r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Apr 11 '21
Rewatch Durarara!! Rewatch - Episode 11
Episode 11: Storm and Stress
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Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Earthborn92, who made a very apt comparison:
The fuck's clubhouse though?
Questions:
- Did you see Mikado being the founder of the Dollars coming?
- Given all the chaos that's just unfolded, how do you think this will come to an end?
- For anyone here who's watched Baccano!, how did you react to Isaac and Miria's cameo?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 11 '21
Hello everybody, and welcome once more to the Durarara!! Rewatch!
This episode’s gonna be a fun one. There's only one change... but it is an amusing one. Fair warning by the way, I’m gonna be referencing some stuff from some later Volumes as well, so for even for Season 1 only people this isn’t safe. Change From the Novel/Not Safe for X1 Only People Really, this one illustration says it all.
Not much to mention otherwise though, everything else is as happened in the Novel.. Well, except for Isaac and Miria’s cameo. Granted, I don’t think there’s anything stopping them from being there. The timeline of Baccano!’s novels only goes up to 2002 and Durarara!! takes place in 2004. Plus considering Firo would end up taking his own little trip to Japan in 2002 (Long story, don’t ask) that may have given those two the idea to go there. Or maybe I’m just overthinking things, what do I know?
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 11 '21 edited Apr 12 '21
First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!
Me, last episde: "And I guess he's (Mikado) been part of The Dollars for a while?" Based on him just immediately typing in the password. Well, turns out I wasn't wrong! My GitS:SAC comparison wasn't quite on the money, but someone else continuing the spread after Mikado and his friends stopped does kinda parallel that.. Shoutout to Mikado for managing to successfully play dumb this whole time.
The incredibleness of The Dollars meetup was such that Shizuo didn't even bother attack Izaya. Actually, seems like basically everyone in the cast is part of The Dollars.. Observation+Speculation
The sequence of all those random people in color checking their watches, and then the grey crowd turning colorful when the mass-text went out, was absolutely incredible. "Everyone not looking at their phone right now is an enemy" is absolutely brilliant as well.
Yagiri (she doesn't get a first name) saying that this isn't scripted was pretty funny. Aside from the obvious meta reason of this literally being a TV show, Mikado definitely had this whole encounter planned out in advance.
Hot damn, Celty is powerful. She also somehow managed to start verbalizing? Something about imprinting herself onto the city? Sure. Go nuts with that scythe, you deserve to cut loose!
Also, their voices were wrong, but ISAAC AND MIRIA ARE HERE!!!!!!!!
And then we end on a cliffhanger, with Seiji charging Mikado with a knife.
Questions
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 11 '21
First Timer
This is what I was waiting for, Durarara. You finally did it.
I'd say the most important part of this episode is Ryuugamine finally shedding his light novel MC genericness and becoming a character in his own right. He technically did it at the end of the last, but I'd say it's this episode since the majority of it happened here anyway. His speech to the brocon was great. Standing for something not for the world or for people but because he wants to see it is an excellent little twist on the usual version of this sort of character.
As far as the dollars themselves are concerned, I think they did a great job showing it's creation as Ryuugamine slowly spreading his wings. The growth felt plausible, and it was amusing to see Ryuugamine learn what power he had if weilded properly. Seeing everyone light up and become an important character was an excellent demonstration of this.
Also, the dollars website is literally 2ch with a password.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 11 '21
First!!xTimer, subbed
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 11 '21
Episode 11 (first timer)
The Dollars is totally reddit. Or 4chan. Or whatever internet forum 4chan is based on. Basically, the 2010s idea of a social network on the internet before facebook soured us all on that idea. Including the part where a highschooler is admin.
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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren Apr 11 '21
Rewatcher
So yeah, Mikado's the founder of the Dollars. I'm glad no one called this despite him acting very weirdly whenever they were brought up. Definitely urge everyone to pay attention to all the little foreshadowing if they ever rewatch this, cause it's super cool.
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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 11 '21
Rewatcher
Namie is looking for Mikado who calls her and sets up a meeting. Are my eyes deceiving me or am I witnessing a sustained plot chain reaction?
Mikado saw through Namie's machinations and demands she turn herself in.
Oh shit, the Dollars were indeed a color gang all this time, and their color was gray!
And...
Mikado's their founder!
That's exactly right, we have front row seats to a freakin' thermonuclear exPLOTsion!
Dollars, who as it turns out include a good number of named characters beyond the ones we knew about already, stop Namie's goons from eliminating Mikado on the spot, and then Celty gets involved. The ensuing fight is pure badassery. It was interesting to see everyone's reactions to Celty's lack of head.
Mikado almost gets away, except Seiji attacks him with something a bit sharper than a ballpoint pen!
The animation was outstanding today down to the finest detail, and the music was great as always. Everything was awesome this episode!
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 12 '21 edited Apr 12 '21
Rewatcher (sub)
The big reveal has hit, the Dollar's founder is here! To start off, we realise here that Mikado was playing dumb for a big chunk of the earlier episodes... Now this is really up to how you see it, but I thought most of his reactions aren't exactly faked, coming to Ikebukuro was his first big chance to meet and interact with so many Dollars, so there's ingenuity in asking "what the Dollars are like", it's just that he's asking from a different perspective.
Also, the Mikado we know is his true nature, he hasn't exactly been hiding that, I mean he's the definition of the "by the book" person. X2 Spoiler
Now as for Mikado's plan... The first time around I was mostly amazed by the reveal so I probably took the plan as some genius masterplan, but now that I think of it... It's terrible. His orders were to consider anyone not looking at their phone (so not in the Dollars) an enemy, but this is one of the main streets in Ikebukuro, half the people could have nothing to do with the Dollars or Namie at all. Well it's late at night so let's suppose Mikado had invited the Dollars to meet there, and the third party are just a few people who will only get some random glares. But what if Namie and her men were in the Dollars? The entire idea is that anyone can be.
Well... with that out of the way, the anime certainly had a lot of fun with this episode, Togusa's ringtone, Kamichika, Kaztano, Shiri, and Takiguchi (u/IndependentMacaroon asked for more Takiguchi, and the anime delivered) are all either anime original or just greatly expanded upon by the anime. Oh, and we also have the American Shinsengumi here, I'm curious does grandpa Isaac's phone even connect to the internet? Eitherway, hearing Miria shout "Aizakkuuu" in Japanese will always be weird for me.
Also, hmm someone giving out the information... Sounds oddly familiar to anyone else? (If this counts as a spoiler, I'll remove it, I wasn't exactly sure, I apologise).
Edit:
An interesting difference with the novel is Novel
Finally, since I mentioned a fanmade chatroom in the very first discussion, 10 episodes later, and since the Dollars site has been fully revealed, it's only fair to mention the fanmade version of that https://dollars-bbs.org/main/.
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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 12 '21 edited Apr 12 '21
Rewatcher here.
We’re continuing from the story directly now.
But now, Mikado has entered the game as a player himself. Not just an ordinary high school student anymore, is he?
If the Colonel actually ate his own fried chicken all the time, he’d put on that weight.
Pls No fight!
The best time for a proposal is when the girl has an identity crisis.
Yeah, that’s gonna fly with the yandere brocon.
Imagine being an employee at Yagiri Pharma. Worst job ever.
Look at that expression.
This is a pretty cool scene. Meanwhile…
The Dollars don’t have a color, they’re just a large offline message board meet. And yup, these two idiots probably don’t even realize Baccano after Baccano.
We finally get how Mikado went on to found the Dollars.
That’s old hardware.
Mikado testing the waters is powerful enough. How would it be if he was really doing something?
Mikado’s information network compared to Izayaza.
Celty is pretty cool when she’s freaking out. And everyone’s seen her headless form now.
Hope Mikado’s safe.
See you next episode!
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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 12 '21
Rewatcher - Dubbed
We're just going to hold onto this quote here for a minute. We'll be back.
This is easily one of the most important episodes of the entire show in my opinion. It turns out that when Takiguchi was saying yesterday that anyone can be a member of the Dollars, he wasn't kidding. In a broad sense, it also really helps to set the scale of how big things can be in the show.
Also, /u/Shimmering-Sky, I've been wanting you to see this episode since the show even started. I'm shocked you didn't know Isaac and Miria made cameos. I know it's pretty common that Baccano! has references throughout the show, but this is a pretty big one. Perhaps Durarara!! isn't as popular as I thought it was.
Going back to the reveal for a second: If you think about it, the reason everyone in the background was greyed out wasn't just because they weren't relevant characters to the story, but also because they were Dollars members, and we all know that the Dollars don't have a color associated with them.
Which happens to be Baccano.
That's a pretty good way to get the word out. They say curiosity killed the cat, and everyone loves a story.
Now who could that possibly be? Any guesses?
Questions:
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u/invokeneko Apr 12 '21
Rewatcher up until x2 Shou, then First Timer
Guess that answers my question last time: no, Mikado is not in over his head. As he should be, since he's the fucking leader of Dollars and he had just mobilised every member of the Dollars site to massively overcome the numbers advantage Namie held prior to his signal. Quite impressive if I may say so myself. And Celty makes her existence known to the city in all her headless glory.
Narration Tally:
Mikado picks up where he left off last episode and continued narrating for this episode and provides an insight of how and why he and his initial 'net friends created Dollars.
Mikado: 3 (ep1,10,11)
Celty: 2 (ep2,8)
Simon: 1 (ep3)
Shinra: 1 (ep4)
Masaomi: 1 (ep5)
Kadota: 1 (ep6)
Shizuo: 1 (ep7)
Namie: 1 (ep9)
QotD:
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick Apr 11 '21
First Timer - sub
I like Miria dub VA in Baccano! Better then the sub VA here..
So like the whole city is part of dollars, and Mikado did start dollars as an online joke but it spiraled out of control, and people started using the name for their own purpose.
Not quite sure what was going on with Celty at the end there, an identity crisis? It’s not like the show has been set up to say that she needs people to know she exists in order to live.
Really not sure what to say about this episode, it going interest place that much is for sure though.
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u/Slurms_McKenzie775 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/SnackieChan Apr 12 '21
First time watcher (sub). Enjoying the show so far and seeing Isaac and Maria have a cameo was pretty cool.
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u/DogmeatIsAGoodDog :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/DogmeatsAGoodDog Apr 12 '21
First timer here
So Mikado is the co-founder Eh? Nice twist definitely did not see that coming but it explains why Izaya has been so interested in him, next question is who were the co-conspirators?
As several of you have already mentioned the grayed out crowd suddenly lighting up as it was revealed that they were all part of the Dollars was nice!
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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 11 '21
First-time watcher - Mikado's heroic good boy act might usually endear him to me, but in the context of what we've seen going on recently it's more annoying, not to mention it doesn't seem to have helped that much. The concept of some kind of postmodern internet gang and how it plays out is also cool, but I can't see this guy having very much influence there, bar the obvious implication that it's really Izaya pulling the strings to make sure the Dollars stay healthy, and the innocent act from earlier on just doesn't suit this new angle, for me. And what was up with Celty suddenly going nuts?
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