durarara!! 3
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“Eat sushi!”
(EAT MOR CHIKIN!)
I think everyone needs an overly optimistic friend like Kiba who obviously has an IV of Red Bull connected to him somehow. I think he’s superior enough of a character that I won’t crack any OH GEASS NO jokes between him and Mikado.
I also think everyone needs more friends who can drop Shana references as well as feel perfectly at ease talking about piru piru angels in broad daylight. Mmm… how different are piru piru angels from biri biri angels?
(Wait, how did Yozakura Quartet make it into this show besides sharing a minor voice actor? Though I’m excited if they ever bring up K-On!… seems like right up their alley…)
My favorite scene of this episode? Why… it’s the Dollars guy… doing… something… in his pants! My gosh, look at the motions of his hand in his pants! If that’s not a pocket rocket, I don’t know what is. That’s some serious action going on in those pants.
(All the ganguro girls are just jealous of Anri’s melonpan. Pfft. So petty.)
“I don’t like to harm girls.”
Wait, didn’t Orihara try to get one to commit suicide last episode? Sure, he didn’t “harm” poor Rio.
(He was controlled bat shit crazy when he stomped the cell phone. But I think that’s only because she was using a shitty flip phone. They’re so 2004. Though I’m not sure what it says about Orihara that he has an iPhone… I was in the Dallas airport not too long ago when I saw this, uh, well endowed lady stick her iPhone in her cleavage. I feel like American society hit rock bottom. Or did it just feel that way because I was in Texas?)
*clears throat*
I kid. There’s nothing wrong with Texas. If you like goofy old men wearing cowboy hats and Wal-Mart. Anyway, here’s a place I’d actually like to visit again: Ikebukuro. I’ll add it to my list, right under the Washinomiya Shrine. Brains Base is doing a wonderful job of bringing this city to life. Between their animation and the crisp writing of Durararararara!!, I feel like the city is an actual character. At least it has more personality than Setsuna F. Seiei. (Not to be confused with Setsuna G. Seiei.)
Speaking of Gundams… I feel like Trust Me is much, much better suited as an ED for Gundam 00. Can’t you picture an ED where Lockon is giving Setsuna a haircut on a remote beach while Tieria and Haptism frolic in the waves as Trust Me plays on? That’s a perfect match, as good as My Love Is a Stapler for Bakemonogatari.
“Yo… yo… *grabs crotch* hey man!”
I’m pretty sure zero gang members in the US act like this douche bag. He’s even a bigger douche bag than Clint Eastwood’s son in Gran Torino. Even bigger than Kato Kaelin. Even bigger than Levi Johnson.
Come on Mikado, be a man! Don’t let a woman save you when you’re trying to save her. Though I like this screenshot just because it emphasizes that Anri is so full of hopes and dreams that her school uniform is unable to contain them.
YABR. Yet Another Baccano Reference.
My second favorite scene? Shizzy punching the clothes off of someone. That was epic. Ladd Russo would be proud. Though the force necessary to punch someone hard enough that their clothes fly away yet don’t have a completely smashed in skull seems like an improbable force.
(The brute force to just send someone flying… pure nonsense. Not even Manny Pacquiao can send someone flying with a punch. Also interesting to note that when I was typing “Manny” into Google, the first suggested term was “Manny Pacquiao”. “Manny Ramirez” didn’t even crack the top five. No, I’m not typing these Tiger Woods Conan O’brian names in this post just to increase key Tom Hanks Hillary Swank words for Google.)
(Though I have to say… there’s a lot less bloodshed in this show than Baccano so far. And, really, Shizzy would have to go on a killing spree with a smile to be even 70% as awesome as Ladd. And I still think Ladd should have hooked up with Zetsubou-sensei’s Chiri. That would have been a perfect couple.)
Brains Base does need some work with their emo facial distortions. Ladd– err– Shizzy needed one here. Badly. As badly as an overweight Dallas resident wearing a cowboy hat needs a cheesy mustache.
Love the BGM for Durarara!!. Manages to be quite diverse yet fitting for each occasion.
Why, that’s a lovely scar you have. Though Celty looks like a much, much cooler Ayu. Nonetheless, it’s not hard to be cooler than Ayu, but Celty is a lot cooler. Maybe it’s because she doesn’t “~uguu~”. I take this all back if she does.
I like how each episode seems to be told from a different viewpoint. How can you not like the freak of nature Africa-Russian hustling sushi in Ikebukuro? He’s as out-of-place as Mutumbo is at a midget convention.
(Would have been awesome if Simon bumped into Shion from Darker Than Black Gemini. And can you explain to me why Simon is pronounced properly here… yet pronounced improperly in Gurren Lagann? Yet the same romanization? I feel like Shimon needs an accent mark or something.)
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Loved this episode. Also spotted Kamiyan from a mile away…..
They called him Shimon because Kamina said Shimon, but still spelled it Simon (if he could spell, could he?) and if your name is Eric and he pronounces it “explic” your name is now explic. Also, I’m working a theory that the girl with the decapitation scar has Celty’s head and her head is that one in the jar from the OP. oh yeahh……………
I didn’t notice it when I watched this ep, but it looks like the 2nd poster in the YABR screenshot is a Cencoroll reference?
As soon as the girls talking to the sushi man went from engrish to russian I knew this was going to be a fantastic episode, and it didn’t let me down. Oddly enough I didn’t actually catch the gangster workin’ it in his pocket until I re-watched it the second time with my roommate…….
Hilarious
Durarara!! shares original character designs with creator and illustrator of Yozakura quartet, Suzuhito Yasuda. Punching out of clothes is a nice start but needs more white suit + happy dance in blood puddle.
>And can you explain to me why Simon is pronounced properly here… yet pronounced improperly in Gurren Lagann?
Shi-mon has been retired from the list of potential anime names due to his sheer GAR. Similar to, but the exact opposite reason, why Shinji has been retired.
Is it just me or does “African-russian sushi hustler” look almost identical to Mr. Popo from DBZ >__>?
Let’s see: Baccano!, It seems indeed Cencoroll, another Baccano! Then Jigoku Shoujo, then Baccano! again, then Another Jigoku Shoujo.
I just love the way DRRR! manage to insert anime references in a non obstructive/awful way.
Manny Pacquiao doesn’t punch normal humans either. Yes, it is very possible to punch someone hard enough to send them flying, to not to the comical extent Shizuo demonstrates.
This is the same show where someone got their face squished between solid concrete and a motorcycle wheel going at full velocity, and their skull didn’t get any flatter than Shana’s melonpan. In other words, tailor-made for U.S. primetime TV.
…”Celty” couldn’t be that girl with the scar. We were shown a brief image (at around 1min. and 24 sec. in the OP) of a disembodied head in a glass container, and it looked nothing like her. We’ll probably find out later on, though.
>>>”(He was controlled bat shit crazy when he stomped the cell phone. But I think that’s only because she was using a shitty flip phone. They’re so 2004. Though I’m not sure what it says about Orihara that he has an iPhone… I was in the Dallas airport not too long ago when I saw this, uh, well endowed lady stick her iPhone in her cleavage. I feel like American society hit rock bottom. Or did it just feel that way because I was in Texas?)”
You weren’t in Texas. You were in Dallas. Important distinction. Easiest way to tell where you’re at is that outside of Dallas only the tourists, the politicians, or the actual cowboys wear cowboy hats.
manny ramirez is #3 as of right now