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By the time you reach DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?”, you’re already getting the feeling that the anime likes doing emotional gut punches in between the action, comedy, and horror. This one now features a pitiful alien, and the reason why he wants money so much. As it turns out, a cattle mutilation can be a weirdly heartfelt thing.
DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?”: Details
DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?” is the 10th episode (you can read my reviews for Ep. 1-3, Ep. 4, Ep. 5, Ep. 6, Ep. 7, Ep. 8, and Ep. 9 here) of the first season of this action, romantic comedy, and supernatural thriller shonen anime series. Said anime series is the anime adaptation of the Shonen Jump manga of the same name by Yukinobu Tatsu. Science SARU (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Star Wars: Visions, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off) is the animation studio behind this anime.
Production Cast
Kayona Yamada is the director behind DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?”, with Jong Heo as the storyboarder. As for the DAN DA DAN anime as a whole: Fuga Yamashiro is the director, with Hiroshi Seko is responsible for series composition and screenplay, and kensuke ushio composing the music. Naoyuki Onda is responsible for character design, while Yoshimichi Kameda is responsible for alien and monster design. Satoshi Hashimoto is responsible for color design, while Junichi Higashi is responsible for art direction. Kazuto Izumita is the cinematographer, while Kiyoshi Hirose is the editor, and Eriko Kimura is the sound director.
As for the music: the opening theme song of this anime is “Otonoke” by Creepy Nuts. Meanwhile, “TAIDADA” by ZUTOMAYO is the ending theme song.
Voice Cast
DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?” features the voices of Shion Wakayama (Abby Trott in English dub) as Momo Ayase, Natsuki Hanae (A.J. Beckles in English dub) as Okarun, and Ayane Sakura (Lisa Reimold in English dub) as Aira Shiratori. Other notable voices in this episode include Mayumi Tanaka (Barbara Goodson in English dub) as Turbo Granny and Nana Mizuki (Kari Wahlgren in English dub) as Seiko Ayase.
On the antagonists’ side, we have Kazuya Nakai (Ben Diskin in English dub) as the Serpoians.
When and Where to Watch
DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?” made its airing and streaming (aka. simulcast) debut on December 5, 2024. You can watch this episode on Crunchyroll. In fact, you can watch this entire anime on either Crunchyroll, Netflix, or Hulu.
DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?”: Synopsis
Alas, DAN DA DAN is still an ongoing anime series. In fact, DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?” only made its debut a week ago as of this writing. Thus, here’s the official synopsis from Crunchyroll instead of a spoiler-filled plot summary. You can check out that synopsis below:
Momo, Okarun, and Aira make it through the alien assault by combining their powers. However, the Dover Demon that they thought they had defeated appears before them.
DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?”: The Good
As you might have guessed, it’s definitely the story that’s the star of DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?”. All because it delivers as much of an emotional gut punch as the episode detailing Acrobatic Silky’s backstory. All centering around a dairy cow “mutilation”, no less. Although, it’s more of a cow abduction, and it’s one that the main characters approved of. You’ll see what I mean.
This is something I’ve been noticing about Yukinobu Tatsu’s storytelling style. He likes following up action and horror scenes with emotionally heartfelt gut punches to your soul. That, and delicious meals. I’ve noticed that yummy food tends to follow the action, which results in some delicious cooldown scenes.
Speaking of which: those scenes wouldn’t be nearly as good without the efforts of animation studio Science SARU. Their animators once again deliver some stellar animation quality. In particular, the scene near the end of this episode with the cow abduction and flying saucer is one I want to give kudos for. No spoilers, but it’s both hilarious and heartwarming that Tatsu turned an alien abduction story on its head like that.
DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?”: The Bad
Alas, my sole complaint with DAN DA DAN Ep. 10 “Have You Ever Seen a Cattle Mutilation?” has to do with a bizarre editing choice on the part of Science SARU. As you can see above, Mr. Mantis Shrimp’s starship was originally meant to strongly resemble a certain Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. This would’ve been an amazing pop culture reference for all the Star Wars fans out there. Instead, his ship was changed to some generic flying saucer.
Science SARU gives no official explanation for the change. However, and this is pure speculation: my guess is that Disney demanded an arm and a leg to allow the pop culture reference, and the animation studio wasn’t willing or wasn’t able to pay the royalties. At least, not without compromising other aspects of the anime’s production. So sadly, it’s likely Disney’s greed that resulted in us not getting that Star Wars reference. A pity there.
And as you might expect, this is not an action-packed episode. It’s more on the heartfelt and emotional side than it is action-y. If you want that instead, then might I suggest watching Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Solo Leveling, Kaiju No. 8, and/or DDDD? Those anime series should have enough action to tide you over until the next time DAN DA DAN goes into its action-packed phase.
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