Dandadan - Episode 5
Dandadan Episode 5
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Sorry guys for the delay. Had the scheduler set up but the post was not made for some reason. Only saw it now.
Well, now the ending makes sense. It was turbo granny all along.
It's amazing how much chemistry the main pair of characters can have when you have them actually recognize their own feelings and communicate with one another. These two just blew right through half a dozen different romcom will they/won't they tropes in one episode:
Step aside every other romcom out there. Dan Da Dan doesn't have the time to deal with this tropey trash. It's got bigger balls to find.
There is so much good I can say about this episode, but one thing I want to call out in particular is the directing during the lunch sequence when they were looking for (and missing) each other. That sequence was immensely satisfying to watch and the way the shots were sequenced and framed was magnificent.
Trivia for the day: In Japanese, the way you write testicles is 金玉 (kintama). If you look at the kanji individually, it is gold ball. So, now we know what this scene in the OP is referencing:
I was mentally tensing up when Ayase saw Okarun and that girl. I'm so used to misunderstandings that I only realised after watching the episode that I was unconsciously preparing for the romcom misunderstanding tropes to happen each time.
I used to think I hate romcoms but this episode made me realise I can enjoy rom-coms if they're good and I only hate the ones which literally have the same scenarios in each one of them.
In nutshell