Saturday, 12 March 2016

Review 50: Durarara (Anger-Management At A Completely Different Level)!


Review 50: Durarara (Anger-Management At A Completely Different Level)!

This has to be my boyfriend’s favorite anime (along with digimon, bleach, Pokémon, you get the idea), so he got me watching it... but did I love it as much as he did? Pretty much, f*ck yes; It was amazing to watch and I loved almost every single character. It made me laugh quite a bit, and I ended up getting confused with who the "dollars" are and who runs the dollars organization. But yeah... I did enjoy it a LOT, but I still haven't finished watching the series so I still need to get around to that eventually.

In the beginning, a young boy moves to a different town, a city; he wants to live a long and exciting life and decided to start over elsewhere. He moves away to Ikebukuro, their lives his childhood friend Masaomi. They meet at up at the train station, even though it’s been many years since they last met, they walk around the city and discuss life. However, there's many people in Ikebukoru that you don't want to have a run in with... Unfortunately, some of them have no become my favorite characters. The city of Ikebukuro used to be overrun with colored gangs, all of which wore clothing of their gang color. They eventually calmed down (from the amount that we see, they practically disbanded), and the dollars appeared. The dollars are a gang of no color, and no one knows who the other members are; they only recognition of each other that they have, is their online group chat username. Occasionally you'll run into one in the streets, but it's rare. You get to meet all of the side characters, in total there's about 10 different central characters. In each episode, the episode is told by a different character or a different group of characters. Because of the story being told by different people, you get to see the same story from a different perspective; the best part is that you get to see their involvement in this strange and twisted story.

Mikado Ryugamine: He's in his first year at high school, he originally lived in the small town of Saitama, surrounded by farming fields and forests of green; but in hope for a more exciting life, he moves away to the busy city of Ikebukuro where he expected the exciting life with his childhood friend. He no longer wants to live an ordinary life, which is why he moved away and in my opinion, is why he is such an unusual and strange character. Further on in the programme they drop small hints towards his connection to the Dollars gang. He's extremely quiet and doesn't speak his mind or express himself until further on in the anime, when he did start to be himself, he was much more interesting. 

Masaomi Kida: He's a strange one, very loud and the complete opposite to his childhood friend Mikado. There are quite a lot of juicy pieces of information about him, some of which my wonderful boyfriend ruined for me; I seriously don't want to ruin what happened to him or before Mikado moves to the same town as him... But he was extremely involved in the Yellow gang, also known as the Yellow Scarves. He's a complete ladies' man and hits on whoever he thinks is cute, however, he always fails.

Shizuo Heiwajima: Is one of my absolute favorite characters! He can be quite hot headed, but the majority of the time he can remain calm and collected; He's aggressive but relaxed at the same time and really is quite strange. He has bright blonde hair and wears sunglasses ALL of the time, he walks around in a bartenders uniform ALL of the time. There's quite an odd backstory to him, and mainly involves how he grew up with his brother; who is now very high up in the world of show business and performing. He has extraordinary skills and abnormal human strength that allows him to lift super heavy inanimate objects, but due to the strength that he had, when he was younger he would always injure himself or break a few bones. He's completely against violence... Which makes no sense since he gets so angry so quickly and ends up throwing things all over the streets. Also a member of the Dollars.

Celty sturluson: She's a very difficult character who has no head. She's a member of the Dollars, and is very close to Shizuo. She always wears a tight black leather suit and rides around on a jet black motorbike. However, she isn't actually human, she's a Dullahan. A mythical monster with no head, they usual walk around with their head and they ride a horse; her story begins with someone stealing her head and then she travels to japan to try and seek it out, and the bike she rides? It's actually her headless horse in disguise as a bike, keeping up with the times and all that. Since she hasn't got a head, she has a motorcycle helmet that balances where her head should be; because of this, she can only communicate via PDA and online chatting. She has un-natural strength, a lot like Shizuo, except that she can also create objects out of this strange shadow, mainly weapons. She lives with a man, her only close friend and her only roommate, Shinra. She has a thing for punching him in the stomach whenever he talks about how much he loves her and his feelings for her, even without a head.

Izaya Orihara: Is just sh*it balls weird and confusing. At first I didn't know what to think of him really, I was just confused as to what his personality was really supposed to be like and I couldn't decide on my opinion on him. At one point, he convinces a girl to supposedly commit suicide with him and then he claims to love all human beings... Besides Shizuo... He hates him to such an extent, that he'll turn up out of the blue just so Shizuo can try and throw something at him. After years and years of fighting with Shizuo, he is now an absolute master in Parkour and trickery, I'm sure some of the things he does are just humanly impossible. Since he is a member of the Dollars, he often recruited new members and used his membership as an excuse to keep Celtys head a secret from her, he's a master in deceiving people, tricking the innocent, messing your mind and getting inside of your head. He knows everything about everyone and will use it to his advantage.

They are all of the characters I'm going to list for this review, there are a lot that the anime focuses on, but typing them all up would be pretty pointless as most of the characteristics and what they do are pretty self-explanatory. All of the characters link up to the same storyline, but we all get to see different parts of their lives and what they do outside of the Dollars. Most of the other supporting characters are really funny and quirky, some of them also tend to have random outburst of rage. Just like any other cliché group of anime friends that everyone else wants. There's so much that you have to try and piece together slowly as the programme goes, to be honest with you; I got the majority of it wrong and my boyfriend sat just pulling sarcastic faces at me as I shouted out random names.

I seriously enjoyed this anime, I think it has to be one of the few I've enjoyed in a while as I'm only just starting to get into these shows once more and I'm only just starting to feel more involved with characters, I think I just needed some time off from watching anime so I could really get into them again.I really enjoyed this one, I'll definitely be watching it through to the end. There are some strange and un-expected events throughout that make you think more about the character and what another character must be going through at the same time. It gives you stuff to think about and luckily, I was awake enough to be thinking about and processing the storyline. I'm really happy with how it's going so far, it’s the only anime where the characters that I've wanted to either succeed or fail actually have and it makes me feel so bloody smug.

It's definitely worth watching, at first I thought that it would be disappointing as my boyfriend (David) kept on bugging me to watch it week after week... So I thought it would suck, I will be watching it till the end and I would love to hear everyone else's opinion on the anime as a while as I'm still not that far into it.

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