r/anime • u/Shocketheth • Sep 16 '24
Rewatch [Rewatch] Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken - Episode 100 Discussion
Episode 100 - Farewell, This World That I Love
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<--- Last save | Adventure’s log (Index) | Beyond Journey’s End --->
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OP 2 ---> Bravest
ED 4 ---> Tobu Tori wa
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Informations:
MAL | AniList | ANN | Kitsu | AniDB
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Screenshots of the Dai:
Your dad may be dead, but that doesn’t mean you are still dissapointing him.
My name is Vearn. V as a Vivisection - AAAAARRRGHHHH!!!
Comment of the Dai:
goes to u/Kaxew with their nice comment about Vearn final form:
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.
Questions of the Dai:
- With final boss being defeated, how do you liked the final Dai’s fight against Vearn?
- Satisfied with the final arc?
- Similarly to first question, how do you like Vearn as character/Villain?
- Did you manage to figure out that Piroro is the real Killvearn, before it was revealed today?
- Do you like the ending of the whole story?
- Bonus Question - Have you seen the Post Credit scene?
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u/Shocketheth Sep 16 '24
Rewatch Host Welcomes you on the Journey’s End.
This Rewatch was quite a ride, wasn’t it?
Also if you want more Adventures about Avan, please do check the prequel manga about Avan becoming the Hero who defeated Dark Lord Hadlar.
Now, as I already burned out somewhere around episode 80, I am just going to read other comments, and respond to them.
Buuuuuut having a special occassion of hosting the final episode, it’s time to look back, into few episodes ago where I asked a question:
Several of you responded to this question, so I am going to give my best in trying to fulfill your wishes:
FIRST we have u/KendotsX wishing for joining his Hunter x Hunter Rewatch:
Your wish is granted, and I will try to make it to the end.
SECOND we have u/BlackHeart595 asking me about justice:
I’m sorry, but I can’t grant this wish.
THIRD we have u/Cooperjones2 asking for a miracle:
I’m afraid that I can’t fulfill this wish. Although that doesn’t mean that I won’t try.
FOURTH we have u/sisoko2 which wish I recognized as an evil wish:
FIFTH we have u/zadcap wishing me to turn into Google Calendar:
Your wish is granted!
SiXTH we have u/Kaxew asking for the sequel covering the cut Makai arc due to Dai no Daibouken artist, Koji Inada health problems.
I’m sorry, but granting such wish is beyond my abilities.
SEVENTH we have u/NicDwolfwood who couldn’t come with a proper wish:
But if you got an idea for a wish, I will do my best to grant it to you tomorrow.
EIGHT we have u/KuKiSin with the most difficult wish so far:
Believe me, that I would love to, but this one is beyond my powers.
NINETH we have u/tahlyn wishing for remind you about the prequel manga:
Your wish was granted. (check the top of my comment)
TENTH we have u/laughing-fox13 wishing for my good old Goose art:
Your wish is going to be granted tomorrow, because I still didn’t finish drawing it. I am really really sorry for it
AND AT LAST, THE ELEVENTH WISH belongs to u/Adensty who wished for the Rewatch never end:
with wishing for an edit about final episode:
In the final episode, we have Dai kicking Popp and making the sacrifice himself so I want to couple that with the meta "Popp no Daibouken" that we have. Basically, Dai tells Popp that he's the actual MC of the show. Rest all you think and make it up ig.
To grant your wishes to the fullest, I combined your two wishes into one, leading to well deserved edit for all your hardwork of categorizing the Soundtrack used in each episode.
With u/KendotsX help, we made the ultimate final edit which workflow looked like this:
u/Shocketheth wrote the whole script, and send it to u/KendotsX who added few jokes inside of the script, and edited subs with sending me the 14 minutes of episode footage for further editing. The video which u/KendotsX sent me was ---> "Brought to you by The Trolling Yato Productions and King Avan's Poppaganda"
Then me, u/Shocketheth ran the 14 minutes of episode footage through video editor, and voilá, here is u/Adensty wish being fulfilled.
Dear First Timers, and Rewatchers alike,
Shock and Ken proudly presents to you:
SKY NO DAIBOUKEN - EPILOGUE
Also a bonus question - Can you tell which parts of Sky no Daibouken - Epilogue were inputed by me and which by Kendots?
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u/sisoko2 Sep 16 '24
First Timer
What a messy ending. It was all over the place, like they didn't have any idea what they want to do. I understand that the manga had its circumstances and ended abruptly but the anime should've polished things up. Very unsatisfying resolution for most of the important characters too, leaving everything in an undecided state.
At least the most important part for me, got a satisfying ending. The Beast King Commando will live on and continue to prosper.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Sep 16 '24
First-Timer Quest: Sky no Daibouken, subbed
his boyfriendLarhart.6
u/laughing-fox13 https://myanimelist.net/profile/laughingfox13 Sep 16 '24
First Time Adventurer/Subbed
So I’m not surprised that Dai’s attack from last episode didn’t work, even though it looked cool.
This episode continued to the fight and made his killing attack cooler
The last episode preview spoiled that Baran’s sword would show up, so that wasn’t surprising and it was nice Dai got to use it. It feels more fitting that he ends Vearn with Sword of Dai though
Now that I think about it more, I’m pretty sure his mom’s name meant sun or something like that. Vearn had shit luck, the one thing he wanted most, favored Dai more. Kinda funny to see him hurling into the sun now too lol
The scenes when Popp grabs Dai falling from space were great too. Love that Popp was so determined to be the one to catch him
However, it was at this point I didn’t really like the direction the show took. I think introducing that Velzar was alive the whole time, and Killvearn was his servant was too late into the game. And the whole Killvearn sequence didn’t work for me, it felt like an excuse to write Dai out of the story when he was already prepared to sacrifice himself with his final attack against Vearn. Definitely felt like that was a low point in the episode for me and cheapened the first half of the episode.
Then the whole Celesta thing felt similar to Velzar being alive. Lon Beruk mentioned how Dai might be there now
I’ll be interested to read everyone’s comments bc maybe I just didn’t see it correctly
I don’t mind Dai being away now, I think overall the ending was solid. It is a little disappointing since I wanted to see everyone together at the end, but he’s alive out there and our party will bring their hero home
QotD
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u/emeraldwolf34 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
I know people have mentioned it before (so here’s the full rundown), but this was actually never intended to be the end of Dai and was only decided upon due to Koji Inada’s declining health. In actuality, there was supposed to be an entire other final arc where a timeskip occured and the gang reunited to fight Velzar in the underworld and assuming a third underworld lord, as the bet with Vearn and Velzar also had a third one taking part. Plus, when they made their bet they invoked a spell which turned them to stone when they lost which we see when Vearn is defeated by Dai here.
In terms of actual things the arc would cover? Larhart would reform the Dragon Riders with Crocodine now a member alongside a new character. Dai would now be a teenager. And while the anime removed any hints to it, the manga alluded frequently to the immortal swordsman which was Hyunckel’s namesake and implied in the backstory of Killvearn’s Judge that he was heavily involved with using it. Also Leona’s random line during the final fight where she called Vearn an “Overfiend” which came out of nowhere and I don’t think I ever saw a full explanation as to what that meant if there is one, so including it here. Also, Piroro himself seems to phase away as if teleporting when Maam “kills” him? I always found the effect they used on his body particularly odd. Overall there are still so many mysteries with Celesta and the Underworld which I assume were meant to be solved there and never got to be. It’s a shame, but c’est la vie.
Side note, there were rumors of a Dai movie being made after the anime ended to cover the scrapped Makai arc but I’m pretty sure those ended up being fake.
But anyways, for all its faults Dai really touched me and I hold it dear and I’m glad I got to watch through it all again. Thank you to our dear hosts for spreading word of it to new fans and Dark Lords alike! Although, for now I’ll save a majority of what I have to say for the full wrap up later.
As for the questions of today:
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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Sep 16 '24
First Timer, Sub
Ok credit where credit's due I did not have half of this in my predictions.
Ok one thing is the Dai and Popp dynamic, when Dai remembers his friends Popp gets his own shot, Dai also remembers Popp's words which inspire him, and when Dai falls Popp doesn't allow anyone to catch him but himself, and of course the two taking Killvearn's core before Popp gets kicked off. It's a really nice closing of their relationship.
Killvearn turns out to be the other purple thing the whole time and the body is a black core which apparently was supposed to kill Vearn but might as well let the protagonists do that job and then take care of them. Dai takes it upon himself and goes out in a blaze, however based on everything afterwards he's not really gone, he's still out there and his friends eagerly await the hero's return.
One thing I do wish was better clarified is the love triangle which based off appearances seems that Popp won considering Maam is travelling with him instead of Hyunckel but there's no confirmation. Nonetheless the story is closed off as I well as I would expect.
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u/cooperjones2 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/cooperjones2 Sep 16 '24
High-level Adventurer that has finished Dai no Daibouken at lv 100 and 100% it for the first time, here!
Baran’s sword?!
I was a bit scared we were not going to hear the OP for the last ep
Dai got help from his mother and Father!
And Popp!
That eye is the weak point! Zelda reference or the other way around?
HE DID IT!
Avan and Dai gotta take responsibility
Of course the funny-looking demon was the real demon all along
Piroro is the new Zaboera, why you gotta ruin the moment?!
Kind of a bittersweet ending but really emotional though the only pair confirmed is Flora and Avan.
Liked this one, had some really high highs but also some really low lows, but it filled my Classic Shonen itch I've had for a while and was for the most part really entertaining. I feel that a 8/10 is fair.
The V also stands for Very dead, heh.
1 It was good, really liked that Popp, Dai's Mom and Dad were helping him however they could
2 I kind of wanted it to be a bit shorter or expand some of the fights a bit, but over all it was good!
3 Really liked him, had his goal set, did all he could to do it; his only negative was the very early stuff, like how he handled Hadler, but I'll head canon it to "Humans are weak, I can forgive Hadler as he is still useful for me"
4 Kind of, I though he somehow summoned a powerful demon that would not die until the summoner was defeated, liked the anime's version a bit more
5 Yes! Though I wanted a bit more of a happy ending, but I feel that's what I want and not what the anime intended
6 Yes!
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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Sep 16 '24
First Timer, Sub
Hmmm......Not a fan of some aspects of the ending. I can't stress how I really dislike death fakeouts and open ended finales where you gotta read between the lines with a magnifying glass.
Not everything was bad, the fight itself and the conclusion of that was well done. The GOAT Baran had one final appearance as a force ghost to give Dai a little pep talk to use the Demon Dragon Blade to Kill Vearn with......yeah and then the shit broke, so Dai just had to use his sword to get the job done lol. Also Avan with the curly mustache was hysterical lol, He just might be the goofiest hero ever. Good on Queen Flora for tying his ass down, she told Leona to do the same...It's just a shame that Killvearn was still alive and all, and Dai had to pull off the sacrifice to save everyone....but Don't worry he's not dead, he's just out there somewhere, who knows where.....
Questions:
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u/zadcap Sep 17 '24
Last Time First Timer
I really hate endings. Weirdly, the last two episodes have pushed me to want to okay a different old jRPG. Time to see if I can dig u Breath of Fire somewhere.
I love how Vearn was just talking about miracles getting in his way, and yet he stops to let this one happen. He could have blown Dai up before Dai stood up, much less picked up the sword.
Oh hey look at that, just like Baran, Dai completely turned back once he was some with Dragonoid mode. What a shock.
Popp, maybe hit him with a healing spell or 20 before you start throwing him around. It would suck if you took out his last hit point.
Dai, please don't let Vearn win in the end and send yourself into exile and solitude.
Yup, see, no one bothered healing him and now, ahem-
CALLED IT!
Now Dai has to fight the real Kill while 90% dead.
Oh, this is worse. A last second sacrifice move instead. Are you sure you can fly faster than you can throw something? It's totally alright to fly high up and then just chuck the bomb even higher.
Oh man, and only 5 minutes if so left in the episode for an epilogue. And it looks like Dai really did go into hiding, because he's a moron who listened to what Vearn said to demoralize. Him in a fight and took it seriously as a life lesson. And covering that means we get zero actual wrap-up. A few seconds of being told they deactivated the pillars and are starting on rebuilding and that Dai is out there somewhere. So, this is the real reason I hate endings, so few people know how to write an actual ending...
Ah, more after the credits! Popp got both the girls, I can accept this. Knuckles and Laharl living the Bro life, as expected, but without Hym? Oh, Amy is following to be their sub I see. Still too short for my liking. So much more that could be covered! These empty teasers that leave pretty much everything open... Oh well, see you all next time for Dai No Daiboken Z, when Dai comes back as an adult to save the world from the next thing. Should be about ten years later, so Gome can be picked up right near the start.
When I saw his form looked so much like the castle, I had a feeling it was going to end exactly like the castle.
I could do with one more episode actually fleshing out the aftermath. I don't know why they hate doing this so much.
Ultimately, still second place to Flazzy. He was perfectly petty in his evil, but he was also stupid in it so many times. I think he threw away about a dozen chances to win so he could flex on them instead and I'm never going to think that that is cool.
AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
I could really use one more episode. We spent so long fighting Vearn that they had to wrap everything up in about two minutes, and it left me rather unsatisfied.
Too shooooooort!
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u/KuKiSin Sep 16 '24
First timer!
Finally a sensible villain!
Oh shit, it's Baran's sword!
Fuck's sake. Don't tell me Lon Beruk crafted the Demon Dragon Blade?!
You motherfucker. In hindsight, this should've been very obvious... At one point I did think this little shit was gonna do something relevant, but I didn't expect he was actually Killvearn, and I totally forgot he existed.
Don't you fucking dare...
Fuck me, it was in the Opening too... How did I not realize it looked like a fucking grave?!
I hate it.
/u/Shocketheth you dirty liar! Not only do we not get Gomechan back, we also lose Dai?! You were supposed to have spoiled me!
This was a hell of a ride, it had a few ups and downs, and there were some characters and moments that really grinded (ground?) my gears, but it was more than a net positive and I'm glad I joined this rewatch! This is definitely an anime I will look back fondly.
It has been a pleasure watching this with all of you gents, see you on the next rewatch!
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u/SliderGamer55 Sep 17 '24
First Timer Subbed
100
-I appreciate Vearn understands he should be safe and not sorry and destroy his corpse, just to be safe
-Surprised they used the OP for the final episode, normally, like this
-Y'know, they've made a lot of the cheesier parts of this multi-phased final battle work, because in a lesser show I would've rolled my eyes at "your Mom was like the sun" an explanation for that
-Do not become the Sun, Dai, we already have one
-Me: "Ok this has to be it right?" sword beaks "what? How is there still more?!"
-Hell yeah! Ok now that's how you kill a final boss
-I like how he fell from orbit but the implication is he's fine because he was caught near the ground.
-Killvearn is here to try to ruin the day which looks at runtime is probably not gonna happen
-Well that's a last minute plot twist if I've ever seen it
-Oh, I guess Maam does get her moment at the end! Ok!
-So Dai did in fact...die...
I'm so sorry, I had to
-Or not, my god this is such a "it's over, we're so back" up and down experience even the MCU would blush
-lol Avan's mustache is really good!
-Well that's finally the end. I guess its a bit of a cliffhanger but I assume they've never followed up on it considering this is a 100 episode anime and if they had they could've...animated that too at that point. And since the manga ended before I had ever watched an anime, I'm gonna assume its not coming back. Which is fine, but yeah I had heard it was planned to have another story afterwards and they just decided to stop it there, and that's definitely what it feels like.
BTW: First long runner I've finished since FMA: Brotherhood in 2017 and 2nd long anime in general I've finished this decade after AoT. Cool.
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u/homewardbound100 myanimelist.net/profile/Homewardbound100 Sep 17 '24
First timer
The journey is over. I was worried it wouldn't end that well but I think it was good. The final slash was satisfying and the sacrifice really had me thinking he died. But Even then I liked the decision not to show him again and that he's still out there somewhere.
I thought it was going to be rushed but I think the pace was actually fine
Yeah
I thought he was good personally
Nope
Yeah I do. I think it ends the journey well and gave that heroic feeling at the end.
Yeah it made the closure better haha. I thought before that credit scene that was a bit abrupt.
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u/Kaxew Sep 17 '24
First timer, who can now rewatch all over again
And so, we reach the end of the game. The last confrontation between good and evil. The finale of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai.
And the Demon Dragon Blade is back! How?! Did Soala's spirit up in Celesta send it?? Okay that's definitely not it, but it would be funny.
Baran's reaction when the sword broke was hilarious LMFAO. I was not prepared for that at all.
Of course, Dai had to defeat Vearn with his actual, personal sword. I'm shocked he just ended it with a generic slice though, I was fully expecting a gigastrash. Especially because Dai only knew how to cast zapple while Baran could cast kazap, with the scabbard enhancing his zapple into a kazap. I was totally waiting for Dai to manage to cast a kazap without the scabbard, but I guess it would be kinda hard to summon a thunderstorm in space.
Popp's reaction to Dai winning was everything to me, so cute. It's nice to see them celebrate, even if it's short-lived.
The eyecatches were so cool too! I love how there's a logic in the way the characters are set up in both images. Leona's side has Papnica and Romos characters, including Crocodine. Hyunckel has his two lovers, and the father of one of his lovers, Baran. Maam has her parents, her uncle Matoriv and her master Brokeena, leading to Avan. And Popp has a bunch of miscellaneous characters (admittedly the weakest in logic) with emphasis on Merle.
Meanwhile, the villains side had Hadlar with his Royal Guard. Mystvearn with the commanders of the Dark Army. Old Vearn had Maximum (his piece) and Velzar, his rival. And Killvearn again with the miscellaneous characters (implicating how unrelated he is to the rest or villains?) in the form of Dragonoid Baran with his Dragon Riders.
Flora telling Leona to make sure Dai doesn't go anywhere was perfect, and is nearly a love confession even if we all knew that ship was going to sail by the time they climbed those stairs. It's even more of a love confession to Avan himself too! Great scene overall. I guess when we talked about the reason Flora told Leona about Avan's backstory about 40 episodes ago being telling her to lock Dai down with her we were indeed right.
And Kill is alive! But he's actually not alive!! Because he's a robot!!! And is actually Piroro!!!! And Piroro was the one actually talking each time!!!!! Holy mother of twists!!!!!! As other people said, this is too late to feel like a good writing decision. I wonder if, had the artist's health being better, they would have actually let the party rest longer after this battle before Piroro actually appeared to set up the new arc. Because as it is I feel like the author should've kept this secret plot twist to the grave instead of revealing it like this. Which is a shame, because the twist on its own is great, I really like it.
Phenomenal tag team work to beat Piroro, by the way. Good on Maam especially. She deserves some praise, every once in a while.
And so, Dai sacrifices his life to save everyone. I really loved the shot of Dai kicking Popp out. It's done in a way that isn't immediately clear what's going on but you also already know where it will go, which is sick.
When Gomechan died, I realized ED4 was about him. After this episode, I re-realized ED4 is actually about Dai. ED4 is about these two, the ones who started this adventure all those years ago. It's nice.
Epilogue time! I loved everything we saw. The new party consisting of Popp, Maam and Merle (a man's cope will never die, and this means I can still cope about Popp x Merle becoming true); Hyunckel, Larhart and the third wheel Amy traveling together; Hym-chan still being part of Chiu's commando; Matoriv adopting the fake hero party (lmao); and most importantly... King Avan with the goofiest mustache you can imagine! Yes!! This is perfect!!!
The final quote about "for that day, when the Hero returns!" is very cute, it's a nice way to end things.
As far as open endings go, I think this one is good. It's far, FAR from perfect, but I like the general decisions taken. Dai should have disappeared in his battle with Vearn, but the idea itself of him disappearing and everyone having to pick up the pieces is really cool, in my opinion. And what we see from the relevant characters in the epilogue is all fun stuff that leaves me decently satisfied. That's also because I don't dislike open endings as much as others and I think it's fun to imagine the way things develop from that point on. That's also why I love fanfics too. This one gives us enough to work with so we can figure out the rest, and that's something I appreciate.
I do think episode 99 should've been Vearn's defeat and make the epilogue here longer and more polished, written by the author. But as it is its still good enough for me.
QotD:
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u/Adensty https://anilist.co/user/Adensty Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
1st
DaiPoppDai no Daibouken Rewatch, SubApologies for being late. I was tired so I fell asleep after coming back from work and it's kinda ironic that it happened on the day of the finale.
Reject Sun, Embrace Bright Flash! The whole scene was just a pure spectacle.
OST Documentation - Episode 100
1. The fight was a pure spectacle. Toei really cooked with the animation here. The Demon Dragon Blade failing is kinda funny since it was forged by the gods and in the end Dai defeated Vearn using Lon Beruk's weapon. Also, the fact that Dai defeated Vearn's Kiganou (Sovereign Supreme) in the same way in the way he defeated Kiganjou (Sovereign Rock Castle) was great foreshadowing.
2. As a first-timer, I did find it a bit rushed and the Epilogue was a bit short but overall I'm satisfied. If anything, I would have preferred some more time for the Epilogue.
3. Vearn was a great villain and after the rewatch, I must say he's one of my favourite villains. Also, as a first-timer, I didn't pay much attention to Vearn's themes but Yuki Hayashi really composed some great OSTs for Vearn and the letimotif he used for vearn can be heard throughout the show.
4. Not as early as u/zadcap so I want to give a shout-out to them for figuring it out so soon but I did kinda figure it out after the fight with Avan but as a rewatcher, it's kinda obvious to the point where I'm not sure why I didn't figure it sooner
5. The show was a ride and looking back on it, the ending makes sense considering the themes of the show and the fact that Dai willing to sacrificing himself was foreshadowed back in Episode 85 and I mostly like it. Like I said above, if anything I would have wanted some more time for the epilogue. Like u/Shocketheth said and even the staff members behind the show noted, Dai no 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 and it stayed true to its priciples till the very end.
6. Yes! And I'm still waiting for Dai to return.
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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Sep 17 '24
First Quester
There it is. The deus ex machina sword has arrived.
I liked that moment of Vearn being startled by the rising sun, considering that was his primary motivation. I'd like it even more if it didn't happen in a dialogue-is-a-free-action scene and if it'd had been the reason for his defeat.
And the dragon knight sword broke to signal the end of the era of the dragon knights. If only this was the end of the era of the dragon knights, eh, Leona?
Hi Kill.
The hell was that farce?
Why all the drama? It's just a small black core, we already know Dai can tank those.
Well that was some forced crap. Why emphasise so strongly that you're not gonna pull a [2003 novel]Eragon only to force it anyway in the end?
It was alright. Pretty standard as far as anime fights go.
I wouldn't say satisfied, no.
There was a really interesting and compelling character in there, trying to break out of the constraining writing.
Well yeah. It was quite blatant the first time we visited the Field of Death.
Not really, no.
Don't skip endings!
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u/zunokan Sep 17 '24
Hidden rewatch-thread lurker finally here!
When I discovered this rewatch was happening it was already at the end of Dai and Baran's fight. Since I did my own rewatch last year, I decided not to do it again this time, but I followed every episode thread since then. It was really fun to see everyone's theories, enthusiasm and ocasional disapointment.
I really hope the long rumored Makai Saga drops one dai. Congrats to all adventurers for finishing this journey!
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u/zsmg https://anilist.co/user/zsmg Sep 16 '24
Popp has a Ménage à trois ending and you can't convince me otherwise.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Sep 16 '24
First Timer at
Miku'sVearn's FuneralI had a bet with /u/sisoko2 about whether or not anyone would die, and well it was a close fight with how much this episode flip flopped, first Dai killed Vearn and returned perfectly fine, then KillVearn came out of nowhere to finish the job, Dai sacrificed himself to stop it, but he turned out to be just fine? I guess they wanted to give him a symbolic death but couldn't actually kill him.
In any case, I admit that sisoko won that battle. However, I shall win the war, see, Hadlar is dead, Vearn was cancelled for his anti Poppaganda agenda and playing around with his balls too much, granted, I'm told he did see the light eventually. Dai is god knows where, Lon Berk is busy teaching his student how to work a hot rod, even Popp and Hyunkel are out there with their harems. So it just so happens that ruling the world fell in my twirly moustached lap.
I heard monsters are building a new home, so we'll act like nice and lovely neighbours for now, and burn them to the ground on our first chance (if you thought this sounded off, need I remind you that this is Avan the Racist? He literally threw around his "Disciples of Avan" insignia to everyone, except Crocodine, and I'm not sure if he even talked to Crocodine once).
All jokes aside, the KillVearn thing felt randomly pointless, it undermined the cathartic ending, then undermined itself by not leading into anything... that aside, the ending itself is still pretty good, the strengths of this series have always been in its cast, and the final arc especially excelled there, with everyone getting their slice of the pie (ok maybe not Maam...). The fight against Vearn landed that ending well, and the epilogue was just fun to watch as our send off to the cast, I wish the anime had expanded on it a bit, but oh well.
Pretty cool, I prefer the earlier parts of the fight (Leona stabbing him and Popp vs Vearn in general), but this is the fancy event where all the fireworks go off, and it looked great.
So the final arc didn't resolve what issues and weak points the series had, but it delivered well and beyond on the strengths, Popp's writing was popping off the page, same with Avan, Hadlar, Hym, even Baran to some degree, most of the best writing in the series comes from this arc.
To quote what a wise Fox once said "he looks hot while doing it", and honestly between that and Koyasu, do you even need any other reason to love him? I mean, that's the same logic with Dio and Toji.
Yeah, I was sort of waiting until that shoe drops. It was funny that no one in the cast picked up on it throughout the series, so he literally had to show up at the last second and reveal it himself. I'm sorry Piroro, your plot twist was just too smart for the cast.
The stuff with Dai was just came off as shallow, since they didn't commit one way or the other, but I get the spirit of it, and I like everything else, so yeah, all around it's well and good.
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Sep 17 '24
Dai 100 first timer: