Durarara!!

Durarara!! (デュラララ!!?), usually shortened to DRRR!!, may be a Japanese light-weight novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda, that has conjointly been tailored into a Japanese anime series. Durarara!! tells the story of a dullahan operating as associate underworld messenger in Ikebukuro, associate internet-based anonymous gang known as The greenbacks, and therefore the chaos that unfolds round the most dangerous folks in Ikebukuro. The series ran for 13 volumes, revealed by American Standard Code for Information Interchange Media Works beneath their Dengeki sting imprint. In April 2014, a sequel series titled Durarara!! SH (デュラララ!! SH Durarara!! SH?) and set a pair of years once the events of the first series declared.

A manga adaptation by Akiyo Satorigi started publication within the shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy on April eighteen, 2009. associate anime adaptation began airing in Japan in Gregorian calendar month 2010.
 2 games supported the series for the PlayStation moveable were discharged, and 2 games for PlayStation Vita were discharged later.

Mikado Ryūgamine, a young boy WHO longs for the exciting lifetime of the massive town, moves to Ikebukuro to attend Raira Academy along with his childhood friend Masaomi Kida (whom he has not seen since he was young). once the 2 meet at the depot, they embarked on at midnight to the streets of Ikebukuro. Masaomi warns Emperor regarding folks he does not wish to cross within the town, like the violent and superhumanly sturdy man Shizuo Heiwajima, the knowledge broker Izaya Orihara, and therefore the mysterious gang referred to as "The greenbacks." once running into a number of the facet characters, Emperor sees a neighborhood legend known as the "Black Rider", WHO rides around Ikebukuro on a black bike that sometimes neighs sort of a horse, and WHO is reported to possess no head beneath her helmet. The "Black Rider" is Celty Sturluson, associate Irish dullahan WHO is in Ikebukuro yearning for her purloined head. The narrative follows all of the characters equally, showing however their lives run across and making a bigger plot from what every character is aware of a few common incident.

The story is told from the angle of 11 roughly of the most characters dynamical each episode within the anime. but the verbalizer isn't forever the episode's one and solely character perspective given. {one of|one among|one in all|one amongst|one in each of} the few constants given in every episode is that the verbalizer offers his own opinion on this state of affairs that they're in, in addition as bound things that build them tick and keep them stepping into Ikebukuro, a town with an outsized underbelly that's the medium for the bulk of each the plot's development and random violence throughout the series.