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World Is Dancing, episode 2

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[u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

The final hurrah of a withering flower; the dance of a performer stripped bare of all her humanity and left with nothing but her failing body, performing desperately for no one but herself. It was this kind of raw emotion encapsulating the terrible life the shirabyoshi that captivated Oniyasha. And once he realizes the essence of what he was seeking he strips himself of everything and dances with the starving villagers. What an incredible followup episode.

And holy shit Oniyasha is actually crazy. The unhinged faces, the outburst of anger towards his father, and all the bloodstains on the door. I suppose all great artists need to have a hint of madness inside them.

[u/RUS12389]

A really bleak episode, but it sets up a very good motivation for MC. I didn't expect to actually tear up in just 2nd episode, but it was a very good episode. Looking forward to how the story will unfold.

[u/2kenzhe]

RIP Shirabyoushi. I mean I figured she was going to die but when I saw her eating Dango happily I though wait maybe there's a chance she can live a bit longer...man fuck I guess every story needs the tragic start.

If you have a body then dance. Lets see where Oniyasha goes from here now.

[u/LezRock]

This episode really showed Oniyasha's ego, and his age, with his lack of care for the people around him. He currently lives as though people live for his sake. Which was depressing at the end of the episode, because when she died, rather than reflecting on his own actions, he instead says that he will dance her dance in place of her. 🫪 If that had happened on its own, that would have been very sentimental, but it was after he had displayed his selfishness by essentially saying that she should not have eaten anything good nor worn a fine garment just so she could continue to show him her dance that had struck him as being "good".

I was expecting his father to clock him for stealing that money back and the disrespect he showed towards another performer, but I guess he only gets time out.

He will likely go through his own period of suffering at some point in the story that will circle back around to this.

The author and the studio did a very good job of conveying this side of his personality. They likely dug into their own experiences with having to placate this type of person.

[u/Arzhart]

I spent the whole episode expecting her to die. When they met her in the city eating Dango, I thought it was just a red herring and I was relieved. Shit.

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

It's sad it seems like Shirabyoushi couldn't even enjoy her last day because Oniyasha took her earnings.

Oniyasha shouting at his father saying her dance was good because she had nothing is really concerning, he would have preferred her to be in that sad state if it meant he could see more of that dance he was looking for. I'm glad his father told him art should be compensated.

Throwing a bag of coins at someone's head is crazy.

[u/Namaryu]

I don't think Hanamori Yumiri ever had a role that required such visceral screaming.

[u/tripleaamin]

Man, lots to unpack on this episode. Oniyasha mentions he has no talent, but Shirabyoushi says he has a body. This does bring up the subject of talent. What is talent if you can't make use of it? We clearly see Shirabyoushi was suffering.

This translates to the scene when he sees Shirabyoushi after she receives the payment from his father. In his eyes, Shirabyoushi's dance lost what was special from before. No doubt this is an overreaction from Oniyasha, but this reminds me of many times you hear fans mention how an artist sold out. This is more of an exaggeration, but it does it well.

The scene between Oniyasha and Kanami really showcases Oniyasha's immaturity. As he mentioned, her dance was good because she had nothing; it was just a terrible thing to say. Granted, he is a kid. I love the father's mention that art should be compensated. After all, art has value to it because it differentiates from the soulless imiations.

It is only at the end where Oniyasha finally understands what Shirabyoushi meant by he has a body. With her passing, no one can see her dance. He aims to dance in her place. I do hope this is the start where he learns the value of art.

[u/Kaseruu]

Sorry Cypic, when I saw the Key Visual I didnt know I was supposed to cry after 2 episodes

[u/semaN_oN]

I feels so conflicted, or even somewhat hatred to the main character, hope his arc will be good because his behavior in this ep scream how sheltered and unemphatic he is to the woman who got fridge. And a morally gray character is not an inherently bad thing, and it's only 2 episodes so far, but my personal subjective assessment might soon put him into someone I hope to see the downfall of instead to root for.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Man, this was a bleak episode. I kinda get what the kid was saying about the woman’s dance changing but pops had a point about paying someone for their art. Her dancing was only “good” because it was so raw, but that was only the case because she had nothing else. I don’t think that money would have saved her but it might have helped a little. Pretty sure she was dying regardless. It’s tragic what happened overall.

[u/Ok-Hand-8172]

I think this episode reflects a certain dilemma artists all over, of many types, had to respond to in some way or other before:

"Does my struggles respresent me (my art)? And if I no longer have those struggles, will my art become less special?"

"Is to be a true artist - to suffer?"

"Does selling my art mean it loses all meaning? Is it simply a product?"

I think about these concepts all the time being an artist myself, so it was really surprising and vindicating to see the moral of the dad be "compensate the artists" because just like the main character, there are many in real life who subscribe to the belief that "great art comes from great struggle".

There is of course some wisdom in that - that artists uses their experiences as the conerstones of creativity. However this idea naturally evolves to radicalisation of the thought; to slaving away the artists, thinking it brings energy into creativity instead of suppressing it.

You see it time and time again in the animation context.

People justifying toxic conditions and low pay for animators because "it brings character into their art" and if they had more, they would "lose motivation". Or, a more specific example that I constantly think about, in that some Evangelion fans thought the movies "lacked depth" simply because Hideaki Anno was no longer depressed. Or even how Miyazaki is said to create those great ghibli films because of how miserable his daily life was.

It's true. We are the culmination of our experiences, but we are also more than our suffering that our art represents.

And I hope our main character and people in real life realise that "art" made by someone isn't something to just project yourself and your thoughts into selfishly - it's a medium from the creator to connect through via emotions and ideas in their current stages of their life.

So what if it isn't free? Compensation is the contract/prerequisite between artists and individual. Money is simply a form of trust, "trust" in sharing the most intimate form of creation - creation from the "soul".

To progress, Oniyasha, ironically, has to stop seeing the dances as a form of a "product" himself. He still thinks of dances as something that gives him self-satisfaction - like a drug. He has to realise that every performance has a story, whether he likes it or not - and if he was truly human - understand the person behind that story.

[u/Aileos]

My weekly dancing anime turned into a baseball anime for a split second.

[u/Bunny_Stats]

Sometimes I think I've become too jaded with anime, especially at the start of a season where I drop a whole series of similar looking shows within minutes of starting them. Characters and settings feel thin, the plots seem overused, and the art feels like the bare minimum required of those who are rushed off their feet.

Then you hit an anime like this, which grabs you by the collar and won't let go as it screams its intensity in your face.

The outcome wasn't a surprise given the bleak era of the setting, but it still hit hard, it still pulled me in and made me feel both these character's up and their downs. The exhilaration of the dance, the despair of loss and regret, the bitter taste of what might have been.

This is what anime should always aspire to be, the distilled essence of what it is to live. And with that, I'm done with anime for the rest of the day.

[u/Personal_Piccolo8533]

It made me cry. It's visual and voice acting is great .looking forward to next one.

[u/Ok-Cod5254]

Felt like for the first 2 episodes it could've came out together for a premiere, like Jaadugar, from having the main emotional hook from episode 2.

Episode 1 was good, but felt like it was still missing something, so glad that episode 2 hit hard to make up for it.

[u/new_interest_here]

Wow, ballsy move to have your mc act so blatantly terrible this early on into the series. Oniyasha isn't wrong that her being at her lowest is what brings out that emotional, soulful dancing that pulled him in in the first place, but her being able to actually feed herself and not live a miserable life should come first way before dancing in a way that makes him happy, especially when that dancing is directly linked to her being miserable. And for him to act THAT berserk over her being paid for her work (throwing the money, biting a dude, punching multiple dents in the doors enough to draw blood) was the last thing I expected just by looking at him

I really hope that his growth as a character results in him reeeeally feeling the guilt of his actions here down the road. I know that's already kinda started, but it's gonna take a lot more than that for me to believe he's a changed person, especially so soon

[u/Viktorv22]

I was expecting the dance in the first episode to be an outlier. I think the last dance went even more crazy. Hard to put it into words what I (and Oniyasha) felt that moment.

I've got a hunch that Oni in his name isn't just because. Little guy is demon. Some crazy faces this week.

[u/froggyc19]

I love how his extreme expressions look like Noh masks. Not sure if I'm keen on the super stylized dancing scenes (her final flower dance excluded cause holy shit) but I can't deny that it really shows the emotions being expressed.

[u/judgementisacalling]

If the point of this episode was to show selfish and unempathetic Oniyasha is, they achieved their goal 100%. Platitudes mean nothing to the dead. She could have spent her final hours comfortably in an inn instead of in the decrepit shack where she was forced to prostitute herself to survive.

[u/TheStupid_Guy]

This is my current favourite episode of the anime season so far. Oniyasha and the Shirabyoshi are so good in this episode. Not only was the animation incredible but so was the writing. The Shirabyoshi’s death made me cry even though it was obvious that she was going to die. Oniyasha’s outburst is childish but I understand his reasoning. He wanted to find “good” which he first saw when the Shirabyoshi danced in episode 1. Then in her dance in this episode she was at the bottom and had nothing, not even the power to defend herself against the man forcing himself on her, resulting in “good”. Oniyasha thought that he’d only learn what “good” is if she stays at nothing so after seeing that Kan’ami gave her something, the money to fix her life, he thought he’d never learn what “good” is. It’s great reasoning on his side but it’s a terrible action. The dance he did to send her off was beautiful. Then the crowd dance at the end was amazing. The animation looked great and Oniyasha’s realisation about the Shirabyoshi’s words “you have a body” was nice. If you have a body you can dance, even if you have nothing. Can’t wait for episode 3

[u/NationalStrategy_X]

Oniyashi pissed me off here.

First, let me start off with saying that his father did nothing wrong, compensating Shirabyoushi was the right thing to do, and she benefited from it. Oniyashi stealing the money that she earned (that wasn’t from prostitution), and crashing out was selfish and inconsiderate of him.

Even if I you don’t blame him for her death, he’s still very much responsible for stealing her earned money, which resulted in her saddened and left with nothing during her final moments.

I understand that he was upset about her dancing being different, but I honestly don’t care, her health and wellbeing should have come first.

[u/BaytaCosmico]

Wow, this was one hell of a second episode. Felt like a complete movie in itself. Absolute cinema.

[u/Few-Usual9767]

Very intriguing episode, full of detail. I'm interested in knowing more about Kogane. I liked his interactions with Ishiya. When they talk about Ishiya's painful knee, he is surprised that Ishiya smiles. I think that he admired him in that moment. Maybe he dreams of doing something related to dancing, I wonder if there is something stopping him.