Warning! Spoilers ahead for Dandadan chapter 41!

Dandadan's recently introduced Evil Eye yokai not only just conjured a darker version of Dragon Ball's Spirit Bomb but unleashed it upon his opponents more forcibly and dynamically than the original, all while circumventing one of the latter technique's most frustrating drawbacks.

The Evil Eye wants nothing more than to exterminate humanity, but, unfortunately for him, after forcing himself into the body of Jin "JiJi" Enjoji, he must first contend with a rampaging death worm that's very similar to Harry Potter's Basilisk. The possessed Jiji accomplishes this by taking advantage of his surroundings in chapter 41 by mangaka Yukinobu Tatsu. The house he's currently fighting in was literally built from the grudges of countless children who were sacrificed to this death worm, and the Evil Eye forces them all into a small ball of highly compressed energy by closing his outstretched fingers into a tight fist. He then furiously kicks these grudges in such a way that causes the ball to ricochet off of numerous objects and surfaces, a terrifying display that he exacerbates by continually kicking the ball. The attack is quite effective, as the soon torn-up worm burrows away, allowing the yokai to then unleash the ball on one of the manga's main heroes Momo Ayase.

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This technique shares many similarities to Dragon Ball's Spirit Bomb, which the wielder (usually Goku) forms by gathering energy from chosen lifeforms into a ball-like mass. But unlike the Evil Eye who manipulated negative emotions from vengeful yokai, the Spirit Bomb can only be created by someone with a pure heart, as this is apparently a prerequisite to manipulate and gather energy. A wielder who doesn't possess these qualities would risk dying in the process of creating the technique. Similarly, only someone who has a heart that's pure can deflect the massive bomb, so the Evil Eye wouldn't be able to continuously kick it like he does with the compressed grudges in Dandadan.

The yokai's ball also shares more similarities with a version of the Spirit Bomb that appears in the Lord Slug movie. In Lord Slug, Goku only has a few seconds to gather a small amount of energy on the incoming eponymous villain and ends up chucking smaller and faster sphere. Usually, Spirit Bombs are large and require a great amount of time to form. As a result, numerous chapters normally pass until it's released. On account of its size, the bomb is nowhere near as mobile as Goku's attack in Lord Slorg or the yokai's grudge-filled ball in Dandadan. It's slow, but its size is usually so massive that it's impossible to dodge.

While a unique spin of Dragon Ball's Spirit Bomb, fans are more excited about the fact that Dandadan is renewing its focus on possessions. The manga series first captivated fans by how the possession of the main hero Ken Takakura aka Okarun manifested. Okarun used to completely lose himself whenever he released the power of his yokai parasite and transformed into the actual yokai. So, Momo had to find a balance of restricting the yokai's powers, changing the appearance of Okarun's transformation in the process. Currently, Jiji is fully possessed but doesn't really share any resemblance with the Evil Eye unlike Okarun did originally. Jiji's form is, therefore, more akin to how Okarun's transformation manifests now with Momo's help. Overall, Dandadan might be putting a dark spin on classic manga tropes like Dragon Ball's Spirit Bomb, but it's adding enough original material that it still forges its own identity.

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