#durarara!!x2 shou

[anime-cafeteria]

[durarara-brain-rot]

That one scene of Shizuo basically doing this

special defense

does this count as anything ???is this art

[izamationbroker]

I just finished episode 7 of Shou, and Izaya's phone call to Mikado is very interesting to me. He initially calls to antagonize Mikado, or at least it seems like it with how he criticized Mikado's response to the Dollars going off the rails again and his strained relationship with Masaomi.

But really, it seems more like genuine advice to me than most of the bullshit Izaya goes on about in the series. I'll be real, I personally think Izaya is more honest with Mikado than anyone else in the series. When he gives him advice, it feels a lot less manipulative than his "advice" for any other character. This is especially true compared to how he is with Masaomi. Every bit of advice Izaya ever gives Masaomi is wrapped in riddles or culminates in some sort of arm-twist to get him to do what Izaya wants. Sure, Mikado is part of Izaya's plan to awaken the head, but it seems like he has a vested interest in Mikado ultimately coming out on top. I wonder why that is? Perhaps the fact that Mikado is a direct parallel to Izaya himself within the high school trio? Izaya clearly sees himself in Mikado, and wants to support him in a way he probably didn't have when he was up-and-coming himself.

It especially comes through to me at the end of their call this episode:

"You're a good person, and that's something to be to be respected. But didn't you start the Dollars because you got bored of being respectable? An escape from the ordinary—isn't that your dream? That's why I'm worried about you. I said it before, didn't I? To enjoy an ordinary life, you have to constantly evolve. But that's definitely not something you should try to do by yourself."

Izaya ends the conversation by insisting Mikado call him by his given name, a sign of friendship and equality, and reminds him that he has lots of people in his corner—Anri, Kida, and him. It's especially notable to me that Izaya doesn't reference himself as an exclusive authority here, and even sites Masaomi (who doesn't get along with Izaya) before he references himself. If it were really a manipulative tactic to keep Mikado under his thumb, he wouldn't have suggested Mikado communicate with his friends about the problem. Hell, in the original run, Izaya's WHOLE PLAN was centered around these three NOT communicating.

What's also notable is how Mikado takes that advice. He thanks Izaya in earnest, and later reminisces how he used to think Izaya was sketchy, but he now believes he's nice.

Orihara Izaya is nice. To Ryuugamine Mikado.

I think that's kind of an important facet of Izaya's character, that he is capable of caring for others. He's just a little chosey about who in his circle actually gets that care.

[crownedcaps]

★ Durarara!!x2 // Episodes 01-36 + OVA

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[wbmwrites]

Durarara!!! Ovas and Bonus Episodes:

To put more context this post, I will have to explain the following.

Obviously most streaming services won't provide some seasons that have bonus episodes or OVA specials.

At times you have to go out and buy this separate DVD for it.

And Durarara is no exception for that.

I have searched for years for a box set to purchase the series. But at last, there's none not properly available.

So we have to rely on streaming services that contain the series. Despite the fact they only provide the main continuity. At one point, Crunchyroll had the first series.

Which includes the full 26 episodes as of a providers such as Netflix and Hulu only provide 24 episodes.

As the series X2 was broken down into 13 episode parts Shou being part one, Ten being part two and Ketsu being part three. Each one of these parts had an additional episode that didn't air on the streaming services but was still dubbed. Episodes in the Shou and Ten cour relates to events that happened within the series. As the last bonus episode that occurred in Ketsu cour was a standalone episode, that never affected the storyline other any major characters.

These are the episodes:

Durarara Episode 12.5:

It's summertime in Ikebukuro, as the Raira Trio, the Van Gang and Izaya Orihara dons summer clothing. They all tied into events with a smuggling ring and a crime syndicate. This episode shows the last appearance of Isaac and Miria from Baccano and shows early appearances of Haruya Shiki of the Awakusu and motorcycle cop Kinnosuke Kuzuhara.

Celty Sturluson and the Van Gang were discussing aliens and UFOS throughout the episode. As for Shizuo Heiwajima, it was just another day of beating up deadbeats and fools sic on him from Izaya Orihara.

Durarara Episode 25:

This episode shows Yuhei Hanejima aka Kasuka Heiwajima reporting live from Ikebukuro to find a lovey dovey couple to put in his company's Jack O Lantern studios next movie. We see Yuhei interview multiple couples along such as Mika Harima and Seiji Yagiri with the final couple being Mikado Ryuugamine and Anri Sonohara. All while Simon was promoting Russia Sushi and the Van Gang was watching it's from Saburo's entertainment systems.

During the event, Shizuo Heiwajima watching over his brother from afar. As Kururi and Mairu Orihara was searching for Yuhei. Shizuo stopped the twins from disturbing the event along with a would be assailant by throwing a trash can at him.

Izaya then appears before Shizuo says that the assailant's ex was a hardcore fan of Yuhei Hanejima and Izaya antagonized him to go after Yuhei. Shizuo and Izaya battles it out as familiar faces reappear to attempt to snuff out Izaya and Shizuo. Those being the false Dollars from Episode 3, the deadbeat gamers and what remains of the Yellow Scarves.

Celty arrived on scene to subdue the chaos, as Shizuo chases after Izaya and gets hit by a truck, similar to their first encounter. As Celty was being chased by Kinnosuke Kuzuhara and other patrol officers.

In the end, Mikado Ryuugamine assists a new face who was flustered upon entering Ikebukuro and was planning to attend Raira Academy. He gave him directions and welcomes him to Ikebukuro.

X2 Episode 4.5 Shou cour:

This episode ties into episode 4, which ends the Hollywood arc and continues on with the hot pot party at the Kishitani/Sturluson residence with their friends around them. Such as Mikado, Anri, Shizuo, Mika, Seiji and the Van Gang.

Each individual recalls stories of how they met each other.

Mikado told Anri about a story about him and Masaomi Kida, prior to him moving to Ikebukuro and dying his hair.

Anri tells Mikado about how she came to know Mika Harima with grade school and junior high.

Kyohei talks to Shizuo about how he met Tom Tanaka in junior high, which led him into the loan collecting business later on in the future and to dye his hair blonde.

Kyohei attempts to tell the story of how he met his friends, but Erika and Walker went overboard and Saburo was sobbing over an autograph of Ruri Hijiribe he discovered and Celty said that Shinra got it the other day. Trying to ease situation.

Kyohei talks with Shinra and ends up stopping him from calling Izaya Orihara to the party. Knowing that the apartment will become a warzone with Izaya and Shizuo.

The episode ends with Namie Yagiri leaving Izaya alone in his office to cook for himself.

X2 Episode 0.5 Ten Cour:

This episode revolves around Celty Sturluson and Shinra Kishitani taking a day trip away from Ikebukuro. Not knowing what events that take place within that time period. As four separate events occurs that spread out to episodes one through four. As Shinra gets interrupted on the date by multiple phone calls.

All while within the mountainside where the couple takes a carriage ride. A film was being shot, involving werewolves, vampire priestesses and the grim reaper.

The grim reaper being played by Yuhei Hanejima aka Kasuka Heiwajima.

Celty ends up cosplaying in multiple outfits for Shinra. As he retells some stories about him, Izaya Orihara and Shizuo Heiwajima.

All while the actors who played the werewolves were being frustrated, spread out in the forest. Celty stops her trusted steed Shooter. As she felt a strange presence nearby. Not knowing if it was another faerie like herself or a different supernatural being.

Their carriage ride was interrupted by one of the actors who was portraying a werewolf was chasing after them.

Later as the sun was setting, Celty and Shinra was startled by the of the actor portraying the werewolf who was just looking for a phone signal. The two groups scared each other, calling Celty and Shinra to run away with their carriage. Leading the actor to believe that his co-star was the one who was doing the special effects on Celty.

At the end of Episode 1, Celty and Shinra recalls the events that they had been through. Talking about their encounter the actresses who portrayed the vampire priestesses. Not knowing that the priestesses were part of a film set. And that's Yuhei Hanejima was involved.

Leaving Celty to wonder about the presence she felt.

Later that night, the werewolf actors were out of costume. Drinking beer and having a smoke. As the one who encountered and startled the Dullahan reacts to the sound of a wolf howling in the distance.

X2 Episode 7.5 Dufufufu OVA Ketsu cour:

This episode does not take place in any significant storyline. It's more of a standalone episode. About a man who was being mistaken for Shizuo Heiwajima of Ikebukuro. Man in fact was Shizuo Nobusuma, a man working as a bartender who scared off a couple of thugs that believed he was Heiwajima.

After researched about the urban legends of Ikebukuro. He went off and portrayed himself as Shizuo. Most people didn't buy his act, being spotted by his friends such as Celty Sturluson, Simon, Vorona and Tom Tanaka.

Izaya Orihara used it to his advantage by sending Nobusuma after some fakers pretending to be Awakusu.

Nobusuma after being beaten up, ends up hassling Kasuka and the real Shizuo Heiwajima who just returned from a memorial service. Shizuo one punch hits Nobusuma out of the city.

Later on, Izaya laughs about pitting the fakers against each other. As Namie Yagiri ruins his moment, mentioning that his information gathering rival Shinichi Tsukumoya photoshop his picture and applied him for a drag competition. Making Izaya outrage and Namie the one laughing.

The following day, Kyohei, Saburo, Erika and Walker were talking about the fake Shizuo and bootleg anime. Where Shizuo Nobusuma reappears pretending to be Kyohei Kadota and harassing Erika and Walker. Talking nonsense which led the Kadota to confront Nobusuma and knocking him out. Which led Erika and Walker to restrain Nobusuma in rope bondage and pull out their torture equipment.

Later on, Celty Sturluson was taking a break from work and was confronted by Nobusuma yet again. This time, he dressed up like her. Remembering him from dressing up as Shizuo Heiwajima a few days prior, she took pity on him and gave him some money. Knowing that the real Shizuo would send him into orbit. Never she knew you Nobusuma was alive and well, she hits him and demanded her money back.

Shizuo Nobusuma stops his act and went home afterwards.

Note: This episode is the first time that Shinichi Tsukumoya was mentioned by name. He reappears in the light novels as a member of the Dollars, supplying Mikado Ryuugamine with information as in his cleanup efforts within the Dollars.

Note 2: This episode takes place sometime after the Adabishi arc and the Kadota Coma arc. As Shinra Kishitani was still recovering from his injuries after the brutal assault by Kisuke Adabishi. Shinra is still stuck in the wheelchair.

Despite these episodes being hard to find. Whether it's on streaming services for the very hard to find box sets. Durarara remains a great series to rewatch and enjoy to its fullest.

The next big topic on Durarara will be the spinoff novels that takes place after the series ended that involves Izaya Orihara.

[embossross]

2023 in anime

i give ratings out of 10 stars based on a rubric that considers the following:

2 points / ambition of what the anime is trying to achieve 3 points / effectiveness of the anime in achieving its aims 4 points / my personal, subjective enjoyment 1 point / pacing +1/-1 miscellaneous

so with that said… ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (2 anime)

revolutionary girl utena – heavy breathing panting crying what a fucking roller coaster nanami the child you are anty the child you were utena the child you choose to be – just one of the true masterpieces of all anime. took a few episodes to realize that this show understood tone and comedy perfectly and wasn’t just a wonky children’s show and by golly! the nanami in season 3 gutted me unlike anything else

attack on titan: final season (for real this time) – decent conclusion to maybe my favorite anime of all time

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (10 anime)

school rumble – so goddamn funny and i cared about every goddamn character. it’s witchcraft!

trigun – good ole saturday morning cartoons

golden kamuy s3 – how does it keep getting better???!?!

fruits basket – i was a certified hater after s1, but slowly but surely i gave into the melodrama. akito and shigure were EVERYTHING

nana – the most disappointing ending of all time! for one of the greatest anime of all time. manga pls save me!!!

rascal does not dream of bunny girl senpai – i’m embarrassed. i cried.

princess tutu – expressionistic, dedicated to storytelling, tremendously kind-hearted. you have to let it move you

blue lock – i’m officially a sports anime girlie

cyberpunk: edgerunners – this was just so slick!

chainsaw man – nothing needs to be said here

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (8 anime)

yamada-kun to lv999 no koi wo suru – adult romance that hasn’t been stripped of all conflict and maintains momentum nearly to the end

oshi no ko – my expectations were non-existent after ep 1 but then it crept up on me. i can’t even fully put my finger on what works so well? but it does! it knows when to take itself seriously and when to be nonsense.

demon slayer s3 – best season of demon slayer to date, i actually cared

durarara!!x2 shou – this is a confession. my inner edgy teen loves durarara. i appreciate huge casts of characters acting in opposition in atmospheric tokyo.

gintama – i finally finished gintama one of my favorites of all time. the end pulls all the threads together but it does so at the expense of the laughs so loses some points

chihayafuru – amazing background anime. just consistently fun and engaging.

perfect blue – i feel stupid and uncultured to not give this a 10

vinland saga – askeladd is so hot wow

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (7 anime)

buddy daddies – funny and sincere in degrees but a truly annoying little girl character

serial experiments lain – god you’ve gotta appreciate the wild swings creatives were taking in the 90s

durarara!!x2 ten

great teacher onizuka – ugh he’s a creep but also heh he’s funny

trigun stampede – they yassified them!

mob psycho 100 s3 - meandered a bit but the characters are forever favorites

to your eternity – the first 3 arcs are extraordinary. march is one of the great child characters of all time. the end drags.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (8 anime)

zom 100 – crazy good first episode that earns its premise and then a slow descent into mediocrity; cool colors though!

terror in resonance – utterly forgettable

dororo – way too long with way too many hit or miss episode arcs

bungou stray dogs s4 – the cracks are showing but the rampo backstory is dope

lycoris recoil – those cute girls shoulda been lesbians

classroom of the elite – is it edgy? yes. are the quotes frustratingly misused? oh yes. is it fun? ugh yeah actually

romantic killer – pretty cute and the edge of danger at the end really sells it

free – solid watch but it left my brain like sand in a sieve

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 anime)

wolf’s rain – what passes as deep when children are your primary audience

hell’s paradise – boring and i liked the manga so.

durarara!!x2 ketsu – the conclusion falls short

land of the lustrous – bold but was too slow for me

⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3 anime)

tomo-chan is a girl! – sometimes funny but the conceit does not justify 13 episodes and it loses steam fast

mushishi – some of the vignettes were beautiful but felt repetitive

bleach: thousand-year blood war – sleek, hype, plagued by all the old bleach problems

no game no life season 1 - confused that this was such a phenomenon when it came out. it’s fine i guess.

⭐⭐⭐ (5 anime)

kamisama kiss – trite imo

given – god save us from anime about perfect people being perfect with each other – but this time set to music!

tokyo revengers s2 – 🤷

natsume’s book of friends – i don’t need vibes this cozy

sasaki to miyano – and i really don’t need vibes this cozy

⭐⭐ (0 anime)

⭐ (0 anime)

& then ongoing shows that i’m not going to rank until i finish them (but actually all are pretty good so far) – skip to loafer, heavenly delusion, spy x family s2, apothecary diaries, jujutsu kaisen s2, frieren: beyond journey’s end, vinland saga s2

[polkadottedpie]

I've started rewatching Durarara!! x2 Shou, and seeing Izaya and Namie interact like she's some kind of grumpy babysitter is making me Feel Things.

Sad Thing, Angsty Things.

Just thinking about a regressing Izaya who already is averse to being taken care of because of how he was neglected by his parents in childhood, and Namie who just ends up reinforcing that in so many unhealthy ways because she is just as averse to taking care of him. The toxic dynamic of Izaya forcing down his regression because he (rightfully) can't trust Namie to take care of him, and Namie maybe even seeing the signs and doing nothing about it because her boss is enough of a handful already WITHOUT him regressing to whatever age he regresses to. She doesn't care, and it just reinforces the trauma he got from being neglected all through his childhood.

He only feels safe to regress by himself, and at that point it's not really helpful because the one thing he missed out on was someone caring about him. It doesn't really count if he has to take care of himself.

[404-its-alr]

𝔸𝕝𝕡𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕫𝕖𝕕

Used of swear words but censored as in “sh!t” cuz why tf not- Also thanks for taking the time to check it out!

Animes: 

(judge me silently lmao)

Watching: technically just sitting collecting dust

Dangaronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School - Future/Hope Arc

Hetalia World Stars and the rest of Hetalia

Kuroko’s Basketball

number 24

One Punch Man(S2)

Watched:

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91 Days

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Ace Attorney

Afterlost (Don’t remember much tbh)

All Out!!

Angels of Death

Another (It’s fuzzy memories lol)

Assassination Classroom

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B: The Beginning

Black Butler

Brother’s Conflict (Look I know but tbh I loved the intro)

ℭ

Code:Breaker

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Danganronpa: The Animation

Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School - Despair Arc

Deadman Wonderland

Death Parade

Diabolik Lovers

Dr. Stone

Durarara!! | x 2 Shou | x2 Ten

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ERASED

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Fairy Tail

Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club (Only remember the Outro lmao)

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Ghost Stories

ℌ

Haikyuu!!

Haven’t you heard? I’m Sakamoto

Hero Mask

Hetalia Axis Power

Hitorijime My Hero

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None

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None

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K | K: Return of Kings

Kiss Him, Not Me (Going through a phase but honestly loved it)

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Little Witch Academia (YO FCKIN LOVED THIS SH!T)

Love Stage!! (Don’t Judge- it was a phase)

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Magi: Adventure of Sinbad (OML I nearly forgot I watched this- LOVED this one!!)

Maid Sama!! (Barely remember) 

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Nanbaka

No. 6

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One Punch Man (S1)

Ouran High School Host Club

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Pokemon Indigo League

Prince of Stride: Alternative

Psycho-Pass (S1, not a fan of S2)

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None

ℜ

None

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Servamp

Sk8 the Infinity (My friends)

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That time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

The Devil Is a Part-Timer!

The Promised Neverland (S1)

The Royal Tutor

The Seven Deadly Sins (S1)

Tokyo Ghoul (S1 - Can’t stand the rest sorry)

Tomodachi Game

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None

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Yuri!!! On ICE

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None

ᴅɪᴛᴄʜᴇᴅ:

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None

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Actors: Songs Connections ( I really did try but I couldn’t)

Amnesia (Personally love the game of it)

ℬ

Bem (Had my bestfriend watch this lmao)

Blue Exorcist

Btooom!

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Cheer Boys

Classroom of the Elite

Cowboy Bebop (Loved the intro music, just couldn’t stick w/it)

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Durarara!!x2 Ketsu (Only care/love to watch Durarara!!)

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None

ℱ

Fairy Tail (After Ep. 226)

FLCL (Fooly Cooly) Alternative 

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Great Pretender

ℋ

High School DXD (After 5 mins into Ep.1 - My guy friend..yeeah)

Hunter X Hunter (2011)

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None

ℐ

None

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Karneval (Honestly loved Ep.1 but just couldn’t continue)

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Log Horizon (Same response with Karneval)

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My Hero Academia

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None

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ℛ

None

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Sirius the Jaeger (Loved this so much but the girl that likes him annoyed TF outta me)

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The Prince of Tennis (Tried watching it but it didn’t hook me)

The Wallflower (Tbh weird for me)

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None

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Vampire Knight (Meh..)

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Your Lie in April (Didn’t interest me and my friend told me the tragic part about it so..)

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TV Shows:

I watch too fckin many to list- honestly lost count

I watch H.O.U.S.E MD till season 5 because my heart couldn’t take the change that was happening in the show lmao

I somewhat watch American Horror Story but stopped because I got distracted by other stuff

[durarara-brain-rot]

Here’s Anri!

My idea for Anri is that she’s another vault dweller but I’m going to make my own experiment that vault was apart of.

So I’m going to say it’s vault 113 (I believe this is in canon one that we know nothing about)

Vault 113 was derived of a 24 families that over the 200 years in the vault turned into 3 families. This was because there was a one child cap on babies due to limited supplies.

The Kujiragi, the Sonhara and the Niekawa families all ended up having daughters. Niekawa’s mother of the family passed before they were able to try for another child hoping for a boy since the other family, Sonhara already had a daughter and were having trouble conceiving another. The kujiragi consisted only of Kasane meaning that the last real hope was for the Sonhara and the kujiragi family to continue on.

Kasane was also the current overseer of the vault, taking over for her father.

The experiment that was going on was to raise a few families around an artifact that was found in Japan that seemed to have the ability to meld with people’s consciousness and manipulate their feelings to a degree. This artifact was the blade named sika. Sika before the vault was enacted was split into two mother blades and one child. These blades were hidden in the vault and the families were left to their devices with the blades just out of reach but still able to have their effects felt.

One of the mother blades stayed with the over seer’s family to make sure that they had a weapon against the others just incase any of the other families found the other blades. The second mother blade ends up going missing any the over seer does not know which family ended up with it.

With the three families now knowing their bloodlines were doomed after Mrs Sonhara failed to conceive, Mr Sonhara turned abusive. In the night Mr Sonhara turned his anger towards his daughter. This leads Mrs Sonhara to kill her husband and herself with the second mother blade. Which is how Anri acquires the blade.

With the first kill from sika having accrued the vault is opened and Kasame sneaks Huruna the child blade before she is whisked out into the wasteland by her father.

My concept for Shizuo heiwajima if he was in the fallout series.

My vague idea for background he was born and raised in a vault and unbeknownst to his family and himself his strength was enhanced through body enhancements as a part of a vault experiment. His life got turned upside down when raiders busted in and killed most of his vaults population including his parents. He managed to save himself, his brother, Shinra and Kyohei and escape the vault together.

Shinra’s father also escaped with his own research from the vault.

This is all I got so far besides the idea that Celty is an Assaultron that lost her head and is searching for it.

If you have any ideas or critiques let me know! I’m open to suggestions for this au

[kubominero]

(June 19) Today is his birthday! <3

[askmairuorihara]

It’s been a thousand years since I posted here, but I heard from Akabayashi who heard from twitter that it’s Durarara’s 10th anniversary!!!! (for the anime at least heheh)

I’m not nearly fast enough to draw something nice and polished in one day, but I figured I could at least sketch something up for a show and fandom that brought so many great things into my life!

SO, I present to thee, the true Best Girls of Durarara!! thanks for all the good times and wonderful memories <3

[naotarou]

[durarara-brain-rot]

I love them

tru 90s kids

[izamationbroker]

My current job is pretty laidback about us having phones out and listening to music as we work sorting archaeological artifacts in a lab, so I've started binge-rewatching Durarara!! from the very beginning.

I've already finished the original run yesterday and just started x2 Shou, but some thoughts I had:

At least in the anime adaptation, the original run was meant to be pretty self-contained in the event they weren't able to continue (which to be fair was true for quite a while before x2 got greenlit), so rather than consider the original run a "phase one" of Izaya's grander scheme to start a gang war and awaken Celty's head it makes a bit more sense to think of it in the context of a failed first attempt.

In that context, it makes me wonder how he felt about it, his first grand failure. Grand enough that he felt the need to step back and lay low so he could go back to the drawing board (see: his initial conversation with Shizuo in ep 25).

I honestly bet he picked a fight with Shizuo just to take out his frustrations on it all. He managed to create a messy three-way conflict and get Celty roped into it as Anri and Mikado's friend, but the head gave narry a stir. Not to mention, Celty was able to help them resolve things pretty easily by just getting these dumb kids to actually talk to each other.

I don't remember the episode number because I just binged the whole thing, but Shingen at one point suggests that rather than rope Celty into a conflict, Izaya should try to center the conflict around Celty herself. Izaya claimed he was doing just that, but I don't think he really succeeded in the initial run. Sure, Celty was involved, but more as an independent third (fourth?) party than as a focal point. She was in the Dollars and friends with both Anri and Mikado, but she didn't really have much of a stake in the squabble itself. That was just a big messy of miscommunication between three high schoolers completely unrelated to her. That must have been frustrating, honestly, getting so close but falling just short of what he needed.

Then, on top of everything else, he wasn't even really involved in the resolution of the fight itself, either. He says in his theory that he needs to create a war only HE can win, right? I'd imagine that's why he was fucking around with a bunch of kids rather than the bigger leagues like the Yakuza that he works with regularly: it's a lot easier to insert yourself as an authority as the only adult. He'd be able to take control of that situation so easily, but Celty took that role instead, so he never even got a chance to win the war.

And to blow off steam from his initial failure, what does he do? He deliberately picks a fight with Shizuo, someone he generally tries to avoid when he can help it, by fucking with his brother's safety.

I wonder if he needed to feel alive for a minute by reminding himself of the loom of death. Shizuo's arguably the only one that actually threatens Izaya enough to feel any sense of awe or dread. I wonder if he wanted to put himself in that position to remind himself what was at stake and give him the motivation to go back to the drawing board and try again. He really does have a Shizuo Complex in that sense.

Anyway, I might do Shou, Ten, and Ketsu individually as I finish them, but if anyone would prefer a liveblog instead, lmk. I might stop at Shou for now, tho, because Wa-kun and I are I thiiiink like halfway through Ten? And I don't wanna spoil them with my rambling.

[noisylovepatrol]

Shizuo & Izaya

[durarara-brain-rot]

They look so done I love it

Current emotion: Tom and Namie being so fucking done in the ending.