Durarara!! (1st season) generic discussion thread

[LusterFlare]

Originally Posted by stuopidget

Might be a silly question to ask, how long is this?

24 episodes according to this as of now.

Really like the first episode, but there were so many names to follow lol. Love the music.

[chounokoe]

Originally Posted by stuopidget

Might be a silly question to ask, how long is this?

As far as I know, they bought space for 12 episodes so far...so maybe the anime will end after that, maybe they just couldn't say right now, or maybe they'll just wait and see how the first half is greeted by the audience.

I sincerely hope it's not just 12 though, because there's no way to cram 6 novels into that space.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by LusterFlare

24 episodes according to this as of now.

Heh, that's the last place you should trust regarding show lengths. Plus most sites are saying 12 episodes, so at this point i believe it hasn't been confirmed yet.

[fertygo]

At least its better than ANN with the "we have 12 episode" anyways
But i'm not sure its will be 2 cour of series...

[Kunagisa]

I really hope it's not 12, I just re-watched trailer 3. There's a character from book 4 (I THINK that's her anyway, she appeared for like a second), so if it's 12 then it might be pretty tight on schedule.

Don't think that's her now, but still 12 seems fairly short.

[Shiroth]

Finally watched it, and wow that was better then anything i ever expected.

Spoiler for Episode 01:

What a solid first episode. My exceptions were blown away with this, and i ended up enjoying it a lot more then i thought i would. Nice introduction, though it's easy to see that the introduction's will carry on like Baccano did as we progress with the story.

-Love both the OP and ED. :3
-Good to see we have classic female Yasuda Suzuhito character designs. Oversized breasts are out and about as usual. <3
-A scene from Baccano showing on the screen before Horo appears was nice.
-Vending Machine-tan could end up being the best character here.
-Funky score is funky.
-Cell phone scenes were alright. Guessing we'll be seeing more of them as the show goes on.

Hope it's not that long until we see more Orihara. He looks madness going by his little scene in the first episode, along with his OP and ED scenes. He's going to be awesome.

[Natsuki Hyuga]

Originally Posted by stuopidget

Don't think that's her now, but still 12 seems fairly short.

Some rumours and stuffs tell that it will be 2 cours. (In total 26 episodes)

I don't know, but some blogs recorded that the official site (I.E) gave the indication that it's gonna be 26 episodes [13 DVDs], or at least 2 cours (24 episodes)

Myself I had a feeling that it will be 1 cour, seeing the extras they give from DVDs. But then I saw the thing that make me believe that the DVDs are going to be more than 6...

Originally Posted by Quote from Official Site

(http://www.durarara.com/release/dvd01.html)
■アニメイトオリジナル特典
・第1巻購入特典：描き下ろしブックカバー（臨也＆静雄）
　
　実際の特典には背景が入ります。

・1～6巻連動購入特典：小説収納ファイル
・全巻購入特典：未定
※特典内容は変更になる可能性がございます。

See the bolded ones. For those who can't read Japanese, those two translates to:

(Buying) Vol 1-6 altogether extra: File for storing the short novel tokutens (I'll elaborate more for those who are interested)
(Buying) All volumes altogether extra: Undecided

Unless they don't change the plans, we have 6 DVDs+, which mean 1 cour is already covered and more. I can't see them doing 1 and a half cour at all, so that leaves for 2 cours plans. But this will go if there is no change in plans and that info is not a typo from the official site.

Here's hoping the info would be true though So far, Episode 1 have already covered only 2 chapters of the novel. In truth, I don't suppose that the characters' introductions for those 'main' 15 are gonna be done by 3rd episode hoo boy... (Not that this is a good way to count coverage though, starting from Durararax4 I notice that the chapters are getting 'thicker' from the chapter list... Though I don't have vol 6 yet ;o;

@Shiro

Vending machine-tan needs more people to recognize it him!!!

[Kanon]

The first episode was even better that I thought it would be. Not much happened but the realisation is very solid and the character looks great. Nice voice cast too.

Spoiler for Ep 1:

I'm betting that woman Mikado bumps into is related to the headless biker. She's got a nasty scar and the skin color of her head is not the same as her body, she's also the only character whose name is not shown in the OP.

I have no idea where the plot of this series is going but I love it already

Just a little question: is Mikado going to be the main character or is this like Baccano where there was no real main character and everyone shared the screentime?

[Terrestrial Dream]

Interesting episodes, I liked it overall and seemed like a solid start and introduction to the characters. But men its going to take awhile to remember all the names, oh well as time goes I will probably remember them all. The op was ok, maybe it will be a song that I will like it better as it goes on but for now I thought it was ok. But the scenes in the op was interesting and seems like there will be plenty of fun characters. The ed however was great, much better than the op.

But I will admit the beginning was bit dull as it was just introducing the characters and the general setting. However when the Headless Rider scenes came, well I feel like this will be another great series.

Originally Posted by Shiroth

Finally watched it, and wow that was better then anything i ever expected.

Spoiler for Episode 01:

What a solid first episode. My exceptions were blown away with this, and i ended up enjoying it a lot more then i thought i would. Nice introduction, though it's easy to see that the introduction's will carry on like Baccano did as we progress with the story.

-Love both the OP and ED. :3
-Good to see we have classic female Yasuda Suzuhito character designs. Oversized breasts are out and about as usual. <3
-A scene from Baccano showing on the screen before Horo appears was nice.
-Vending Machine-tan could end up being the best character here.
-Funky score is funky.
-Cell phone scenes were alright. Guessing we'll be seeing more of them as the show goes on.

Hope it's not that long until we see more Orihara. He looks madness going by his little scene in the first episode, along with his OP and ED scenes. He's going to be awesome.

Yep, no oversize breast is nice to see. And Vending Machines guy is one of the the characters that I am looking forward to most .

[Natsuki Hyuga]

Good Lord, I absolutely adore how DVD infos can (accidentally) give you the titles of upcoming episodes!

Spoiler for Upcoming episodes title only:

■第二話「一虚一実」

■第三話「跳梁跋扈」

■第四話「形影相弔」

■第五話「羊頭狗肉」

■第六話「東奔西走」

■第七話「有為転変」

■第八話「南柯之夢」

... What's with these weird... Titles anyway? D': Am I expecting more than one way to read these?

FEEL FREE TO TRANSLATE ESPECIALLY THE NOVEL READER SINCE I REALIZE THAT I AM KNOCKING ON DEAD WOOD ON THE STRANGENESS OF THE TITLES (Yes, I'm talking about episode 8 which particularly is a 'possible readings' type of thing :''D C'mon, it's obvious on how we should read it, but homg did they make it so... GAH ;; )

[SMT]

Some avatars, feel free to use them.

Spoiler for avatars:

Not very many, though.

[Iron Maw]

Pretty solid first episode and a lot less confusing than Baccano's. Production wise everything top notch as expected from Brain Base.

Looking forward to more.

BTW: I am the only one who can't stop listening to the OP? IMO it's best this season and the ED is pretty decent too.

[Nosauz]

first episode was decent, and just awesome music. Although there wasn't as much pizazz compared to baccano's first episode, the narative/exposition was just somewhat overbearing, considering it was mostly all talk and none of it all that interesting, considering it was presented as a vocalized online text chat. In the end the animation was superb when the ghost biker showed up, and i'll probably watch it again, just hope that it can at least match bacanno on intensity.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by Natsuki Hyuga

Vending machine-tan needs more people to recognize it him!!!

Yes, yes! He is such a misunderstood character. <33

Originally Posted by Terrestrial Dream

Yep, no oversize breast is nice to see. And Vending Machines guy is one of the the characters that I am looking forward to most .

Huh, i wasn't saying there are oversized breasts. It's classic Yasuda Suzuhito to have pretty much the same size with each of his females, and it's no change here.

Originally Posted by Iron Maw

BTW: I am the only one who can't stop listening to the OP? IMO it's best this season and the ED is pretty decent too.

Nope you're not the only one. I've been humming the OP to myself since i watched it this morning.

[Iron Maw]

Originally Posted by Shiroth

Nope you're not the only one. I've been humming the OP to myself since i watched it this morning.

Yep, loving the Baccano vibe with the animation too.

[musume_no_hoshi]

I'm totally confused on the character names, too much to remember. Also I got quite lost with the internet chat scenes. Maybe a little too much information to absorb for a first episode, I've been watching more slice of life stuff lately (haven't used my brain to watch anime for a while).

The animation was pretty good, but I think the storyboard can be improved here and there for more shocking effects. I wasn't going to watch this till I saw the Newtype Romance 2010 calendar, I really liked the character designs so I decided to give this a try.

The opening and ending are good. Despite the ending isn't even 'animated', I liked the sequence. The background music definitely stood out, looking forward to the OST.

[Iron Maw]

Originally Posted by musume_no_hoshi

I'm totally confused on the character names, too much to remember. Also I got quite lost with the internet chat scenes. Maybe a little too much information to absorb for a first episode, I've been watching more slice of life stuff lately (haven't used my brain to watch anime for a while).

This seems be a trait of the author, Baccano was even worse about it, but that show ended sorting itself out in the end. It will probably be the same case with this too.

[Kunagisa]

@Natsuki Hyuga: Thanks for the info.

Spoiler for Upcoming episodes title only:

■第二話「一虚一実」

■第三話「跳梁跋扈」

■第四話「形影相弔」

■第五話「羊頭狗肉」

■第六話「東奔西走」

■第七話「有為転変」

■第八話「南柯之夢」

... What's with these weird... Titles anyway? D': Am I expecting more than one way to read these?

Hrmm I read these as well on the Chinese wiki, but I was confused because they are all kanjis! And they made sense if I read them like Chinese. Sticking 'em in the google translator doesn't really help at all, but

Spoiler for minor title spoilers:

going by the titles 2 made most sense to me (but both the translations I've read translated it differently, so I don't know anymore). 5 stands out the most, and if is what I think it is, then novel one will probably be done by 5. For 8 though, I'm pretty damn sure it's a proverb, and even though it's a beautiful one, I think the episode itself is probably just a reference to an event in novel 2, and that would be a build up episode.

If that's true then the pacing is horrible for 12 episodes, though pretty sweet for 24/26. Either way, speculations are speculations, withholding further judgments until more info.

Originally Posted by Kanon_

Spoiler for Ep 1:

Just a little question: is Mikado going to be the main character or is this like Baccano where there was no real main character and everyone shared the screentime?

Spoiler for Extremely Minor Spoiler:

If it's same as the novel, Mikado won't be the focus the entire time.

[Starry Dust]

Originally Posted by Iron Maw

BTW: I am the only one who can't stop listening to the OP? IMO it's best this season and the ED is pretty decent too.

Ha, same here
Though, I find the OP way better than the ED, in which the ED sounds a bit too 'generic' to me.

Anywayz, way to dump information at us lol.
Definitely a set-up episode but I paid enough attention this time so I hope I didn't miss any important clues ( my mind tends to wander when there's alot of talking going on e__e ) I agree the internet chats were a bit too much to read but that's what the 'pause' button is for xD

Either way, I'm very satisfied and pleased.
There is no disappoint from me :]

[bbee]

The first ep was quite interesting. I like the style of storytelling: dialogue-driven with lots of narration in the form of inner monologues. That always makes it easy to get strong characterization and to let you connect with the characters. The frequent cuts to the messageboard were also quite a unique way to set up the story and characters. Let's hope they keep up this style in later episodes when they develop more characters and the story picks up.
The animation was also quite fitting to this, they managed to make the city quite pretty to look at, yet still serene in a such a wat that it does not detract from the story. A "city of people" if you will.

Not too sure about the plot though. Monster biker chicks? It could go both ways really, but if they stick to the current style and don't make the plot too crazy the show could be quite interesting all the way through.
All in, this is definately the best show of the season so far. But it's not *that* amazing, so this probably says more about the season than the show itself. Oh well, lets stick it out and see where it goes.