Durarara ep04 functions as a background/history lesson episode centering on Celty's past, dutifully narrated by everyone's favorite closet pervert and underground physician, Shinra!
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Summary: Kishitani Shinra is an unlicensed doctor who works underground jobs in Tokyo, but more importantly, he lives with the headless rider Certy Sturluson.
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I’m certainly convinced now that DRRR!! has the best way to tell a back story. Meshing it all together in the fashion of Baccano! was probably quite a task. The end result, however, is perfect,...
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There’s a certain magic and romance to the world on the other side. Shinra Kishitani has known and lived with Celty Sturluson, the Dullahan, for 20 years. Yet in all that time, his sense of fascination with her — physical, philosophical, spiritual and whatever else — has not diminished at all. He’s interested in her in [...]
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Durarara!! continues with its theme of having a different character act as narrator for each episode, and for this fourth instalment that particular task is left to underground doctor Shinra Kishitani. As if that isn't an interesting enough claim to fame, he also just happens to be living with the headless motorcycle rider who everyone around Ikebukuro seems to be so fascinated by.Thus, this
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I don’t know about you but I had a hard time figuring out what time frame Selty became or realized her situation. At first I thought it was something like the 1800s or whatever like in Baccano. How they all became immortal and have been around for a while. Selty had been searching for her [...]
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Minnie: I’m exhausted! After a week of quizes, I am heading toward a week of tests next! But wait. What do we have here? A DRRR episode? It is that time of week after all for another episode to come out. After a disappointing recap episode of Kimi ni Todoke, let’s see if this can [...]
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One of the big complaints against this series seems to be that the characters are too one-sided, but I disagree. A show like Ookami Kakushi has shallow characters who can just be described with one line. The characters of Durarara however have gotten subtly fleshed out quite a bit already. Simon might be a typical [...]
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I miss the previous week so it's a double episode today ! I don't have enough time to watch for the moment, I will later and edit my post if the episode four stop working after a couple of hours. Well, enjoy !!Episode 03The episode 04 is all thanks to EnnVie who upload it on AnimeCrazy ! Thanks !Episode 04
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Within moments of the first episode, Durarara!!‘s connection to Baccano! is obvious: brightly coloured eyecatches punctuating the opening and enumerating the sizeable cast. Sharing a significant portion of its predecessor’s production team, director and character designer included, it likewise refuses to be pigeon holed into a single genre instead throwing its weight [...]
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agreed Simon! Welcome to another Durarara!! review. Today’s episode was kind if interesting, it was narrated by Simon the sushi worker mostly him talking about the city. We then join Mikado in class where they are electing the class reps, Anri Sonohara is [...]
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Today in the Houndblog we have sandwiches, metaphorical sandwiches we are just as tasty. Houndy tackles episode two on Durarara!! find out what she thought of it, besides sandwiches that is. Class, I’d like to speak to you in metaphor. Imagine Durarara!! is a sandwich. Now imagine Episode One is the sandwich just sitting on a plate, [...]
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Rampant Awesome episode, the narrator really adds something to the show. I hadn’t noticed Simon was the one narrating the story yet. Mikado becomes friends with Anri, he ends up meeting Izaia and saving Anri from some bullies. Funny to see Shizuo calling the headless rider a workaholic. Anyway, Shizuo finds Izaia, it seems they had [...]
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It looks like Shinra and the Headless Rider will be getting most of the screentime next episode. Splendid~[ PREVIOUS EPISODE PREVIEW ] Listen to my story.I want you to hear this unique story about her and I until the very end.I'm sure you'll be trembling with fear and non compos.[ OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS ] Episode Title: Alone With Only Your Shadow For ComfortOriginal Text:街行く人々が語る都市伝説“首なしライダー”の噂。ナンバープレートのない漆黒のバイクに跨がり駆ける姿を目撃した者は意外と多い。ある時からごく自然に、池袋の闇と雑踏に溶け込んだ不可解な存在。しかし、その真実の姿を知る者は果たしているのだろうか。そんな考察をめぐらせる一人の男・岸谷新羅。一方、考察の対象である“首なしライダー”本人は、ある一人の老画家の行方を捜し、街をさまよい続けていた。Vague Translator #1 (Google) says:Urban legend says that people who go around "the Headless Rider" rumors. Souten 跨 sensitive to those who witnessed his jet-black motorbike with no license plate number was surprisingly high.Naturally from the time there, the crowd melted dark and mysterious presence in Ikebukuro.But those who know what the truth is that it plays. Goro Silla man Meguraseru such consideration.Meanwhile, the subject of consideration, "the Headless Rider" person is looking for a missing person in the old painter had been wandering the city.Vague Translator #2 (Yahoo) says:The town the city legend “neck which the people who go talk it is not rumor of the rider”. It rides in the jet-black motorcycle which does not have the license plate and as for the person who witnesses the form which runs unexpected it is many. Extremely from at the time of a certain naturally, the Ikebukuro darkness and the incomprehensible existence which fuses to bustle. But, the person who knows that truth form it probably has carried out? Alone man bank valley Sinra who can reflect upon such consideration. On the one hand, it is the object of consideration, “the neck there is no main person of the rider”, to search the whereabouts of a certain alone old age artist, it continued to wander about the town.What I Can Come Up With From the Vagueness:People are spreading rumors about the Urban Legend, the "Headless Rider". This creature rides a jet black motorcycle without a license plate. People who get to see this legendary being are surprisingly high.Supernatural. Darkness. Ikebukuro. There's a person who knows the truth behind the legend.Meanwhile, the Headless Rider searches for a missing person from an old painter who is wandering in the city.[ THOUGHTS ] We hear Jun Fukuyama talking in the preview, so it's definitely Shinra saying that he'll be telling his and the Rider's story on the next episode. I'm hoping to see some Shinra background (we see his kid self in the preview after all) and also how he and the Rider met. We know that they live together, but don't you know they're also lovers? I'd love to see how that happened.We get to see the Rider hanging out with Shizuo and Izaya. I'm very very pleased. I don't care what they're doing there. The duo's screentime, no matter how short, is enough to make me delighted~Oh, and it looks like we'll be seeing the Rider's horse next episode!*loves horses*KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I've heard that in the novels, the Rider was questioned by the . . media/police/can't-remember on why she's not using headlights and not having a license plate. She has explained that her motorcycle is actually a horse and it turned into such on TV! I wonder if the anime will do it that way . . .Anyway, here's the comparison of the original Dullahan and our modern Dullahan:Both look cool~ Pretty saddening for me that the horse is headless as well . . .(horse hair is pretty~)
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Multiposting ftw. :3 I think I might do these kind of posts instead of one post for one episode. (This post only looks long because of the screencaps. D:) Anyway, post underneath the cut. Durarara!! /on cap locks OMG THIS IS SO EPIC WHAT IS DID I WATCH I DON’T KNOW EVEN ADSAGFDFASFFASGH; /ends cap locks Awesome episode is awesome. Lots of crazy
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I watched this episode using Crunchyroll streaming service. ©Ryohgo Narita/ASCII MEDIA WORKS/Ikebukuro Dollars/ MBS This episode was much lighter than the previous ones. I laughed quite a bit. I thought Simon was hilarious as a narrator, too. Overall, i..
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An episode where a lot of things happen but nothing really happens at all. I’m feeling quite torn with my impressions of this episode. I was bored with the first half of it with all the minor things that happen that do not seem to have much relevance to anything. But, the second half was a [...]
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An epic evil!Kamiyan laugh, ample vending machine / trashcan tossing, and a faceoff between Shizuo and Simon. Life doesn’t get any better than this. Another day, another morning for Simon to advertise for his sushi shop. Although every passerby is afraid of him, he still believes that Ikebukuro, filled with foreigners who seek change, is a [...]
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From the author of Bacanno! and the folks who turned that book series into a cartoon, comes this tale of strange goings on in the Ikebukuro district of Japan. Like Bacanno! the first episode flings a whole load of characters, factions and plots at you at once. However it’s a little easier to get to [...] Related posts:Durarara!! Brief thoughts on Baccano! Episodes 14-16 Denno Coil – Episodes 1 to 4
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