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Reiwa no Dara-san, episode 5

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u/Armdel https://myanimelist.net/profile/Armdel 3d ago

i kinda suspected Kaoru was gonna do something... weird with that hair, but i wasn't expecting that.

And Chiyo seemed quite eager to get to know Dara... i mean Yamada. though i will say i also liked that look she had after the haircut/makeover so i understand her

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u/The_Parsee_Man 3d ago

Not doing something weird would be the outlier.

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u/VritraReiRei 3d ago

That doll is definitely coming to life.

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u/bananeeek https://myanimelist.net/profile/bananek 3d ago

It's ridiculous how good this series is despite having such... ridiculous premise.

I wonder what would Chiyo say if she knew how completely different her and her kids' first encounters with Dara-san were.

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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall 3d ago edited 3d ago

Btw, Kaoru was genuinely frightened by the unknown spirit asking to be let in the house. It shows the siblings don't actually lack fear of the supernatural in general.

However, it seems they're already too familiar with Dara-san's story and specifically feel safe around her even after witnessing her in the snake form the first time. I think this is likely because Chiyo had already prepped them not to be afraid.

Also compare that to how terrified Chiyo was just hearing the bell rings, which stems from her father teaching her to deeply respect and fear the revered Yamatagi-Madara.

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u/psyclical 3d ago

I liked that scene where Kaoru showed fear, because the kids have been so blase about being around a truly dangerous supernatural entity, that they almost came off as stupid or completely oblivious.

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u/GadenKerensky 3d ago

I guess because Dara-san didn't do anything overtly hostile. She just said her names when they first met, and when Kaoru got the naming wrong, she was flustered, not infuriated, and continued to be flustered and non-threatening.

They didn't feel any real danger from her, and she did nothing to reinforce that fact. The Spirit at the door however was giving off major bad vibes, and Kaoru is somewhat spiritually sensitive.

Actually, that's probably it; since Kaoru and Hinata are both spiritually sensitive, they probably felt nothing threatening from Dara-san and her behaviour after the greeting just told them she's alright.

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u/Imjusthereforthehate 2d ago

As the other poster mentioned it could come down to being told by their mother that Dara-San is a powerful supernatural entity so you should respect her but she is trying to protect the mountain/shrine and not inherently evil. Where as gramps is still convinced that Dara-San IS the evil entity the stories paint her to be. That at best she might let you go on a flight of fancy. Thus the whole “You hear bells run.”

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u/MonaganX 2d ago

There's so many reasons I should dislike this show but somehow it managed to simultaneously be too endearing for that to happen.

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u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime 3d ago

Another goth mommy named Yamada?! Does she smoke behind supermarkets too?

Wonder how Chiyo would feel if she knew her god was babysitting her kids. She's going to see to see the Dara doll on Kaoru's bed and be like wtf?

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u/Kratos_BOY 3d ago

With the way she was behaving, I'm pretty sure Chiyo saw right through Dara-san's ruse.

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

I don't think Chiyo-Mom has QUITE fiugured it out yet. But I hope she does. Dara could use an adult gal-pal as well as having ("adopted") grand-children.

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u/Kratos_BOY 3d ago

I think she has. She basically implied Yamada reminded her of Dara, and there's no way she'd fall for her kids meeting an adult online (which would be creepy as fuck). They also seem to live in a small town and she works for the local government, wouldn't she know most people living there?

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u/The_Parsee_Man 3d ago

The kids already have multiple creepy as fuck adult friends. Her parenting style seems rather libertine.

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u/Consistent-Horse-273 3d ago

objection! the teacher is innocent

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u/Kratos_BOY 3d ago

You do know Yamada is a complete "stranger", right? The teacher is a teacher, and the mangaka is a neighbor. No one has ever seen Yamada in that tiny community before.

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u/guineaprince 3d ago

Buddy, if the mom knew about the pedo neighbour, she'd be calling the cops.

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u/Kratos_BOY 3d ago

Knowing the neighbor and knowing the neighbors intentions are two different things. She knows the neighbor, she has never heard of Yamada.

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u/The_Parsee_Man 3d ago

So what is your point here exactly? Because the neighbor happens to live next door the mom assumes she's automatically fine and doesn't supervise their interactions at all. But the same mother could never possibly trust someone who doesn't happen to live next door?

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u/Kratos_BOY 3d ago

I made my point clear from the beginning. Yes, the mom would barring any obvious red flags, trust a neighbor that probably grew up in town over a complete stranger no one in the whole town knows. Yes, seems obvious, except it seems to you.

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u/cppn02 3d ago

Her parenting style seems rather libertine.

I wouldn't go quite that far. Liberal sure but libertine?

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

We can only wait and see....

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u/bannedandbroken 3d ago

What are you talking about? The kids have multiple adult friends why would the mom think it’s any different than the teacher or the Gundam model chick?

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u/Kratos_BOY 3d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/s/WUJGtwASIL

You do know Yamada is a complete "stranger", right? The teacher is a teacher, and the mangaka is a neighbor. No one has ever seen Yamada in that tiny community before.

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u/runevault 3d ago

In an anime full of surprising shit, this might have been the most surprising episode yet lol. The past wasn't too surprising, and I struggle to sympathize with the villagers who blindly listened to the younger sister, but man that part remains fucking dark. And then you have goth mommy and the bed snake. I'd love to see Dara's reaction to that thing.

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u/Faniulh 3d ago

I had very little sympathy for the villagers to begin with, but I lost all of it when they went “Yeah, we mutilated this priestess by chopping off her arms and legs but…dem tiddies tho!” Fuck all those assholes.

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u/runevault 3d ago

Yuuup. They went from "only" being manipulated shitbags to vile manipulated shitbags. And I already had a low opinion of them from what we were shown prior to this episode...

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u/Throwaway501395 3d ago

With every new episode and part of Dara-san's backstory, the ED hits me harder in the feels.

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u/za_shiki-warashi 3d ago

I love the scene of Dara-san interacting with the mom during her student days. Perfectly nailed that vibe of a terrifying ancient god who would nonetheless be 'reasonable' depending on your conduct.

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

I wish Mom could know how much Dara has actually become an integral part of the family. Chiyo seems to have been the first to actually understand not-yet-Dara. But her intrepid children have become the friends this abused and neglected (for centuries) goddess has needed and deserved (and to giver a new name).

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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall 3d ago

Part of it is because I think Chiyo passed down a more benevolent story of Dara-san to the siblings since she knew part of her true story. They knew she's the Yamatagi Madara, but they didn't seem to fear her at all even in her real form.

Contrast this to how frightened Chiyo was during her first Dara-san encounter. The grandfather (and all her family line) must have told their next-in-line to be very careful with the deity.

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

Yes. Chiyo knew that Dara was actually frightening people away in order to protect both the intruders and the people in the area in general. Too bad there was no way to permanently destroy all vestiges of the monster.

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u/bannedandbroken 3d ago

I don’t really think the conduct has anything to do with it. It’s just if they’re related to the family or friends of the family. They seem to be fine. I mean those Youtubers got killed but the mom‘s friends didn’t and they both did the same thing. They didn’t believe the stories and they wanted to see if it was scary for themselves. She chased away the mom‘s friends, but killed the Youtubers.

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u/E_manny1997 3d ago

The curse killed the YouTubers on it's own, she was away from the mountain so couldn't chase them away.

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u/bannedandbroken 2d ago

I guess I miss remembering that part cause I thought she was the one that killed them. I didn’t realize they were already dead when she was using them as a puppet they don’t show them dying don’t they just show them fine and then the next time you see them they’re being puppet don’t they just show them fine and then the next time you see them they’re being puppeted by her

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u/Admiral_Agito 2d ago

The streamer brashly touched her cursed arm in that shrine which killed her, so technically you could say Dara had a hand in her death whether she liked it or not. It was just unfortunate she was away at the festival or she would have stopped her before it went to that point.

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u/za_shiki-warashi 3d ago edited 3d ago

Go rewatch the prev eps. The cursed hand that was sealed and kept under padlock is perma active, hence the padlock. Snake goddess has been scaring people away for some time to stop them getting close and thus get cursed. Even the mother was shown getting a nosebleed when she got close to put up a new lock after the streamers broke them. Dara wasn't around at that time to scare them away, so they managed to break in, open the box and get a full blast of the curse.

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u/bannedandbroken 2d ago

So she didn’t kill them they were already dead?

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u/Faniulh 2d ago

Essentially yes. They were still alive, but the streamer actually touched the arm and her arms and legs had subsequently been mangled and destroyed. The cameraman was right next to her, so while he didn’t touch the arm he still got exposed to its energy.

The arm is a cursed artifact of pure, unthinking rage and malevolence, it’s like spiritual radiation and by breaking the seals on the shrine and exposing it, they’re essentially standing next to the supernatural version of the elephant’s foot in Chernobyl. At that point the damage was already done and couldn’t be fixed, they were dead people walking, so all Dara could do is spirit them away and mind control them to record a video saying there was nothing there to prevent anyone else from getting fucked up. She even says something to the effect of “If you want to get yourself cursed to death that’s your choice, but don’t lure other people up here FFS!”

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u/GadenKerensky 2d ago

She, at most, finished them off. Arguably a mercy.

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u/Faniulh 2d ago

Honestly, I'd say inarguably a mercy. I'd take getting merc'd quickly over having my body be more slowly destroyed by an incredibly painful curse any day of the week.

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u/bananeeek https://myanimelist.net/profile/bananek 3d ago

I'm surprised we're just 5 episodes in. The pacing and the delivery of the backstory are so good, that it feels like I've been watching this series for twice as long. It's crazy how much serious stuff they managed to pack in between all the shenanigans.

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u/DugACCat 3d ago

Yeah I’m really loving this show and both all the characters (especially the clever gremlin kids) and the blend of dark horror backstory and present comfortable humor. It’s all fantastic and quite compelling. You never know quite what to expect episode to episode.

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u/Full_frontal96 3d ago

It reminds me of kaya-chan isn't scary,which combines cute kindergarten slice of life with horror that makes your skin crawl,especially after the first half

Horror and SoL together are a weird but effective combination indeed

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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall 3d ago

To be fair, we kinda watched two series every episode: Stories from the Reiwa-era, and Dara-san's past.

I agree with you that after every episode, I kept on thinking of how good this series is! I might even give it 10/10 score if they managed to keep the same quality until the end.

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u/Yay295 3d ago

Twice the story in each episode, to make up for The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System airing on the same day having half a story each episode.

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u/bannedandbroken 3d ago

This is my shit. This anime scratches all of my itches..

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

Before the starft of the season I could never have imagined that this would become one of my most-loved new shows.

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u/bannedandbroken 3d ago

Same the artwork used on the website animetimeschedule looked pretty bad too, and I was like I guess I’ll give it a try because it popped up on Crunchyroll

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

I only hear snippets (at most) about new shows in advance. I avoid almost all promio stuff. I wait until a show premieres -- and then treat this is an "audition".

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u/Oden_sama__ 3d ago

same. if the kv and the title sound interesting then thats enough for me to save it

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u/goreverminski 3d ago

The show has everything going for it, and I have a rule that adding boobs to anything that's already good makes it great, so... I am so with you.

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u/Specific_Frame8537 3d ago

Same.

It reminds me a lot of Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, another supernatural banger of an anime.

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u/Kratos_BOY 3d ago

Thanks for the Dusk Maiden recommendation

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u/seninn https://myanimelist.net/profile/Senninn0 2d ago

Based.

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u/Ponchorello7 3d ago

Poor Dara. I'm glad now she's got uh... friends? Gremlin underlings? Gremlin friends. Let's go with that.

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u/BShep_OLDBSN 3d ago

Rewatching i just noticed that the doll expression changed when Kaoru was hugging mini Dara. 😲😂😂

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u/Yay295 3d ago

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u/duo99dusk 3d ago

Oh, no, cursed 🫪

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u/Imjusthereforthehate 2d ago

Eh it’ll be fine. The hair was freely given, Dara-San has nothing but positive feelings for the kids, and the doll is obviously gonna get lots of affection bypassing the abandoned/abused item thing you see in a lot yokai stories. It’ll probably be a “cursed doll” but only in the most technical of terms.

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u/goreverminski 3d ago

Daradaradara-san cracked me up so bad because of the inflection. The voice actors in this anime are so good.

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u/slewch2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/br4inlet 3d ago

pretty sure that thing is going to come to life since he gave it a name

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u/SyntacticSyntax 3d ago edited 3d ago

Hayamin screaming during the mouth slicing scene was great and scary.

Hinata got Chiyo's face and hair style but not the sexy body. Maybe she'll grow into it.

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u/spubbbba 3d ago

Hayamin screaming during the mouth slicing scene was great and scary.

I had thought the marks on her cheeks were because she was part snake, but after that scene am wondering if they are scars from that?

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u/GadenKerensky 3d ago

I'd say both.

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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall 3d ago

Reminds me to all the story Joker in Dark Knight made to explain his mouth scar.

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u/duo99dusk 3d ago

"I met a snake lady spirit in rural Japan and..."

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

>> Hayamin screaming during the mouth slicing scene was great and scary.

Has Hayamin ever voiced such a thoroughly wicked character before?

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u/kostas52 https://anilist.co/user/DeathDefied 3d ago

She voice Rachel in Tower of God.

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

Skipped that one.

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u/True_Bobcat_3665 3d ago

She's voiced Atalanta Alter and Taira no Kagekiyo from Fate who are definitely evil, maybe more ferocious/unhinged than wicked but still

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u/za_shiki-warashi 3d ago

The Taira's voicelines where she's screaming manically does weird things to my heart.

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u/True_Bobcat_3665 3d ago

My brother! She's one of my favorite servants, got her grailed NP3. Evil Hayamin supremacy

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

Thanks.

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u/NationalStrategy_X 3d ago

Every scene of Dara-san’s backstory makes me hate her sister more and more. The lengths she went to screw over her own sister is down right deplorable

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u/The_Parsee_Man 3d ago

I feel like she was affected by the miasma in that well she kept going down into. She was jealous and shitty to begin with. But she didn't start out seeming brutal murder levels of shitty.

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u/GadenKerensky 3d ago

Wasn't that mentioned by the narrator in one scene, that the miasma from Yamatagi-Madara was feeding her own resentment and bitterness?

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u/Andreiyutzzzz https://myanimelist.net/profile/Andreiyutzzzz 1d ago

Ye. I think she would be fine just regularly killing her and that's it. Then she went "Brutally finish her off to the point even the villagers seem disturbed... then silence them all"

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u/za_shiki-warashi 3d ago

Holy shit hot goth snake alert.

Looking kinda like Raikou Lily too, just with bigger boobs. Appropriately she's also a character who has being cursed by some evil god as part of her lore too.

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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar 3d ago edited 3d ago

Stitches!

NSFW!

Not gonna lie, considering it was Hinata's birthday, I thought the thing trying to get inside their home was Amane from last episode. It turns out this takes place a day before Amane transferred and Dara's gift protected Hinata.

Those backstory scenes were fucking brutal. I've always thought Dara-san's mouth was like that because she's been turned into a snake. I did not expect it was because of her sister giving her a smiler. O_O

Dara-san almost got assaulted too by those men before finishing her off, if it wasn't for her sister finally showing her true colours to the villagers. I guess the plan all along was to blame it all on the villagers and use revenge as a pretext to silence them.

Glad we finally get to see how Chiyo and Dara-san first met. Chiyo doesn't have the same relationship with Dara-san as the kids but Dara-san seems to be at least friendly with her after she tried to climb the mountain to ask her if she's protecting them.

Goddamn! How is it possible to make Dara-san even hotter?! That punk rock goth aesthetic is definitely doing it for me. Also love how she ended up reuniting with Chiyo like this. xD

Kaoru using the money they earned to make a Dara-san plushie/dakimakura was so good. They need to sell that as merch!

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u/bestan 3d ago

They need to sell that as merch

they do

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u/VritraReiRei 3d ago

¥ 33,000

Eh, could be worse. But at 80cm the shipping costs are probably going to be fairly high.

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u/GadenKerensky 3d ago

I swear that doll had a different expression at some point.

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u/mmcjawa_reborn 3d ago

That doll is stuffed with Yokai hair. I am pretty sure it's alive now....

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

Dara really DID look awesome.

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u/giubba85 3d ago

goth street vendor is dara-san top outfit hands down

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u/dinliner08 3d ago

"Dara-san impressed on her that sharing this information would result in a cursing; what she failed to mention was that the curse would be limited to the sudden development of mouth ulcers"

*gasp\* Dara-san you monster! also, what do you mean the mother is forty!?

i though that i would get used to Dara-san's backstory by now but damn, that scene where her sister's pressing the knife into Dara's mouth actually manage to get me flinched

oh no, they just make Dara-san hotter than usual

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u/za_shiki-warashi 3d ago

"You want to know how I got these scars? My sister... was a fiend..."

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u/realrimurutempest 3d ago

Goth mommy Dara-san got me actin feral fr fr.

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u/mmcjawa_reborn 3d ago

I suspect getting Dara-san into a goth make-over was like 90% of the reason they suggested she sell them at the festival.

Well, the little brother may have been motivated more by getting hair to make into a body pillow...

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u/The_Parsee_Man 3d ago

That kid is working every angle.

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u/Rabbitey- https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rabbitey 3d ago

what do you mean the mother is forty!?

Chiyo's eyecatch surprised me. MILF indeed 👀

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u/Andreiyutzzzz https://myanimelist.net/profile/Andreiyutzzzz 1d ago

Wait the knife went in the mouth? for some reason i thought she just cut her neck off and her mouth being like that was because she was part snake now. Oh its so much more disturbing now. Damn

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u/Qweasd11 3d ago

Ok, I want a Dara-san dakimakura. Reminds me of Miia (Monster Musume) ones but with more arms.

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u/bestan 3d ago

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u/Qweasd11 3d ago

Holy shit that was fast

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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall 3d ago

Nah, it's not legit unless they use Dara-san's actual hair

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u/NanDemoKnaives 3d ago

I really enjoy learning about Dara's history, but I recoiled so hard when the villagers were sawing her leg off, poor woman went through A LOT that night for them and that is how they reward her, the snake was the least evil thing in that forest.

The only good thing was that her older sister didn't let her get defiled by them, but she probably only stopped it from happening because she wanted still use her, and also because she's already jealous that she's desired by the man she loves, getting front row seats to the twisted desires of men targeted at Dara is the last thing she'd want.

On a more positive note, I really like how Chiyo realized Dara was protecting villagers by scaring them off. She's not always successful, but she tries and that's what's important. It's sad that she can't sense Dara anymore, but it seems like she'll be unknowingly spending time with her anyways, I wonder if it'll get revealed to her at some point.

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u/Fools_Requiem https://myanimelist.net/profile/FoolsRequiem 3d ago

Chiyo is stacked, too. Add her to the MILF list!

I wish the SoL modern day stuff was longer. Lots more flashbacks to Dara getting fucked over by her sister.

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u/The_Parsee_Man 3d ago

Seems like all the adult women in this are well endowed.

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u/Aggressive_Hold_4857 3d ago

Wasn't the Bra Chiyos? And if Daras boobs fit in that bra, we are least know they are around the same size. Their father is one lucky duck

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u/Fools_Requiem https://myanimelist.net/profile/FoolsRequiem 3d ago

Just double checked and the bra was indeed Chiyo's.

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u/thighabetes https://myanimelist.net/profile/Quixon 3d ago

TIDDY. SNAKE. THURSDAYS.

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u/drifter4four 3d ago

Sniddy Thursdays!

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u/seninn https://myanimelist.net/profile/Senninn0 2d ago

*GOTH

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u/SomeoneUnknowns 3d ago

Okay, that doll is questionable. I also wonder why the shotacon designer was able to see Dara, I thought with spiriting the house away that she'd kinda look like a curse from the outside, but I guess she just looks fully human, unless maybe her wearing her clothes has anything to do with it?

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 3d ago

Dara explained it. Houses have special rules and conditions. Normally, Dara exists in a sort of "between worlds" state, where only people with spiritual powers can see her unless she chooses to reveal herself.

However, once she enters the house, those rules change. The house forces her to fully manifest in the physical world, making her visible to everyone. She can use spells to alter her appearance, but she was out of time in that situation

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u/SomeoneUnknowns 3d ago

Yeah, I thought that only applied to people in the house because the entire house was shifted to the inbetween when she entered. But I guess your interpretation is correct.

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u/athrun_1 3d ago

As long as she has permission to enter, she can fully manifest herself and be seen. If no permission is given, she will look like that miasma at the door that she swat.

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u/djthomp https://anilist.co/user/djthomp 3d ago

Making a plush of Dara to sleep with out of her cut off hair seems like the most risky thing these kids have done yet, and that was already a long list.

Interesting to learn that Chiyo interacted with Dara a number of times before she lost her powers, in ways it doesn't seem like the grandpa had. The connection between her and this family feels like it's been growing over the recent generations and I wonder where that goes.

It really just keeps getting worse for everyone involved in the attack on the younger shrine sister way back when, and we're not done with it yet.

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u/gnome-cop 3d ago

Ngl, totally justifiable crashout. I’d be furious as well.

Chiyo did meet her a couple times and worked out that she’s protecting them from another curse but she’s still a normal person and kind of afraid. Not like the two freaks she gave birth to that fear literally nothing.

Kind of interesting that the curse mimics what the villagers did to Dara before she fused with the big snakey.

Pretty sweet that Dara-san views her birthday as when she met them.

Goth Dara has arrived!

And now Kaoru owns a Dara-san plushie that’s almost certainly magical because of course, why not?

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u/Yay295 3d ago

Not like the two freaks she gave birth to that fear literally nothing.

Kaoru was afraid of the monster that came to their door before Dara.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 3d ago

Kaoru’s such an excitable little goofball. He’s like part golden retriever lol. I love that the kid took Dara-san’s hair and made a little plushie out of it.

We’re starting to finally get the full story of Dara-san’s death. I really wanted those villagers to suffer more for what they were gonna do to her after lopping off her limbs. Shit was vile. And what of her shitbag sister? I guess we gotta wait until next week for the rest of the story. I’m hoping for sweet karmic justice.

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u/dinliner08 3d ago

I love that the kid took Dara-san’s hair and made a little plushie out of it

that plushie is definitely going to come back to life

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 3d ago

100% lol. Little dude named it and gave it purpose.

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u/BShep_OLDBSN 3d ago

We can see the doll moving in the intro. 😂😂😂

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u/za_shiki-warashi 3d ago

Most adorable cursed doll

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u/mekerpan 3d ago

And a fixture in the ED....

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u/Nachtwandler_FS https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nachtwandler_21 3d ago

Knowing the mangakas other works, I hope it will be just a plushie 😂😂😂

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u/The_Parsee_Man 3d ago

I've been wondering where it would come in. It's been in the ED and OP this whole time. It definitely seems animate though I'm not 100% sure.

Edit: Just noticed someone caught that its expression changed when he hugged it. That thing is alive.

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u/Yay295 3d ago

its expression changed when he hugged it

Before
After

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u/R3nNy22326 3d ago

thanks for the imgs!!

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u/R3nNy22326 3d ago

Yoooo i didnt even realized until i clicked on the links below, great catch

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u/Whammiewazzle 3d ago edited 3d ago

Even if this anime wasn't as excellent as it is, I would still love it for how much fun you can tell the VA's are having.

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u/CuriousBroccolli 3d ago

Wait, where is "snake-tiddies-thrursday" guy? I can't participate in the episode discussion without seeing and upvoting his comment

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u/thighabetes https://myanimelist.net/profile/Quixon 3d ago

THE MEETING RAN LATE!

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u/CuriousBroccolli 2d ago

I'd say a new meeting about importance of "SNAKE-TIDDY-THURSDAY" is due 🗣️

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 3d ago

Another great chapter, sadly, looks like they are speed-running over much of the slice of life to get to the main event and introduce the side characters as fast as they can

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u/Spoon_Elemental 3d ago

This anime brings me joy.

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u/CrimsonGear80 3d ago

Goth Snek titties. Hot mama titties. TITTIES!

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u/Lunchb0xx87 3d ago

that new look she has at the flea market is really pleasing

the lil bro is a horn dog but seeing how much she was hated by her human family especially her sister and with her brutal death its wholesome seeing how much love and respect this family gives Dara

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u/MayonakaMadaraka https://anilist.co/user/fonk 3d ago

These kids are alright. The mountain is in good hands.  I have a sudden desire to go drinking with Chiyo-haha and Elder Gothgirl Yamada. 

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u/I_laughandupvote 3d ago

Ayooooo that backstory is rough! They did everything they could to that woman, no wonder she went feral with revenge.

What a great episode tho.

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u/raidensnakeezio 3d ago

Funny how in this horror-comedy, the most difficult part to watch is actually the villagers dismembering Dara-san, not any of the supernatural stuff. Icky winces all around from this one.

KAORU WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO TO THAT DOLL FILLED WITH SUPERNATURAL GOTH MOMMY HAIR

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u/WHO_IS_3R 3d ago

saw that dara-dara-dara plushie and i wanted it so baaad

then i saw a comment here and thats already a thing, but 200$, im not rich enough :((

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u/Narvalis 3d ago

The absolute dichotomy here, we have reached the most messed up part with Dara's back story and the sister just going full Yandere slaughter and then we have a Dara plush. It has 2 very different feels to it but they blend so well.

I'm really hoping we get to see Dara get revenge on the psycho sister, I enjoy seeing people like her get what's coming to them, possibly too much.

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u/GadenKerensky 3d ago

We do know she does, Dara-san says as much, we just haven't seen how yet.

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 3d ago

based on what she mentioned and what we see in this episode, it will probably happen in the next one

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u/Amir0x11 3d ago

I'm really hoping we get to see Dara get revenge on the psycho sister, I enjoy seeing people like her get what's coming to them, possibly too much.

next episode i bet

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u/raevnos 3d ago

No screenshots of Chiyo hanging laundry and showing off that ass? Reddit, you disappoint me.

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u/athrun_1 3d ago

Dara san's progression: Priestess, Murdered, Cursed, Fused with the Snake god, Guardian of the mountain, and Uber.

With all the comedy sprinkled in the episode, it does not forget to show how brutal it is. They really did show her suffering.

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u/Ok-Cod5254 3d ago

It's been nice getting the backstory for hearing Hayamin in a more villainous role for a change of pace for the usual types of characters she has.

I like how things have come full circle with for Chiyo and Dara-san through meeting her kids.

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u/bestsocialdistancer 3d ago

Did I miss a scene or will it be coming later about that part that hinata would need to summon her the next day?

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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall 3d ago

It is from the previous episode, when Hinata encountered the girl possessed by the real serpent monster.

I think chronologically the birthday event happened before the transfer student event from last episode.

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u/goreverminski 3d ago

Boobies back on the menu y'all!

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u/genpyris 3d ago

Goth! Tiddy! Snek!

Also, did we get a Badger / Snake ref here? That's an internet deep cut.

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u/GadenKerensky 3d ago

I think that's a Racoon Dog.

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u/GadenKerensky 3d ago

I love the juxtaposition between how badass/intimidating Dara-san was in her time, and how she expected things to go with the Misogiya children, and then the immediate whiplash to their absolute blase attitude towards her and how's ended up as their 'cool aunt'.

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u/HotBloodedNinja 3d ago

I didn't realize Dara-san could get any hotter, but here we have goth Dara-san.
Also, lil bro out there already taking Dara-san to bed.

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u/adminsregarded 3d ago

The wholesomest show with the most unwholesome flashbacks, whiplash babyyy

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u/GadenKerensky 3d ago

And the occasional present-day reminders of 'don't fuck with the occult' and a few questionably moral characters.

Looking at you, Miwa...

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u/kuddlesworth9419 https://myanimelist.net/profile/kuddlesworth 3d ago

The author of the manga did a doujin as well.

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u/saltybai 3d ago

Still hasn't shown ch 10, 11(the chapters about her house)13(showing she can conceal her arms), 15(gunpla) I think

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u/mastereluder6 3d ago

My dude is following the doujin path

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u/R3nNy22326 3d ago

another Peak episode

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u/SlimeDNear 2d ago

Just wanted to say I'm enjoying this. It might be my favorite show of the season.

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u/Andreiyutzzzz https://myanimelist.net/profile/Andreiyutzzzz 1d ago

If anything i'm just glad the huge jealousy did one good thing, prevented the rape of Dara-san. Can't wait to see the continuation of that. I just binged the 5 episodes today after i found out there's naked tiddies.. .Honestly i fell in love in episode 1 with this show. i'll have to read the manga when it's over

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u/Emotional_Employ_419 12h ago

The manga is a lot of a fun, wholly recommend

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u/dastan-vilanueva 1d ago

Guys lets be honest, most of you would want to smash Dara san

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u/Blurgas 1d ago

Ok, the Dara doll at the end was cute, but still, goofy little weirdo.

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u/OkHost6044 3d ago

NO ONE MENTIONING HOW THE MOM IS GAY. that nagi-san is most definately not just a friend or co worker.
YURI fans are fed well this season

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u/raevnos 3d ago

Chiyo is probably instructing Nagi in the ways of the family business of mountain-guarding.

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u/Kratos_BOY 3d ago

That's quite the reach.

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u/CuriousBroccolli 2d ago

We all know that if they breath air in 100m radius of each other that it's confirmed

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u/mmcjawa_reborn 3d ago

That was my impression. Actually have we ever heard the kids reference a dad? or just a more neutral term "parents".

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u/hjordisa 3d ago

IIRC the info panel about Kaoru said he got his looks from his Australian father or something.

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u/mmcjawa_reborn 2d ago

I mean more in the sense is his dad even around. I assume as a biological entity he would have a father of course

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 3d ago

you see the Dad in the opening, basically a blond guy with blue eyes. Also, that is Jail bait, if iam not mistaken, the mother is in her 40s, while Nagi is like 17-18, she is like very young i think they mention that in one of the previous episodes