Review of Durarara!!
First of all, NO SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW! Secondly, I want to inform you that I will not talk about how well-made the story is, about the character development, the sound or the art. I'll try to write a ''unique'' review of how it would be (or how we would like it to be) if we had a life like the characters of this anime. Please read until the end. Thank you. :) (Sorry for any grammar mistake) There are so many reasons why I love Durarara very much, but the most significant is that this anime is like how I would like my life tobe.
Everyone would love to have an adventure life like they're inside an anime.
Everyone would like to have super powers like Ichigo, Luffy, Naruto, Natsu, Tsuna etc. have.
But in a second thought, being someone like these characters would mean a tense life. So, this ''dream'' will be abandoned.
Durarara serves a slice of life story in a big crowded city like almost all of us live in one.
The characters seem to be just ordinary students/citizens with a normal life.
But that's when the best part comes!
The characters as ordinary as they may seem, are actually something more than this. Each one of them has a ''dark'' (I'd rather call it unique, instead) personality other than their normal one. Some of them are members of mafia, others are independents, but still very strong. Others are neither mafia members nor do they have insane powers such as super powers or physical powers that not a normal human would ever have, but still play an important role in some cases. This kind of characters usually step into various adventures that we all would like to have. I'm sure that all of you have at least once thought to have a second personality that only you and people that are not in your milieu know (or at least your best friend knows, too) and try to keep it secret. And you're in close call with these people or even fight them if they're ''bad'' guys either directly or indirectly. And to make it more interesting, let's add a bit of supernatural, too. Legends that are known to exist until now that have been seen by some people, but hardly ever, like a headless rider or very rarely humans that have a super power (not as fancy as to have a bankai or to be a rubberman) that makes them like having ''pulled out'' from a movie, and these people are among us, and when the time comes to witness this living legend out of nowhere, even for an instant, makes us feel like being inside a fairytale ourselves.
This is the life we all dream about to have. Not a life as tense as the most main characters have (like Ichigo, Luffy, Naruto etc as I mentioned before), but still a life that can satisfy us. An ordinary life in big city full of adventures and mysterious events.
This is the main reason why I love Durarara so much!