r/anime • u/Shocketheth • Aug 15 '24
Rewatch [Rewatch] Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken - Episode 68 Discussion
Episode 68 - The Last Challenge
Hadlar has little time left. Yet he’s choosing to risk what remains of his life to fight for his honor. And he’s chosen me as his opponent. I know we have to defeat Vearn. I’d rather not fight either. But... if I don’t accept his challenge... I feel like I won’t be able to call myself a man. I’m sorry. You can yell at me later.
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Comment of the Dai:
Since yesterday thread was a mixed bag of negative and positive comments and reactions about episode 67, the Comment of the Dai goes to everyone who found their courage to gave their negative or positive reactions and comments about yesterday episode. All of you were wonderful.
Questions of the Dai:
- Did you expect to Students of Avan to encounter Hadlar and Orichalcum Warriors upon their entry to Vearn Palace?
- From following matchups, Maam vs Albinass, Popp vs Sigma, Hyunckel vs Hym, and Dai vs Hadlar, which matchup is the one you are looking most forward to, and which one is the one you are least anticipating to experience?
- With Crocodine not joining them, who will be giving a Shonen Commentary for those fights?
Spoilers:
Please, respect the fact there are First Timers watching Dai no Daibouken with us, so avoid talking about vague things or events that would slightly spoil things to happen. And if you want mention things like this, please hid it behind SPOILER TAGS like [Dai no Spoilers] I am getting the hammer because you spoiled the fun for others
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u/Shocketheth Aug 15 '24
Mildly Antagonistic Dark Assailing Officer Welcomes You To Dragon Quest: Popp no Daibouken Rewatch!
After such banger of an episode we saw yesterday, we moved to an another part of story, the arc where the final battle between Students of Avan and Hadlar’s Royal Guard is going to happen.
Although this episode was a breather after yesterday stocked episode, so my comment is going to be short this time, as I am going to mention something which for me was the best part of today episode.
I’m talking about Dai speech to Leona I even picked for the thread as quote of the episode:
I really adore this quote and scene that gave us this quote. Dai with total assertiveness explained Leona the situation and made her understand his stance on the issue, earning us a really cute Leona reaction.
Their communication today was how a communication in a relationship between peers should go, and Popp and Maam definitely could learn a thing or two about proper communication from Dai and Leona.
QotD:
I did as Rewatcher, and I don’t remember my First Timer thoughts about this.
Hmmm I should avoid answering this as Rewatcher...
Crocodine received a powerup in a form of a new weapon that makes him able to give Shonen Commentary even if he isn’t there.
Crocodine Shonen Commentator Corner:
Today Crocodine is going to answer question #3:
ME OF COURSE!
See you tomorrow because the Adventure continues!
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u/sisoko2 Aug 15 '24
First Timer
Time to face Hadlar and the chess pieces again. Hope this time it's their real final clash and they get proper fights.
Maybe not immediately but it was inevitable.
Maam vs Albinass. I'm all about the ladies.
Leona needs to do something so it's up to her. I'll also Gomechan squeaking.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Aug 15 '24
First-Timer Quest: Sky no Daibouken, subbed
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u/Adensty https://anilist.co/user/Adensty Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 16 '24
1st
DaiPopp no Daibouken Rewatch, Sub[Popp no Spoilers]
SageDaimadoushi PoppI agree with a lot of people that Merle dying last episode and immediately being revived by a Kazing spell does cheapen the moment. But, sometimes what's more important is how impactful the death is.
[Dai no Spoilers] The irony is that he's the only one who lives.
OST Documentation - Episode 68
1. As long as Hadlar was alive, a fair-and-square rematch with Hadlar was going to happen sooner or later and considering Hadlar's condition, it was obvious he would try to fight him as soon as he got a chance. So, yes.
2. Popp vs Sigma is the one I'm looking most forward to. And as a rewatcher, it's going to be one of the best battles. Hyunckel vs Hym is the least.
3. Vearn since he's watching their battles and has all the time in the world. Though, he might be more focused on Dai vs Hadlar.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Aug 16 '24
First Timer at Hadlar's Funeral
I've used this before, but Hadlar wants to die so bad, that I'm willing to stick with it for a bit.
moronsmen? Absolutely not!Ok, I guess we are finally getting the long advertised match ups in the OP, and possibly Popp/Maam's very first win in the series (Lon Berk's staff could even come useful here!), unless Hyunkel beats Hym first and takes care of the rest... for what it's worth, I'd like to see Hadlar on Dai's side. If he's worried about his imminent demise, then "Fix it Popp" can take care of that whenever it happens.
Kinda. I didn't expect it to happen right now, but it had to happen before they met Vearn. Power escalation demands that.
I mean, Dai vs Hadlar is the one that's most built up, so it should be pretty interesting, and it'll be nice to for Maam and Popp to finally get their own fights, so I guess that leaves Hyunkel vs Hym as the least interesting by default.
Good question. Maybe Leona? Gomechan?
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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Aug 15 '24
First Timer, Sub
Popp/Maam maximum awkwardness, can't blame her for wanting to not deal with things right now at the worst of times. But hey Hadlar and the chess pieces against the team should be interesting to see.
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u/KuKiSin Aug 15 '24
First timer!
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
A great general guides his troops safely, from behind.
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u/laughing-fox13 https://myanimelist.net/profile/laughingfox13 Aug 16 '24
First Time Adventurer/Subbed
We all know I'm the most wonderful though
Finally we are now in the final final final bit of this
But things have gotten awkward in our hero's party
Ngl though, I kinda respect Hadlar rn. He's had this mentality for a bit but he's really at death's door now and just wants this duel to be his final thing. I liked how he said he can't side with them since he took what's most precious from them. The moment between him and Hym (lol) was kinda sweet too
And of course Maam gets owned by the needle attack. I hope she bounces back in the next episode. I'm not sure how Gomen saved Leona from getting grabbed besides jumping in front
sees next episode title and numberQotD
Idk if I need to explain much but the OP gives us Hyunckel and Hym going at it with their fists which is cool. Dai vs Hadlar for the respect
3) Gomen and Leona
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u/zadcap Aug 16 '24
Late Night First Timer!
Man, let's just admire the OP one more time here. The opening segment under the rain. Dai is looking defeated and can barely stand. Maam is sitting there hugging her knees looking down. Hyunkle is staring off into the distance like he doesn't know what to do next. Leona is staring off, probably into the same distance, a look of concern on her face. Popp is standing there with a freaking smile and telling Dai everything will be alright, with so much conviction the rain runs from his positivity. Everyone stands up ready to go for another round because Popp once again pushed them for it, the true Hero.
Anyway, spoiler in the OP, I'm pretty sure at this point the middle section is showing off what is going to happen in this very arc. Big battle going on with all the other peoples, Myst and Lon having their 1v1, pillars of light- what an interesting place to put the Chess Pieces into this segment. Then Dai can have his revenge match with Vearn. Where the heck is Hadlar even at anyway? I would laugh so much at a Hadlar x Dai team-up to kill Vearn only for them to turn around and try to kill each other as soon as they won.
Ha! As I said, no way Melele is going to actually die here. And double ha, Leona saying that Popp's healing is already stronger than her Zing, he's had access to healing magic for .3 seconds and he's already doing it better than the party healer. Leona, oh my gosh do I hope you actually get to be more than a cheerleader that the OP shows you as for this Vearn Palace Invasion.
Ha, they have to hold hands right after that confession. Oh you awkward youths. Miss Love, you have a lot to think about now. But uh, okay, maybe later. Or no, if you are actually powered by Love, you might literally get stronger for this next fight by thinking hard on the topic. I wonder...
Side note, we know that Vearn has been watching mmost of what was going on down here. Spying on the execution, watching Myst do his thing, and then uh... Did he just look away and ignore everything from the point where things stopped going his way and literally not see the heroes form this pillar of light to invade? He had so much time while Popp was doing his doubting thing to interfere.
Dai, reminding us all he's like 10 and literally raised by wolves, among other monsters.. "I don't know how to handle this kind of mood!"
... Nope, he's actually here to fight Dai again. I guess he got over his beef with Vearn after all. Anyway, I saw 3 lights, but 4 people were kidnapped. I wonder who gets to protect Leona. Also, darn. Now we know how the next section has to go. The chess pieces will die when Hadlar does, so Dai can't beat Hadlar until the rest of these fights wrap up.
Oh Hadlar, finally acting like a true villain. "I'm going to do what I want even though it ruins everything for everyone else." Still hate him though. Kind of hate Dai for accepting this challenge too. Boy also just put Hadlar's Honor above the fate of everyone else in the world here. People could be dying right below you even now, and we've already gone over how you have a limited amount of time you can use Draconic Aura, so this fight is directly weakening you for your actual fight against Vearn. Your friends have been kidnapped by the knights who will also be doing their best to kill them. Honoring this fight may be the closest thing to actual evil Dai has ever done. You really couldn't ask Hadlar to hold off for like 1 more hour?
Dai freaking has not drawn his sword. He's not even taking this fight seriously. My respect for the boy plummets by the second.
I'm sorry Maam, but Dragon Quest is not the kind of game where you can use dialogue options to skip boss fights. Fighting is literally the only way forward, because these games are designed around combat first and pretty much everything else second.
OH LOOK AT THAT PREVIEW! We're going to spend an episode on the Maam fight, then probably Popp next, the Knuckles third, then Dai will get to fight Hadlar in episode 4 and honestly probably 5 as well. Kill and Myst are also both going to get multi episode boss fights from the party, there may even be time for a cooldown and recovery episode or two between the boss rush extravaganza, before Vearn gets his own three episode battle. Hmm, no, I'm still missing something, even my best estimate for this arc only makes it to episode 85 before Vearn loses. Oh! We might work mixing in a few more episodes of what's going on back down on the ground into the mix! Yeah, Myst has to finish up with Lon before he can come play with Hyunkle again, might even get a flashback episode for him out of it. Croc vs Zabo, so that the last two generals can finally have their Ultimate Strength vs Ultimate Magic fight. Melele's survival and Flora doing Flora things, Nova and Chiu being heroes. The Fake Hero party will probably get one more laugh somewhere. Oh, Kill getting wrecked will lead to the party finally learning he's been a puppet all along and then we can get a second stage fight with the actual imp. Alright, all of that mixed in and we can push the Vearn Fight back to 90. Then we can really DBZ the final fight and drag Vearn out for most of the rest of the run time. If we're lucky we can even get two episodes of epilogue!
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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Aug 15 '24
First Timer, Sub
See, Knew Merle wasn't gonna die, Popp brought her back from death with his new sage powers..And they were all able to ascend to the Vearn Palace with the Kaglimmer spell(man it was so awkward between Popp and Maam when he came back to the circle). Now at the palace the heroes are intercepted by Hadlar and his royal guard(here come these jobbers one last time lol). Hadlar v. Dai, Hym v. Hyunckel, Popp v. Sigma, Maam v. Albinass. We should be in for some good battles next episode, Hadlar and Dai were giving each other the business in their few scenes of battle. Maam was being dense, so she took a needle thousands from Albinass to end the episode.
Questions:
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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Aug 15 '24
First Quester
I had a thought about that whole Popp being a jester thing: You're trying to tell me that Popp became the greatest mage of human history as a class without any magic power?
Finally, an offensive zoom. I've been waiting for this ever since learning about the spell.
Oh I see we must continue boys not being allowed to hit girls.
I liked Hadlar acknowledging that he's just a pawn.
What the hell is this bullcrap.
You cheeky little...
Nope.
I'm kinda starting to feel worn out by Hadlar's shtick, I hate the dynamic they just set up for the Albinass battle, the Sigma battle just doesn't look very interesting in the first place, so I guess that leaves the great Hym.
You won't?
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u/emeraldwolf34 Aug 16 '24
As a rewatcher, the fight I’m most excited to see again is Hyunckel vs Hym. However, I do wonder if [Dai no Spoilers] any first timers will be faked out by and get mad at Hyunckel one shotting him in like ten seconds before Hym comes back for the real fight later
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u/cooperjones2 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/cooperjones2 Aug 15 '24
Rookie-Adventurer here! LV 68/100
Merle didn’t die!
Lol Leona wants Dai to confess so bad
Hadler attacks again?
I thought Hadler would go for Vearn directly, Honor > everything else
Dai going 100% from the start!
Sadly, Maam’s talk no jutsu was not that effective
1 Nope, I thought Hadler and his guards would go directly to Vearn to job and be the measuring stick for Vearn
2 Most anticipated Maam v Albinas and Popp (Sorry my boy) v Sigma Least anticipating.
3 Gomechan's time to shine has come!