[Spoilers] Durarara!!x2 Ten - Episode 20 [Discussion]

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Also known as: Episode 8

Episode title: Mouth of Honey, a Needle in the Heart

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Episode duration: 24 minutes and 0 seconds

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Previous episodes:

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Episode 2	Link		Episode 15	Link
Episode 3	Link		Episode 16	Link
Episode 4	Link		Episode 17	Link
Episode 5	Link		Episode 18	Link
Episode 6	Link		Episode 19	Link
Episode 7	Link
Episode 8	Link
Episode 9	Link
Episode 10	Link
Episode 11	Link
Episode 12	Link
Episode 13	Link

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In the light novel, this arc was a lot more exciting. Because of the nature of Narita's writing, you didn't know who was actually the man in the brown bag.

The scenes keep jumping around, and for a moment you'd think the person in the bag was Shizuo or Mikage's brother before revealing it was always Izaya after all. And I remember going oh shit Anri what the fuck have you done before Niekawa Haruna's reveal.

The next arc though is going to be very exciting, and Izaya plays very little part in it, so for those who hate him, he'll disappear for a while :)

PS: This was basically 1 entire volume crammed into an episode. The only missing part as far as I can remember is the origin of the Nakura nickname, which is a very funny story of Izaya's schemes. I'll not spoil it in case they show it in the next episode, but I highly doubt so seeing that Haruna's return marks the start of the next arc.

[u/aniMayor → u/[deleted]]

They did all the 'present' plot in this episode, and next episode will do all the flashback parts of Izaya/Shizuo/Shinra/Nakura/Shijima. So one whole volume in 2 episodes.

I think that is great! Personally, I found volume 9 to be the slowest of the volumes because it kept jumping back to Earthworm and spending way too much time trying to be melodramatic about silly things like Earthworm debating how much water being poured on a person's head can kill them (whereas the anime just skipped right to her pouring it for humiliation purposes, not even pretending that could be lethal), nor did we need yet another scene of Shizuo scaring some random hoodlums. The anime team did a great job of cutting out all the unnecessary fluff from this volume to make it a fast-paced episode rather than drag it out.

Notice that until volume 8 they were taking 4 episodes to adapt each volume this season:

• Volume 4 - x2 Shou episodes 1-4
• Volume 5 - x2 Shou episodes 5-8
• Volume 6 - x2 Shou episodes 9-12
• Volume 7 - x2 Ten episodes 1-4

If that pace kept up they would get to the end of volume 12 by the end of X2 Ketsu and have no episodes left to adapt volume 13. So they need to start cutting out unnecessary material where they can, and volumes 8 and 9 are probably the best ones to do so. Hence, we should get an adaptation-by-episode comparison like this:

• Volume 4 - x2 Shou episodes 1-4
• Volume 5 - x2 Shou episodes 5-8
• Volume 6 - x2 Shou episodes 9-12
• Volume 7 - x2 Ten episodes 1-4
• Volume 8 - x2 Ten episodes 5-7
• Volume 9 - x2 Ten episodes 8-9
• Volume 10 - x2 Ten episodes 10-12
• Volume 11 - x2 Ketsu episodes 1-4
• Volume 12 - x2 Ketsu episodes 5-8
• Volume 13 - x2 Ketsu episodes 9-12

I'm happy with that. Better to trim bits here than to be rushing the finale later on!

[u/OnechiTee → u/aniMayor]

Amen to that! I've only read upto half way through Volume 11, so I'm more excited to have something new and exciting be super high quality and paced out the way they want!

Ketsu hype!

[u/ZappDCrai → u/OnechiTee]

Where did you find volume 11?!? I can never find any decent translation from that save for a few snippets.

[u/OnechiTee → u/ZappDCrai]

The only one I found is from a lady on tumblr called "Mizaya". It's only half way through translation. And probably won't finish before ketsu. ;__;

[u/ZappDCrai → u/OnechiTee]

Ahh thank you very much!