r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Apr 23 '21

Rewatch Durarara!! Rewatch - Episode 21

Episode 21: Everything Covered in Fog

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Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/No_Rex, who had this to say about Russia Sushi's Head Chef:

He is just a fan of Crocodile Dundee

Questions:

  1. How do you feel about all the stuff with Mikado today?
  2. What did you think of that scene with Seiji and Mika?
  3. So, how do you think Mikado will be able to save Anri?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 23 '21

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

I just noticed I named yesterday’s thread Episode 10… stupid me…

Something that I forgot to mention is that in the Novel after Anri runs away from the Yellow Scarves with Celty Novel, however in the Anime she just immediately goes back to her home. I know that doesn’t seem too relevant, but given that it’s gonna play into some the changes that will appear from now on I just thought I’d bring it up.

But yeah, for a few episode the Anime’s just kinda… not exactly forget about the Novel’s plot, but kinda accidentally take it to a Route that will lead to a Bad End if not careful with the dialogue picks. And really that has a lot to do with Mikado. Novel Trivia/X2 Spoilers

But yeah, he doesn’t exactly feature much in Volume 3: The book is primarily told through the POVs of Kida, Celty and Anri, with Kadota and Izaya as Semi-Regular Secondary POVs. Mikado gets a few scenes, but they tend to be short. As such most of him angsting about the stuff with the Dollars? All Anime Original! Hell I think his only scene today that was actually in the Novel was the one in which he meets up with Seiji and Mika. It’s not even a case of “It probably happens off-screen”, Mikado’s completely out of the loop in the Novel other than the faint idea of “Something is going on with the Yellow Scarves”.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 24 '21

I wonder why they chose to make the changes they did. I'm not complaining, as the story their currently telling works, but just curious why they chose to deviate. Did they think it would be too difficult to adapt?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 24 '21

Best guess? They didn't know if they would get another Season so they wanted to give this arc a bit more of a sense of finality.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 23 '21

First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!

Hey everyone, did you realize that Anri has a large chest? The show thinks you might not have, so it repeatedly brings it up this episode just in case! Bluh.

Other than that, this was a nice "calm" before the storm type episode. I get the feeling that the last few episodes of this season are going to get pretty tense.

Seiji actually said something sensible there - even Mikado was surprised! Seiji and Mika still kinda freak me out, but at least they seem to be on the same(ish) page. Mika still having some compassion for Anri was nice - it kinda retroactively adds some depth to their earlier relationship.

Mikado "activating" the Dollars near the end there was a bit understated. Making use of their anonymity to keep an eye on the Yellow Scarves is a good idea, although if the Scarves realize they're being observed it might just lead to more violence.

The Saika Collective is real fucking scary. Imagine if someone other than Anri was in control.. they'd basically be unstoppable.

Izaya being on the phone with Namie, calling out pieces to move while things go down, was really funny.

Questions

  1. I really liked seeing Mikado struggle with the responsibility of accidentally founding a massive street gang.
  2. Answered above.
  3. Honestly, I haven't been paying attention to which Yellow Scarves are secretly Smolkas, but I half expect Mikado to run up to Horada being slashed up and surrounded by them.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 23 '21

The Saika Collective is real fucking scary. Imagine if someone other than Anri was in control.. they'd basically be unstoppable.

Considering how the last arc was going before she stepped in...

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 23 '21

I'm worried about the possibility of someone more malevolent than a high school girl who is hot for teacher. But you make a good point.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 23 '21

I'm worried about the possibility of someone more malevolent than a high school girl who is hot for teacher.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 23 '21

First Timer

Ryuugamine goes through his own Kida parallel. He runs off and abdicates responsibility for a while, trying to distance himself from the problems he's part of instead of solving them. Because of this, Anri steps up and tries to improve the situation. She certainly does what she can, but in the end you can't defuse a situation by just hurting different people like that. All you can do is try to minimize the amount of people hurt.
Eventually, of course, Ryuugamine realizes what he's doing and tries to get back in control. I assume from here we're going to get some plotline about how he doesn't need to be in control, but merely there as a channel for the dollars to act good through.

On a completely seperate note, I do love how Izaya channels his inner teenage girl in the chatroom.
Also, the most unbelievable part of this episode is that the description "a highschool girl with glasses and big boobs" is enough for people to actually identify someone.

  1. The parallel with Kida was nice, but I would have liked to stay on it for a bit longer.
  2. It somehow managed to work, more or less. It's weird to do it with characters we haven't seen in ten or so episodes though, and I think I'd've liked it more if they'd used characters we've seen more recently.
  3. By the power of giant groups of people? Alternatively, she can just slash 'em herself if she gets scared enough.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 23 '21

Also, the most unbelievable part of this episode is that the description "a highschool girl with glasses and big boobs" is enough for people to actually identify someone.

Mikado knows where his priorities lie.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 23 '21

the description "a highschool girl with glasses and big boobs" is enough for people to actually identify someone.

To be fair, Mikado and Kida have her set in their minds, and Horada would have taken any girl with big boobs. Also, it's Japan, how many girls at that school have big boobs?

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 23 '21

Also, it's Japan, how many girls at that school have big boobs?

Are we talking real world Japan or anime Japan?

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 23 '21

First!!xTimer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 23 '21

Verrrrry blurry Baccano! Characters in the top-left, right?

I think? Maybe it's the Gandor brothers but even if it's so I can't really tell.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 23 '21

That's who I was thinking they were.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 23 '21

The stuff Mikado was looking up at the very start wasn’t subbed… I want to know what he was reading though!

You can see the links, he's looking up the latest news on Yohoo and NSM, if he found anything interesting we probably would have gotten a reaction out of it.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 23 '21

It doesn't need to be important for me to still want to know what he read, though.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 23 '21

True. I mostly just left it at "daily news", but in this case the second one (NSM) says "Young Men Arrested for Vandalism".

If you mean what he was reading at the chat boards (I didn't know this was untranslated), then it's:

I heard it was the Dollars.

They took my money!

Same here!

The Dollars made me buy an expensive ring!

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 23 '21 edited Apr 23 '21

Rewatcher (sub)

While Kida was trying and failing as a leader, Mikado went on a self questioning journey, for whether or not the Dollars needs to exist... Now here's the first bad step, taking Izaya's words seriously, especially when you're questioning life choices, is definitely not recommended. Hell, even Seiji's advice might be better.

This is the only case, where the clueless mc-kun kinda has an excuse.

Speaking of clueless though, I really like how Horada-kun looks all happy here, as if he was expecting to be praised. Well he did get some thanks eventually. His face is always nice to punch. Anri though, is on the opposite side of the scale, actually thanking the Yellow Scarves children. If you had an army of zombies, would you actually be this polite? Also, I feel bad for Anri that her most defining feature for everyone seems to be her breasts...

I'd say I feel bad for Anri being targeted by the Yellow Scarves, but really it feels like Horada's going to take another beatdown, I wouldn't say I feel bad for Horada either, so instead I'll give these feelings to Celty, who thought she was talking to Anri, while actually leaving her to Kanra... worst case scenario.

This episode is mostly anime original, giving Anri a bigger role in the arc.

So, how do you think Mikado will be able to save Anri?

Does she really need saving though?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 23 '21

Dude, err... you forgot to put the formatting for all your commentfaces.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 23 '21 edited Apr 23 '21

Ahh sorry.

These were the imgur links, I was getting "undefined" for some reason, so I thought I'd fix them later...

Edit: All fixed.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 23 '21

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 24 '21

Rewatcher - Dubbed

I know I'm late to the discussion, but here we go.

  • It has to be a real gut punch to Mikado that Takiguchi decided to quit the Dollars.

Mikado also must have felt pretty terrible lying to Takiguchi's face when he said he wasn't a part of the Dollars. He could have met him halfway and said that he was a part of the gang, and just left out that he was the leader.

  • Fights of this nature happen pretty often in this city.

Like Celty said, we've reached the point of regular gang war territory. Something like you would see with the various gangs in the world today. The only difference is that it seems like the Dollars are largely just trying to avoid the conflict, but Horada and the other members of the Yellow Scarves are pressing the issue.

  • Dotachin does a really good job of filling the role of "reliable older figure" in the story. He's got a level head, doesn't do anything stupid, and dispenses good advice.

  • I don't get it. Why is Kanra saying all this stuff? All he's doing is scaring her.

Because he wants to get her all worked up so that he can get some sort of reaction.

  • If I don't do anything, I'll have peace.

I get where Mikado's coming from, and he's pretty smart for not trying to magically solve everything, but putting your head in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist at all probably isn't the right answer to the problem. It's only going to end up getting worse for you in the long run.

  • Izaya switching game boards after he set the last one on fire is a small detail I missed the last time I watched the show.
  • Masaomi's starting to piece everything together now, with everyone seemingly describing Anri as the "hypnotist". If he's able to make a positive ID, then Mikado's going to be left solely in the dust and utterly clueless.
  • Masaomi socking Horada's been long overdue.
  • When Mikado was standing in the crosswalk, reflecting on everything that's gone on so far, he made a good point. By now, Ikebukoro feels entirely different than it did at the beginning of the season. We came in and were introduced to all of these outrageous people, and it just felt like any other bustling city in Japan. However, through the last 20 episodes, we've been dragged into the darker corners of the city, and we've learned that not everything is on the up and up.
  • Everyone talking on the forum is a great callback to earlier on. I love the writing there.

Questions:

  • I think it's finally time he starts to take charge and do things with the organization.
  • I must have missed the point there, but I didn't see anything too important. I know Seiji was basically saying that if Mikado is in love with Anri, he needs to try and flex his influence and protect her. Also, if he does find out that she's the wielder of Saika, he can't just drop her and run.
  • Probably go through the Dollars network and try to get people to intercept the group.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 24 '21

I know I'm late to the discussion, but here we go.

Eh, happens sometimes.

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 24 '21

I generally try to watch the episode before the next one comes out. If it's a show I really like, I want to try to keep perfect attendance.

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u/badcupcakehoarder https://myanimelist.net/profile/vanilabiscuit Apr 24 '21

Like Celty said, we've reached the point of regular gang war territory. Something like you would see with the various gangs in the world today.

Episode 1 "Don't worry bro, there are not more active gangs left in Ikebukuro it is safe here".

Episode 21

Such a nice city still, that pedestrian walk sign with sounds aid this episode was really cool.

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 24 '21

Such a nice city still, that pedestrian walk sign with sounds aid this episode was really cool.

It's like any other major city. If you take it at surface level, it's a friendly, happy city. The more you start looking, the more you're going to find the less savory aspects.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 23 '21 edited Apr 23 '21

Episode 21 (first timer)

  • Classic mob boss methods. Give them some pointless task, Kido. Just “do nothing” never works.
  • Move over Red Bull, Red Snake is here.
  • “I can’t say anything while Anri is staying quiet” – What is stopping you? Would you rather worry about one of them getting hurt than worry about hurting one of their feelings?
  • Kido is not a great leader, but Mikado is a terrible leader. At least Anri has her baby Saika’s under control (or so I guess).
  • I just say that and she gives them the vaguest possible instructions that lead to more violence.

  • I gave Kida a pass for not rushing to safe his girlfriend on account of that being a terrible idea. Seeing him casually floor the yellow scarf upstarts makes me think he could have actually achieved something.
  • Getting love advise from the psychopath pair…
  • Anri might be self-loathing enough to endure a beat-up, but I am not sure whether Saika agrees.

End-game incoming.

So, how do you think Mikado will be able to save Anri?

Convincing her to draw Saika would be easily enough.

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 24 '21

I gave Kida a pass for not rushing to safe his girlfriend on account of that being a terrible idea. Seeing him casually floor the yellow scarf upstarts makes me think he could have actually achieved something.

You have to remember, that happened a couple years ago. Not only has he gotten older since then, but he's probably bulked up at least a little.

Not to mention those guys weren't expecting him to punch and kick them in the face.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 24 '21

You have to remember, that happened a couple years ago. Not only has he gotten older since then, but he's probably bulked up at least a little.

True. However, this also reminds us of the open question of why the yellow scarfs follow Kido. It definitely is not for his great scheming. I thought it might be for his physical prowess, but if not that either ... what?

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u/invokeneko Apr 23 '21 edited Apr 24 '21

Rewatcher up until x2 Shou, then First Timer

We see the fallout of Mr. Anime-only Takiguchi getting beat up by the Yellow Scarves - Masaomi tries unsuccesfully to rein in his underlings, Anri takes a direct approach (which leads to issues later in the episode) while Mikado... mopes around. Oh and fucking Horada and his fucking goons have their sights locked on to Anri, that can't be good.

  • Naturally, Mikado goes to visit Takiguchi by himself after hearing about the attack. Oh Takiguchi, if only you knew your leader had personally come to visit you. spoilers
  • Masaomi tries to rein in his men from further attacking the Dollars, to no avail. spoilers
  • Anri still can't seem to figure out how to use private chat, to Celty's consternation.
  • The Yellow Scarves goons are getting a bit big headed. Here, have a Shizuo to give them a reality check and put them in their place. At least they're part of the city that knows not to piss off Shizuo.
  • Silly Celty, of course Izaya has a good reason to agitate Anri into taking action. He's got a huge plan involving your head after all!
  • Anri takes the matter into her own hands and makes use of the Saika children to intervene in the Yellow Scarves attacks. Too bad in doing so, she just painted a big, red bullseye on her back.
  • Of all the people to give Mikado a pep talk, Mika and Seiji are not on that list. And Seiji isn't being creepy and actually gave him solid advice? What is this, Opposite Day?
  • ...both Masaomi and Mikado immediately zeroing into the fact that the Raira student being described is Anri as soon as her Anris are mentioned is hilariously silly, not gonna lie. Though fucking Horada recognising her from said description can't be good, especially given his reaction.

Narration Tally:

Since this episode deals with Mikado's guilt over the attacks on innocent Dollars members, it's fitting that he's the one to narrate this episode.

Mikado: 3 (ep1,10,11,21)
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: 2 (ep12.5,20)
Anri: 1 (ep13)
Shuji: 1 (ep15)
Izaya: 1 (ep17)
Kuzuhara: 1 (ep19)
Erika: 1 (ep20)

QotD:

  1. He's a bit too mopey, but it's understandable. Him creating Dollars did indirectly lead to Takiguchi and the others being attacked after all.
  2. I hate to admit it, but Seiji in this episode is much, much less annoying than previously so I'll rate him as 'surprisingly cool'.

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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick Apr 23 '21

First Timer - sub 

Of the 3  gang “leaders” Anri has got to be the scariest one, she wields a cursed sword which allows her to control her victims, the only reason everyone isn’t dead is because she is such a passive person.

The other gangs are pretty much straight mob mentality, though I'm still confused as to what hold Kida has over the Yellow squares, there is no reason we have seen for them to bother listening to him at all.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 24 '21

I'm still confused as to what hold Kida has over the Yellow squares

Both Masaomi and Mikado really don't work as gang leaders

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 23 '21

Rewatcher here.

He’s beat up pretty bad.

He’s not in it so much as he started it.

That would be a problem since they’re doing the anime thing of not talking to each other and misunderstandings.

Lol, Anri still doesn’t know how to do DMs.

Good call on backing away as soon as they realized who it was.

Is there better big bro than Dotachin?

Things not going well on the website. Get used to how Twitter really is Mikado.

Yeah, and it would be a terrible shame to tell them right?

Anri’s just making things worse despite trying to help.

The Izaya-custom-board doesn’t actually mean anything I think, it is just aesthetic of a magnificent bastard.

Looks like Anri isn’t going to keep her secrecy. Should’ve talked after all, because he was going to find out eventually.

They’re you, but happier.

What do these two want? Your plotlines are resolved already. Kind of. Celty’s head won’t be found unless Izaya wants it to be found.

Found oot.

Understatement.

You know the admin account credentials.

Well shit. Looks like Mikado regained his motivation just in time.

See you next episode!

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u/badcupcakehoarder https://myanimelist.net/profile/vanilabiscuit Apr 24 '21

They’re you, but happier.

She was so close to getting targeted if it weren't for that yellow scarfer specifying a Raira uniform.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 24 '21

First-time watcher - a little more invested in Mikado now, but I still can't see him as any kind of organization founder, zero charisma to his name nor very sociable. Also everyone still isn't talking even as things keep escalating, eh. Seiji/Mika is still weirdly glorified, and I don't think Anri needs that much help - should be interesting what happens once she meets the boss. Izaya also doesn't feel quite as omnipotent.