Durarara!!x2 Shou Season 2 Episode 5 デュラララ!!×２ 承 Anime Review

A New Arc 

Hello everyone! In this week's episode, we are introduced to many new characters along with a new story arc but before I dive into that, I want to discuss something that Izaya said at the very start of the episode. That Izaya's dialogue, really mind boggling and philosophical. He basically asks can the human soul be bought? And then he goes on giving us various examples about how some might put their pride above selling their soul for 10 billion yen and then there are some who would kill someone to sell their soul for 1 yen but his main question was, can you really buy everybody's soul? This whole prospective of his is really interesting and which leads as to what this scene or dialogue's gonna mean in the future. Now though I'm not sure about this but I have a really interesting theory-crafting about this which I'll get to shorty but lets discuss what else we got to see in this episode.

So this episode is the beginning of a new arc and we are introduced to two main plots. Firstly, that little girl who is chasing after Shizuo in her quest to kill him for reasons unknown. And apparently, those Mafia guys have asked Celty to find her but then all of sudden, a new character is introduced to us, a woman riding on a bike going after Celty, using some sort of strings to take Celty's helmet off and causing her to to crash. Secondly, the leader of that gang who were after Celty shown in the previous episodes is going after Dollars. Speaking of this new character his name is Rocchi I suppose, a ladies-man. He follows this motto of how a man should never raise a hand against woman, something I completely agree with but damn, the way he broke that guy's leg, that was little too much I guess lol. But this guy might be somewhat of Shizuo type I mean, he stood up after Shizuo punched him 4 times that's incredible considering people go flying away after just one punch of his! 

Coming back to that theory-crafting I mentioned before, considering how Izaya said about buying human souls and stuff and the way that little innocent girl who was introduced to us, maybe it has to do something with Izaya like he bought her soul or something considering how innocent she is and he is manipulating her. But that girl seems to be somehow related to that mafia family and if you connect all the dots, only chaos awaits Ikebukuro again, something that Izaya loves. So overall, a great episode with comedy and stuff. Perhaps the pacing might feel faster compared to the previous season as they are trying to fit multiple arcs in 12 episodes but they are doing it well so far. Besides that a good setup episode as well, I really wonder what role is that Izaya's dialogue gonna play in the future, what do you think? let me know in the comments below! Thank you for reading this anime review and have a wonderful day or night wherever you live! Links to this episode are available in download section.