Durarara!! Episode 11 __HOT__
I've said in past Durarara episodes I haven't been terribly keen on the gang warfare material as it seems so minor and inconsequential compared to the more supernatural elements the show contains. This latest arc involving the Yellow Scarves teaming up to try to take out the Dollars would normally be a sign for me to start sighing in resignation. That hasn't been the case though. I'm genuinely getting into this new arc (once I remember all the characters' names that is) and there are a couple of reasons for that. A big one is the change in Mikado's personality has made him a far more interesting person to place at the centre of this story. His weird obliviousness to how drastic his change in character has become adds to his new personality. The fact that he's still a bit useless, being routinely chucked into the back of the van by his colleagues after he loses in another fight, shows that the boring teenager part of him still exists, which makes for an interesting contrast.
Durarara!! Episode 11
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However my secret favourite new character is Akabayashi. There's a very clever juxtaposition between the obvious danger he exudes and his disarming appearance with his walking cane. He's friendly and not villainous, but also clearly the person you want on your side rather than against you. He's got the friendly low growl of a grandfather who is a retired soldier and is now teaching you how to fish. It's why Akane gravitated towards the man when she needed someone to help her. I'm delighted by the reveal at the end of the episode that the guy plans to become the new face of the Dollars movement. Or at least share it with Celty, which is pretty ironic really. A member of the yakuza, traditionally an organisation that operates in the shadows and doesn't want a public face, teams up with a character who literally has no face.
Then the episode ending on Shizuo stomping in carrying a motorbike over his head with one arm, the ground shaking and Mikado blurrily opened his eyes with the world thumping around him. It was like the T-Rex was closing in on him the way the whole scene was framed. It was great. This show is great. I love Durarara.
Durarara!! is a 2010 anime series directed by Takahiro Omori and produced by Brain's Base. The episodes are adapted from the light novels of the same name, written by Ryōgo Narita and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda.[1] The series follows several people in Ikebukuro: Celty Sturluson, a dullahan working as an underground courier while looking for her lost head; an internet-based anonymous gang called the Dollars; and the chaos that unfolds around the most dangerous people in the city. The anime began airing in Japan on January 8, 2010. The series was aired by the MBS television network, followed by the TBS, CBC, and Bandai Channel networks.[2][3] Crunchyroll simulcasts the anime within 24 hours of its Japanese premiere to its members, becoming a free-for-all a week later.[4] The series was simulcast in French Speaking Europe by Dybex, starting January 14, 2010.
Aniplex released the first limited edition DVD, containing two episodes, on February 24, 2010, and as of March 24, 2010, two additional DVDs have been released.[5][6] The seventh DVD, which was released on August 25, 2010, includes a direct-to-DVD episode.[7]
The anime uses four pieces of theme music. For the first twelve episodes, "Uragiri no Yūyake" (裏切りの夕焼け, lit. "Sunset of Betrayal") by Theatre Brook is the opening theme, while "Trust Me" by Yuya Matsushita is the series' ending theme.[1] "Trust Me" and "Uragiri no Yūyake" were released as singles on February 17, 2010, and February 24, 2010, respectively.[10][11] From episode thirteen onwards, the opening theme became "Complication" (コンプリケイション, Konpurikeishon) by ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D, and the ending theme became "Butterfly" by On/Off.
I guess this means that the only antidotes to Saika possession are either true love or immunity to fear. (The latter was confirmed back in the second story arc of Durarara!!, when Shizuo pulled out a "That's my secret, Saika. I'm always afraid!" response to her attempts to possess him.) It makes sense, of course. One begets the other. When you're truly in love with someone who loves you back equally, it feels like there's nothing in the world left to fear. (Shinra and Celty) And when you've conquered enough adversity to open your heart without fear, your love can overcome even the deadliest barbs from a Russian assassin. (Shizuo and Varona) This also offers Anri a ray of hope for her future relationship with Mikado! Instead of holding herself back from love, she has to give herself up to it so completely that her love for Mikado overpowers Saika's love for humanity. Now that she knows just how much she is loved by all her freaky friends, maybe that'll be an easier hurdle to overcome.This freakish power of (freakish) love even comes up in tiny scenes like Erika's chance phone call to Kujiragi in episode 11. She has no idea that her new cosplay friend is actually the second half of Saika, but her warning means everything to stopping Nasujima-sensei's petty reign of terror. Erika just wants to make sure Kujiragi is safe, but now Kujiragi has a new mission to tie off some pesky loose ends taking their Saika powers too far. I shudder to think what's going to happen to Nasujima next time.
Oh man, I didn't even have time to discuss Akabayashi and Aozaki's important scene in this episode! (In fact, I haven't had time to touch on their relationship hardly at all throughout the series' run!) The red ogre meets with the blue ogre to confront him about the deal he made with Mikado, and that's when we learn another clever detail in Mikado's convoluted plan. The gun he fired on Dougen's mansion and the police station was in fact the little glove-pistol that Aozaki didn't know he'd acquired, which means that as furious as Aozaki is at losing The Dollars, the evidence doesn't actually point to Mikado's betrayal. It could be the work of completely separate Dollars, and there are so many hyperviolent Dollar members defacing the city right now that he can't tell head from tail on how his deal with Mikado went wrong. This effectively protects Mikado from the wrath of the Awakusu and places him firmly under punishment by martial law instead, which is what he wants. Akabayashi promises to step in and clean everything up for his grumpier counterpart, so I guess we might see him and Anri cross paths on the way to Mikado in the grand finale.
Celty refuses to listen, but Shooter has second thoughts. He digs his hooves in and refuses to budge until Shinra's fully made his case, but even though it makes for the most heartbreakingly adorable part of the episode, it's still not enough. Just like Mikado, no amount of words can stop Celty from destroying her old self for the supposed benefit of others who love her too much to let her go. So as she trots away into the sky, Shizuo pulls a Mr. Incredible and hurls Shinra into the sky after her. When Celty betrays her true feelings and reaches out to catch him so he won't fall to his death, Shinra reveals a little selfishness of his own, severing her head from her body with Kujiragi's Saika blade, which she gave up to give Shinra a second chance at love. It's heartwarming and shocking all at once!
Phew! Tying up every loose end in this series would be impossible, but most of the ends we did tie off were very satisfying. I would have loved to see other characters (like Akane Awakusu!) one more time, but I don't think they could have crammed more into this whole year-long second season, much less its final episode! Given the truncated adaptation, people are bound to be disappointed by one thing or another in this grand finale, so I'll boil down my relatively few disappointments to three.
Points 2 and 3 definitely seem like something the novels went into more detail about and was cut for time, especially in light of the anime's tendency to skip over characterization for Izaya and Mikado in general. (That first novel is really revealing!) Point 1 is probably the same in the books and just something I would change if I had my druthers. (Maybe Nasujima's stabbing transfers Saika into Mikado and Anri is forced to override it with her own Saika, before conquering its control completely through the power of love as shown by Shinra earlier and setting them both free?) This is a mostly satisfying finale, but it was never going to be able to live up to the promise of 62+ bloated episodes, so covering the major bases as well as it did is worth its own special flavor of applause.
Either way, this six year journey through Durarara!! has been an amazing and exhausting experience! I laughed, I cried, I growled "IIIIIIIIIZAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAA" to myself a lot like an insane person, good times were had by all! However, at the end of the day, most of my reviews were taken up with "explaining what happened and what I think it means" episode after episode, which speaks volumes about the overall quality of this adaptation. There wasn't much time to make a quality judgment on what was or wasn't working, because all my mental energy was spent trying to follow what the heck was even happening at any given time. It's no mystery to me that most people gave up on this show before the final curtain, and for those hardcore Durarara!! fans who stuck through it with me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
And so, in the spirit of Durarara!!, I will end these appallingly long episode reviews with an unexpected anticlimax. After all the thousands and thousands of words I've written, my last word on Durarara!! will be: You Should Probably Read the Books Instead.
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