Dan Da Dan review (Eps 1-3): Jaw-dropping surprise that packs an entertaining punch of genre-blended fun

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Irrespective of your favourite anime genre, Dan Da Dan earns praise as a jack of all entertainment trades, with something for everybody..

Although some of the stock tropes - stuck to shounen anime for years - minimally drag the series down, its double protagonist arc reminds you that if either one of them was pulled out of the equation, the impact's palpability would instantly fall short of the wild, awe-inspiring antics unfolding on your screen.. Dan Da Dan anime is now streaming on Crunchyroll..

Dan Da Dan official synopsis: When high schooler Momo, from a family of spirit mediums, first meets her classmate Okarun, an occult geek, they argueMomo believes in ghosts but denies aliens, and Okarun believes in aliens but denies ghosts..

The commonly accepted romantic roots are sowed right away, as the shounen anime format again drags its viewers back to the olden notion that only one kind of relationship can exist between a boy and girl always devoid of platonic love..

An unpleasant way the show drags itself down in another rare move is by positioning the typical anime gaze at the female body, which can be a bit disturbing, especially if you are hopping back on the anime train for the first time in a long while..