Durarara!! (light novel)
| Durarara.........What a strange name, don't you think. I dont get this tittle what so ever, maybe having such a strange was used to draw in peoples curiosity. Or maybe its an inside joke that the writer thought would be funny. Does anyone know the reason for such a name |
| Me neither, but it sounds cool (like Baccano!) - I think if you say it out loud, you sound a bit slow in the head though. |
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| The author has stated means nothing |
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| I still dont get why Bleach is called as such, they are never seen doing any laundry. Maybe it's how someone laughs |
| From what I've heard, that's the sound a motorcycle makes in Japanese (the A's are silent, so it's pronounced "Drrr!!") and the title refers to Celty's horse-bike. |
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| I really just think they could have come up with something better. I don't know what, but maybe something that made a little more sense |
| "Durarara!! (デュラララ!!?) which the author has stated means nothing" "Although people commonly claim that the name "Durarara" is an onomatopoeia for the "revving of an engine," the author, Ryohgo Narita, states specifically in the first volume of the light novel that the title means absolutely nothing. He had been finishing the edited draft of his book, when his editor called. When prompted for a title, Narita "...just randomly gave a name, 'Du...Durarara?'" Upon hearing this response, his editor responded saying, "Not bad. I kind of like ambiguous titles." Or so says Wikipedia, I have no reason to doubt the information but it also wouldn't be wrong to deny it if you feel that this article was fake. Also the title is in katakana for Du - Ra - Ra - Ra and since they have no way of going drrr in their language I doubt that it was intended to be read this way. |
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DeathByHeat said: You're clearly missing the point of titles.I really just think they could have come up with something better. I don't know what, but maybe something that made a little more sense |
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Negative-Travis said: DeathByHeat said: You're clearly missing the point of titles.I really just think they could have come up with something better. I don't know what, but maybe something that made a little more sense What is the point, then?? |
DeathByHeat said: Negative-Travis said: DeathByHeat said: You're clearly missing the point of titles.I really just think they could have come up with something better. I don't know what, but maybe something that made a little more sense What is the point, then?? For the title to be ambiguous maybe? -_- read what I posted earlier, this question honestly already has an answer... |
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DeathByHeat said: I really just think they could have come up with something better. I don't know what, but maybe something that made a little more sense You must not have seen much anime if you think titles make sense more than 10% of the time. |
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| Because "Dura" and "Dollars" sound similar, I always thought that the title Durarara was just a play on the name of the gang. Guess I'm wrong. |
| I'm not sure if anyone noticed this but as far as I know, no one has said anything about this. In one of the Durarara episodes (about the time when Izaya finds out that Mikado is the leader of the Dollars) someone asks "Why call it The Dollars?". Izaya answered something about rich gangsters being lazy and saying "Dollar dollar" (pronounced "Durra Durra" by Japanese people). IMO that is where the name came from. Durra Durra -> Durarara |
Toph_bei_fong said: I still dont get why Bleach is called as such, they are never seen doing any laundry. Maybe it's how someone laughs Detergent, the sequel to bleach |
TheXchidori said: [...] "Dollar dollar" (pronounced "Durra Durra" by Japanese people). IMO that is where the name came from. Durra Durra -> Durarara "Dollar" is actually pronounced "Doh-ru" rather than "durra". |
| My theory is that it's because of the whole Dollar thing. In Episode 12 of the first season Izaya says that the Dollars name came from the fact that "they do nothing, like, 'dara dara'" (quote, unquote). I dunno if this is the case but daradara sounds like durarara to me and that's my theory. |
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| It's the sound a motorcycle makes to the Japanese. Like the Vroom Vroom!!! to America, but the Durarara!!! to Japan. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: DeathByHeat said: I really just think they could have come up with something better. I don't know what, but maybe something that made a little more sense You must not have seen much anime if you think titles make sense more than 10% of the time. Tell me about it. Boku no Pico definitely didn't have anything to do with Pico de Gallo. What an experience that was. |
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DeathByHeat said: Durarara.........What a strange name, don't you think. I dont get this tittle what so ever, maybe having such a strange was used to draw in peoples curiosity. Or maybe its an inside joke that the writer thought would be funny. Does anyone know the reason for such a name I'm pretty sure Durarara!! is the sound effect of Celty's bike. On most of the openings the logo appears when she drives on the screen anyways. |
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| tbh Who the hell cares? Not every anime/manga title has to mean anything |
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Pirating_Ninja said: and since they have no way of going drrr in their language I doubt that it was intended to be read this way. What a missed oppurunity, the English Dub could have been called VRRROOOOM or potato-potato-potato |
| Dullahan... Durahan?Durararan?? |
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