#dandadan muko

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had my friends send me random chapter numbers from the dandadan manga, and picked a panel from each chapter to redraw, hehe! I was just kinda messing around with these and getting a feel for the characters, so some are a bit wonky, but I had fun so that's what matters

original panels under the cut:

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Can I say that I LOVE how supportive Ayase's friends are?

I feel in any other story, the glamorous best friends wouldn't want their friend to be dating a dork.

Instead, see that Okarun is a sweet guy who is ready to defend Momo's honor, and they are like "Oh thank fuck he isn't like your last one, please don't break up with this one."

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[wrong-turn-ronald]

Big shout out to Momo Ayase’s gyaru friends, Muko & Miko, for being the “yes and?” to Momo’s feral antics (queen) & showing support for her cringe-fail wet cat of a boyfriend.

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Quick appreciation post for these two

I love them. These two are really supportive of Ayase no matter how bullheaded she may be about her emotions. When she starts to bond with Okarun, they never make fun of her for this especially seeing as how they work together very well. They're never jealous of her relationships or love life. They share one brain cell and use it to love Ayase

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Dandadan | Ep11 | You can't do that! Momo already has Okarun!

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You can't do that ✋️🚫

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Who's gettin' a piggyback ride now, O-ka-run~?

Gyaru Okarun(Gyakarun, if you will)'s full outfit! Gyakarun... I adore you... (A quick reminder.)

About the outfit:

Momo, Miko, and Muko/Kei put it together! Momo convinced Okarun to let her do his makeup "all gal style", but she said she'd do it low-key, like her friend Miko's.

She does not do that. She goes all out.

And I don't have it ironed out exactly what happens after,, but she ends up calling over Miko and Muko/Kei. They bring supplies (Miko bringing her makeup and Muko bringing hair extensions) and have fun dressing him up in different outfits!

They do a "kogal work in progress" (that he was not comfortable with lmao), a gyaruo, a kogyaruo, and a final kogal with some stockings for comfort <3

After they get him all dressed up, they're too excited to not get dressed and go somewhere too.

They drag him along to go explore the city with them (because what else do you do when you're an all-dressed-up high schooler), and they end up going shopping because Okarun doesn't have a bag with keychains and plushies and plushie keychains! What kind of gal doesn't have accessories!?!?

And that's how the Purikura drawing happens, because they come across a booth at the shopping district :]

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Here are some dandadoodles I forgot to show here

First three are jiji x muko, fourth is buff Momo because… have we seen how durable she is.. and the last on is a idol!au where Momo and Okarun are two different idols from different groups, but there are rumors about them dating. (Not my idea)

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The ships The shippers

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Dandadan Episode 11 Review - Jiji Goes Hehe

In a previous review, I did mention that Momo is the Shounen MC, but female, Okarun is the heroine, but male, and Aira is the rival, but female. The new character Jin Enjoji, or Jiji, joins in the reverse shounen story gender tropes as the fourth angle of the growing love square. Usually in shounen stories, there would be several girls who develop a crush on the MC, ranging from various types. For example, if Momo was male, Okarun would be the shy girl in love with the male MC and Jiji would be the girl that’s the total opposite of the shrinking violet. That’s essentially how Jiji is introduced throughout the episode—the total opposite of Okarun and a possible love interest for her. Don’t worry, though. Momo only has eyes for our male heroine.

Speaking of Jiji, he’s certainly…an interesting character. From a general standpoint, he’d be a divisive character, but for me, I find him hilarious. He’s entertaining, but doesn’t seem to go too overboard. He sort of reminds me of Kei from Oblivion Battery but less obnoxious. While he likes to clown around, Jiji does know when to shut up and not make a joke of everything like how he explained his situation to Momo about how the house he moved into was cursed and caused his parents to be hospitalized and how going to five different spirit mediums caused three of them to end their lives. He’s staying at the Ayase’s because Seiko is a spirit medium and is someone he’s acquainted with. The only downside is that Seiko’s not the one going to exorcise the cursed spirit; that’s Momo’s job. Haha, typical shounen MC mentor laziness.

Jiji probably means well, but he definitely is a source of emotional conflict for Okarun in this episode. Throughout the episode, he starts feeling jealous of Jiji as he’s everything he’s not and the fact that Momo used to have a crush on him back in elementary school. He was worried about whether Momo would want to spend more time with Jiji and not with Okarun because of his good looks and entertaining personality, but also failed to see that Momo doesn’t really care about a guy’s looks and that she was already over him a long time ago. The incident with Taro helps Okarun realize that he’s in love with Momo. I really did like the parallels of how Taro fell for Hana and related it to him. The day Momo stepped in to help Okarun from being bullied was when his gray world became full of color. It feels poetic in a way.

Regarding the animation, I can see why Science Saru was THE studio for Dandadan. The reason is because I don’t think other animation studios can animate Jiji’s movements as fluidly as they can. Jiji is a very bombastic character—he moves around A LOT and is also expressive. You need a studio capable of handling all that movement without missing a beat and is able to handle his expressions too without stock footages. I also loved the moment where they were running after Taro. It was really nice to look at.

Did I mention Dandadan has good voice actors? Because it does! Jiji is voiced by Kaito Ishikawa and he does an AMAZING job with him. Like, I know Ishikawa has a history of voicing comedic characters, but Jiji is practically an amalgamation of all of his comedic voice acting and taking it up a step further because of that experience. Not only that, this is the second time I’ve watched an anime where Kaito Ishikawa and Natsuki Hanae have interactions! The first was where both played the leads of my favorite anime of all-time, The Case Study of Vanitas and the second is Demon Slayer’s third season where Ishikawa voiced one of Hantengu’s clones (the green one) that attacked Tanjiro. In addition, in English, Jiji is voiced by Aleks Le! He’s clearly a rising star in the voice acting world as he’s been getting good roles in both games and in anime! If you’re not familiar with him, he’s the ENG VA of Sung Jinwoo from Solo Leveling! Though, his first major role was the comedic Zenitsu from Demon Slayer, so it does feel as if he’s going back to his roots of being comic relief. I quite like Aleks a lot, so I am a bit biased in my opinion of his acting. Also, Taro is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita and Hana is voiced by Fumi Hirano. They’re both veterans and the casting still amazes me.

Other than that, there are some small details in this episode I liked like Seiko giving Jiji more food every time he compliments her, Muko standing up for Okamomo and Okarun organizing his shoes and placing them in the corner before chasing after Momo and Jiji. These sort of small details really give life to the story and to the characters!

But yeah, that’s it for this review. The Dandadan fandom has been a war zone ever since the beginning of December due to all this art and racial drama that does feel a little too overblown. I won’t get into much about it as YouTubers talk about it more concisely than I can ever possibly do. Since then, it has been a mess, but I did my best to not get too involved in the drama and just ignore it as much as I could. Speaking of which, this is the penultimate episode! It’s crazy how Dandadan is finished next week! It feels like a waste because I want more! I hope that they announce a second season! What are your thoughts on this episode?

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DAN DA DAN · 2024 · S01 E11

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watch dandadan.

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[awakefor48hours]

Miko and Muko can’t stop beating the amazing and wonderful friends allegation and I’m so happy