It has turn out to be no secret that we’re fairly candy on Dan Da Dan. It’s powerful to not be when Science Saru someway raises the bar each week with the anime’s slow-burn romance, scary cryptids, and balls-to-the-wall action, and its eighth episode is not any exception. Whereas final week’s episode made followers wish to bawl their eyes out, this week’s episode will make Godzilla followers bounce out of their chairs and pump their fists within the air with uncooked pleasure.
Dan Da Dan‘s eighth episode, “I’ve Bought This Humorous Feeling,” sees Momo Ayase, Aira Shiratori, and Okarun sequestered of their highschool, ankle-deep in a mysterious pool of water. Whereas their classmates and lecturers are nowhere to be discovered, the trio aren’t alone on this liminal house. A lot to Momo’s horror, she’s being stalked by the Loch Ness Monster. Nevertheless, this isn’t the acquainted Loch Ness Monster. Very similar to its manga counterpart, this creature is closely impressed by Hideaki Anno’s 2016 Shin Godzilla movie design.
A lot of Momo’s encounter with the Loch Ness Monster goes by because it does within the manga. Ripples of her footsteps clue the beast to her location, main the creature to reply with a laser beam from its gaping maw. Nevertheless, Science Saru adapts creator Yukinobu Tatsu’s overt homage to the Neon Genesis Evangelion auteur’s tackle the kaiju to the subsequent stage by recreating its atomic breath to the letter. Earlier than taking pictures out its atomic breath beam, we see inexperienced neon lights journey up the backbone of Dan Da Dan’s Loch Ness Monster earlier than it barfs up a bunch of water, closes its pupils, and shoots out a wonderful, extremely concentrated inexperienced beam of vitality down the college hallway. Fortuitously, for all of the flash, Momo and her mates aren’t harmed within the onslaught of its assault.
Dan Da Dan‘s tackle Shin Godzilla is the most recent in an prolonged line of media referencing Anno’s kaiju flick. Video video games like Elden Ring and Nier: Automata function enemies with the identical model of beam assault. Seeing as all the premise of Dan Da Dan was impressed by the mashup of Sadako vs. Kayako, it’s solely becoming that Godzilla can be included within the anime gallery of creatures. So far, the present has already featured cryptids like acrobatic Sara (Acrobat Silky), the Flatwoods monster, and Turbo Granny, and there’s much more coming down the pipeline.
New episodes of Dan Da Dan drop each Thursday on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix.
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