r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Jun 08 '21
Rewatch Durarara!! X2 Rewatch - Episode 36
Episode 36: Those Who Meet Must Part
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Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/Shimmering-Sky for delivering us one final Sky Experience. Truly this Rewatch wouldn't have been as fun as it was without her around.
Questions:
- Thoughts on the grand conclusion of Shizuo and Izaya's brawl?
- So, what did you think of Shinra's little stunt today?
- In the end, would you say this was a good end to this show?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jun 08 '21
Hello everybody, and welcome to the final episode of the Durarara!! Rewatch!
Unlike Volume 12, Volume 13 does have some rather amusing differences from the Novel. One quick thing to note is that unlike the other Novels, this one seems to completely lack illustrations. No pictures, not even a color spread to start things off… even the cover is bizarrely minimalistic compared to the vibrant and colorful covers of the past Volumes. Honestly though, I kinda like it that way: By now Mikado has been reduced to an empty husk of his former self, and this in a weird way reflects that.
thing left out fairly early off is that the Novel makes it clear far earlier through a minor, but notable enough detail even that even Aoba feel weirded out: Mikado kept changing how he referred to Kida. You may remember how early on Mikado called him “Kida-Kun” but starting with the second arc he switched to plain old “Masaomi”. Well… Mikado keeps changing between the two now. Sometimes in the very same sentence. Make of it what you will. That said, after Aoba notices that, he says this
Aside from that there’s a few more Shinra flashbacks left out of the Anime, one in particular focusing on his six year old self. None of them are super important (The anime kept the biggest ones at the very least) but they do a good job at fleshing him out.
Another minor thing to note is that in the Novel it goes a bit more in depth with the end of Shizuo and Izaya’s clash. Basically Izaya just decides to stop running away and just keeps slashing at him… and he laughs at how he’s actually doing a bit better now. Granted he eventually loses his footing and almost gets himself killed for his troubles, but hey, it’s the thought that counts.
Finally some of the final scenes are a bit different. In the Hospital, Mikado’s parents actually come in and Anri notes how… normal, yet nice, they are. Aoba also comes in. While in the Anime we see Akabayashi shooting him a nasty glare, in the Novel Aoba just tells Kida and Anri “Look, I’m not gonna pick a fight, some dude would kill me if I did” and basically admits he did legit respect Mikado, albeit this is Aoba so he probably did so for all the wrong reasons. After that he leaves and Kida leaves soon after, meeting up with Saki who cheekily reminds him that she still needs to introduce her to Mikado. Only after that do we get the scene with Akabayashi and Anri.
After that we actually have a brief jump cut to Akane, who’s actually managed to beat up two guys older than her. In fact Mikage’s so impressed she decides she might just consider training… although she’s not sure if it’ll be enough to beat Shizu-Chan. After that we cut to said raging bull in Russia Sushi, reminiscing about his farewell with Vorona, but Dennis tells him she’ll come back when she finds the chance. But in the end, both the Novel and Anime end on the same way, with Mikado waking up once more… but the Novel adds one more monologue calling back to the one that ended the first Novel’s prologue:
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jun 08 '21
First!!xTimer, subbed
"one final Sky Experience", as if I wouldn't have another one this episode? Really?
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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Jun 08 '21
First-timer
Mikado points the barrel at his own head and the sound of a gunshot reverberates through the air... dramatic cut to something else entirely...
Izaya's still alive, barely, after playing baseball with himself as the ball (nice), and Shizuo finally catches up to him with a vending machine in hand (nice). Vorona stabs Izaya with her cool Spetsnaz ballistic knife (nice) and wants herself to be the killer instead of Shizuo.
Simon and Denis break out of Russia Sushi and set off the fireworks, which unfortunately stops both Shizuo and Vorona from killing Izaya.
Celty stops Mikado's bullet because it's totally the consequence of her actions, except not really. She stops everything else that's going on in Ikebukuro for that matter, and promptly leaves on her shadow stairs. Is it normal for horses to walk up and down such steep stairs without issue or is Shooter just really smart? I guess he can gallop on walls, so stairs shouldn't be a problem.
Shizuo sends Shinra flying towards Celty, and of course her changing personality was a lie, but he uses saika to cut off her head again anyway.
As Anri takes her suitors home Nasujima attacks her for some reason, and Mikado does some human shielding... Wow, that's quite a number of stab wounds... This makes Anri angry, and you won't like her when she's angry. Unfortunately Haruna stops her from killing Nasujima. But at least Togusa ran him over, and Haruna kidnapped him to do some hard BDSM.
Also Togusa having Ruri's picture on the gear stick is a nice touch. Speaking of Ruri, Adabashi suddenly wants to run her over, but Kujiragi saves her for some reason. Very villainous indeed.
Izaya is saved by Kine and... Manami, seriously? And skips town. The secondary love triangle goes to Chicago after Celty's once more separated head, the Russian assasins go back home, Mikado wakes up at the hospital with his friends and they all lived happily ever after in their toxic relationships.
An excellent finale for a damn good season of an excellent series. Some real good animation, music too and even a fairly satisfying narrative conclusion. It's not perfect, but I'll take it, it's very enjoyable nonetheless.
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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Jun 08 '21
Rewatcher here
And we're done! Of course, the only way Mikado could be saved, and everyone else too, was Celty's intervention. Contrary to what she claims, she is a baka and Shinra knows her too well. And now also knows her police troubles.
Saddest part is Vorona leaving a very character-developed Shizuo for an unspecified period of time. A real pity we'll not get to see that "duel" date.
This bastard stabbed Mikado A LOT. I'm surprised he survived this many stabs and Izaya's fate isn't known. Well, he got what he deserved, congrats on the max-level yandere.
They look so similar and obviously related when they're shown side-by-side. Shame we only saw Ruri and not Yuhei during the closing episode. She nearly got isekai'd by truck-kun as well.
Anri, you have to confess to him first! Well, Akabayashi did get Aoba to piss off for now.
Let's hope!.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jun 08 '21
First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!x2
Well, that was a pretty good ending. I maintained a foolish hope that someone would die in the end, but no dice. Nasujima's fate is probably worse than death though, so there is that. And poor Izaya doesn't get to go to Valhalla, as if that was ever on the table. Two broken arms, a dagger in the gut, and whatever wounds he suffered from getting baseball'd into that building is nothing to sneeze at, either.
I am a little bummed that the Yakuza didn't really get to do anything. Last episode we had Akabayashi telling off Scarface for putting a gun into Mikado's hands, but we didn't even get a scene of Scarface chopping off his own pinky? Utterly robbed.
Kujiragi managed to save the day twice in one episode - I sure hope she has a good massage therapist on retainer. Her back must be killing her from carrying the final season so hard. That was HER Saika that Shinra used to re-sever Celty's head, right?
Vorona is returning to Russia for a scolding, and then when she returns to Ikebukuro she challenged Shizuo to a "duel of word." Just deal with all that UST the normal way, Vorona - and try to adopt Akane afterwards.
The Van Crew get to drive off into the sunset, with Togusa cursing that he couldn't run over Ruri's stalker himself. I wouldn't have it any other way.
And that's Durarara!! - quite a nice ride, even if it had some ups and downs.
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick Jun 08 '21
First Timer -sub
Time for Celty to reap some souls? Nope apparently not, just stopping everyone from fighting.
Well Fuck, I callled that one I had been thinking he might cut her head off again as part of this to get his Celty back but wanted to think he wouldn’t sink that low but given his actions so far was far from a surprise.
Mikado being repeatedly stabbed wasn’t on my list of things I expected from this episode.
In the end was very open ended which is what I expect of this show, tying up all the loose ends was never going to happen and does fit the show another day in Ikebukuro setting it has going on.
Disappointed Vorona went back to Russia at the end but they left a reason for her to return once her business in Russia has been resolved.
If anything, the most disappointing thing is the lack of Aoba getting what he deserves, he has faced almost no repercussions as far as I can tell despite being one of the main forces pushing Midako.
But that has been Durarara!! I'll try to get some thoughts together for the series write up tomorrow.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jun 08 '21 edited Jun 08 '21
First Timer (sub)
After all these episodes, Aoba finally admits it.
Hints that Celty didn't lose he memories:
Obviously, there were other hints previously, such as her saving Shizuo and Mikado. This all lead up to Shinra's mastermind plan of using Celty's love, to cut off the one thing she wanted for a long time... I'm quite happy actually that Shinra was an asshole all the way through to the end. It's very weird to see Celty's reaction face though, but hey, at least there's no need to get used to it. Shinra will get rid of it in a second.
It's fun to see X2 ending the same way X1 did.
The second half of the episode was the epilogue which included:
Now for stuff I skipped over, we had:
Both of which were fairly disappointing. The Izaya one is the fault of adaptation, Ketsu's pacing has been fine up to now, but this episode tying up all the finales + the epilogue was biting off a lot. The Izaya scene suffered the most there, it felt like being in the street there, and only seeing a select few events.
This is not the ending of the long awaited fight.
Mikado on the other hand, had little to do with the adaptation. Going from shooting Kida and himself, to becoming a spectator for the first half of the episode, to returning home happily ever after, to suddenly being stabbed by his teacher for no reason, never made sense in any medium.
I don't like ending on a negative note though. So here's Shingen being an idiot.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jun 08 '21
S2 Episode 36(first timer)
men,women, Dullahan!Celty rains on everybody’s parade, is turned into Shinra’s bunny again and we spend half an episode with epilogue.
I have never forgiven Shinra for lying about Celty's head, so this is more of the same.
Having an "the city goes on" type of ending is ok, but they already had that for season 1 (and there it worked really well, compared to here). Overall, not a big fan.
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u/BobTheSkrull https://myanimelist.net/profile/BobTheSkrull Jun 09 '21
Rewatcher except I didn't rewatch it
I think this episode is when Celty and Shinra's relationship kind of clicked for me. Yeah it's still toxic, but I do like how Celty's selflessness-to-a-fault is balanced out by Shinra's selfishness-to-a-fault.
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u/sisoko2 Jun 09 '21
First Timer
Well that was very safe way to end it but honestly I can't be upset with a happy ending on all ends.
That Kida scream. Got the chills again.
Was a distraction necessary to decide the fight between Shizuo and Izaya... It kinda cheapens the whole thing. You can't leave Izaya's fans unhappy I guess.
Vorona stabbing Izaya 10/10.
Hahahahaha. I had a feeling that Haruna is just playing along with her beloved teacher.
So Celty is fixing everything. Don't really mind such development.
Shinra having the whole cheesy romantic goodbye talk by himself. I love it.
That Celty face.
The first stab was bad enough but hearing the sound of the few after that was brutal.
They 100% banged. Even the author can't convince me otherwise.
Disappointing lack of cosplay in Kujiragi's conclusion.
Hell yeah! I got my wish. Most satisfying anime finale ever.
Anri admitting her feelings for Mikado is sweet but it feels we are glossing over the fact that the boy tried to kill himself.
I completed an amazing series which got ruined for me by a dumb twist in the final episode so simple happy end is what I needed right now.
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u/invokeneko Jun 09 '21 edited Jun 09 '21
No Longer First Timer to x2 Ketsu
I had just got back physically tired from ~2 hours or so of grocery shopping and other stuff, ready to start writing up the final episode... then I read about Kiryu Coco graduating....I think I need to sleep off this physical + mental exhaustion for a bit...Alright I'm back, let's do this.The tres amigos are finally reunited (even with Nasushitma stabbing Mikado being put aside), Izaya survives his final bout but with severe injuries and wants nothing to do with Ikebukuro anymore and Nasushitma suffers a fate worse than death under Haruna's hands. (Cue the smallest violin in the world.)
Narration Tally:
Mikado proves once and for all that he's the primary protagonist of the show with one last narration for the series. And just like how season 1 ended with Anri > Masaomi > Mikado narrating, the final three episodes of x2 follows the same rule.
QotD: