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Jiji insanely grew on me this episode, as we learn more about his traumatic experience with his parents and his genuinely kind heart...the problem is when genuinely innocent people...are taken advantage of -- and by a twisted, warped tragic entity?

Welll....it makes for an insanely tense and yell-worthy episode! But now...now things are heating up and a Mongolian Death Worm is i the least of our problems!

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DanDaDan Season 2: Episode 2 Reaction! THE EVIL EYE?!

LINK TO REACTION: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/7ua7bAzjppYHyw7euBjJCM **EYE-OPENING HEADPHONE WARNINGS** Jiji insanely grew on me this episode, as we learn more about his traumatic experience with his parents and his genuinely kind heart...the problem is when genuinely innocent people...are taken advantage of -- and by a twisted, warped tragic entity? Welll....it makes for an insanely tense and yell-worthy episode! But now...now things are heating up and a Mongolian Death Worm is i the least of our problems! Thank you for watching with me and for all the support! #dandadan #dandadanseason2 #dandadanreaction #romaniablack Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RomaniaBlack My Anime: https://myanimelist.net/profile/RomaniaBlack Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RomaniaBlack You can mail me a letter or anything (except food, please) at this address: Romania Black PO Box 768 Harrisburg, IL 62946 USA

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Sulyeri

I do not want to ever have kids, but if I would have a son I would love a son like Jiji, he is such a kind, sweet soul. I loved animation this episode and color scheme they decided on for Evil Eye. He looks so good with these rainbow earings and purple light.

Devon Rexguy

From what I can gather, the "Mongolian Death Worm" was the cause of all the parents' suicides. As we see at the beginning of the episode, Evil Eye's suicide curse cancels the Worm's suicide waves out - the kids became unaffected by the worm once they made eye contact with Evil Eye (the requirement to activate the curse), something the parents couldn't do because they couldn't see him. It was a vicious cycle: family moves in, parents driven to suicide by Worm but child left unaffected due to Evil Eye, child is murdered by Kitos via Worm, repeat. Maybe the worm's waves weren't visible during the first suicides because it was younger and therefore weaker, or it only started to stick very close to the area once it realized the suicides and sacrifices were a steady food source.

Moominkomet

This is such a good episode! I think your analysis is spot on, especially for Jiji. As far as “villains” I do like the evil eye, 🧿 so far! I think this is as far as I’ve read. Yeah, I feel like the compassion that Jiji had made him easy to manipulate to some extent. Everyone should have listened to Turbo Granny! Husband and I always joke about Mongolian Death Worms! We just think it’s a funny Cryptid. https://youtu.be/vx_xR1xoDrY?si=Q8RkcHBoUExwSu27 It got me thinking, what animals exist in the real world that have evolved similar powers. Maybe not mind control, but stunning its prey. I thought of an electric eel. https://youtu.be/2r-Pv7NRtfE?si=wgPapjLpopw-nCzg Or a cuttle fish! https://youtu.be/qjloPutUCeo?si=tyYBS56NMDPao0Ow Oh that Kito family, I dislike them strongly! They are truly the root cause of all this chaos. Fear and superstition brought us to this situation. There are so many people like this in the world and they are dangerous. Trying not to get on my soapbox…. Enjoyed this episode a lot! And welcome back white board kun!

Alexandra Q

This episode was so much fun! As someone that was mildly annoyed with Jiji all the way through the previous season, I am really appreciating to get to see a softer and calmer side of him. Yes, he is still very much a weirdo, but he also seems to have a very kind heart that I like, and be smarter than he seems (what with him being able to figure out that the worm reacts to sounds on the house and not voices). I agree, I think that it wasn't until after this Evil Eye saw the Kito family burying this child alive that he snapped and became, well, Evil Eye, and evil spirit; much like we see Acrobatic Silky just wandering around aimlessly after her daughter is ripped away and she loses her life, until she sees Aira and has something else to focus her energy in, and twist her last desires into something darker. Something that always takes me aback, is seeing the Kito's family woman (the one that called that goffy "Jeniffer Lopez" attack) alive all the way back 200 years ago, when the first sacrifice was said to have taken place... is she immortal? Is she an alien? I don't know, but it was startling to see and made me point to my screen open mouthed and surprised. Momo, immediately stopping and trusting Jiji once he tells her that Evil Eye is not like that is such a cool little detail; seems like she learned that yokai can be different after seeing Silky's backstory last season. I love how kind she is, and that she trusts people so much. Dandadan can be silly, but it can be darn dark as well, because Jiji being the one to save his parents who were comitting suicide is freaking dark. Gosh, that must weight on him a ton. I loved the call back to Seiko calling Jiji a genius! This show is doing some really nice callbacks in ways that feel perfectly earned - like Okarun stopping Jiji by playing soccer with him, in that last scene, something that we saw Jiji teaching Okarun just at the end of the previous season - and I can't wait to see how everything connects and moves from here. Honestly, I have no clue how things will end, but I trust that as dark as this show has gotten at times, it has also always being kind; so, yeah, I'm excited xD

romaniablack

Honestly, agree - if I adopted a kid, I would want them to be as kind as Jiji, that is for sure, too! The animation was sooo good - purple is one of my favorite colors, so I was all about it with him and the rainbows, too! Thank you for the comment!

romaniablack

That's what I was thinking as well in the discussion! But yes, that does sound like a vicious cycle all together, as well as with the reason the waves weren't immediately noticed at first. Thank you for pointing that out and for the comment!

romaniablack

I loooove this episode! The Evil Eye is definitely a formidable foe so far! Ahahaha, Turbo Granny is literally Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python! 😛 Mongolian Death Worms! I always think of Tremors and how much my brother loves that series! And ooohhh electric eels and cuttle fish!? Now I’m thinking of Pirates of the Caribbean! Thank you for the links! The Kito Family - ugh - they really are the root of this - and yes, fear and superstition brings us to this…and YES, I know what you mean on your soapbox - there ARE a lot of people like this in the real world and it is SCARY. Whiteboard-kun is happy to be back and it’s great to hear from you in the comments! Thank you for the comment!

romaniablack

Yesss, what a wild ride of an episode! I am 100% with you - I was annoyed with Jiji in season 1 but it’s nice to see that he has a soft, kind heart but yeah - maybe a little too trusting and gullible for his own good and definitely a weirdo - but we’re a Motley Crew, so why not?! 😛 He is smarter than he seems but easily manipulated, sadly, it seems! 100% agree on the Silky vs. Evil Eye comparisons! And yeah, I have all the questions about the head of the Kito Family and if she’s immortal/alien, or what not, but it’s a question I hope future episodes answer for us! And yes, Momo is kind-hearted and seems to have learned from the Silky incident as well – too bad this doesn’t have that same result! I was NOT expecting DandDaDan to be as dark as it was with the hanging scene - that was INTENSE! This episode did NOT hold back in that regard! And yesss, Seiko’s callback was so well done - I liked that - and the way they incorporated the soccer that was just shown in the last episode?! So fun! Yes, it gives me a lot of hope to what they’re going to connect in the future! And yeah, it’s wild because I don’t know exactly what we’re going to do! Is it going to be a bittersweet, happy, sad, cruel, dark, or justified ending to this arc!? I guess we’ll find out! Thank you for the comment and kind words!

Christopher Pettersson

This show sure doesn't mind going to very dark places, 200 years of parental suicides and child sacrifices? Not the most uplifting base for an arc. I hope the Evil Eye backstory is 100% true, makes it more tragic... well that sounded weird, i mean it gives the story more weight if true. Now the question becomes if this yokai, like Silky, can be redeemed or if it is to far gone. I'm also wondering about the souls that Evil Eye has trapped and uses like a football (yeah, yeah soccer), seems like they need saving from eternal torment, like Silky or the girls that had fused with Turbo Granny (for as much as we might like TG now she wasn't at her very best behaviour at the start of the show).

romaniablack

YES - dark places we go indeed - thank goodness Turbo Granny and Okarun can provide some humor and levity to this episode! Yes, that is the question to see how The Evil Eye’s backstory will play out - I guess we’ll have to see! And yes, the souls trapped in the ball - they remind me of the Turbo Granny girl spirits that were there, too! Yeah, she’s come a long way, hasn’t she!? I hope they at least get “freed” from their prison in this. Thank you for the comment!