The First Season of DURARARA!! English Dub is Now Available Streaming

SANTA MONICA, CA (January 7, 2015) – To celebrate the premiere of DURARARA!! X 2 on January 10th, Aniplex of America, Inc. has announced the entire first series of DURARARA!! will now be available streaming featuring the English Dub. With the English Dub of DURARARA!! originally airing on Cartoon Network's [adult swim] in 2011, this will be a perfect time for viewers to re-live this memorable series featuring an all-star English cast including Kari Wahlgren, Yuri Lowenthal, Steve Blum, Bryce Papenbrook, Johnny Yong Bosch and Crispin Freemen (see credits below). The English Dub of DURARARA!! will be available for fans to stream on Crunchyroll (www.crunchyroll.com) and Hulu (www.hulu.com) starting Saturday, January 10th.

In addition, Aniplex of America also announced that they will launch a contest in partnership with Crunchyroll giving viewers the chance to win the now sold out DURARARA!! Limited Edition Lunch Box Blu-ray set. More details will be announced on Aniplex of America's Facebook page (Facebook.com/AniplexUSA) at a later time. You can get more information on DURARARA!! on the official website at www.durararausa.com.

About DURARARA!!
Ikebukuro, Tokyo takes center stage, where various young people have gathered, each with their own expectations. A high school student who longs for an un-ordinary life, the strongest man in Ikebukuro, an information broker, an underground doctor, a stalker, a “headless” rider, and many others both cause and get caught up in trouble.

This is a story with a tangle of super-extraordinary characters; one where no one can predict what will happen next!

Staff of DURARARA!!
ORIGINAL STORY: Ryohgo Narita “DURARARA!!” (Dengeki Bunko/ASCII MEDIA WORKS)
ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION: Suzuhito Yasuda
DIRECTOR: Takahiro Omori
SERIES COMPOSITION: Noboru Takagi
CHARACTER DESIGN: Takahiro Kishida
ART DIRECTOR: Akira Ito
MUSIC: Makoto Yoshimori
ANIMATION PRODUCTION: Brain's Base

CAST (Japanese/ English)
CELTY: Miyuki Sawashiro / Kari Wahlgren
MIKADO RYUGAMINE: Toshiyuki Toyonaga / Darrel Guilbeau
MASAOMI KIDA: Mamoru Miyano / Bryce Papenbrook
ANRI SONOHARA: Kana Hanazawa / Michelle Ruff
IZAYA ORIHARA: Hiroshi Kamiya / Johnny Yong Bosch
SHIZUO HEIWAJIMA: Daisuke Ono / Crispin Freeman
SHINRA KISHITANI: Jun Fukuyama / Yuri Lowenthal
SIMON: Takaya Kuroda / Patrick Seitz
KYOHEI KADOTA:Yuichi Nakamura / Steve Blum
WALKER YUMASAKI:Yuki Kaji / BrianBeacock
ERIKA KARISAWA:Ayahi Takagaki / Mela Lee
SEIJI YAGIRI:Kazuma Horie / David Earnest
NAMIE YAGIRI:Sanae Kobayashi / Bridget Hoffman

About DURARARA!! X 2
“6 Months Later… We haven't changed at all… or it seems….”

Half a year after the turmoil that rocked the entire city of Ikebukuro— Peace has once again returned to the city and people are living each day normally. The high school students enjoy their days of youth as the strongest and most dangerous man of Ikebukuro works diligently. The informant plots a new scheme and the headless rider is pursued by the cops as she rides through the night…But soon this normal will be cut short by the abnormal. Slowly but surely, the unknown will seize the city and face an all new storm.

About Aniplex of America Inc.
Aniplex of America Inc. (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex Inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), a group of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and a leading provider of anime content and music production and distribution in Japan. Aniplex of America has launched fan-favorite Blu-ray and DVD releases such as Sword Art Online, KILL la KILL, Bakemonogatari, Durarara!!, Fate/zero, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the Garden of sinners, Blue Exorcist, Anohana: The Movie, Silver Spoon, OREIMO 2, Blast of Tempest, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Oreshura, and Vividred Operation. The company's ever-growing line-up of shows includes our most recent titles Sword Art Online II, ALDNOAH.ZERO, Persona 4 the Golden ANIMANTION, MEKAKUCITY ACTORS, The irregular at magic high school, Mushi-Shi Next Passage, Nanana's Buried Treasure, NISEKOI, World Conquest Zvezda Plot, Magi: The Kingdom of Magic, and Samurai Flamenco.

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