50 Fun Facts About Durarara!!

In Durarara!!, the headless courier Celty Sturluson is which creature from Irish folklore?

A dullahan traditionally carries its own head, but Celty's was stolen, which is why she left Ireland for Japan and now delivers packages around Tokyo.

In Durarara!!, what does Shizuo Heiwajima hurl at Izaya Orihara that Simon leaps down to stop?

A vending machine is one of his favourite missiles, along with road signs and trash cans; Simon jumped from the top floor of a nearby building to block this one.

What does the author of Durarara!! say the strange title of the series actually means?

Absolutely nothing: he blurted the word out when his editor phoned to ask for a title, and the editor liked how ambiguous it sounded.

What does Izaya Orihara, Shizuo's old school rival in Durarara!!, sell to clients for a living?

Information is his trade, though he mostly uses what he learns to nudge people into trouble and watch how they react.

In Durarara!!, Celty Sturluson's black motorcycle is really which animal in disguise?

A horse, and one with no head: the bike sometimes neighs, and Celty can shift it partway back to climb onto a rooftop.

Which anonymous online gang in Durarara!! was secretly founded by shy student Mikado Ryugamine?

The Dollars have no rules and no hierarchy, and Izaya quietly swelled the ranks by spreading the password to the gang's website.

What kind of uniform does Shizuo Heiwajima wear every day in Durarara!!, a gift from his brother?

A bartender's outfit is all he wears: Kasuka gave him a set of them hoping the bar job would last, and Shizuo kept them on after Izaya got him fired.

Simon Brezhnev, the towering Russian of Durarara!!, helps his friend Denis run a restaurant serving which food?

Sushi is the house speciality, an unlikely trade for two Russians; Simon's real name is Semyon, which locals find harder to say.

In Durarara!!, what does the short-tempered Shizuo Heiwajima insist that he hates?

Violence is what he hates most, and his own body pays for his rages: as a boy he was hospitalised many times after fracturing his bones.

Celty Sturluson of Durarara!! is a supernatural being herself, yet which creatures is she afraid of?

Aliens terrify her, and so do traffic police, ever since a relentless motorcycle cop began chasing her around Ikebukuro.

How does the headless Celty Sturluson hold conversations with other characters in Durarara!!?

By typing on a PDA and holding up the screen; even with no head she can see, using unknown senses that sit somewhere else in her body.

Which weapon does Celty Sturluson conjure to strike down a fleeing kidnapper in the first episode of Durarara!!?

A scythe, shaped from the same living shadow she uses to make her gloves, her outfits and even a chariot.

What does Izaya Orihara of Durarara!! claim to love as a whole, with Shizuo the single exception?

Humanity, he says, because people are so unpredictable, and he treats that love as licence to manipulate them just to see how they react.

Which discipline has Izaya Orihara of Durarara!! perfected through years of fights with Shizuo Heiwajima?

Parkour got him out of countless scrapes, and Shizuo picked up the same skill without any training, simply by chasing him for years.

In Durarara!!, how are the schoolgirls Mairu and Kururi related to Izaya Orihara?

His younger sisters are twins, one in a dog-eared hoodie and one in cat ears, and both get on better with Shizuo than with their own brother.

Which weapon does Izaya Orihara carry in Durarara!!, leaving cuts in Shizuo's suit whenever they fight?

A flick-blade, and he is deft with it: in the anime he shaves a gang member's head bald before the man even notices.

After her family firm is bought out in Durarara!!, Namie Yagiri takes which job under Izaya Orihara?

His secretary: once the Nebula Corporation bought out Yagiri Pharmaceuticals, the woman who had been its chief ended up working out of Izaya's office.

Izaya Orihara of Durarara!! keeps Celty's head because he believes she is which being from Norse myth?

A valkyrie, he reasons, wakes only on a battlefield, so he plots a gang war in the hope that the sleeping head will choose him for Valhalla.

Under which screen name does Izaya Orihara join the online chat room in Durarara!!?

Kanra is only one of his aliases: he also goes by Chrome and Nakura online, and he once hijacked Masaomi's handle to manipulate Mikado.

Before Durarara!! begins, Izaya Orihara moved out of Ikebukuro to which other Tokyo district?

Shinjuku became his new home; before the move he and Shizuo are said to have fought every single day, stopping only when Izaya escaped or Simon dragged them apart.

Which Ikebukuro high school do Mikado, Masaomi and Anri attend together in Durarara!!?

Raira Academy was also the school of Shizuo, Izaya and Shinra, who all studied there years before the trio enrolled.

As leader of the Yellow Scarves in his middle-school years, Masaomi Kida of Durarara!! held which title?

Shogun was his rank when he ran the gang as a middle-schooler, and he reluctantly takes the post back after Anri is hurt in the Slasher attacks.

Mikado Ryugamine of Durarara!! moves to Ikebukuro from which prefecture, also Masaomi Kida's original home?

Saitama borders Tokyo to the north, and Masaomi had made the same move three years earlier before urging his childhood friend to follow.

In Durarara!!, the given name of shy student Mikado Ryugamine is an old term for which Japanese ruler?

The emperor of Japan was once called the mikado in English, and the boy's given name is written with the kanji for emperor, a grand label for a meek schoolboy.

Which school role do Mikado Ryugamine and Anri Sonohara take on together in the third episode of Durarara!!?

Class representatives work as a pair, which keeps Mikado beside the girl he likes but never dares to tell, while Masaomi teases him about it.

Which cursed sword in Durarara!! possesses the people it cuts and turns them into its 'children'?

Saika claims to love people and spreads through every cut; Anri can master it only because she believes she is unable to love anyone.

In Durarara!!, the redheaded girl with a scar around her neck is revealed to be which missing student?

Mika Harima survived a beating from the boy she was stalking, then had her face rebuilt by a surgeon to resemble Celty's stolen head.

Which girlfriend of Masaomi Kida in Durarara!! was kidnapped and injured by the Blue Squares?

Saki Mikajima had first approached him on Izaya's instructions, yet the two end the first season leaving the city together by train.

What is the profession of Shinra Kishitani, who shares an apartment with Celty in Durarara!!?

An underground doctor, he treats the city's brawlers and criminals without a licence and wears his white lab coat even when he is not working.

Which item does Shingen Kishitani, the father of Shinra, wear at all times in Durarara!!?

A gas mask never leaves his face because, he claims, the air in Tokyo is filthy; he is also the man who stole Celty's head in the first place.

In episode four of Durarara!!, what did Shinra's father ask of Celty in return for a place to stay?

To dissect her was his price for the room: her cuts healed almost at once during the procedure, which is how her immortality came to light.

Under the stage name Yuhei Hanejima, Shizuo Heiwajima's brother Kasuka is famous in Durarara!! for which career?

Film acting suits a man who shows almost no emotion off screen; he was scouted after saving a talent scout from his enraged older brother.

What line of work is Tom Tanaka in, the boss who hires Shizuo Heiwajima as muscle in Durarara!!?

Debt collection goes faster with Shizuo looming nearby, though his temper often wrecks the job; Tom is also the friend who talked him into going blond.

Late in the first season of Durarara!!, Shizuo Heiwajima shrugs off which injury inflicted by the thug Horada?

Gunshot wounds from point-blank range barely slow him: he walks off to get patched up and swears revenge on the wrong person.

Vorona, the Russian assassin introduced in the second season of Durarara!!, has a name meaning which bird?

Crow is the meaning of her Russian name, just as her partner Slon is the Elephant; she learned her first killing method from one of her father's books.

With which weapon does young Akane Awakusu attack Shizuo Heiwajima in the second season of Durarara!!?

A stun gun, which Izaya had modified and handed to her after convincing the girl that Shizuo was a hitman sent to kill her family.

With which object does Mikado Ryugamine stab Aoba Kuronuma's hand to seal their pact in Durarara!!?

A ballpoint pen that Aoba had just handed him: the stabbing seals Mikado's deal to lead the Blue Squares and leaves Aoba a little afraid of him.

What nickname do reporters in Durarara!! give the killer who wears a different monster costume at each crime scene?

Hollywood turns out to be Ruri Hijiribe, a famous pop idol and make-up artist with a lifelong admiration for cinematic monsters.

Which nickname, used by Izaya and Erika in Durarara!!, never fails to annoy Van Gang leader Kyohei Kadota?

Dotachin is a pun on his surname, Kadota; he once ran with the Blue Squares but walked out when their leader had a girl kidnapped, then helped to rescue her.

Outside which real Ikebukuro skyscraper are Shizuo and Izaya of Durarara!! said to have fought daily?

Sunshine 60 was the tallest building in Asia when it was completed in 1978, and it stands on the site of the demolished Sugamo Prison.

Which light novelist, who had already written the Prohibition-era caper Baccano!, created Durarara!!?

Ryohgo Narita dreamed up his earlier gangster saga after watching The Untouchables, and both shows were later animated under the same director.

Which former Power Rangers actor voices Izaya Orihara in the English dub of Durarara!!?

Johnny Yong Bosch, who played the second Black Ranger, is also the English voice of Ichigo in Bleach and Lelouch in Code Geass.

On which Cartoon Network programming block did the English dub of Durarara!! air in the US during 2011?

Adult Swim ran the dub from June to December 2011, a few months after it had first gone on sale on DVD in North America.

Under which ASCII Media Works imprint, also home to Sword Art Online, were the Durarara!! novels published?

Dengeki Bunko published all thirteen volumes, and the otaku pair Walker and Erika keep gushing about other novels from the very same imprint.

Which studio, the animator of Baccano!, produced the first season of Durarara!! in 2010?

Brain's Base did not make the 2015 sequel: that went to Shuka, a new studio founded by its own former staff, with the same director in charge.

Which band performs the first opening theme of Durarara!!, a song whose title means Sunset of Betrayal?

Theatre Brook, a funk rock band formed back in 1986, played over the first twelve episodes before a second theme replaced theirs.

Which voice actor, also heard as Levi in Attack on Titan, plays Izaya Orihara in the Japanese Durarara!!?

Hiroshi Kamiya is also the voice of Trafalgar Law in One Piece and Koyomi Araragi in the Monogatari series.

In the sequel novels Durarara!! SH, the badly injured Izaya Orihara is shown relying on which aid?

A wheelchair carries him after his last fight with Shizuo, and he admits he is not yet ready to go home, working instead from another part of Japan.

Outside which department store does Mikado Ryugamine gather his online gang in episode eleven of Durarara!!?

Tokyu Hands became the backdrop when one text message set phones ringing all through the crowd, revealing how many passers-by were members.

Celty and Izaya of Durarara!! are downloadable playable characters in which Shin Megami Tensei game?

Devil Survivor 2 brought in Celty, Izaya and Shizuo as downloadable guests through its expanded edition, Record Breaker.