Durarara!! season 1

Durarara!!
Season 1
Cover of the first volume DVD released in Japan, featuring Mikado Ryūgamine, Anri Sonohara, and Masaomi Kida.
No. of episodes	25
Release
Original network	MBS
Original release	January 8 – June 25, 2010
Season chronology

Durarara!! is a 2010 anime series directed by Takahiro Omori and produced by Brain's Base. The episodes are adapted from the light novels of the same name, written by Ryōgo Narita and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda. The series follows several people in Ikebukuro: Celty Sturluson, a dullahan working as an underground courier while looking for her lost head; an internet-based anonymous gang called the Dollars; and the chaos that unfolds around the most dangerous people in the city. The anime began airing in Japan on January 8, 2010. The series was aired by the MBS television network, followed by the TBS, CBC, and Bandai Channel networks. Crunchyroll simulcasts the anime within 24 hours of its Japanese premiere to its members, becoming a free-for-all a week later. The series was simulcast in French Speaking Europe by Dybex, starting January 14, 2010.

Aniplex released the first limited edition DVD, containing two episodes, on February 24, 2010, and as of March 24, 2010, two additional DVDs have been released. The seventh DVD, which was released on August 25, 2010, includes a direct-to-DVD episode.

The anime series is licensed in North America by Aniplex of America, while Beez Entertainment holds the license in UK and Germany. Dybex holds the rights in France and Benelux. Aniplex USA released Durarara!! in three digipak, two-disc sets. Part one was released on January 25, 2011, part two was released on March 29, 2011, and part three was released on May 31, 2011. They are sold at RightStuf.com and at Bandai Entertainment's The Store.

The anime was also broadcast in the U.S. on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block.

The anime uses four pieces of theme music. For the first twelve episodes, "Uragiri no Yūyake" (裏切りの夕焼け, lit. "Sunset of Betrayal") by Theatre Brook is the opening theme, while "Trust Me" by Yuya Matsushita is the series' ending theme. "Trust Me" and "Uragiri no Yūyake" were released as singles on February 17, 2010, and February 24, 2010, respectively. From episode thirteen onwards, the opening theme became "Complication" (コンプリケイション, Konpurikeishon) by ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D, and the ending theme became "Butterfly" by On/Off.

Episode list

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	English air date
01	"Exit 1, First Words" Transliteration: "Kaikōichiban" (Japanese: 開口一番)	Shinya Kawatsura	Noboru Takagi	January 8, 2010 (2010-01-08)	June 25, 2011
Mikado Ryūgamine leaves his country home to attend Raira Academy, a high school in Ikebukuro, with his childhood friend Masaomi Kida. Three kidnappers strategically seize a teenage girl. As the three kidnappers wait at an exchange point, a helmeted person on a black motorcycle appears and attacks the leader and supporter. The driver drives away, but the motorcyclist gives chase. The driver rams the motorcyclist off their bike. The driver gets out of their vehicle, only to discover that the motorcyclist is headless. The motorcyclist then gets up and slashes the driver with a conjured scythe, and the driver falls to his knees.
02	"Highly Unpredictable" Transliteration: "Ikkyoichijitsu" (Japanese: 一虚一実)	Makoto Baba	Noboru Takagi	January 15, 2010 (2010-01-15)	July 2, 2011
Seiji Yagiri, another student at Raira Academy, arrives late to class and states that he will not be attending school anymore. The girl who was kidnapped, Rio Kamichika, is revealed to be a student at Raira Academy. In middle school, she discovers that her father had an affair, and she eventually tells her mother. However, nothing changes. She confides this to an online friend who was experiencing similar problems. The pair decide to meet to commit suicide together. Kamichika meets a man claiming to be her online friend, only to be kidnapped and rendered unconscious. The headless woman rescues her and takes her to a building. Kamichika meets the real online friend atop the roof, who reveals that he had her kidnapped and that he also had her rescued, just to see her reaction. Leading her to the edge of the roof, he tells her that many have jumped off there, persuading her to believe that she is not special. When he leaves, Kamichika jumps off the roof, but is rescued by the headless woman. She explains through her cell phone that the world is not as cruel as Kamichika thought. Kamichika forgives her parents afterwards. Izaya Orihara, an information broker revealed to be the online friend, tells the headless woman that saving Kamichika was not part of her job as a transporter.
03	"Rampant Evil" Transliteration: "Chōryōbakko" (Japanese: 跳梁跋扈)	Yui Umemoto	Toshizō Nemoto	January 22, 2010 (2010-01-22)	July 9, 2011
Mikado and Kida find three girls and a gang member bullying Anri Sonohara, a female student at Raira Academy. As Mikado thinks of a way to rescue her, Izaya walks by and pushes Mikado between Anri and the three girls. Izaya then scares the bullies away by breaking one of their cell phones. Afterward, Masaomi reluctantly introduces Mikado to Izaya. Izaya tells the two that he came to Ikebukuro to meet someone. Their conversation is interrupted by a flying trash can that hits Izaya. Shizuo Heiwajima appears and attacks Izaya. Several gang members show up to attack Izaya, but they wind up injured when they try to fight Shizuo. Izaya tries to escape, and Shizuo throws a vending machine at him. Simon Brezhnev, who works at the restaurant Russia Sushi, jumps down from a nearby building and stops the vending machine. Simon reveals that he was there delivering sushi. As Shizuo confronts Simon, Mikado and Anri run away, leaving Masaomi behind. They stop at a park, and she thanks him and runs off.
04	"Utterly Alone" Transliteration: "Keieisōchō" (Japanese: 形影相弔)	Kazuhide Kondō	Noboru Takagi	January 29, 2010 (2010-01-29)	July 16, 2011
Shinra Kishitani, an unlicensed underground doctor, reveals he is living with the headless woman, whose name is Celty Sturluson, commonly referred to as 'the Black Rider' or 'the Headless Rider'. In the past, Celty first realized that she was a dullahan when she lost her head at a cemetery atop a hill. She traveled far and wide for the head, ending up in Ikebukuro. Celty learns from Izaya that an old street artist saw a dullahan missing its head. Celty tries to find the artist but fails. Celty tells Shizuo, and he helps her find him. However, they find that the artist cannot draw the head of the dullahan, because he has no knowledge of its appearance. Shinra later tells Celty to give up looking for her head, so that they can live together forever, only to upset her. Long ago, Shinra first saw Celty when he was a child. His father, Shingen Kishitani, offered her a place to stay in exchange for being dissected. During the dissection, her wounds and bruises healed rapidly, revealing that she has immortality.
05	"False Advertising" Transliteration: "Yōtōkuniku" (Japanese: 羊頭狗肉)	Shinya Kawatsura	Sadayuki Murai	February 5, 2010 (2010-02-05)	July 23, 2011
Celty corners a man to collect something from him for a job before being attacked by a shadowy slasher. The slasher knocks Celty's helmet off, and Celty tries to retaliate, but the slasher runs off. Upon seeing that Celty is headless, the man also runs away. A teacher named Takashi Nasujima tries to molest Anri, but Masaomi stops him. Later, Anri reveals that Mika Harima, her friend and a stalker, is missing, because the boy she was stalking, Seiji, rejected her. Masaomi later sees Mikado, but gets cornered by members of the Yellow Scarves gang. Mikado finds the members of the Yellow Scarves threatening Masaomi and tries to stop them, but he gets cornered as well. Meanwhile, Celty's encounter with the slasher is happening at the same time. The man runs past the gang members, and the slasher attacks them instead, allowing Mikado and Masaomi to escape.
06	"Active Interest" Transliteration: "Tōhonseisō" (Japanese: 東奔西走)	Yorihisa Koyata	Ai Ōta	February 12, 2010 (2010-02-12)	July 30, 2011
The three kidnappers kidnap a foreign man named Kazutano. They attempt to drug Kazutano, but Kazutano knocks the bottle over, spilling it and making them all drowsy. Kazutano manages to convince the leader to dump the now-asleep supporter, who has Kazutano's phone, out of the van by the roadside. Kyohei Kadota, Walker Yumasaki, Erika Karisawa, and Saburo Togusa (Masaomi's friends) learn that Kazutano, a friend of theirs, was kidnapped. Elsewhere, Namie Yagiri, the chief of pharmaceutical company Yagiri Pharmaceuticals and Seiji's older sister, tells her assistant that their supply of (human) materials must be increased. Kyohei calls Kazutano's phone, and Izaya, who happens to pass by the unconscious supporter, answers them and tells them where the supporter is. Kyohei, Walker, Erika, and Saburo find the supporter, and find the exchange point by calling the driver using the unconscious supporter's phone and a fake voice. The four retrieve Kaztano and capture the driver of the kidnappers, who reveals that they bring the people they abduct to Yagiri Pharmaceuticals, who is experimenting on humans.
07	"Bad-ass Dude" Transliteration: "Kokushimusō" (Japanese: 国士無双)	Yūki Yase	Toshizō Nemoto	February 19, 2010 (2010-02-19)	August 6, 2011
Shizuo walks around the district with Tom Tanaka, a debt collector and Shizuo's friend. Shizuo explains that ever since childhood, he has been unable to control his anger. Shinra is revealed to have been one of his classmates, as well as Izaya, whom he first met when they were students at Raira Academy. After graduating, Shizuo goes through a number of jobs, each of which ends with him getting fired over losing his temper. He later settles as a bartender, and Kasuka Heiwajima, aliased Yūhei Hanejima, Shizuo's younger brother and an actor, buys him a set of bartender uniforms, hoping this job lasts. Izaya, however, ruins this job for him. He later encounters Tom, who hires him as the muscle for his debt collection agency.
08	"Ephemeral Dream" Transliteration: "Nankanoyume" (Japanese: 南柯之夢)	Tetsuo Ichimura	Aya Yoshinaga	February 26, 2010 (2010-02-26)	August 13, 2011
Celty has a recurring dream of finding her head, but is unable to reclaim it. As Shinra explains the connection between dreams and memories, she wonders if she loves him. Elsewhere, a young man attacks the Yagiri Pharmaceuticals building with firecrackers strapped to himself. Shinra suggests to Celty that she does not need her head, and that she is fine the way she is. This upsets Celty, and she storms off. Shortly after, a client arrives and tells Shinra that they need him to fix someone up. As Shinra treats the young man who attacked Yagiri Pharmaceuticals, the client reminds him that Namie needs him to keep her secret. Later, Shinra and Celty reconcile.
09	"Love and Cherish" Transliteration: "Iirenren" (Japanese: 依依恋恋)	Takashi Yamamoto	Aya Yoshinaga	March 5, 2010 (2010-03-05)	August 20, 2011
Seiji and a redheaded girl with a scar on her neck are in the park. When Seiji leaves to buy drinks, the redheaded girl drops his phone into a fountain. Namie becomes worried, because Seiji cannot be contacted or found. Worried that the police might find him, Namie decides to go to Izaya for help. In the past, after she learns that Seiji has fallen in love with the head in her uncle's study, she moves it to Yagiri Pharmaceuticals. Shortly after, the head gets stolen. Some time later, Seiji calls Namie saying that he killed Mika after she discovered the stolen head, which Seiji stole. In the present, Izaya informs Namie that Seiji is in police custody. Earlier that day, the redheaded girl receives a message on her cell phone saying that she is being pursued and attempts to run away with Seiji. They pass Shizuo and Celty, who recognizes the girl's head as her own, and Celty chases after her. Seiji is held up by Shizuo while the redheaded girl bumps into Mikado, who helps her escape. Namie reveals that she had the redheaded girl created from Mika's body. Namie later orders her bodyguards to find and retrieve the girl, and to apply deadly force if necessary. Elsewhere, Mikado houses the redheaded girl, who claims that she has amnesia.
10	"Never Before Seen" Transliteration: "Kūzenzetsugo" (Japanese: 空前絶後)	Yui Umemoto	Ai Ōta	March 12, 2010 (2010-03-12)	August 27, 2011
At Raira, Masaomi and Mikado meet a student named Rio Takiguchi, who reveals that he is a member of the Dollars, a gang based in Ikebukuro. After school, Mikado is about to walk home with Anri, but they are stopped by a couple. The woman is revealed to be the one whose cell phone was smashed by Izaya. The man starts threatening Mikado, until Celty and Izaya show up. Celty knocks the man out, and Izaya scares the woman away. Celty tells Mikado about herself and how she is searching for her head. Mikado agrees to lead Celty to the redheaded girl and clear up the misunderstanding. When Mikado returns home, he finds that the redheaded girl is missing, and he is suddenly pinned down by the bodyguards from Yagiri Pharmaceuticals. The men escape after Celty and Izaya break into the room. Mikado comes up with a plan to save the redheaded girl and reveals to them that he is the leader of the Dollars.
11	"Storm and Stress (Sturm und Drang)" Transliteration: "Shippūdotō" (Japanese: 疾風怒濤)	Yorihisa Koyata	Toshizō Nemoto	March 19, 2010 (2010-03-19)	September 3, 2011
Shinra asks Celty for her hand in marriage. Mikado calls Namie and tells her to meet him in a crowded area, where he claims that he will give her information about the redheaded girl, in exchange for the truth about what happened to Mika. Mikado pieces together the truth and asks Namie to turn herself in. Namie signals for her bodyguards, but before they can reach him, Mikado sends a message from his phone, which gets sent to everyone around them and causes a spectacular commotion. Meanwhile, Kyohei brings the redheaded girl to Celty at the roof of a building. It is then revealed that the crowd of people are all recent members of the Dollars, who have gathered for a meeting that Mikado set up. It is explained that Mikado was the original founder of the Dollars, and that Kyohei's group found the redheaded girl after she ran away from Mikado's home. Celty asks the redheaded girl for her name, and she replies, 'Celty'. Celty then makes a grandiose entrance into the middle of the crowd and takes out Namie's bodyguards. In the process, Celty is revealed as headless, causing panic. Namie escapes in the chaos, while Seiji suddenly appears from behind Mikado to attack him, after learning his identity and about his involvement with the redheaded girl.
12	"Yin and Yang" Transliteration: "Umusōsei" (Japanese: 有無相生)	Shinya Kawatsura	Noboru Takagi	March 26, 2010 (2010-03-26)	September 10, 2011
Celty defends Mikado from Seiji's attack. The redheaded girl appears and reveals who she is to the three. Mika had survived Seiji's brutal beating after discovering the stolen head, and she was given the choice of having her face reconstructed to that of Celty's, by a surgeon who revealed Celty's name to her. Also, Namie made her take drugs, in order to erase her memories, which is what caused her amnesia. Thus, Celty's head is still in the possession of Yagiri Pharmaceuticals. Celty then realizes that Shinra was the surgeon responsible for operating on Mika's face. She confronts him, and he reveals that he kept the secret from Celty out of fear of losing her. Celty forgives him. In the aftermath of the meeting of the Dollars, Seiji accepts Mika as his girlfriend for the time being. Celty accepts and enjoys her own existence, even though she has not yet found her head. It is revealed that Izaya was the one that sent Mika messages on her phone, he knew that Namie had sent her bodyguards to Mikado's home before they got there, and he told Mika to run away from Mikado's home. Izaya reveals that Celty's head is in his possession, and tells Namie that he believes in a Nordic mythological theory involving Celty; he believes that Celty is a valkyrie, an armored female angel who guides the soul of a fallen warrior to Valhalla, and that the reason Celty's head is asleep is because it is not on a battlefield. He wishes to be the warrior that Celty chooses, but in order to do so, he needs to start a war that only he can win.
12.5	"Heaven's Vengeance" Transliteration: "Tenmōkaikai" (Japanese: 天網恢恢)	Yui Umemoto	Sadayuki Murai	DVD Extra Episode (DVD Extra Episode)	September 17, 2011
Tom comes to a couple's apartment to collect debt from a man named Ginjiro. His girlfriend, Hanako, gives him a red bag to escape with down a tree. However, Shizuo swings Ginjiro off of the tree, and he flies over the freeway. The red bag, containing a change of clothes and food, drops onto Saburo's van, and Erika and Walker believe it belongs to aliens. Mikado invites Masaomi and Anri to go out. Celty is contacted by Izaya to retrieve a red bag for him. Ginjiro steals a red bag of money from the Tsunohazu syndicate group, and a foreign syndicate that smuggles animals has a rare animal in a red bag stolen from them. They both contact Izaya for help, and Izaya tells them both that the Black Rider has each of their bags. After Celty retrieves Izaya's red bag, she is soon chased by the foreign syndicate. Celty manages to lose them, but the foreign syndicate notice Ginjiro's red bag on top of Saburo's van, which Erika and Walker put up there to return to the aliens. While Saburo tries to avoid the foreign syndicate, Ginjiro's red bag falls off Saburo's van and drops into a bush. Both the Tsunohazu group and the foreign syndicate find and chase Celty, who leads them to a dark garage, where the Awakusu group splatter neon paint on them. The foreign syndicate flee, while the Awakusu group beats up the Tsunohazu group. Celty's red bag is revealed to contain the rare animal, and Izaya shows up with the Tsunohazu group's red bag of money, which he took from Ginjiro. Izaya and Haruya Shiki, a member of the Awakusu group, reveal to Celty that the foreign syndicate were originally going to sell the rare animal to the Awakusu group, but tried to double-cross them by selling the animal to the Tsunohazu group instead. The Awakusu group take the money while Izaya takes the animal. Meanwhile, Mikado, Masaomi, and Anri find Ginjiro's red bag of clothes and food and brings it to the police department office, where Hanako, who happens to be there at the time, claims it. Ginjiro reunites with Hanako, and they share the food from the bag. Izaya contacts the Tsunohazu group and tells them that Shizuo stole their red bag of money. They confront Shizuo, who sends them flying out a window; the group creates an aurora in the sky while flying over the city, due to their neon paint, leading everyone to believe that it was an extraterrestrial sighting.
13	"Takes A Sudden Turn" Transliteration: "Kyūtenchokka" (Japanese: 急転直下)	Yūki Yase	Toshizō Nemoto	April 9, 2010 (2010-04-09)	September 24, 2011
Six months has passed since the meeting of the Dollars was held at Ikebukuro. There are news reports of a mysterious assailant known as the "slasher", who assaults their victims by slashing them with a blade, but never kills. The police department bring in Kinnosuke Kuzuhara, a reckless police officer specially assigned to apprehend Celty. Because of Kuzuhara's relentlessness, their first encounter traumatizes Celty. Later, Celty picks up Shinra's father, Shingen, who just arrived in Japan. Namie is now working as Izaya's secretary, following the Nebula Corporation's buyout of Yagiri Pharmaceuticals. Masaomi is approached by members of the Yellow Scarves, who ask him to return to the gang, but he refuses. Elsewhere, Anri is cornered by the same three girls who were harassing her previously, but the slasher appears and attacks the three girls.
14	"Turmoil Reigns" Transliteration: "Butsujōsōzen" (Japanese: 物情騒然)	Mitsue Yamazaki	Ai Ōta	April 16, 2010 (2010-04-16)	October 1, 2011
Shigen blurts out to Celty that he was responsible for sending Celty's head to the pharmaceutical company. After being pressed for more information, Shingen runs away, and Celty goes looking for him. Celty encounters Mikado, who is bothered by rumors that the slasher attacks are being perpetrated by the Dollars, and she tells him that she will help by looking into the incidents. She goes to see Izaya for information, who mentions a demonic blade called 'Saika'. She learns from Shinra that his father used Saika to separate her head from her body, and later sold the weapon to a secondhand antique dealer. Shingen tells Izaya that he supports Izaya's mythological theory regarding Celty. Elsewhere, as Anri is walking home from school, the slasher comes up behind her and prepares to strike.
15	"Dumb Like a Fox" Transliteration: "Gushaittoku" (Japanese: 愚者一得)	Yui Umemoto	Sadayuki Murai	April 23, 2010 (2010-04-23)	October 8, 2011
A reporter named Shuji Niekawa is traveling around the district in search for the strongest person in Ikebukuro. He comes to the conclusion that Shizuo is the person he is looking for. Later that day, Shuji is attacked by the slasher. He wakes up in the hospital, with no memory of the incident. Shuji is later possessed by the spirit of the slasher and is directed to keep an eye on Anri. He follows her on her way home and attempts to attack her with a knife, but Kyohei, Walker, Erika, and Saburo knock him down with their van in order to rescue Anri. However, Shuji gets up unharmed, and is knocked down again by Celty on her motorcycle with Shizuo in tow. Shuji gets up yet again unharmed, and, upon seeing Shizuo, the spirit professes its love for him. Shizuo rips out a door on Saburo's van and bludgeons Shuji with it.
16	"Mutual Love" Transliteration: "Sōshisōai" (Japanese: 相思相愛)	Yorihisa Koyata	Aya Yoshinaga	April 30, 2010 (2010-04-30)	October 15, 2011
Shuji is knocked out cold by Shizuo, and Celty confiscates Shuji's knife. Celty shows the knife, which she believes to be Saika, to Shinra. Meanwhile, Anri is visited by Haruna Niekawa, Shuji's daughter. Haruna reveals that, in the past, she and Nasujima were in love with each other, but Nasujima rejected her one day. Haruna says that she forgives Nasujima, because she loves him, but decides to kill Anri for taking Nasujima's love. Celty and Shinra realize that Saika wants to show its love to people, but since it is a blade, the only way it knows how is by using the body of whoever possesses it to slash them. They also realize that Shuji's knife is just a regular knife. It is revealed that Saika can control people it slashes, who become 'children' of Saika, and influences them to slash other people, creating more children. They are all controlled by the 'mother', Haruna. Haruna also reveals that she previously had her children try and kill Anri on multiple occasions, but they failed, so she is there to do the deed herself. Celty learns that Saika is after Shizuo, and that Saika is waiting for Shizuo at South Ikebukuro Park. She finds Shizuo and picks him up with her bike. Nasujima visits Anri's house, but runs off after seeing Haruna. Haruna goes after Nasujima, and leaves her children to finish Anri off. Celty and Shizuo go to South Ikebukuro Park, where a mass of Saika's children gather and profess their love for Shizuo, because he is strong. It is revealed that Saika disappeared five years ago, and Shinra speculates that it is because someone managed to suppress it. Haruna corners Nasujima, and it is revealed that Nasujima extorted money from her and then tried to abandon her after he got bored of her. Anri appears and reveals that she possesses the original Saika, and that she is the mother of Haruna's blade.
17	"Everything Changes" Transliteration: "Uitenpen" (Japanese: 有為転変)	Shinya Kawatsura	Toshizō Nemoto	May 7, 2010 (2010-05-07)	October 22, 2011
Shizuo begins recklessly assaulting Saika's children in the park. In a flashback, Anri's father has gone bankrupt from his business as an antique dealer, leading him to physically abusing his wife and daughter. As he is on the verge of strangling Anri to death, Anri's mother uses Saika to kill Anri's father, before killing herself. Anri then places her hands on Saika. In the present, Anri assimilates Haruna, rendering her unconscious, and reverts the possessed crowd back to normal. Celty shows up, and Anri reveals that Nasujima was the man whom Celty cornered before being attacked by a shadowy slasher, Anri. Nasujima runs off, and Celty takes Haruna, to have her treated by Shinra. Afterwards, Anri is put in the hospital. Izaya reveals that he sent Nasujima to Anri's house, Nasujima owed money to the Awakusu group and tried to get the money by extorting Haruna's parents, the Awakusu group sent Nasujima to Izaya so that Nasujima could get information on Haruna's family, he intentionally let Nasujima steal a suitcase of cash from him (which is what Celty was collecting from Nasujima), he knew that Haruna was Saika, and he was originally planning on threatening Nasujima for taking his money and using Nasujima to blackmail Haruna. Izaya's intentions were to break the city down into three factions (the Dollars, the Yellow Scarves, and Saika's army), in order to set up a battlefield to awaken Celty's head. Things did still go the way that Izaya wanted, the only difference being Anri leading Saika's army instead of Haruna. Due to Anri being put in the hospital, Mikado contacts all of the Dollars members, asking for information about the slasher, and Masaomi returns to his position as the leader of the Yellow Scarves.
18	"Out of Your Control" Transliteration: "Shiseiyūmei" (Japanese: 死生有命)	Kiyoshi Matsuda	Noboru Takagi	May 14, 2010 (2010-05-14)	October 29, 2011
One year ago, Masaomi and Izaya go to the hospital to visit Masaomi's girlfriend at the time, Saki Mikajima, who adores Izaya and has fallen into a comatose state. Prior to this, the Blue Squares gang had begun attacking the Yellow Scarves. With Izaya's advice, Masaomi and the Yellow Scarves manage to turn the tables on the Blue Squares. However, the Blue Squares kidnap Saki and break her leg in retaliation. Masaomi tries to contact Izaya, who intentionally ignores his calls. Masaomi runs to try and save her, but freezes out of fear. Kyohei, Walker, Erika, and Saburo rebel against their fellow Blue Squares members and save Saki. Later, Saki awakens from her comatose, but is bedridden. The Blue Squares leader is arrested and his gang falls apart, while Masaomi leaves the Yellow Scarves. In the present, at the Yellow Scarves' hideout, the Yellow Scarves report to Masaomi that a girl was spying on them, and Masaomi orders them to capture her. The girl is revealed to be Anri, who is shocked to learn that Masaomi is affiliated with the Yellow Scarves.
19	"Anarchy" Transliteration: "Sōtensudenishisu" (Japanese: 蒼天已死)	Yūki Yase	Ai Ōta	May 21, 2010 (2010-05-21)	November 5, 2011
Anri hides from the Yellow Scarves in a narrow crevice. Earlier, Anri notices that Masaomi is acting strange. She learns from Saika's children in the Yellow Scarves that Masaomi is their leader. She asks them to lead her to him, in order to be certain. In the present, Anri is about to be discovered, but Celty arrives and grabs the Yellow Scarves' attention. Anri maanges to get on the back of Celty's horse, and hide her face. However, when a metal pipe is thrown at them, Anri is forced to unsheathe Saika, slashing the pipe away before departing. Due to the Black Rider's involvement with the Dollars, the Yellow Scarves are forced to come to the conclusion that the slasher is with the Dollars. Meanwhile, Izaya fills Mikado in on the details of the gang war between the Yellow Scarves and the Blue Squares. Moreover, he tells Mikado that most of the Blue Squares joined the Yellow Scarves following the former's disbandment.
20	"A New King Will Arise" Transliteration: "Kōtenmasanitatsu" (Japanese: 黄天當立)	Yukihiro Shino	Sadayuki Murai	May 28, 2010 (2010-05-28)	November 12, 2011
Izaya reveals that six months ago, someone ran off with a bunch of handguns from the Awakusu group; Celty was able to recover most of them, but there is still one unaccounted for. Masaomi goes to Izaya, who reveals to Masaomi that Mikado is the leader of the Dollars. At a meeting of the Yellow Scarves, Masaomi orders everyone not to harm the Dollars. Later, Takiguchi is severely beaten in the streets by Yellow Scarves members led by Hōrada, for being a member of the Dollars, despite Masaomi's orders.
21	"Everything Covered in Fog" Transliteration: "Gorimuchū" (Japanese: 五里霧中)	Yui Umemoto	Toshizō Nemoto	June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04)	November 19, 2011
The Yellow Scarves continue to attack members of the Dollars. Anri brings it upon herself to stop the conflict, because she thinks it is her fault that Masaomi is with the Yellow Scarves. She orders Saika's children among the Yellow Scarves to stop any conflict they witness between the Yellow Scarves and the Dollars. However, Anri is seen talking to members of the Yellow Scarves just before they start acting strange, and so Masaomi and the Yellow Scarves believe that Anri is hypnotizing them. They also realize that she is the girl who was spying on them. Hōrada and a few other members of the Yellow Scarves find and surround Anri, and are taking her somewhere; members of the Dollars, who are witnessing the event, post about it on the Dollars' online forum, which Mikado is viewing. He realizes that the girl is Anri.
22	"Declaration of Disbandment" Transliteration: "Kaisansengen" (Japanese: 解散宣言)	Shinya Kawatsura	Aya Yoshinaga	June 11, 2010 (2010-06-11)	November 26, 2011
Anri escapes Hōrada with the help of members of the Dollars. Masaomi confronts Anri, but when he begins to accuse her for betraying him while trying to flatter Mikado, Anri slaps him before walking away. Anri is once again found by Hōrada, but Shizuo happens to be nearby, and scares them off. Celty brings Anri to live with her and Shinra for the time being. Mikado disbands the Dollars, realizing how violent the Yellow Scarves have become. Meanwhile, Celty and Anri agree that they should try and stop the gang war, and Celty goes off to bring Mikado to help. Masaomi calls Mikado repeatedly, but he refuses to answer. Elsewhere, Hōrada shoots Shizuo with a handgun, who is now lying lifeless on the ground, and claims that Masaomi Kida ordered them to do so.
23	"Complicated and Confused" Transliteration: "Sensakubansō" (Japanese: 千錯万綜)	Yūki Yase	Noboru Takagi	June 18, 2010 (2010-06-18)	December 3, 2011
Masaomi learns from Hōrada that he has been marooned by the Yellow Scarves. Celty confronts Mikado and reveals the truth about Masaomi and Anri. Meanwhile, Shizuo knocks on Shinra's door, heavily wounded by the gunshots. Shinra gives him medical treatment while Shizuo swears to kill Masaomi and the Yellow Scarves for shooting him. Anri runs away upon hearing this. Shinra chases Anri but is unable to catch her, so he calls Celty and tells her about Shizuo and Anri. Masaomi musters the courage to return to the hideout of the Yellow Scarves. There, he learns from Hōrada that the Blue Squares have taken over from the inside. Hōrada orders the Yellow Scarves to attack Masaomi. Masaomi tries to defend himself, but eventually falls to his knees. When Hōrada readies himself to shoot Masaomi, one of the Yellow Scarves controlled by Saika knocks the gun out of his hand. Anri suddenly arrives at the hideout, and Mikado and Celty arrive thereafter.
24	"Selfless Devotion" Transliteration: "Sokutenkyoshi" (Japanese: 則天去私)	Yorihisa Koyata	Noboru Takagi	June 25, 2010 (2010-06-25)	December 10, 2011
Members of the Yellow Scarves start attacking each other; Kyohei comes out of the crowd and reveals that he and his friends infiltrated the group. Masaomi is then taken to the hospital by Mikado and Anri, while Celty chases Hōrada, who managed to escape the warehouse. Hōrada drives away with his group onto the freeway. However, he encouters Shizuo, who uses a large traffic signpost to destroy the roof of his car. Kuzuhara shows up and arrests Hōrada. Afterwards, Higa, a member of the Yellow Scarves and Izaya's mole, brings the handgun that Hōrada carried to Izaya, who reveals that it belongs to the Awakusu group. However, it is revealed that Higa is one of Saika's children, and he tells Anri of Izaya's involvement in the recent conflicts. Anri then shows up and attacks Izaya, hoping to cut him. Izaya manages to escape, however. While Izaya walks home, he encounters Simon, who immediately punches him in the eye, sending him flying into a sculpture. Simon then explains to Izaya that Saki informed him of Izaya's involvement in the recent conflicts. At the hospital, Masaomi wakes up to Saki standing in his room, and they confess their love to each other. The next day, Masaomi and Saki elope. The Blue Squares are having internal problems, while the Yellow Scarves have calmed down. Mikado reforms the Dollars.
25	"World at Peace" Transliteration: "Tenkataihei" (Japanese: 天下泰平)	Shinya Kawatsura	Toshizō Nemoto	DVD Extra Episode (DVD Extra Episode)	December 17, 2011
Kasuka hosts a TV show in Ikebukuro, looking for the cutest couple in the district. Shinra tells Celty that Kasuka is Shizuo's younger brother, and that Izaya has two younger twin sisters, Mairu Orihara and Kururi Orihara. Someone issues Kasuka a death threat. When he approaches Kasuka with a knife, Shizuo throws a billboard sign at him, knocking him out. Izaya reveals to Shizuo that the person threatening Kasuka was recently dumped by his girlfriend, a Kasuka fan, and that he convinced himself that Kasuka stole her from him. Izaya also reveals that he leaked Kasuka's schedule to him, and that he warned Shizuo about him; Izaya did all of this to mess with Shizuo. The two start attacking each other, and are caught on camera. Several gang members, who were previously attacked by Shizuo, see Shizuo on TV, and they see this as an opportunity to get revenge. Izaya leads Shizuo onto a street, where Shizuo gets hit by a truck, knocking him out. The gang members gather around him. Shizuo gets up, unharmed, and his and Izaya's continued fight inadvertently gets the gang members to start attacking each other; however, Celty uses her powers to round up the gang members. Kuzuhara and the police show up, prompting Celty to drive away.

References

General

• "Official Durarara!! site - Story" (in Japanese). durarara.com. Retrieved January 11, 2010.

Specific