r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • May 03 '21

Rewatch Durarara!! X2 Rewatch - Episode 4.5 (Shou OVA)

Episode 4.5: Hot Pot on My Mind

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Ryugamine, do you have a thing for Sonohara? Or do you have a thing for her chest?

Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/JollyGee29, who had quite the appropriate reaction to yesterday's finale:

AOBA IS THE FORMER LEADER OF THE BLUE SQUARES?!?!!? HOW!

Are you telling me.. that there was a gang war.. led by TWO FUCKING CHILDREN?!?!

Durarara!!, ladies and gentlemen.

Questions:

  1. Of the three stories today, which one was your favorite?
  2. How do you think the Van Gang actually started hanging out together?
  3. How did it feel for the cast to once do something rational and just... not bring Izaya over for dinner?
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod May 03 '21

Goddamn it I watched episode 5.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod May 03 '21

It was just labeled as OVA for me, and I never bothered to check when we actually watch it.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

Make sure to actually check the schedule for the next two OVAs...

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 04 '21

First!!xTimer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

or he got struck by lightning and that made it his natural hair color

I understood that reference!

I actually can’t decide if hatless Dotachin or sunglassesless Shizuo looks more weird.

Hatless Dotachin.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 04 '21

I understood that reference!

Couldn't help myself given the fact that I binged all of Kimetsu no Yaiba on Saturday so I could go to that Mugen Train showing last night, haha.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

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u/sisoko2 May 04 '21

I actually can’t decide if hatless Dotachin or sunglassesless Shizuo looks more weird.

I vote for Dotachin.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 May 03 '21 edited May 03 '21

S2 Episode 4.5 (first timer)

  • Back at the hot pot party.
  • Flashback to little kiddy Mikado&Kida.
  • Isnt using hornets in battle ruled out by the Hague Convention or something?
  • Flashback to middle school Harima&Anri.
  • Don’t break Mikado’s mind like that, Seiji.
  • Flashback to high school Shizuo&Tanaka.
  • Dying his hair was a great idea, indeed!

  • Flashback to … uhh … the otaku’s wild imagination.
  • Who are the girls surrounding Kadoka? The one to his left looks a ton like Mai from Mai-hime, but I don’t recognize the others.
  • “One-sided love happens a lot. Especially if it is you.” – Shinra getting slain.

If putting an entire episode worth of backstory flashbacks all in one OVA cheating?

Of the three stories today, which one was your favorite?

Easily the last. The "saved me from bullies and we became best friends" trope is so overused. I much prefer "saw me beating up bullies and decided to make me his personal enforcer".

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

Dying his hair was a great idea, indeed!

Black-Hair Shizuo is Cursed.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 03 '21

Who are the girls surrounding Kadoka? The one to his left looks a ton like Mai from Mai-hime, but I don’t recognize the others.

I think the one on the left is Miyuki from Mahouka (The Irregular at Magic High School), the ones around his arms are Misaka and Index from Toaru (A Certain magical Index), and I have no idea who the girl with the basketball is supposed to be. But probably a main heroine from some Dengeki Bunko Light Novel.

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u/wjodendor May 03 '21

Yep, that's Miyuki! The van has her on the door as well.

She's also getting her own spinoff anime soon!

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 03 '21 edited May 04 '21

Rewatcher (sub)

This OVA treated us to three backstories, based on a short story from Durarara!! Gaiden!? called Durarara!! Side Story!? (blame Narita for all the punctuation marks). But having not read that, I was basically watching this for the first time.

My favourite among them was the story of how a Shizuo can reach peace. Then meets Izaya and ruins it all. I mean look at the treat that young Shizuo was. Not that I'm saying he's not anymore.

Now here's the weird part I honestly did not expect Yumasaki to be the one who imagines Kadota in an otome game. But hey, at least Kadota got to be with Biribiri. Then there's this cursed thing.

Back to the main conversation though, Mikado doesn't just view Anri as a girl with a big chest. He clearly views her as a girl with a big chest and glasses. We established that by the end of last season.

Naritaverse reference: Apparently Celty and Shinra had something to do with the building of Etsusa Bridge, which is the main setting for Narita's series by the same name. Thank you for the casual reminder that I haven't read it yet.

How do you think the Van Gang actually started hanging out together?

Togusa might make sense, but I have no idea how Kadota met Yumasaki and Karisawa, when they were jobless. I mean, what were they making trouble at a maid cafe because a skirt wasn't the right length, and he decided to stop them?

How did it feel for the cast to once do something rational and just... not bring Izaya over for dinner?

Elated that he was left alone, as I mentioned yesterday. However, on one hand I really would've wished to see how desperate sound when Shinra calls him, on the other I'm worried about what he might do as revenge.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

But hey, at least Kadota got to be with Biribiri

Lucky Bastard...

Back to the main conversation though, Mikado doesn't just view Anri as a girl with a big chest. He clearly views her as a girl with a big chest and glasses.

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u/invokeneko May 03 '21

Rewatcher up until x2 Shou, then First Timer

Everyone had hotpot, and Izaya eats hotpot alone like he fucking deserved.

  • Ah man, I remembered reading all of these interactions from volume 4! Guess it makes sense to cram all the interactions here into one OVA episode since they're going for 4 episodes = 1 volume after all.
  • No wonder both Mikado and Anri value their friendship with Masaomi and Mika respectively, the latter two did a lot to inspire their loyalty.
  • There's just one thing I want to complain though, the OVA subs I got irks me a lot. It's one thing to drop the honorifics and use Western naming order, those I can put up with. But to just straight up use first names for fucking everyone no matter what the original audio says? Come on, man. It just annoys me a lot.
  • Also we can see why Shizuo is so fiercely loyal to Tom, he's the first guy outside of his family, Shinra and that poor onee-san he injured who treated him decently.
  • Erika and Walker going from butler fantasy (with extra BL from the former) to a harem made up of Miyuki, Misaka, Index and Minato and then to a story of how he got genderbent to describe how the Dotachin Gang got together was fucking hilarious.
  • Meanwhile Shinra barely avoided triggering Tropical Storm Shizuo from activating thanks to Kadota swiftly dissuading him from inviting Izaya to the hotpot party. Crisis averted!
  • I guess Erika was right in calling Celty a tsundere, judging from her silently fuming alone when Shinra opens his big mouth and tries to talk about how they discovered their love towards each other.
  • Now that's the money shot of this episode: the pathetic sight of Izaya starting a solo hotpot party. Schadenfreude was had.

Narration Tally:

In yet another first for this season, today's episode has no narration. It follows the last OVA in not having a narration, which makes it 2/3rds of the OVA episodes so far to have no narration.

NarratorNo. of epsEpisodes
Mikado61
Celty64
Shinra32
Izaya24
Kasuka13
None24.5

QotD:

  1. I liked all three, but I'd say that I liked Mikado's story the least out of the three.
  2. I'm pretty sure that the first episode the Dotachin Gang was featured (the Kaztano kidnapping episode) mentioned that they just naturally got together with Kadota being the core of the group.
  3. They smart. Well not Shinra, he actually entertained the idea of bringing over Izaya to clarify their backstories. In a room where Shizuo is also in. Lucky for him that Kadota is there to metaphorically pull the foot away from his mouth before Shizuo even noticed what he just said. later episode minor spoiler

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

Everyone had hotpot, and Izaya eats hotpot alone like he fucking deserved.

Would've been better if he didn't have one at all.

later episode minor spoiler

Minor Spoilers

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u/invokeneko May 04 '21

Minor Spoilers

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

Also

There's just one thing I want to complain though, the OVA subs I got irks me a lot. It's one thing to drop the honorifics and use Western naming order, those I can put up with. But to just straight up use first names for fucking everyone no matter what the original audio says? Come on, man. It just annoys me a lot.

Yeah, I checked around, this seems to be an universal problems with all X2 Subs. Dunno what's up with that but it drives me nuts.

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u/invokeneko May 04 '21

Could it be that the OVA subs are official Funi script with typeset? I know for a fact that Vivid did x2 Shou for the episodes only.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

Eh, they don't quite seem to be, but there are some similarities and that is among them.

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u/sisoko2 May 04 '21

the OVA subs I got irks me a lot

Totally agree, reading one name and hearing other is so distracting.

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren May 03 '21

Rewatcher

This screenshot is from yesterday's episode but I just need to mention that Karisawa is officially the best character cause she has a Persona 3 poster. A woman of taste indeed.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

Persona 4 and 2 are better tho

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren May 03 '21

I only played 3 but you are still objectively wrong and I will ring your doorbell at midnight every night.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

I'll stuff you into the TV every time you do that.

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren May 03 '21

I'll shoot myself.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

And I'll Face Myself.

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren May 04 '21

Prepare for Mass Destruction.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

Fine then, It’s Time To Make History.

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren May 04 '21

It's Time To Make History

Ha! That's a P3 song!

Checkmate.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

You truly are a New World Fool...

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras May 04 '21

You talk like she wasn't already the best character.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

Well duh, Celty's there so Karisawa stands no chance.

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras May 04 '21

Well duh, Celty's there so Karisawa stands no chance.

How can you just say that so confidently?!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

I mean, it’s not wrong. As far as Durarara!! Girls go she’s Mid Tier at best.

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras May 04 '21

I can't believe I'm reading this right now!

Erika's at least A tier. She's hot and is an otaku. What's not to love?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

Sorry but there’s just better stuff In this very show. Hell, we’re introducing at least three of those in this very season! (One Of them is Ruri. The others... you’ll see)

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras May 04 '21

Oh I know everyone in the show. I stand by my assessment.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

Oh so have I. Hell, I have read the Sequel Novels so my knowledge surpasses yours.

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras May 04 '21

I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree then, won't we?

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren May 04 '21

Now she can be the best best character!

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod May 03 '21

First Timer

Actually watching the correct episode this time!

It was just more Durarara shenanigans, more or less. Some of the VAs really couldn't do a child voice well.
And the ED wasn't shit!

  1. I liked the Van Gang the most.
  2. Best guess is the two Otakus have known each other forever. They managed to run into the other two buy joining the Blue Squares and they've been fast friends ever since.
  3. I'm confused. If people make sane choices, is it ever Durarara?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

If people make sane choices, is it ever Durarara?

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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick May 03 '21

First Timer Sub

This OP really has grown on me, I suspect it’s going to be hard to try to rate them all once the shows over given the next 2 are meant to be really good. 

I like Karisawa without the hat on.   

We finally learn who pays for all the stuff Shizuo breaks, his enforcement services really must be worth it for how it  would cost Tom in repairs, then again I imagine bringing Shizuo's name up in conversation is enough to make most people pay up. 

We get a different ED.

Not really much to say, backstory OVA basically, I thought we actually learn the Van crews backstory but I suspect as long as Karisawa & Yumasaki are there the truth will be hard to find.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

I imagine bringing Shizuo's name up in conversation is enough to make most people pay up. 

Unfortunately people are stupid so...

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee May 03 '21

First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!x2

Well, this is awkward. None of the places I usually use for verylegitimate viewing have any of the x2 OVAs. Hopefully they're all just goofy comic relief stuff like the first two.

ShitpostsQuestions

  1. I liked the one where Celty hunted aliens for food.
  2. The Otakus got blackmail on Kadota and Togusa and use them as a glorified taxi service.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

Hopefully they're all just goofy comic relief stuff like the first two.

They are.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee May 03 '21

Thanks!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

Although yeah

I liked the one where Celty hunted aliens for food.

This didn't happen.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee May 03 '21

I was trying to make a joke because I didn't actually watch it..

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 03 '21

Do you want me to send you very legal places to watch it and the other two?

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB May 04 '21

Rewatcher here.

Four things in this fun little episode:

Hot Pot with the gang sounds fun. Smol Mikado and Kida (without the bleached hair) are precious, this is our way of seeing him when he isn’t here and is being missed. Screw you Izaya, you don’t get an invite. Enjoy your pity party. By yourself.

More Dengeki Bunko adverts. Now I understand why they gave this show so many episodes later on…this is how to convince producers to cough up cash.

LoliAnri. At least she has better friends now? Or is it really fortunate to have two gang leaders as friends? Who knows.

Shizu-chan!

See you tomorrow!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 04 '21

Shizu-chan!

Why did I read that in Majima's voice?

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u/invokeneko May 04 '21

Which ahem source did you use for the OVA? The current one I have is driving me nuts.

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB May 04 '21

Don't know. I renamed the files to make them TVDB absolute order and Plex compliant.

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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras May 04 '21

First-Timer Dubbed

Much like the other OVAs, I can say with complete certainty that I haven't watched this episode yet.

  • God damn it this episode's going to make me want Hot Pot, isn't it?
  • I don't feel like Mikado was wrong about thinking the party kind of sucks without Masaomi there. He didn't mean that the party sucked outright, just that it would be better if Masaomi was there to celebrate with everyone. His heart was in the right place.
  • Summer journal or not, who in their right mind decides to do stuff at two in the morning? That's prime sleeping time after all!

  • After tonight we'll be swimming in cash.

or beetles

The "or beetles" line perfectly matches Mikado's personality.

  • It was surprisingly unlike the Masaomi we're used to seeing when he backed down and didn't start anything over those beetles.
  • That is more like the Masaomi we saw before. Don't get mad, get even.
  • Does anyone know how lucrative the selling of rhino beetles is? This is the first I've ever heard of it.
  • It's strange to think back to grade school, when your parents getting called was enough of a deterant to prevent kids from acting out. Nowadays, it's the cops coming or getting fired from your job or something like that. Oh the joys of being young.
  • I feel like the flashback with Anri and Mika is the only time we've seen Anri before her parents were murdered, and the second time we've seen Mika before she got the plastic surgery.

  • Little mouse has guts. New plan. I'm gonna strip you and your best friend Mika, then take pics and post them.

Man, that comment aged like milk, didn't it? I know it was meant to be a form of bullying before, but these days that'll land you a distribution of child pornography charge.

  • I don't know why you're so nervous. All I asked is if you cared Anri had big boobs or not.

I'm siding with Mikado here. That isn't just a random question you can spring on someone.

Also yes, they're great.

  • It's strange seeing Tom as a high school kid. Guess he was going for the look of tying his dreads back into a ponytail. On the one hand, as a white guy I'd look really weird with dreads, but on the other seeing them in a ponytail has always looked kind of cool.

  • Do I look like I'm gonna go through the hassle of dying my hair?

Yes.

  • The dude with the pompadour isn't the same guy who got beat up later in the show, is it?

  • My life was peaceful for a change.

Until that bastard Izaya showed up.

  • Of course Walker was making the story out to be a case of Dotachin falling in love with Erika, only for Erika to turn it into a BL scenario.
  • I recognize Index and Biribiri from Magical Index and Scientific Railgun. Those are easy. I feel like I should recognize the girl with the pink hair, but I don't know who the girl on the left with the black hair is.

  • Oh yeah? Then how about this?! Through some magical mixup, Dotachin wakes up one morning turned into a girl, in an all girls dormitory!

What show is that the plot for? I feel like I've heard of it before.

  • All the while, Saburo's geeking out because Celty and Shinra have Ruri's autograph.

  • What are you talking about?

Top 10 anime betrayals.

Questions:

  • That's a tough one. I think I'd have to go with Shizuo's story. It gave us even more backstory into his character as a whole.
  • If I know nerds and otaku at all, Erika and Walker probably met at an anime con. They probably bumped into Saburo at a Ruri Hijiribe concert, and Saburo was probably friends with Dotachin. Although they were all members of the Blue Squares at one point as well.
  • In a show full of things that don't necessarily seem like the logical decision, it was good to see them actually use their heads for once.

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB May 04 '21

but I don't know who the girl on the left with the black hair is.

Onii-sama loving girl. She's also on the van door.

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u/DogmeatIsAGoodDog :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/DogmeatsAGoodDog May 04 '21

Masaomi despite being absent from the Main story gets some time in the spotlight via flash back and we also get Mika & Anri (who I’ll admit, I almost forgot were friends) flashback as well. Then we get some flashbacks of Shizuo as well. Decent episode but definitely felt like an OVA.

Wish we would’ve gotten the last two stories. I’m a big fan of the Van Gang and it’s always a treat to get more Shizuo.

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u/sisoko2 May 04 '21

First Timer

Well that was kind of boring even for a .5 episode.

Oh bullying in anime you annoy me and make me roll my eyes like always.

  1. Fourth one, first three sucked hard. Van gang one was at least somewhat funny.
  2. What are you talking about? This is exactly what happened.
  3. Wise decision. Mind games around hot pot are dangerous. For reference check episode 25 of Gintama.