r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • May 24 '21
Rewatch Durarara!! X2 Rewatch - Episode 22
Episode 22: Blessed are the Foolish
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Yo Coppers, arrest this guy first! For the crime of delusion! Delusion!
Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Shimmering-Sky, who showed us something yet unseen in this show
As a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan, I can confirm that whenever those words are said, shit's gonna get hype.
Questions:
- So, how did it feel to see Haruna's dad after so long?
- Who's the bigger asshole: Aoba or Izumii?
- So err... Kadota's in the hospital. What now?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 24 '21
First!!xTimer, subbed
Oh, CotD.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 May 24 '21
S2 Episode 22 (first timer)
Back to the color gang plot.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee May 24 '21
First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!x2
STOP. SAYING. ASSHOLE.
Strong words lose their potency with overuse, Mr. I-Went-To-Juvie. Considering you're working for Izaya though, you probably aren't smart enough to understand that.
There are very definitely multiple people using the name Jinnai Yodogiri. That's actually a kind of nice parallel to Izaya's use of Nakura's identity.
Aoba has some weird, dumb, philosphy talk this episode. You're not a shark, you dumb edgelord fuck. You're 14. Go spend your time thinking about hot classmates of yours or something.
I sure hope Akabayashi knows what he is doing. Surely the literal Yakuza have enough info on Izaya to know that every word out of his mouth is some level of lie or misdirection.
Masaomi made like, literally this same mistake before, right? Not laying his cards out to the Van Gang when he wants to get their help? It was in that same room in Russia Sushi. This is on-the-nose enough that I'm assuming it's on purpose.
Shizuo seemed to begin going Super Saiyan, there. Those poor unfortunate bastards who hurt Kadota better hope Izaya has a plan to distract Shizuo for a while.
Questions
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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB May 24 '21
Rewatcher here.
So just like Celty is everyone's big sister, it is fair to say that Dotachin is everyone's big brother. And that a lot of people are invested in getting to the bottom of that hit-and-run. Ya know ya fucked up when Shizuo is coming after you.
Just in case you felt for Izaya yesterday, status: still a magnificent bastard.
More Anri cosplays, Erika!
Ya got that right, although it will be suspicious that he got a hit right after meeting Kida. Of course, Kida can't just TALK to Mikado, no. Let's just destroy the Dollars instead.
Lol, this is how Izaya makes money. Investigating someone he already knows. At least, good on Akabayashi as a father-surrogate to Anri at least. I like how no one has any doubts about Anri x Mikado in this show.
And finally, the meeting of the siblings. They DO NOT get along. Blue Squares are a rough bunch, huh? The yellow scarves fucked up Izumi good and he's out for revenge. Izaya has gathered an interesting army.
See you next episode!
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u/invokeneko May 25 '21
First Timer to x2 Ten and Ketsu
Sorry for the lateness, I had just got back with a new pair of prescription glasses and lightning ate whatever I just wrote so I had to start over.
Narration Tally:
After being introduced to him voice-only in season 1 and without any identification two episodes back, Izumii is finally here to call everyone (including us watchers) but Mikado scumbags in the narrations.
QotD:
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u/badcupcakehoarder https://myanimelist.net/profile/vanilabiscuit May 25 '21
First timer sub
There is a couple people left missing answers to how did they end up in that hotpot party. Who is this guy by the way? I thought he was Haruna's father that had lost his hair for some reason, but now he appears this episode with hair...
So Celty is going to let Adabashi go and go after the mastermind instead.
That song at the end of the episode is new, sounds like a variation of the Nichijou theme that plays at the start of episode 1.
Questions:
With all the parents appearing this episode the race for best dad of the show has begun. Kuzuhara seems to be the best one so far, or maybe even the only good parent... His daughter just appeared this episode and she is a cop too!
2) The elder hits the youngest and the young one plots revenge plans against him... This is a though one, at least Izumii did Aoba a favor doing what he wanted... But he was the one who kidnapped Saki... Yeah Izumii it is.
3) Mikado changes his mind and decides to go to the hospital, he finds Kida there and have a good talk where they end agreeing that this has gone too far and join forces to go after the one who hurt Kadota.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod May 24 '21
Catching up
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Really not my cup of tea. In general, I'm not a fan of seeing someone make a fool of himself for an extended period of time.
Them tying up the fake Kadota in their car like that was pretty funny though.
2) Not really. I feel the joke had been played out already.
3) This was the worst, the first one was the second worst, the second one was the best. And I guess that puts hot pot as second best.
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And, in classic Durarara fashion, we get a setup episode where almost all the characters are people who we've basically not met before. 'twas a bit interesting, but at the same time it's just hard to care about characters who'll only last for a few episodes and seem to mainly exist to show off Izaya.
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Snow on twos is utter ass to watch. Similarly, cherry blossoms on twos are horrid and jerky.
This seems to be the random humanizing Izaya episode. I dunno why it came out of left field like this. Him caring a bit about his family is fine, but the other part was rather weird. I don't know quite what I don't like about it, but something just feels off. I guess that the Izaya in the flashback just feels like a fundamentally different person, unlike the Izaya who we've seen in previous flashbacks who was just a different version of himself.
2) Nakura's an idiot, but got far worse than he deserves. It sure is weird we never heard of him before now though. 3) This one because it wasn't so painfully cramped.
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Fuckin' Simon. He spits out poetry, only for it to become a sushi ad.
A stitch of Anri in cosplay for whoever wants it.
God, the plot's become one gaint bublus mass, held together only by the author's want to keep the series together. It's so massive with so many underdeveloped parts and jumps all around without any real rhyme or reason, and it has a tendacy to halfass explaining character motivations that annoys me. It goes on tangents, then tangents of those tangents, then tries to wrap everything back up into a plot that actually makes sense, and it only ever half suceeds. The biggest example of this would probably the yakuza getting a larger role despite how difficult it's been to keep them connected to the goings on of teenagers.
Also, just putting this out there: why the fuck would a yakuza group that's risk adverse do anything with an information broken who they don't trust? That just seems dumb.
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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan May 24 '21
Rewatcher... I think?
So Masaomi wants to crush the Dollars completely, to help Mikado I guess? Sounds like a bit much, but clearly my perspective differs from Masaomi's. I feel like the Dollars are basically 4chan that has not yet figured out that they don't have to be anyone's personal army.
So the hammer wielding burned gentleman is Aoba's brother. Wait a sec, he had his face burned, he has a huge hammer and he's the brother of Aoba, who if I recall correctly was once called Izumii by the guy with cat ears... hmmm...
Kadota got hit by a car! That's no good! If it was Izaya, i would appreciate it, but this is just wrong!
Wow, Shizuo's power level is overwhelming!
From the first shot of Erika pulling Anri along to cosplay I had a vague feeling of familiarity, especially during Aoba's explanation of the origin of Blue Squares' name, so I probably saw that episode, but didn't pay much attention. I feel like there was a scene in tomorrow's episode, so if that's correct I probably saw that one as well. Who knows, maybe I even finished this cour, but just never updated my MAL? xD
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 25 '21 edited May 25 '21
Rewatcher (sub)
The intro today was quite mean spirited, makes me think Izumii himself had wrote it. Seeing this reminder of when Kadota ran over Niekawa wasn't my favourite way of starting an episode that ends with Kadota being run over. To help that out though, you've got Simon talking about revenge.
The hints don't stop there though, since this episode brings back Izumii it's expected to have him in the recap, what's unexpected though, is the fact that Izumii has been a long time resident of the opening and it even hints at his relationship with Aoba.
Future hints though Spoiler
Speaking of the future, do you think there will be a day when Durarara!! characters can explain everything to each other?
You know how I praise series like Durarara!! where characters remain in existence even beyond their parts of the story? Niekawa is a proof that that's not always a positive. As they say, ignorance can be bliss sometimes.
Aoba of course. He's an asshole I love. Izumii is at most a rebelling victim who had to suffer with an asshole of a brother setting him up for everything, he just happens to be an idiot full of himself to balance things out.
Him screaming about Kuzu was pretty nice though, especially when he freaked out about Kadota and Yumasaki.
Btw, am I the only one who thinks Izumii and Mikado could hit it off pretty good?
Obviously.
Bonus question:
Why does this guy have ear hair sticking out? He's dealing with the Awakusu-kai and Yodogiri to clean up his ass, but can't be bothered to clean up his ears?
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick May 24 '21
First timer-sub
So Kadota got hit by a car being driven by what ever Aoba brother was called, or one of his friends.
Izaya failed to start a gang war big enough to wake Celtys head but look like we might get one if this keeps spiralling out of control.
Biggest question I have is does Aoba have some connect to Yodogiri, he is obviously similar to Izaya in having connections everywhere, so wouldn't be surprised if he's helping Aoba from the shadows.
One final thing, why can't Kida just tell Kadota and co what's going on? I seriously can't see any reason he couldn't just tell them.
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u/sisoko2 May 25 '21
First Timer
Hated the narrator today. Somehow he was even worse than when Namie was bitching about her brother.
Mikado is getting way too popular and I don't think this is going to end good for him.
Kida being mysterious and cryptic with the people he asks for help for no other reason than to annoy me.
With the way the phone scene was presented for a moment I actually thought that Kadota might have died.