A wraparound jacket band has revealed that Durarara!!, the light novel series by Baccano! author Ryohgo Narita, is getting animated. The novels already inspired a manga series in Square Enix's G Fantasy magazine earlier this year. Narita has written six Durarara!! novels since he launched the series in 2004.(ANN)

Synopsis: The story takes place in a downtown of Tokyo, Ikebukuro. Teenage punks gang up and fight against each other. The gangsters are afraid of an urban legend "Dullahan" headless rider, who rides a black motorcycle without head lights nor sounds of engine. Ryuugamine Mikado is a normal high school boy who seeks peculiar beings. When he moves in to Ikebukuro, a mad scramble for Dullahan's missing head breaks out.

Durarara!! Trailer


Cast:
Mikado Ryūgamine: Toshiyuki Toyonaga(Kakimoto Chikusa,Ikkyu)
Masaomi Kida: Miyano Mamoru (Setsuna F. Seiei,Light Yagami)
Anri Sonohara: Kana Hanazawa (Kobato,Sengoku Nadeko)
Shizou Heiwajima: Daisuke Ono (Ushiromiya Battler,Sebastian Michelis)
Izaya Orihara : Hiroshi Kamiya (Nozomu Itoshiki,Tieria Erde)
Shinra Kishitani: Jun Fukuyama (Lelouch Lamperouge,Kimihiro Watanuki)

Staff:
Director: Takahiro Omori
Series Composition: Noboru Takagi
Music: Makoto Yoshimori
Original creator: Ryohgo Narita
Original Character Design: Suzuhito Yasuda
Character Design: Takahiro Kishida

With the awesome cast and staff working on this, i hoping that this anime will be great to watch


Animenewsnetwork(Durarara!!)
Official Website

Fyonne> Fixed youtube code

This post has been edited by RailTracer: Oct 15 2009, 02:15 AM

Yeah....in January 2010
Man...2010 has many good stuff

The original character designer of Durarara!!, Suzuhito Yasuda, is also the creator of Yozakura Quartet for your information
That's explain the drawing look similar to Yozakura Quartet...but I like the current character design by Takahiro Kishida.

Airdate: 7 January 2010 (TBS)

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Added on December 8, 2009, 8:50 pmFound it in other forums:

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/RvA48DF8kZ8/

Also in the official website revealed the OP & ED for this anime:
OP: "Uragiri no Yuuyake" by THEATER BROOK
ED: "Trust Me" by Yuya Matsushita

This post has been edited by RailTracer: Dec 22 2009, 03:17 PM

Just watched the first episode of Durarara!! & wow it's turn out better than I expected. Catchy OP with Baccano-style in introducing character,nice ED.
It's fun to hear Kida lame jokes, especially the tone that he use it XD
LOL flying vending machine when Kida tells Mikado to stay away with Shizuo & hear Shizuo screaming like nuts.
Celty aka Headless Rider is totaly kick-ass,ramming a guy head to the pillar with motorcycle tyre,beat the crap out the second thugs & slicing the last thugs with scythes.
Oh Izaya little scene indicates that he's an interesting character,can't wait for him in the next episode

Screenshots:

Setsuna F Seiei voice actor (Mamoru Miyano) is voicing Kida Masaomi,Mikado's childhood friend & also the guy that talking about entire episode.If you watch FMA:Brotherhood,the voice he use is similar to Ling Yao when he is goofy. It proves that Miyano is a versatile voice actor.


That's him~

EP2:Highly Unpredictable

LOL the ep title sure ain't lie,particularly with Izaya involvement with Rio(the girl who got kidnapped last ep) kidnapping & Rio attempt suicide.Izaya is the Master Level Troll for sure,doing all this just to see her die.Shizuo got some little screentime here,looks like he doesn't seem happy if somebody refuse to pay his money & make lame excuses. Also I find Anri is cute & have nice body

EP3:Rampant

This episode full of epic win!!
Kida epic fail attempt to flirt random girl is amusing.Also blushing Anri is cute though<3
Shizuo is definitely Ladd Russo version 2,his badassery ownz this ep.I laughed myself hard when he punch a guy out of his clothes.
Izaya is awesome,his epic cell-phone stomping scene+ maniacal laugh made my day
The fake "Dollars" gangs are learning their lesson not to hit a person behind,especially if the person name is Shizuo Heiwajima.
Oi Mikado,it's not cool to ditch your best friend behind to get a girl,in the end nothing happend
Simon is a hidden badass in this series,jumping out from high building & catch a flying vending machine,EPIC!!!!!!

I posted some awesome gif taken from this ep:



This post has been edited by fyire: Jan 23 2010, 11:15 PM

More like a kuudere if you ask me.


Don't worry,more kickass & ridiculous shit will come in matter of time

Oh Kida you such a playboy,targeting Anri for yourself even know your friend Mikado has hots for her
His narration implies that he once in color gang business & act calm when cornered by Yellow Scarves members.
That slasher is very scary,even Celty called them alien~so cute when she act that in front Shinra~
That girl in the hospital,is she someone special to Kida & why the heck Izaya visiting that girl?I bet he must planning something to Kida...
LOL Kadota in the preview

LOL ep 6 is full of lulz moment
If Dollars website is exists in real life,I f***ing wanna join it!!!
The Otaku gang is pure awesomeness,from van chasing scene to light novel torture
lolz Celty watching alien tv show,it is priceless...
Dotachin is caught talking to himself
Elephant slide ftw..
Hell yeah next episode will focusing with Shizuo!I want to know his root of hatred towards Izaya.

Donno what to say,nak ckp takut spoiler korang plak

Izaya full quote in episode 9:

It's too addicting, it's too addicting, it's too addicting! Even for an information broker like me there are things completely unknown to me happening and happening and appearing before my eyes and lapsing back into unknown every single day. That is why I can never ever leave the places where humans abound! Humans, LOVE! I LOVE HUMANS! I LOVE YOU ALL! THAT'S WHY YOU ALL SHOULD LOVE ME TOO!

See this ranking,it might caught your interests
Unofficial Power Level Ranking of Ryougo Narita characters (Vamp!,Durarara!!,Baccano!,Etsusa Bridge & Sekai no Chuusin,Hariyama-san)

1.
No.37564 "Mob Combatant" (Hariyama-san series) << Pretty much official. We know this one would win against Claire and Ronnie (Baccano!), Shizuo (Durarara!!), and probably even Hawking (Vamp!).

2
Hawking (Vamp!) << According to Wikipedia, he's basically a black hole. Communicates via telepathy. Is fond of light. When he jumps from one end of the universe to the other we observe supergravity. And fortunately can never visit the earth.WTF.

Tier 1
Claire Stanfield, Ronnie Sukiart (Baccano!), Heiwajima Shizuo (Durarara!!)

Tier 1.5
Nile (Baccano!) << He's in this awkward position because he lost to Shizuo but beat Christopher.

Tier 2 << Lost to/implied to be not as strong as Tier 1/1.5 characters but defeats every other character in their series
Christopher Shouldered, Graham Specter, Ladd Russo (Baccano!), Simon Brezhnev, Celty Sturluson (Durarara!!)

Tier 3 << "Can put up a fight with Tiers 1-2 characters but that's not really what they do" type of characters
Chane Laforet, Adele (Baccano!), Orihara Izaya (Durarara!!)


They did.Watch episode 8 again & see the background when Walker ask Simon where is Erika.

Speaking of 4chan...

Episode 12

lol that's genius