A side note before I get into the actual review. I on the other hand from Savage found Izaya’s speech to be quite interesting and not about ‘nothing’ at all. I’d also like ask one thing very important….WHY DO THEY LET NAMINE NARRATE EPISODES? WE GET IT, YOU WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOUR BROTHER YOU TOTAL CREEPER. GO DIE IN A FIRE YOU DEMENTED BITCH. And thus my brief thoughts on episode 5, now onto episode 6.
Never a dull moment in this series so let’s kick up and talk about the contents of this episode. We learn the story behind a few things mentioned in the previous episode, like Celty’s mission and what it has to do with the little girl who tried to kill Shizuo.
She’s apparently the Granddaughter of a Japanese mob boss, not just any Japanese mob boss though. The granddaughter of the mob boss of the mob that Celty and Izaya and various other people in this series work with. Celty’s job? Find her and be her bodyguard.
Of course, things can never be that simple and the girl that ‘chopped off’ Celty’s head at the end of the last episode was hired to kidnap the little brat and while not HIRED to kill Celty, wanted to do it because….why not right? I mean, you hire two homicidal maniacs to do a kidnapping and they just have to kill someone right? I don’t believe they mentioned Vorona’s partners name but he’s really interesting. He has questions and seems to go a little unhinged if they aren’t answered properly. Good thing he has Vorona around to answer these things for him. You know, important questions like how Cows get fat by only eating grass or why men have nipples when they aren’t needed or most important of all. Why IS thirteen an unlucky number?
All of those important questions aside, let’s speak of the person who hired them, the guy who used to run the company that Ruri worked for. He’s supposed to have gone missing or something right? Why’s he hiding? What does a guy from a talent agency have to do with the mob? Why does he want this little girl kidnapped?
Meanwhile, Tom and Shizuo bring the little girl over to Shinra’s place, strike one, Shinra comes to the door expecting Celty all excited and when he sees that it’s Shizuo…he goes to slam the door in his face. That takes a pair right there. Friends with Shizuo or not that’s just something I would never do and on top of that Shinra keeps pushing Shizuo’s buttons asking about why they kidnapped her. Seriously, you’d think being friends with Shizuo from the time they were kids he’d know not to press his buttons quite so much. It’s a wonder to me how Shinra has survived this long without getting his ass kicked.
They tell Shinra the story of what happened, he goes to check up on the little one and finds that she’s running a rather high fever. So he rushes to take care of her. Now if this was any other anime, these things would of been all that happened, BUT THIS IS DURARARA. It’s too extreme to only have two plot lines going at once.
So let’s skip over to Mikado and Anri, where Aoba corners them about giving him a proper tour of the town this time. Remembering the warning from Masaomi, Mikado tries to turn him down so he can stay home and safe over the long weekend. However, as Aoba talks Anri into going with him. Getting slowly, less and less formal with her. Playing to Mikado’s jealousy, he totally manipulates Mikado into going with them too.
Um Mikado, we have a term for moments like that and here it is. “You were played like a fiddle boy.” everything Aoba said from the moment Mikado turned him down was carefully calculated to appeal to Mikado’s sense of jealousy.
So after being played like a fiddle, Mikado heads home and gets onto the chat room. Nobody is on except Izaya’s sisters, they talk about the Dollars and the rumors of them attacking people in other prefectures. Even mentioning where the info could be found. Mikado signs out of the chat room and goes to look it up when his phone goes off and we hear a very familiar voice from the other end of the phone.
Yes, it’s Kanra-san or for those of us in the know. [Everyone who watched season 1.] It’s Izaya. Who asks Mikado what he plans to do about this, there is no rule in the Dollars against doing this. In fact, the whole idea of the Dollars is that there aren’t any rules and that anyone can join. There isn’t honestly much he can do, even as the person who started it.
With Anri, we see her getting ready to go to bed when we notice that something is bothering her. She heads out to her front door and checks through the peep hole. She doesn’t see anything and opens the door, with the chain still on…when a pair of pliers come in and cut the chain on the door and lead us to the end of the episode with no idea what’s about to happen to her.
Next episode, a lot of stuff about the Russian mob. Because this writer really likes the mob for some reason…I guess every writer has their thing. Kohta Hirano likes Nazi’s, Ryōgo Narita likes the mob. -shrugs-
~Midnight
Going from trying to kill Celty by cutting off her head to trying to attack Anri… you can tell these folks are new in Ikebukuro.
Vorona’s partner was named when they were seen talking to each other. His name is Sloan which is close to and could be translated as the Russian word Slon which means Elephant, like Vorona’s name is Russian for Crow.