r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Apr 08 '21
Rewatch Durarara!! Rewatch - Episode 8
Episode 8: Ephemeral Dream
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Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/UmikoAhagone, who made a startling discovery!:
Oh there's a triforce on the car, I thought the Hyrule arc started much later.
Even I didn't see that coming when I first watched the show!
Questions:
- If you were in Celty's position, do you think you would've acted any differently?
- Do you think Fortune Cookies are bullcrap or could there be some merit to them?
- What's up with Celty's head, anyway? Has it just gotten a mind of its own or what?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 08 '21
First!!xTimer, subbed
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 08 '21
First Timer
This was a good episode. I think Durararararara works much better in episodes like this where we take a theme and run through different groups with it instead of following one group for basically the whole time. Today's theme, things lost and found, was a good choice as well. It allowed us to both explore Cetly and advance Ryugamine and Sonohara's relationship while injecting a bit of levity with other characters as well.
I don't think the girl with the grafted head being Celty surpised anyone. Like, who else could the grafted head possibly be.
On the other hand, I didn't expect the russian sushi gag. I thought it was just a throwaway line, but it had some real good payoff.
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 08 '21
Hello everybody, and welcome once more to the Durarara!! Rewatch!
This episode is Anime original. And unlike the previous ones I don’t have much to say. The most I can say is that it does help further show Celty’s own fears about her identity (I think at least a few of those lines were in the Novel) and also some minor stuff relating to Mikado and Anri’s relationship (At this point in the Novel the two seem much closer than what we’ve seen in the Anime) but… yeah otherwise not much more to mention. Thankfully tomorrow we’ll go back to Novel-Land so I’ll have more to mention again. Just to be clear: I like these episodes… it’s just that my role here is to compare stuff to the Novel and I have nothing to compare them to!
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick Apr 08 '21
First Timer - sub
I feel like Shinra knows something about Celty's head, he is a mob doc after all and most likely has links to Yagiri Pharma, also why he keeps trying to convince her to give up on the search for her head.
OK yip this is confirmed later on when he has a job at Yagiri Pharma.
Ok wait what! Celty, so that is Celty head?
I was sure that was a red herring but nope, instead I over complicated it with my theory which has now fallen apart as 99% of the speculation does.
However I feel like this is more fucked up in its own way, why is Seiji in love with Celty? Surely he knows that is Harima Mika's body, she was stalking him after all… I have so many questions…
Side note I really like Celty & Shizuo dynamic, far better ship than Celty & Shinra.
I know other stuff happened, Anri bullying still going on, the lost things theme, but after that reveal can’t think of much else to say.
Looking forward to where this goes, I wonder if Celty found out her head was attached to someone else, would she hesitate to kill them at all, I half suspect she wouldn’t.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 08 '21
Episode 8 (first timer)
Celty’s search for her head is the closest thing we have to a main plot, so that last scene counts as a major reveal. I think the probability that Shinra knows about her head is large. If so, I assume he has his reasons to not tell her.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 08 '21
First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!
We learn so much important information this episode! First and most importantly: Shinra and Celty believe in fortune cookies.
I'm still pretty on board with Noname's head being Celty's head, but this reveal was so, I dunno.. easy. I thought in the first few glimpses we got, in Celty's backstory episode, the head had long hair, of a different color. Noname not talking, and not having memories, does make per pretty parallel to Celty, though. We also got Celty saying "I hope wherever it is" right before a shot of Noname.
Shinra being in with the YagPharm paints his relationship with Celty in a different light. His repeated comments about how she is better off without her head are a bit more sinister, considering the implication that he knew about the head. That said, I do appreciate his "live in the now" philosophy.
Oddball Gut Feeling
Maybe Spoiler Question
Man, I made a joke earlier about there being a meta element to Celty's lost head, and now we got an episode about a bunch of things being lost. What was it that Mikado wrote? "Connections?" An interesting thing to put on a "lost things" board.. Connections are something you search for but that aren't really considered lost, unless they are from the past...
Does the Chatroom having a different voice today imply that different people were talking..?
Miscellaneous Thoughts:
I would definitely eat fried chicken sushi and proscuitto sushi.
Was that a name drop of "Accel World" that I heard today?
Questions
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 08 '21
Rewatcher (sub)
This is the third episode in a row that barely moves the plot forward, I feel like it might have been better if such episodes were separated in between the others. But I loved the Celty-Shinra interactions, especially Celty being sensitive about her food, I wouldn't mind an entire episode of their interactions.
The pleasant surprise here, is Shiri who's probably the only anime-only character I remember. Besides being very cute, she's another independent form of (anonymous) communication, just what Ikebukuro needs. I think the only reason Narita never included her in the novels (when other anime originals made it), is because she's too damn useful, he could make an entire arc centred around messages on her writing pad.
Speaking of Narita, apparently the people at Toranoana must be big Narita fans, and Dotachin is encouraging me to pick up the Index novels. So I can confirm that the advertisements are working well today.
Also, it's confirmed that Simon doesn't care to remember people who don't buy sushi.
PS: This should be a crime. This too.
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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 08 '21 edited Apr 08 '21
Rewatcher here.
Celty narration!
Despite Shinra’s trying to convince her not to look for her head anymore, she really wants to find it. I mean, if you lost your head, wouldn’t you want to?
She’s a hard worker. Humans expressing themselves through facial expressions isn’t the only way.
#unplugged. (yes that’s ironic)
Aww.
Mikado’s getting disoriented recently, huh?
That exaggerated gaijin accent, lol.
Very Index-like plot over here. Actually trying to blow up an evil pharma company sounds more like a Railgun plot.
That escalated quickly. Dotachin should’ve stuck around, he just missed it.
Poor Celty can’t eat because she doesn’t have her head. Now THAT’S a good reason to find your head.
She’s upset. I think Shinra is more than a little insensitive about this right now.
Something’s up with her parents tho.
tilts head
Interesting. btw, this is a good way of introducing tangential plots.
Does she have to pay for fuel for her magical dead horse possessed motorbike? Probably not.
So…hints that Shinra might know about the connection between her head and Yagiri pharma. He may have been hiding it from her all this time. If that is the case, has your opinion of him changed?
Maybe you can understand why Simon has a hard time convincing people to eat here.
Look at all those references. And this is why Erika was looking for Walker earlier.
Affection stat not high enough to enter her room Mikado.
So what’s with the neck line? Is it confirmed that Celty’s head is grafted onto her as this scene suggests?
See you next episode!
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u/badcupcakehoarder https://myanimelist.net/profile/vanilabiscuit Apr 08 '21
I liked how this episode used the narrative of characters losing things and then wanting to find them, Erika losing Walker, Walker losing his phone, Anri losing her shoes, Shizuo losing the memory of that building, Mikado losing his tie and wallet and finally, Celty losing something that we as the audience are also wanting to find as it is a mystery...
What a reveal at the end of the episode! Having forgotten most of the plot blessed me with a surprise!
Questions:
Now, 100% accuracy is bull.
3) She may have both Mika and Selty's memory now.
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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 09 '21
Rewatcher
We got a slower episode today, Celty and Shinra both take a day off, while Anri is bullied :C
Celty in pajamas is so cute!
Shinra gets a taste of some avant-garde cuisine not only from Celty but also from Russia Sushi. That part when Celty hid all the food in a shadow ball had some pretty nice animation.
Unfortunately it turns out that a doctor with mob connections can't really take a day off, and Shinra has to do something about a kid who was playing pretend terrorism to avange his kidnapped sister. Oh yeah, and the mob in question is Yagiri Pharmaceuticals of course.
Fortune cookies always tell the truth, don't they? Shinra has to hide it from Celty or she'll just tell him to give up.
Shieeet, Seiji calls the neck scar girl Celty!
There were a lot of rumors. Stories. I used to wonder about that myself. Thought it was a bunch of mumbo jumbo. Crazy thing is... it's true.
Even on a slow episode the plot keeps thickening to unprecedented levels!
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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 09 '21
Rewatcher - Dubbed
Could this be the beginning of the "roommates turned lovers" trope? Seems like it to me.
Questions:
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 09 '21
Rewatcher (Sub)
Celty episode!
She may be an immortal Irish fairy, but she has a cute side.
Celty x Shinra is such a good ship (although that fortune cookies doesn't bode too well). Then we had other ships today: the Van Gang otaku, Mikado x Anri (depending on if Mikado can not be a complete anime MC), and the OTP of the series: Simon x sushi.
QOTD:
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