An anime about a colorless gang, a headless horseman, a strong man, an informant along with other bizarre characters aired its first episode on Adult Swim last night. Durarara!! is about a boy named Mikado Ryuugamine who moves to Ikebukuro. He moves to get away from the normalcy of his hometown and ends up meeting dangerous people in Ikebukuro who could possibly destroy or strengthen the link that ties Mikado and his two friends, Masaomi Kida and Anri Sonohara, together. Originally, I was not sure if I wanted to watch the dubbed Durarara!!. I loved the subbed version when it first streamed on Crunchyroll. My curiosity ended up getting the better of me.
I didn’t hate the dubbed version, but I didn’t love it either. The first major problem was during the opening song. In the sub, they gave the names of the characters in English along with the Japanese, but the dub decided to just leave it in Japanese. I always found it a nice reminder to what the characters’ names were since there are so many characters in the anime. I guess they didn’t feel the same way. I was also surprised by the chatroom. They left it all in Japanese and just had the characters tell us what was written in English. It makes me wonder whether they were too lazy to do anything about it or didn’t have the budget for it. My last big problem with it was that Mikado’s and Kida’s voices didn’t always seem to match the emotion they were trying to convey.
Overall, the dub wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. I enjoyed listening to the opening and ending songs again. They were definitely a plus to the show. I also enjoyed most of the other characters’ voices, such as Simon’s and Izaya’s. Mikado’s and Kida’s voices worked well most of the time. And Kida’s opening joke carried over well in the dub, which made me laugh by how lame it sounds in English. And I just couldn’t help but laugh at the station censoring the swear words that were said by the kidnappers.
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