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Durarara!!

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A quick search found another topic for this show... made in 2006, last posted in in 2011. Hayate, feel free to merge them as you see fit, but I feel 10 years is a bit much, even for this subforum.

Anyway. Currently in season.. 4? The naming and sequencing seems a little unusual, but not nearly as much as the show itself. It's quite unpredictable, with so much happening behind the scenes that literally anyone could show up, and do anything, and it wouldn't stand out anymore. The Dullahan had her head stolen and rides a horse shape-shifted into a motorcycle, and is dating the primary doctor for the mob, whose father cut off her head, in an attempt to sell it to a pharmaceutical corporation, whose primary go-getter controls a demon blade, which infected the father of a young girl who is now also possessed, but is friends with the two leaders of the city's largest gangs all while in high school. Meanwhile, the mob is chasing after... something, while Russians hunt for the information broker that started a gang war, and they do so from a sushi restaurant.

Plot summary: It's complicated, to the level of "laugh because what the absolute [censored] just happened", and I'm friggin' confused. I mean, everything that happens makes sense with the characters being the way they are, and once you know what happened before what you see, it's all logical. It's just nuts. Early in the first season, a narrator mentioned that everything, and I mean everything, was connected, and nothing was coincidence. The plotlines don't even converge, really. They all just.. cross each other. All over the place.
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That's the problem. Each one makes sense. The thing isn't that the plotlines themselves don't make sense, it's that they keep crossing in the most messed up ways, at the most inopportune times, to the point of "info broker uses a mob boss's runaway child daughter to taser a near invincible guy, at a point where he's working through personal matters pertaining to the demon-blade-possessed people the headless dullahan gave him shadow gloves to fight".

They all make plenty of sense, on their own. But make each line cross, and you get a damned spiderweb of kerfufflege, that had me asking "Excuse me, what the [censored] just happened?!" at the end of more than half the scenes.

"Sure, I'd love to help."
*Motorcycle falls from the sky, smashes on the sidewalk*
*guy dressed like a bartender picks up and throws a car*
*motorcycle made of shadows drives on the side of a building*
"Huh. I wonder what's going on. Oh, that's right, I need bread."

Like, THIS could have happened, and it wouldn't have seemed out of place. Oh, but this actually did.

"I know you just got your memories back, but let me cut off your head with this demon sword that's possessing me, because your body is in love with me and I'm selfish like that."


Fair warning, the show is a bit long, and hardly anything gets properly resolved until, like, the last episode.
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Bellhead wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:21 am That's the problem. Each one makes sense. The thing isn't that the plotlines themselves don't make sense, it's that they keep crossing in the most messed up ways, at the most inopportune times, to the point of "info broker uses a mob boss's runaway child daughter to taser a near invincible guy, at a point where he's working through personal matters pertaining to the demon-blade-possessed people the headless dullahan gave him shadow gloves to fight".

They all make plenty of sense, on their own. But make each line cross, and you get a damned spiderweb of kerfufflege, that had me asking "Excuse me, what the [censored] just happened?!" at the end of more than half the scenes.

"Sure, I'd love to help."
*Motorcycle falls from the sky, smashes on the sidewalk*
*guy dressed like a bartender picks up and throws a car*
*motorcycle made of shadows drives on the side of a building*
"Huh. I wonder what's going on. Oh, that's right, I need bread."

Like, THIS could have happened, and it wouldn't have seemed out of place. Oh, but this actually did.

"I know you just got your memories back, but let me cut off your head with this demon sword that's possessing me, because your body is in love with me and I'm selfish like that."


Fair warning, the show is a bit long, and hardly anything gets properly resolved until, like, the last episode.
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