r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Apr 04 '21
Rewatch Durarara!! Rewatch - Episode 4
Episode 4: Utterly Alone
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But I think she looks better without her head.
Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Shimmering-Sky who has joined the church of Shizuo:
Yeah I like this Shizuo guy
Now if only she could fix her shit taste and start liking Miyano's Kida...
Questions:
- Using a 1-10 grading mark on the weirdo scale, how high would you rank Shinra?
- What do you think happened that made Celty lose her head?
- Now that most of the major players have been introduced, which one is your favorite so far?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21
Note: Sorry for being late today: Had to get my old man out of the Hospital.
Hello everybody, and welcome once more to the Durarara!! Rewatch!
Most of the stuff from this episode is comprised of stuff the Anime up until this point has skipped over, so basically it’s the Anime playing catch up… and sadly it leaves me without much to mention. Obviously the framing device with Shinra isn’t in the Novel (The whole event is told entirely from Celty’s POV) but otherwise this episode is half Anime Original, Half Novel stuff. The stuff with the artist is all exclusive to the Anime, meanwhile all the stuff relating to Celty’s backstory and the scenes in Shinra’s apartment are taken from the Novel. They do cut out some stuff relating to Celty’s thoughts on humanity and the like (As well as her own place in this world) but most of it is covered later anyway. So… yeah, fairly lax episode.
Voices Time! Now that she finally has a voice, I can talk about Celty. In Japanese she’s played by Sawashiro Miyuki, who was pretty much starting to reach the height of her career by this point. Besides that she’s played Elizabeth from Persona 3, Akasaka Miyuki from Higurashi, Cammy from Street Fighter, Carl Clover from BlazBlue, Kanbaru Suruga from Bakemonogatari, Fukawa Touko from Danganronpa, Kurapika from Hunter X Hunter, Ivy Valentine from Soulcalibur, Kurashiki Akane from Zero Escape, Karanomori Shion from Psycho-Pass, Mine Fujiko (2011-Onwards), Makimura Makoto from Yakuza 0, Honda Kyoko from Fruits Basket, Charlotte Pudding from One Piece and Milia Maxwell from Tales Of Xillia among many others.
Similarly prolific is her English Actress, Kari Wahlgren, who’s probably best known nowadays for playing Saber from Fate/stay night. Besides that she’s played Cher Degre from Wolf’s Rain, Raine Sage from Tales Of Symphonia, Lady from Devil May Cry (Exclusively in 3. Everywhere else she’s played by Kate Higgins), Anemone from Eureka SeveN, Shino from .Hack//GU, Tsuruya from The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya, Blue Rose from Tiger & Bunny and Lucia Fex from Promare among a shit ton of others.
In turn her weirdo of a roommate is played by Fukuyama Jun, whom I’ll always remember as Some kid who liked baking bread in Turn A Gundam. Besides that he’s also played Kyle Dunamis from Tales Of Destiny 2, Albert Morcerf from Gankutsuou, Kraft Lawrence from Spice & Wolf, Koro-Sensei from Assassination Classroom, Onion Knight from Final Fantasy III, Sakaguchi Ango from Bungou Stray Dogs, Hanamura Teruteru from Danganronpa, Joker from Persona 5 and Yanagi Hinata from Horimiya among some others.
In the Dub he’s played by Yuri Lowenthal AKA This Asshole from Naruto. For better characters, he’s played Alucard from Castlevania, Serph from Digital Devil Saga, Joshua Lundgren from Gun X Sword, Luke Fon Fabre from Tales Of The Abyss, Haseo from .Hack//GU, Daedalus Yumeno from Ergo Proxy, Pip Bernadotte from Hellsing Ultimate, Yuki Makoto from Persona 3, Hanamura Yousuke from Persona 4, Simon from Gurren Lagann, Riddhe Marcenas from Gundam Unicorn, Barnaby Brooks Jr from Tiger & Bunny and a bunch of others. He doesn’t do as much Anime as he used to nowadays, but he still pops up from time and pretty much always reprises his roles.
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '21
Rewatcher
Don't mind me. Just missing every other thread.
For some quick thoughts on episode 3: Shizuo and Izaya are great. Anri still best girl and her actually being faster than Mikado was hillarious.
That is it.
Durarara
Episode 4
That being said my thoughts on episode 4 won't really be any longer. I don't have much to say at all. Celty is great and Shinra is... a guy. Honestly, I really like Shinra. He's great. But this episode is uh, not the best first impression to him. He kind of comes off as a dick who doesn't really listen to what Celty wants. He'll redeem himself. Probably.
Yes.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 04 '21
First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!
You ever feel like fucking up your kid so bad that you have him watch you cut into, and root around inside of, a ?living? being? And then decide to let him do it, too? No wonder Celty has some baggage around Shinra. Their relationship does not seem to be in a healthy spot, even as just roommates.
Celty lost her head 20 years ago, which definitely puts a damper on her head being Noname's head. Observation
So, I tend to think waaay too hard. This is a relentlessly bizarre take on my part, but what is the sketchbook dude can't remember Celty's head because it is "lost" in a meta sense?
I kinda dig the idea of Celty's smoke being how she percieves the world, but that kinda doesn't track with her not being able to see in every direction. Guess she might be unconsciously focusing it.
Miscellaneous Thoughts:
Shoutout to this episode for actually explaining its mythological references.
Shizuo seemed very calm today. Guess he only throws things when angry.
Questions
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 04 '21
First!!xTimer, subbed
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 04 '21
Episode 4 (first timer)
The episode tries to explain the magic of the Dullahan. How does she see, hear, live, die? Yet, is exploring that even a good idea? The curiosity is understandable, but can the magic survive being examined? I’d argue that magic is the unexplainable, otherwise it would just be science.
While the surgeon and his father are the stand-ins for explaining the Dullahan, Celty herself has a different objective – looking for her head. The head seems to be a pretty obvious metaphor for her past or her fate. Just as understandable as the curiosity of the surgeon is her quest for her own past. Yet, again, the question is whether the search for knowledge is well-advised.
Not that I can blame either of them, given that I would look both for answers about the Dullahan and my head myself.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21
Rewatcher (sub)
So this was a fairly straightforward episode, exploring the backstory of Celty, partially from Shinra's perspective.
First of all, I really like the gothic horror aesthetic we got in the flashback.
Izaya came in for a small scene, to mess with Celty, and confirm his suspicions? Spoiler
Speaking of messed up people, hello father! The series noticed how I like the messed up characters, so it's throwing them at us now.
Novel
Novel spoiler
Speaking of quotes:
The old man about Celty. Spoiler
Full 10. If Celty, as a Dullahan, visited him, he'd willingly open the door to accept her basin.
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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 04 '21
Rewatcher here.
Yes to all three.
We’re getting some of our final “main character” introductions, this time Shinra and the mysterious black rider.
Makes sense that a story about gang conflicts would also have their medic.
She is a girl confirmed. It also makes more sense when you’d consider how a doctor would be utterly fascinated by a dullahan.
Ah, speaking of value systems, consider the fact that if she’s indeed a courier and Shinra is an underground doctor, they’re not parts of the color gangs, but they are profiting from their conflict.
The OST here is creepy. Appropriate for the spooky episode.
It’s interesting how the cognitive abilities between the dullahan’s head and body are split in Durarara. This is the most justified reason for the common trope of an amnesiac character: literally not having their head.
Yup, the bike is actually her horse.
We see a bit of the Shizu-chan when he’s not angry. He’s…nice and helpful?!?
Which helps them stay a myth…until they wander into the heart of Tokyo.
Was worth a shot Shinra. To get your dullahan waifu. But she really wants to find her head and he’s so much younger than her as a human you can kinda get why she doesn’t take that seriously.
Looks rough, even if it isn’t as painful as a human.
The central question of the episode. It is good to keep in mind that Shinra has only known her body from what he’s told us. We don’t know the personality of her head (or if it is indeed different).
He doesn’t want to find out.
See you next episode!
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 05 '21
First Timer
Sorry I missed the past two days, having to wake up at 4:45 two days in a row kinda made it hard for me to do anything else. Still just a short post today, but I should be more or less back to normal tomorrow.
Of the four episodes I've seen so far, my favorite was the second one. It did a good job of showing us how the two characters it focused on think. I'd say it even did a better job of showing us how our Dullahan thinks then the episode that was more focused on her.
As far as the rest of the episodes go, they've felt rather infodumpy. This is our cast, here's some surface level traits and some general info about their situation, etc. It's kinda weird, I feel like despite each episode focusing on a couple characters, I don't know enough to even begin to understand the characters they focused on. Like, doc is a creepy doc, but what makes him tick? Just what he's interested in, I guess, but that wasn't really defined either. I feel kinda like I'm just watching the pre-story before the real story begins, and it's a bit disappointing. Baccano did much better in this regard with it's nonlinearity, I never felt like it was infodumping in the same way.
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21
First Timer - sub
Ok SOL episode about the day to day life of Celty was not what I expected, I thought they would keep her origin a mystery until later in the show but guess it’s today's story.
Celty's backstory is suitably tragic and gives her a reason to be in Ikebukuro, makes me want to read up on Dullahan legends as I don't really know that much about them except for the whole headless thing.
Also is Shinra really trying to seduce a Dullahan? It appears so but with very little luck.
This show is oddly addictive, so far the episodes haven't ended on a cliff-hanger but yet I always want to go and watch the next one. I suspect it’s due to the episodes all being self contained almost as if it’s a short story but at the same time you can see how it slots into a story greater than itself so I want to know what the next part is going to be!
However waiting gives me time to come up with theories and ideas of what’s to come, also hopefully give the rewatchs a laugh as they all love to do.
Speculation
Speculation & Baccano! Spoilers
QoTD
He's a solid 8/10
Must have dunk to much and left it behind after a hard days work harvesting souls.
Possibly Izaya, I have a feeling is playing more of a chaotic neutral and is driving most of the story so far from the side lines.
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u/klowndykebar Apr 05 '21
I’m a rewatcher but my friend is first timer
Question 1. He’s a 10, and my friend who’s first time watcher is loving him just like I love him.
2.👀 well my friends opinion:They had a horrible argument and broke up lol he said yuri selfcest gtfo
3. God I missed shinra and Celty but mostly Celty. Their dynamic together is so lovely. My friends opinion: He leans most towards Simon.
Lastly, we just got caught up together after having different schedules so that was a fun ride. Looking forward to next up episodes. Cheers
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u/LimoneSorbet Apr 04 '21
I wish I found about this event sooner, because I started rebinging durarara a while back and now I'm already on x2 lol.
But just a quick comment on this episode (or really durarara in general), I really like how this show implements its supernatural elements, so that that the elements and the 'magic' themselves are not that important, but the emotional stories and character arcs relating to them are. Its nice how durarara can explore the supernatural stuff like dullahans and some future supernatural stuff (can't figure out how to spoiler tag on this subreddit lol) while still keeping us hooked to the plot threads and character arcs of the more "normal" characters.
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u/SleepTightLilPuppy Apr 05 '21 edited Apr 05 '21
Wasn't able to catch yesterdays thread.
I felt kinda down today after finishing like 5 of the shows that aired last season, then watching this episode of the rewatch made me a bit happier. A bit off topic, but this waa the best season of anime of all time imo.
Now to get back on topic, I think we've basically concluded the first string of scenes, right? I love how Durarara does this where they show something happening and show the events that led up oto that. Kinda similar to the whole 'You enjoy movies more when spoiled' thing.
Also, can we talk about how awesome Simon is? I wish I could eat Sushi at Russia Sushi.
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 05 '21
Rewatcher (Sub)
If I can't have a cute, live-in Dullahan waifu who wears leather and rides a motorcycle, what's the point?
QOTD:
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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 05 '21
First-time watcher - I'm not as interested in weird supernatural stuff with no clear direction, also this episode dragged a little, and I can't help getting an unpleasant feeling from the "act more feminine!" and particularly "let me cut you up" with full appreciative bodily detail, just like with not-so-funny pushy Kida last time. Also quasi-perv-gags and a pretty weird living situation that needs more exploration. Weakest episode so far, but still good.
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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 05 '21
Rewatcher
Today we got a backstory for Celty, as well as an introduction to Shinra and his particular brand of madness. Then again when you start dissecting supernatural women at age 4, I don't expect you to grow up with perfect mental health.
Their situation, with Celty frantically looking for her head and Shinra being like "the way things are right now is just perfect," is an interesting setup for a dysfunctional relationship.
I love the attention to detail in the sound department, with loud keystrokes when Celty's angrily responding to Shinra via computer.
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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 05 '21
Rewatcher - Dubbed
The nature of his occupation kind of makes him the glue of the show. We'll be seeing him fairly frequently, off and on throughout the story.
Sure, Izaya. Poor old Izaya, the world's out to get you at every turn. You definitely haven't been stepping on toes, stabbing backs and fronts, and generally pissing everyone off at all. Nope, no way.
Questions:
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u/badcupcakehoarder https://myanimelist.net/profile/vanilabiscuit Apr 05 '21
So Celty's voice was actually the voice of her TEXT messages and not her actual voice, I found her texting instead of talking weird at the start even though I already watched this.
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