The first volume of Dan Da Dan ended with Momo and Okarun being attacked by a giant spirit crab unleashed upon them by the yokai known as Turbo Granny.
No surprise that the first two chapters of this second volume are a prolonged chase sequence. One that culminates with a rather unique method of exorcism.
Momo and Okarun's victory celebration is a short-lived one, however. The restoration of Okarun's, um, manhood turns out to have been incomplete. While he has his frank back, his beans are still missing. Where are they?
The defeated and weakened Turbo Granny, who now resides inside of a maneki-neko figurine, has no idea. But she does agree to help them with their search, for reasons I will not spoil here, and more exciting and hilarious spiritual shenanigans ensue.
This second volume is not marred by presenting the potential sexual assault of a young girl as something to be laughed at by its readership, while also having it empower the threatened character. Here writer-artist Yukinobu Tatsu manages to balance and blend the horror elements with the rom-com tropes to create an engaging and entertaining story that is equal parts sweet and spicy, spooky and silly.
All that Dan Da Dan is doing is dressing raging, confusing, contradictory, and frightening teen hormones in scary costumes, allowing for all that rage, confusion, contradiction, and fear to manifest in delightfully weird and entertaining ways. For the moment, I am loving it.
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