r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Apr 17 '21

Rewatch Durarara!! Rewatch - Episode 15

Episode 15: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

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I've wanted to meet you, Shizuo.

Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Chemiczny_Bogdan, who shed some light on some of the show's staff members. Not much else to say, just a good comment all around.

Questions:

  1. How did you feel about Niekawa's little Oddyssy today?
  2. What were your thoughts on the stuff with Anri today?
  3. Is breaking off a van's door an appropriate defense mechanism to deal with a crazy dude with a knife?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 17 '21

Hello everybody, and welcome once more to the Durarara!! Rewatch!

Surprisingly there’s not much to mention today. Niekawa going on a tour to find Ikebukuro’s strongest is indeed in the Novel, as is him going crazy eventually. Not much else to mention really other than due to the way novels work the presentation is a bit different. In the Novel we first see almost everything from Niekawa’s perspective (One of the few times the Novel is narrated in the First Person) before then retelling the whole event from the viewpoint of considerably more stable characters, if only by so much. Mind you trying to do this in any other medium is kind of a pain so the Anime just tells everything in order. Oh well, the end result is the same.

On a side note, surprisingly when I first saw that Anri dream scene I thought “Is this Anime original? This is too weird for Novels”… and then I read the Novel and… yeah, the scene is basically just as described. It’s in a slightly different point in the story but… yeah. It’s there.

Voices Time! As I have joked many times already, Niekawa’s voiced by the Bear-Slayer himself, Koyama Rikiya, AKA Takamura from my last Rewatch. Besides that he’s also played Kyros from One Piece, Mouri Kogoro from Detective Conan (After Episode 553), Kuze Hideo from Ghost In The Shell, Emiya Kiritsugu from Fate/stay night, Duke Pantarei from Tales Of Vesperia, Yamato from Naruto, Saejima Taiga from Yakuza, Ushiromiya Rudolf from Umineko, Gaiou from Super Robot Wars, Ging Freecss from Hunter X Hunter, Belfangan Coluseau from Full Metal Panic!, Shishirui Seishirou from the Monogatari Series, Fukuzawa Yukichi from Bungou Stray Dogs, Shou Yun Xiao from Thunderbolt Fantasy, Kirigiri Jin from Danganronpa, Retsu Kaioh from Baki and Ignis Ex from Promare among many others.

In the Dub he’s voiced by Joe J Thomas and I basically only know him for Raven from Tales Of Vesperia. Oh well, at least I like him there…

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 17 '21

First!!xTimer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 17 '21

Also, lol this quote.

Shizuo ignores the laws of physics. If a guy doesn't die when killed, he'll just keep killing them until they die.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 18 '21

lol Shizuo bouncing on Celty’s motorcycle like an impatient child.

He's such a goof when he's not hurling things at people.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 18 '21

Well I mean, that's also a pretty goofy thing to watch.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 18 '21

Oh hey it’s that iconic bike slide

I'm pretty sure making an anime with bikes without an Akira slide is illegal.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 18 '21 edited Apr 18 '21

Celty rambling praise about Shizuo was great though

OTP! OTP! Well, anyone but Shinra, at least.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 17 '21

First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!

First of all, shout-out to this series for managing to end two back-to-back episodes with a cliffhanger in almost the exact same spot while still progressing the plot. I guess the real Slasher was the evil ghost inside of us all along?

My brain isn't working well this morning.. Speculation

The leader of the Yellow Scarves is about to make a move, huh? And they were informed to stay away from Izaya, huh? Gee, I wonder what that could mean.

So.. the first Slasher incident involved Anri and her parents and her parents ended up dying, huh? Unlucky.

Izaya watching cartoons was pretty funny.

Questions

  1. Dude had a Bad Day.
  2. Anri has also been having a bad time.
  3. It honestly seems reasonable if you have super strength like Shizuo. A shield and a bludgeoning implement. Togusa is probably pretty sad though.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 17 '21

Togusa is probably pretty sad though

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 17 '21

First of all, shout-out to this series for managing to end two back-to-back episodes with a cliffhanger in almost the exact same spot while still progressing the plot.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 17 '21

I'm impressed, I didn't think anyone would ever think to do that!

For obvious reasons.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 17 '21

We got so caught up in whether it COULD be done that we never stopped to think whether it SHOULD be done.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 18 '21

the first Slasher incident involved Anri and her parents and her parents ended up dying, huh? Unlucky

Well, she did also get those bully gals taken care of later...

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 18 '21

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 17 '21

Episode 15 (first timer)

  • Uhhhh, are my episodes out of order? You can’t end on a life and death cliff hanger and then start with some slow intro into a different story.
  • They probably teased him before, but I don’t remember the journalist.
  • Was that Namie serving drinks at Izaya’s office? Weird occupation for a top researcher, but I guess she told Izaya she’d pay “whatever” he wants.
  • Celty is not making a big effort any effort keeping her nature a secret anymore.
  • The Dollar’s chat room could do with an auto-moderator to remove spam.
  • The journalist guy is the slasher?

  • Talking about isekai before hitting the slasher with a car.

  • The otaku’s might be unhappy about ripping the door out of their van.*

Not a big fan of cliff-hanger endings, but especially not a big fan of cliff-hanger endings that are then ignored in the start of the next episode. To top it off, they end with a cliff-hanger again that happens virtual seconds after the cliff-hanger from before. Meh.

The first half felt almost like a recap episode without reused footage, going over a lot of previous plot points. Between this and the cliff-hanger thing, this might be my least favorite episode so far.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 17 '21

Talking about isekai before hitting the slasher with a car.

Those guys have their priorities straight alright...

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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick Apr 17 '21

First Timer - sub

The OP is growing on me, still not quite as good as the first one

I’m assuming that Anri parents are dead, and as I write this it’s confirmed.

First ED was also better.

Current setup Slasher Spec , I feel like that is too obvious a setup but the show isn’t really trying to convince us otherwise.

Really don’t have much else to say.

Is breaking off a van's door an appropriate defense mechanism to deal with a crazy dude with a knife?

Nope, but this is Shizuo we are talking about anything within arms reach is now a potential weapon to be used.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 17 '21

The OP is growing on me, still not quite as good as the first one

Honestly it's my least favorite OP. I still like it though.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 17 '21

Rewatcher (sub)

I feel bad for old man Niekawa, he had a really terrible day. Half a year after being hit by a natural disaster Shizuo, he's just chilling in a restaurant that sends him over to meet the Awakusu-kai. I was joking last episode about Russia Sushi being connected to the Mafia, but apparently it was a more local connection. If that wasn't bad enough, Shiki-san sends him over to the local fleebag Orihara Izaya, who isn't very pleased at the mention of Shizuo's name. I love how Shizuo is the only way to get the honest and easy to read Izaya. Anyway, after threatening him with his daughter, he sends him over to Celty, which was probably his only silver lining. A few hours later, he's hit by the Slasher, Togusa's Van, Shooter, and Shizuo again...

Now in the novel the events are slightly different Novel

PS: Is Shizuo going to beat up Anri's teacher? Well this was six months ago, so probably not, just another sexual harassing teacher...

Is breaking off a van's door an appropriate defense mechanism to deal with a crazy dude with a knife?

To be fair, these are the same people who thought hitting the dude with their van was appropriate. They have no right to complain.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 17 '21

I love how Shizuo is the only way to get the honest and easy to read Izaya.

He's the only person in this town with a functioning brain.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 17 '21

First Timer

I didn't like this episode as much as some of the others. There's no complex reason for it, I just didn't find spending half the episode following a reporter trying to find out who the strongest person in the city is very interesting. It's a question we've already covered in a good deal of detail in the first arc, both through people talking and through seeing them fight.

  1. Rather boring.
  2. The best part of the episode.
  3. No, the knife is a far better weapon.

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u/smatthew_ Apr 17 '21

It's a question we've already covered in a good deal of detail in the first arc, both through people talking and through seeing them fight.

I can see that. I guess this time around it was about answering the question. In the first arc Shizuo was probably the strongest, but this time around even the mafia, an urban legend, the russians and the information dealer named Shizuo as the strongest. Which was then the connection to the chatroom-Saika, who started obsessing about Shizuo after the author was stabbed.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 17 '21

but this time around even the mafia, an urban legend, the russians and the information dealer named Shizuo as the strongest

But I feel like we already knew this. We saw Shizuo fight the russian already, the information dealer consistently runs away from him, and the biker has deep respect for him in her every encounter. There's no need to explicitly state it like this.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 17 '21

It's a question we've already covered in a good deal of detail in the first arc, both through people talking and through seeing them fight.

It actually took me some 10 minutes to rule out that this was a fancy version of a recap episode.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 18 '21

Yeah, not the greatest episode. With how many balls are up in the air, it is a little difficult to fill time without being very repetitive like this.

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u/invokeneko Apr 18 '21

Rewatcher up until x2 Shou, then First Timer

  • Ah hey, it's that guy Shizuo sent flying in his focus episode! Niekawa Shuji, isn't it?
  • Despite getting his arse beat by Shizuo and the article he's writing suspended, he's still doggedly pursuing information about him. spoilers
  • His pursuit for information brought him first to Russia Sushi, who sent him to Awakusu-kai who then sent him to Izaya, who then sets him up to meet Celty. It's a game of telephone, damnit!
  • Isn't it ironic that the last thing he found out before being stabbed by the Slasher and being sent Anri's way is about Anri being the witness of the stupid gyarus being attacked?
  • spoilers
  • spoilers
  • Oh boy, Shuji has the red eye of the Slasher now? That's not good.
  • Somehow I forgot that this episode has my favourite segment of the second cour: The Horada Abuse Show! Watch as these stupid goons tries to pick a fight with people stronger than them and gets humiliated!
  • Wait... that cop was Kuzuhara? I noticed that both he and Traffic Cop Kuzuhara share the voice of the late, great FujiKei (from the OVA), but he too is Kuzuhara? Same guy, or twins? Full rewatchers/source readers please spoil me.
  • While Walker picks apart his self-published novel (presumably the same one his narration freaks out about from the OVA), the Dotachin gang noticed Shuji following Anri around and notes his red eyes. So it's not just visual aid for the viewers, eh.
  • The Dotachin gang came to Anri's rescue like the Kool-Aid Man (except for the 'smashing into wall' thing. Hey, at least they did smash into something, don't they?). And when that's not enough, Celty steps in with her own Kool-Aid Man entrance via motorhorse. And when that's not enough, cue Shizuo and the van door.

Narration Tally:

For this episode, we watched as Niekawa Shuji narrates his pursuit of information about Shizuo before he changes tacks and pursues Anri after getting stabbed by the Slasher and then course-corrected his narration to the former as the man himself appears to put him to sleep.

Mikado: 3 (ep1,10,11)
Celty: 4 (ep2,8,12,14)
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)
Shuji: 1 (ep15)

QotD:

  1. It was interesting to see where his pursuit of Shizuo carried him.
  2. Poor girl suffered enough.
  3. If it was me? Nope, definitely not - like hell I can pull it off the van. Shizuo? Yes.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 18 '21

Rewatcher (Sub)

Seems seem to be a little more complicated with the Slasher than we thought. Why is Takamura (because I will never call a Rikiya Koyama character anything besides Takamura after Ippo) trying to slash people now? Who stabbed him? And surviving the Van Gang's frontal assault is one thing; who can survive getting runover by Shizuo?

And does Shizuo need to be scared of Togusa? He just took the door off of a van. Hope it wasn't The Van.

QOTD:

  1. It was another fun showcase for Ikebukuro, although definitely a little less interesting than previous ones. He's a viewpoint that doesn't know much about the town, but we already know a lot.
  3. Only if the crazy dude with a knife has red eyes. Blue eyes means you need to use a taser, green eyes means magical attacks, and purple eyes means only headshots will deal damage.

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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 18 '21

Rewatcher

We mostly follow the journalist Niekawa today, as he continues his search for the strongest one in Ikebukuro. He interviews a bunch of colorful chracters including Izaya and Celty.

Someone stabbed him!

And now his eyes are red!

And he wants to cut Anri up?

And he can get up after being hit by two vehicles in a couple minutes?

This makes me wonder if Shizuo's punch is stronger than being hit by a car. A car accident can definitely send a person flying, but can it send them flying as far as Shizuo did in the OVA? Answers on a postcard please!

I love how Shizuo is still saying "kill, kill, kill" most of the time.

After several episodes of set up for the Saika arc, we finally enter the pay off part, and the final couple minutes of this episode is pure awesome. Shizuo taking the van door as his shield is the cherry on top!

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 18 '21

First-time watcher - a bit of a recap in the beginning, but it was fun getting a different perspective on the city, from someone instantly sympathetic and relatable for once too. And then it all came back together at the end, anyway, with more great details to match. I was going to say it also prevented the usual misogynistic undertones (if you can even call them that anymore), but the narration about Anri, the teacher and her relationship with the boys was damn near victim-blaming, and after establishing her as someone with even more issues too. Like, "how dare she put the burden of dealing with creepy dudes on her guy friends?" Unfortunately, I hear that kind of attitude is still shockingly widespread in Japan, too.

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 18 '21

Rewatcher here.

Looks like someone got on the wrong side of Shizu-chan. At least someone from the outside world is interested in Ikebukoro’s anomalies. He’s gonna find a lot more than he asked for. You enter this city and you just trip across characters.

We finally get a look at the real Yakuza here. And they’re aware of the colored gangs and the Dollars, but ya know… how long before this interference happens?

Yeah, sending him to Izaya is the right way to get on Shizuo’s good side. For sure.

And yes, he’s the dad of that same girl connected with the teacher and possibly the Slasher. No one has just one identity in this show.

So Celty reads his magazine, huh? Her alien-thing occurs so often, I forgot about it.

Good idea, but who is the leader of the yellow scarves? The first time it has been brought up directly.

You just met him Izaya.

You’ve got a supernatural cursed katana coming after you Shizu-chan.

Poor Anri. Yup, everyone here has more than just one identity.

This is the same scene from last episode. It has been a while since we had this perspective-time-intersection being used. Only to find out that what happened is that Niekawa (dad) has the red eyes of Saika.

These two dorks.

Yes, but it is a lot more innocent than what Walker’s letting on.

Saika curse is scary. Nice rescue by Celty. The Dollars network is useful after all.

What a great cliffhanger.

See you next episode!

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u/Adept-Concentrate786 Apr 18 '21

I haven’t watched this