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View Poll Results: Durarara!!x2 Shou - Episode 12 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 4 | 17.39% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 13 | 56.52% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 5 | 21.74% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 1 | 4.35% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2015-03-28, 20:59 | Link #23 |
Princess or Plunderer?
Join Date: May 2009
Location: the Philippines
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REVENGE IS BEST A DISH SERVED COLD.
To me, it was a rather satisfactory ending. Ikebukuro's newbies clearly underestimated how the pros do it. They didn't think that Rokujou and Kadota would form an informal truce, silencing the fury of the Toramaru gang. They didn't think that the strongest monster in Ikebukuro is a human. They didn't think that Shizuo is so unpredictable that his mere presence can throw off seemingly perfect plans. As expected, those who made those fatal mistakes ended up in the trash bin.
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2015-03-28, 22:10 | Link #25 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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The was pretty much THE EPISODE I wanted to see the most when I heard this arc was getting animated.
And I damn one hell of a chiffhanger. -I..I-I suddenly want car soccer to be a real sport after seeing this episode. Narita the stuff you come with up is freaking nuts, and love you for it. Ouch to the one guy who had his arm destroyed though. -So Shizuo quits the Dollars, unexpected, but makes sense for his character to do so. -loli route unlocked for Shizuo, well Celty picked up on the hints, even Shizuo probably never will. -Well there you have it, Anri's actually a Flame Haze. Seriously, is nobody the least perturbed that she running around with a katana to begin with? Nah, let's just molest her instead, it's really good thing Kadota is there. -So it turns out that Akane's father Mikiya was the one behind the murder of 3 Awakusu-kai's men and he hired Slon for the job. Surprisingly those guys were actually spies for 3 other organizations: 1) the Asuki group who Awakusu is having tension with, and undercover cop and one foreigner. Mikiya had also to use the murders to frame Asuki group, but Izaya screwed that all up, by using that to frame Shizuo. -Awakusu finally shows why they are feared, by taking down two military trained assassins with minimal effort. It's safe to say Vorona won't ever find Ikebukuro boring again, not after these last two days of seemingly spontaneous violence and abnormalities running around the place. -Rocchi, you said the worse thing you could have to said him at that moment (despite not intending to), this pretty much the tipping point. -Finally Mikado's character development comes full circle. The "pen" scene was quite well done. One way or another the shoe on other foot would drop at one point. The path Mikado choose could very well lead to corruption, but he at least doing on his own terms and ideals, nobody else. Even if those ideals have changed a bit due to as culmination of everything that had happened. It will be interesting to how his own "house cleaning" will go form here and how his change factors into where the Dollars go from now. One thing for sure, Aoba and Blue Squares had completely underestimated what kind of person he is. The same kind of person who orchestrated a plan to comforted Namie back in season 1, and the same one who showed Celty that not everybody has same fear of her. -....Speaking of someone else who got their just deserts, so Izaya got punched into a billboard at end of last season and now he gets stabbed? Can't say he doesn't deserve of course for the shit puts everyone through. But this Yodogiri guy is coming across more and more dangerous as well as mysterious. He like many others may have deeper relations with people within cast then we realize. As much as this episode served as resolution to the current events, I felt it's even more for a new beginning of things to come. This applies someone like Izaya too. So while the adaptation wasn't perfect and I think Shuka did a really good job overall in keeping with spirit of novels and as they did in the first season. Can't it wait for July! Last edited by Iron Maw; 2015-03-29 at 03:01. |
2015-03-29, 04:06 | Link #29 |
Kamen Rider Muppeteer
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Unknown
Age: 39
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So finally the Russian Assassins realise that while this Ikebukuro seems "fun", they're going about this all wrong and got in way over their heads.
This season was the first time the yakuza became somewhat active, and as it turns out they actually are on a whole different level from those color gangs (as they should be). Even Izaya is no match for them, apparently. Seriously that thing at the end kind of felt like Izaya was a kid trying to play around in an adult world. |
2015-03-29, 10:30 | Link #30 | |
Critical fanboy
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Anywhere with anime and anime discussion is fine
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Finally, some much needed development from Mikado. I don't read the LN, but I do get spoiled with the stabby, stabby part. The scene was swift but Mikado's expression was nailed down for me. I do feel for him for the anguish he went through in these past few episodes: being in such a useless, helpless, powerless position just because he is so ordinary. Unlike other characters who has supernatural power, super strength, head of the gang and whatnot he is a complete normal teenage boy up till now (being Dollar founder doesn't count), so there is little he can achieve which leads him desiring power in order to make things go his way. I can see that his obsession with power may corrupt him in some way. I'll be looking forward to see where he will end up in the future.
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2015-03-29, 11:15 | Link #31 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Do note Akane stated in the present progressive tense she is still trying to kill Shizuo. Hope Akane does not become another Saika obsessed with Shizuo. |
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2015-03-29, 14:30 | Link #34 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: My cozy room
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I've always seen this arc as the one that finishes the first light half of the series and begins the latter dark half. An intermedium. So I was looking forward to it but not nearly as much as the rest of the story. July is going to take a while to get here...
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2015-03-29, 16:47 | Link #37 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Also feel that irony here is despite how Mikado's feels about himself, he's actually already one of the extraordinary. It's similar to irony of how Celty is more human than most of cast despite her inhuman nature. DRRR's meta layers are full of all kinds of stuff like that. Last edited by Iron Maw; 2015-03-29 at 17:45. |
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2015-03-29, 19:17 | Link #40 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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