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EP. REVIEW: Durarara!!×2

I agree with the disappointment with the renewal of the threat to the Dollars. With all due respect to justsomeaccount, I don't find his contention that "things are different" this time to be persuasive in the least. New day, new gang threat, same old crap.

Also if you think that Celty getting beheaded to was to induce fear about her safety into audience rather surprise that she was attacked out of blue like that you, then that scene flew over your head.

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I agree with the disappointment with the renewal of the threat to the Dollars. With all due respect to justsomeaccount, I don't find his contention that "things are different" this time to be persuasive in the least. New day, new gang threat, same old crap.

Really now? So where in S1 did the Dollars ever attack anyone? Because sounds like they are the threat this time. So no it's completely different, just there is conflict between two groups does not make a rehash. By that logic all wars in through history is the same because most of them involved people fighting. Yes just ignore the participants, motives, time and rest of those essential elements.

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Oh and wasn't the big realization at the end of the first season that Mikado, Anri and Masaomi made things worse by not talking to each other? They didn't want to worry their friends so they kept their secrets inside, blah-blah-blah. So what does Mikado do in the last eppie? Decides not to tell Anri whats going on so as "not to worry" her. Whee, I just love characters who learn from their mistakes.

...Except know little fact this has nothing to do Anri? What could even if he told her? Nevermind that herself has yet tell him about Saika. But silly me, you think it's the same as last time so talking to Anri somehow magically end things. Yep.

First, we don't know the Dollars have attacked anyone. They were accused of that the first time around, too, and it turned out to be bullshit, remember? But even if it is true this time, how does that make this conflict "completely different?" We're still dealing with a dynamic where Mikado, as the leader of the Dollars, has to try and stop a gang war. It's as if we were watching a show about a teacher and one of his arcs was about helping a female student who has an unplanned pregnancy and then his next arc he's helping a male student who has unexpectedly become a father. Sure, the details are different but the topic is still teen pregnancy.

Well, setting aside your lame snotty attitude that shows me your emotional attachment to the show overwhelms whatever analytical ability you might have, you seem to be missing my point. When we tell our best friends things that are troubling us, we don't know if they'll be able to help us or not (other than offering moral support). That doesn't matter. The lesson is it is better not to keep your problems bottled up inside - and who knows, maybe your friends actually will be able to help in a tangible way. So as you point out, Anri hasn't confided in Mikado yet, he continues not to confide in her and Masaomi is off in hiding somewhere. Sounds a lot like none of them learned the lesson about reaching out to friends to me.

Uups, too soon to post this.

I can watch this show with this more calmed down pacing but it's clear it has production issues. The pacing still can be a little hooky (they didn't even cut to black at the end of the episode of how compressed it was), the animation was reaaaally low this time (I guess they are distributing the budget and time for all the three seasons but wow was low here), there is a lot of talking heads andthe overall narrations of each episode in this season feels less natural and more forced, and I wonder if it is because it's like this in the novel, or it's because they wanted to keep the style of the first season but here it doesn't fit very well.

I honestly have no idea why Vorona would be after Anri, and I fully admit it might just be something I missed.

Why did it seem like Egor was meeting Simon and Dennis for the first time despite him going to Russia Sushi to get bandaged? I realize Egor didn't go there under his own power the first time, but walking up to Simon, whom he'd met before, and asking if he was at Russia Sushi was very awkward.

Lots of assassins running around. 3 Russian assassins and a loli wanabe assassin.

So Mikado is going to make the same mistake that Masaomi did in the first season and trust Izaya? Are we still doing the whole people not communicating bit? Cause I've seen it enough times in manga that its already a little old.

The bit about why the Russians sound like they're speaking English or Japanese felt like something out of Hellsing.