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Huh, I didn't realize Durarara op's would be divisive. By far my favorite is still the original.
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Yeah the original is like 100 percent spot on with the mood of the series.
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It's pretty well-accepted that the first OP was the best. The thing people don't agree on is which one is second-best. (but, it's Day You Laugh, the second X2 opening.)
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Adelheid posted:It's pretty well-accepted that the first OP was the best. The thing people don't agree on is which one is second-best. (but, it's Day You Laugh, the second X2 opening.) Agreed.
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Well poo poo. I just noticed a spoiler in the new ED that has me really bummed out. Looks like Kyohei lost a leg.
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Frabba posted:Well poo poo. I just noticed a spoiler in the new ED that has me really bummed out. Look again, I think they're just crossed.
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Jan 16, 2016 19:08
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Varona hanging out with Shizuo and Tom was great. Does anyone know if that's gonna happen again?
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Wow, what a clusterfuck. Good episode. I need a refresher: What's the deal with the girl that tried to kill Izaya when he was hospitalized? Who is she? 'cause as far as I remember, she was kinda just "injected" into the series during that scene where she attempted to kill him.
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Jan 16, 2016 21:31
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In the Novels she shows up during Izaya's very first scene. She is not named or anything then. It was cut in the anime but later shown as a flashblack during the scene were Izaya is hospitalized and she tried to kill him. Pretty much she was a insignificant person that wanted to screw Izaya over. But yeah no one imagined she would be such a big spanner in the works stealing Celty's head.
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krnhotwings posted:
Okay, I'll try to make this simple: Remember this wee lady?  She is Rio Kamichika. In season 1, she has an important-ish role in the first 2 episodes where she:
Here's the thing: MonsterEnvy posted:In the Novels she shows up during Izaya's very first scene. She is not named or anything then. It was cut in the anime but later shown as a flashblack during the scene were Izaya is hospitalized and she tried to kill him. Pretty much she was a insignificant person that wanted to screw Izaya over. Everything MonsterEnvy just mentioned? That was Manami's gig, almost all of which it ended up going to Rio, at least importance-wise. You see, Rio was basically created for the anime because Ryohgo Narita had yet to give Manami any significant features or importance aside from her grudge with Izaya due to the incident shown in the flashback. However, when that happened, it created this wee problem... Volume 7 came out around the same time the first season of the anime started airing. In that volume, Izaya starts waiting for a bunch of people to come out of the woodwork and pay him back for all the grief he's inflicted on them due to his madcap asshattery. Nobody actually shows up, which causes him to start losing it (okay, further losing it; this is Izaya we're talking about, after all)... until Manami shows up (I think she's still nameless at this point in the novels) and good-ol' Izaya simply asks "Who are you?". Manami spills the beans and that basically pulls Izaya out of his funk / drives him further nuts. Thing is, in theory, Rio is the one who should've showed up to the hospital. However, due to the way her little arc ended (Celty text-telling her that people aren't all as lovely as Izaya and/or her parents), that wouldn't make sense. Hell, Narita even ended up making her canon as she appears as part of Chikage's harem in Volumes 9 or 10 (with the second season integrating her into said harem even earlier). Izaya thought that he had this all-consuming impact on people due to all the poo poo that he's pulled so far. Truth is, however, most of them have had a significant development to the point that Izaya is just a bad memory at most. Amongst the main cast:
So yeah. Of course, the anime just simply decided to add upon it by making clear that Izaya duping suicidal/depressed girls was not a one-time gig for him. Wark Say fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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Manami is cool and I like her a lot. In a series all about love (twisted love, but still) she's a character that is motivated by nothing but spite and hatred. And despite being probably the most normal human being in the show (much moreso than Mikado since she doesn't have a gang or anything), she manages to cause some pretty big ripples in Ikebukuro just through trying to ruin Izaya's life in any way possible. Though at least with her murder attempt she did nothing but inspire him because "Holy poo poo. A random nobody I forgot about just tried to kill me for telling her she was worthless. Human's are so loving interesting and the best and I was right to commit my eternal love to them! Time to keep doing what I was doing except x10." Also, I am glad it was acknowledged that probably outside of Kine and Mikage nobody in Izaya's evil hotpot party team actually plans on helping him. 
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 Good episode! Anri is cool and cute, and both things that happened with her this episode are things i've been looking forward to; hell of a place to end though. 
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SyntheticPolygon posted:
yea and out of those 2 Mikage is actually the only one that is truly there to help Izaya and make sure he doesnt get himself too badly hurt. seeing as how, even after all he did to her, she is still in love with him. in the novels during that scene with Kine and Mikage, Mikage elaborates her feelings towards Izaya more. while she says any romantic love she had for him has long since died out, she always feels drawn towards him. she compares it to being like addicted to a drug. she even says that she respects how Izaya manipulates anyone and everyone, and how because he does not discriminate who he manipulates, that is like a good part of his good personality traits. i think she is just still in love with him though and they should get married. Dick Spacious CPA fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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Jan 17, 2016 05:28
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Mikage seems pretty smart though and you'd have to be pretty dumb to love Izaya. Also, she kicked him in the face last episode so I don't think she likes him too much.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Mikage seems pretty smart though and you'd have to be pretty dumb to love Izaya. Also, she kicked him in the face last episode so I don't think she likes him too much. She likes the concept of him, like a painting or an ivory box.
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Jan 17, 2016 06:51
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I just watched episode 2.   That is all.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Also, I am glad it was acknowledged that probably outside of Kine and Mikage nobody in Izaya's evil hotpot party team actually plans on helping him. Also since both Sloan and Izumi are working for the Awakusu, does Izaya know about this and these are deals he has with the Awakusu, or are the Awakusu trying to pull one over on him and he isn't supposed to know (but since he is Izaya he probably knows anyway)?
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Jan 20, 2016 09:58
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Jan 23, 2016 19:05
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Only three episodes in and everything is speeding along towards a glorious crash.
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Jan 24, 2016 00:30
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Things are a loving mess already and I love it. But the most important part was Izaya and Mikado's conversation. He really has been loving nuts right from the beginning hasn't he? Also, I am glad that my friend Chikage is going to beat up Masaomi and destroy his stupid gang.
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Jan 24, 2016 00:50
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El Burbo posted:these kids really need to go back to school The last time someone told Mikado that he put a pen through someone's hand.
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Thieving Cat is my new favorite and i hope she's nice to my other favorite: Anri. I actually have too many favorite characters in this show.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:
Who? Fancy-pants social studies rear end in a top hat or the glorious leader of anonymous?
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Wark Say posted:Who? Fancy-pants social studies rear end in a top hat or the glorious leader of anonymous? Well both but especially Mikado since for all of season 1 he was basically portrayed as the most normal person in the show even if he did run anonymous. I really like how a lot of season 2 is about how the dollars is honestly an incredibly hosed up and dangerous concept and really you'd have to be more than a little insane to come up with it and and stick with it even as it becomes increasingly terrible.
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geez gang members all have indestructible foreheads apparently Was that creeper guy the teacher, Takashi? I thought he was running away from Niekawa, but I guess he was pretending or something?
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Redmark posted:geez gang members all have indestructible foreheads apparently He's a pedophile who was in a relationship with Niekawa. Niekawa went insane because of Saika and started stalking him, that's the part that freaked him out.
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El Burbo posted:He's a pedophile who was in a relationship with Niekawa. Niekawa went insane because of Saika and started stalking him, that's the part that freaked him out. Wouldn't that make him an ephebophile since Haruna was already a High-Schooler? I mean, he's still a piece of poo poo who got his just desserts when Shizuo punched the poo poo out of him at the end of Vol 2 / episode 17-18 of the first season. Also, part of what made you uncomfortable about the 1st season is that, no matter any weird short-cuts that the production team sometimes took to save budget when it came to wonky animation, when it came to body language, the scenes were really well made, and all interactions Nasujima had with Anri (besides the last one where she tells him in no uncertain terms that she finds him disgusting) were just so loving cringe-worthy.
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Also apparently he is the dude that hit Kadota and met with Shijima last episode. I did not expect him to come back.
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Wark Say posted:Wouldn't that make him an ephebophile since Haruna was already a High-Schooler?
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Wark Say posted:Wouldn't that make him an ephebophile since Haruna was already a High-Schooler? Its the same thing
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Jan 30, 2016 19:53
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Also Takashi is still a huge creep. And now he is even creepier now that he knows about Saika.
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Jan 30, 2016 19:58
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Twiddy posted:Let's just not, this "debate" never goes well. 
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Wark Say posted:Wouldn't that make him an ephebophile since Haruna was already a High-Schooler? are you real Anyway, most important takeaway from this episode is definitely Kujiragi joining the cosplay club.
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Adelheid posted:are you real Look, I'm genuinely sorry that I brought it up. Please let's just put this behind us. And on Kujiragi being cute. 
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Adelheid posted:
I'm not sure which part was my favorite part today, so I'm just going with that.
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Jan 31, 2016 01:45
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Hmm I somehow missed the last three episodes of the summer season  Time to play catchup and then start on the new run!
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Jan 31, 2016 04:19
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a kitten posted:
Hey, a man has to look his best, even after getting slightly roughed up. 
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a kitten posted:
I really like how Chikage spent all of that fight just playing around and taking careless hits but by the end of it Masaomi had went from "ok I got this" to "Oh my God, this man is a monster and he is going to kill me". Also, of all the hundreds of durarara minor characters Takashi is probably the one I least wanted to return. So i'm mad he's back.
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