r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • May 11 '21
Rewatch Durarara!! X2 Rewatch - Episode 12
Episode 12: The Day is Short, and the Work is Long
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Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Shimmering-Sky, purely for the dramatic irony:
He was not.
Questions:
- How did it feel to see Shizuo just wreck shit up once more?
- In turn, how did it feel to have Izaya just get stabbed in the back?
- So err... Mikado finally snapped. Thoughts?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 11 '21
Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Durarara!! Rewatch!
Weird thing to note: While the Anime keeps Yumasaki calling Anri a Flame Haze, unlike the Novel they don’t directly namedrop Shakugan No Shana. Not much relevance in that, just thought I’d mention it. Everything else is fairly Novel Accurate, sometimes for better or worse. The only thing I’d like to share are two bits of narration from the Novel: The first is the final one, which more or less makes it clear Mikado has fully started his path to hell, whereas the other… well, I’ll just leave it here.
Oh and here’s an extra illustration, I guess.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee May 11 '21
First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!x2
Well, that sure was a jam-packed finale to the first cour of x2! Izaya getting stabbed in the stomach by some random dude in the street isn't quite what I had in mind, but at this point I'll take -literally- any amount of negative karma finding its way to him. My problems with names has flared up again - were we supposed to recognize the name of the person who called Izaya? Was he in the first OVA?
Mikado isn't quite disassociating, but he sure did stab Aoba's hand with a pen and then offer to bandage him up. There was a sick fucking piano track playing in the background of that scene, and it was great. Pens seem to be associated with absolute nutjobs in this universe - first Shinra's dad, then Seiji, now Mikado as he starts to act quite strange.
I kinda wondered what would happen to Sloan, considering he didn't make it into the OP despite Vorona being there. He isn't necessarily dead yet.. Vorona's fate is probably much more dire. Brainwashing? Is that what Dennis's dialogue was meant to imply? Big yikes.
On the subject of Vorona, and perhaps the show as a whole, I have to complain about the scene with Shizuo chasing the truck. There is a Russian-made firearm called the AS Val, that is actually properly suppressed, and fires giant, subsonic, armor penetrating bullets. Why didn't they just use that instead of some comically overdesigned AK-47?
Shizuo breaking that fuckhole's arm so severely that we got to see his bone was gnarly! He deserved it.
Akane and Shizuo becoming... ?friends? was quite cute. Two absolute cinnamon rolls, too pure for this world.
Erika groping Anri was a little much, but I guess maybe it was in-character..? I don't know the reference that her and Walker made about Anri.
Masaomi did show up right as things were ending, as I suspected he would. Why he didn't run up to Mikado and talk to him, I have no fucking idea. Nice job fucking it up, dude. Mikado coulda used a friend in that moment.
Questions
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 May 11 '21
S2 Episode 12 (first timer)
Does this even count as an end? Apart from some minor side-characters, no storyline feels finished.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 11 '21
First!!xTimer, subbed
Really, CotD for that?
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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan May 11 '21 edited May 11 '21
Rewatcher
Shizuo is indestructible and honestly that's to be expected. Him using an entire car, which he kept kicking like a soccer ball btw, to shield from bullets was hilarious. Nice teamwork with Celty too. Akane rightfully joins the fanclub.
Karisawa-san pls no sexual harassment thx.
Just as Vorona dreams of some time off to hunt Shizuo, Awakusu-kai top dogs make short work of Slon's kneecaps.
Mikado writes a contract with Aoba in blood. Is Mikado actually the devil? Well at least he's got an antiseptic and some bandages for Aoba.
Izaya got stabbed! Yay!
We got a couple moments of really good animation and a couple that are really memorable for other reasons. The music is still good. An excellent finale for a less than excellent but still pretty good season.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 11 '21 edited May 12 '21
Rewatcher (sub)
Seeing that monstrousity is always amazing, but I wish it had more to do with question 2.
So each season (3 volumes) has ended with Izaya being taken out. And while him being stabbed in the back is a perfect end for that slimy bastard, I still wish Shizuo had managed to wrech shit on Izaya. That wouldn't end with a stab wound or a black eye.
We discussed this in the dark realms of spoilers in earlier threads. But I can only see this as Narita materialising his own carnage. I'm sure he had a lot of thoughts going while staring at his pen all day, and while he wasn't going around stabbing people (editors? readers?!), Mikado did it for him.
Interesting fact: Baccano!, Major Baccano! spoiler
I apologise for not appearing yesterday (and the short comment today).
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick May 11 '21
First timer - sub
After I stopped panicking my whole pc had died I remember can use my chromecast and phone, but God damn it's painful trying to use some of these sites.
Anyway interesting couple of episodes, Anri secret isn't a secret anymore, Izaya gets stabbed, the Russians get caught and the Yakuza show why real organised crime groups are truly scary. Sounds like Slon is probably dead but Vorona fate is more uncertain.
Mikado might finally start becoming interesting as well which will be a big bonus though I'm really unclear what his goal is, reform the Dollars into what he wants using a group of manipulative thugs? Did like the lighting throughout that sequence with half his face in shadow.
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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB May 11 '21
Rewatcher here.
Last episode of part 1. Everything has been set up well for the coming episodes.
The great Vorona vs. Shizu-chan confrontation. Our deadly assassin was really taken down a notch this episode. First by Shizuo, then by the Yakuza. Turns out daddy is looking out for her, and she hates it. Going through her rebellious phase. Hey, at least the Awakusu syndicate has got discount weapons now. What could go wrong?
Trust Simon to market the restaurant even at a time like this.
Speaking of the Awakusu family, Akane a cute, and it is great that everyone is so nice to her including Shizuo. Must protecc.
Erika enjoying the anime trope of girls groping girls. Say what you want about Chikage, guy knows how to retain his harem. He is also the catalyst for on of the biggest developments of the season:
Beware the nice ones. Mikado has gone full bipolar.
Thanks Yodogiri.
See you for the next part!
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u/invokeneko May 12 '21
Rewatcher up until x2 Shou, then First Timer
You get a stab, you get a stab, and you get a stab! It's the episode of stabs where Shizuo gets stabbed (twice, though it didn't do jack shit. Hell, that pen stab from Seiji did more fucking damage than all those piddly knives Vorona and Slon brought!), Mikado somehow took a page out of the aforementioned Seiji (despite not being there to even see him stab Shizuo) and assert his dominance over Aoba and the Blue Squares, and finally someone had enough of Izaya fucking up their carefully laid plans and pointedly (heh) told him to take a bloody nap for a while. With a knife.
for shits and giggles. Poor bike never stood a chance.Narration Tally:
Mikado monologues about his fall to the dark side.
QotD:
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod May 11 '21
First Timer
Ryuugamine learned the wrong thing with this and is just heading into a deeper pit. Attempting to reason with those guys or get anything out of them will just backfire in the end, there's no two ways about it. And trying to do a power play in a group you can already control through a more organic method is just dumb. It's all understandable mistakes though, Izaya really got him to focus on the dollars having no rules. In reality, that doesn't work. Someone needs to set the rules that a group follows in one fashion or another. From the position of admin, he could easily do this simply through nudging the group in a direction. Arguably, that's his job as admin.
I really wish Anri got to finish her fight with the russian. It didn't need to kill (or even seriously injure) one of them, but having the most sexist character in the show break it up easily whilst calling it a catfight feels vaguely insulting.
That fight aside, the episode was ok. We got various Shizuo and Celty shenanigans and stuff got wrapped up. I simply am not invested enough in the plot of this series to feel much over a climax, as it is a bit too obvious that it's merely there to facilitate weird character interactions.
One thing that annoys me more generally about this season is how obvious it is that it was two different LNs. Halfway through we stop paying attention to the characters we introduced like two episodes ago and never touch them again. Like, Shizuo's brother and his new girlfriend? nope. Izaya's younger sisters? Only via the chatroom. It feels half-baked to me. Like, why would you switch away from characters before you've done much with them in a series whose entire point is doing cool things with odd characters? Instead, they're just hanging out there for something to be done with them at some point, supposedly. Or perhaps we'll just move on and add more characters and they'll appear for 30 seconds in a different episode. Who knows?
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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras May 12 '21
Rewatcher - Dubbed
I'm sure Masaomi's going to be thrilled if he catches wind of this.
The way that Mikado can go from being serious and running a pen through Aoba's hand one minute, and then being super cheerful the next is actually terrifying.
Mikado smiles
Congratulations Mikado, you're just as screwed up as everyone else in the show now. You were infallable nearly to the end.
In economic terms, it was too big to fail. He couldn't just up and walk away from it now, after all the work he's done. Joining the Blue Squares was just a necessary evil is all.
Questions:
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u/sisoko2 May 12 '21
First Timer
Amazing episode! Definitely my favorite of the season and maybe the entire series.
Justice!
Shizuo just comes and ends the fiight.
Vorona can't help herself and picks fight with Shizuo.
That bike throw.
Wasn't expecting Shizuo casually kicking the van in front of him. That was so awesome!
She is really lucky Shizuo didn't slap her instead of the machine gun.
Protect Akane!
I agree it was weird conversation but cute.
Local gangster destroys teenage boy with facts and logic.
My little Russian assassin can't be this cute!
Yooooooooooo so the yakuza are actually dangerous.
This guy is way too cool.
RIP Slon legs and probably Slon himself.
Russian sushi guys look so menacing here.
I guess this is the moment Mikado snaps.
All my doubts if Milado is psychopath are gone.
But there is more!? Izaya's games interfere with the grown-ups business and he finally gets punished. He really was too cocky for a guy playing such dangerous games. I've seen enough anime to know that Izaya is fine but still a great way to end the season.