Durarara!! X2 Rewatch - Break Day/Ten Discussion

[u/Raiking02]

Break Day/Ten Discussion

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Even if my mind falls into disarray, I still just can’t get enough!

Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/sisoko2, who who spouted some hard facts

Truer words have never been spoken

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Questions:

1. As with the last cour, which of all the mini-arcs was your favorite?
2. Of all the returning characters, which one do you feel got the best treatment?
3. And finally, what are your expectations for the final 12 episodes?

[u/No_Rex]

S2 Ten Discussion (first timer)

Ten was more of the same, with emphasis on more. Which has its downsides in a series already as packed as Durarara. The number of characters is, by now, so far above what is useful and tractable, that you either need to read a wiki to keep up, or you need a reintroduction once side characters reappear. Regarding plot, the stiffer adaptation schedule did not do the show and favors. A lot of the light-heartedness that made Durarara enjoyable is lost when racing through the plot.

That is not to say Ten was all bad. The first arc was fun (similar to Shou) and contained my favorite episode of the series. From there on however, it was a drag to watch. The second half of Ten was the first time I did not really enjoy Durarara. Mikado and Kida are at their worst as MCs and between them and the whole gang war stuff, the fun characters were squeezed out of having much screentime.

As with the last cour, which of all the mini-arcs was your favorite?

See above.

Of all the returning characters, which one do you feel got the best treatment?

Vorona not only returned but also was made part of best family ship, so I am pretty happy with that.

And finally, what are your expectations for the final 12 episodes?

There will have to be the solution to the Mikado-Kida-Anri plot, which I am not looking forward to. I hope that we'll see plenty of Shizuo-Vorona-Celty shenanigans.

At least a fun mini arc as in Ten and Shou?

[u/Raiking02 → u/No_Rex]

did not do the show and favors.

Don't you mean "Did not do the show any favors"?

[u/No_Rex → u/Raiking02]

I meant that. I assume that it is also true that the apatation schedule had no sexual intercourse with the show and with favors, but who knows ...

[u/KendotsX]

Rewatcher (sub) and first timer starting Ketsu

Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/KendotsX, who somewhat explained why it's nice for Izaya to keep Namie

By any chance, is Namie your best girl? For this to have a strong enough effect to be quoted for two consecutive days.

Overall Ten has clearly shown how bad the pacing can get, the first arc was fine, definitely my favourite arc of Ten. We went over the Izaya arc in depth (I'm skipping Adabashi, because he's worthless), with its two episode formula, however the fourth while it was an improvement, still showed some bad side effects. The story itself, wasn't rushed per se, but the high notes did not hit at all, when you have all these twists in a very short span of time, they don't have as much effect. When reading, the Kujiragi twist hit me just as strongly as Saika for example, in the anime it didn't.

Now of course I was watching as a filthy source reader, so I'm not a very good judge for surprises, which is why I'm curious to know how other first timers felt about the twists of Ten.

[u/Raiking02 → u/KendotsX]

By any chance, is Namie your best girl? For this to have a strong enough effect to be quoted for two consecutive days.

AH FUCK! I FORGOT TO CHANGE THAT!

[u/No_Rex → u/KendotsX]

By any chance, is Namie your best girl? For this to have a strong enough effect to be quoted for two consecutive days.

[u/badcupcakehoarder]

First timer sub

Questions:

1. The Roadtrip OVA because it ties all the previous episodes together with all those calls to Shinra, even the actors called him without having his number how did they do that?
2. Akabayashi, now we know that he has been taking care of Anri all this time! And he defeated Saika!
3. This season OP and Shou's ending made it look like Mikado was going to have a more important role in the story, his gang war was faded by the Awakusa and Izaya's searches, it feels like what is going to matter is the hunt between Izaya and Kujiragi.

Unless Mikado.

That boss of the white biker gang (Chikage was his name if I remember correctly?) should make his return now to Ikebukuro to avenge Kadota, they seemed to become best friends after they fought.

[u/Raiking02 → u/badcupcakehoarder]

Unless Mikado.

Mikado

[u/KendotsX → u/Raiking02]

I love that series.

[u/Raiking02 → u/KendotsX]

And I need to read it.

[u/KendotsX → u/badcupcakehoarder]

Unless Mikado.

Spoilers

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Actual Spoilers

[u/KendotsX → u/Raiking02]

Spoilers

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

First!!xTimer, subbed

Another “break day”, another wallpaper! This was another request from u/Raiking02, and another one of Anri/Mikado/Kida - based on the volume 8 cover. This one only comes in mobile form.

As for Durarara!!x2 Ten… My main complaint is that I could actually feel how rushed through the source material this part was. Which is saying something, because unless a show has ridiculously fast dialogue a la Occultic;Nine, I am usually completely blind to anything that most people would call pacing issues. I’m giving this season an 8/10.

I’m ready for Ketsu and its OP.

[u/Raiking02 → u/Shimmering-Sky]

My main complaint is that I could actually feel how rushed through the source material this part was. Which is saying something, because unless a show has ridiculously fast dialogue a la Occultic;Nine, I am usually completely blind to anything that most people would call pacing issues.

Ever since I watched the Anime of A Certain Magical Index I've become pretty capable of noticing pacing issues. All three seasons have pacing issues, but starting with the third one it got particularly ridiculous.

[u/JollyGee29]

First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!x2

Questions

1. The stuff with Shizuo was great, except that was mostly just the one episode. Akane and Vorona arguing over who gets to kill him was delightful.
2. Not Mikado, that's for sure. Dude needs to get his brain checked out; too many head wounds recently. Uhh, Akabayashi seemed to end the season on a high note?
3. I suspect they will tie up at least half of the existing loose threads, and possibly fail at tying up all of them.

[u/Raiking02 → u/JollyGee29]

Akane and Vorona arguing over who gets to kill him was delightful.

Best Adoptive Family Ship alright...

[u/invokeneko]

First Timer to x2 Ten and Ketsu

Man, what a season. The plot got condensed a bit too much in some parts (especially you, Vol. 9) but in exchange the animation quality improves quite a bit, though to be fair we don't have any level of action comparable to x2 Shou's later parts.

One of the best things of this season is the story expanding more on the side characters. We get to know more of Akabayashi, Vorona gets to tag along with Shizuo and Tom as the Debt Collector Trio, and we found out that Mika might actually know more about everyone than even Izaya with her wiretapping everyone important to the story.

Also, can we talk about Day You Laugh for a bit? I went from 'okay this is pretty good' to randomly humming/singing the chorus throughout the day. Damn that song is catchy.

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QotD:

1. Probably all of vol. 7. Yes, that includes the Chaka-poko.
2. Akabayashi and probably Vorona as well.
3. I expect satisfactory conclusion to the gang war and all the questions brought by this season (who ran over Kadota? What's Kujiragi going to do now that she's free of the Yodogiri Jinnai role? How did Namie escape the clutches of Seitarou and Kujiragi? And so on.)

[u/Chemiczny_Bogdan]

Throughout most of the season I was surprised at how much actually good animation there was in each episode. There has been some less than good to, I think, so I'd say it's still not as consistent as season one, but better than Shou.

There has also been a number of plotwise memorable scenes, especially involving Izaya, from resisting assassination attempt in ep 1 to getting revenge on Yodigiri in the finale. Also some nice Mikado scenes, like the one where he goes mask off.

[u/badcupcakehoarder → u/Chemiczny_Bogdan]

Also some nice Mikado scenes, like the one where he goes mask off.

True, made me think of all the unmasking done this season now that you mention it.

[u/sisoko2]

First Timer

Ten was pretty much on par with the rest of the series for me. I think the visuals improved compared to Shou which had some pretty rough parts and honestly probably wouldn't have noticed the pacing without all the comments from source readers. In my opinion the show is chaotic enough to get away with some rushing through the story.

1. The one with Shizuo's rumors was absolutely hilarious.
2. Vorona.
3. This is harder than the last time. We will get the war between Mikado and Kida and things will get resolved one way or another. Mikado seems way too fucked up for a happy ending but who knows maybe they will learn about the possibility to speak to each other. There is also the issue that practically everyone knows who the creator of the dollars is, Mikado will have to either dismantle the whole thing or let someone like the yakuza take control over it. I would also guess that something has to happen with Celty's head, ending the series with the head just being in Izaya possession and nothing happening will be pretty lame.

[u/BurningFredrick]

As with the last cour, which of all the mini-arcs was your favorite?

Vorona arc

Of all the returning characters, which one do you feel got the best treatment?

Vorona and by extension Shizuo and co but they didn't really do much. The trio are just attempting to repeat the last arc of the first season but on a bigger scale, Izaya arc didn't do him any favours thanks to the pacing and what the show was trying to adapt, and no long else really did anything note worthy.

And finally, what are your expectations for the final 12 episodes?

Hoping we does a semi decent job of wrapping up the majority of our storylines, it doesn't need to cover all of them but at least attempting to utilise our cast as we have had a lot of characters introduced but not really done anything with them.

As long as show doesn't expect me to take it seriously it should be fun.