Durarara!!

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Synonyms: DRRR!!

Japanese: デュラララ!!

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Type: Light Novel

Volumes: 13

Chapters: 89

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 10, 2004 to Jan 10, 2014

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Supernatural

Serialization: None

Authors: Narita, Ryohgo (Story), Yasuda, Suzuhito (Art)

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Score: 8.34¹ (scored by 5,944 users)

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Ranked: #261²

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Popularity: #628

Members: 26,083

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Ranked #261Popularity #628Members 26,083

Light NovelNarita, Ryohgo (Story), Yasuda, Suzuhito (Art)

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Mikado Ryuugamine is a young boy who craves the abnormal and supernatural, but his quiet life in the countryside offers no opportunity for adventure. With some encouragement from a childhood friend, Mikado moves to Ikebukuro, a lively downtown district in Tokyo. However, the naïve boy may be in for a lot more than he bargained for.

Ikebukuro is home to a host of strange individuals, such as a monster of a man dressed in a bartender's outfit, a sadist who sells information for fun, and an underground doctor with an odd infatuation. But the most unusual of them all is the legendary "Black Rider," a headless being who silently rides through the night on a pitch-black motorcycle. When Mikado witnesses this urban legend on his first night in the city, his initial excitement triggers a thrilling but deadly sequence of events, affecting numerous others throughout the city.

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Durarara!! has been published in English by Yen Press under the Yen On imprint since July 21, 2015 and in Polish by Kotori since April 8, 2016.

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Sequel:	Durarara!! SH, Etsusa Oohashi Series
Alternative version:	Durarara!!, Durarara!! Saika-hen, Durarara!! Kokinzoku-hen, Durarara!! RE;Dollars-hen
Alternative setting:	Baccano!
Spin-off:	Durarara!!: 3 Way Standoff - Alley, Durarara!! Relay, Minidura, Orihara Izaya to Series
Other:	Durarara!! Comic Anthology: Duralove!!
Side story:	Durarara!! Gaiden!?, Durarara!! Minna wa Nakayoshi, Durarara!! 18 Shiryaku
Adaptation:	Durarara!!x2 Shou, Durarara!!x2 Ketsu, Durarara!!x2 Ten, Durarara!!x2 Ten: Onoroke Chakapoko, Durarara!!
Character:	Durarara!! x Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

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Orihara, Izaya

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Heiwajima, Shizuo

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Sturluson, Celty

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Kida, Masaomi

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Kishitani, Shinra

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Ryuugamine, Mikado

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Sonohara, Anri

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Kadota, Kyouhei

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Brezhnev, Semyon

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Karisawa, Erika

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Oct 4, 2014

ClownOnACloud

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Well I happened to notice that nobody had bothered to write a review for the Durarara!! (the exclamation marks are very important) light novels before now, which I found quite surprising given the popularity of the anime adaptation, but anyhow I’ve taken it upon myself and I apologise in advance for the lousy job that I do but still nevertheless this will end up as the most helpful review, well for the time being at least.

First things first, I think that I ought to talk about the anime just a little bit. One of the major problems that people have with the anime, are in ...

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Apr 25, 2020

Vaibhav81

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If you have been an anime fan for a considerable amount of time then you would have definitely heard about Durarara!! Given such popularity, I am surprised that only a handful people have actually read the source material! I first experienced Durarara!! through these novels and I was hooked from the prologue of the 1st volume.

But what is Durarara!! even about? Ryohgo Narita has successfully managed to craft a convoluted story with a vast cast who are connected to one another in one way or another and any character's actions can have a large effect on all of the other cast in a way you ...

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Jul 11, 2022

abystoma2

Mixed Feelings

Writing a story with huge cast of characters is hard. To succeed, you have to write characters that are interesting, that stand out, that the reader will actually care about and, very importantly, that the reader will remember who they are.

Durarara has some problems. Will, it works for the first few volumes, but later becomes too tangled for its own good. Sure, entangled lives of the city dwellers is the idea, but concept is one thing, its execution is another one. Most of the cast feels like one-off characters, even if they have multiple appearances. They don’t have personalities, they have quirks. And even those ... are easily forgettable. If I’m being honest, the only ones that actually stand out from the crowd of these backgroundish characters were Shizuo, Izaya and Celty. Which for me meant that if a scene didn’t have at least one of those, my interest dipped instantly. I imagine this kinda ruined the whole final arc of the novels where my issue was not remembering much about most of the characters present. And while my memory might not be the best, I’m still blaming the author for that.

This certainly isn’t helped by how the refuses to focus on anything. It jumps from story to story, from character to character, and with each jump it makes me care less about the whole thing. Now, this isn’t to say that multi-thread plot with huge cast of characters can never work. We have To Aru Majutsu no Index. We have Baccano from the same damn author as Durarara. And from outside of light novels, we have fucking Pulp Fiction. To compare Durarara with the novels, Durarara’s problem is that it doesn’t have any focus point. With Index, the focus is the protagonist – he might not have a big role in every arc, but he’s always somehow related to what is happening, willingly or not. With Baccano, the focus is on the story, as despite being told across times and characters, the novel actually builds one large storyline and every arc progresses this storyline, even if it’s chronologically set sooner than the previous arcs.

Durarara lacks any focus like this. It’s lacklustre, with no central character and no overarching story. It feels more made up on the spot without much planning. The pacing suffers thanks to this as lot of the volumes feel just like a filler. Sure, writing some side stories to further the feeling of hustling and bustling city is good, but too often I felt what should have been a short story of chapter or two got stretched into a whole volume. Durarara is unfortunately another light novel that could have benefitted from cutting down the volume count and condensing its story more, and I feel at times writing another volume was more important goal than having something interesting to fill that volume with.

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