I feel it’s secure to say that no one is ready for Dandadan (or Dan Da Dan?). You stroll in anticipating absurdity, however then it will get weirder than you might have predicted. Yokai, cursed tunnels, interdimensional banana-organ-seeking aliens, sentient testicles — you realize, the same old. What you particularly don’t count on is to your personal fragile human psyche to get quietly filleted within the course of. Someplace between the comedy, the chaos, and the grotesque, you find yourself sobbing about motherhood and abandonment. This sequence feels type of like being mugged by your inside little one whereas a feral grandma shouts obscenities within the background.
However in the event you’re me (learn: damaged sufficient to kind fictional characters for enjoyable), you additionally discover one thing else: the cognitive capabilities behind the insanity. As a result of by some means, even in a world the place disembodied jaws discuss again and cursed dolls swear like sailors, the Myers-Briggs® varieties sneak via.
So let’s check out the persona varieties represented on this sequence (warning, not all sorts are represented right here).
The Myers-Briggs® Persona Varieties of the Dandadan Characters
Momo Ayase: ESTP
Momo is what would occur if uncooked competence grew legs, placed on eyeliner, and developed zero endurance to your excuses. She’s the epitome of Se-dominant sharpness: every part occurs now. Threats? Dealt with. Demons? Exorcised. There isn’t any overthinking with Momo. Her physique strikes earlier than her mind finishes the sentence.
ESTPs are sometimes known as “tactical realists,” and watching Momo work is like watching Se in its most feral, wonderful type. She’s sarcastic, grumpy, and extremely responsive. The atmosphere throws chaos at her and he or she adjusts immediately, like some type of demon-slaying Roomba with nice hair. When she’s thrown into battle in opposition to yokai or evil aliens, she doesn’t freeze or spiral into existential ‘what if’s?’ She simply calculates: what’s in entrance of me, what can I exploit, the place do I strike?
And but, beneath that blunt exterior, her Fe tertiary perform bubbles up every now and then. She’s fiercely loyal, protecting, and when folks she loves are damage, the trend is on the spot. Not performative rage, however deep, primal fury. She doesn’t sit there intellectualizing injustice — she decks it within the face.
You see it when she steps between Okarun and his bullies with out hesitation, earlier than she even is aware of him. You see it when she dangers herself many times for folks she’s claimed as hers. If she loves you, she’ll throw herself into visitors for you earlier than you even notice you wanted saving.
Briefly: Momo is the individual you need main your group when the world ends — simply don’t let her close to your crush, your wardrobe price range, or any state of affairs requiring long-term planning.
Ken Takakura (Okarun): INFP
Okarun is an INFP with the type of delicate emotional ecosystem that runs on nervousness, daydreams, and Google search rabbit holes about cryptid mating habits.
The place Momo is pure “punch now, course of later,” Okarun is really feel deeply now, apologize whereas punching, after which spiral about whether or not or not the one who simply killed an alien for him truly desires him to say “hiya.”
Okarun is a strolling Fi-Ne swirl of awkward affection, ethical angst, and idealism that borders on masochistic. He doesn’t simply consider in aliens and yokai — he feels for them. And he nonetheless thinks the issue is him.
The factor with Okarun is that he by no means truly stopped being that lonely child making an attempt to contact aliens as a result of they have been the one ones he thought may perceive him. That longing — that bone-deep, aching loneliness blended with bizarre optimism — is virtually stitched into his pores and skin. It’s why he’s so fast to imagine he’s not adequate. Why he stands within the background, watching the folks he cares about snicker with another person, and thinks, “Perhaps I ought to simply… depart? Quietly? Without end?”
Sir. Please. You’re actually possessed by a speed-demon granny spirit. You’re attention-grabbing.
However INFPs don’t measure their value by how attention-grabbing they’re. They measure it by how good they’re — how sort, how real, how worthy of affection. He nonetheless calls Momo “Ayase-san” prefer it’s some type of sacred ritual, even after she’s bodyslammed a ghost for him and seen his cursed testicle state of affairs up shut.
His Ne reveals up in how deep he dives into his pursuits. INFPs don’t “dabble.” They obsess. Okarun didn’t simply study a number of details about aliens — he lives it, breathes it, in all probability has an opinion about whether or not the Flatwoods Monster deserves its personal Netflix present. His curiosity is pushed by emotion, not logic. He doesn’t wish to know the reality; he desires to belong in it.
Okarun is, at his core, somebody who would quite be damage than be the explanation another person hurts. And that’s each his curse and his brilliance. He’s the type of pal who reveals up, each time, irrespective of how damaged he feels. And if he ever says your identify with out the well mannered honorific? You higher consider you’ve earned a everlasting spot in his comfortable, squishy coronary heart.
Turbo Granny: ESTP
Turbo Granny is the human embodiment of a cigarette lit with a flamethrower. She’s all velocity, sass, and deeply inappropriate commentary — mainly an ESTP turned as much as eleven, then slapped right into a cursed doll physique with no regard for legal guidelines, relationships, or lunch etiquette. If ESTPs are adrenaline incarnate, Turbo Granny is what occurs when that adrenaline grows enamel and begins providing to suckle in your soul.
Let’s be sincere: she’s gross. She’s chaotic. She’s wildly inappropriate. And he or she is, bafflingly, probably the most grounded characters on this whole eldritch carnival of a sequence. As a result of beneath the cursing and the wildly pointless physique horror, Turbo Granny is pure Se vitality: “What’s the issue? What can I do about it proper now? Nice, let’s do this. Additionally, you scent like disappointment and remorse. Eat one thing.”
Seiko (her equally unfiltered ESTP/ISTP counterpart) explains that Turbo Granny used to wander towards the spirits of ladies who died tragically. To not curse them. To consolation them. That’s if you notice that beneath all of the vulgarity and velocity lies an precise coronary heart; a blunt, unsentimental one, however a coronary heart nonetheless. One which acknowledges ache and grief and says, “Yeah, the world sucks. Right here’s a journey.”
She’s additionally the shadow facet of Momo’s ESTP vitality — the aged, unfiltered, absolutely-not-here-to-be-liked model. She is what occurs when Se loses its social brakes however retains its sharpness. A type of yokai battle auntie who might or might not save your life whereas roasting your outfit decisions.
Seiko Ayase: ESTP or ISTP
Seiko is a kind of characters that makes you query whether or not the Myers-Briggs® system is even geared up to deal with no matter taste of unbothered competence she operates on.
Typing her is… exhausting. She has Se written throughout her — the hyper-awareness of her atmosphere, the moment adaptability, the whole consolation in bodily area. She handles each escalating supernatural disaster with the identical vitality most of us reserve for reorganizing the storage: calm, environment friendly, and low-key irritated you even wanted her assist in the primary place.
A part of me thinks ESTP — she’s daring, action-oriented, socially unflappable. However she’s impartial and pragmatic to a degree that makes her really feel eerily ISTP-ish. There’s little or no Feeling perform displaying; she not often engages with anybody’s emotional state until it instantly impacts the mission. I thought-about ESFP, however she lacks the heat and the relational expressiveness. After which I not often see Ti for her (the judging perform that ESTPs and ISTPs use). As a substitute she appears to indicate Extraverted Pondering (Te). She’s all the time fixing, all the time structuring the subsequent transfer. She’s no nonsense and decisive and targeted on her most well-liked end result and reaching it as shortly as attainable.
You can possibly argue for some hybrid STJ/STP tendencies together with her sense of duty and direct problem-solving, however she doesn’t appear weighed down by Si (the STJs perceing perform). She has no rulebook, no attachment to custom, no compulsion to honor the previous. She operates absolutely within the current second, scans the atmosphere, reads the issue, and strikes.
The world is on fireplace, the aliens are coming, testicles are lacking, and he or she’s sitting there adjusting her kimono like: “Calm down. We’ll deal with it. Cease bothering me.”
Aira Shiratori: ENFJ
Aira is what occurs if you hand an ENFJ a childhood trauma, a mirror, and a full tank of ambition. She begins off like your traditional queen bee — bubbly, charming, candy on the skin, and quietly working an influencer scheme behind the scenes. She has this determined, bone-deep have to matter.
As an Extraverted Feeling kind (and an Enneagram 3), she’s residing and respiratory for a way others reply to her. Aira’s whole id revolves round being adored, admired, envied. She’s the woman who genuinely believes that flirting with each boy in class is “doing them a favor.” Like, they get to expertise my presence — you’re welcome.
However the factor with ENFJs is their emotional complexity runs deep. The exterior charisma is all the time making an attempt to compensate for one thing festering beneath. In Aira’s case? Loss. Her mom’s loss of life leaves a gap she tries to fill with admiration and management. If she will handle each social dynamic, possibly she will outrun the grief. If everybody loves her, possibly she’ll really feel secure.
After which she will get religious powers and instantly decides she’s The Chosen One. In fact. ENFJs have this terrifying potential to by accident manifest a messiah advanced in a single day. It’s not even conceitedness — it’s responsibility. She’s satisfied she was chosen to guard the world. An ESFJ (which I thought-about) could be way more right down to earth, with some scattered theorizing about prospects. However as an ENFJ, Aira narrows all the chances right down to just one attainable end result: She’s the one who’s right here to avoid wasting the world.
Jin Enjoji (Jiji): ESFP
Jiji is pleasure carrying a human go well with that sometimes malfunctions. The boy enters each room with exuberance and a type of slapstick goofiness that’s totally lovable. He’s the very embodiment of ESFP vitality: dwell absolutely, really feel deeply, and possibly flirt with actually anybody who smiles at him.
He’s the man who could make a joke out of something, who by some means manages to be each wildly entertaining and deeply annoying, relying on how sleep-deprived you might be. However underneath all of the dramatics and verbal sound results (“Fuuuuu!”) is that traditional ESFP core: unfiltered emotional presence.
The place different varieties intellectualize or compartmentalize, ESFPs simply really feel. They don’t strategize their empathy; it hits them like a freight prepare. You see it in how immediately he feels sorry for the Evil Eye entity. If somebody’s struggling, his coronary heart simply breaks on cue.
However Jiji’s additionally impulsive in a manner that borders on self-endangerment. That Se-dominant thirst for expertise makes him susceptible to charging into conditions earlier than absolutely greedy the results. Ask for a telephone quantity? Completed. Sacrifice himself for a pal? Already on it. Supply to play with the Evil Eye ghost little one “for retains”? Dedicated.
And his vibe with the group can be quintessentially ESFP. He by some means lowers the strain even whereas inflicting half of it. The second will get too darkish? He makes a joke. Somebody’s brooding? He pulls them into the subsequent wild concept earlier than they will spiral. He’s a serotonin seller dressed like a highschool playboy.
Taro: ISFP
Okay, pay attention. Typing Taro is a bit (or quite a bit) absurd as a result of we’re speaking a couple of sentient, hollowed-out anatomical mannequin who runs on pure romantic fixation. And sure, there’s restricted knowledge. What we all know is that he’s the candy, awkward, loyal sort who falls in love so exhausting he may truly rearrange his inner organs (actually, in his case).
Taro’s whole being is constructed round feeling. He sees Hana, and immediately it’s like his world crystallizes into one singular objective: be together with her. The devotion is unrelenting, naive, and fully honest. That’s Fi-dominant vitality — when ISFPs love, they don’t dip a toe in. They cannonball.
There’s no lengthy mental dialogue about “What does this imply? Ought to I like her? What are the dangers?” — he simply commits. He throws himself at love the best way you may throw a paper airplane right into a hurricane: wildly optimistic, barely unstable, however fully honest.
His Se reveals up in how bodily and instant his reactions are. Have to reassemble his whole physique in seconds to chase after love? Completed. Want to interrupt aside once more to keep away from seize? Certain. Have to run straight into visitors as a result of time is meaningless if he can’t see Hana tonight? Clearly.
He lives totally within the second, pushed by sensation and private worth.
Acrobatic Silky: ISFJ
There’s not sufficient remedy on the earth for what Acrobatic Silky did to my tear ducts. She’s an ISFJ wrapped in pure, devastating tragedy. The type of tragedy that crawls underneath your ribs and nests there completely.
ISFJs are pure caretakers. They defend. They nurture. They sacrifice. And when that drive is twisted by grief — like, say, dropping your little one to mortgage sharks and being overwhelmed bloody whereas powerless to cease it — that caretaker intuition can mutate into obsessive, haunting desperation. Silky turns into fixated on discovering somebody to guard. Anybody. She latches onto Aira as a result of her shattered psyche wants to mom once more. Her id is gone with out it.
Whilst a monstrous yokai, she isn’t malicious in intent. She’s determined. She tries to recreate the household she misplaced as a result of she’s nonetheless clinging to her misplaced goal. ISFJs battle deeply when their roles are forcibly ripped away. Take that away, and their world disintegrates.
Her Si perform reveals up in her obsessive attachment to the previous — despite the fact that her recollections are fractured, the emotional residue stays. She doesn’t keep in mind precisely who her daughter was, however she feels the loss like phantom ache. It drives each motion.
After which — that scene. When she presents her aura to convey Aira again. When she rips off her jaw as proof she received’t hurt anybody. When she accepts her personal erasure into oblivion as a result of all that issues is her little one being secure.
That’s ISFJ self-sacrifice in its rawest, most devastating type.
Watching Aira embrace her, lastly giving her the one factor she wanted to let go — it’s the emotional equal of being hit by a semi-truck filled with orphaned puppies. I ugly cried. You ugly cried. Your complete web ugly cried.
However What Do You Suppose?
Do you agree or disagree on any of those characters? Let me know within the feedback! It’s all the time attention-grabbing to see what others have seen that I could have missed (or interpreted in a very completely different manner).
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