Durarara!!

This time I’m going to be talking(writing would be more accurate :D) about the Anime:  Durarara!!! It’s a novel-turned-anime, with it’s setting in modern Japan, Ikebukuro to be exact. I have been watching this from the first episode and has been hooked ever since.

Why is it so interesting to me? Visuals are nice, characters has depth and the story just rocks! Every episode features a character narrating the story and each episode focuses on a character (much like Baccano, which I never got to finish watching it T-T), the first episode introduced the cast of Durarara!! We see it through the perspective of Mikado, a newcomer to Ikebukuro, a good choice if you ask me, as the viewers can relate easier. The strangeness soon creeps in when the viewer meets the incredible people in Ikebukuro, like the urban legend headless rider, the vending machine throwing bartender, or the girl who has strange scars on her neck…

The way Durarara does it is that it gives you bits and bits of information every time, it might not make much sense at the present time… But the episodes that follows will slowly shed more light, and the fact that everything is linked in Durarara!! (This might be a bad example, but this reminds me of Lost), which leaves the viewer a “so-this-was-why” feeling after working them to the climax of the story.

Since they go into the stories of different characters, it gave the cast more depth, although similar tactics was used in Baccano, I felt this worked exceptionally well in Durarara!! Maybe it was more organized? Maybe from what I written so far it may seem that Durarara!! is a serious anime, but it does has it’s share of funny/comedic moments.

Wow… I planned only write a little about this, but it kinda grew on it’s own. The funny thing is that there is still much I want to write about this anime. I guess I should hold back to another time.