taking the daughter. But after it sinks in that I can't do anything about it, all the rage just turns to sorrow. Animation, direction, music, voice acting. Perfect 10/10 episode. Acro SIlky got her hug and now I think I need one.

[@androidgamings61]

Same, everytime when it went to Acro Silky and Aira moment, i always cry

[@vkarvanzer4243]

Man, seeing you here make me want to rewatch all the VS animation again. Thank you for your great work man 👊

[@angelsppp11]

Even knowing what was going to happen going in, I was at a loss for words after the episode ended. Just sat there wiping away my tears. I didn't even think it was going to get me to cry, but damn that was such a hard watch, I couldn't hold back the tears. Stuff like this alongside all the crazy wacky stuff that happens is why Dandadan continues to be my favorite currently running piece of media to read, and now watch.

[@XanderVJ]

I watched this episode on Friday and I've watched it multiple times, in multiple languages (ever single dub nails it) and I can't get it off my head. People have already said a lot about how beautifully, but painfully tragic Silky's backstory is, how perfectly the adaptation pulled it off, and how this affects Aira as a character. All of that is true, but I'd like to put a bit of a focus in another detail I really liked, which is Momo's reaction. Because frankly it's cementing her as one of my favorite female protagonists of all time. It highlights more than ever one of her best attributes: her compassion. We already saw a bit of it after they defeated Turbo Granny, but it's better shown here. After witnessing what Silky went through, she starts sincerely weeping for someone who two minutes ago was to her nothing but a monster who literally ate her alive. And yet, you can feel her desperation for wanting to help her, despite there was nothing she could do.

[@RayGainbows]

I literally cannot watch someone react to this episode without crying AGAIN! Its so sad. More than sad. Bleak? idk. Like yah its sad, but there is no "its ok though because...". because its not ok.... There is no comfy end. If you think about it too much it just gets worse. Damn... DanDaDan did it. SO beautifully done. bravo

[@pabloesco2007]

I read the manga but i'll never though this anime's version was so awesome made (Animations & music). It's really a plus to the Manga, i re-discover this moment. The way we saw a story in 360° like the music box of a woman dancing.More infos about this poor woman, she worked in so many jobs even prostitution then when she lost her child, she made a last dance a jump from a building/balcony. Aira and the Yokai share a same pain, the lost of their loved one Mother/daughter and they share at the end this pain and this forgiveness/appeasement. Good job to staff who made this episode.

[@ergoproxy5773]

The episode: 😭😭😭😭😭😭 The Transitioned E.D song 💃🕺💃🕺💃🎶🎶🎶🎶 Like a typical Persona 3 moment.

[@GoldenKaos]

Yes, it is a golden capsule around the ball, it’s made of Turbo Granny’s spiritual energy.

[@エレクトラム]

She often used words that were popular during the bubble economy, and she probably died in the late 1980s. The Yakuza, who were involved in the underworld and were involved in land and money, had much more power during the bubble economy than they do today, and the laws to crack down on them had not been developed at all. They could do whatever they wanted back then.

[@fjoergyn]

This is one of the toughest episode i watched in a few years. One i want never see that twice.

[@Neko-chan-3]

i watch this ep 18 times with other reactors still hits hard 😭

[@Noah-pc6wq]

My headcanon is that the thugs who took Acro's daughter later wandered into Turbo Granny's tunnel and got torn to shreds

[@communitygamer117]

The mom dancing on the water/rooftop was anime only but it's so telling because its like the was her swan song and she literally leaps of the roof and slowly falls at the end...fades to black then *CRUNCH*. This is masterclass artistry and storytelling, then virtually no words spoken for a good few minutes but so much detail and emotion was conveyed. Dandadan excells at show don't tell, using environmental storytelling as well as character acting/expression to convey a beautifully awful image.

[@devaunbeats]

It wasn't anime only. She does the same thing in the manga but its more explicit

[@settsu7836]

blud is just spreading misinformation out here! Nah bro it ain't anime only she also danced in the manga... the exact same sequence happens in the manga too minus the animation and the music lol

[@communitygamer117]

The daughter is heavily implied to have died soon after her. Aira asks for "them" to rest in peace. In the manga the last scene is of the mother and daughter walking into the afterlife.

[@akuma2916]

In the manga when shes dancing she actually jumps off a building and thats how she dies,thats why theres a thud sound effect after she dances

[@GTBX01]

It's the same in the anime. At the moment of her last dance step/jump, there's a very short shot of her feet on the edge of the building.

[@اميرمادرا]

I agree with you here hit Hard l hope she rest in peçe she amzing mother care for her baby😢❤​@@GTBX01

[@yohanesbobbysanjaya3541]

@@GTBX01 dont forget you can see the difference between starlight and building's ones. when she jumped you can see the phase where star light turned into street and building light

[@unordinary8932]

I saw the schedule posted earlier today and saw that this reaction was going up Monday. Getting this earlier than expected is a lovely surprise! This was for sure my favorite episode of the series so far.

[@user-tt3ni4gb5i]

Yea, that thud...she danced off of a rooftop.

[@MixJamz]

I haven't had a show make me cry like this since Angel Beats, and when Iroh sings to his son's grave

[@BaNguyen-zl1sl]

Omg I have been waiting for y’all to react to this! Lighthearted moments mixed with heavy stories like this episode is what makes Dandadan so good.

[@michaelwebster6566]

The audacity of this episode! Finished work for the week Friday night and sat down with a beer and my favourite Chinese takeaway to watch this episode and be miserable 😢😂

[@DiES3L24]

I went to watch this as a mood booster after finishing my Your Lie In April rewatch…… Wtf Dandadan 😂

[@マーチン-l5f]

In the last scene where they hug each other, there is no glass, but the glass shards are stuck in their hands, and in the curry 🍛 scene, only my mother feels less the second time around. She wears loose socks that are reminiscent of the Japanese uniform style of the 1990s, and cats are Japanese lucky charms.

[@icollect1003]

シルキーを演じた声優、井上喜久子さんは一人娘がおり二人とも声優です 非常に仲の良い母娘で有名です アイドル的人気のある声優だった喜久子さんは人気絶頂の中、電撃的に結婚を発表し出産のために一時期仕事を失いました 復帰後、女神の声と言われていた喜久子さんは新たな表現を身につけて声優アワードまで獲得し今では実力派と言われています

[@qwertyu0810]

She is forever seventeen.

[@にゃんちゅう82]

9:58〜 The pink room, timer, and carelessly placed money represent prostitutes. When she unlocks the door to her house, she hesitates because she feels guilty about her daughter. Also, there are two scenes where they eat curry, but the second time is after they buy the red dress, and only the mother has less curry roux to save money. The suffering and kindness of a single mother who is in debt is portrayed in great detail.

[@くまくま-l4l]

憐れwww

[@にゃんちゅう82]

@ くまくま-I4I 暇人中年ニートにコピペ見つかった😂W コピペ3件あるから無限にある時間使って見つけてみてや〜

[@にゃんちゅう82]

@くまくま-I4I スーパー暇人ですねw 別チャンネルの数百件のコメントを全閲覧し、そこから同文章を探すとかニートの所業ですよ👏 コピペ計3件したので見つけたら報告してください、時間は無限にあると思うので🙏

[@にゃんちゅう82]

@くまくま-I4I コピペ計3件したけど見つかりましたか？ 無限に時間あるでしょ⏳

[@Ryu.86]

I knew this episode is gonna make a lot of us cry. The manga and this adaptation are both amazing.

[@KerrMalygos]

It's always fun when your funny, monster-of-the-week anime punches you in the gut out of nowhere

[@LooKingG00d]

Props for the reaction! And for the animators and mangaka! 👍 BUT I also want to give props to Your editor, we've all seen the emotional montage X times, and here it is edited that we still get the reaction but it is no longer needed in full for us to get the feels so it is shortened. Good call

[@jtrod14]

Raised by a single mother, this episode wrecked me. I'm crying again. 😢

[@witheredunit8362]

In the manga there's a panel that shows her reunited with her kid in the afterlife, so the kid didn't survive long after the kidnapping. To put things into context, Acrobatic Silky seems to be based around 70/80's Japan which was a time of economic crisis. Many people in Japan borrowed money from loan sharks in the hopes of restarting and with the thought that the economy would be fixed soon but no one knew that it would get much worse. Everything that happened to Acrobatic silky ended up happening to countless others.

[@Stteevo]

This might be the best anime episode i’ve seen all year. A masterpiece of an episode.

[@CodeeXD]

Sam is right about Ken's family jewel, turbo granny stated she encased it in gold so its technically in a capsule of gold

[@eligamarra2651]

This episode was so devastating. I just lost someone in my family so I will probably never be able to watch this without crying.

[@johnpo2]

Dandadan: "yall have fun these first 6 episodes?! *grabs a knife* cause that shit is about to end..."

[@fc3sturbogtr]

On my 10th+ or so watch of a reaction to this ep and I can’t get enough of the contrasting happiness everyone has had going into it and the despair by the end. Yukinobu Tatsu/Science Saru have given us a 10/10 ep in a series where the overarching plot has been to retrieve a banana and ballz 😂😂😭😭

[@Vidilian]

I don't think Turbo Granny saw the backstory like Momo and Aira did so that's why she didn't care.

[@rad_lad_2715]

I read a theory that because silky committed suicide, rather than being killed, turbo granny wouldn't seek out her spirit to comfort her in the afterlife

[@atrikillershark]

​@@rad_lad_2715 that just makes me wonder whether or not turbo granny comforted her daughter

[@BR.Josue03]

@@atrikillershark do we learn turbo grannys past later on?

[@BiscayneStrawHat]

​@@BR.Josue03Her past is still a mystery as a manga reader.

[@victordiasnogueira3068]

​@@BR.Josue03 her past wasn't shown yet, but her character profile in the volume 1 extras imply that she died because her family threw her in the mountains to avoid feeding her, as food was scarce in her time.

[@GTBX01]

An ep that tore my heart out ! Beautiful work of SARU. Many seem to say that in the manga her daughter is dead, and even make up what happened to her. To be clear about what's in the manga: when the yokai goes to dust, there's just one frame where we can see mother and daughter together with the words “...To a kinder world”. That's ALL the manga says. Her daughter's exact fate is unknown, and Aira doesn't know either. It's open to interpretation. Maybe her daughter is already dead. But may be not. Maybe it's just symbolic to say that one day they'll be together in this better world.

[@emanx222]

Ita not necessarily a spoiler to say on this episode but the daughter is in fact dead, the manga gives a panel of both mother and child going to "a kinder world" at the end

[@GutoMake]

they didn't show it and had a little censorship, but in the manga we can see acro-silky going to the afterlife with her daughter cause she found peace at Aira hug, implying that her daughter is gone aswell, but both could make it to the afterlife together

[@thewisechief]

I went into this episode knowing it was going to be a tearjerker but man did this hit harder than i anticipated.

[@gymlife408]

Just saw this episode today and bawled my eyes out . I googled it to see if I was the only one who saw how beautiful this episode was . Man . 😭😭😭😭

[@Stak0]

DanDaDan, Bleach, One Piece Fan Letter, Arcane S2. This might be the greatest Fall Season in TV history.

[@Oakland510]

Where’s Penguin?

[@megalosauru]

@@Oakland510 He is still crying after watching Dan Da Dan episode 7.

[@innocuousalias6632]

I'm assuming Turbo Granny was once human and we'll be getting that story eventually.

[@dsltr076]

Probably, She even once said a thing about being in a school before in the previous episode.

[@victordiasnogueira3068]

She said she wasn't in a school for 100 years, so yeah, she was a human

[@BenganGamer]

Anime only* I'd like it to be something like that she was trying to stop a grape in process but ended up dying.

[@bijolicideris1293]

them: omg I'm gonna cry... me who've seen the ep: "cry" is an understatement for this

[@salmay4266]

they put a knife in our chests and twisted for 20 minutes straight holyshit

[@spawn60105]

I think granny is not cold, She just wants to give Aira a push.😢

[@javiknight20]

In the end the real monsters where the humans.

[@d112cons]

"I'm gonna cry!" Oh, sweetie - we're just getting warmed up.

[@northwestclasspnw7974]

I haven't UGLY cried at an anime in a long time. But this had me bawling inconsolably

[@blazedj]

11:22 This part makes me so mad that I actually start crying every time 😢

[@AsvaldoAbidaDergin]

When I first watched this episode I really thought Silky was gonna stay around and be like a summon for Aira, so I really wasn't expecting her to die, even though she was just a spirit at first.

[@Sevalithi]

The way i was BAWLING MY EYES OUT omfg

[@Nikko911]

it wasnt as clear in the anime as it was in the manga. she was dancing on top of a roof and jumped off, because she knew that her daughter will suffer a terrible fate. in the manga you can see them reunite, meaning that her daughter was killed. thats why aira said "take them to a more fortunate, kinder world". such a tragic story, but it also explains why aira acts so spoiled. acrobatic silky was keeping her from harm all her life.

[@dreadogastusf3548]

As Sam said, "I don't even want to think about what happened to her daughter". Great direction that implied but did not hit us with what happened to "Silky's" child. ~I hope THEY go to a better, kinder world~

[@tiagoh.4120]

Watching this first thing in the morning and now i'm tearing up over my coffee lol I'm guessing those man are the typical "loan sharks" that i see often in Japanese stories / manga / Anime, they loan money at extremely high interest rates and often use threats of violence to collect debts. The mom probably didn't had more money to give them and they end up taking the remaining savings she had, plus her daughter. My guess is the daughter was probably sold. It's really sad because things like this actually exist all over the world. Stay safe everyone.

[@TooSaucyDude]

this is why i love anime. if i ever feel like crying i know anime has the power to always get me emotional 😭

[@shukakun6794]

Not only is this a really sad, and unfortunately pretty realistic backstory, it's also the sheer contrast compared to the rest of the show. Other than the brief explanation that makes us sympathize with Turbo Granny, the show overall is pretty happy. Definitely didn't expect it to make me cry all of a sudden at episode 7. Don't think I've been thrown that kind of curveball since Madoka Magica episode 3.

[@ポテト-e4n]

15:38 アクサラの手をよく見てもらえるとわかるんですが"ガラスの破片"が刺さっています。この事からアクサラは"妖怪の姿から解放された"ということが表現されています。(←English/..If you look closely at Aksara's hand, you can see that there is a shard of glass stuck in it. This shows that Aksara has been liberated from his demonic form.)

[@Nekotaku_TV]

*her

[@ポテト-e4n]

@@Nekotaku_TV *Google

[@Nekotaku_TV]

@@ポテト-e4n nani?

[@spiraljumper74]

Aira and Silky give each other closure, they both have the perspective absent the other. So Aira gets to understand, firsthand, how much her mother loved her. Silky gets to understand that her daughter must’ve loved their life together despite how it ended. Also, that kid was trafficked like, over ten years ago at this point, she’s definitely dead.

[@BenganGamer]

That timeline seems confusing though, she didn't turn into a yokai properly until Aira mistook her and Aira can't be more than like just over 10 years older at this point than when she was when she mistook her. And given how it was presented Aira seemingly met her fairly quick after her death.

[@spiraljumper74]

@ That lines up exactly with what I said though? Aira looks to be about three or four when they meet soon after Silky’s death. So by the time Aira and the gang fight Silky, that kid is almost certainly dead. So like ten to twelve years. I don’t actually know how old Momo, Ken, and Aira are, but they seem like they’re freshman or sophomores.

[@BenganGamer]

​@spiraljumper74 because of how you phrased it, it seemed to me like you were implying well over 10 years but maybe you didn't then.

[@mervynlarrier9424]

The daughter, unfortunately, did not survive her time with the kindappers. In the manga we expressly see her walk off into the afterlife holding her daughter's hand, and she was very much still the same age as when she was kindapped: 5. She probably didn't stop crying, you know, as kids do, and those bastards probably hit her until she stopped considering how they did her mother.

[@masonjohnson-q2p]

In the manga, the mother and daughter hold hands again in the afterlife. So lets just be especially greatful that we dont know HOW the kid died. The director and animators went OFF with this one.

[@JonuhOfficial]

Cried when I first read the Manga, cried when they first released the Animation, cried when I watch you guys react to this😭😭😭😭💔

[@zendevil13]

Wow i never thought the animation is way more impactful than the manga.the author knows what he's doing

[@quickdudley]

No details because that would be spoilers but later in the manga the author outdoes himself multiple times.

[@juwonikemoses2045]

In the manga it's heavily implied her daughter lost her life and then she jumped off a building ending her own

[@VolfileXIII]

we all broken by that episode, even when i know whats gonna happen, i cried when i saw the chapter

[@sebastianmauritzell6072]

Holy shit her last scene alive on the roof is beautiful ❤️😢

[@ChristopherOBrien]

As soon as I saw the happy child, I knew. I knew. "No, oh please no... please no..."

[@davidfromnebraska]

i still cant watch this episode without crying.

[@idenongoncalves4398]

Read the manga and still cried. Science Saru did an incredible job

[@MrSmee-vt7cy]

Comedy decided to take a seat and let sadness take the wheel and steer us into a sea of melancholy all for the right reasons that I hope never devastates anyone ever.

[@mattcrvg]

This episode was absolutely heartbreaking.

[@bobM452]

ME: NO DANDADAN I DONT WANT TO CRY TODAY, I JUST WANT TO LAUGH ABOUT BALLS. DANDADAN: OH, YOU GONNA CRY TODAY!!!!

[@Water_Person_IRL]

I read somewhere that in the ED, when turbo granny blast her face with the hair dryer, she is trying to recapture the feeling of being turbo.

[@Zucchini212]

I was fully prepared when I watched this ep, I thought I could handle it since I already read in the manga. But man someone's cutting onions when I watched this