Dan Da Dan Episode 9 Review: Teens Vs Aliens
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The creepy aliens are back—the Serpoians—and this time, they want Okarun’s ‘banana.’ Episode 8 of Dan Da Dan ends with the aliens stripping Okarun naked, and just as they were about to rip him apart, Aira transforms into Acrobatic Silky and rushes to his rescue!
Titled “Merge! Serpo Dover Demon Nessie!”, episode nine focuses on Okarun, Aira, and Momo teaming up to fight the Serpoians, who turn their school into an alternate spiritual dimension that can only be entered by powerful beings. But remember how Momo misunderstands that Okarun and Aira were making out on campus? Well, while fighting the aliens, there’s a lot of funny bickering between the three of them due to teen jealousies.
Episode nine feels like it takes a page out of Osamu Tezuka’s manga creations; it’s very sexually charged, but all of it is mixed with hilarity. To fight off the aliens, Momo and Aira ride Okarun like how Momo rode Okarun to attack Turbo Granny in episode 4 of Dan Da Dan, but the difference is—this time, Okarun is butt naked. And c’mon, you know how that sentence sounds, so imagine what it looks like, L-O-L.
The pace, animation, and music in this episode are fast and entertaining, but some of the combat sequences fall a little flat. The aliens hire a “gig worker,” or as they literally call it, a “gigu warka” (said with a Japanese accent), who kinda looks like a giant mantis and tries to pulverize the teen trio. The face-off starts with a burnt-orange tint for the first few minutes, but the second half shifts to green tones—a perfect choice to match both the mantis-like enemy and the bizarre, manipulated matrix dimension they’re trapped in.
I definitely think the previous episode was more fun, but “Merge! Serpo Dover Demon Nessie!” still ends with a wild, hilarious cliffhanger and is sure to get some big laughs from viewers willing to ride the manga madness!
You can stream ‘Dan Da Dan’ on Netflix and CrunchyRoll.
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