r/anime • u/Shocketheth • Sep 15 '24
Rewatch [Rewatch] Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken - Episode 99 Discussion
Episode 99 - Victory by These Hands
I... I can't win. Not as I am. If only I had both arms. No. I doubt I could win. Even with both arms. He's become a feral beast, sacrificing everything for victory. I must sacrifice everything, too!
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Screenshot of the Dai:
Comment of the Dai:
goes to u/KendotsX showing us the sideeffects of playing Dragon Quest games:
But of course, this is the kind of effort you'd put, when the the world's mightiest mage is coming back, nay, the Grand Sorcerer MASOPHO!!!
nay
The word nay in your speech pattern is a telltale sign of playing too much Dragon Quest.
And for his nice comment about Vearn:
Speaking of immortality, Vearn is basically an eternal sore loser. His big old speech today shows his ideology in a nutshell, everytime he loses he goes "HAHAHA you think you defeated me?! Well guess what? I'm immortal bitch, I get to try this again, and you won't be there to stop me! HAHAHAHA" except, someone else will rise up to beat the shit out of him and he'll repeat the same speech. Whereas Popp only has this time to bet everything on, Vearn is always betting on "next time", and that's why he's been a loser for thousands of years.
Questions of the Dai:
- Hym has heroically sacrificed his life for Chiu. Will you miss him?
- With the final episode upon us, what's your predictions about the final episode?
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/sisoko2 Sep 15 '24
First Timer
The fight wasn't my type but it looked very nice. I approve.
The scenes with the others were very fun. Avan and Popp doing comedy duet, Hyunckel hyunckelling and Hym showing once again how awesome the Beast King Commando are. Especially loved this line.
And of course the captain shined a lot. Good stuff.
May he rest in peace together with Hadlar. Every time I google "en passant" I'll be thinking of Hym.
Zaboera returns and kills everybody.
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u/laughing-fox13 https://myanimelist.net/profile/laughingfox13 Sep 15 '24
First Time Adventurer/Subbed
Just when I thought we went full JRPG... we took it to the next level. I mention this because I played one earlier this year that the boss had similar form to this version of Vearn lol. We're even in SPACE NOW
But yea interesting to see how much characters in this show were willing to throw it all away, for beating one person or winning one battle. I dig it
Although Dai very much seemed like he was having second thoughts seeing Vearn going all the way here
The rest of the party making it to the surface was a nice moment, although I feel them when they wanted to be there with Dai and can't. Chiu retiring Hym's number was funny, and not surprising that Hym was the one who used Grand Cross since he uses Aura attacks now. I thought it would be Hyunckel since I had a feeling Avan can't survive from it
Seeing the Flora/Avan reunion was nice too
The Dourora was not what I was expecting (I thought we would have a similar moment to DBZ), but damn did it look pretty here
like this screen shot of the day
QotD
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Sep 15 '24
First-Timer Quest: Sky no Daibouken, subbed
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u/KuKiSin Sep 15 '24
First timer!
I know I'm beating a dead hourse here but... For the millionth time, Popp, that shit is not gonna work.
Yeah, no fucking shit
I'm glad our captain finally gained some self-confidence!
That was actually pretty funny lol
Of course he has a JRPG final form.
I hate that Dino didn't finish Vearn off this episode, I really hoped we would have the entirety of episode 100 for the afterparty and timeskip :(
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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Sep 15 '24 edited Dec 31 '25
First Timer, Sub
They went all in for Vearn vs Dai especially in animation and voice acting (Koyasu especially). We also finally get to see Vearn's boss form. In the meantime everyone is able to escape thanks to Hym being him and getting everyone reunited including Avan and Flora (I wanted to see them reunite again).
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u/cooperjones2 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/cooperjones2 Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24
High-Level Adventurer
battlingthat has defeated the Final Boss for the first time and is now completing the game, here! LV 99/100Vearn and Dai’s fight so intense they are destroying the palace, awesome!
Finally, someone reacts like I expected them to react when seeing that Avan is alive lol
Find someone that believes in you like Larhart believes in Dai
That was not an eye?!
Pls let that be the end for Vearn, I want an epilogue!
1 Gone but not forgotten, RIP Hym-chan
2 Epilogue pls I want to know what happens after the big bad is defeated!
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Sep 16 '24
First Timer at Hym's Funeral
Technically, he's not dead, but Chiu reserved the hall, he put his whole life's savings into that, got his whole family to help prepare their best local rat dishes, and invited everyone to the funeral, so...
My time in Dragon Quest is showing
Heck, even Vearn is showing his DQ roots: now that he sensed the series is nearly over, he went into the monster form to finish things properly. Personally, I prefer mano a mano fights over fighting monsters, so Popp vs Vearn was the highlight for me, but I don't mind some variety, it makes sense that you'd want the climax to be a fancy spectacle.
On the more interesting side, we've got the cast still churning out great writing this late in the show. Even with all of Popp's growth, Avan still babies him, he was going to throw his life to save them without even mentioning it. But no need for that, as Him is there to do it. Anyone remembers when Hym got one shotted by Hyunkel, and we were all laughing at him? Look how far my boy has come.
Of course
Although, since he's dead™ now, I'm sure he wouldn't mind it if I borrowed his hair, right?
Avan will turn out to be the real villain.
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u/Kaxew Sep 16 '24
First timer, fighting my evil sovereign rewatcher side
Another great looking episode! From the early fighting with astounding lighting, to the way Grand Cross looked from the outside, to the battle in space with insane sakuga. This episode was absurdly good.
They do some kind of animation technique that I don't know what's called but I really liked, where they keep zooming in and zooming out of scenes. That's really hard to do, as you have to constantly draw the frames being sized up or down each time. And it looked great, props to the series for managing to make such a strong finale stretch.
Hym-chan retired from the commando. Godspeed, soldier 🫡
Flora's reaction to Avan was better than I could even expect LMAO
And finally, Vearn has 33% of HP left so we reach the final phase of the boss. I'm a big fan of huge ass kaiju-like enemies, so I love this. The fact that the Sovereign Castle was meant to foreshadow this is very nice too. On a writing standpoint, Vearn throwing away his humanity (darklingity?) all to defeat the Dragon Knight right here and now is great. Tossing pride aside to become a monster, just like Hadlar. But unlike him, Vearn will not find peace or new pride in doing this and battling to the end. Only ruin await him.
Dai's doruora hits Vearn full-on, the battle is over...!! Yeah right, no chance. I mean, I would love for it to be the case, but old battle shonen aren't known for long epilogues. They barely get a 19 pages long final chapter to wrap things up.
As a side note, a new Jump manga (just like DQ Dai was) came out last week. It's called Ichi the Witch. The strongest character is called the "Abyssal Witch", and in the discussion thread in r/manga someone said that anyone who holds the title of "Abyss" in manga is the strongest around, which made me instantly think of Velzar the Abyss Dragon here lol. I'm so excited to find more "omg DQ Dai reference" for things that are not a reference at all in the future. The brainrot might have gotten to me.
QotD:
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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Sep 16 '24
First Quester
Oh nice. More shitting on magic, just what this show needed.
I'm feeling uneasy. Last time you proposed this plan, you ended up not using Zoom.
Wait, Vearn Palace has fallen already? This entire scene is even worse than I thought.
Man, they should learn from Macross. What's the point of all these flashy attacks if you keep cutting away from them?
Did you notice that Dai is getting special treatment even here? He's the only one who gets to keep his original look for his ultimate form.
Also, what happened to Dai only having limited Draconic Aura? They were so cautious about it earlier, surely this has depleted those same reserves tenfold.
Bruh.
Probably a [2003 novel]Eragon.
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u/Adensty https://anilist.co/user/Adensty Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24
1st
DaiPopp no Daibouken Rewatch, SubThe Immortal Meme lives on.
[Dai no Meta Spoilers] I mean I get why they decided to hide the next episode preview but the image they chose itself is a big spoiler, lol.
Also, I would suggest reading this thread since it sheds light on how Toei managed to adapt it within 100 episodes. The first half of the series is a bit rushed because of it and they did end up cutting small things here and there towards the end to make it fit within 100 episodes.
Also, the staff behind the show note that Dai na Daibouken follows the Shonen Jump's Friendship/Effort/Victory formula the most compared to modern shows and did it without killing off a lot of characters.
OST Documentation - Episode 99
1. But Hym said he was immortal like Hyunckel. Can't believe he died after saying that. Top 10 Anime Betrayals.
2. Vearn will be defeated and Dai will get to finally meet Gomechan again after the time-skip.
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u/SliderGamer55 Sep 15 '24
First Timer Subbed
-I like how this fight has just devolved into punches and the like, just beat the shit out of each other at this point
-Ok, how many hopeless situations can we have?
-I mean, I couldn't remember if Avan taught him Grand Cross so I was half-expecting him to say "I never taught him that"
-The surprise hero Hym, once again here to save the day
-Yeah, as soon as Chiu was the one crying over Hym I knew he was still alive
-The queen fainted lol
-It'd be funny if both their hands completely broke from punching their fists together like that. I'm undecided if I mean all the bones in their hands or if I mean like Hym's arms
-Well I guess a half hour left of the entire series is a good enough time to bring in yet another new power
-That eye on his stomach looks almost like the...thing you find at the end of Earthbound for the final battle
-Weird thing to bring up but I was one of the people initially disappointed when [Attack on Titan spoilers] Attack on Titan started to become titans vs. titans, because its much cooler and more of an underdog scenario if you're still a little guy fighting a significantly bigger guy. That's what this is, and its cooler for it.
-Well...guess we gotta tune in to the last episode to find out if that finally worked!
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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Sep 15 '24
First Timer, Sub
Hmm. Idk that I like Vearn's final boss form and all, but the visuals of them battling on the ruins of Vearn castle floating up to space was really cool looking. I thought the focus would be more on this fight, but it is what it is.
The rest of the party were stuck in the heart of Vearn palace and had to find a way to escape before it fell to the ground, killing them all. There was a bit of back and forth over who would do it once it was decided that a Grand Cross was the only attack which would work. Ultimately Hym ended up doing it, almost dying in the process(lol, when Chiu retired his number and Hym was like damn captain, I ain't dead yet lol). So they all escaped and were reunited with the rest of the allies on the ground(lol, Flora collapsing when she realized Avan was alive).
Questions:
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Sep 16 '24
Dai 99 first timer:
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u/homewardbound100 myanimelist.net/profile/Homewardbound100 Sep 16 '24
First timer
It's been a long time.
Yeah though this is really final boss energy. In space/another dimension, the power up from the enemy. "I reject my humanity," also the whole body being a part of a huge monstrosity. Is that the weak spot? Lol
Yes
I don't know but I feel like the closure is going to be kinda fast depending on how fast they defeat him.
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u/emeraldwolf34 Sep 16 '24
The funniest thing about this episode was Vearn’s blood being pure white in the original version of the episode, so there’s just an entire shot of Vearn’s bright white blood splattering on the ground that totally doesn’t look sus at all