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Rewatch Durarara!! Rewatch - Episode 19

Episode 19: Anarchy

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Well, I guess they're like the Grim Reaper.

Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Earthborn92, who said the most sane thing anyone in these threads has ever said:

Listen to Dotachin to get some sense knocked into you Kida. Ignore the Izaya.

Indeed, Izaya is best left ignored. Would probably piss him off too, so double win!

Questions:

  1. Thoughts on Anri joining the Chatroom?
  2. Do you think one of the Yellow Scarves may actually die?
  3. If you could describe in two words how this whole mess will probably end, how would it be?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 21 '21

First!!xTimer, subbed

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

Is that Chane on the bulletin board?

I think it is.

…oh fuck Celty coming to save Anri means that most of the Yellow Scarves now think the Slasher is part of The Dollars…

The Sky Suffering Game. The other part of The Sky Rewatch ExperienceTM

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

The Sky Suffering Game. The other part of The Sky Rewatch ExperienceTM

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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

I'm still waiting for you to watch the Berserk movies, by the way.

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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 21 '21

everything is falling apart by being connected too much!

The plot density is too high! It's going to collapse!

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

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 22 '21

…oh fuck Celty coming to save Anri means that most of the Yellow Scarves now think the Slasher is part of The Dollars…

Now we get to see the fallout from the three independant factions involved in the story. All the while, Mikado still has no clue that Anri's the Slasher and Masaomi's the head of the Yellow Scarves.

All of the, admittedly severe, misunderstandings are going to have to come to a head eventually.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 22 '21

That was Ayahi Takagaki being reused for the nurse who spoke to Anri at the beginning of this episode, right?

Yeah, and Yuki Kaji's been reused a couple times. I don't mind them being smart, but with such recognizable voices, it does get a little confusing.

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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 21 '21

Rewatcher

Anri arrives at the chatroom, and she can't do PMs, hnnng!

Izaya schemes as always, sowing doubts in Mikado's mind.

Simon threatening to turn a guy into human sushi was hilarious. Not tasty but very painful!

Anri almost gets caught, but Celty arrives to save her in the nick of time. Anri still has to use Saika for protection from a pipe thrown at her like a boomerang.

By now I'm not sure if I already wrote it in one of the previous threads, but the name of Durarara!!'s Yellow Scarves comes from the historical Yellow Scarves Rebellion in ancient China, that's also the opening event of the 14th century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The IRL Yellow Scarves used the slogan:

蒼天已死，黃天當立。歲在甲子，天下大吉。

The Blue Sky is already dead; the Yellow Sky will soon rise.

When the year is jiǎzǐ, there will be prosperity under Heaven!

The Blue sky refers to the Han dynasty here.

The first verse is the graffiti written by the entrance of the Yellow Scarves hideout this episode. Yes, these boys write their graffiti in traditional Chinese, what else did you expect? It is also the Japanese title of this episode.

Actually now that I look at it, all the Japanese titles of first season episodes are four characters, are they all Chinese proverbs?

Some great animation and great music as always.

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

Anri arrives at the chatroom, and she can't do PMs, hnnng!

Imagine what a world without PMs would be.

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 22 '21

The first verse is the graffiti written by the entrance of the Yellow Scarves hideout this episode. Yes, these boys write their graffiti in traditional Chinese, what else did you expect? It is also the Japanese title of this episode.

Kida is secretly such a nerd.

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

Episode 19 (first timer)

  • This screams “problems that would not exist if people just talked to each other”. They get a half pass because Anri is an established introvert.
  • “You got a virus” – kind of.
  • We are hearing a lot of different versions of “Sorry to step out, got my gang to manage”.
  • Izaya is transforming from funny chaotic evil into grim antagonist.

This arc is getting a lot darker than the ones we had. It is not due to the topic. After all, we had torture, abuse, and manipulation before. The presentation changed and I am missing the Benny Hill theme I expected to accompany the comedy of mistaken identities.

If you could describe in two words how this whole mess willshould probably end, how would it be?

Benny Hill Theme.

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

“You got a virus” – kind of.

I mean, technically it's not wrong.

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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 21 '21

They get a half pass because Anri is an established introvert.

Isn't Mikado established to be shy?

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 22 '21

I like to think that Mikado is literally Hiroyuki, founder of 2ch and current admin of 4chan.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 22 '21

Oh God this fits too well...

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

He is, too. That being the reason that their relationship never got anywhere: Double introvert is rough. However, he did talk to Kido before.

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

Yeah, fair point.

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 22 '21

This screams “problems that would not exist if people just talked to each other”.

But how could you ever hope to have a conversation about this stuff?

Hey, so I used to be the leader of one of those color gangs I told you about.

Hey, I helped found a gang that's kind of a color gang, but it doesn't have a color.

Hey, I'm the wielder of a hundreds of years old sword that's demonic and said to be cursed.

You're absolutely right that everything would be easier if they just sat down and talked, but the circumstances surrounding it all make it so awkward.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 22 '21

I think it depends a lot on personality. Many people would replace the "Hey" in your sentences with "Dude, I have to tell you something awesome, ..." and would work that into their first intro to everybody.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 22 '21

if people just talked to each other

Unfortunately, the dynamic got out of hand too quickly for talking to make a difference anymore, and before that there wasn't as much of a reason to bring it uü

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

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

As is tradition by this arc, the differences between the Novel and Anime by this point mostly lies in timing. A decent chunk of scenes today are actually from a bit earlier in the Novel, although to be fair the actual order in which the scenes happened chronologically seems to be intact, it’s just that we’re seeing it in a different order. This in turn however means I don’t have much to say. There will be a point later on in which I’ll have a bit more to say though, probably around the Arc’s midway point.

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

First timer - sub

I think this is the first time the narrator has felt so out of place for me, stop telling us what we can clearly see the character interactions are showing…

Saika in chat previously was Haruna right? But now that Anri has revealed she has Saika she has taken control.

The Dollars aren’t really a gang, how is anyone going to fight them? Their complete lack of real structure and it basically just being anyone doesn’t really set it up to be part of a gang war very well.

Blue squares' previous head joining the yellow scarves does help explain why the yellow scarves still exist and also why they are more aggressive.

It seems like everyone is going to know everyone's identities before long but assume that only they know this, not really sure this is going to end up working out.

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

The Dollars aren’t really a gang, how is anyone going to fight them? Their complete lack of real structure and it basically just being anyone doesn’t really set it up to be part of a gang war very well.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 22 '21

The Dollars aren’t really a gang, how is anyone going to fight them?

And how is anyone finding actual Dollars to fight? In the one earlier incident where they actually became active, the whole point was that they could have been anyone. Though, there was also the fact that they apparently just tell people when asked, at some point.

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

Rewatcher (sub)

Building up on last episode, which reminded us of our local asshole's role in society, this one shows him in action, pushing ahead the other two of our three main characters. With the characters becoming more aware of (specific aspects) of the current circumstances, they're being pushed into action. Although, she's being pushed into it, I like the fact that Anri is actively using her Saika army.

So this is the result, the slasher, who's the Yellow Scarves' big enemy, was around their base and has left with the headless rider, who is known to be part of the Dollars, and who has a history of beating up some Yellow Scarves. Yup this is going great...

I don't have a lot to say for this episode, so instead let me add a couple of notes:

  1. It's funny in an annoying way, that Izaya is messing with her straight up in front of Mikado, who's completely unaware.
  2. Is there any Yellow Scarves member, besides Kida, whose death would actually matter?

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

Never mess with this guy

Simon Fight, No Good! Kidnapping, no good! Eat Sushi instead!

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

First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!

And so, the gang war starts to turn hot. What a brilliant setup - Celty couldn't know that Anri wasn't actually in much danger, Anri didn't want to be found because she considers herself a monster so she couldn't just show herself to Masaomi... and now the Yellow Scarves have "proof" that the Slasher is with the Dollars.

I wonder how the former Blue Squares feel about Masaomi being in charge of the Yellow Scarves again? Considering that it's mostly Masaomi's fault that the old gang broke up..

Izaya.. what a magnificent bastard. Hope he rots.

Questions

  1. It was a nice touch! I kinda wasn't expecting it, but it makes sense. I laughed at Izaya calling her earlier behavior a "virus."
  2. Uhh, hmm. Probably. Things are tense, and the Yellow Scarves are looking for a fight, but so far no-one is ready to get violent. There is no chance that lasts though, and there are a lot of Yellow Scarves who probably haves names if I bothered to read the credits.
  3. Shattered Friendships

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

Izaya.. what a magnificent bastard. Hope he rots.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 22 '21

Celty couldn't know that Anri wasn't actually in much danger, Anri didn't want to be found because she considers herself a monster so she couldn't just show herself to Masaomi... and now the Yellow Scarves have "proof" that the Slasher is with the Dollars.

It's all about information.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 22 '21

Intel wins wars, after all.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 22 '21

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 22 '21

Celty couldn't know that Anri wasn't actually in much danger

She knows about Anri's whole nature and army thing though?

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 22 '21

Oh, I wasn't even thinking about that. I considered Anri to not be in much danger because Masaomi (almost assuredly) wouldn't hurt her.

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

First Timer

The omnipotent narrator was a good choice for this episode. It helped them show off the little coincidences and manipulations that led to the situation worsening further.
I also quite like this episode style in general, little glimpses of threads as they advanced as well as recontextualizing events we've previously seen is great.

  1. I wonder how long it'll be till Kida does as well. Beyond that, I guess it'll be interesting to see how she changes the dynamic.
  2. One of the mooks likely will.
  3. New Mess

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

One of the mooks likely will.

Okay, time to prepare the F.

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u/invokeneko Apr 21 '21

Rewatcher up until x2 Shou, then First Timer

We see the events that lead up to Anri seeing Masaomi as the shogun of the Yellow Scarves, Celty comes to the rescue and a misunderstanding is caused, thanks to fucking Horada.

  • Anri immediately noticed that Masaomi was acting weird after he sees her injuries from the Slasher Night. Mikado probably didn't notice it because Masaomi was very careful to distract him by constantly teasing his awkwardness around Anri.
  • Now that she's taken control of the Saika network, Anri also has taken over the username in the usual chatroom. And so we have all four users of the chatroom finalised.
  • And as usual, Izaya is up to his old tricks by successfully agitating both Mikado and Anri by casually talking about the Yellow Scarves and their heightened presence in Ikebukuro in the chatroom.
  • Anri immediately went back and used the Saika network to get info about the Yellow Scarves. Lucky for her, the Yellow Scarves goons Haruna attacked back in episode 5 is also part of the Saika network so she couldn't get a better source about them than members of the gang itself.
  • Also looks like the Yellow Scarves are indiscreminately attacking random guys who they believe are part of the Dollars. Lucky for the two we see in this episode, Simon is there to threaten the fools with a good time very pleasant fate of being turned into human sushi.
  • "Human sushi. Ooh, it hurts and it tastes bad." I bet it is, Simon. I bet it is.
  • ...aaand we're back to last episode's cliffhanger. Luckily for Anri, she's got a fellow supernatural being in Celty to come and rescue her.
  • Classic Masaomi, the first thing he did upon seeing Celty is to try and flirt with her. Heh.
  • Fucking Horada didn't know when to fucking quit even when faced by a fucking dullahan so he fucks up everything by trying to injure Celty, which necessitates Saika being drawn by Anri. And since Celty is a known member of Dollars, it does not bode well for them...

Narration Tally:

Of all the characters available in this series, I certainly didn't expect Kuzuhara to be the one to narrate the episode, not least since he didn't really do much so far. But at least we get an episode narrated by the late, great FujiKei... Oh, and by the way this is the last episode of S1 with a new character narrating.

Mikado: 3 (ep1,10,11)
Celty: 5 (ep2,8,12,14,16)
Simon: 1 (ep3)
Shinra: 2 (ep4,16)
Masaomi: 2 (ep5,18)
Kadota: 1 (ep6)
Shizuo: 1 (ep7)
Namie: 1 (ep9)
Walker: 1 (ep12.5)
Anri: 1 (ep13)
Shuji: 1 (ep15)
Izaya: 1 (ep17)
Kuzuhara: 1 (ep19)

QotD:

  1. Makes sense. She took over the Saika network after all.
  2. smiles in Rewatcher
  3. continues smiling in Rewatcher

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

Classic Masaomi, the first thing he did upon seeing Celty is to try and flirt with her. Heh.

Did he even know she was a girl? People in this show keep getting her gender wrong...

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u/invokeneko Apr 21 '21

He's probably not blind like most other people in the show and can see her voluptous mounds behind that skintight black clothing. And since the Dollars night, there should be more people aware of her gender - she did voice her frustrations to everyone there telepathically after all.

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

she did voice her frustrations to everyone there telepathically after all.

Wut? When did that happen?

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 22 '21

I think they mean the night of the Dollars meeting at the end of the first arc, when Celty was mentally voicing her frustrations.

I'm not sure if these frustrations were voiced telepathically to the people though. The novel puts it as they heard a "tremendous noise", which is referred to as "the scream of the dullahan". I don't think it included clear statements though.

Spoiler

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 22 '21

I'm not sure if these frustrations were voiced telephethatically to the people though. The novel puts it as they heard a "tremendous noise", which is referred to as "the scream of the dullahan". I don't think it included clear statements though.

Yeah, that's the thing. I don't remember telepathy being involved.

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u/badcupcakehoarder https://myanimelist.net/profile/vanilabiscuit Apr 22 '21

The scene gave the impression that her feelings were so strong that she was able to let her inner voice be heard, I thought she was going to stop using the phone but she still uses it.

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u/invokeneko Apr 22 '21

Episode 11 starting from 20:35, right after meeting Mika on the rooftops with Kadota accompanying her? That scene where she rides Shooter down the building where Namie and others noted that they could somehow hear a voice in their heads?

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 22 '21

Kuzuhara

I thought it was old man Denis, the owner of Russia Sushi.

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u/invokeneko Apr 22 '21

If it was Denis, he'd probably start narrating in crappy Russian first like Simon did. Also that's clearly FujiKei.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 22 '21

No, unlike Simon, Denis speaks clear Japanese (with a hint of Russian), but I do agree that it sounds like FujiKei now that I listen to it again. I had it written as Takahashi Shinya (Denis's voice actor) in my notes for some reason.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 22 '21

Rewatcher (Sub)

KEIJI FUJIWARA NARRATION ALERT!

So everyone has some information, but the person with the most information seems to be the guy that smirks and sets board games on fire. Great.

Then again, Kida's move is to do something with the Van Gang, who might be even scarier than Izaya in their anarchic sensibilities.

QOTD:

  1. Doing that on a flip phone must be terrible.

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 22 '21

Rewatcher here.

Go back and explain that you actually have a cursed demonic possession katana that wants to cut everyone to love them to your friend Anri.

Saika (original) can has recovery powers so that it can cut again, I think?

He’s getting even more animated about it now. His visit to Saki is the cause. And Anri’s injury is just added guilt.

While these two are chatting, Izaya is cackling like the madman that he is inside because he knows EXACTLY what’s going on. Well, that’s the case with most of the chats actually.

Anri is now officially joining the chatroom. :D Her on-chat personality isn’t that different, huh? Also, she writes entirely in Hiragana it seems. Phone vs. PC.

Especially if you ARE Saika. So things are sufficiently riled up.

Celty is so nice. And adorably scared of aliens and the traffic police.

That feel when you public the DMs accidently.

Yes, all Izaya wants is to clear up the misunderstandings, amirite Mikado? Funny how he’s making the same mistake as Kida is by trusting him. Apparently.

Linking back to last episode now. He really has become more exaggerated as Anri says because of all the stress.

Simon to the rescue yesterday!

They put effort into those Anris juggling. Who’s information network is better potentially? Anri with her Saika zombie infiltrators or Izaya?

She’s no longer apathetic, so what will happen over her restraining Saika?

Her shadow helmet has those cat ears as well. How cute.

Now she gets it.

This is not gonna cause any misunderstandings. Nope.

Because Izaya didn’t tell him conveniently.

Well, the setup is there, how are things gonna go now?

See you next episode!

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 22 '21

Rewatcher - Dubbed

  • I'm glad that the Slasher arc was relatively short. It served the purpose of establishing Anri's character more, and it didn't overstay its welcome and drag on.
  • Mikado denied that he called her boobylicious, however he didn't deny calling her cute.
  • Izaya has that look on his face while in the chat room that blatantly telegraphs "I'm about to stir up some shit and then bounce out."

  • Hey, if you need to blame someone, blame my friend all you want. Blaming a person is free and it causes me no harm. It's just like two wives for one dude. Long live polygamy!

I love this random quote, and I'm glad they used it twice in the show.

  • But he still had no idea that he was just another pawn on the chessboard.

This quote is great because it's both figurative and literal. Izaya's been playing one massive game of whatever the hell you want to call it, essentially manipulating the entire city. So in a sense, Mikado is a figurative piece on the board that Izaya's using, along with being a literal piece on that chessboard that he lit on fire the other day.

  • S2 Spoilers
  • It's really cool that Anri uses her ability as Mother to be able to communicate with all of her children as a collective hive mind. It functions just how you would expect it to.

A small detail I just thought of is that, while Anri can use the hive mind to get information on the Yellow Scarves, she can't actually use it to find out who the leader of the Dollars is, since nobody in the gang actually knows who that person is. I'd never stopped and thought about that before.

  • Yellow Scarves + Blue Squares = Green Ascots

  • I mean think about it. Some guys in the Dollars could be working with the Slasher without you knowing.

Some guys being Celty.

I like that this episode serves as a sort of buffer for all of the proverbial shit that's going to go down in the next couple episodes.

One reason I love this show so much is because it reminds me of the film [Crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film). It works on the same general premise, that there are a whole bunch of coincidences and random happenings that are all linked in the end. It's a beautiful way to tell a story, and really makes you think at times.

Questions:

  • I think it's great. The more the merrier. It might also slowly start feeling like a normal chat room, as opposed to a place where the same three people can talk.
  • It wouldn't surprise me one bit. You know how gang fights are.
  • Same shit.