No.404067
Didn't see one.
Or is this show too mainstream for you fucking contrarians?!
Flustered Celty is best Celty.
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No.404068
I just haven't gotten around to watching anything past the first season.
Second season any good?
No.404069
>>404067
It's really really boring shit that we have seen over and over again.
Baccano was much more fun.
Your move Shit Taste-kun
No.404087
>>404069
There's not that many series that focus this hard on how people's agendas interact and inevitably crash and burn, which is why I enjoy it, personally.
Speaking of which, I'm waiting for the kickoff of this glorious fireball. Team Izaya vs Team Celty vs Aoba's Neo-Dollars vs the Yellow Scarves should be pretty fun to watch. I'm assuming Simon and his boss are going to join Celty's group, given the Egor connection, but that doesn't explain why Simon has a Chinese assault rifle in the ED.
No.404110
>>404087
I mostly just like it because it doesn't take place in a high school.
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No.404130
>>404087
Whichever side gets Shizuo wins.
You know this to be true.
No.404148
>>404110
I wish Japan would introduce a fine for every show that takes place in high school with a perfectly average protagonist.
No.404163
Why is the second season's plot exactly the same as the first season's?
>3 groups
>they mostly don't want to fight each other
>Izaya manipulates people/information which leads to misunderstanding
>misunderstanding makes them fight eachother
>mc does nothing at all and is a beta faggot
Also that ex-blue square guy in S2 is so needlessly edgy that it makes no sense.
No.404210
I really liked the first season, all the characters were great, the drama and suspense was good, celty makes me feel funny like climbing the rope in gym class, and it's got a weird urban vibe that I haven't seen many other places.
Still haven't watched the second season, need to get around to it.
No.404211
>>404067
the ln ending sucks
No.404218
First season is okay, second season sucks balls. Thats it.
No.404279
I really liked Baccano. A lot. Would I like this?
No.404283
The second season has been so needlessly dragged out that it's just annoying to watch it. It's not bad, but it's just a bit of a rehash from the first season, but shittier.
Seriously though. Whose great idea was it to stretch this shit out over 5 seasons? It's been over a year since this arc of the story started, real time. I don't even give a fuck anymore.
No.404438
>>404163
I'm enjoying watching Mikado collapse into insanity after the one time that the Dollars were his personal army and now have grown beyond his control.
I think the main theme of the second season is that more powerful organisations are taking notice of the stuff that goes down in the first season and they're trying to profit from it. Nebula has a bigger influence through Shingen and his wife turning up; the Yakuza have decided that the Dollars being a new kind of gang is a danger to their current business model and are looking to crack down on it; hell, the Mafiya's getting involved now. I don't really see how it's the same thing over again when they're being told over and over again that they're small fish in a big pond and facing the consequences.
No.404471
>>404438
But the core plot is essentially the same, just different/more players. They're all fighting because of a misunderstanding .
Dollars is just an internet forum in irl yet everyone thinks they're a scary gang, blue square/yellow scarf are just troublemakers, and the supernatural people are just there for no reason. Somehow the yakuaza and mafia get involved too, but in the end it's all just a big misunderstanding. Exactly like S1.
No.404480
>>404471
Who, at the minute, is really motivated by a misunderstanding?
The only misunderstanding that really applies at the minute is Mikado thinking he's in charge of the Dollars. Masaomi's come back to slap some sense into Mikado's thick head. Celty's looking to get her head back from Izaya so she can hand it to Shingen for safe keeping until Shinra dies. Aoba's looking to muscle in on Izaya's game and is way the fuck in over his head. Izaya and Yodogiri Jinnai are wrestling over being the premier information brokers in the city. I could go on.
At this point, everyone knows what they're doing and why.
No.404527
>>404279
No. It's way less fun, paced worse, the focus is on boring highschoolers instead of literally everyone else (cringed fucking hard when blond guy turned out to be a gang leader). When it does get the ball rolling with all the right people involved, it gets interesting, but rest of the time you're stuck with just meh.
No.405274
>>404279
Probably. It's definitely less good, but I enjoyed it. It has the fun of the chaotic storyline that Baccano has.
I loved the first season at the least. The second season seems to drag on and isn't as good though.
No.405379
what is the point of this show? that everyone involved is an insufferable faggot? if you enjoy this show, you also probably enjoy the taste of ball sweat.
No.405690
The OP this season has to be the worst of them all. All parts of it.
No.407687
I can't even keep up with all the character interactions any more. Who's mad at who? What's the agenda of this person? And so on. Especially the chatroom interaction. I'm having a HELL of a hard time placing voice to character, particularly when the character hasn't actually appeared on-screen for a while.
This season has just stretched out way too damn long.
No.409991
DRRR has the problem of being way too big for a seasonal release. Shitloads of characters, plotlines and so on. It's something that takes up notoriety once it's done and you can binge it, not confusing anything with other animu you watched at the same time.
Also anyone saying S2 sucks has shit taste.
No.409994
>>407687
I was a little worried because I wasn't keeping track of who and who and what was happening.
At least I know it wasn't just me now.
No.410005
>Shinra and Seiji still haven't argued which part of their waifu is the best
No.410009
>>410005
>Yumasaki and Kariwasa still haven't argued which part of their waifu is the best
No.410044
>>405690
its not uragiri no yuuyake or complication, but its not bad enough to skip it every time
No.410106
>>410044
I loved Headhunt.
No.410132
>>410106
>>410044
I liked them all so far, but I'm in the middle of watching x2-2 now.
No.410134
No.410138
>>410134
It will slowly come your way
No.410160
>Durrr!
>Started out with non-chronological story like Baccano!
>Gets popular
>Quickly sells out, turns chronological, all popular characters will never die, etc
No.410171
>>410132
The new one's kind of growing on me. It's got that weird sort of Samurai Warriors-esque Eurobeat feel.
As a side note, I never noticed how stacked Niekawa Haruna was. That teacher had good taste. Except for the knife thing, maybe.
No.410173
>>410160
LNs of both are chronological you retard. Also DRRR was never even half as segmented as Baccano
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No.412733
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>>410138
>>410134
you samefag'd that joke, didn't you?
>this hole was made for me
No.412737
>>412734
So you admit it!
I just hope she gets her head back for the potential porn applications.
No.412781
>>412737
I appreciated that terrible joke, anon
No.412833
I actually do not give one fuck about Sonohara and her stupid subplot about the 9999999999999 Saika's.
No.415285
>>412833
It's probably the least interesting of the subplots so far. That said, the teacher owning a Saika is an interesting development, as is learning that Saikas work on a 'last touch' basis. Kind of wish he'd kept the beard, though. I'm a sucker for beards indicating character development.
I'm glad they didn't just have Chikage ruining Masaomi's shit during the fight, which I was expecting, since Chikage took, what, three or four punches from Shizuo before going down?
Also, I'm not really liking this current trend of absolutely everyone being superhuman freaks. Shizuo being Chief Shit-Wrecker seems to have lost its bite when Chikage can survive a four-storey fall with no ill effects, and Izumii can take a full force punch to the forehead and not bat an eye. Maybe it was always like that and I didn't notice.
Speaking of that punch, Jesus CHRIST, is that Masaomi's forearm coming through his hand? Didn't even notice until I came back for the screenshots.
No.415294
>>415285
>teacher
I have no idea who the hell that is. I thought it was a completely new character. It's been too long.
Also, I agree on the superhuman part. If everyone is special, nobody is. It was good enough when you had the genuine monsters running around, and only lone Shizuo being on par with them.
No.415304
>>415294
He might be easier to recognise when he's trying to fuck Anri or Niekawa.
Also, having taken off the beard.
No.415347
>>415304
No, not at all.
I have absolutely no recollection of this character in the slightest. I watch far too much anime to remember a particular side-character in a stretched-out season watched 9999999 years ago.
No.418710
I've tried very hard to like this show, but it feels just way too slow for me. Am I the only one?
No.418723
>>418710
I tried to like it, but it was way too shit for me.
No.418736
>>418710
nope.
Its as boring as you think it is. A lot of potential, does nothing with it.
No.419043
I.. like this show...and look forward to every week to watch a new episode... sorry
No.419259
>>418710
Second cour of season 2 was a fucking drag, man.
They shouldn't have split it into three airing periods like this. Just air it back to back like literally anyone else would.
That said I respect their resolve to finish the series (the studio itself was formed solely for this purpose, since Brain's Base couldn't do it - all of the original staff migrated to Shuko to finish it together) and I'll be there with them. It's almost over anyway, and every week is one week closer to POP POP POP WATCHIN NIGGAS DROP .
No.419275
>>418710
I don't blame you. It does drag on, while getting overly complicated.
No.420735
Quality horse running animation.
Too much time was devoted to Varona's autistic rambling. She's not very interesting, and the parts she plays in the overall plot and confrontation are so little that it just feels like wasted minutes focusing on her.
Who is Saki? The one that greeted Sonohara?
No.423796
Ok, these past two or so episodes have been almost as interesting as the first arc of the entire series. What the FUCK though, it took like 3 seasons to set up one arc. I'm sure someone can defend it as being 2deep4U or as being more focused on the developments of an ensemble cast, but fuck that shit. Only some of the most minor characters have really changed at all. The entire conflict for this arc is that the three at the center specifically haven't changed at all even though they all want to and could have easily done so if they just spoke once about it. Introducing an entire new set of characters for each arc doesn't mean you are developing anything. We know more about Saika than any of the hosts because they don't talk about anything else. Well that and pretty much every female's backstory is, "Some morbid stuff happened in my past (and possibly I was never human at all), so now I'm a sociopath/swordhost/yandere/indecisive cunt/otaku."
What's her face showing up to talk with emo tits and Luffy listening to Kida are pretty much the only times anyone has ever just sat down to hash things out.
It's a fucking anime soap opera, and I don't think many people worthy of respect will come to a valiant defense of the merits of soap operas.
Can you imagine being some Nip kid and having to pay for the LNs as they come out and being blueballed through all this? No wonder those poor guys turn out to be deranged fetishists.
No.424523
>>415285
>Also, I'm not really liking this current trend of absolutely everyone being superhuman freaks. Shizuo being Chief Shit-Wrecker seems to have lost its bite when Chikage can survive a four-storey fall with no ill effects, and Izumii can take a full force punch to the forehead and not bat an eye. Maybe it was always like that and I didn't notice.
I keep waiting for there to be a Monogatari style explanation of how there is a disturbance that is causing an increase in the number of non-humans in the area which is in turn causing some humans to reach inhuman potentials. It would even center perfectly around Celty, with Mikado mentioning her leaving the city in this episode too. I'm not sure if that would make me like the series more or just compare it even more unfavorably against the Monogatari series though.
How does something which had such a snappy beginning with the Dollars arc go so completely to shit as far as all sense of pacing or control over the story?
No.424593
>>424523
>hey I have this cool idea for a novel
>oh shit editor-san wants me to keep going because he wants more fujobux but I need to think up more shit
>this isn't going so well I'll just tell editor-san I'm out and end it with a bang
>OH SHIT NOW I HAVE TO WRITE A SEQUEL
That's what I assume Narita's life is like, anyway.
No.426297
Hmm I have seen the first four episodes so far and I must say it's a good series. It appears to be quite mainstream (something I wouldn't expect, given the setting and structure of it) but this shouldn't make it less attractive.
I certainly do see why people wouldn't like this series, it's..convoluted for the lack of a better term and there is no clear plot involved. I would catergorize it as a slice-of-life anime with a grim and philosophical setting. I can think it will result in a Nitzschean conclusion, saying that people shouldn't over-analyze things as the setting might intentionally be shrouded in fog.
No.426365
>>426297
>I certainly do see why people wouldn't like this series
>I can think it will result in a Nitzschean conclusion, saying that people shouldn't over-analyze things as the setting might intentionally be shrouded in fog.
>Hmm I have seen the first four episodes so far
>first four episodes so far
Nigga are you high saying all this dumb shit? We're on episode 41 or something.
No.426625
>>426297
I second >>426365. You're high, motherfucker. Or, more likely, you're trying to sound smarter than you are.
>>424593
Pics related.
No.426635
It's like someone researched everything that annoys me about anime, and made an anime out of it.
No.426659
>>404279
I think you will, in that it's in the same spirit of Baccano (and in the same universe).
I like the atmosphere of the series, very urban and the music is great. Definitely give it a shot.
No.427174
>>426625
>>426365
Lel yeah sorry guys, I was drunk as shit then. I have watched the first season now and take back what I've said. Everything felt like a big disappointment. The Saika/Mother thing, Kida being a gang leader, the gangs being just a group of children, nobody is ever in _real_ danger etc.
In the end, the show had great potential due to the setting, but it got wasted. I don't know. Is it worth it to continue when the first season was already 'meh'?
No.427189
>>427174
Read over the entire thread and see the general consensus?
Though the next 30 episodes are a whole bunch more of the same shit, I think it's worth it. That's probably just my particular distaste for stopping things halfway though. Maybe wait for this season, the final one (finally,) to end before catching up.
I have great suspicion that if you do this, it'll be a much better experience for you than the ones at ground zero, so to speak. I imagine much of the problems and complaints of the current season will instantly diminish if you watch it all in one large chunk, instead of stretched over a year and a half of real time.
No.432459
Honestly Mikado should just go home and play video games at this point. I'd love to see an episode where he spends the entire time in his room and just tunes out of the shitstorm.
No.433415
>>432459
I'd much prefer if he tried to summon his persona, if you catch my drift. That guy has been consistently annoying since the first episode, but now that he's gone full retard it's unbearable.
No.433419
Celty is the only reason I watched the first season. I remember that there was a twist, but remember nothing else. I would much rather re-watch a good anime than this.
No.435136
Did the translation fuck up or did someone fail to pass high school chemistry?
No.435248
>>435136
failed chemistry. The CO2 was supposed to suffocate him, but they didn't realize it would stop explosions.
No.435445
>>435136
That is just pathetic. Should of just locked him in a box with 100% oxygen and lit a match, thats fucking all it would have taken.
No.435532
>>435248
Depends what's exploding, it'd stop fiery air accelerant based explosions like pictured. But many explosive chemicals have there own oxygen in the molecule.
No.435616
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>435532
Beyond that, some fires, like magnesium, are hot enough to rip apart CO2 and use that oxygen as fuel. Not explosive, but still cool as shit.
No.435833
>>435638
>not adding the text to the image
No.435873
>>435638
>That means that it can potentially go on to “burn” things that you would normally consider already burnt to hell and gone, and a practical consequence of that is that it’ll start roaring reactions with things like bricks and asbestos tile.
That is fucking terrifying.
No.435890
They've teased the Heiwajima versus Orihaya fight for one million years now. I'll be furious if it ends just like this.
No.435999
the fight between shizou and izaya will end on some positive note, forgiveness will be shown and their game continues forever. i'd bet my money on shinra being the only casualty in the series.
No.438395
I'm starting to lose interest and hype. The build-up to the conclusion is just taking far too damn long.
Someone needs to start solving shit right this minute.
No.440722
>>438395
The series has done a great job of making me not care about it. Lots of stuff is happening, but nothing feels consequential.
No.440896
Caught today, and it's somewhat boring but it's better than s2 and 3 with how almost half of it is like a long final fight, instead of boring shit.
No.442411
The buildup has been going on for 4 episodes or so, complete with new developments happening during it.
Can this shit just end already? I long ago lost interest in the various resolutions, since they just keep going and going with nothing exciting happening.
No.443515
>finally caught up
I'm actually really looking forward to the last episode now.
No.443635
Well to be fair the only thing that was really shit is the mikado/kida/sonohara arc.
Especially Mikado...
And then he went and killed himself...
So yeah renewed interest...
But I hope it really happened, I hope Heiwajima versus Orihaya does end with one of them dead (or near) and that we get at least some kind of conclusion.
No.443646
Worth the marathon from season 1 or no?
No.443685
>>443646
it's not like you have anything better to do with approximately 20 hours
No.443715
>>443646
Maybe the first Durarara. The first and second season of Durararara x 2 has been a mix of redoing the first season and a lot of pointless excursions that don't matter but the end of that season course where something actually happens. There was some interesting flashback moments but if you want to get the main jist of what's going on and not waste too much time, the previews at the begininning of each episode will speed that up easily. Third season finally got to something interesting at the halfway mark and I feel like caring about it now.
I'm not sure how anyone can follow Durarara's plot at times. I know it has more style than substance but it just has so many of those Tarentino moments of dialogue that doesn't contribute anything. It's just interesting for its own sake. I been watching Durararara x 2 at the start and I didn't get what they were going for until this season. It may be contributed to me watching a lot of anime each season and never rewatching x2 but I've had no trouble with any other anime than this. It feels like I have to go back and take notes of each little detail in an episode and even when I have it all together, I'll get it a little but I still wouldn't be satisfied.