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Dan Da Dan is weird, profoundly inappropriate, and the perfect anime this season
The anime is a huge hit for both Netflix and Crunchyroll because of its weirdness.
When they erect statues of me for my work as an anime journalist (aim high, kids), there will be a plaque reading, “Give me your weird, your irreverent, your huddled tentacles yearning to wriggle free” at its base. I love it when anime gives me the unexpected bizarre and turns my world upside down, so it probably won’t surprise you to learn that Dan Da Dan is one of my favorite shows of the Fall 2024 anime season. It isn’t like anything else airing on Crunchyroll and Netflix right now and that fills me with unimaginable joy.
Just a quick warning that we’ll be discussing light spoilers for Dan Da Dan episodes not included in the theatrical release.
First off, I have to level with you all; I almost noped right out of Dan Da Dan
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