Comments on: This is Anime (Durarara So Far)

By: The Action (2010 Anime Cool Down) | Yin no Piano

The Action (2010 Anime Cool Down) | Yin no Piano — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:13:44 +0000

[...] to complain about its untapped potential I would have to start complaining from episode three on (episode 2 promised so much [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:41:20 +0000

and have to come here and read you talk about it instead

I’m glad my blog could be of some service. I ended up thinking about this episode a lot so I wanted to be able to present something really beautiful to truly appreciate the work put into this episode. That was my main complaint with my write up :(.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:05:52 +0000

I know it was an amazing episode because I was so engrossed in the story itself that I just about completely neglected to deliberate on the meta aspects of the storytelling (and have to come here and read you talk about it instead :P ).

Great post, and even if you say that you haven’t done the episode justice, that’s already a lot that you pointed out there that’s really worth appreciating :)

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:49:00 +0000

Your syllables! They mean nothing to me! I only remember that you chuck vending machines!)

:twisted:

I can definitely understand where you’re coming from. I had to look up Rio’s name on another blog and refer to most of the characters by a major character design point. Like our Dullahan or Pompous Ass. I hope that at some point I’ll learn their names, but these first two episodes certainly haven’t inspired it yet. I guess that’s a big problem with huge casts (though I don’t remember having this much trouble with Code Geass, but hey those names were ridiculous too).

It almost adds to the tension though, only being able to recognize a character at face value. For some reason I think that adds to their type of storytelling. They start as a confusing jumble and slowly start to develop into individuals. Is it any wonder I know Rio’s name and call our Dullahan, Dullahan. I actually think it could be cool.

This has been your obligatory fan-flailing of the post.

:???: I should have known when I wrote that, that this would be the post you read. Still I meant what I said. It’s not that I didn’t like DTB 2, it’s just that I wanted more than it provided and here’s an anime that’s giving me those pieces I was missing. :)

By: Passerby

Passerby — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:08:21 +0000

I liked DtB2.

This has been your obligatory fan-flailing of the post.

(I also like Durarara (Dullalala? Dullarara?) so far and would totally get into it if not for one hindrance: I can’t remember names to save my life. At least in Baccano! the names of their large cast were all absurd which made things easier, but now it’s just one vague jumble of Japanese after another. Your syllables! They mean nothing to me! I only remember that you chuck vending machines!)