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「物情騒然」 (Butsujou Souzen)
“Turmoil Prevailing”
I haven’t been waiting nearly as long as people who have been following Durarara since its premiere, but I can already appreciate how some light’s been finally shed on the overall story. To help set things up for the second half of the series, this was primarily a dialogue-centric episode, but I enjoyed it a lot thanks to Shingen and his wacky personality. However, that side of him was only as enjoyable as it was because Celty, along with her newly professed love for Shinra, served as the victim of his ridicule. With all that crap of calling her a monster only to say he’ll acknowledge their relationship if Celty refers to her as her father, Shingen is so randomly unpredictable to the point that I couldn’t get enough of him.
Amidst all that humor, I thought it was pretty smooth how they slipped in a fundamental part of the story. Namely, the fact that Shingen was the one who originally stole Celty’s head. I figured Celty would have beat the details out of him at that point since she doesn’t like him much to begin with, but surprisingly being called a dojikko riled her up enough to bring out the girlish side of her that I love, causing that opportunity to slip by. One elevator fake-out escape later and Shingen is a free man — for the time being anyway. He’s pretty much a failure of a father, but inexplicable awesome at the same time.
For most of the episode, things continued to build on what Shingen accidentally spilled the beans on and finally let us in on what Izaya’s up to. It doesn’t come as any real surprise that if someone was pulling the strings behind Ikebukuro that it would be him, but it’s nice to finally learn what his chess board with shogi tiles and Othello pieces is all about. Whether or not his attempt to turn the city into a war zone and awaken Celty’s head will actually work is another matter, but given how the story’s been pushing the Dullahan/Valkyrie idea for the past while, it seems likely things will ultimately come down to that. The reappearance of the Yellow Scarves are evidently for that very purpose, so I’m looking forward to seeing if things play out exactly like Izaya hopes they will.
As for the Slasher incidents, I wouldn’t have figured that it was actually a cursed sword that’s possessing individuals, but it turns out that “Saika” (Sin Song) on the message boards is the name of the sword itself. Consequently, I didn’t foresee how this same sword was used by Shingen to separate Celty’s soul from her head. However, given the latter, I’m quite surprised how calmly Celty took news of it from Shinra, which supports the notion that her human-like emotions are getting the best of her. Other than that, we have Namie working for Izaya as hinted at last time, Nasujima-sensei sweating at the sound of Niekawa Haruna’s name (the girl who supposedly transferred schools because of his sexual harassment), and Masaomi finally visiting Mikajima Saki (Fukuen Misato) at the hospital, the last of which has been on my mind for some time now.
While I’m interested in seeing what the deal is between Masaomi and Saki, we have another cliffhanger with Anri getting attacked by “Saika” again. She seems fine in the preview though and next episode looks like it’ll be shown from Niekawa Shuuji‘s perspective (Koyama Rikiya), which may just mean we’ll learn more about what happened to Haruna.
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first here 🙂
thanks for keeping posting on this one!
Celty is so awesome this episode… hope she and Shinra would work out in the end
I so wanna see Anri end up with Mikado as a couple at the end.
When will they have an episode with a full izaya vs. shizzy-chan fight?!
ahh cant wait for the next ep though (:
hmm sexy cant wait for subs well i can but you know
I’m pretty interested with Mikajima’s relationship with Izaya and Masaomi, because its been shown that Izaya visits her in the hospital often
A large smoke heart puffing out of Celty’s neck was kinda cute.
hi divine, don’t mean to sound rude or anything and i know your schedule is already heptic as it is and i certainly don’t want you to be overworked, but are you going to blog ”house of five leaves ” ? Thanks
Yup, I’ve already watched the first episode, but my priority is Angel Beats 03 first. I’ll get a post about Sarai-ya Goyou out after.
not trying to change the focus of this post, but doing so anyway, what the hell is going on in angel beats? i kinda get what happened for a good part, as for the rest…………….
they left out some details from the novel and it seems like their rushing the anime a bit.
otherwise it was a good episode.
though I think they mellowed a bit on the characters reaction(shizuo and celty) I thought it would be intense but not really……
Well I didn’t took all the jokes well. As a matter of fact they made me feel they are abusing Certy. She is over forgiving with all the stuff he’s hiding from her. The first time was ok due to his insecurities about Certy vanishing; but “trues” keep popping out I thought he did come clean. We need some real Irish slashing and filling with hate for some characters argh they are doing a good job with this second half of the show.
for those who wants to know about saki:
Show Spoiler ▼
ill stop there for now and by the way, she was supposed to be mentioned along with kida by izaya when he was talking to shingen about his plan for causing trouble in ikebukuru.
Awesome, can’t wait to see this ep! And Shingen apparently rolls with an M9 (Beretta 92F), at least the pop gun version of one. XD
The marriage proposal was a pretty good example of how to write a scene without letting the characters be defined by their quirks (cough**Working!!**cough). I couldn’t help but wonder what somebody would think of a fairly normal guy getting enthusiastic about a headless woman proposing her love for him while a gas mask mocks them both, if they were watching it out of context.
wow. really looking forward to what happens with kida and saki.
was laughing my head off this episode. ^^
And I’m curious about Masaomi and Saki’s story.
when will my gravatar show?
anyway my above comment show a bit about masaomi and saki’s history but I did not reveal too much.
nvm its up now finally.
uhhmm how to put an avatar?
anyways oh noes what will happen to anri O_o
Hm, did anyone else notice the slight changes in the Opening? like right off the bat, the sky had a slight red tint and it’s probably just me but I think I saw a flash like a thunder, and the addition of Simon when Mikado, Anri and Kida are standing.
It’s probably my imagination~
AH you’re right! I just noticed that >__>
I’m a bit confused now, I seems Saika can make anyone a slasher, but the two we see in EP5 look like Haruna and Anri, if so why did they rescue Nasujima when Celty attacked him? You’d think they’d both hate him, why protect him? And was Haruna the one saved Anri in her flashback? If so why would her Dad attack Anri? Are all these slashers really possessed by one person, and what’s up with them stalking Shizuo?
Anyone else find Izaya pouring Celty tea really mean?
I did~ I was thinking why would pour her some tea if he knew she didn’t have a head in the first place…
OMG! Shingen is so hilarious~!
Finally watched this episode.Nica thing they started to clear up for us about Izaya and his plan.
Did those three girls get killed? Don’t the white outlines usually mean that?
seriously, can’t we have a decent anime besides this one? I mean the last few years there were a lot of good animes… but this summer season animes are just >___< …ugh… fan service here… fan service there… moe here… moe there… and yeah, more fan service!
DRRR! is the only show that still interests me including this episode. DRRR! contains such a twisted plot that it's unexpectable(most of the times)
lol I totally forgot but after watching the New OP I realized it had a “Blood+” moment!!