I watched this episode using Crunchyroll streaming service. ©Ryohgo Narita/ASCII MEDIA WORKS/Ikebukuro Dollars/ MBS First half was basically the recap of episode 1 in different perspective. Later half explains what happened afterwards. This style is aga..
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With so many characters showing up in its opening credits, it remains safe to assume that Durarara!! is going to be a pretty sprawling and wide-ranging series in terms of its story telling. However, despite all of that episode two of this new season show actually takes us on a journey which is basically an alternate view of some of what we saw in its opener.In short, after a brief introduction
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As a barn burner, The opening speech was a Complete bust. Hers too. Psst… don’t look now, but I think that statue is still following you….
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Summary: On Mikado's first day of high school, a male student named Yagiri Seiji arrives late and declares that he won't be coming anymore.
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Second episode of the Winter Season~ There ^^. We know have Mikado on his first day of school. I find his introduction so cute xD. We also get to see Anri’s first appearance in the show as well, we first see her in the school’s entrance [...]
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I first want to confirm something: AniDB labels this series as one with 24 episodes, but it’s also the only source to do so (no MyAnimelist doesn’t count, they don’t double-check their sources when putting up information). Can someone confirm that we’re indeed going for 24 episodes here, because AniDB usually tends to be correct [...]
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Before I begin, my friend mimiko-chan created a wonderful video from the first episode:<object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WLxOyTw1PMA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WLxOyTw1PMA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>It wasn't completely in sync but it's still sooooooo cute~YOU DID NOT WASTE MY TIME KIDA DARLING!!!!! *mwah**ehem* Okayz, as you may know, the end of the first episode showed scenes of the upcoming episode:And the next-episode-sneak-peek narrator gave us the title (Highly Unpredictable) and also some information on what will happen next. The translations of the different subs have been slightly different. Version 1 says:A girl with a seemingly mysterious past catches a glimpse of a reality she's unaware ofA reality that anyone could encounter, but doesn't.What was in the eyes of the girl who was fated to die?Version 2 says: A girl with a certain darkness to her glimpses a reality unkown to her.A reality that everyone almost meets, but never quite does.What that girl, who should've been dead, saw was...Now recently the official site has given us a synopsis:Original Text:来良学園の入学式。さまざまな思いを抱え集った生徒たち。新たな門出に胸を弾ませる者、俯きがちに自己紹介をする者、入学早々休学を宣言する者、空いたままの、座る者のいない席。そんな中にいた、どこか陰のある一人の少女、神近莉緒。平穏な日常にふいに生じた亀裂。それを覗いてしまった彼女は、本当なら2日前に死んでいたはずだった。Vague Translator #1 (Google) says:School entrance ceremony came good. Gathered students had a different feel. Put a spring in the chest by a new departure, the person who introduced himself to tend to 俯Ki, people who enrolled early to declare the suspension, remains empty, who does not sit on seats.While such was the girl who in the shade somewhere, Rio 神近.Suddenly a rift normal lives. She had a peek it, if true, would have been dead two days ago.Vague Translator #1 (Yahoo) says:It comes and is good entrance ceremony of school. The pupils who hold the various thinking and meet. The person being able to bounce the chest in new departure, looking down the person who does self introduction tend, entrance the person who early declares 休 study, while it is less crowded, the seat where the person who sits down is not. Among such it was, somewhere the alone girl who has the shade, God it is close the 莉 cord. The crack which the [hu] is in calm every day and it occurs. If as for her who looks that, truth it was the expectation which has died 2 days ago.What I Can Come Up With From the Different and Vague Translations::Love at first sight . . . not?The school's entrance ceremony went well. Students with various personalities get to meet. The students introduced themselves in class. There's a seat where no one is sitting on.Mikado meets a mysterious girl in class, and for some reason she's someone who should've been dead 2 days ago. The girl sees something she doesn't know, and whatever it she saw it's something that's natural but doesn't happen often. Ah well, I am not sure of those conclusions. They're just guesses. Too bad the synopsis and stufff focused more on the school part and Anri's appearance. I'm more interested on the other parts~ It looks like Shinra, Seiji, Shizuo, and Izaya would be showing up and will be having more screentime in this episode as well~Oh boy I'm very excited on this part:IZAYA YOU SMIRKING STALKING BASTARD LOLz
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