Durarara!! Light Novel Adapted Into an Anime!!

Japanese Title : デュラララ!!
Genre : Action, Romance (?)
Aired : 7 January 2010 (?)
Original Author : Ryohgo Narita
Original Ilustrator : Suzuhito Yasuda
Studio : Brain's Base
Licensor : Aniplex
Director : Takahiro Omori
Series Composition: Noboru Takagi
Music : Makoto Yoshimori
Character Design : Takahiro Kishida

And here is the official trailer!

(Yes..those are Miria and Horo as a cameo..Miria is fine because she's from Baccano. But Horo, what's her connection with this series??o_O)

Synopsis:

The story takes place in a downtown of Tokyo, Ikebukuro. Teenage punks gang up and fight against each other. The gangsters are afraid of an urban legend "Dullahan" headless rider, who rides a black motorcycle without head lights nor sounds of engine. Ryuugamine Mikado is a normal high school boy who seeks peculiar beings. When He moves in to Ikebukuro, a mad scramble for Dullahan's missing head breaks out. This series involved high school students, street thugs, a female radio host, an underworld doctor, and a headless rider.

Characters:


Ryuugamine Mikado
Seiyuu : Toshiyuki Toyonaga
The main character of this series. (reminds me of the male chara in Yozakura :3 )






Kida Masaomi
Seiyuu : Mamoru Miyano
The main character's school friend. (OMG! He looks like Firo in Baccano!! xD )







Sonohara Anri
Seiyuu : Kana Hanazawa
The main character's school friend. (megane moe?? :p )







Izaya Orihara
Seiyuu : Hiroshi Kamiya
The one of the street thugs..maybe..









Heiwajima Shizuo
Seiyuu : Daisuke Ono
The one of the street thugs...or maybe an informant??








Kishitani Shinra
Seiyuu : Jun Fukuyama
The underworld doctor? He looks like a kind of weirdo lol








セルティ・ストゥルルソン (Cerutti,Serutti (?))
The headless female rider who riding a painted black motorcycle.






And here is the first volume cover of the novel!

















(this is really reminds me of Devil Survivor :p )

















My Opinion

Yes..I expected much from this anime because I'm a big fans of Baccano after all!!XDD (Ryohgo Narita is the author of Baccano!) At the first glance, I kinda feel weird because the illustrator isn't Katsumi Enami again. But the artwork is looks so familiar for me because Suzuhito Yasuda is the chara designer of Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor and Yozakura Quartet :3 And the important thing, all staffs of Baccano! was involved in Durarara!! So I feel optimism that this anime will be as good as Baccano =) (for the graphic, sound, and plot aspect) It's also fine for me if the plot is twisted and the time setting is always jumping like in Baccano :3 (I won't confuse again with that) And I hope there are some murder, psycho, or blood-raining (?) scenes again~ *evil laugh* Well.. let's wait until the anime aired and we will see this anime is good or not.. XD

For further information, you can visit the official site at www.durarara.com
I can't read kanji and understand Japanese very well.. So if you can, please translate it for me~ xD *kicked