The following review deals with Spoilers of season 2 of Dandadan.
It is not surprising that the disturbed creativity of the successful manga series by Yukinobu Tatsu made the perfect foundation for Slug To become one of the best series of modern anime. Produced by Science Saru (the Japanese studio best known for its work on Devilman Crybaby,, Scott Pilgrim takes offAnd Star Wars: visions), and co-produced by Fuga Yamashiro and Abel Gongora, Slug Honest to its version of chaos calculated throughout its first season to finally deliver its best absolute work to date with Slug Season 2.
Slug Season 2 is defined by a magnificent and subtly experimental artistic direction, an intelligent sound conception, a majestic chameleon of an OST capable of blending into any scene, and a solid solidar voice voice in English and Japanese who have the impression that their voices really belong to the characters themselves: Slug Season 2 has all the broadcasts of one of the best anime of the year. All episodes of Slug Season 2 is perfect, but when considered as a whole, it is easily the realization of the anime of the anime 2025 and a competitor for one of the best anime of all time.
Dandadan season 2 covers some of the best arcs of the manga of Yukinobu Tatsu
Slug The history of season 2 follows Okarun, Momo and their group constantly increasing from the members of the Forte family while they are continuing their search for the Okarun Golden Ball. Picking up directly where the previous season had stopped, Okarun, Momo travels with Jiji in his childhood house in the hope of exciting a curse. This puts them face to face with the evil eye Yokai who lives there, and the dark secrets that release him in this cursed place. Along the way, the demonic possessions Yokai, the mysterive underground creatures and the Kaiju extraterrestrial space are only some of the paranormal monstrosities that break the endless romantic tension of Okarun and Momo.
Slug Season 2 is full of hilarious gags and epic battles, but it should be noted to what extent its more sad moments can be emotionally effective, especially during the arc of the evil eyes. Jiji and Evil Eye in a tragically intertwined background frame Slug Episode 14 can undoubtedly be held alongside the darkest parts of Takopi’s original sin. Likewise, Momo’s struggle to find Okarun at the end of Slug Episode 16 is one of the best achievements of Romance is animating this year.
There are also the most subtle romantic moments. Okarun and Momo’s clumsy car journey in episode 17, for example, perfectly captures the insecurity and uncertainty of adolescent love with beautifully cinematographic images.
In terms of real order of events, Slug Season 2 remains extremely faithful to the manga of Yukinobu Tatsu. It never deviates from the scenario of the source material in a major way. The only light differences are a few pieces of minor dialogue that could simply result from unique translations. However, some particular line changes in English eventually miss the brand on an important dialogue for the English manga fandom. This is in particular the emblematic commentary of Momo to Okarun which was modified in Slug Episode 19, and the famous Kinta introduction lines which were slightly attenuated Slug Episode 22.
Despite these little false steps, the anime does not weaken on something specially important for history or tradition. Although the anime does not deviate from source material, it gets into various places to note. These additions consist mainly in a length added to SlugThe combat scenes, which are almost always welcome, and versions written moments in the slice of life, which can be more affected or missing.
While some of the additional gags of the slices of life land as expected, others feel unnecessary, and even as time waste in the absolute worst. Even so, for the pure and hard fans of Tatsu manga characters, these scenes will probably still feel welcome. They often develop parts of the manga or provide a background context to scenes on which the manga was only briefly underlying.
The kind of Dandadan is great – but not ideal for each anime fan
Slug Suffering some triples throughout his second season in terms of decisions to add or embellish the manga, and with changes in dialogue. However, none of this is a major detriment for the enjoyment of the series. They are more like nuanced details that the average spectator would probably miss. Or Slug Season 2 could actually be lost for some anime fans is in its propensity to slip so comfortably between whole genres.
SlugThe biggest competence, his style of gender narration, could also be his greatest curse for certain viewers. This is more obvious in the central section of Slug Season 2, when the story moves from the high intensity scenario and inspired by the horror of the Malated House to enter the second half of the arc of the evil eyes. This includes a series of episodes mainly of slices of life emphasizing the grass relationship of Okarun and Momo and Jiji’s struggle to live with his new disease. This leads to a lot of comedy and romance, which can lead fans who look more at the disposition of the Shonen battle to pass a little shine.
Always, Slug Season 2 is never found with a particular style for too long, and it is always entertaining, whatever the narrative methodology it goes. These slowdowns are what makes SlugThe characters are so authentic and real, which is a failed quality in many other series of anime Shonen. Although not all episodes are for everyone, it would be difficult to imagine a better versatile adaptation of Slug That what Science Saru has succeeded this season.
Dandadan Season 2 presents innovative sound landscapes in history
Slug The story and the visuals of season 2 were always impressive, but a particular accent must be put on its sound. SlugMusic, composed by Kensuke Ushio of Chainsaw Famous, has a range that is as sander as Slug himself. The soundtrack of season 2 moves between bouncing electronic rhythms and silly life scenes, hard-rock mashups during action, and finally sincere ballads during emotional scenes.
Perhaps the most interesting is the way Ushio uses audible iconography to symbolize certain characters, such as a scary bell sound that plays each time Evil Eye appears, or a deep buzz which captures the worm of Mongolian death. It is particularly fun when the soundtrack implements references to the bad guys or fights directly. Examples of this are the classic soundtrack which is questioned by Hard Rock during the fight of Aira and Aira with the portraits of the music room, or the clear reference of Godzilla during the group’s fight with Space Kaiju follows Vamola.
In this sense, the sound conception outside of real music was a surprising star of Slug Season 2. The interesting games on Evil Eye’s ball attack or the signing capacities of the music room gave life to these characters in a way that most fans would never have imagined having just read the manga.
Another key way Slug Season 2 gives life to the characters thanks to its distribution of English voice, which deserves all their flowers for this season. Bryce Papenbrook turned out to be the perfect choice for Kinta, capturing his wacky Otaku personality at a T-shirt. Aleks also made it his own this season, making the change between the silly personality of Jiji and the insatiable appetite for the violence of Jiji effortlessly. AJ beckles to everything except become Okarun at this stage, and it will be impossible for fans to read the manga in the future without now hearing the anxious grater of Abby Trott as Momo at the back of the head.
Dandadan makes a major game for the favorite anime of fans of the year
Throughout the summer of the summer of 2025, Slug gave the public some of the most sincere scenes of the anime medium, its media threw fights, and its most hilarious moments with season 2. While everyone has different tastes in anime, Slug is one of the most complete shonen series ever written, which makes it incredibly easy to recommend to any anime fan. While the fans have made a clue SlugThe unpredictable style of narration with season 1, season 2 solidified the consistency of its quality. He also doubled the fact that Science Saru was the perfect studio to adapt this series.
Slug Season 2 has officially proven the adaptation of the Saru science of the manga of Yukinobu Tatsu as one of the best animated series of recent memory, perhaps even of all time. While the end of the shocking cliffhanger of season 2 is a difficult way to end things, fans should not have long wait because Slug Season 3 has already been confirmed in development. Slug Season 2 solidified the heritage of the anime as a series that is always surprising; All that remains for future seasons now is to secure the distance on this list of goats Slug Lands.
Dandadan season 2 is now in difficulty in its entirety on Crunchyroll, Netflix and Hulu.
- Release date
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2024-2025-00-00
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Natsuki Hanae
Ken Okarun Takakura
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Shion Wakayama
Momo Ayase
- Beautiful action and fight choreography
- Impressive art direction
- Soundtrack and sound design
- Solid voice of voice
- Translations of questionable English dialogue
- Slower slice of life episodes