Durarara!!x2 Shou Episode 8 Discussion

yuigadokusonmaru said:
That's called character development. Shizuo from season 1 would just have kicked the door off without thinking about the owner of the building, Narita even tweeted about it.

Pat_To_Do-List said:

Could someone explain why Shizuo could not just barge into Izaya's apartment by destroying the door? Was the door some kind of heavily reinforced door? Because that particular thing felt cheap & Shizuo could not do it just for the sake of him getting framed.

Golden_Truth said:
In the novel it says that Shizuo could have barged in, but he didn't want to cause trouble for the landowner by destroying the door when he thought Izaya wasn't there (because he fell for the ol' "We changed addresses to X so don't come in" trick). It also states that he has been able to better control his anger after the Slasher arc.

Mormegil said:
Production values are awful this season. What is going on?! Characters are off-model at times, and when they aren't they're strangely tall and lanky, for some reason.

And what the hell happened to Brains Base? Why aren't they adapting this season? They fell off big time. They're not even adapting the 2nd season of Oregairu in the Spring. They used to be one of my favorite studios...

Pat_To_Do-List said:

Wait, but he did punch two random people up to the sky in this 2nd season, right? So he could control his anger on some door but not on people's lives? That's quite confusing I must say.

Golden_Truth said:
When Hollywood and Egor were fighting Egor took a briefcase containing the money Shizuo and Tom had collected to use as a weapon. Shizuo thought that they were both thieves so he retaliated. Shizuo has gained some ability to control his anger, particularly when innocents are involved (for example he doesn't want to cause trouble for the landowner and doesn't go crazy in front of Akane when he learns Izaya is involved), but he will still attack people who fight him/screw him over as long as innocents aren't harmed in doing so.

Tokoya said:
LMFAO Izaya is the greatest troll of all time....The second I saw Akane say that someone told her to attack Shizuo I INSTANTLY knew that it was Izaya, and Shizuo's reaction was priceless XDDDDD

Aoba being in charge of the Blue Squares was kind of a curve ball for me....I did not expect that at all.....I really wonder what his end game is? Either way, all of this stuff going on is his fault

Masaomi is back but is trying to be incognito yet again....Mikado's true colours are showing yet again with dat smile and Anri is playing babysitter (So kawaii)

Shizuo is also in some deep shit now....I wonder who killed those people in that room =o I also wonder where is it that Izaya is going =o

Shit is about to go down next week and I can't wait.....P.S. Varona-chan on dat roof plotting against Celty whom is plotting against people as well <3333

lucidbrandon said:
Shizuo is a lolicon, characters looked like shit this episode

Ganbat said:
Which vol is covering anime now? Waitin' LN vol 6 XD

Pat_To_Do-List said:

I see. But I still cannot understand why exactly Shizuo changed. Which part of the Slasher arc that made him better at controlling his anger? I cannot remember any particular thing in the 1st season that made Shizuo the way he is.

Zee530 said:
Can't believe it's only going to be 12 eps, gutted :(

Borgov said:


Probably due to the terrible light novel sales. The show's animation budget got gutted and so they can probably only afford 12 episodes to begin with.

OrangeRium said:
I got the feeling that dollars is getting destroyed slowly without no one knowing

ChairForceOne said:


Lmfao. this is 12 episodes. There are 2 other 12 episode runs.

You guys have no idea wtf you are talking about.

like2seepictures said:
When it's got to have a low quality animation, I kinda wished it just shouldn't be in this arc with supposedly exciting action scenes (Celty-Vorona chasing scenes) or interesting characterization. In this episode, Aoba really looked just like ordinary chief of bad guys. Well I still don't know what of him, but he's been quite well drawn in the previous arc with his 'fake innocent smile' which I don't see it now.
I noticed Shizuo and Aoba are two characters with least care in drawing this episode.
I actually wished they'd better make recap episode of Ruri's arc and have some more time to give it their best for this arc.

The production design or background looks good, though. It's got a realistic approach, eh. Ironically it just contrasts more to its then visible lacks of character animation.



It's likely around the end of volume 5. Next eps should contain materials from volume 6.

Golden_Truth said:
If you rewatch the end of the Slasher arc it will go into a bit more detail, but basically prior to the end of the Slasher arc Shizuo would lose control and would attack anyone in his way at full power when he got angry. However, when he was attacked by all those Slashers he was able to control that anger and not seriously harm/kill anyone in the fight.

Jagd84 said:
That was before the Saika/Slashers incident. The last violent thing he did after that was was ripping off the roof of Horada's car after he realized the later shot him. That justified and minor compared to what he used to do.

Pat_To_Do-List said:

Oh. So the Slasher's arc happened after the Ruri's arc? Why did the they put them in the wrong order?

Linkmstr said:
Even though everyone else seems bothered by the animation quality, can't we just hope that there will be improvements in the Blu-Ray releases?

RufusLatro said:
It´s always about the same characters.Show some more Ruri,Kasuka and the russians.This Mikado kid is like the most boring of all Durarara characters.

Ginevra said:
Shizuo getting framed was really stupid and unconvincing! Ok, he's dumb enough to follow a moving notice, I can believe that. I wouldn't have smashed the door just to check, either. I'd go to see the new address first, to make sure it was not a joke, even though I'd be completely sure all along that I was being toyed with. But you don't break down people doors without a reason, so I'd put up with being toyed with just to make sure it was a ploy.

But the way he was framed... Tell me, why did noone visit that place before him? Someone could find those bodies any time prior to him rushing in, and then he wouldn't get framed. And how did that mafiosi so conveniently pop up behind him 20 secs after he walked in? Shizuo could easily appear on the scene later than the mafiosi and then he wouldn't get framed. I don't think Izaya could've planned the timing.

In real life, it wouldn't have worked. Too highly coincidental for a functional set-up.

P.S. I loved the episode, but the trap was so disappointing.

Jagd84 said:
3) Why does it matter if anyone found bodies before Shizuo? With the way those men were killed and fact he was near the building at the time he would have been put under suspicion regardless. He just unluckily worsened his situation by getting there before of them. Seems like a minor thing to get hang up on.

Ginevra said:

That makes sense.

But how could Izaya predict WHEN Akane reveals that he was the one who set her up to attack Shizuo? He had no way to know when she does it. She fell ill, was treated, had a nap, etc. I thought a lot of time has passed. So the timing of the trap was just too lucky.

In my opinion, Shizuo could as well end up going to the trap scene well after the bodies were found and cleaned up.