Steel Ball Run Episode 4: Anime-Only Scenes Finally Show Andre's Death and a Stand's Name
『スティール・ボール・ラン』第4話、アニメオリジナルの「アンドレの死亡描写」と「スタンド名叫び」に反応
Steel Ball Run's 2nd Stage Episode 4, "Oh! Lonesome Me" (subtitled "Devil's Palm"), added two scenes the manga never clearly drew: Mountain Tim shouting his Stand's name as he activates it, and a visible, unambiguous death for Andre of the Boomboom Family.
A Japanese reaction thread built around Warner Bros. Japan Anime's official episode clip ran to 142 comments, and the top-liked reply (1,044 likes) is just a single line of gratitude for how the Stand's name was delivered on screen. From there, commenters split their praise between the Stand-naming addition -- Part 7's manga rarely has characters say a Stand's name out loud -- and the clearer Andre death scene, with manga readers confirming both were anime-original additions.
Steel Ball Run's 2nd Stage aired Episode 4 this past Friday -- titled "Oh! Lonesome Me" and subtitled "Devil's Palm" -- and Warner Bros. Japan Anime's channel posted an official clip centered on Mountain Tim's Stand debut. The clip pulled in 142 comments, and the word that keeps showing up in them is "anime-original": commenters who've read the Part 7 manga say the episode added two things the source material never clearly showed.
“Thank you for that genuinely intense "Oh! Lonesome Me!"... I can't find any other words for it.”
凄みのある「オー！ロンサム・ミー！」をありがとう… それしか言う言葉が見つからない…
On paper, Oh! Lonesome Me sounds like a goofy gimmick power: it turns its user into a rope and lets them fling their own limbs around like a lasso. On screen, viewers weren't buying the "goofy" part at all.
“It's an ability that makes zero sense no matter how you look at it, and yet it's unbelievably stylish.”
どう見ても意味不明な能力なのに死ぬほどスタイリッシュでやばい
“Mountain Tim shouting his Stand's name and the clear depiction of Andre's death -- those were both good anime-original additions.”
マウンテンティムがスタンド名叫ぶのとアンドレの明確な死亡描写、良いアニオリだった
That comment names exactly what sent the thread into agreement mode. Part 7's Stand users rarely say their Stand names out loud in the manga, which makes them genuinely hard to keep straight for readers. Mountain Tim shouting "Oh! Lonesome Me!" on his own is something the anime added, and more than a few commenters said they'd take more scenes like it.
“The anime-original Stand-name shout is great. Also grateful they clearly showed Andre actually dying -- it makes everything easier to follow.”
スタンド名叫ぶアニオリ素晴らしい。あとアンドレがちゃんと死んだのを描写してくれたのも分かりやすくなってて有難い
“I don't really remember Stand names being said out loud much in the original manga.”
原作でスタンド名を言ってるイメージあんまなかったな
The second anime-original addition is darker. Andre, one of the Boomboom Family members introduced last episode, visibly dies here -- his body punctured, clearly gone. Manga readers in the thread confirmed that scene never happened on the page; in the manga, Andre is simply last seen watching from a distance, with his fate left unconfirmed.
“I'm anime-only, but I didn't know that was anime-original lol. It was so abrupt it made me laugh.”
アニメ勢だけどあれアニオリだったんかw 呆気なさすぎて笑った
“So Andre's death scene really was anime-original after all.”
やっぱアンドレの死亡描写ってアニオリだったんか
Not everyone treated it as a clean win, though. One longer reply described the scene as emotional whiplash -- laughing that a death this minor even needed showing, then getting genuinely hit a moment later by Mountain Tim's grief-stricken scream.
“With Andre, I almost laughed thinking "well, of course he'd die" -- but then LA's scream was so heartbreaking it got to me... except the acting was so good it almost made me laugh again... and then the desert swallowing everyone up made me sad all over again. I genuinely didn't know what emotion to feel -- fitting, for an episode called "Devil's Palm."”
アンドレ兄さんのところは「そりゃ死ぬわ」って思って笑いそうだったけど、LAの叫びが悲痛すぎて悲しくなった…でも演技力高すぎて逆に笑いそうになった…と思ったら砂漠に飲み込まれるところでまた悲しくなった… どんな感情で見ればいいのか迷った…『悪魔の手のひら』で迷うみたいに…
Elsewhere in the thread, there's praise that has nothing to do with either anime-original addition -- just how fast Mountain Tim reads a bad situation and reacts once the fight turns strange.
“Mountain Tim really does catch on fast.”
マウンテン・ティムの理解の早さよ
By the end of the thread, the running joke had looped back to where it started: a Stand that sounds like a punchline on paper, somehow landing as one of the coolest things the show's done all season.
“It's supposed to be a lame power, and somehow it looks incredibly cool.”
しょぼい能力のはずなのにすげーかっこよく見える
That's the pattern running through both anime-original additions this episode: a minor Stand getting a name worth shouting, and a minor death getting a reaction worth feeling. Three episodes from now, 2nd Stage will need a lot more of that same confidence once the race reaches its genuinely famous fights.
FAQ
- What's new in Steel Ball Run Episode 4 that wasn't in the manga?
- Commenters who've read the manga say two things were added for the anime: Mountain Tim shouting his Stand's name, "Oh! Lonesome Me," out loud when he activates it, and a clear on-screen death for Andre of the Boomboom Family, who in the manga is just last seen watching from a distance and never confirmed dead on the page.
- What is Mountain Tim's Stand, Oh! Lonesome Me?
- Based on the episode and comments, it's a Stand that can turn its user into a rope-like form and move body parts independently, letting Mountain Tim use lasso-style techniques in combat.
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