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Adventure of Dai develops a problem that it shares with, of all things, Claymore
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it's that the bad guys are so powerful and the good guys are so out of their depth and so doomed in every fight that it's just like
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let Dai have a break
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he's just a little guy
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let him kick a bad guy's ass without being pushed to the brink of death and despair eight times
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the stakes and peril are always at 11
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Although that is ironically like, accurate to the old school megagrindy DQ experience
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kinda yeah
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except the gang never gets a chance to grind
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Popp: "I'd rather die than hand Dai over to the likes of you!"
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Baran: "Okay"
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no wait redoing that
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Popp: "I'd rather die than hand Dai over to the likes of you!"
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Baran: 
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well
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he died rather than surrender Dai
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good
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gotta stick to your guns
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this anime also understands what is best in life
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that being
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when two guys punch each other fist to fist and a beat later a crater forms around them