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Episode Dandadan Season 2 - Episode 9 discussion

Dandadan Season 2, episode 9

Alternative names: Dan Da Dan Season 2

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u/realrimurutempest Aug 28 '25

Damn bro was really putting belt to ass on Evil Eye while lookin demonic as hell. I absolutely love how he stopped evil eye through words and convinced him much like a parent can convince a kid.

The quick shot of granny Seiko in the hot springs gonna have me actin feral.

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u/ImpactMiserable9384 Aug 28 '25

Okarun successfully ragebaited a child and forced him to play with him at his own time is so hilarious in hindsight.

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u/Frontier246 Aug 28 '25

Okarun: "You're going to fight me and only me at a specific time and a specific day!"

Evil Eye: "BUT I WANNA FIGHT AND KILL YOU NOWWWWWW...."

Okarun: "No backtalk!"

Evil Eye: "OOOOKKAAAAYYY."

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u/Billiammaillib321 Aug 28 '25

I love how the underwear is the equivalent of pinky swearing 

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u/coltvahn Aug 31 '25

The animators sold the hell out of Evil Eye’s tantrum. When he held his head in frustration—It was exactly like a kid.

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u/ProbablyDizzy Aug 28 '25

It’s really the little things that remind you evil eye is just a kid. The only way to beat an overpowered child was evidently to use mental warfare that would only work on a child. Seiko loving it made it even better since it really was an ingenious move on Okarun’s part. He took the time to try and understand evil eye like Jiji is.

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u/GoldenSpermShower Aug 28 '25

to use mental warfare that would only work on a child

"I will butcher all humans."

"Nuh uh!"

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u/Frontier246 Aug 28 '25

Okarun: "Bad Evil Eye, bad! No Tuesday after-school fight for you!"

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u/Treknx01 Aug 28 '25

what gets me is the Tuesday bit, WHY THE FUCK on a Tuesday of all times, mid week is not the time to get beaten half to death!

but I guess it does leave the weekend free for dates so I see the logic.

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u/megatsuna Aug 29 '25

I mean you certainly wouldn't want to do it on a monday after partying or having fun over the weekend.

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u/Frontier246 Aug 28 '25

And also it seems like to some degree Evil Eye's drive to kill all humans was because he was just following his only companions, the cursed souls stored in his undies, rather than because he genuinely had a beef against humanity that he won't quit.

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u/RPO777 x2 Aug 28 '25

I get the feeling Evil Eye is literally a child. And like given Evil Eye's life experiences, naturally it's a kid with a lot of anger issues.

There's not like an intellectualized hatred towards humanity that Evil Eye has, I think he just is in pain, has incredible power (and thinks combat is fun), and the anger manifests as him being like I will kill you all--because I can.

It's acting on pure emotion and impulse, like a kid getting angry and throwing a toy and breaking it.

Hence why when Okarun puts something more attractive on the table (getting to do more fun fights) Evil Eye is very receptive.

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u/luminous_connoisseur Aug 28 '25

I feel like the "Evil Eye" is a concept/yokai that arises out of vengeful spirits, like a natural phenomenon (or supernatural I guess). It's just that it sprung out of the sacrificed child's tragedy and merged with him when he became a spirit, its murderous intent also merging with the personality of the child.

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u/RPO777 x2 Aug 28 '25

I mean, Jiji explicitly calls Evil Eye the kid he saw in the vision, and that's the reason that Jiji doesn't want the spirit forcibly exorcized and destroyed. Seiko doesn't correct him on this at all, and thus Seiko seems to agree with Jiji's interpretation of events that Evil Eye is, in fact, the kid's spirit itself.

We've seen instances of people turning into monstrous evil spirits on multiple occasions in Dandadan. The collective spirits of the murdered girls in the train tunnel that merged with Turbo Granny, Acrobatic Silky. In the case of the girls' spirits from the tunnel, we explicily saw that their spirits were released when they were defeated by Seiko's exorcism.

I suppose it's possible that Seiko and everyone is wrong about Evil Eye specifically, but nothing in the series so far seems to suggest that it's not possible for the spirit of an angry kid to turn into somehting like Evil Eye.

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u/luminous_connoisseur Aug 29 '25

That's not really at odds with what I said, though, right? Either way, the Evil Eye, as a concept, merged with kid's soul. The kid was not a yokai to begin with, nor was he murderous. It seems to me like two different personalities merged together, and to kill it would obviously also kill the kid's spirit, because they are the same entity.

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u/Nerellos Aug 28 '25

I mean duh... His entire existence is to be killed. I would be pissed at all humanity...

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u/N0-F4C3 Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25

Okarun: Wow... You're weak.

Evil Eye: What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I'm a god damn mountain yokai top of my class among the supernatural, and I've been involved in numerous asswhoppings, and I have over 300 confirmed souls. I am trained in beating ass and I'm the top kicker in the entire fucking world...

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u/ohoni Aug 28 '25

"Weak."

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u/Frontier246 Aug 28 '25

I have over 300 confirmed souls.

Evil Eye: "But if you need me to get rid of said souls, I can strip!"

Seiko: "Nice weenie!"

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u/maliwanag0712 https://myanimelist.net/profile/clear1109 Aug 28 '25

I absolutely love how he stopped evil eye through words and convinced him much like a parent can convince a kid.

It is also a win-win situation: Evil Eye will not be exorcised, Okarun can practice his skills, and no one gets to die since the brief is not worn by Evil Eye. Nice resolution to this arc!

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u/ngms Aug 28 '25

I think that his deal with turbo granny was that he keeps the powers while he's nutless. If they just found his second one and recover it, that promised scedule might become an issue.

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u/Arashoon Aug 29 '25

he is very lucky that supernatural power protected his nuts, but even just the time he took to recover the first one, technically it would have been rotten and can't put it back. same for his dick.

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u/CitronClassic672 Aug 28 '25

That scene of demonic Okarun was one of the parts of this arc I was most excited to see animated and it didn’t disappoint.

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u/Handyman2116 Aug 28 '25

Okarun really hit him with the "Yowai Mo"

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u/patkun01 Aug 28 '25

> The quick shot of granny Seiko in the hot springs gonna have me actin feral.

I was staring at the screen, that the hot spring scene appears so fast, I was like "no, go back, go back"

I almost missed it and would've been like "must've been the wind"

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u/Frontier246 Aug 28 '25

Damn bro was really putting belt to ass on Evil Eye while lookin demonic as hell. I absolutely love how he stopped evil eye through words and convinced him much like a parent can convince a kid.

Okarun unlocked monster mode. It's almost like he went full Turbo Granny.

The quick shot of granny Seiko in the hot springs gonna have me actin feral.

The glory of those ample Seiko's unleashed in the bath.

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u/Anzereke Aug 28 '25

It's almost like he went full Turbo Granny.

Bet that terrifying old bat was pretty proud.

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u/TheAlchemist420 Sep 22 '25

The cackle that just left me reading "putting belt to ass" 😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏾👏🏾. Bravo.  And dammit if Okarun didn't look cool doing it! I loved how he essentially tamed the kid that is Evil Eye. Very Tanjiro of him. 🤪