Durara!!

Type: Anime 

Status: Complete (25 episodes)

Premise: After Mikado moved to Ikebukuro for school he meets back up with his best friend that he had been keeping in contact with through the internet, during his first day he is told of the people to avoid like the violent Shizuo Heiwajima, the information broker Izaya or the mysterious Dollars gang. There is also a legend around town of "The Black Rider" who has a motorcycle that beys like a horse and has no head which Mikado sees late that night. There are many strange and unusual things unseen in Ikebukuro.

Thoughts: This was a great anime that had a steady building of the plot, and allowed inteligent viewers to piece things together slightly before the reveal which allows for a vary satisfying series. This series rewards careful viewers and is an amazing world.

Prose: Great animation and plot, characters that evolve and are interesting, "real world" slowly getting darker and supernatural. A great anime that will definitely be worth your time.

Cons: None in particular save the standard over the top action which is a staple of anime. The various characters have a tenancy to be overpowered when you consider this is mostly a real world setting.

-Notes: Fully dubbed. When they say "color" gang they are not talking racial color they are saying Orange or Blue, took me a while to figure this out near the beginning.

9/10          (The Doddlers)