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1* AllStarCast: The majority of the main cast is voiced by some of the biggest rising seiyuu during the time of its release with the likes of Creator/MamoruMiyano, Creator/KanaHanazawa, Creator/HiroshiKamiya, Creator/DaisukeOno, Creator/JunFukuyama, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro and Creator/YuuichiNakamura just in the main cast alone.
2** The dub is not so different either with the counterparts of the aforementioned voice actors being Creator/BrycePapenbrook, Creator/MichelleRuff, Creator/JohnnyYongBosch, Creator/CrispinFreeman, Creator/YuriLowenthal, Creator/KariWahlgren and Creator/SteveBlum.
3* CelebrityVoiceActor: American Idol veteran Blake Lewis as Kasuka Heiwajima. Later subverted when he got replaced in x2 by Creator/VicMignogna, due to possibly announcing the role in Shou!! before Aniplex made the announcement officially.
4* CrossDressingVoices: Played straight in the English dub of the second season where Neko is voiced by Creator/KiraBuckland, but averted in the original Japanese version where he is voiced by Creator/AyumuMurase.
5%%zce* {{Defictionalization}}: [[http://dollars-bbs.org/ You know the password.]]
6%% It's "baccano" without quotes. You're welcome!
7* LateExportForYou: The light novels began publication in 2004, but wouldn't be available in English until Creator/YenPress licensed them in 2015.
8* TheOtherDarrin:
9** [[spoiler:Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' make a cameo appearance, but were both voiced by Creator/SamRiegel and Creator/JennieKwan instead of Creator/JMichaelTatum and Creator/CaitlinGlass. This was because ''Baccano'' was dubbed in Creator/{{Funimation}}, located in Dallas, whereas ''Durarara'' was dubbed in Creator/BangZoomEntertainment, located in Los Angeles[[note]]Oddly enough, Glass did some of the ADR Script for the anime's second season (and both she and also Tatum have worked in LA-based dubs after ''Durarara'')[[/note]].]]
10** Creator/RobbieDaymond replaces Creator/DougErholtz as Ran Izumii.
11** Creator/VicMignogna replaces Blake Lewis as Kasuka Heiwajima.
12** Creator/KiraBuckland replaces Creator/CarrieSavage as Mika Harima.
13* PlayingAgainstType:
14** The irritable and agressive Shizuo Heiwajima is played by Creator/DaisukeOno, who was mostly known for playing smooth-talking {{Bishounen}} such as Itsuki Koizumi (''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'') and Sebastian Michaelis (''Manga/BlackButler'') at the time the anime first aired.
15** And Creator/JohnnyYongBosch as [[{{Troll}} Izaya]], this [[Anime/CodeGeass isn't the]] [[VideoGame/Persona4 first time]] he played a ManipulativeBastard.
16** Also, Creator/SandyFox, who is well-known to voice cutesy, [[NiceGirl kind-hearted]] girls gives you [[spoiler: AxCrazy Yandere [[LoveFreak Haruna Niekawa]]]].
17** Creator/BridgetHoffman as Namie Yagiri. She plays well-mannered women or nice women.
18** Creator/RobbieDaymond usually plays nice guys. Ran Izumii is a complete asshole.
19* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: After getting bombarded by calls from his friends over his thoughts on yaoi (thanks to the [[FanPreferredCouple infamous Shizaya pairing]] showing up in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''), Narita finally made his stance known in a tweet: [[JustForFun/OneOfUs if he can femslash]] [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei Harumi/Chiri]], then the ''Durarara'' fans can ship whoever the hell they want to too. He then decided to screw with the fans by writing a Shizaya story as an April Fools joke. [[http://hi.baidu.com/datacat/blog/item/52c6cbfb1c700b68024f5610.html Found Here]].
20* SeriesHiatus: The sequel light novel series, ''Durarara!! SH'' hasn't released anything since Volume 4 in February 2016 due to Narita's recurring health problems.
21* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BrycePapenbrook, who had largely been cast as secondary characters prior to getting the part of Kida. This show arguably kickstarted the trend of him landing a large portion of the leading young male roles in high-profile California anime and video game dubs (a trend that lasted at least four years). [[note]]For reference, the dub of the first season came out in 2011[[/note]]. Also for Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being one of the first anime roles she did as Akane Awakusu and Creator/KyleMcCarley with Aoba being the first big role he's done.
22** Also Creator/ToshiyukiToyonaga as Mikado in the original Japanese.
23* TechnologyMarchesOn: The original novel series and its subsequent adaptations were written in the 2000s and show a technology level to match, with everyone using flip phones and chat rooms to talk with each other. The sequel series ''SH'' was written in the 2010s and acknowledges those forms of communication have been made outdated with the advent of smartphones and social media, with characters like Kuon explicitly dismissing chat rooms in favor of social media and the chat room interstitials being replaced with clickbait articles, its comment sections, and random tweets.
24* ThrowItIn:
25** Celty's kitty-ear helmet was originally just a joke by Narita, but the character designer liked it too much to not keep it.
26** The title is this. When asked by his editor for a title, the auhor had none in mind and spouted a few random syllables.
27* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Narita lists two potential plots he had for ''Durarara!! SH'' volume 4 in his afterword for volume 3: Anri finds a mysterious box that Kuon buys to resell, but soon discovers that several other people want it or Yahiro is enlisted for a juvenile mixed martial arts tournament at the local dojo. Volume 4 goes with the former, leaving the other plot as merely a potential idea for a future unwritten novel.

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