Dan Da Dan Paid Homage to Shin Godzilla in the Raddest Way Possible

It has go nary concealed that we’re beauteous saccharine connected Dan Da Dan. It’s pugnacious not to beryllium erstwhile Science Saru someway raises the barroom each week with the anime’s slow-burn romance, frightening cryptids, and balls-to-the-wall action, and its eighth occurrence is nary exception. While past week’s occurrence made fans privation to bawl their eyes out, this week’s occurrence volition marque Godzilla fans leap retired of their chairs and pump their fists successful the aerial with earthy excitement.

Dan Da Dan‘s eighth episode, “I’ve Got This Funny Feeling,” sees Momo Ayase, Aira Shiratori, and Okarun sequestered successful their precocious school, ankle-deep successful a mysterious excavation of water. While their classmates and teachers are obscurity to beryllium found, the trio aren’t unsocial successful this liminal space. Much to Momo’s horror, she’s being stalked by the Loch Ness Monster. However, this isn’t the acquainted Loch Ness Monster. Much similar its manga counterpart, this carnal is heavy inspired by Hideaki Anno’s 2016 Shin Godzilla movie design.

Much of Momo’s brushwood with the Loch Ness Monster goes by arsenic it does successful the manga. Ripples of her footsteps hint the beast to her location, starring the carnal to respond with a laser beam from its gaping maw. However, Science Saru adapts creator Yukinobu Tatsu’s overt homage to the Neon Genesis Evangelion auteur’s instrumentality connected the kaiju to the adjacent level by recreating its atomic enactment to the letter. Before shooting retired its atomic enactment beam, we spot greenish neon lights question up the spine of Dan Da Dan’s Loch Ness Monster earlier it barfs up a clump of water, closes its pupils, and shoots retired a glorious, highly concentrated greenish beam of vigor down the schoolhouse hallway. Fortunately, for each the flash, Momo and her friends aren’t harmed successful the onslaught of its attack.

Dan Da Dan‘s instrumentality connected Shin Godzilla is the latest successful an extended enactment of media referencing Anno’s kaiju flick. Video games similar Elden Ring and Nier: Automata diagnostic enemies with the aforesaid benignant of beam attack. Seeing arsenic the full premise of Dan Da Dan was inspired by the mashup of Sadako vs. Kayako, it’s lone fitting that Godzilla would beryllium included successful the anime assemblage of creatures. Thus far, the amusement has already featured cryptids similar acrobatic Sara (Acrobat Silky), the Flatwoods monster, and Turbo Granny, and there’s adjacent much coming down the pipeline.

New episodes of Dan Da Dan driblet each Thursday connected Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix.

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