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** In addition to the word 'dullahan', it also sounds like the sound a motorcycle makes.
** It's also one syllable from 'dara dara', meaning 'no use' or 'not doing anything', which is {{spoiler|the origin for the name 'Dollars.'}}
* So let me get this straight. Izaya's plan to cause {{spoiler|Ragnarok}} requires him to start a {{spoiler|gang-war around Celty's head}}. Am I the only one who thinks that it makes no goddamn sense whatsoever? I mean, why can't he just take it to some war-torn areas or something? If {{spoiler|Ragnarok}} occurs just because of some {{spoiler|gang-war}} I really don't understand why it didn't happen before.
** My guess is that he would have restricted access (even with Izaya's agility, I don't think even he can just waltz in a place already at war) so he would need to start a war in an area he's already standing on.
** He does note that if worst comes to worst, he plans to just take it to a battlefield. But the point of starting {{spoiler|Ragnarok}} is to "start a war that only I can win," hopefully earning him a spot {{spoiler|in Valhalla}}. He's not sure it will work, but (as seen lower on this page), he's fine with the alternative.
*** Yup, Izaya doesn't have that much authority outside of the city, since his information network is just limited to that one place. He's only god inside the city, and just a 'normal' person outside.
* When Celty rescued {{spoiler|Sonohara}} from Yellow Scarves, one of them throws an iron bar to them and {{spoiler|Anri cuts them in half, effectively revealing her status as the Slasher, causing much trouble}}. Why couldn't she just block it with her arm like she did few episodes ago? Did she really have to risk revealing her identity like that?
** In the novel, the narrative says that she did it without thinking. That is, by reflex.
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*** Well, considering [[Empathic Weapon|what the sword in question is...]]
*** Remember a few episodes back when she was attacked by a {{spoiler|fake host of Saika}}? She managed to block it with her arm, you know.
*** Yeah, but consider this: as much as Anri says that she doesn't understand love, it's obvious that she has affection for various people, Celty being among them. Those times she blocked with her arm, Anri herself was the only one threatened, and she doesn't think she's worth anything, so her reaction was a sensible defense. When the bar is thrown at her and Celty, she registers it as an attack against someone she has a connection with, and she overcompensates.
* Why do Kida and Mikado keep talking to Izaya at all? Don't they realize that asking and getting help from him pretty much equals drinking sea-water?
** As manipulative as Izaya is, he's still the most resourceful person to talk to. Come to think of it, I don't recall him lying to people face-to-face. What he does online doesn't count.
** It also kinda helps he's basically the Durarara equivalent to [[Slayers|Xellos]]. True, he can be a backstabbing troll, but as long as you and he have a mutual gain to exploit by your association, he can be a very valuable ally, so much you go out your way to keep him as such, even knowing his [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] tendencies.
* I'm kind of shocked that no one has brought this up yet, because I'm halfway through the series, and it is killing me. Celty cannot talk; this is made very clear, and is indeed an early plot point, and her communication, though we the audience can hear it, is through her blackberry, typed out. Again, a big deal is made of this. So why, every once in a while, is it completely ignored?!? I've seen her "talk" at least twice without the blackberry anywhere near her, and at one point, she does make the effort to type out what she says, but Shinri's face is buried in the couch and he never looks at the screen, but he still responds. It's a cool aspect of the character, but why would they introduce that if they're just going to ignore it?!?!
** I never thought much about it; maybe the producers just discarded that aspect because it didn't have any plot relevence? I don't know.
** Shinra can ''guess her mood by "looking at her '''face'''''". [[The Power of Love|He's just that special]], he can probably guess what she wants to say without needing her to type it out. Although in the anime, sometimes we hear her voice but I took it to be her thoughts, it's not always clear that others can "hear" her.
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** Yeah, but she doesn't actually cause any damage except when they set the crazy cop who always causes accidents after her. It just seems like overkill.
*** I think that's the point - the traffic cop in question is crazy devoted to his job and, as far as he's concerned, bringing in a repeat offender who keeps breaking the laws he's bound to uphold is worth the overkill.
** I assume the cop wants to be the first person to arrest a headless urban legend that rides haphazardly with no lights, which sounds kinda cool.
** The said cop is outright explained to be a crazy [[Cowboy Cop]] who keeps getting into trouble over his antics. It seems that his superiors put him after Celty to keep him from causing more problems as a traffic cop.
* Okay, about Celty's helmet. Mainly, how it stays on. Does it stay on by some weird peg system, or with crazy anime magic?
** The magic smoke that she creates can become at least partially solid, it probably expands to fill the helmet and keeps it firmly on her neck.
* Anyone else think Kida's hair looks a bit ''too'' natural? Maybe it's because it matches his eyes and his eyebrows are thin, but he seems like a natural brunette though apparently he's a raven.
** Uh, he is naturally a brunette, he painted it blonde.
* I've recently began watching the series, but I'm not getting the whole "Gang" part of the series. I know a lot about gangs, but only western ones. Is it a Japan thing?
** Well to be fair the entire "gang war" in the later half of the series was anime-only, as it never occurred in the novel. The anime was strange for the way it treated the Dollars, which the novel avoids calling a gang.
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** I guess it's something of a hypnotic slash so anyone who gets cut with it falls asleep.
** The novels confirm that Celty can choose whether or not to kill with it. Because she's the nicest person in the show, she never uses it to kill.
* So...[[What Happened to
** Anime-original. Wasn't even given a name. There are more important people whose fates are never brought up. So nobody cares.
* I have a kanji-related question--just how close is "I broke a plate" and "I've been kidnapped" in Japanese, in regards to Kazutano's text message?
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* Why does it say that the {{spoiler|Orihara}} parents were neglectful? Due to [[No Export for You]], I haven't been able to read the entire series, but the fact that they're {{spoiler|traveling businessmen or something}} doesn't necessarily make them neglectful, unless I'm missing something. Of course, {{spoiler|Izaya said he came from a completely normal family}}, so there's that too...though being {{spoiler|[[Consummate Liar|Izaya]]}} his ideas of normalcy might be a bit skewed.
** It's probably due to the fact that Mairu and Kururi do whatever crazy things they like and seem not to be under any kind of visible parental supervision. The same applies to their brother. Although it is not that unusual in the anime world.
** Where was it mentioned that his parents were neglectful again? It just seemed that, aside from Anri's, Shinra's and Haruna's, parents are [[Invisible Parents|barely mentioned at all]].
* Why does Izaya's school uniform, which can be seen in the seventh episode, differ so much from standard Raijin uniforms (those worn by Shizuo and Shinra)? Kadota also is seen wearing something similar but Izaya's attire looks more or less like a short black jacket and simple black trousers combined with longer red shirt.
** Raijin/Raira is pretty slack when it comes to school attire. It's why Masaomi can pierce his ears and wear a hoodie instead of the standard shirt, and why Shizuo can exempt his tie. I'm pretty sure that Izaya wears his middle school uniform, and Kadota probably wears his middle school outfit as well. Two characters introduced in the fourth novel, Mairu and Kururi {{spoiler|Orihara}} also wear alternate uniforms: The former wears her middle school uniform and the latter, ''[[Fan Service|her gym uniform]]''.
* How did Izaya get ahold of Celty's head? Namie should have been the last person to have it, so why would she have given it to him? Sure, he had dirt on her about the kidnapping/human guinea pigs thing, but seeing as how he was the one helping them pick their targets, he'd also be in loads of trouble if the truth came out.
** Namie gives Izaya Celty's head for protection when Celty and [[Baccano
** I find it more disturbing that Izaya having it is probably as safe as the head's gonna be.
* I know Seiji's [[Yandere]] and all that and [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|trying to impart sense on such a thing is truly the stuff of madness]] but... Seiji's looking for a particular head attached to a girl and happens across a headless woman. He's in love with a head and comes across a headless vaguely female-shaped body and is completely un-curious about how weird that is at all. [[You Fail Logic Forever|I know the Yagiri family has a completely alien concept of logic and all]] but that is just a stunning lack of deductive reasoning there.
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