Durarara Episode 2

Here we go again.  I guess my review is semi-late but that’s cuz of midterms .   I finished this post about 2 days ago.  I tried saving it only to have my laptop freeze.  I finally got over it and finished it.  I am cutting into my sleep time so I’ll have to make this short.  Durarara episode 2 was overall better than the previous, but its plot better get moving or my eyes will close.   Review after the jump:

“Spider-Pig~ Spider-Pig~

doin’ whatever a Spider-Pig does~

This episode cleaned up all the faulty holes/ awesome cliffhanger mysteries (whichever you want to call it) that the first ep had.  Then, it dug some more holes.  We meet everyone -except for that girl scientist- that we didn’t meet  from the first ep in this one.  HOWEVER, I felt like the plot was a standstill.   I can’t possibly see how ever single one of these characters are going to meet each other and work a plot out that can make sense.  This isn’t a novel where there can be multiple focuses and 1000+ pages.  This is a show with say… 25 episodes to build the plot(s) and develop the character(s) so that we can enjoy watching them and start missing them once the series ends.  That’s around 624 minutes.  It just wasted the 1st 2 episodes on a side story about a suicidal girl.  If Durarara had 100+ episodes, I wouldn’t be complaining.  It probably doesn’t though.  Which brings us to the summary.

Brief Summary

I going to make this as simple as possible.  It seems that the informant, the dullahan, and the black market doctor are all up on the same alley.  So now we have the “Undergrounds” aka the three I just mentioned.  The “Quadakus” (Please don’t kill me OEG)  aka Erica, Walker, etc.  The “Schoolers”  aka Anri, Kida, and Mikado.   The “Couple” aka the Drop Out and the Scarred One.  The Russiafrican. The other person we haven’t met.  So in this episode,  we see that the Schoolers have gone into their respective classes.  Miss Suicidal, Anri, and Mikado in one.  Kida in another.  The Drop Out comes to class to obnoxious proclaim that he isn’t coming back.  What a rude bastard.  Unlike Scamp, I don’t have a list of screencaps to reference so please bear with me until I steal his list.

After we see that we get to the main part of the show: Miss Suicidal’s reason.  Her reason to end her existence is that his dad is seeing another woman.  Her mom may not have to talked to him about it after she sends a letter with the photos she mysteriously received.   Her mom acts like she never got it.  Miss Suicidal makes friend with Nakura-san.  Not even caring if he may be a pedo or even a lesbian she, she decides to meet him.  Then she gets kidnapped.  Celty, our nekomimi-necromancer, plays delivery-beast and delivers Miss Suicidal to the real Nakura-san.

Turns out Nakura is a human manipulator and manipulated her into acting in such a way.  He even saw through her and knew she wanted to live.  It’s implied that he isn’t human from his remarks.  After the girl finds out, she wants to actually commit suicide just so that she can go against his will.  Celty saves the day.  Miss Suicidal forgives and forgets the end… or so we think…

Screencaps

So, Celty talks using a PDA/iPhone by typing up what she wants to say on it.

Also, Anri has a teacher molester on her.

Meet Anri, the innocent high school tbr (to be raped)

Thoughts

Gao.  Next time for sure…