Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Dompa112
The first season was an 8. Really enjoyed it. But the three following seasons ive gone down a point to 7. So it was still enjoyable. But still lacking compared to the first imo. So what happened? Well to me it just got bloated. There was to much of everything in the end. The first season hit the spot. The following crossed the line. To many characters. To many stories. It got hard to keep track of and lost its focus.
I still enjoyed Durara to its end. Its a show i recommend. But it lost steam after season one and dragged on for a bit.
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Just finished the series and holy smokes was it a ride.
I was intrigued by the very first few episodes and this quickly became a series I was obsessed with. When I went to Japan I also made a point to quickly visit Ikebukuro to take a few pictures where the series took place.
I haven't written many reviews but this series definetly deserves one.
The first thing I want to touch on is rhe characters. Holy smokes are the characters good. That there is no main character might be the reason this series is so good and every episode feels intriguing. Well written, there's some genuine development and overall a great cast of characters. One of the main aspects in the stroy we follow is to get it from everyones different perspective which adds so much depth to the narrative. One thing though is…
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This review only tells about the last season of Durarara and not the entire story of the show,for this last season im gonna go give it a (8,41) ratings.
The majority of the stories focus on how they will end the stories that have been built for 4 seasons while introducing several important characters who do play a role in the ending. Overall the development of the story towards the end is really built and executed well, although it's a shame the ending of the story seems ordinary and cliché. It seems that the adage that the process is more beautiful than the end of the story also applies to this anime. In characterization, all the characters play their roles well in the story. It's really interesting to wait for the fate of a character in this story because basically this anime really sho…
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I am writing this as someone who was incredibly into the first few seasons of this show. I watched all the extras, loved the characters, would rewatch the openings for fun, etc.
Now I will also preface this review by explaining who I am as an anime watcher. I, like many of you, am a binger. I binge shows super quickly, especially if I am into them. However, to start my review of durarara: this show took me INCREDIBLY long to finish. I would NOT recommend this show to anyone who likes to binge.
Even the first few seasons took me weeks on weeks to finish. The final season: months. It literally took me longer than all of Naruto. Maybe two times as long.
This is for a few reasons. The first is that this show has very individualized episodes with very little running plot. Sure, there is a…
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Durarara!! has been the best anime i have ever watch so far, in terms of storyline. i've never seen anything like this before. they're ideas of telling the stories is so cool . I admit it, it's need a little bit struggle to understand the plot, but when you're watching the whole season you'll understand what the anime wants you to know and this anime is aired 10 years ago. I wish i could knew about this anime sooner. I think Durarara!! Ketsu is a good conclusion of this anime.
I enjoy the story, i love the charachter, especially Orihara Izaya. He's not like a typicall villain i know. He's a bit remind me of Joker in the dark knight. the diffrence is Izaya created chaos with such a calculated prediction on human psychologycal and created situation to see how they reeact to that situation…
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I don't even have an introductory sentence; let's just get going with this final review of Durarara!!
So, now that all the pieces have come together in this final season, did Durarara!! become something extraordinary? Unfortunately, I don't think so. Going in with the positives first, this season did an exceptional job utilizing the cast of characters it had. Although I can't say this anime is something I fell in love with, there were a handful of characters that made it redeemable for me, and that's got everything to do with the wonderful writing they got. Celty, Shinra, and Shizuo, specifically, were characters that kept me interested from beginning to end throughout this whole series.
As far as the story goes, I thought the directions all the characters took were extremely interesting…
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DRRR!! was such a journey and this review will take into consideration all the seasons since they are strongly connected. I started this anime with no expectations, I saw it had a pretty decent rating and I thought I should give it a go even though the genres didn't appeal to me so much. The first season was ok, I liked the first half, but the second one just seemed a bit boring since at that time I didn't really understand where they were trying to go with this. So after I finished the first season I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch the other ones, since I was afraid the story would continue to leave me bored and unsatisfied. However I still had this curiosity about how the story will conclude for some characters ( as in will Celty get her head back, what's gonna happen with Izaya and Shi…
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I honestly feel like this series has nothing new to offer there are hardly any new mysteries to be found since all the "dirty little secrets" are now known by, well pretty much everyone. Before I continue the funny thing is that one of Mikados final lines perfectly and I do mean perfectly sums up Ketsu "why did I do this was it all for nothing?" The answer is yes, it was all for nothing as expected all the tension deflated to begin anew. We'll all just forget what happened and go about our day to day lives.
A serious point that I think should be addressed is the fact that the mystery element is still prominent however, it is completely railed on in my opinion there is going to be less and less to offer after a while what I mean by this is the characters know everything even Celty. She got…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Durarara!!x2 Ketsu is like this grilled-cheese-and-honey-mustard sandwich I ate the other day.
Could’ve been appetizing – but ultimately wasn’t.
STORY
Ketsu marks the end of the Durarara anime series. That means it has a lot to do. It needs to tie up plotlines, resolve character arcs, and provide a satisfactory ending. After all, the series spans sixty episodes (plus a special or OVA here and there). Did it do that? No, not really.
Ketsu centers three central happenings: Kadota’s removal, Saika’s hypnosis, and Celty’s lost (now found) head. All three intertwine to create the overarching issue that plagues the city – unbridled chaos – as well as the myriad of smaller plotlines happening simultaneously – Ryuugami…
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I loved the way this show was portrayed. Something about the whole time-leaping and character-leaping factors made the show a lot more interesting to watch.
I loved how the show would give you half of what was going on in the story, and as you progressed through the show, the pieces of the puzzle would finally come together.
The character development was insanely good, especially for the minor characters. If the names "Shizuo Heiwajima" or "Rrui Hijiribe" were mentioned, I knew exactly who the characters were. If you're not good with remembering names of anime characters and you can't remember who is who at first, don't worry. You'll get it sooner or later.
There wasn't a dull moment in this show. I especially loved the genre variety. One moment there would be a fight going on, the n…
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Sometimes a series ending is so messy that it calls into question the very quality of a show which a viewer once instinctively praised. Such is the case with Durarara. I recall watching the first season and feeling glued to the TV. "Who are these fascinating characters?" I asked myself. "What are they going to do next?" I was caught up in the suspense and the strong charisma of most characters; I dismissed the headache the show gave me as complexity which would soon pay off.
The problem is, Ketsu shows that it didn't pay off. For all the countless crazy plotlines and character arcs that we had introduced, there is little overlap between any of them, and nothing even close to a cohesive glue holding it all together, other than the show's verbalized claims about the nature of abnormality ve…
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x2 Ketsu, the third and final season of Durarara! We're finally at the conclusion, it hasn't been the longest ride, but with so many characters with stories all intertwining together, it feels a lot longer than it is. I'm sad it's coming to an end, but glad, because it all built up to the ending it deserves.
I've said this in the other reviews, but the portrayal of Celty and Shinra's relationship is one of my favourites. Since she's so different, but yet there's no barrier with them.
Mikado isn't in the best place, Masaomi wants to save him and Anri doesn't know what's going on between the two of them, but starts to learn more about Saika.
Things start to get serious pretty fast, most of the important people are hulled up in Shinra and Celty's apartment. New characters come in again to…
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i want to start off by saying the intro video to this season was my favorite of any of them. Its the first one that i watched every episode.
As to the actual anime this chapter was definitely the best of the 3 chapters of x2. The main storylines that i was interested in got wrapped up nicely and the ending was pretty dramatic! However, i still feel like there was way too much going on. Some of the more minor storylines didn't get a conclusion at all and in effect ended up being totally pointless. There are WAY too many characters, most of which didn't really have an impact on anything, and some of them i still can;t explain how they ended up where they did. So like i've said on all the other reviews if you haven't watched the previous parts of durarara your going to want to rewatch them or…
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[Adapted From Original Blog Post]
[Mini Review]
Durarara always had to begin and end with Mikado Ryūgamine. His search for the extraordinary has been the main thematic pin holding the story of Durarara together since day 1, especially in !!x2, which has made his slow descent into darkness front and center, and Ketsu now has the responsibility to wrap up an epic character arc that has spanned over 60 episodes, along with whatever left over plot-threads have yet to be resolved. I didn't like Ten that much since its sloppy work basically is the reason why Ketsu won't be getting a higher score at the end of this review, but what it did do was let the cream of Durarara's story rise slowly to the top. Put simply, Ketsu is the best Durarara has ever been; a fascinating correlation of the show's…
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Hey folks, this will be a review for Durarara!!x2 Ketsu. Seemingly, and hopefully, this will be the last time I need review Durarara. This season finishes in a big bang, or at least that what they try to make it seem like.
The story is roughly the same as last seasons. We continue with the few themes we have. The gang's butting heads with Mikado and Masaomi at their respective heads. The end of the Dollars, through the purge. The finishing act with Celty, her heads, and her relationship with Shinra. Finally we have a showdown between Izaya, and Shizou. This season sure was action packed, and because of that I can appreciate it. However it feels a bit too late, a bit non nonsensical, and slightly disappointing. The end though leaving no real cliff hangers, still leaves hardly anything set…
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After six years & sixty episodes (not including specials), Ketsu sees Narita Ryohgo's Durarara (DRRR) adaptation finally come to an end. Director Takahiro Omori's apparently masochistic determination to finish the job with DRRR like he couldn't with Baccano has disappointed many, with interest in DRRR having been deeply eroded by the passage of time & the production & story problems that have dogged X2 from the start. But whether or not there are many people left who wanted it, we finally got an ending: one that we could only hope was better than the wet fart the first series ended on so long ago.
As has become expected of DRRR, Ketsu opens by once again dumping a heap of plot points & characters into the first episode & gradually unravelling how they all interact with each other. This ha…
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To begin off, I'd like to point out one thing:
Seeing Shizuo ride a bike going over 60 mph in episode 5 made the rest worth it.
Although the story was a bit of a turn off because it involved a lot of miscommunication, it really portrayed what lengths people will go to if they truly believe in something, whether it be for good or for harm. I very much recommend this series as something to learn from, because it definitely shows that clear communication of feelings and a sharp understanding of a situation are the most important aspects of today's society.
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I just want to say, early 2016 is a year of DRRR's rising when many MAL users have been focusing on a certain time leaping anime, most of them forget this.
Durarara!!x2 Ketsu is the 3rd and final sequel of Durarara!!! (DRRR shortly) after DRRRx2 shou and ten. Imagine that DRRR was a Phoenix, DRRR reaches it's peak when around 2010, since many newcomers come one after another, DRRR was slowly buried.
At least in 2015 DRRR have it's sequel twice so she slowly rise from the ashes. But the problem is, DRRR rise too slowly and come back to live with more wings than before. Many people confused how much wing DRRR's have in their previous live? Some of them just enjoy the new wing and continue to watch, but some of them are looking to the old wing that they loved before and can't find it.
Thi…
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Durarara!!x2 Ketsu, which I will shorten to DRRR Ketsu, for laziness reasons, was just a bundle of crazy, all over the wall fun. If you have seen Baccano, then would know the same writer of this series Ryogo Narita loves his stories with, no main characters, no real plot, and no real ending; but with that being said we still have major and minor characters, a story that makes senses, and a ending that resolves the book left open.
i found that the story effectively intertwined the characters in Celty's literal and figurative spider web, most of the characters were either connected directly to Celty or influenced by Celty's unnatural presence, which I found to be very cool. However there are so many motivation and plots they are really easy to lose if you don't pay attention, so you have to…
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I'll never understand what it is about Durarara that still has people showering praise on it to this very day, because quite frankly it's gotten so bad that the first season itself has been retroactively tainted. The characters are not the least bit fun or interesting, and there are too many of them to the point that I can't tell who's the glue that's supposed to be holding everything together. The plot moves incredibly slowly, often trying to put in so many plot lines in a single episode at once to the point that it gets in the way of the action and the characterization. Japan doesn't really acknowledge the show's existence anymore despite it being so popular back in the day, not helped by the shitty animation. And the story itself is dull as sin, with its commentary on social media being…
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