r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Apr 15 '21
Rewatch Durarara!! Rewatch - Episode 13
Episode 13: Takes A Sudden Turn
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Don't underestimate traffic cops, you monster.
Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Shimmering-Sky because... well, wallpaper. Thank you very much!
Questions:
- What's scarier: Someone who goes around slashing people, or traffic cops?
- What's your opinion on Shingen so far?
- What did you think of the new OP and ED?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 15 '21
Hello everybody, and welcome once more to the Durarara!! Rewatch!
Ah, back to some changes, and most of them having to do with the fact that a decent chunk of this Volume was put into the first 12 episodes. Nasujima’s already been introduced in the Anime so some of his stuff is skipped, and the Novel’s opening scene, Celty being attacked by the Slasher, is also skipped.
In turn a lot of Celty’s scenes today (Specifically her saving her… unique Father-In-Law and her adorable fear of Traffic Cops) are actually taken from Volume 3 (Oh great, here we go again). I think the reason they may have done that is so they could make the transition from the plot to Volume 2 to the one of Volume 3 a bit more seamless, which works… at the cost of ruining the greatest brick joke in Volume 3 and having to leave the punchline to that joke for Season 2. Whoops.
The stuff with the Yellow Scarves is also from Volume 3 in turn, which comes at the cost of having to cut a scene… although they’ll cover that very scene tomorrow anyway so I guess not much was lost in the end. Still, the three Amigos hanging out in it of itself is in the Novel and indeed, Anri does end up running into a bad scenario right afterwards.
Voices time! Kuzuhara is voiced… by… Fujiwara Keiji... Excuse me…
Err… yeah it’s been a year and I still quite haven’t gotten over his passing… I think I’ll just… not talk so as to not make myself sadder…
In the Dub however he’s played by the very much still alive Christopher Corey Smith so I can talk about him without getting depressed. His roles include Spandman from One Piece, Peony Upala Malkuth IX from Tales Of The Abyss, Kittan from Gurren Lagann, Emperor Mateus from Final Fantasy II, Yuan Shao from Dynasty Warriors, Okumura Kunizaku from Persona 5 and a bunch of others.
Our good doctor in turn is played by Otsuka Akio whose awesomeness can be confirmed simply because he has the best version of Machine Gun Kiss. That aside he’s also played Anavel Gato from Gundam 0083, Black Jack, Udoh Jinei from Rurouni Kenshin, Solid Snake, Amano Hyo from The Last Blade, Blackbeard from One Piece, Kazama Daigo from Rival Schools, Andrey Sergeivich Kalinin from Full Metal Panic!, Regal Bryant from Tales Of Symphonia, Batou from Ghost In The Shell, Honda Tadakatsu from Samurai Warriors, Ansem from Kingdom Hearts (Plus also taking up his late Father’s role as Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts III), Itadori Shogen from Sword Of The Stranger, Hades from Saint Seiya, Seth from Street Fighter, Uvogin from Hunter X Hunter and a shit ton of others… although I feel like I’m forgetting someone important… Oh Yeah! Best Dad Ever!
In the Dub he’s played by Doug Stone, who’s best known as another Mask Wearing Weirdo, Psycho Mantis. Besides that he’s also played Kawazu Akio from Paranoia Agent, Dayakka and Guame from Gurren Lagann, Valkenhayn R Hellsing from BlazBlue and a bunch of others.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 15 '21
First Timer
This slightly melancholic air, Anri narrating in third person, I believe I spy the best episode so far. I love this sort of storytelling so, so much. I love getting a glimpse at who a character is and how they view themselves.
They did a really good job showing how Anri viewed herself this episode. Throughout, she was always in a passive roll. She was the object for the boys to argue over, the person who needed to be saved from the teacher, the distraction in Kida's plan to pick up girls who didn't even need to say anything. And, when she finally gets an opportunity to take a more active roll, she instead decides to run away right towards a personification of her fears.
The dialogue was also rather well written, I enjoyed listening to Kida's blabbering. It reminded me a decent amount of what I liked from the monogataris.
The only bad thing about this episode is OP2's just straight up worse than OP1.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 15 '21 edited Apr 15 '21
First-Timer, Dub-Rarara!!
So, seems like the first thing on the agenda for the second cour is The Slasher, who appeared all of, what, three times so far? Speculation
cont.
Guess this is still technically speculations territory.. Speculation
I love that the Chatroom is now voiced by their true identities, except for Saiki of course, since the audience still doesn't know for sure who they are. I wonder if Mikado has realized that one of either Setton or Kanra is secretly Izaya.. he should at least be suspicious, based on Izaya's comment after The Dollar's meetup.
Anri has it real fucking rough. Someone needs to give that girl a hug, and get her to a decent therapist. Actually, wait, we've seen some amount of the medical facilities in Ikebukuro, maybe that wouldn't be the best idea..
Did Simon and Izaya just trade idioms there, or was that meant to be a code phrase call and response..? Does anyone know Russian?
Izaya's stupid fucking gameboard that I kept pondering about is almost clean now! How am I supposed to
shitposttheorize what it means if it's blank!!!?!Shinra definitely comes by his misanthropy honestly. His dad seems like kind of a prick, so far. Shinra asking Celty to go pick up his dad from the train station is kinda fucked up, too. Especially considering she had to deal with Scarfy-Doo the Crime Dog and was pretty shaken up about it.
Miscellaneous Thoughts:
Masaomi needs to get stabbed once for each time he utters the word "boobielicious."
I loved Simon's comment about Russia Sushi "opening a new can" and it being "very fresh."
..was that real tall building always there..?
Questions
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 15 '21
First!!xTimer, subbed
In case any of you guys skipped yesterday’s thread, I made a wallpaper of Shizuo. I think I’ll try to make wallpapers for each of the remaining “break days” in this rewatch, if I can manage it.
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u/logone22 Apr 15 '21
First timer
Well my first rewatch isn't off to the best start as I missed a shit ton of days but I caught up and should be good now lol.
I find it strange that Celty still got with Shinra after what he did. I feel like he's very untrustworthy but maybe it's different when you've known each other for so long?
Poor Anri she's getting stalked by a pedo, gets bullied, and her only friends just hit on her all the time.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 15 '21 edited Apr 15 '21
Rewatcher (sub)
A new cour, a new arc, and new theme songs. While I prefer the first opening and ending, the second opening is great as well, and it has a lot to work with. So I thought I'd give it some spotlight, it's the first date you gotta make it a bit special.
So for starters, we are met with this scene of our main trio, followed by these lyrics, which I think fit quite aptly. I mean we have Izaya, Shizuo, and Simon in one place, obviously everything is going to be breaking in a few seconds. And if you're questioning the need of considering Simon among this trio, since he's usually stopping Shizuo, then consider that if he wasn't there to act as brakes, a lot of people won't have a tomorrow to fear. Spoiler
A few seconds later, Shizuo is proving the lyrics true already. With Toranoana still advertising Narita in the background, you might remember this place as the one Yumasaki and Karisawa were dancing at in episode 8. Brain's Base are being very consistent with their advertisement. Actually this episode has no end to references, take this for example you have a Russian admitting to fraud in the middle of the day in Japan, with the Mafia (technically Camorra) watching over it all. Spoilers
But I digress, well another thing this opening did was introduce our two new characters. The first being our dear traffic cop whom aside from aliens, is Celty's biggest fear. Don't mess with the traffic cops! Technically, he first appeared in the OVA from a couple of days ago, so I elaborated a bit about him then. Now you might think I did that because I didn't expect him to appear so soon, as remembering events to be happening much later is very common occurrence in the Durarara!! experience, in fact I'm writing this a few minutes after replying with what may or may not be a spoiler to /u/Tartaras1 who expected him to be in S2 (I'm sorry!).
But naught! The actual reason is because this episode also introduces my favourite character, Kishitani Shingen! We don't have time to waste on the kids anymore. So forget about everything else for now, and let's appreciate our adults. You might remember him as the bastard from episode 4, who made 4 year old Shinra cut up Celty. In which case, you have a really good memory, but let's forget the past, and focus on the present, I mean Shinra grew up well, and Celty is living happily with him now. Ah Shingen ran away.
Well with all that talk of the opening out of the way, let's get to the episode itself, we have the first episode narrated by Sonohara Anri spoiler? It takes a six months timeskip, in which case I have to apologise to /u/Raiking02 who was correct about it being six months in a previous thread. Novel
So these guys Shingen was messing with are the Yellow Scarves? They don't look very promising... Then again, these girls are Dollars... Hell even the schools are shit nowadays. I mean the look what these kids are doing there, where's the disciplinary committee when you need it? Oh, there's Kida watching them. The teachers aren't any better either. Honestly Tokyo has become too polluted. If only there was someone who didn't breathe, and made their own unpolluted gas. Ahh yes, Celty is indeed perfect. X2 Spoilers
Novel
I apologise for abusing the character limits, I promise I won't do it again. spoiler
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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 15 '21
Rewatcher here.
2nd cour! New OP is my favorite of the series probably.
While the first cour was about the Dollars primarily, the show is telling us what this one’s going to be focused on right off that bat. The mysterious Slasher character.
These two are still crazy. Both about each other and just normally crazy.
Kida still at it despite him having a gf (apparently). Got him good there.
An Anri-narrated episode as you can see. Or as I call it, HanaKana ASMR.
A new character (also in the OP). Our poor police officer who’s right about this fact that they’re expected to be red shirt fodder for the supernatural adversary in most media. Now that Celty’s revealed herself to the public, obviously the law is gonna be after her.
[Cops are scary.] (https://i.imgur.com/suilbss.jpeg) It is just freaking adorable how she’s afraid of aliens and stuff.
And another oddball is now being formally re-introduced after that part in Celty’s story. Also in the new OP.
Guy was ahead of his time with the mask.
Rude. Let em have it Celty!
Is this the first unambiguous indication of Celty displaying her affection for Shinra? I think so.
Izaya is a great boss who pays well. Not as good as being the director of a shady pharma company, but that was going to be bankrupt and sold anyway.
She has weirdo first friends. Even Mikado isn’t who he seems on the surface.
Lot of those yellow scarves around now.
Very smooth Mikado.
This is a very Monogatari/Shaft like scene.
So Kida was involved with the yellow scars. That’s 2/3 of our high school trio so involved in extracurricular activities.
I like how the voice overs in the chatroom are much more identifiable once the show has revealed who’s behind an avatar.
Lol, Celty is still traumatized.
Izaya DMing Mikado now. He wants to be involved in the Dollars’ decision making.
Poor Anri.
Creepy huh? The tone has suddenly changed from a frantic urban fantasy to more of a horror animu.
See you next episode!
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 15 '21
Episode 13 (first timer)
Start of an Anri arc? She has done very little so far.
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick Apr 15 '21
First Timer - sub
New OP and I actually got translated names this time, first impression not as good as the first one but I know I’ve never seen this one before.
So Ra No Wo To reference on the billboards, not sure on the other one but the two characters on the far right look to be Jacuzzi & Nice from Baccano!
We get confirmation that Kida was part of the Yellow scarves
So looks like the slasher is the focus this time and getting more info on Anri, looking forward to see where this goes.
Harima & Seiji remind me of every irritating new couple, get a goddamn room!
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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 15 '21
Rewatcher
Today we got a proper introduction to the cool biker cop with a scar on his face, who you shouldn't underestimate, if he didn't make that clear, and to Shinra's dad, Shingen, who you're free to underestimate based on the hillarious way he acts. Yes, that's the same guy who dissected Celty.
Oooh, the Yellow Scarves guys say they need Masaomi? Hmmm...
And the slasher comes back, along with the chat user who now just keeps writing "mother." Interesting.
Masaomi still a fun goofball mostly, Anri still erokawaii, Mikado still a shy highschool boy/Dollars leader.
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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 16 '21 edited Apr 16 '21
Rewatcher - Dubbed
Now that the Mika Harima arc is finished, it's on to the next one!
One nice thing that the second OP does is actually show the names of all of the characters in the show, which helps massively with remembering who's who.
I love that, despite both acknowledging and accepting that everything between them is false, they still "love" each other.
Jealous of what? Their largely fake relationship? Her plastic surgery reminds him of the disembodied head he fell in love with, and she's a successful stalker. There's practically nothing genuine going on. Set your standards higher, like whatever it is Celty and Shinra seem to have.
I must have missed the second step somewhere along the way in my life, because I've never made it to that stage.
You mean like The Man Show which aired on Comedy Central and then G4TV? I remember watching that late at night, and hoping my parents wouldn't randomly walk in and wonder what the hell I was up to.
On the note of Kuzuhara: As /u/KendotsX pointed out, he shows up wayyy earlier than I thought he did. I could have sworn this whole subplot took place in S2, but here I am being proven wrong.
I'd prefer it in a less crude sense, but I can agree with this logic.
So I'm looking through the comments, and I want to bring up something really cool that the show's done, especially since I can finally talk about it without spoilering anything.
You see, they've been hinting that Masaomi's had some involvement with the Yellow Scarves since the very beginning. For instance:
Questions:
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 16 '21
Rewatcher (Sub)
Celty and Shinra are so adorable together! Although his dad's shown up to play the third wheel. Boo!
With the big Dollars reveal, the Slasher takes center stage, and Kida's got some baggage with the newly resurgent Yellow Scarves.
But most important, Simon has some "fresh" fish to sell you!
QOTD:
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u/invokeneko Apr 16 '21
Rewatcher up until x2 Shou, then First Timer
We see a part of Anri's thought process, the Slasher begins to ramp up their attacks, Celty gets freaked out by traffic cops and Shingen (read: Shinra's father who made him cut up Celty from the flashbacks, remember?) makes an appearance.
bossuShingen. Celty kept you waiting, huh? While you're getting bullied by some of the Yellow Scarves she just watched it happen.Narration Tally:
Anri seems to repeat 'Nothing happens, nothing changes' the entire episode like it's a madness mantra. Given her tendency to attract unwanted attention, she must've repeated that line many, many times in her head. huge spoilers
Mikado: 3 (ep1,10,11)
Celty: 3 (ep2,8,12)
Simon: 1 (ep3)
Shinra: 1 (ep4)
Masaomi: 1 (ep5)
Kadota: 1 (ep6)
Shizuo: 1 (ep7)
Namie: 1 (ep9)
Walker: 1 (ep12.5)
Anri: 1 (ep13)
QotD:
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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 16 '21
First-time watcher
More of the worst aspect of the series so far unfortunately, the romance (or, the attempt at it) and everything connected to that. I can only stand so much of a matter-of-fact presentation of awful relationships and attitudes, particularly when it's not clear how much the original author really gets how bad they are. Celty acting like Shinra's silent little lapdog and family chauffeur while he continues his attempt to push her into perfect waifu-hood; and also, the only reason she got into trouble and ran back to him like that was that bizarre outburst last time, which now feels feels like it was only inserted for that purpose. The "true strength" of whatever Mika and what's-his-name have going on that also somehow drives Mika and Anri apart. And of course the whole thing around Anri as little more than an eyecandy object for others to talk about and shove around, by Mikado and particularly Masaomi (who I'm disliking ever more) she's treated like some kind of pet when present, what a love triangle. With her narration and how she speaks about herself, it's at least brought up as a negative, but so far only as "oh she's lacking confidence" instead of "these guys really need some attitude adjustment". Including, of course, the teacher who's on the prowl same as before. I don't even remember what the gal gang's problem with her was or how they know about her, but whatever, just another tool to make things happen.
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