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shinanai · 1 year
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since having c*vid i watched drrr (& almost done with drrr2)…. gonna add shizuo and mikado….
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digitalcockroach · 11 months
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k well i caught up with all of chainsaw man that's out so now i will try for the millionth time to watch durarara
i watched a good bit of it in like 8th/9th grade but never finished it or watched drrr2 and ive TRIED to get thru it like at least once a fuckin year it feels like and always fall off a few eps in despite enjoying it???? so idk here we go again since im on an anime kick
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naruzumake · 3 years
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noisylovepatrol · 4 years
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Durarara - 10th anniversary celebration Durarara!!x2 Shou OP (BD Creditless)
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I STILL DRAW DURARARA!! FOLLOW MY INSTAGRAM AND ASK ME FOR COMMISSION AND QUESTIONS @hannahjviani 
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dontbemeanplease · 5 years
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I stuck with Anxiety, because I’m intimidated by Cyberbullies! It’s been a fat minute since I’ve drawn the most handsome character in DRRR!! Thank you, anonymous!
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haleigh-sloth · 2 years
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Is durarara worth reading/watching?
That....entirely depends on what you're looking for.
Durarara!! is not a typical story, and its original format was just straight up lite novels, and it's been adapted. And my best friend is reading the lite novels alongside me while I read the manga, and we're comparing to see how well it was adapted.
Also, Durarara is seinen, from what I've been able to find on the matter. Which makes sense because there are not a lot of shounen tropes going on in it.
But Durarara is scattered; it's organized chaos. That's the best way I can describe it. There is a very large cast, and there are a lot of different small plot lines going on and a ton of character arcs going on, that don't seemingly have much to do with each other until they all intersect at one point.
If you're the type of reader/watcher to get into side characters and want the story to focus on a ton of different people, and not just centralize on two or three people, Durarara is definitely for you.
The way it tells stories reminds me a lot of how Harlan Coben's stories play out: tons of different plot lines all going in a million different directions to eventually meet at a central point toward the end.
The anime is probably the most popular way to consume the story. There are two series, Drrr and Drrr2 (drrr2 has three seasons). The voice acting is good both in Japanese and English. It's a good watch. But I personally watched the anime so many times and I just...for the life of me was not able to retain what happened once I finished it. But I also have a really hard time retaining things I watch, if I haven't read them before hand. Depending on what it is. Usually this is the case with anime for me.
Right now I'm collecting the volumes and reading through the story, because the manga is still publishing and carries on beyond where Durarara!! 2 ends, and I want to experience the whole story because there are several characters within Drrr that are worth following. Izaya, Kida, Celty, and Shizuo to name a few.
So I'm reading Drrr because nostalgia, but also because in my opinion it IS a fucking GREAT story but I just haven't been able to fully appreciate it because my brain sucks. I got through the first volume last night and will get through the second one tonight. I can already tell I'm gonna have a much easier time keeping track of what's going on. So if organized, but chaotic stories are for you, then Durarara!! is for you lol.
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demonanata · 5 years
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i remember watching drrr when it came to netflix and starting drrr2 and i just couldnt do it because they made shizuo and izaya so goddamn ugly in season 2
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dubstepkazoo · 7 years
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So I recently finished watching Durarara!!x2.
Yes, I really didn’t get to it until just now.
The original Durarara!! was a fresh, unique anime that improved considerably on the source material by adjusting the pacing, adding entirely new scenes, changing the order in which scenes were presented, and doing a whole slew of other things to produce an exciting story about gang violence and twisted love in a city that’s only a hop, skip, and a jump away from my university. Now, these improvements were CRUCIAL. Durarara has a TON of characters, and it was important to give the viewer time to get to know them, as well as give them time to establish a meaning for themselves and be relevant.
Durarara!!x2 tries to achieve the same result without using the same methods.
But before I talk about that, I want to talk about something I haven’t seen anyone else talk about regarding this series. Ever wonder why the three seasons of DRRR2 are called “Shou,” “Ten,” and “Ketsu?” Well, the standard essay-writing structure taught in Japanese schools is called “ki-shou-ten-ketsu,” just like how American schools teach “intro, body, body, body, conclusion.” The “ki” (presumably represented by the first season of DRRR) is the intro as we know it. The “shou” is a development of the thesis, building upon and substantiating it at the same time. The “ten” is the twist, coming at the topic from a completely different angle and putting your own personal spin on it - for example, proof by contrapositive could happen here. Finally, the “ketsu” is the wrap-up, tying the rest of the essay up into a neat little bow and making the threads of logic all come together. So as part of my discussion of this anime, I think it might be interesting to look at it from this perspective.
Technical details first. The animation isn’t bad, and the few serious fight scenes look good enough. The character models, though, could use some work. They often suffer from Tim Burton Syndrome, especially Egor and Rokujou. As for the music, the only track that really stood out was Ketsu’s OP, which kicks three and a half different kinds of ass (compared to the five kinds of ass kicked by the first season’s OPs and Trust Me). And the voice acting, naturally, was great. What can you expect from a cast that contains both Daisuke Ono and Jun Fukuyama?
If you thought the original DRRR had a lot of characters, you ain’t seen nothing yet. DRRR2 introduces tons of new characters, brings back ones that were retired in the first season (Haruna and Takashi), and even shows us some that were only alluded to before (Izumii). Easily more than the first season’s entire cast. Who, by the way, still stick around. 36 episodes is just not enough to develop all of them adequately and make them all satisfying. And on top of that, some of them are given focus they don’t need. Akabayashi is given an entire flashback episode in Ten, but he’s completely inconsequential throughout the entirety of Ketsu - despite the fact that he’s in its OP. Heck, Ruri Hijiribe remains an important figure throughout Shou, but doesn’t matter at all from then on. She doesn’t even get any screentime in Ketsu except for one short scene. Rather than see the characters for who they are, you start to see them only for what faction they’re in. Where’s this guy from, who’s he working for? What he wants or what he’s like tend not to be explained.
As for the story, Izaya’s plot to throw Ikebukuro into chaos continues. Shou actually opens with a four-episode adaptation of the fourth novel in the series, which actually serves as a very nice reintroduction. It’s been years and years since the first season, and the viewer needs time to readjust to Durarara’s peculiar storytelling. It depicts a (relatively) inconsequential sequence of events told completely out of order. Our old friends get some decent action in, and a few new characters are given some time to shine. It was very welcome.
Anyway, throughout Shou and Ten, various factions gain considerable power. We meet the Toramaru gang, Mikado goes completely off his rocker, the Blue Squares come back, and even the yakuza enter the fray. These two cours create a very distinct feeling that Ikebukuro is reaching its boiling point. Shou provides a steady influx of new info and new gangs to add to the first season’s introductions, and Ten shows us how human traffickers and yakuza throw their wrenches into the youth-dominated underbelly of the city. How, then, does Ketsu tie everything together?
Poorly.
With so many complicated factions and motivations already, it tries to introduce even more characters at the latest hour, seeming to forget that it already has dozens of pre-established characters to keep track of. Remember Sloan? Yeah, me neither. He got one scene in the first episode of Ketsu. So much for his character arc. Mikage? Why should I care about her now when she’s never mattered before? Why should I get attached to Kujiragi if I’ve never seen her before? Ketsu seems to waste too much time on more setup and forget that it has a Byzantine story to bring a satisfying conclusion to. In fact, the big climax to the series starts with a minor character deciding to begin preparing for his endgame. That’s how bad it is. It’ll ignore groups of characters for entire episodes at a time. Something important happens for Celty halfway through Ketsu, but she remains ignored until the very last episode, where she acts as a shameless deus ex machina because Narita couldn’t figure out how to write himself out of the clusterfuck he had created. Remember her scene at the Dollars meeting in the first season? That was awesome. But her big scene here in Ketsu is completely disappointing. To add insult to injury, the series concludes with a perfect return to the status quo, resetting the game board completely. Everyone’s progress toward their goals (except maybe the high schoolers) goes back to zero. Really makes you wonder what you sat through 61 episodes for.
Finally, there’s the theme of twisted love. This comes across loud and clear in the first season and the LNs, but it’s hard to find in DRRR2. Shinra and Celty get a little development on this front, and Seiji and Mika reiterate some of the same points they made in the first season, but other than that, examples of this theme are few and far between. I guess there’s Kasuka and Ruri in Shou, but they only matter for a few episodes, and the assertions made by their relationship end up not mattering in the bigger scheme of the series. In this aspect, the series lost quite a bit of scheme. I foresaw Shinra’s climactic scene from halfway through Ketsu. Come on, guys.
Okay, so I’ve been ripping on this quite a bit. I love ripping on things. But I also found a great deal of enjoyment in DRRR2. Justice porn is abundant, and there’s plenty of DRRR’s special brand of humor to be found. Even the fight scenes are exciting.
My final score for Durarara!!x2 is a five out of ten.
Shou supplemented the first season decently. Ten gave a cute new perspective on Ikebukuro. But Ketsu dropped the ball. It was too focused on being more Durarara, forgetting to be a good conclusion to a long and complicated series.
That said, there’s plenty to enjoy. Shizuo and Varona had a good dynamic going on. Rokujou was a joy to watch. Walker and Erika were hilarious as usual, despite their god-awful taste in LNs.
I believe this anime would have been better if it had been longer. It needed time to develop its army of characters satisfactorily. Some were scrutinized and then thrown away, others were kinda there the whole time without mattering until their big scene in which you were supposed to care about them, and still others were tossed in at the eleventh hour. In order to make this series better without making it smaller-scale, it needed more time. But hey, this is what you get when you try to adapt eight LNs in three cours.
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handsoapsy · 7 years
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i finally finished drrr2 and the only thing I've learned is that everybody is gay, no exceptions, miss me with that anri and mikado shit
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noisylovepatrol · 5 years
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Izaya is bored
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Would you be willing to draw shinzaya/izashin? ♡ ( ` ∇ ´ ) ♡
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Izaya x Shinra 
Shinra, “Ahhhh- Izaya…! Get off, this body is only for Celty’s beautiful touch!! You’re tainting me…!”
Izaya, “Heheheh, Shinra, you know I’ve always considered you to be my only ‘friend,’ now don’t you…?”
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dontbemeanplease · 7 years
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awakusu karaoke .:*・° ♫
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naruzumake · 8 years
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special4years: 20 days of requests Day 04: Kida Masaomi - requested by: @boba-tae 
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