Durarara!!...
I took the opportunity to watch Durarara!!...
There is quite a lot of violence between and among rivals groups of young people throughout the series, giving Durarara!! more of a feeling of the schoolyard battleground genre, but, the overall tone of the series is less action-oriented and more drama-oriented. The series escalates as many of the interconnected threads start to come together. But, the disjointed and overly complicated storytelling and the generally slow pace of the series, tends to detract from the whole. I had high expectations for Durarara!! and picked the entire series in anticipation. But, ultimately, I was a bit disappointed by the series and gave Durarara!! a 2 out 5.
Durarara!! follows the exploits of a cast of characters in the city of Ikebukuro. Each story in the series focuses mainly on one character in the cast. As the series progresses the stories come together. One of the more notable characters in the series is the Black Rider or the Headless Rider, who rides around the streets of the city on a motorcycle, the shadow of which often, resembles a horse and the motorcycle itself sometimes sounds like a horse.Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Mikado Ryugamine is a young man who yearns for the city like no other. At the invitation of his childhood friend, Masaomi Kida, he leaves his hometown and enters Raira Academy in Ikebukuro. Masaomi warns Mikado about the mysterious organization of unknown origin known as the "Dollars" and some dangerous people in Ikebukuro to watch out for. In particular: the brawling champion Shizuo Heiwajima and hobbyist information broker Izaya Orihara.
On his first day out in the city, Mikado, remembering another of Masaomi’s stories, sees a jet-black motorcycle being driven by the fabled Headless Rider. From then on, a series of random attacks and events begins to occur on the streets of Ikebukuro, and a group known as the Yellow Scarves arises as Ikebukuro begins to crumble!
There is quite a lot of violence between and among rivals groups of young people throughout the series, giving Durarara!! more of a feeling of the schoolyard battleground genre, but, the overall tone of the series is less action-oriented and more drama-oriented. The series escalates as many of the interconnected threads start to come together. But, the disjointed and overly complicated storytelling and the generally slow pace of the series, tends to detract from the whole. I had high expectations for Durarara!! and picked the entire series in anticipation. But, ultimately, I was a bit disappointed by the series and gave Durarara!! a 2 out 5.
