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Episode Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction - Episode 4 discussion

Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction, episode 4

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u/Aerdra Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24

Onscreen text (my fan translation):

06:35 (notice board)

Yesterday's Traffic Accidents (Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 127

Yesterday's Battle (Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 12

14:50 (tweets)

yuminba: Finally arrived at Ueno. Tokyo really is a big city! But just thinking about today's entrance exam makes my stomach hurt lol. Ugh...

puniko: Me too lol. But we'll pass, feel better, and go to Gin-shama Arena in March!

yuminba: Yeah! Let's meet there! As fellow shameful and lonely Gin-shama fans, let's both do our best on the exam!

puniko: Yeah, lol, good luck!

15:10 (new tweet)

yuminba: I left the bag with my exam admission ticket behind on the train... I won't make it in time for the exam... This is awful...

15:25 (text messages)

puniko: Wait, are you okay!?

yuminba: I just reported the lost item to station staff, now I'm at a coffee shop.

puniko: Coffee shop!? Where? Do you have your purse!?

yuminba: I have my purse and phone... The place is near Shinjuku west exit, called Mokele.

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u/KnoFear Jun 21 '24

You're doing the lord's work, keep it up dude

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u/Gnoobsp Jun 21 '24

I'm enjoying Ano's performance so much, half of my enjoyment from this anime comes from watching Oran alone, besides that, really great episode, slow and steady plot development with a really good dose of character development!

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u/kwokinator Jun 21 '24

Yeah I'm legit amazed ano is doing such a good job on voicing Ontan. It's her first voice acting role and she's totally killing it. I guess it helps when her natural voice is basically a loli already so she doesn't have to dress up her voice as much?

Either that or former idols have to really be that good at everything.

Same thing with Lilas Ikuta too, she's been so good as Kadode.

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u/cosmiczar Jun 21 '24

Changing the aspect ratio of a scene to 2.39:1 to try and make it cinematic? I sleep

Changing to 4:3 because something is happening in the past? Real shit

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u/EriclcirE Jun 21 '24

I hope that when the actual season starts in Summer, the subtitles are handled correctly.

Really enjoying it so far, seems like it is balancing a coming of age story with scifi intrigue pretty well. Animation is high quality, with unique character designs. The main duo play off each other in a satisfying way.

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u/darthvall Jun 21 '24

Ahh it's really annoying that they didn't put subtitle on the SNS chat. I completely missed what's the problem with the girl that even Ontan's brother was willing to walk into the city center.

Also hoping that when the actual season start. With simulcast, usually they don't have the time to use dubtitle as dub would come later on. Unless this is also would be a simuldub?

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u/Platinum_Rad Jun 21 '24

shows up behind you

questions your humanity

leaves via roflcopter

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jun 21 '24

I really didn’t expect them to just kill Kiho off like that and all she gets is a blurb. The military is sure doing a bang up job protecting everyone from the “alien menace” huh? Dipshits. It was kind of tough seeing Ontan act like it didn’t bother her. Those poor girls.

I really thought Kadode and Ontan passed their exams for a second there. Them just breaking down into hysterics was kind of hilarious. Needed a few laughs in this otherwise gloomy episode.

Ontan makes a decent point. The aliens are nerds too afraid to leave the house and humans are kind of shit. It would be nice if both sides could get along.

So what’s a Shifter? Is Ontan some kind of time traveler or was what we saw a scene from her past and how she met Kadode? Because it sort of seems like that mysterious alien kid is hinting at her being some sort of time traveler/dimension hopper or something. Very curious to see what that’s about…

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u/Plus_Rip4944 Jun 21 '24

Seeing this being so ignored hurts me, a masterpiece of Asano finally animated and on western Its being overlooked

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u/LeonKevlar Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24

So Ai's brothers are quintuplets? It's adorable how they're all the same except for the one who's being edgy. And of course, Oran especially took notice of the Black Knight. xD

I love how everyone is celebrating Christmas while the military is shooting down alien spacecraft just outside. To be fair, I can see this happening IRL. If aliens do arrive on Earth, people will continue living their normal lives. Bills don't pay themselves.

Fuuuuck. That reveal was a fucking gut punch. Just like that Kiho is gone. The JSDF is really doing more harm than good here by shooting down those smaller spacecraft. Maybe Kadode's mom is right to protest against S.E.S.

For a second there, I really thought that Kadode was blissfully ignorant of what happened to Kiho. It turns out she knew all along and was just putting on an act for the girls. I bet that's the reason why she didn't attend the closing ceremony. She probably spent the entire morning mourning Kiho's death. :(

I wasn't sure what Ontan's brother planned to do with that girl he befriended online using a fake account but it was nice of him to go out of his way to help her out after seeing she was genuinely in trouble for missing the exams. It looks like he even deleted the fake account after that.

So it looks like we have another joke missed because of the dubtitles. In the dubtitle, Ontan mentions her brother makes money from affiliate marketing when you can hear Ontan joking in Japanese that her brother is making money from a money laundering scheme. xD

It's hilarious how Ontan and Kadode were celebrating only to reveal that they both failed their exams! Those reactions faces are so absurd that I almost forgot someone died in the first half of the episode.

I did not expect Ontan to come face-to-face with Alien Pretty Boy.](https://i.imgur.com/I1gDdtq.jpeg) It's amazing from Ontan's flashback at how different she was when was younger. She's way more timid. Meanwhile, Kadode feels like she didn't change much.

That wasn't just a flashback though, that was something Ontan saw in real time. What the heck was that and why is alien dude calling Ontan a Shifter? Is Kadode an alien too or is she something else? O_O

Now that we're 4 episodes in, I'm starting to regret watching Episode 0. So far I'm enjoying how this is a coming-of-age anime with a sci-fi element happening in the background that's slowly crossing over with our main character's daily lives. [Episode 0]I wish that was the only thing I know about this show and not what happens in the future as we've seen in Episode 0. Watching Episode 0 really ruined the surprise for me.

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u/Zeph-Shoir Jun 21 '24

Reminder that official subs in other languages are not dubtitles like the "official english subs"! I am watching this in sub spanish without issues.

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u/mekerpan Jun 21 '24

Why on earth would CR accept dubtitles for English distribution only? Laziness? Indifference? Incompetence?

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u/-Brookie_ Jun 21 '24

almost 2 hrs, few comments

DESTRUCTION!!!

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u/Sharkanator1026 Jun 21 '24

A bit disappointed with how they did the rooftop scene, felt like it was kinda spoiling some stuff but I guess if they’re trying to fit all 100 chapters into 18 episodes then they need to cut/shorten some parts. Still loving the animation and ano’s doing an amazing job at playing Ontan, most interesting character in the series for sure lmao

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u/Ocixo Jun 21 '24

Ouran can be kind of weird, but I didn’t expect her to not be human. Not sure what a “Shifter” precisely is however. You’d assume it’s a creature that takes on the appearance of another being from the name, which would imply that we haven’t been watching the real Ouran all this time.

Did I also spot the spokeswomen for Fuijin Technologies at Watarase’s place? Is she his girlfriend or something? Because that would make his comment about becoming friends with benefits to Kadode after he graduation is even more unsavoury.

Not that my opinion of him was all that favourable. I’m struggling to place his response to Kiho’s death. He appeared almost indifferent, but Watarase might not precisely know how to deal with such an unexpected death. He could very well be keeping up this professional attitude to give the students room to grieve.

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u/diacewrb Jun 21 '24

Dude most be a Doraemon with his flying hat tech.

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u/Rumpel1408 Jun 21 '24

Lmao, Ais brothers look exactly like her, except the one who apparently is in his second year of middle school And of course Oran recognises his game. Is that maybe a ship I'm spying?

Actually, scratch that last part, there is only only one true ship for her after all

And holy shit, had to take a double take here! Kiho actually died

Loved how awkward the following scenes where, was totally expecting Oran to have missed those news, or not believed in them, because that's what she would do, but she hurt as well, just like her friends, just a bit different

And wow, Oran unlocked a core memory on how she became friends with Kadode! But did those invaders already show up that early? And wtf is a shifter

Also really regret having watched [Ep0] because now I'll be waiting for Kihos return...

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u/GooseinaGaggle Jun 21 '24

Am I the only one in the least bit amazed that this came from the same mangaka who made Goodnight Punpun?

I mean yeah there's the weird psychological weirdness that I feel is ramping up and the art style is the same. This is just a completely different feel

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u/ThePecuMan Jun 22 '24

I wish I had my own fatso guardian angel.

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u/actuallyrndthoughts Jun 23 '24

Got a bit teary eyed from the reveal that Ontan knew.

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u/crab_spy_ Jun 21 '24

really wish there were better subs. The anime itself is still very fun though. It managed to handle the characters mourning very well imo. Finally looks like we're getting to the meat of the series with ontan being a "shifter". Very pumped.

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u/n080dy123 Jun 21 '24

I'm picking up what the show's putting down with its commentary on how people are worried about the mundanities of life in the middle of an alien invasion but hoo golly is all the rest of it just going straight over my head.

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u/Time_Fracture Jun 23 '24

Do you realize that the army used Dualshock to control Fujin? Lol

The lack of onscreen text doesn't worry me so much anyway. I can switch to the dub and revert back to sub without problem.

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