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Mar 23, 2010
Preliminary (11/24 eps)
Well, since there are so many good stuff to say about this anime, I'm not sure where the hell I should start.

The plot is sophisticated and unique, but surprisingly easy to follow. Though I believe the plot progresses a bit too slow than it could have been not. It took a few episodes to clearly set the characters backgrounds and the relationships taken place before the actual Durarara timeline. However, If you haven't watched Baccano, the idea of these two anime is to set the individual stories and motives for each character and later clash them together. So technically, the plot has been developing since episode one, you just don't see the grandness of it till later. Then BAM! When the plot really starts, I didn't even see it coming. Then when I realized that I didn't see it coming, I was high on pure amazement, respect and delight!

Anyway, the characters are indeed very interesting (it might be almost safe to say that every character is insane), not to mention very essential to the light philosophy and plot. It's amazing that even this anime is not set in a fantasy setting, the colorful characters themselves shows the staff's overwhelming powerful engine of imagination at work. I can even say that it's better than the manga! There are lots of LOL moments too, thus no time for yawns.

Only thing I have to complain about is that the very first episode was a rather push-away and non-attention grabbing introduction into the series. I believe this is why the popularity isn't high as it might have been. The director probably wanted to set their popularity based on Baccano! With the ranking on MAL, Durarara!! started as ranked #3xx, then gradually progressed to #48 this week during the first cliffhanger of climax.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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