This episode is the perfect balance between serious moments that keep you on the edge of your seat and comedy that has you busting a gut. First off, we start the episode with Masaomi. Who’s pretty much checked out of this season.
Cept as Izaya’s goffer.
Drops out of highschool, leaves town and friends behind to get away from everything. Works for the guy who ruined his life in the first place to sustain himself….good job Masaomi. Good job.
I think i’ll cover the serious parts of the episode first, because talking about the comedy might take me forever because I absolutely adore everything about it. So the serious parts of the episode mostly contain themselves around Mikado and Kadota. We first check in on Mikado who is woken up by Aoba much earlier than the time they agreed to meet. He says he has to talk to him about something important, in particular. That important thing being The Dollars.
So Aoba and his group of goons that we saw in a previous episode roundup Mikado and stuff him in the back of a van and drive him off to a warehouse out in the middle of nowhere.
Probably the same one that they were talking in before.
So anyway, he gets dragged there and they pull him out and begin talking to him. Revealing that they’re the ones that attacked the gang from another prefecture. They’re also remnants of the Blue Squares. Remember those guys from season 1? They never really showed up but they were talked about a lot during the conflict with the Yellow Scarves.
So there’s that, when asked why they did it? Aoba gives the most petty answer possible. Because they ruined his day out with Mikado and Anri…..i’m pretty sure he’s just kidding about that but it’s still by far one of the most petty things i’ve ever heard in my life.
So, why drag Mikado out here? Why tell him all of this? Because they want him to be their leader. Not a leader in the Dollars, since it would go against the founding principles…but a leader for the Blue Squares.
On another note of serious things going on, Chikage is doing his normal thing of hitting on the ladies and harassing all the men in the area when he gets a phone call that one of his men has located a member of the Dollars. One with high connections. Who did they track down? Walker.
They tracked down Walker. Who leads them back to Kadota. So Chikage follows him around a bit until they come to a stop in front of an all girls school. It looks as if a fight is about to happen when Kadota gets an E-mail. Chikage tells him to check out out, he’ll wait. So he reads the mail and we see that everyone is getting similar mails about this…Members of the Dollars are getting attacked.
A mass attack has begun, Mikado is in a sticky place and all hell is breaking loose. That’s a summary of the tense things happening this episode, now for the moments that had me clutching my sides from laughter [or, since i’m still slightly sick, hacking up a lung in attempts to laugh.]
A lot of Durarara’s humor stems from the characters relationships. Be it the awkward sexual tension between Mikado and Anri, the lovey-dovey moments between Celty and Shinra or…most importantly and most well known. The moments of absolute hate between Izaya and Shizuo.
So the little girl who tried to kill Shizuo a few episodes back, wakes up from her fevered nap and is brought into the living room by Anri. Shinra begins talking to her, asking her a few questions. Her name? Akane. Her last name? Unsaid. Why she wanted to kill Shizuo? Because he’s a hitman that’s going to kill her.
Wait a second, that doesn’t sound like Shizuo. After digging a little deeper, we found out where she heard such and thing and where she got a modified stun gun to kill him with. If your first guess wasn’t Izaya, you haven’t been watching the same series that I have been watching. So instead of blowing his gasket right then and there…the oddest thing happens.
Shizou breaks out into the brightest smile that you’ve ever seen on his face. He explains to Akane that there has been some kind of mix up and Izaya mistook him for someone else. Actually, him and Izaya are great friends who had a falling out and that he was going to make up with him right away.
pfft…pfft….HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHA. This scene is wonderful, from the inflections of the seiyuu work to the look on Shinra’s face where he didn’t look entirely sure if he knew the person standing there comforting this little girl.
Shizuo leaves Shinra’s apartment with Tom and tells Tom that if he’s arrested for murder. To tell the president that he was fired the day before, so he wouldn’t get the company in trouble.
So he goes over to Izaya’s house and pounds on the door bell so hard that the doorbell breaks and the splinters of plastic cut his finger. He walks off after accepting that nobody was coming and that the ‘moving notice’ on the door was legit. Namine doesn’t seem to think that Shizuo is too smart for falling for such an obvious ploy. [BUT NOBODY CARES WHAT SHE THINKS.]
So he runs into Ikebukuro, screaming that he told Izaya never to come back. He slams the doorbell again and then opens up the door and walks in and stumbles upon a murder scene. Where a bunch of thugs have been messed up, via very much Shizuo’s style and then a guy stumbles in and sees him. He escapes out the window but not without being seen.
This isn’t going to have any negative repercussions at all. Also, how many times is this that Izaya has framed Shizuo for murder now? Second? Third? Also, sexy scene of Izaya being sexy.
[-has things thrown at me- owie T__T]
The comedy made this episode but the serious stuff was great too, now excuse me while I remember how to breathe.
~Midnight