Dandadan Visuals
Dandan E1-3, 6 and E4-5, 7 feel like completely different shows. The latter is so much more artistic, completely different linework, better and more interesting animation, different presentation and direction - it feels like they have entirely different production teams. It’s not as simple as the story is more serious in those but the production at it’s core for them is completely different. And it is incredibly jarring in contrast to the low-effort, slice of life tier episodes. Even when there’s fighting in those episodes, even when there’s scenes that demand suspension and tension (like E8) - if the episode is determined to be a “slice of life episode”, they refused to deviate from it for even a second. There is not only no room for any in-between of the extremes but one extreme is chosen for a whole episode whether it’s relevant or not. I don’t know what’s going on the production but something is weird with the direction of this show. I’ve only really liked the latter set of episodes I mentioned - and those are awesome. The former set is just completely plain shit. There’s no effort to try to transition one type of episode to another. I remember being really disappointed with E6 and then just from the first frames of E7 I was like, oh, this is a thing with this show, this episode is going to be amazing. You can tell from the art right away.