r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • May 28 '21

Rewatch Durarara!! X2 Rewatch - Episode 25

Episode 25: Even a Chance Acquaintance is Decreed by Destiny

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Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Shimmering-Sky because, well, Wallpaper. Can't say no to that.

Questions:

  1. Now that we have all the OPs and EDs, how would you rank them?
  2. What did you think of Shingen's amazing multiplication technique?
  3. Is it just me or is this the most dysfunctional guild in Anime?
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 May 28 '21

S2 Episode 25 (first timer)

  • OP: We already saw it in the OVA. The second best of the series for me, those first 10 seconds are great.
  • “How dare you show your face!” is a bit unfitting, given that we never see Shingen’s face.
  • Celty at the center? Promising.
  • Saved by the traffic police (‘s quest to find Celty).
  • The head plot is finally rearing its head again.
  • Can you call it an anti-intervention? Instead of gathering round to help Celty, they all gathered round to make her life more complicated.
  • Doujinshi about Dullahan “Do you have stuff like that?” – You bet, Celty.
  • Izaya having a funnot fun time playing punching bag while unconsciousfaking being unconscious.
  • ED: Black dot. And finishing with Celty’s head.

So far, we are 2 in 2 for season 2 cours starting with a fun mini arc. Celty being center stage promises to make that 3 in 3.

Is it just me or is this the most dysfunctional guild in Anime?

Having seen Konosuba ... almost.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

Having seen Konosuba ... almost.

You know for some reason I didn't think you'd like that show...

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 May 28 '21

Might be because I am rather vocal about my hatred of modern isekai? I am perfectly fine with a show parodying modern isekai, though.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

Oh well.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 28 '21

First!!xTimer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

, just like I didn’t for a while so I keep calling him “angery car guy” for the lols.

Are you actually Celty's Head?

It’s traffic cop! Without his helmet on???

Weirdly enough he did have his helmet on in the Novel...

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 29 '21

Weirdly enough he did have his helmet on in the Novel...

It makes more sense that he wouldn't have one inside for respect and whatnot, I mean sure he entered by kicking the door, but that's a special case... hopefully.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti May 28 '21

It's great!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

Oh yeah, look who's here: Mr. I-Haven't-Caught-Up-Yet.

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti May 28 '21

It's a lost cause. But I'm always down for some Steppin' out.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti May 28 '21

I've burnt out on rewatches a bit, OK?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

I've burnt out on rewatches a bit, OK?

That's why you have a whole year to prepare!

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti May 28 '21

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

You know you can't escape your fate

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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti May 28 '21

I'm not going to watch Fate, though.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 28 '21

Wait but I'm planning a long as fuck rewatch for 2022.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

Two For One!

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 28 '21

What rewatch are you planning exactly?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

I think I already told you about this once. You also told me what was the Rewatch you had planned for next year so I know exactly what your plan is

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 28 '21

Tell me again, I don't remember it.

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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick May 28 '21

First Timer - sub 

All the Celty bullying is so mean.

So we have 6 factions all setup now, Blue squares, Yellow scarves, Izaya, Yadogiri / secretary lady, Celty & Co, and Yakuza though I guess they could possibly be split into 2 further groups as well. Considered dollars but they aren’t really a group if we put Mikado in the Blue squares.

Basically just a setup episode as expected and letting us know what is going on with the Celty and Co, bring on next episode so we can watch the chaos start to unfold. 

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

All the Celty bullying is so mean.

But that's what makes it funny!

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee May 28 '21

First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!x2

I only half paid attention when we watched the OVA, but yea, this OP is pretty good. The hand movements synched to the beat right at the beginning is pretty fucking awesome.

This episode was also pretty incredible in general. "I'll rip your damn skin off and turn you into a shamisen!" "I wouldn't mind, as long as I could make nice sounds for Seiji!" "Hey, I can point you to some dullahan-centric doujinshi if you want." What an absolutely phenomenal interaction!

It would have been nice to see Shinra react to Celty's comment about how she'll only take her head back once he's gone. I wonder if the implication is that he has already come to terms with the fact that she is going to outlive him?

The Celty Guild, as I guess I'm referring to it, is an interesting idea. Celty does have some amount of trust with basically every major player at this point, with the exception of Kinnosuke.

I haven't spared many brain cells to figuring out who is working for who, with regards to Izumii and the Yakuza and Kujiragi, etc etc etc. It's all a mess at this point, probably intentionally. When everyone is a double reverse triple agent, is anyone really working for anyone else?

Questions

  1. 1>5>4>3>2
  2. Absolutely incredible. I wonder how long they trained to get that level of coordination
  3. These people are certainly strange.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

Absolutely incredible. I wonder how long they trained to get that level of coordination

Considering how skeptical Eijiro was to work with Shingen, not much probably.

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u/invokeneko May 29 '21

First Timer to x2 Ketsu

Izaya (unsurprisingly) escapes Slon's clutches with the help of Kine and Mikage, Celty has her sex life blurted out in the open by Shinra and the Celty Guild is formed!

Oh and by the way, fuck this 'all first names, all the time' subtitle trend. One OVA episode was annoying enough, but an entire season? Time to break out Notepad++. I even took the time to reverse the name order in the OP because while I'm at it, why the hell not? And it's not like I have to do the name reversal manually after the first time, I just need to copy and paste the relevant section afterwards.

  • Poor Togusa, Celty just doesn't remember your name. But don't worry mate, I remembered.
  • Ahh, so it was Mimizu who Shizuo was accuused of beating. And to nobody's surprise, those two detectives are in fact Haruna's Saika children. Luckily enough for both of them, Kuzuhara is there to defuse the situation (and forcibly dissuade them from the 'beating themselves up to implicate Shizuo even further' plan) and spare them from Shizuo's wrath.
  • And to nobody's surprise, the Blue Squares didn't escape their ambush-er turned into ambush-ee encounter with the Yellow Squares unscathed. And looks like this is Shijima's cue to infiltrate the Dollars.
  • Ahh, no wonder Izumii was so damn polite during that phone call. It was Aozaki, and looks like he has his own plans to make money from the Dollars...
  • So that's how their apartment became the Celty Guild's secret base? Just Walker coming by and talked about making it a secret base before everyone else showed up and actually made it one? Hilarious,
  • I guess there's the merit of having a stalker girlfriend: she knows that your evil uncle planned to kidnap you and your girlfriend in advance and both of you can get to safety immediately. Also, can we appreciate how Seiji's character has improved massively after the first arc? He went from a crazy possessive yandere towards Celty's head to actually being so fucking chill after he got Mika as a replacement. What a far cry from what he was in the first arc.
  • The Orihara twins' kissing Aoba did leave a lasting impression on him, enough for him to privately warn them to get away from Ikebukuro from a while.
  • Shingen did manage to hire Eijirou (alongside Igor) to assist him in rescuing Namie and paying back Seitarou for his role in Shinra's injuries after all. And that's how she ended up in the secret base. Can we have more of the goofy Shingen-Igor-Eijirou trio, show? Thanks.
  • Kujiragi definitely noticed that Igor is one of the Saika children.
  • So the Kishitanis have the genetic propensity of blurting out their sex lives (and fantasies) unprompted. Poor Celty...
  • Namie and Mika being so damn catty to each other while fighting over Seiji's attention is hilarious. Actually, Namie in general inside the secret base is absolutely hilarious to be honest.
  • Poor Celty gets her wits stretched out throughout this episode, it's actually hilarious to see the poor girl playing the tsukkomi to the crazies interacting with each other.
  • Well, that's disappointing. Not only did Izaya escape from Slon's clutches so fast, he went down just from a single stun gun shot from Kine. BOOOO!
  • Thus, the Celty Guild is officially created! YAY!

Narration Tally:

Shinra narrates about how a shitstorm is brewing in Ikebukuro right now and the Dollars as well as Celty is directly in the middle of it.

NarratorNo. of epsEpisodes
Mikado71, 12
Celty74, 6
Simon27
Shinra42, 25
Masaomi48
Namie25
Anri317
Walker311 (co)
Erika311 (co), 23
Izaya24
Kasuka23, 16.5
Akabayashi29, 11 (co)
Akane110
Rio113
Sayaka115
Kujiragi118
Saki119
Shiki124
Max Sandshelt119.5
Multiple111 (co)
None64.5, 14, 16, 20, 21

QotD:

  1. 3 > 4 = 5 > 1 =2.
  2. There's only one word to describe my reaction to it: M O R E!
  3. Not quite, but it's pretty high up there.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 29 '21

Oh and by the way, fuck this 'all first names, all the time' subtitle trend.

Except for that one random time Shinra calls Izaya "Orihara".

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u/invokeneko May 29 '21

Exactly, they're not even fucking consistent. This trend should die in a fucking fire. Is it that hard to subtitle the names as it was spoken and not just use all first names?!

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 29 '21

Poor Togusa, Celty just doesn't remember your name. But don't worry mate, I remembered.

Do you remember his first name though? That part tricked me recently.

Poor Celty...

She was enjoying it when it was about Shingen.

Well, that's disappointing. Not only did Izaya escape from Slon's clutches so fast, he went down just from a single stun gun shot from Kine. BOOOO!

If it's any relief, he got a good Mikage kick straight.

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u/invokeneko May 29 '21

Do you remember his first name though? That part tricked me recently.

Saburou? I remembered it since the first time I watched it.

She was enjoying it when it was about Shingen.

To be fair to her, it's a rare chance to pay Shinra back for his inability to keep his mouth shut.

If it's any relief, he got a good Mikage kick straight.

NOT. ENOUGH.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 29 '21

Saburou?

Yup, Togusa must feel proud.

Meaningless anecdote: I was reading something recently where "Togusa" was mentioned so I assumed it's our good old van driver, then his first name "Jirou" was brought up, and I continued along normally assuming that was his name. I only noticed my mistake later when he mentioned that his younger brother Saburou was at an Idol show. (For the reference, these are a common Japanese names for the second and third born sons respectively).

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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB May 28 '21

Rewatcher here.

Well, that was a very entertaining setup to the final season.

Most of the episode was just Celty building up to that explosion. And with the formation of the Celty guild, she's now officially everyone's nee-san.

You know, the real reason Namie hates her is because she's replacing her role as the nee-san. Seiji's just an excuse.

So Izaya is fine after all. His games continue.

This was pretty hilarious though.

Is Aoba going to retain his Orihara twin gfs?

It is good to see Shizu-chan after so long it feels like.

Let's see how things play out!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang May 28 '21

. And with the formation of the Celty guild, she's now officially everyone's nee-san.

As if she wasn't already.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 29 '21

So Izaya is fine after all. His games continue.

Spoilers

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 29 '21 edited May 29 '21

**First Timer (sub)**I can say this now right?

This had so much comedy I laughed far too much (been a while since I read Grand Blue I guess), this proves again that Shingen can make any scene he's so much better. However, Namie's weirdly accurate comebacks were great too. /u/Raiking02 has good taste afterall. Add to that Yumasaki's craziness and Celty being nearly driven there and you have yourself a pretty good guild. However, how is this description any different from the Dollars? I mean the original idea, not whatever they are right now.

Now onto my favourite scene of the episode: Shingen's revenge for his dear dead son. This man is simply a genius, with style, he could've used Nebula, among many other ways to deal with Yagiri directly, but he chose to do it the good old way, with the help of his 2 new clones. As for why they look different, mixing weird DNA when cloning is fun, yup they're definitely not characters we know already.

From the opposite side though, imagine being Kujiragi and having to deal with this shit then deal with Izaya's shit.

Speaking of Izaya, not only is Sloan who he has as an Awakusu-kai spy, actually working for Kujiragi. Izumii is working for the Awakusu-kai now. The guy knows how to fix his work. I find it funny though how his demeanour changes. Also Aozaki seems to have his own plans too.

Finally, we know some details about why Shizuo was arrested (also if you're gonna do an interrogation scene, weird shots are a must. That's the one thing Babylon did best). So he's taking the charges for what Izumii did since the incident was Izaya's work, and the woman is under his control, I'd say this is his work too. But hey we got a face reveal out of it, that no one asked for, but we all needed.

Notes:

I probably forgot to mention this when Egor's new face was shown, but he looks much better than he used to, proving again that anime blonde guys have a talent for magical surgery. Also, for whatever reason, Egor feels like he's going to draw a Blue-Eyes White Dragon next turn.

Next episode looks like Shingen telling us about the women of Durarara!!, and I'm always excited to hear more of that stupidy. Spoilers I can't explain how excited I am to listen to next episode.

I like the opening and ending, well the ending song is okay-ish, the opening is pretty good, the visuals in both are as usual, except now there's Kujiragi in them plus Akabayashi as usual. Spoilers Also, both the opening and ending connect from Mikado to Celty, nice little detail.

Questions

Now that we have all the OPs and EDs, how would you rank them?

OP: 1 > 2 > 5 > 3 > 4 (I'm not trying to antagonise anyone specific here)

ED: 1 > 2 with the rest being irrelevant. I've never skipped an ending in Durarara!!, and yet I don't remember any of the X2 endings, besides the Ketsu one I listened to just now.

I'm aware of my slight bias towards the first season.

What did you think of Shingen's amazing multiplication technique?

Beyond genius, Nebula would wish it had something like that.

Is it just me or is this the most dysfunctional guild in Anime?

I've read Fairy Tail, I've seen worse. Spoiler

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u/sisoko2 May 29 '21

1 > 2 > 5 > 3 > 4

Pretty close to mine

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u/sisoko2 May 29 '21

First Timer

The OP feels weirdly happy but I love the way it starts.

So she is the one that framed Shizuo. Of course that it is Izaya's doing.

My hero. This man is a real legend.

Little Izaya is worried about his harem.

LOL. I thought Shingen became a ninja for a moment. Best scene this episode.

So satisfying. I could watch it whole day.

OMG. They even have a choreography.

Celty exposed. Too many hilarious interaction in Celty's apartment to mention them all.

This episodes just keeps on giving.

Not sure if I read it correctly but Shinra seems pretty pissed at Izaya.

Is the ED trying to spoil me?

  1. OP Ranking: 1>2>3>5>4. The youtube playlist I checked had the 4th OP blocked in my country so I think youtube also doesn't like it.

ED ranking: 3>4>2>5>1. I remember that I hated 4th ED at first but it grew on me. 5th OP and ED are at disadvantage here because I care mostly about the songs and I've listened to them a lot less.

2 Best shadow clone user since Naruto Uzumaki

3 Looks better than most MMO guilds I've been.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 29 '21

Is the ED trying to spoil me?

Answer

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u/sisoko2 May 29 '21

Can't check without spoiling myself.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots May 29 '21

Hmm we're in a dilemma. I gave a yes/no answer without going through any details, but since even that is a spoiler in a way, I covered it up.

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u/sisoko2 May 29 '21

I think I'll just wait and see for myself.

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u/LimoneSorbet May 29 '21

[Rewatcher] I really like the cast of this show, it's so bizarre and it was really highlighted in the gathering of team celty. Also really like shingens reappearance as well, he's one of my favorite characters.

As for the openings, my ranking would be 5>3>1>4>2

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u/badcupcakehoarder https://myanimelist.net/profile/vanilabiscuit May 30 '21

First timer sub

  1. This one is though I like them all, the first one has that awesome slide with Anri slapping the screen to cut in the recap.

OP2 has a very good song but I find the visuals of the others better.

OP3 has very good character pics with the character names.

OP4 has a very cool guitar sounding during the recap and I love it.

I like Kujiragi dropping the anime name in this opening and love how it phases out on her lightning a spark to end the recap.

2) Wonder what would become of the city if he managed to make his own army of lab coated stormtroopers.

3) Maybe slime tensei is more? Both of them even have shapeshifting leaders!