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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/Hounds_of_war Aug 28 '25

Previous 7 episodes: Evil Eye is a dangerous menace who will massacre us all given the chance and we need to exorcise him.

This episode: Evil Eye is a goofy goober who promises to not attempt to murder anyone except for Okarun after school on Tuesdays.

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u/Frontier246 Aug 28 '25

At the end of the day Evil Eye is just an impressionable kid with no frame of reference for social interactions or human society whose only idea of interacting with and getting along with people is violent murder.

Now the gang has a chance to maybe potentially teach him how to properly function in society while he gets his weekly fights with Okarun.

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u/cyberscythe Aug 29 '25

just an impressionable kid with no frame of reference for social interactions or human society whose only idea of interacting with and getting along with people is violent murder

as i suspected behind all their cuteness, newborn babies have an insatiable bloodlust

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u/inthe-otherworld Aug 29 '25

It makes sense with what Okarun said at the start of the episode – when Evil Eye says “I want to butcher everyone” he actually means “I want to play”. He is a vengeful spirit who was murdered by sacrifice and has a reason to be angry at everyone so it’s probably not fully play, but he’s also always just wanted to play with others as a kid who was never able to

Now he’s free as a big dangerous baby who isn’t aware of his full strength, so his “play” is still too rough for most people, but like Jiji says he’s not just angry anymore he’s excited too. If you replace every time he says “butcher” with “play” this episode it’s really cute, protect this danger baby

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u/NoChampionship8426 Aug 29 '25

In another universe, this could be Hikaru being taught by Yoshiki how to "live". hehe

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u/artemi7 Sep 08 '25

That's what I've been thinking this whole time. He doesn't actually want to kill people, he wants to be a kid. Going to school and getting school lunch and playing with the other kids in soccer is what Evil Eye actually wanted this whole time, but didn't have the words to express that until now.