Review: Durarara!!x2 “Adding Insult to Injury”

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“Adding Insult to Injury,” the third episode of Durarara!!x2, took a turn to the weird. It’s very rare that so much stuff can go on during an episode, yet feel like nothing was happening. On top of all of this, over half of “Adding Insult to Injury” was a continued flashback from the previous episode. And the trend from this weekend continues.

Most of “Adding Insult to Injury” revolved around an Idol, named Ruri Hijiribe. The chance encounter of Hijiribe and Yuhei, spawns most of the plot for the rest of the episode. Shinra’s story forks from this, and goes to the incest sisters, Igor, and to some goons looking for Ruri. It’s a stretch to piece that together, along with the story concerning Ruri and Yuhei.  Oh, and then there’s the phone call between Shinra and his dad, also concerning Ruri. The only thing to get out of this is that Yuhei pieced together who Hollywood was.

Now, things get even weirder when Ruri has Yuhei dead to rights, but he helps her get out of dodge quickly, especially when the paparazzi was outside his apartment building. The very end of “Adding Insult to Injury” finally does the job of maybe pulling the various plots together. That was the only thing that I could have been upset with in prior episodes. Everything seemed to be mini episodes chopped up to make a bigger episode. I’m glad to see an actual show to come out of this. That said, I still don’t think a lot got done, though.

After the first two episodes being pretty excellent, there was bound to be a slow down with an episode. I wasn’t very happy, because I felt like this was roughly 25 minutes (double that, because I had to watch it twice) that I couldn’t get back. Well, I guess things can be worse. “Adding Insult to Injury” could have been a total flop, but there were glimmers of hope in this muddled mess.

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