DANDADAN Season 2: Episode 12 FULL LENGTH Reaction!
Added 2025-09-24 13:00:09 +0000 UTC*CLASHING HEADPHONE WARNINGS*
It's the season finale and have I mentioned I love Kinta? Our adorkable new character takes the reigns and takes on the Kaiju to help the others save the city! But what lies beneath with this kaiju and what will it mean for our crew as we await Season 3?
This was a fantastic and emotion-heightening season finale that definitely has me curious what this series will bring to us in the future! Thanks for watching this season with me - now the hiatus begins!
LINK TO REACTION: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/zU2ht2JuAJK7r3Qg8iFbhW
Thank you for watching with me and for all the support!
Comments
Yesssss, thank youuuuu - I completely have been comparing it in my mind to Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel! I laughed out loud in Batman vs. Superman where they literally went to a location “with no people” to fight it out. So yeah, DanDaDan is WAAAY better than the Super Hero movies by Snyder (agree, I like 300 because the tone fits so well). HAHAHA – I forgot Friends had that as a plot line! So yeah…what are we talking about? Hahaha, yeah, I am already lukewarm from the piping hot I was at the end of this episode, so I’m sure by the time season 3 comes out, I’ll be ready to see just how they’ve baited us this whole time. ;) We’ll see where it goes! Thanks for the comment and kind words!
Romaniablack
2025-10-03 19:12:29 +0000 UTCSUCH a fun season; I totally agree! The arcs were a lot of fun and I loved the character development we got throughout it! Getting Kinta as a new character was a stand out to me for sure! And the romantic development of MomoKarun is DEFINITELY my favorite in the whole season! We progressed! Well…up until the very end, hahahaha! I’m not opposed to the “safe choice” in writing - it’s fine, I just had to adjust my sights after realizing that. But it’s not a deal breaker in this show for me. 😀 I do appreciate the set up of the characters’ abilities, like you said, and how it makes sense and flows really naturally and doesn’t have “unlimited stamina” or something like that. The actions usually have a reason behind them, which I appreciate. Thanks for the anime only information in this! I won’t complain about any extra character work added, haha!! Honestly, I did develop a softer spot for EE after the last few episodes and I’m genuinely interested in seeing how Season 3 handles him in the story! And as long as the new girl isn’t just an unnecessary love triangle insert, I am looking forward to seeing development with her, too! The callback to episode 1 was fun (RIP Aira, though), and it makes sense they wanted to end it there to be a “full circle” moment. I get it. It’s going to be a bit of a wait, but I’m okay doing that if the season is as high quality as these first two have been! Thank you so much for the comment and kind words! It’s been a fun ride!
Romaniablack
2025-10-01 14:37:47 +0000 UTCAll this destruction without stakes does remind me a bit of Zack Snyder and all the destruction in Man of Steel and people complaining that the film didn't really handle it with the care it needed and how Zack in a later film just had the film point out that "hey, there are no people in this town now we can destroy it without complaints", dude, you missed the point of the criticism. Not saying that i compare DanDaDan to the works of Zack Snyder (although i did like 300 where is brand of "over the topness" fits), and i only mean the very smallest of offence to anyone liking Zack Snyders work. :P Hey, if Friends had a character pee on another i'm sure DanDaDan could get away with it, and with peeing on a jellyfish sting just being all myth and will infact just make it worse, here in contrast it might actually do some good... why are we talking about this again? Was needling you a bit about this ending in the comments on last episode and considered doing it some more here, but i might just wait that year before i dare to. :P
Christopher Pettersson
2025-09-29 22:26:31 +0000 UTCWhat a fun season of Dandadan this was!! I think overall I enjoyed all three arcs the Haunted house arc the Evil Eye arc and this last arc. I enjoyed getting to see alot more of Jiji, meeting Kinta and getting more romantic development for Momokarun. In terms of your first criticism that was brought up while I think the decision to have safe writing is a valid criticism in my own opinion Dandadan really wouldn't be the show that it is if these high school kids had to worry about collateral damage and saving thousands of lives from being smashed by a kaijuu. It would be an entirely different show if those kinds of stakes were involved. The closest they had to worry about saving a physical space was at the start of the show with the village when the volcano erupted and that took alot out of the characters for example Momo and Manjiro while having to fight at the same time. If there is one thing that is consistent about Dandadan which I appreciate is that even though Momo and the rest has powers they are high school kids that have powers and they cant just tap into random abilities that havent been set up by the show or have unlimited stamina and therefore there are reasonable limitations. While good writing is important to me it also has to fit the tone of the show and I think alot of the mechanisms the mangaka has thought up helps the show to not go into morbidly gut wrenching dark areas outside of the backstories. I also wanted to point out that there are several details throughout the season that are anime only scenes some are hit and miss 1) Okarun turning into Turbo granny in episode 1 as he confronts Jiji 2) Kinta being inserted into Momo and Okarun's flashback that entire extra context was not in the manga 3) Aira getting more time to shine during the kaijuu battle in episode 11 as she gets knocked down very quickly in the manga and 4) the handholding scene taking place in the tunnel in episode 5 of this season I think the first two details feels very off for the show while three and four are details that made those scenes way better. I still think Kinta having an Ive been here all along montage was funny but still unnecessary. Momo running through the house is also anime only and some funny details is that while she is running there is some writing on the walls and one of them is done by Aira saying Aira Takakura - of course Aira would try to sneak that in. I think despite how polarizing it is after seeing how season 2 has turned out I still think the writing went in the right direction for Evil Eye/Jiji and Im looking forward to season 3 to see what more we get of Jiji and how Evil Eye is handled amongst getting more of Okarun and Momo and even this new girl. I guess RIP Aira we joke but Im looking forward to more of her as well. I love the callback to episode 1 in season 1 with the explosion in the background I guess that's why they really wanted to end there for now. I love how Dandadan can take two panels or even one panel of backstory and incorporate with so much heart. It was done brilliantly with Acro Silky and now for Kinta. I love him so much and I agree he's such an underdog that you want to root for him. I still will need more episodes with him before he becomes more of a favorite for me like Aira or Jiji but regardless I love his energy and passion for SciFi. This was a fun season and next week or so a new show. Now we wait I enjoyed the discussions even if I didnt agree with all of them and got some interesting insights into shounen as a non-shounen watcher.
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