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** It also kinda helps he's basically the Durarara equivalent to [[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Xellos]]. True, he can be a backstabbing troll, but as long as you and he have a mutual gain to exploit by your association, he can be a very valuable ally, so much you go out your way to keep him as such, even knowing his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder tendencies.

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** It also kinda helps he's basically the Durarara equivalent to [[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} [[{{Literature/Slayers}} Xellos]]. True, he can be a backstabbing troll, but as long as you and he have a mutual gain to exploit by your association, he can be a very valuable ally, so much you go out your way to keep him as such, even knowing his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder tendencies.



** Namie gives Izaya Celty's head for protection when Celty and [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Nebula]] start searching for it; that's actually their first face-to-face meeting. When Izaya starts going on about Valhalla, she realizes what a huge mistake she's made.

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** Namie gives Izaya Celty's head for protection when Celty and [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} [[Literature/{{Baccano}} Nebula]] start searching for it; that's actually their first face-to-face meeting. When Izaya starts going on about Valhalla, she realizes what a huge mistake she's made.
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** I just kind of figured he was there for some light-hearted humor. There's so much going on in this series, and what with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters all the characters]] with heavy, mysterious, or dark pasts and presents, it's just nice to have someone whom you can't be suspicious or weary of.

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** I just kind of figured he was there for some light-hearted humor. There's so much going on in this series, and what with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters all the characters]] characters with heavy, mysterious, or dark pasts and presents, it's just nice to have someone whom you can't be suspicious or weary of.
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*** In Japan, students are permitted to drop out at 15 (their last year of junior high/US's freshman year), which is when the employment age is. While very unusual for a student not to finish their senior secondary education, considering Kida's personality, his parent's probably didn't question it so long as he got a job.



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*** They cut this line out in the anime, but in the light novel while being held captive by Earthworm, before she mentions Kururi and Mairu, Earthworm comments on how his parents aren't around much due to being involved in international trade. Not so much ''willfully'' neglectful as they are incredibly absent in their children's lives.
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* After The Dollars first meeting, Mika and Seiji return to school. Mika had plastic surgery and looks completely different to how she see used to. Did the school just accept a girl who says she's Mika Harima despite having a Caucasian appearance? Anri wasn't at the meeting, so she just accepts that it's Mika? Granted it wouldn't really shock her to learn Mika changed her appearance to look like someone Seiji liked. Or is this another reason why all the students stare at them?
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* I know Seiji's {{Yandere}} and all that and [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow trying to impart sense on such a thing is truly the stuff of madness]] but... Seiji's looking for a particular head attached to a girl and happens across a headless woman. He's in love with a head and comes across a headless vaguely female-shaped body and is completely un-curious about how weird that is at all. [[YouFailLogicForever I know the Yagiri family has a completely alien concept of logic and all]] but that is just a stunning lack of deductive reasoning there.

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* I know Seiji's {{Yandere}} and all that and [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow trying to impart sense on such a thing is truly the stuff of madness]] but... Seiji's looking for a particular head attached to a girl and happens across a headless woman. He's in love with a head and comes across a headless vaguely female-shaped body and is completely un-curious about how weird that is at all. [[YouFailLogicForever [[LogicalFallacies I know the Yagiri family has a completely alien concept of logic and all]] but that is just a stunning lack of deductive reasoning there.
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** There was an extra which was a letter from Izaya's father, Shirou Orihara, about Izaya and his sisters. It implies that both Izaya's parents have been unaware of all the fights Izaya has been involved with since Shinra got stabbed. Izaya's father, at the very least, seems slightly aware of Mairu and Kururi's peculiarities, but still believes Izaya is properly taking care of them. One last pretty major fact is that Shirou seems to be both ignorant of and indirectly responsible for Izaya's obsession with humans. He says that he wanted Izaya to 'love humans' after Izaya was reluctant to socialize as a child, and currently doesn't know the extent of Izaya's love. In short, Izaya's parents appear to be entirely ignorant of his true character and have probably been so since he attended middle school.



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** It also kinda helps he's basically the Durarara equivalent to [[{{Slayers}} Xellos]]. True, he can be a backstabbing troll, but as long as you and he have a mutual gain to exploit by your association, he can be a very valuable ally, so much you go out your way to keep him as such, even knowing his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder tendencies.

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** It also kinda helps he's basically the Durarara equivalent to [[{{Slayers}} [[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Xellos]]. True, he can be a backstabbing troll, but as long as you and he have a mutual gain to exploit by your association, he can be a very valuable ally, so much you go out your way to keep him as such, even knowing his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder tendencies.

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* How could Magenta-chan lose a shoe when she jumped from the building? It's a leather boot! They're normally hard to remove and falling from that height isn't even pushing enough to lose an ankle-cut shoe.
** It's probably an animation error.

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* How could Magenta-chan lose a shoe when she jumped from the building? It's a leather boot! They're normally hard to remove and falling from that height isn't even pushing enough to lose an ankle-cut shoe.
** It's probably an animation error.


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* How could Magenta-chan lose a shoe when she jumped from the building? It's a leather boot! They're normally hard to remove and falling from that height isn't even pushing enough to lose an ankle-cut shoe.
** It's probably an animation error.

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** Izaya holds the belief that only humans can kill monsters, so by killing Shizuo (a monster in his eyes) he thinks he might feel more human.




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** Probably an animation error



** Masaomi's parents are really lenient and don't seem to mind.

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** Masaomi's parents are really lenient and don't seem to mind.

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mind. We meet Mikado's parents at the end of volume 13, Izaya's parents are abroad and we never meet Shizuo's parents.




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**It's probably an animation error.

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**First off, people who haven't read the light novels but have read spoilers don't know what Aoba looks like, just that he's important.
Second, if you were Aoba and saw Mikado in a train station would you just randomly reveal you know who he is?
(But yeah, considering that kids personality it is kind of weird if you know about Aoba's part)

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