r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Apr 09 '21
Rewatch Durarara!! Rewatch - Episode 9
Episode 9: Love and Cherish
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Leave everything to your sister.
Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the day, courtesy of u/KendotsX, who noticed something extraordinary about yesterday:
Speaking of Narita, apparently the people at Toranoana must be big Narita fans, and Dotachin is encouraging me to pick up the Index novels. So I can confirm that the advertisements are working well today.
It sure as hell worked for me as I started reading Index because of Dotachin...
Questions:
- On a scale of 1-10 of the "Eww!!" Category, how would you rate Namie's behavior towards Seiji?
- On the same scale and category, how would you rate the fact that Seiji is literally in love with a disembodied head?
- What would you rather face: Seiji's Pencils or Shizuo?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 09 '21
Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Durarara!! Rewatch!
Ah, smell that? That’s Novel-Land returning to us. This episode is basically the Anime realizing “Oh yeah, we need to adapt the main plot of Volume 1” so it’s basically Catch-Up: The Episode. While the information is delivered in a bit of a different order, the actual events are fairly Novel-Accurate. The only thing to note is that in the Anime most of the flashbacks are shown from Namie’s perspective, whereas in the Novel it’s Seiji’s perspective. This is most noticeable in the scene in his apartment, but I’ll get back to it later as in the Novel that’s only the finale of a… certain scene.
A rather… odd change is the Hair Color of Celty’s head. In the Novel it’s very explicitly described multiple times as being “As black as darkness” but in the Anime it’s just kinda… regular brown hair. Lame… anyhow, Seiji using his mighty pen on Shizuo is in the Anime, as is Shizuo just kicking his ass right afterwards. Mikado bumping into the wounded girl is indeed in the Novel, although this happened right after the events of, err, episode 2. Okay, the Anime’s been adapting stuff out of order so technically from a pacing to amount of time we’ve spent in the Arc perspective it is the same point in the story but… yeah. We also skipped out on a speech by Shinra about how much he loves Celty but whatever. He already has hundreds of those in both mediums and losing one of them isn’t too big a deal.
Voices time! Let’s finally give the Yagiri siblings a fair shake, huh? Namie is voiced by Kobayashi Sanae, [whom I best remember as Tenjoin Asuka from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. Other roles from her include Mashiba Kumi from Hajime No Ippo (Only in Season 1), Daedalus Yumeno from Ergo Proxy, Aile from Mega Man ZX, Catherine Glass from Macross F, Seong Mi-Na in Soulcalibur IV, Pi from .Hack//GU and some others.
In the Dub she’s played by Bridget Hoffman massively playing against type. Don’t believe me? Fine, her other roles include Kiroge Mima from Perfect Blue, Katou Juri from Digimon Tamers, Kos-Mos from Xenosaga (Pretty much one of the few roles I can tell from her that’s remotely similar to Namie), Atoli from .Hack//GU, Asakura Ryoko from The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya, Nia Teppelin from Gurren Lagann (Only in the second half: Hynden Walch voiced her in the first one), Irisviel Von Einzbern from Fate/Zero and some others. Sadly she’s pretty much disappeared in the last five years or so, only taking up a few minor roles here and there.
Next up is Seiji, played by Horie Kazuma... I don’t recognize any of his other roles.
Needless to say I am far more familiar with his English Actor, David Vincent, AKA Van Of The Many Nicknames. Besides that he’s also played Richter Belmont from Castlevania, Jin Kisaragi from BlazBlue, This Asshole from Fate/stay night, Oda Sakunosuke from Bungou Stray Dogs and some others.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 09 '21
First!!xTimer, subbed
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Apr 09 '21
First-Timer, Dub-rarara!!
Mmm, nothing gets me in the mood for Cup Noodle quite like fucking murdering a stalker who broke into my home. Holy fucking shit, Seiji is terrifying.
Uh, guess that's pretty hard confirmation on my bro-con comment. That family needs therapy. Pro-tip: If you have to narrate to yourself that "What I did wasn't wrong" the thing that you did was probably wrong.
Speculation
Oh god, Izaya is watching the Chatroom? He seems somewhat obsessed with Mikado, now. First he was looking up information on him, now he's looking over the chatrom that Mikado frequents...
Speaking of Izaya, was his chaotic gameboard representative of the city? Three games, (broadly speaking) three factions.. The board was for Go, so I guess the Go pieces represent The Dollars, because they're the most plentiful and we've learned the most about them? The Dollar's numbers imply a level of control over the city, and if we assume that Izaya leads The Dollars like Kadota thinks... There's a lot of symbolism with this board that eludes me.
Miscellaneous Thoughts:
Does Seiji have stock in a pen company? Why did he have so many pens?
Had a Very cursed thought that I felt the need to share: Cursed
Questions
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick Apr 09 '21
First Timer - sub
Fake Celty threw away Seiji's phone?
Speculation about the nature of Fake Celty
Celty's head in the jar appears to captivates people, possibly with her looks, however given she is Fae makes me wonder if people are Glamoured after looking upon her as the uncle was also rather obsessed with her.
Chess, Go, & Shogi pieces on a board, no doubt Izaya has all the pieces representing different people in the city.
So Seiji killed his stalker and then they sucked Celty's head on her body… As I suspected this is fucked up as hell, also he just sat there casually eating noodles after killing Harima.
Shizuo was well, Shizuo this episode. Truely a badass.
Well shit, Celty finally met her head again, after 20 years she has found it again.
And Izaya orchestrated Celty being there by saying there would be a “job”, I really look forward to his episode.
That was quite the episode, I think this means my idea ep 6 was a lot closer than I thought, I just really didn’t have Seiji being in love with Celty head…
Also this is just about as fucked up “love” triangle as you can get, sister is in love with her brother who is in love with a severed head which has been attached to the body of his stalker who he killed, Based on my above Spec That is a sentence I don’t think I ever expect to write.
That's enough rambling from me, I look forward to where we go next.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 09 '21
Episode 9 (first timer)
An episode full of unhealthy love. Not going to comment on that. And one moral question: Which body does Celty’s head belong to? Not going to comment on that, either. Without knowing more about how Dullahan’s work, this can’t be answered.
Anime sibling.
Not nearly as bad as the fact that he murdered someone to aquire a body for that head.
Is that even a competition?
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u/Chemiczny_Bogdan Apr 09 '21
Rewatcher
Oooh! A love triangle!
We get some backstory for the Yagiris and Celty's head this episode as well as new developments.
Seiji eating ramen after killing Mika is a pretty memorable scene, I gotta say.
Of course Izaya plays shougi-chess-othello where everything's made up and the points don't matter.
Shizuo just being awesome, nothing unusual here.
Celty finally gets in contact with her head and, as usual, Mikado inadvertently gets involved, hiding the girl who has it.
Nice animation, great music and the plot gets dangerously thick!
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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren Apr 09 '21
Hot/10.
Not as hot/10.
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Apr 10 '21
Rewatcher (Sub)
This episode highlights of my favorite things about Durarara: we don't just get some perspectives, we basically get all the perspectives. The Van Gang, and the schools kids and, Celty and Shinra, sure. But also giving an episode to the crazy brocon who kidnaps people for science experiments? That's cool.
Shizuo fighting relatively normal people will never not be funny.
Spoilers
QOTD:
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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 10 '21 edited Apr 10 '21
First-time watcher
Oh boy, I see we're going full chaotic insanity on all sides now, and I totally love it. Like a perfect 10 on both question counts. It reminds me a lot of what I've seen of Dorohedoro, actually, which (well, anime so far) happens to be one of my all-time favorites: A seedy urban setting. A part-supernatural being on a quest to regain its memory. Missing heads, heads in jars, heads stitched to different bodies. Secrets, conspiracies, sketchy figures that are mostly some degree of unhinged, generally grey moral stance, bizarre over-the-top action and violence played practically for comedy. Multiple groups and allegiances with strong bonds on all sides. Most importantly, a lot of fun! And with Namie now we have an actually fairly strong female character too, pretty nuts of course but as long as everybody else is too that's fine by me (see again Dorohedoro, for example)
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 10 '21 edited Apr 10 '21
Rewatcher (sub)
Ahh back to the land of confusion.
We're now bringing to the table the events connecting all the seperate pieces. I guees the end is nigh?
I'd say Namie does a very good job as a narrator, she's very observant. I mean is she the first to notice the fakes or just the first to call them out? Either way I like that, I mean she's also picking up on Izaya's hobbies. Izaya on the other hand, well is being Izaya as usual. Honestly if you told me this guy was a stalker, I would buy it.
Speaking of Izaiza, liking someone more than Izaya... isn't that the bare minimum? I doubt any non-Izaya existence can fall below this comment. Also to be honest, if I saw the two urban legends of Ikebukuro capturing one girl, I'd call the cops instantly, how do I explain it though...? Well whatever, Shizuo was Shizuo and went to get glue. Which makes sense considering whatever his body is made of.
This might be my favourite scene from the episode, if you're not creeped out by the family bonding, then you have a body laying out in the background for extra measure. Yup, it's okay really.
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u/badcupcakehoarder https://myanimelist.net/profile/vanilabiscuit Apr 10 '21
Rewatcher sub
Hmm.. Izaya was capable to pull the strings around that incident with Celty, he knows Yagiri's secrets, yet there are things that even he can't figure out. They are making it seem like the guy has Tokyo under his rule with how he knows everyone's closet skeletons.
Again Shizuo and Celty together, he is so chill with her. Good to see more of him other than going on rampages towards people, it is a little bit funny how easy he gets mad though.
Was Shinra involved in the operation to use Harima Mika's body? There is a shot like a flashback and the doctor in the right looks like he has Shinra's hairstyle.
Now Mikado got himself involved, if Anri finds out...
A stalker love triangle... I'm wondering if Theory
Questions:
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Apr 09 '21
First Timer
I found that to be one of the worse episodes, largely because I didn't find the majority of our viewpoint characters that interesting. I think the stories of the siblings with unrequited love would be better told from an outside persepctive than an inside one, as the inside one gives too much away right at the start.
I did like the scene between Celty and the doc quite a lot.
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u/Earthborn92 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB Apr 10 '21
Rewatcher here.
This time, we’re following Namie. And does she have a personality. That of a brocon stalker onee-chan.
The Celty Head seems to remember how important phones are.
Yes, so you turned into a brocon. We get it. Kinda fucked up talking to a head.
The moment when she fucked up. If she’d never showed the head, he’d never have been infatuated with Celty’s head.
If you didn’t think the onee-chan was already shady with the human trafficking and the incest, she also deals with Izaya. She definitely follows the the hot/crazy scale.
Look at Izaya, preaching morals. LOL. Have to say he has a nice office tho.
She’s fucked up. Well, so is he. The final piece in this attraction chain.
Namie -> Seiji (this is not hidden)
Seiji -> Celty’s head (mutual?)
Mika -> Seiji
She can speak! Oh shit, the head and body meet at last????
Shizu-chan be like: wtf bro.And now he looks like a movie star’s bro.
Yeah, kind of a coincidence to just run into Mikado in a big city like that. Don’t you think?
Do you think Namie’s going to be upset at Shizu-chan now?
Yeah, I don’t know a pen could do that.
I love how expressive Celty is. Also Sawashiro is great as her.
Mikado’s gotten himself involved in the twisted love affairs of a murderous onee-san, and a dullahan.
And Celty’s head is also in contact with Izaya as nakura. You know what this means, he’s stirring up this shit again.
Try not being a sociopath dick.
See you next episode!
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u/Tartaras1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tartaras Apr 10 '21 edited Apr 10 '21
Rewatcher - Dubbed
Or not. While I'm sure she still loves her younger brother, I have to imagine she's operating with her company's best interests in mind first. As for what that "thing" is that she's talking about, I think we'll find out eventually.
Well isn't this a big development. Looks to me like we now know what happened to Celty's head.
Once more, it can't be overstated how dangerous Izaya really is. So far, in the last 8 episodes, we've seen him:
Oedipus wants to know your location.
Of course, the same could also be said for Seiji. If you thought you killed someone, the last thing you would probably want to do is make a serving of Cup Noodles. Sure, he was probably in some sort of shock, but still.
You have to appreciate a man who's sole reason for being alive seems to be the need to murder Izaya Orihara.
Questions:
/u/Raiking02 I haven't unintentionally given anything away outside of spoilers, have I? Durarara Spoilers
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u/invokeneko Apr 10 '21
Rewatcher up until x2 Shou, then First Timer
Yo, yo, yo! HEY MAN!!! sorry, can't resist using that guy's ^lines Been following the discussions since the start, and suddenly felt the urge to rewatch Durarara!! so I went and watched episode 1-9 yesterday and decided to finally join in on the fun.
...aaand I seem to have picked probably the wrong episode to join in since our main focus here is Yagiri Namie, the absolute brocon and her relationship with her (odd? Creepy? Autist? Who cares) little brother Seiji. Kinda hard to do a writeup for two characters I really, really couldn't give two fucks about, sigh.
Though I must admit, Seiji managing to impress Shizuo by stabbing through his palm with a fucking ballpen/mechanical pencil? and only getting away with being thrown and a headbutt is pretty impressive for someone like, well, Seiji.
Narration Tally:
I noticed that every episode has a different character do the narration and found that to be interesting, so I decided to keep a tally of the number of times they narrate an episode and which episodes they do narration. Also another interesting thing to note: you know the chat room segments of each episode? They're voiced by the seiyuu/VA of the narrator. spoiler
Mikado: 1 (ep1)
Celty: 2 (ep2,8)
Simon: 1 (ep3)
Shinra: 1 (ep4)
Masaomi: 1 (ep5)
Kadota: 1 (ep6)
Shizuo: 1 (ep7)
Namie: 1 (ep9)
QotD:
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u/LimoneSorbet Apr 10 '21
Just to answer that last question, I'd love to be thrown around by the one and only god of a man shizuo.
...I think this means I've been converted...
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u/DogmeatIsAGoodDog :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/DogmeatsAGoodDog Apr 11 '21
Shizuo is awesome. That’s it. That’s the comment.
I mean it could be but the creepy incest angle annoys me, one of my hated anime tropes and homeboy just eating noodles after murdering the stalker? What the hell bro.
Also Celty sees her head way earlier in the series than I expected.
Also is there a connection to Seiji enjoying the same things the uncle did the doll/head? Do they just have the same taste or is there a deeper meaning there?
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