Blog Post #4

 For this week's blog post, I'll be discussing my experience watching episodes 八 and 九 of DanDaDan's Season 二 with Japanese audio and English subtitles.  DanDaDan (ダンダダン) is a hard anime/manga to describe, as it seems like your typical action-shonen but with a surprisingly interesting developing romance between the two protagonists that keeps the general plot going. There's some trope subversion which makes the viewing experience enjoyable, along with the series' random sense of humor and its cool fusion of supernatural powers and science fiction. In the first episode, Okarun and Aira have a brief clash against the spirits of classical musicians late at night in the band room of their school, and Okarun returns stronger from the ordeal to fight the cursed spirit Evil Eye that is possessing his friend Jiji. The second episode I watched mainly consisted of the following fight. I was understanding bits and pieces like my experience last time watching One Piece, but this week I was focusing on the general sentence structure instead of trying to understand all the vocab and random words. I think I was able to tell when there were verbs, questions, and certain particles, but I was kind of reliant on the subtitles to prepare myself on what I was listening for. I hope I will continue improving in the weeks to come!