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 :(.

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 :)

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

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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. :)

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!)

especially when she defied pompous ass’ expectations by plunging off the building.

My interpretation was that his goal for the entire thing was to try and get her to jump off the building. The reason I think this is because of the Dullahan’s final question to him “Were you responsible for the other suicides there as well”? It is an implication of someone who just likes having the power to control people to that extent.

As for why nothing happened with the family, I thought the narrator provided another good option. I believe she said someone like the parents could have already resolved it when Rio wasn’t around. Rio’s mother didn’t know the pictures were sent to her by Rio, so it almost makes sense for her mother to think this was her and Rio’s father’s problem. Thus they could have both decided not to show their marital problems in front of Rio. Sadly, this is ultimately what pushed Rio into a feeling of isolation, other than pompous ass’s communications.

There was actually one piece of pompous asses logic I didn’t agree with, with respect to her character. I can’t remember what it was now though… :P.