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44. Durarara
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@Turnsniper

Expectations for Durarara were high after Baccano was pretty much the best thing ever, and unfortunately the series couldnt quite live up to them. I feel like it did for a while. The first arc was pretty cool with tons of shifting viewpoints, and the second arc was interesting for other reasons, but the third arc suffered from feeling like bad high school drama and focusing on characters no one cares about. The future seasons improve things in a lot of ways, but to me they suffered a lot from me watching them years after the original series. This is not a show you can casually watch: it expects you to know who everyone is, and what their relationships are. The content is quite good in these seasons (though it does have some flaws, namely Anri doing nothing in the final season despite getting tons of hype and Izayas sisters basically being non-entities after their introduction), I just wish I remembered the context better. Character-wise, the cast is great. There are tons of awesome and memorable characters, just like Baccano. Again, the flaw there is its focus on some less interesting ones. Mikado gets some cool development, but Kida is fucking terrible and Anri isnt handled as well as she could be a lot of the time. It might be cool to read the novels and get a better picture of everything that happens in the show. I think theyre all out in English now too? Or theyre coming at a good pace? Anyway, DRRR is mostly an excellent show, just with a couple flaws holding it back.
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