Discussion Dandadan 2nd Season

Episodes: 12 | Source: Manga | Genres: Action, Comedy, Supernatural, Shounen
Synopsis
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While the mission to exorcise Jin "Jiji" Enjouji's family home is underway, things are not going as expected. Momo Ayase narrowly evades an attempted abduction while Ken "Okarun" Takakura and Jiji are ambushed by the Kitou family—the unsettling landlords of the cursed estate. The trio's efforts threaten the foundation of this enigmatic town shrouded in legends and mysteries.

As Momo, Okarun, and Jiji are drawn deeper into the maze of folklore and supernatural entities, they must each utilize their unique powers if they want to survive and unravel the secrets of the uncanny town.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

 

Episode 13 was good. Man, those disgusting old men really went rape-tier on poor Momo. Luckily, when she was being held down, the walls of the bathhouse collapsed missing her, but falling on some of the men. Turbo Granny overheard Seiko telling Momo when Jin lived, and so she secretly tagged along, figuring it was near a hot spring. The men that assaulted Momo were from the Kito family and were chased off from members of the public.

Jin and Ken thought Momo had returned, only for it to be more members of the Kito family who imposed. Apparently they let Ken stay there for free. Even still, they seem like terrible people. They were even up in arms as to if he was lying to them about things.

The men arrived back to the house, and likewise interrogated Ken and Jin about their knowing of each other. Momo on the other hand, went around to the shrine for the Tsuchinoko. The young man running it is a bit of a character, but had no issues letting her in. The region worshipped a giant snake that supposedly lived deep in the mountain, and for a time participated in human sacrifice which seemed to work to placate it and stop the volcano from erupting. HI roll is to keep people from repeating the same mistakes from back then.

Momo arrived back at the house and encountered the Kito family including the men that assaulted her again. The Kito family have continued participating in the human sacrifices for years and see themselves as the good people stopping the volcano from erupting. Ken and Jin were on the ground, so they were in a bad spot and the Kito family intends to use the 3 of them as sacrifices. The mother of the Kito family for someone so old and large, can fight really well, she was even causing issues for Momo. Momo ended up being kicked into the hole in the wall which was space filled with quicksand.

There was a bit of struggle with Momo almost getting free, but everyone fell through the quicksand and underground. The underground area also has houses in it, making it spooky. Jin fell on the huge snake, which is actually a huge earth worm; the Mongolian death worm that had been eating people for a very long time. The Kito family tried to have it eat them, only for the worm to eat the Kito family. . Things aren't looking good though, with the group holed up in a house.

 

Episode 14 was good. It's fortunately that Jin was still lucid here, while Ken tries to kill himself. Jin did his best stopping him, and Momo also started to try and kill herself. Poor guy was even using his body to stop Momo from using glass shards on herself. They were being manipulated by the worm's psychic waves ability which makes people want to commit suicide. The evil eye appeared with the same ability, so the two abilities cancelled each other out, snapping Momo and Ken out of it. Ken tried to take out the worm, but it just regrew it's head and he ended up out of the fight.

Jiji seems to have seen the evil eye's past, or maybe the boy/boy's spirit was just being manipulated by it. Either way, I feel bad for the boy. Seems like he was an orphan, and starving basically. He wanted to just play with kids, wasn't able to, presumably because he was to be the next sacrifice for the people. He was slowly burnt to death by the volcano, which is awful. As a spirit, he went around and tried to interact with kids. The kids seemed to see him, but the evil eye's ability always ended with the parents killing themselves. This is why happened to Jin, his parent tried to commit suicide.

Jin kept feeling sorry for the kid, and ventured lower and lower through the buildings before getting to the locked up, tied up body. Turbo Granny tried to warn him to not trust the evil eye, but he didn't listen and it invaded his body and took over which is great for it, as Jin's body is basically the perfect host due to his powers and athletic body.

The evil eye powered Jin was fighting off the worm without much issue. He also started attacking Momo. Jin was about to unleash probably a lethal blow to Momo when Ken finally appeared and blocked it. Ken is pissed off, so the fight will be interesting.

 

Episode 15 was good. Jin and Ken clashed, but ultimately Jjn won the clash, which had Ken retreating with Momo, but he vowed to get him for smacking Momo. Using their powers together, Ken and Momo were able to get to the top pretty quickly. The worm had poison being spread around in the hole to weaken the victims, making it an even worse situation. Ken pointed out the weakness being that it hates sunlight. Ken concocted a plan to get Momo out to get help - have her on top of a chair that he boosts with his feet/legs while she uses her power to boost off the height of the chair's flight which was executed well, but Momo just had to latch onto the hole with her power too.

Momo tried making a rope with sheets, which failed, so took drastic measures and set fire to the house, to get firefighters to wet the ground and cause the worm to voluntarily surface, as she remembered back when she was a kid, Jin explaining about worm suicide and that if they got we underground they'd suffocate and so surface into the sun and in-turn dry out and die.

Ken and Jin continued their fight, and for a while Jin was overwhelmingly winning, but Ken managed to pull a victory absolutely pummelling him. Ken got to the top before hearing Turbo Granny yelling for help being trapped in the sticky goop. She kept begging Ken to not fall in, only for him to.

On the surface a bunch of police, fire brigade and civilians were in the area with the fire, and the fire was extinguished before the worm surfaced. His had everyone but Momo disappear basically. In the end, the worm got dried up from the sun and died. It also spat up the Kito family, and the matriarch kept insinuating that Momo fucked up by killing the worm, and the volcano started erupting.

 

I just with it didn't **** viewers over by splitting the season at the shittiest moment.

Episode 16 was good. The nearby town was evacuated due to the volcanic eruption. The matriarch of the Kito family enjoyed the angle of them being truthful in protecting the town due to feeding people to "the great serpent!" and the old legend of a "dragon rising to heaven casting a rainbow and the wrath of the mountain will engulf the village". Momo immediately thought it was wrong though, because a worm killing itself in the sun makes no sense, and pointed out the "dragon" was likely a geyser as a sign the volcano would blow.

Momo attached one end of the worm to a geyser and then used the mouth of the worm to spout water to help with the lava/fire. While she was doing that, the Kito family kept attacking her trying to attack her, but the priest showed up. He was warned in a vague way about Momo, Ken and Jin coming so eventually figured it out. It was going pretty well with Momo spreading the water and the priest holding off the Kito family, before Jin arrived and fucked up the worm and likewise started attacking Momo and the priest.

Right when Jin was about to land a big blow on Momo, the Mantisian alien arrived to help, along with his son piloting the space craft, and Seiko arrived too. They did well as a group, the alien kid helped stop the lava/fire from the space craft, and the alien helped Seiko fight Jin. Taro was used to encase Jin's body and stop him.

Momo ran off to find Ken after that, and saw the house and the hole full of lava so thought the worst. She wanted to jump in to find him, but the Mantisian held her off. The son used the space ship to get a giant pod out of the lava, and it turned out to be Ken and Turbo Granny, safe due to the slime ball they were trapped in. That was a good end.

 

Episode 17 was good. Seiko tried to exorcise Jin, only to fail... and try again and again and the Evil Eye was still there. After that, they all had a big meal and Aira came along too. Although, she chewed out the alien for showing up, but explained the cow couldn't produce milk so they're planning on living on earch. Aira was happy to see the kid though, finding it cute. It's taking a while to get new Hayashi performers, so Jin will have to stay as is for now. But, they did figure out, hot liquid on him brings the real Jin out, and cold water gets the Evil Eye to take over, so they have some precautions and way of having Jin somewhat free. According to Turbo Granny, the Evil Eye that took over Jin is basically a baby, which is why they all aren't dead.

They all drove to watch Jin and allow him to visit his parents in hospital. During the car ride, Momo and Ken had a sweet/awkward moment of err "holding" hands, more like playing. It was a nice moment Jin got with his parents, even with how badly Taro controlled the body. That's where we see the police reporting on the arrests of the Kito family for murders, although Naki Kito the matriarch was missing. That's when we cut to her raging about feeding the worm for 200 years!! God damn, then she shed her skin, and turns out it's actually either an alien or a spirit of sorts. It said they've made enemies of the subterraneans now, I assume aliens.

Momo and Ken returned to school, and Momo's friends were trying to talk about the Volcano eruption and the space ship being caught too. Momo didn't want to talk about it.

Aira was having some reservations about going into glass, but Momo and Ken showed up and asked them to hang out which had the class a bit surprised. Aira blew up on her about not wanting to be friends, but she was just fawning over Ken. Momo requested them both to stay over to help watch Jin and they agreed.

Jin is finally free of Taro, and they all decided to have dinner. One drop of soy sauce landed on Jin, and the Evil Eye came out.

 

Episode 18 was good. Jin absolutely wrecked the house. An interesting looking band turned up, and Seiko turned them away instantly, only for them to come back and ask if Seiko lived there, and turns out they are the Hayashii, which I suspected.

They aren't spirit mediums, but their set can break through to the spirit world. This means they can't be corrupted by evil spirits during an exorcism. They started out terribly, but once they got going, played an absolute banger. It actually seems like the exorcism would be successful, but Jin begged Seiko to stop, so she called it off. Aira raged about wasting her time on Jin and Ken vowed to get strong enough to handle it, which had Aira and Momo wanting to help which led to some arguing.


With the oncoming rain, they used cardboard to patch up the house. Less than ideal. Seiko also taught Jin the pose that was taught to Momo as a kid to help him unlock his Chi. Seiko even said that Jin might be able to handle the evil eye alone if he gets fully accustomed to his power. n the middle of the night, Jin used the bathroom, so Ken woke up to make sure he didn't wash his hands with cold water, etc. Momo also checked in half asleep.

Momo wanted to get a part time job (again) to rebuild the house. She ended up as a maid at a maid café and her friends dragged Ken to see her.

 

Episode 19 was good. Well, those were some awkward moments Ken witnessing Momo working, and her working in general. Momo's shift finished at 10pm, and Ken offered to wait around to walk her home, but she declined. Once she finished up, she was disappointed he wasn't there and was about to head home, only for him to turn up to walk her home, which was sweet.

Meanwhile at the house, Jin has continued his training a bit and gotten to the point of Seiko getting him to try room temperature soy sauce. The power immediately started to surface but Jin was able to supress it. Ken and Momo got home which had the other two excited and Aira spilt some liquid on Jin accidentally which had him transform and barrier himself and Momo up and he started choking Momo. Thankfully, she had a mouthful of hot liquid so it worked out, but it shook them all up. Ken was rather rude to Jin about it, shoving him back, but it's kind of understandable.

Ken ended up asking the alien to teach him how to throw a punch to get stronger, but he ended up with kind of a job. Things remained a bit awkward with Jin and Ken. Manjirou confronted Seiko on how things weren't working out, and how they should call the Hayashii back, but Seiko didn't seem to want to relent just yet.

Turbo Granny asked Ken jus what the hell he was doing and he explained he wanted to learn how to throw a punch to get stronger. She explained they weren't mutually exclusive and seemed to get across that he wanted to get strong. She took him to the school and explained in terms of rhythm in a fight how behind Ken was. Now things started getting a bit weird.

 

Episode 20 was ok. Mostly just a battle between Ken and Aira vs the curses. Aira was mostly fighting while Turbo Granny made Ken pick a song to focus on to move his body to the rhythm enabling him to move better. The song he picked was the one of the Hayashii. In the end, Ken got stronger from the experience.

Manjirou and Momo were talking about Jin and the Evil Eyes, specifically Manjirou was just lecturing them how dangerous it was and that they needed to have it exorcised so Manjirou arranged it. Momo was annoyed at him going around them, and wanted Seiko to defend their position, but she remained silent. Jin, likewise was silent.

Ken and Aira returned home and Ken challenged Jin to a fight, so he could prove that he can deal with the Evil Eye. Jin trusted him. The battle is on.

 

Episode 21 was good. Ken and Jin had their fight, and Ken did keep up better this time against the Evil Eye. He even went all out and scored a good hit on Jin. Unfortunately, it destroyed the house. This is when Ken pulled an interesting play - going in for his nature as a kid. Getting Evil Eye to agree to only fight him and not hurt anyone else, and they'd fight once a week. Surprisingly, Evil Eye agreed.

Jin's parents got out of hospital, so he went back with them. Ken and Aira also left back to their own houses. With the house in ruin, Seiko decided to take Momo and Turbo Granny to a bath house. When they got back, the alien duo turned up along with Ken and Aira. The aliens gave them some nanoskin to build a new house, which is made of nanobots, which self-repairs and is easy to form into what the user wants. Jin and his parents turned up in the early morning to help them rebuild, only to have been beaten to the punch.

When they returned to school, Evil Eye came out and stuck to his work about not hurting people, but he sticks out like a sore thumb.

 

is good though. Not great. Not fantastic. Not sublime. Not shit.

 

Well I'm just using it to denote the episode