“Country boy Mikado moves to Ikebukuro, encountering headless Black Rider and eccentric urban legends.”
Durarara!!
デュラララ!!
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Synopsis
Country boy Mikado moves to Ikebukuro, encountering headless Black Rider and eccentric urban legends.
Mikado Ryuugamine is a young boy who craves the abnormal and supernatural, but his quiet life in the countryside offers no opportunity for adventure. With some encouragement from a childhood friend, Mikado moves to Ikebukuro, a lively downtown district in Tokyo. However, the naïve boy may be in for a lot more than he bargained for. Ikebukuro is home to a host of strange individuals, such as a monster of a man dressed in a bartender's outfit, a sadist who sells information for fun, and an underground doctor with an odd infatuation. But the most unusual of them all is the legendary "Black Rider," a headless being who silently rides through the night on a pitch-black motorcycle. When Mikado witnesses this urban legend on his first night in the city, his initial excitement triggers a thrilling but deadly sequence of events, affecting numerous others throughout the city.
What people say
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Derived from 3 sampled reviews
What 3 readers settled on.
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σ 1.70 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.67
Running avg · Oct 2014 → Jul 2022
- 10 “If you have been an anime fan for a considerable amount of time then you would have definitely heard about Durarara!! Given such popularity, I am surprised that only a handful people have actually...”
- 9 “Well I happened to notice that nobody had bothered to write a review for the Durarara!! (the exclamation marks are very important) light novels before now, which I found quite surprising given the...”
- 6 “Writing a story with huge cast of characters is hard. To succeed, you have to write characters that are interesting, that stand out, that the reader will actually care about and, very importantly,...”
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A Light novel Publication
- Format 89 × 13 ch × vol
- Total read 11h 52m approx
- Published Apr 2004 – Jan 2014
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M10819 catalog