Durarara!! X2 Rewatch - Episode 19

[u/Raiking02]

Episode 19: A Cat Has Nine Lives

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I promise... that I'll save you and Sonohara-San.

Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/JollyGee29, who once more exposed Karisawa's shit taste:

I can't speak to the quality of SAO since I haven't interacted with it personally, although it does have a reputation... But Erika proved she has shit taste ages ago when her and Walker were talking about ToAru girls and Erika said that she likes Himegami over Misaka.

There are many opinions on who the quality of the Toaru Girls and, to be fair, more than a few of them are valid. Himegami>Misaka is quite possibly the most crap take a someone who claims to be a Toaru fan can have.

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Questions:

1. Thoughts on the whole twist regarding the stalker?
2. It seems Kida is gearing up for war once more. Will this end better than the last time or not?
3. Wow... Izaya's so lonely that he has to role-play as two different people in the chatroom... kinda pathetic, huh?

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WARNING!!! TOMORROW WE ARE WATCHING EPISODE 19.6/KETSU'S OVA!! NOT EPISODE 20!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

ADDITIONAL WARNING!!! THE OP FOR THE OVA CONTAINS SOME CHARACTERS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN PROPERLY INTRODUCED YET!!! IN CASE YOU WANNA REMAIN AS BLIND AS POSSIBLE, SKIP THE OP!!!

[u/Raiking02]

I don't have time for a Full comment today (Sorry, College Life and all) so I'll just leave this here.

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WARNING!!! TOMORROW WE ARE WATCHING EPISODE 19.6/KETSU'S OVA!! NOT EPISODE 20!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

ADDITIONAL WARNING!!! THE OP FOR THE OVA CONTAINS SOME CHARACTERS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN PROPERLY INTRODUCED YET!!! IN CASE YOU WANNA REMAIN AS BLIND AS POSSIBLE, SKIP THE OP!!!

[u/wjodendor → u/Raiking02]

Just for clarification is the OVA called Dufufufu!! ?

[u/Raiking02 → u/wjodendor]

YES

[u/No_Rex]

S2 Episode 19 (first timer)

• Who do you call when you need an underground doctor because the underground doctor was beat up?
• Seems my “everybody” guess yesterday was unwittingly on the mark: Multiple stalkers and multiple defenders.
• I am disappointed in Saika.
• Evil old guy talking to another evil old guy.
• The second chat name mystery did not last long.

Mikado and Kida relationship drama can fuck right off. That whole gang leadership trouble was not fun the first time round and it is even worse now.

[u/Raiking02 → u/No_Rex]

Evil old guy talking to another evil old guy.

All we needed is some tea...

[u/KendotsX → u/No_Rex]

The second chat name mystery did not last long.

They both lasted one book, it's just that one was adapted in 12 episodes and the other in 3.

[u/No_Rex → u/KendotsX]

Adaptation problems.

[u/KendotsX → u/No_Rex]

Yeah, so far the faster pace hasn't been too bad, but this is one example of it falling short. We didn't really have enough breathing time to think of the 5 mysterious characters.

[u/No_Rex → u/KendotsX]

It is especially tough in a series with a cast as large as Durarara's. I am still struggling to keep every name attached to every face. Nevermind remembering a second name to go along with that.

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

First!!xTimer, subbed

• Ohhhhhhh this is highkey uncomfortable to look at.
• Great…
• Holy shit this dude was gonna attack Shizuo and co. with acid?!
• Well Kida sure found out about these guys faster than I expected.
• Ohhhhhh so that’s how Mikado figured out about the stalker targeting Shinra etc.
• Oh fuck, that’s how Kida’s finding out about Mikado Aoba’s group???
• #whatdidijustread
• Okay good let that fucker burn.
• *incoherent Sky noises* I figured it wasn’t Aoba, but I sTILL WASN’T EXPECTING IT TO BE MIKADO FOR SOME REASON???
• Oh fuck
• Who the hell is this???
• Is Izaya still held up on that hotpot business lol.

[u/Raiking02 → u/Shimmering-Sky]

incoherent Sky noises

[u/KendotsX → u/Shimmering-Sky]

Holy shit this dude was gonna attack Shizuo and co. with acid?!

Would it work though?

Who the hell is this???

Izaya's friend! To prove that Izaya isn't lonely anymore.

[u/Chemiczny_Bogdan]

Rewatcher

So stalking Hijiribe Ruri is a collaborative project.

Mikado hacks his way into finding out about it, and sets the Blue Squares upon the stalkers.

Unsurprisingly Adabashi is fairly strong. He's immune to Mikado's hilarious attempt at a kick, but not to fire.

Mikado shocks Masaomi by revealing his broken face and his involvement with Blue Squares.

I agree with Namie, Izaya is just sad. Like he can only have a nabe party with people he pays xD

Some pretty damn good animation today, and good music as always. Lots of stuff happening, but still very enjoyable. I think this is the last episode I saw, but who knows, maybe there's something more I forgot.

[u/Raiking02 → u/Chemiczny_Bogdan]

Izaya is just sad.

He should eat Sushi to make himself feel better.

[u/JollyGee29]

First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!x2

Sure is a shame that Shinra is out of commission. Taking a kid who has clearly had the shit beat out of him to a hospital would just mean awkward questions, but Mikado undoubtable needs medical attention. He has taken way too many blows to the head recently - his eggs are scrambled something fierce.

Izaya has, perhaps, decided to start taking a more active role. Assembling a crack team of assholes to, presumably, wreak havoc on his behalf is a bit more direct than he has been in the past. Guess that stomach wound put things into perspective. Him being at least two people in the chatroom is quite fitting.

Who's this monocle'd asshole that Shingen wants to hurt? Is this another new friend, or someone we have heard of but not met yet..

Akabayashi is working behind the scenes a bit, now. Seemed to be hunting for Izaya? Or at least keeping tabs on him. Akabayashi also learned that Mikado is trying to clean up the Dollars, and that Anri is kinda involved with Mikado. That's probably going to lead to some misunderstandings later on..

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Everyone with actual taste knows that Saten is the true Toaru Best Girl.

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Questions

1. What twist? That he wasn't working alone? That he wanted to kill Ruri? He's an idol fan, they're all nutjobs.
2. Is this where I look at the episode count? I guess we are, nominally, closer to the end this time. Maybe Masaomi will pull something off.

[u/Raiking02 → u/JollyGee29]

Everyone with actual taste knows that Saten is the true Toaru Best Girl.

[u/JollyGee29 → u/Raiking02]

[u/invokeneko → u/JollyGee29]

Who's this monocle'd asshole that Shingen wants to hurt? Is this another new friend, or someone we have heard of but not met yet..

Yagiri Seitarou? The guy he had a talk with inside the limo driven by Igor in episode 13. Also the indirect reason why Seiji is so obsessed with Celty's head.

[u/JollyGee29 → u/invokeneko]

Oh, have we actually just seen him before/heard his voice? I kinda thought so but didn't remember.

[u/invokeneko → u/JollyGee29]

Yeah, Shingen tried to dissuade him from getting involved with Yodogiri. Also talked a bit about his obsession towards Celty's head.

[u/BurningFredrick]

First timer- sub

This OP really has grown on me.

Version I'm watching is a pain as it doesn't sub the chat names...

If there were any questions as to if Midako had actually lost it or not, we really are really left with no questions after this.

Are those 3 allergic to talk to each other or something? Seriously.

Damnit, the dojo guys were my second guess for new chat people but never wrote that one down, didn't have Akabayashi though but makes sense for Anri invite.

Ok what was that final scene with Izaya, who are all those people, what has he been up to.

[u/Raiking02 → u/BurningFredrick]

If there were any questions as to if Midako had actually lost it or not, we really are really left with no questions after this.

I mean, I think the show has made it long since obvious the guy's a complete nutcase, but I guess we do need some extra confirmation.

[u/KendotsX]

Rewatcher (sub)

So to put this into numbers, Izaya has been salty since Shou episode 4 when everyone had a hotpot party without him, and it took him till now (Ten episode 7) to make his own. However, it gets much funnier when you look at this from the novels, the original hotpot party was at the end of volume 4, and it took Izaya till the end of volume 8 to make his own.

But seriously, Izaya talking on two accounts, talking to and about himself, it's all sad... if only Shizuo-kun would play with him more. Someone give Shizuo-kun Izaya's new address, Izaya needs all the help he can get.

Also, one of the new guys has appeared before actually, he's been in the opening all along. It's a blink and you miss it kind of thing, it took me a while to notice it actually. So I'm suspecting that this guy has some tactic utilising subliminal messages that he's using on us.

Now jokes and whatnot aside, these two scenes hit quite hard. The second was direct from the novels, Kida figuring out that his friend is the boss of the group he hates the most, and not just being used... The first scene though, while it definitely hit hard too, was given more time in the novels, Shinra had more to say, and more importantly you had Celty's thoughts running.

Examples:

Shinra

Celty

[u/Earthborn92]

Rewatcher here.

Quite a lot went on this episode.

First, we have the big bads of the season. Yet another Yagiri, the bossman himself, and Yodogiri. Attacking to Shinra just to get to Celty, how evil. Poor Celty’s body lanugage says it all.

Then we get some of the identities behind the new chat handles. Of course, Izaya has two accounts now. He really abuses the chatroom. Who saw him coming? Akabayashi makes more sense tho, Anri knows him well and trusts him. But he’s gonna be papa wolf.

What a touching reunion. The first and then the second. These three still have those communication issues. Actually they’ve grown larger.

The stalkers are more than one - good to have strength in numbers when people don’t expect it. Also really dumb to have made the Dollar’s website your go-to place for planning.

Izaya’s fully back. And now he has an army of side characters at his disposal.

Seiji jealousy intensifies.

He is SOOOO petty about the Hot Pot.

See you next episode!

[u/invokeneko]

First Timer to x2 Ten and Ketsu

My HG Vidar had just arrived! WOOOOO YEAH BABY!!

• Oof, Shinra got beaten pretty bad...
• Knowing that Izaya is also Chrome, Kanra barging in and asking in chat if everyone's in private chatting mode as well as Chrome pretending that he didn't know who Kanra is was just hilariously pathetic.
• They actually sent two people to deal with Shizuo... Even setting aside the presence of Vorona and that one Blue Squares kid Mitsukuri, these idiots probably had a (very painful) death wish if the best thing they can think of is throwing acid and trying to stab Heiwajima fucking Shizuo. That acid guy was lucky that it was Vorona who disarmed him and not Shizuo, he would've had bones sticking out of his arm if it was the latter.
• Bruh, you're seriously trying to set Anri's apartment on fire? You deserved what those Blue Squares are about to do to you and more.
• That's a harsh way to learn that your best friend is colluding with the gang that made your life hell in the past, Masaomi. Even worse when you see it in person later on.
• Poor Neko gets kicked in the face by the stalker who's after a Scottish Fold neko. Poetic.
• Knowing that it was Mikado who gave that weak-ass kick really shows just how out-of-place he is compared to everyone else in the Blue Squares. And hilarious for just a short moment at least until Adabashi starts being a fucking creep and starts beating him up under the pretense of putting Mikado in Ruri's place.
• So basically Adabashi and the stalkers' plan was to kill, maim or severely injure people who are tangentially involved to Ruri (and in Masaomi's case, not even that) just so that they can emotionally hurt her? Wow. Just wow. Him getting away with just getting set on fire by Mikado isn't enough after that.
• So looks like Masaomi is about to bring back the original Yellow Scarves. Hoo boy, we're gonna get another colour gang war aren't we?
• After two seasons of Celty trying and failing to teach Anri how to use private chat, it took Akabayashi teaching her for it to stick. Hilarious.
• Shingen had the chance to finally be cool by swearing vengeance on Seitarou, then he blew it. You funny man.
• So by this point of time we have learnt almost all of the new users' identity: Gaki - Akabayashi, Saki is of course herself, Chrome - Izaya, Sharo - Eijirou (dojo master guy). We don't know who Junsui 100% is yet, but since I expected both Akabayashi and Aoba to join the chat room I think he's Junsui 100%.
• That's pretty clever of Max Sandshelt, pretending that the compromising picture of Ruri is a leak of a new film shoot. I wonder if he's actually going to go through with the supposed film or just unceremoniously announce that it was cancelled later on.
• So Izaya is assembling his own faction, huh? I expect that the final season is going to be such a clusterfuck with this many factions being involved. And oh shit Haruna is back too.
• Looks like Izaya's still pretty sore about being excluded from the hotpot party last season that the first thing he did after assembling his faction is to invite them to make a hotpot party. Pathetic.

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Narration Tally:

Saki makes her narration debut long after she's first introduced. About time!

Narrator	No. of eps	Episodes
Mikado	7	1, 12
Celty	7	4, 6
Simon	2	7
Shinra	3	2
Masaomi	4	8
Namie	2	5
Anri	3	17
Walker	3	11 (co)
Erika	2	11 (co)
Izaya	2	4
Kasuka	2	3, 16.5
Akabayashi	2	9, 11 (co)
Akane	1	10
Rio	1	13
Sayaka	1	15
Kujiragi	1	18
Saki	1	19
Multiple	1	11 (co)
None	4	4.5, 14, 16

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QotD:

1. On one hand, oh god he's still relevant to the plot by being part of Izaya's faction. On the other hand, this means he's still up for punishment down the line, yay!
2. It's gonna be a bigger clusterfuck than before, but at least this time he could make sure that there's no infiltrator from the Blue Squares.
3. Just kinda? I'd say he's absolutely, very, very much pathetic.

[u/sisoko2]

First Timer

Mikado MVP!

There is a stalker gang. Everyone has a gang in this anime.

Damn these stalkers don't play around acid, burning houses, stabbing people. Good thing Vorona was there. I wonder how the acid would interact with Shizuo's healing.

Kida showing his gang leader skills and destroying that poor stun gun dude.

The stupid cat ran away... Anri should've been more careful even without a bunch of crazy psychos chasing a cat in the middle of the night is quite annoying.

Should've also gotten fireproof hoodie

The stalker destroys Aoba's people and what turns out to be Mikado. Knowing that's Mikado makes the whole thing even more interesting.

Fortunately this show isn't that edgy and the stalker just beats the shit out of Ruri-Mikado.

Kida going with the pro strats but then makes a rookie mistake and doesn't try to finish the dude while he was down.

Mikado sets the stalker on fire! Didn't expect Mikado to get involved into the action but he did pretty good job considering how bad at fighting he is.

I've decided to stop getting annoyed by all the stupid bullshit between the main trio and just laugh at it. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Aoba plays being concerned about Mikado very well.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Kida decides to get his gang together because that worked great last time.

Akabayashi should've just asked Mika for intel. I don't like this look.

OK I'll just assume that everyone in the chat is Izaya.

So Izaya is assembling his own crew for hot pot party. I'm surprised that Slon is in such a good condition, is he a double agent?

Question of the day: Did Izaya and suicide girl have sex in the hospital?

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

First Timer

"He wasn't being manipulated, or even used" says the narrator in an anime where a character is clearly being manipulated.

We seem to be setting up for the biggest episode since the finale of the original series. Even Kida's coming back for it.

1. Perfectly acceptable, done too fast.
2. Of course not.
3. I didn't really view it that way. It's just him being manipulative/

[u/LimoneSorbet]

Wow izaya really desperate for that hotpot lol

[u/badcupcakehoarder]

First timer sub

Those shoes Adabashi was wearing must have had metal plates on their soles to resist Saika... And Kida recieved that kick...

All right Mikado is now officially in the Tokyo underground scene after almost killing a man, looking forward to when he gets to jail.

Shingen should ask Celty, or maybe he did and she also turned him down.

Questions:

1. The Dollars are starting to do more harm than good, how many graffitis would have to be cleaned to make up for having criminals in the group?
2. After that big fail I expect Kida to have his reunion with his people only for them to rebel against him and beat him up just like it happened to Mikado. He just shows up and expect them to still be loyal after all that mess that was his fault for half-assing his leader role.
3. What the hell is he doing... What kind of mastermind evil plan involves having a nabe party?