Monday, January 24, 2011

Characters: Durarara part 1

Characters: Durarara

This is the character page for the many characters of Durarara!!:
Warning!! The examples below may include spoilers for the light novels, as well as the anime.
If you're only following the latter  *, proceed at your own risk!
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Celty Sturluson


"You are not a space alien...right?"
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (JP), Kari Wahlgren (EN)

"The world isn't as cruel as you take it to be."
The main character and resident Dullahan of Ikebukuro. She used to roam the roads of Ireland, spilling blood on humans and riding down the hills with her headless horse. You know, typical stuff. One day, she awakened to find her head snatched and most of her memories gone. She managed to follow the perpetrator to Ikebukuro where she's still searching for her head to this day.
She lives with Shinra and makes a living by being a "transporter." She communicates with people by her cellphone and is seen riding a black motorcycle, wearing a helmet with kitty ears. She also has the cutest pink pajamas, loves chatting on the internet, and is afraid of space aliens.
  • Achilles Heel: One of the reasons Celty is so intent on recovering her missing head is that she is certain that destroying it is the means of killing her. Naturally, it's not something you want in the hands of someone you don't know, or a Yandere stalker who's had plastic surgery so her face looks like Celty's.
  • Agent Mulder: Apart from her fear of The Greys (which she's also convinced killed the dinosaurs), she also believes in various 2012 doomsday prophesies, the photon belt, evil tesseracts, and an impending robot apocalypse.
    • Perhaps it comes with being a living urban legend, herself.
  • Badass
  • Badass Adorable: Given that she's more or less Death with a motorcycle and a kitty-cat helmet...
  • Badass Biker
  • Bad Liar: Somehow manages this even without the ability to speak.
  • Biker Babe
  • Chaotic Good
  • Cool Big Sis: Becomes one for Anri after the two bond over their mutual supernaturality. She is also one for Shizuo and later Mikado
  • Cool Bike: It has no headlights, whinnies, and can jump over obstacles! Mind you, it is possessed by the spirit of an undead horse.
  • Cool Helmet: and it has cat ears
  • Cordon Bleugh Chef: Let's start with the fact that her head and by extension, her mouth, is missing...
  • Cross Player: Celty prefers to keep her gender ambiguous on the internet. However, she's not terribly good at it, and both Kanra and Tanaka Taro caught on long ago (which Celty discovers, to her distress, when they both react rather strongly to a comment that she has a male roommate).
  • Cute Clumsy Girl: Claimed to be a Dojikko by Shingen, and not without reason, surprisingly. She does tend to get clumsy when she's excited (which usually happens around Shinra).
  • Cute Monster Girl: Don't get us wrong, she is a Bad Ass, but Celty is also incredibly friendly, and is afraid of space aliens. Adorable.
    • Her missing head also turns out to be quite cute, especially considering that Dullahans are supposed to have heads with horrible, twisted grins and skin like moldy cheese.
  • Dark Is Edgy: Her main power.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Dullahans are supposed to be one of the few fairies who actually are Always Chaotic Evil, but here we've got one going around saving kidnap victims.
    • Pfft. Dullahans acted as Psychopomp. If someone got in their way, they spilled blood on them. Gross, but let's be honest; in Celtic Mythology, most other beings would eat your face if you got in their way.
  • Easy Amnesia: Due to losing her head.
  • Even The Girls Want Her: There are few things more embarrassing than being felt up by your boyfriend's stepmother.
  • The Fair Folk: Well, we've got a Dullahan.
  • Famous Named Foreigner: Shares a last name with Icelandic poet and politicial Snorri Sturluson. A Celtic faerie running around with an Icelandic last name might seem weird until you consider Izaya's hypothesis that Dullahans have a connection with the Nordic Valkyries.
  • Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: A Headless Cute Monster Girl Biker Babe who rides a Cool Bike and wears a Spy Catsuit.
  • Freaky Is Cool: Ends up fangirling Shizuo during his fight against Saika's 'children', much like how Shinra did when he and Shizuo were in highschool
    Celty: He's so strong... No, he's terrifying... No, he's awesome!
  • Green Eyes
  • Hammerspace: Apparently one of her abilities; she's pulled a cell phone, a shopping list, a kitchen knife, and a scythe from some kind of smoky darkness she can access.
  • Headless Horseman: A more modernized version... that rides a Cool Bike!
  • Healing Factor
  • Heroic BSOD: Celty all but snaps when she finally confronts her "head" (grafted onto the body of Mika Harima) during the Dollars meetup and confirms her greatest fear — that she's never gonna get it back. She only calms down after both the reveal that it isn't actually her head and a big argument with Shinra over where her real head is
  • Impossibly Cool Weapon: Celty's scythe.
  • Innocent Cohabitation: With Shinra. At first.
  • Losing Your Head: It wasn't connected to begin with, but she still wants to hold it; however it has gone missing.
  • Memento Macguffin: Celty's PDA was a White Day gift from Shinra. She reacts rather strongly to having it knocked out of her hands.
  • Motorcycle Fu
  • Mundane Utility: Turns out that control over darkness and shadow is surprisingly versatile — though Shinra put his foot down at letting her use it for cooking
  • Quest For Identity: Her primary motivation. This eventually starts to change when she begins coming to terms with the fact that she's built up enough of an identity over the last twenty years that she doesn't really need her old memories anymore.
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Celty isn't quite sure how old she is, thanks to the amnesia, but the few fuzzy memories she does retain go back over a hundred years.
  • Red Headed Heroine: Well, she is Celtic.
  • Samus Is A Girl: People tend not to immediately recognize that Celty is female. Shinra thinks they're blind.
    Shinra: ...Eh, Tom-san, What's with that face? Celty? Yeah, that's her name. She's the Black Rider..."So it's a she?" Shizuo, you didn't tell him that part?...Ehhh? You didn't know Celty was a woman either until recently!? But Shizuo, I can't believe it!
  • Sign Language
  • Sinister Scythe: Pulls one out of her neck.
  • The Speechless: Justified since she doesn't have a head; she can still "talk" by typing out words on a cellphone. It seems that from the fourth episode on, she will be voiced as a matter of convenience; she's still not actually speaking and is simply typing out whatever she's "saying".
  • Spell My Name With An S: Certy/Celty/Selty.
  • Spy Catsuit: Her jumpsuit presents the same effect.
  • Strapped To An Operating Table: Celty agrees to be vivisected in return for a place to stay. Turns out human anaesthetics don't work on fae.
  • Throw It In: Celty's kitty-ear helmet was originally just a joke by Narita, but the character designer liked it too much to not keep it.
  • Tsundere: Walker then gets into a big argument with Erika over whether Celty is a "true" Tsundere. Celty is not amused. Walker feels that Celty is too even-tempered, and that Shinra mostly deserves the ass-kickings he gets. He concludes that they're both in a mild "Type M" relationship; though it's not abusive. Both of them enjoy messing with each other.  *
  • Valkyries: Maybe. Izaya has a theory that the legend of Dullahans and the legend of Norse Valkyries are based on the same thing; and one can somehow "trigger" Valkyrie Mode and Ragnarok.
  • Victoria's Secret Compartment: Uses it to store a wad of money from Izaya in episode 4.
  • Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?: Her fear of aliens and motorcycle cops.
  • Woman In Black
  • Workaholic: Shizuo implies her to be this in episode 3.

Mikado Ryugamine


Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (JP), Darrel Guilbeau (EN)

"But at that moment... I felt my body tremble as I sensed that a new world was opening up to me."
A timid newcomer to Ikebukuro, where he attends Raira Academy with his best friend Masaomi and his crush Anri. Mikado decided to come to Ikebukuro on his own to seek something new from his boring life in the country. Initially, he isn't a very courageous fellow, but as the story progresses, he learns to becomemore determined and strong.

Masaomi Kida


Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (JP), Bryce Papenbrook (EN)

"I also... swore to myself I wouldn't go over to that side again."
Mikado's best friend and the one who suggested for Mikado to come to Ikebukuro. Masaomi is an extremely hyper fellow who loves sprinkling English in his sentences and hitting on older girls. He claims there is a love triangle between Mikado, Anri, and himself, and he's not above flirting with Anri, much to Mikado's chagrin.
  • Abusive Parents: Or parents that don't care about him because apparently, they don't care that Masomi dropped out of high school, and Mikado seems very aware of how his parents are.
  • A Father To His Men: More like "shogun."
  • Authority Equals Ass Kicking
  • Badass: Hell. Yes. There's a reason he became the leader of the Yellow Scarves, after all.
  • Bishounen
  • Book Dumb: Subverted later on in the series... sort of.
  • Break the Cutie: One name. Izaya. The results weren't pretty. See the main page for details.
  • Bromantic Foil: To Mikado.
  • Cake Eater: Masaomi isn't picky when it comes to age. The Gaiden short story that came with the third DVD shows that he's perfectly happy to flirt with grandmothers.
  • Cannot Tell A Joke: Not that it stops him from trying.
  • Chaotic Good
  • Curtains Match The Window
  • Death Seeker: Thankfully, he snaps out of this just in time.
  • Distress Ball: A mild example and justified. He was going through a Heroic BSOD when he found out that Mikado was the leader of Dollars and when he decided to kill Horoda, he was ready to die. However, he didn't think about being outnumbered 1 to 100+ members of Yellow Scarves despite the fact that he is a One Man Army and then there was the fact that Horoda had a gun that he didn't know about.
  • Eyes Of Gold
  • Fatal Flaw: Kida is very bad with handling shame and guilt. Part of the reason he drops out of school and disappears from Mikado's life is because he can't bear to face him after the whole fiasco with the Yellow Scarves. Izaya is fully aware of this and sometimes rubs salt in the wound by deliberately making plans that Kida could easily foil if he could only own up to his past failings and spit it out.
  • Gratuitous English
  • He's Got Legs: Definitely. Just look at his character single album pictures and you'll agree.
  • Heterosexual Life Partners: With Mikado.
  • Hidden Depths: Comes off as an idiot at first, but the truth is a lot deeper.
  • Keet
  • Large Ham: Sometimes becomes this when explaining the ways of Ikebukuro to Mikado.
  • The Leisure Suit Larry
  • Mamoru Miyano: Channels Tamaki most of the time until he slips further into a less pleasant persona and consequently starts channeling someone else.
  • My Greatest Failure: Masaomi deeply regrets his forming the Yellow Scarves, especially after his girlfriend Saki was severely injured in a Mob War crossfire.
    • Because of this, when Masaomi hears that Anri was attacked by the Slasher, he returns to the Yellow Scarves in order to exact revenge on the Dollars and the Slasher, believing that they are connected. According to Izaya, Masaomi isn't sure if he truly loved Saki because he was too scared to save her — and if you really loved a girl, you'd risk your life to protect her — and now Anri's his chance to find out. But then again, this is Izaya we're talking about. Played straight in the novel where he really did think this.
  • Meaningful Name: His name Righteous Vassal works a pair with Mikado's name.
  • Minored In Ass Kicking: Masaomi usually does his Obfuscating Stupidity to glaze situations, with a hint of Magnificent Bastard. However... beware the Jimmy Bar.
    • It went to the point that he starts to channel a younger Gordon Freeman and his trusted crowbar.
  • Nonuniform Uniform: Wears a hoodie under his school jacket, rather than the required dress shirt and tie.
  • No Sense Of Personal Space: In regards to Mikado and sometimes Anri.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Apart from formerly leading the Yellow Scarves, he can also deal some serious amounts of damage with a Jimmy Bar. How good is he? He singlehandedly took out several rival gangs during his time in the Yellow Scarves.
  • Official Couple: With Saki.
  • One Man Army
  • Put On A Bus: Sort of. If there's a second season, odds are he'll still stay communicative with the rest of the group via the chatroom. That said, he probably won't be back in person for most of the next season.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: In the special 12.5 episode, he's wearing a pink shirt instead of his usual uniform.
  • Stepford Smiler: Masaomi is not naturally that chipper — it's a front he puts up for Mikado's sake.
  • Three Amigos: He, Mikado, and Anri quickly establish this dynamic.
  • Tranquil Fury: when he confronts Horada, he does it while acting like his cheerful self, even when talking about intending to kill him. This is in part because Kida sees the moment as a way to make-up for his failure to save Saki, and because he's something of a Death Seeker at the time. That situation as well as the speech he made about the was anime-only, in the novels Kida had not known about Horada trying to take over the Yellow Scarves until he returned to the hideout.
  • Tsundere: Subverted. Izaya claims that he's this (Type B) when in the chatroom. Masomi answers though that he's tsun-tsun-tsun-tsun-dere-tsun-dere-tsun as he continues to spam him. You might interpret this as something else but if you had to work under Izaya you would act this way too.
  • Two Guys And A Girl: With Mikado and Anri.
  • Walking The Earth: Leaves Ikebukuro due to the trouble with the Yellow Scarves, taking Saki with him.
  • The Woobie: After the crap Izaya puts him through in the third arc, you can't help but want to hug him.

Anri Sonohara


Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (JP), Michelle Ruff (EN)

"Because it's so much easier to live while depending on someone. And I thought that was the only way for me to live."
A shy girl who goes to Raira Academy with Mikado and Masaomi and eventually befriends them. She is looking for her friend Mika Harima, who disappeared shortly before the first day of school. In spite of her gradual friendship with Mikado and Masaomi, Anri is very reluctant to let anyone get close to her.

Izaya Orihara


Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (JP), Johnny Yong Bosch (EN)

"Izaya Orihara, the informant, isn't that bad of a guy. But I'm also not kind enough to stop someone who wants to die."
Ikebukuro's mysterious Knowledge Broker and ultimate Troll. Claims to love all humanity (except Shizuo) — love which he expresses by fucking with people at every opportunity he gets. He loves playing mind games and seems to be one step ahead of everybody else at times.
  • Anime Accent Absence: Neatly averted. While he speaks grammatically and idiomatically perfect Russian, it's painfully obvious that Hiroshi Kamiya hasn't the least idea in the world how it should sound. His accent is so atrocious that his words don't even register as Russian.
  • Awesome Mc Cool Name: While Orihara's a pretty common name, his first name isn't. His parents named him as such because they wanted to name him after the Biblical prophet, Isaiah.
    Izaya: My parents are completely ordinary people. Except for when it comes to the taste in children's names, that is.
  • Badass
  • Badass Longcoat: Izaya seems to be in the habit of wearing a sort of fur-trimmed trench coat in the manga. In the anime, he sticks to a normal parka, although the hood still has a fur fringe.
  • Big Brother Bully: Izaya's quick to admit that Mairu and Kururi's... more unusual quirks probably came about from growing up with him as an older brother
  • Bishounen
  • Bitch In Sheeps Clothing: He can appear to be a genuinely nice guy, until you realise he's just screwing with you for kicks.
    • Even Celty knows there's something not quite right about him in Episode 4:
      Izaya: Kudos to you as the deliverer, again. I can get by because you're here, and vice versa.
      Celty: I don't want to agree with the vice versa.
      Izaya: Come on, don't say that. I'll be counting on you again from now on. I want to get along with you. Forever...
      Celty: Is it my imagination that I feel a certain eeriness from you?
      Izaya: Whoa! It's definitely your imagination.
    • And again, in Episode 12:
      Celty: And my daily life came back, too. [sees Izaya] Running into people I'd rather not see, like always...
  • Calvinball: Izaya plays chess-shogi-reversi-go-cards-matches against himself when he's bored. When Namie asks him how to play it he changes the subject.
  • Chaotic Evil: He manipulates someone into committing suicide purely for the lulz. Plus, his plot to cause Ragnarok puts him in this alignment.
  • The Chessmaster: Izaya is thoroughly amused that you think you're playing chess with him.
  • Crazy Awesome
  • Diabolical Mastermind: Manipulates people and supernatural beings just because he can.
  • Die For Our Ship: From the Shizuo/Vorona fans. Of course, the Shizuo/Izaya fans outnumber them in Ship to Ship Combat.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Easily the most popular character in the series.
    • Draco In Leather Pants: Goddamnit, Izaya.
      • He even manages to be a DILP in series, where there's a number of teenage girls such as Kida's girlfriend/Honey Trap, Saki, who worship the ground he walks on and will follow even his most dangerous requests.
  • Evil Eyes/Tsurime
  • Evilly Affable
  • Evil Is Sexy
  • Evil Laugh
  • Fan Nickname: Trollzaya.
  • Fan Preferred Couple: With Shizuo.
  • Foe Yay: Shizuo x Izaya?
    • The more they seem to hate each other, the more popular it becomes.
    • He also has moments like this with the girls he almost convinces to commit suicide. After one of them breaks into his hospital room and tries to kill him, he hugs her tightly while thanking her and telling her how much he loves her. Of course, it's plain creepy in context.
  • For the Evulz: Semi-subverted. Simon implies that this is purely an excuse and he is jealous of Shizuo's influential status.
  • Fur And Loathing
  • GIRL: Disguises himself as such on chatrooms.
  • Hannibal Lecture: Izaya delivers one to Masaomi in the third arc. Also one to Anri, in episode 24, as part of stopping her from making him one of Saika's "children".
  • Hey It's That Voice: His voice actor has talked about Valhalla before, and by extension, has probably despaired about it at some point as well.
    • Also some Hilarious In Hindsight, as Nozomu in the latter series semi-seriously proposed a lovers' suicide pact with one student and did it to another to scare her out of her stalking (it didn't work), which is an (overly generous) interpretation of Izaya's behavior.
  • Irony: The Jerk Ass Magnificently Manipulative Bastard who will make a Suicide Pact For The Lulz... is afraid of death.
    • It's not that he's afraid of death. What he's afraid of is that there would be nothing else after death, he even states he'd rather go to hell or to Ragnarok if he ever died rather than doing nothing.
  • Insult Backfire
    Girl: You are the worst kind of human being in this world.
    Izaya: And isn't that just splendid?
  • It Amused Me: Izaya screws with people — both human and supernatural — For The Lulz.
  • Jerk Ass
    • Jerkass Dissonance: Naturally, he's the most popular character of the series despite pretty much being /b/ in human form.
  • Johnny MOTHERFUCKING Yong Bosch
  • Kick the Dog: His antics are funny until episode 18 where he deliberately put Kida through hell. Double points when you realize that Saki was faking her injuries.
    • Also, in middle school, he apparently stabbed Shinra when the latter was trying to befriend him. While Shinra has brushed this event off, it's to be noted that Shinra uses this event to shut him up.
  • Kick Them While They Are Down: Or, better yet, use them as an impromptu trampoline!
  • Kill It With Fire: What he does to his game board in one of his... less stable moments.
  • Knife Nut: A switch-blade to be precise.
  • Knowledge Broker
  • Lack Of Empathy: The way he speaks about his "love of humans" seems to imply that he places himself on a different level than them.
  • Launcher Of A Thousand Ships: Izaya gets paired with everyone.
    • Perhaps he wants to be paired with everyone on though, he does love all humans. Except Shiuzo that is.
      • Which leads to extreme irony that he gets paired up with Shizuo the most.
  • Le Parkour: He teaches it to himself to outrun Shizuo. Naturally, Shizuo teaches it to himself to chase Izaya.
  • Lonely At The Top: Unsurprisingly, being a gigantic, manipulative asshole tends not to win over a lot of friends
    Namie: Would you please refrain from using me to comfort your ego just because everybody in the chatroom but you has friends to eat hotpot with?
  • Love You And Everybody (Except Shizuo):
    Izaya: I love humans! They're so appealing and interesting, I just can't help myself... Don't get me wrong though — I don't actually like you.
  • Made Of Iron: He gets hit with a fricking trash can and stands up moments later no worse for wear.
  • Magnificent Bastard/Manipulative Bastard
  • Man Behind The Man: Guess who passed the Dollars website password around Ikebukuro.
  • Meaningful Name: Can also mean "one who watches over the crowd".
  • Memetic Molester: Many a fan have concluded that he's just as much of an asshole in bed as he is everywhere else.
  • The Nicknamer: Izaya's known for these (he's responsible for both Shizu-chan and Dotachin) — the recipients tend not to like them.
  • Noodle Incident: Apparently, the feud between Izaya and Shizuo stems from Izaya falsely accusing Shizuo of some sort of crime.
  • No Sense Of Personal Space
  • Pet the Dog: No matter what he says, he generally does care about Shinra. It's evident that the event that Shinra mentioned in middle school weighs on him because just mentioning it shuts him up. There's also the fact that he encouraged Shinra to buy valentine's chocolate for Celty. Of course, the chocolate was sold out so whether or not he was generally caring for Shinra at the moment or if he knew that the chocolate was already gone is up to interpretation.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: One of the rare Manipulative Bastard versions. It becomes quite obvious as the series progresses that he sees everyone and everything around him as little more than toys to be played with until they break.
  • Psychotic Smirk: It speaks volumes about Izaya that he only gets truly frightening when he isn't wearing his trademark rape face.
  • The Nothing After Death: This frightens him. This is why he's setting up Ragnarok. Even if he goes to Hel's realm instead of Valhalla for being a non-warrior, it's still existence.
  • Red Eyes Take Warning: In most fan drawings and in the novel, he apparently has red eyes.
  • Smart People Play Chess: And smart, crazy people play Chess-Shogi-Reversi-Go-Cards that's on fire.
  • Squick: Seeing him toss Celty's head around like it was a plaything in episode 12 was really creepy.
  • Troll: Both in real life and on the internet (where he earns extra points by pulling the GIRL routine on a regular basis).
  • War For Fun And Profit: Mostly for Fun.
  • Wicked Cultured: Has a snazzy apartment, is well-read, and speaks fluent Russian  *
  • Wouldn't Hit A Girl: Played straight, but ("I don't like hitting girls... Which is why I instead make it a hobby to stomp on their cellphones!")
  • Xanatos Gambit: Towards everyone.

Shizuo Heiwajima


Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (JP), Crispin Freeman (EN)

"I hate violence... I'm not lying."
The most fearsome man in Ikebukuro and rage in human form. Shizuo has a hair trigger temper and a tendency to react to anything that sets him off with uncontrollable violence, which is only made worse by the fact that he also has Super Strength. Expect to see flying vending machines.
When he's not raging uncontrollably he's... actually, he's a pretty normal - if quiet and socially inexperienced - young man who only wishes to be able to keep control of himself so he can stop hurting everyone around him. Except for Izaya. He will hurt Izaya if he can.
  • Always Wanted To Say That: Not the slightest bit threatened by Seiji's You Shall Not Pass behavior, nevertheless decided to roll with it. "Leave him to me and go on ahead! Heh heh."
  • Axe Crazy: You do not want to piss off Shizuo. Simon even describes him as being violence incarnate during a narration.
  • Badass
  • Because You Were Nice To Me: How did Tom get on Shizuo's good side? By showing him some basic human decency.
  • Berserk Button: Shizuo has about a million of them, but Izaya's continued existence rises above them all. Others include people making excuses, people being nosy in regards to his brother, and delusions of "true love" (it's not that Shizuo is so cynical, it's that it was one guy thinking an escort girl loved him and Seiji seriously believing his Toy Ship was going to stay afloat).
  • The Berserker
  • Big Brother Instinct: Develops this for Akane in the novels.
  • Blessed With Suck: Turns out that Super Strength isn't all that fun to grow up with, especially when you don't start off with the relative invulnerability that's assumed to go with it.
  • Bishounen: The scout who ended up scouting his little brother Kasuka originally wanted to scout Shizuo.
  • Bowties Are Cool
  • Brown Eyes
  • Bruiser With A Soft Center
  • Bullying A Dragon: People at Shizuo's high school were not very smart...
    • Well, they were more or less being manipulated into doing so by Izaya...
  • Cargo Ship: Not five episodes in and people are already shipping Shizuo with vending machines.
  • Chaotic Neutral: Would be Chaotic Good, but his Hair Trigger Temper swings him more towards this alignment instead. There seem to be a lot of "Chaotic" alignments in this series.
  • Character Tics: Shizuo usually snaps a small, thin object (like a pencil or cigarette) in half, drops it on the ground, and crushes it underfoot when he's about to go into anUnstoppable Rage.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: No unconscious limiters + a lifetime of compulsively throwing heavy things at people = Super Strength
  • Clothing Damage: Shizuo can inflict the whole-body version with one punch.
  • Cool Shades
  • Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: Even if the psychotic Badass part tends to come out more readily than other examples.
  • Crowning Moment Of Awesome: During his fight against Saika's 'children,' they suddenly revert back to normal while he's in the middle of what seems to be a Charged Attack aimed at one of the 'children'. He manages to stop himself with mere inches to spare and when he realises that, despite his rampage, no one got so much as a scratch, he's ecstatic.
    Shizuo: "I did it?... I did it... I DID IT!!! HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA! No one died! I finally did it!!!"
  • Curtains Match The Window: Before he dyed his hair to Hair Of Gold.
    • Both fan and colored light novel illustrations like giving him Eyes Of Gold, thus reasserting the trope.
  • Defector From Decadence: Quits being a Dollars member after several of them try to kidnap someone, being disgusted that the group would stoop so low (unbeknownst to him the entire event was orchestrated by none other than Izaya).
  • Description Cut: "I hate violence... I'm not lying."
  • Destructive Savior: Starts leaning in this direction (as opposed to a mostly directionless Person Of Mass Destruction) after encountering Saika.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: His first psychotic episode involved him picking up a fridge (at age 7) to try and flatten his brother with it because he ate his pudding cup; he admits in retrospect that he went overboard and isn't even sure how he was able to pick the fridge up in the first place.
  • Distinguishing Mark: Shizuo dyed his hair in middle school in order to invoke this. Tom suggested that other kids would be less likely to pick fights with him if they knew who to not piss off. It worked up until Izaya got involved.
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: Shizuo once lightly tapped Shinra on the forehead for calling him stupid. It gave him a concussion.
    Shinra: Shizuo, you realize a flick of your finger in my forehead does as much damage as a knee kick from any other person, don't you? Then try to be more careful, please? What, concussion? How long have I been unconscious?
  • The Dreaded: Shizuo terrifies about half of Ikebukuro's population simply with his mere presence. The other half typically fails to connect him with his reputation until it's too late (after which they join the first half).
    Shizuo: You know, people can die from being gazed at. There has to be at least a 0.0000000000000675% chance.
    Luckless thug: How many zeroes was that, you punk? Huh, Mr. Bartender? [Beat] B-Bartender? No way...!
    Shizuo: That said, you can't really complain if you die from being beat up, can you?!
  • Dumb Muscle: Not outright stupid, but he's definitely not a sharpest tool in the shed.
  • Dynamic Entry: Flying vending machines are Shizuo's special way of saying hello.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse
  • Expecting Someone Taller: When reporter Shuji manages to secure an interview with the most terrifying man in Ikebukuro, he's a little shocked that Shizuo meets almostnone of his physical expectations (except, perhaps ironically, in height) and insists that he hates violence. Then Shuji gets the brilliant idea of trying to provoke him into action and namedrops Izaya. His plan works entirely too well. In the anime this scene is altered somewhat with said reporter asking too many questions about Shizuo's brother, the end result is the same.
    Shuji: I'm... flying...
  • Eyes of Gold: In the light novel and in fanworks.
  • Fan Nickname: The GARtender.
  • Fan Preferred Couple: With Izaya.
  • Fatal Flaw: His severe anger issues.
  • Feel No Pain: Implied, given his response to grievous bodily harm.
  • Finger Poke Of Doom: After Shizuo starts learning to reign in his temper a little, he responds to mildly annoying people by lightly flicking or poking them in the forehead. To the victims, this feels like somebody smacked them in the face with a baseball bat.
  • Freudian Excuse: Subverted. Shizuo notes that, his own rage issues aside, his home life and upbringing was positively idyllic. There was no abuse or trauma, his parents were caring, his little brother was probably one of the best you can have — heck, he didn't even watch any violent TV... And yet it just makes his problems more troubling for him because it's convinced him that he only has himself to blame.
  • Friendless Background: Shizuo's social circle during his adolescence (excepting one year in junior high where Tom befriended him) was pretty much restricted to Shinra.
  • Foe Yay: Shizuo x Izaya?
  • Hair Trigger Temper: Pretty much anything can set Shizuo off. "Getting stabbed with pens" is an exception, oddly enough (though that's because he found the entire situation very amusing).
  • Healing Factor: Shinra has made an offhand comment in volume 4 that Shizuo heals almost unnaturally fast. Whether or not this is how he survived Horada shooting himis unknown.
  • Heartbroken Badass: Shizuo's first crush did not end well◊.
  • Heroic RROD: Shizuo doesn't have the mental blocks that prevent you from ripping muscle off bone or breaking bones from overexertion, so he naturally grew up (successfully) recovering from catastrophic injury. At least he's gotten strong enough to not hurt himself so easily, and he's grown a preposterously high pain threshold.
  • Heroic Self Deprecation: Shizuo's issues with anger and being unable to control himself have pretty much shot his self-esteem to hell. It's bad enough that when Saika declares its love for him, he responds mostly with confusion — because he can't imagine why someone could love him.
  • Heroic Willpower: Saika and her children enter a victim's mind through their pain and fear. Thus, since Shizuo feels no pain and is afraid of nothing besides his own power, he's immune.
  • Hero Insurance: As it turns out, Shizuo has something akin to literal hero insurance: the company he works for pays for the property damage he causes and docks it from his pay in turn.
  • Hero With An F In Good
  • Hey You: Shizuo's generally very bad at using honorifics.
  • High Pressure Emotion: Sort of. While his expression doesn't seem to change, he's too red◊ to get away with a Luminescent Blush. Just compare it to the color of his hand.
  • Hollywood Healing: Just take a look at his childhood X-rays◊ and marvel at the fact that this man can even walk.
  • Huge Guy Tiny Girl: Shizuo eventually develops a Big Brother Instinct/Intergenerational Friendship with a ten-year-old Yakuza Princess named Akane. Given that Shizuo already towers over most people◊, the size difference between the two is rather large.
  • Hypocrisy Nod: Shizuo hates violence. Yes, really. And loathes the fact that he has violent unstoppable rages.
  • I Am A Monster
  • I Can Still Fight/Implacable Man: Bullets, extensive surgery, and heavy sedatives will not prevent Shizuo from getting right back up and hunting your ass down
    Shinra: You had two bullets in your body, and considerable muscle damage in your legs and abdomen... so why are you walking around like nothing's happened?
    Shizuo: Why? 'Cause I can.
  • I Just Want To Be Normal
  • Improbable Weapon User: Even though he's used everything including the kitchen sink as a weapon/projectile, Shizuo seems to have a preference for street signs and vending machines, depending on how far away Izaya the object of his ire is.
  • Improvised Weapon: Street signs, chairs, desks, a fridge, a flagpole, soccer goalposts, guardrails, mailboxes, trash cans, vending machines, playground slides, motorcycles, the side door from Togusa's van, a crash barrier, a freeway sign...
  • Incoming Ham: IIIIIII-ZAAAAAA-YAAAAA-KUUUUUUUN
  • Insane Troll Logic: Shizuo tends to get very irrational when he's angry (ie. insisting that beating the crap out of someone for looking at you funny is justifiable self defense because there's a 0.0000000000000000000675% chance that you can kill someone with a glare).
  • I Was Just Passing Through: Subverted; he literally was...
    Shizuo: [stamps his foot on the ground, bellowing loudly at his phone] DAMMIT! THERE'S TOO MANY MESSAGES!!! IT WON'T STOP BEEPING AND IT'S PISSING ME OFF!! I CAN'T READ THEM FAST ENOUGH! [sees Horada leering at Anri, a nose bleed present on his face] RRRAAGHGHH [screenshot of Horada airborne]
  • Jerk With A Heart Of Gold: Shizuo has a soft spot for Celty and his brother Kasuka. And pretty much anybody who isn't Izaya. Just don't piss him off.
  • Jerkass Woobie
  • Just A Flesh Wound: Silly Horada, bullets can't kill Shizuo.
  • Limited Wardrobe: Justified — he literally does have a closet full of bartender suits. They were a gift from his brother.
  • Madness Mantra/Survival Mantra: "Kill'em kill'em kill'em kill'em..." This is actually an active attempt on Shizuo's part to not go into an Unstoppable Rage. In his words:
    Shizuo: You know something, Celty? There's power in words. So what I'm doing now is holding myself back with words so I don't start destroying just about everything.
  • Major Injury Underreaction - Not phased at all at a ballpoint pen piercing straight through the palm of his hand. "Hmm... if I pull it out, it'll bleed. Should I get a bandage? Or maybe superglue?"
    • Shizuo was shot twice, one bullet in his leg and one in his stomach, during a scuffle with some Yellow Scarves. He completely failed to realize he was shot at all until he started slipping in his own blood. His response? "... Ah, I was shot."
  • Meaningful Name: Double subverted. The meaning of his name ("Quiet man, peaceful island") is just about as far from fitting as one can get, it's also exactly what hewants to be.
  • Memento Macguffin: Shizuo's bartender suits were a present from his brother, which is why he continues to wear them despite being fired from the aforementioned job quite awhile ago. Damaging them, just like everything else, is one of his Berserk Buttons.
  • Memetic Badass: both in and outside the series, in Ikebukuro it's considered that anyone who doesn't know who he is is as intelligent as a public school dropout.
  • Memetic Outfit: Shizuo's bartender suit often gets mentioned in his Red Baron title and is the source of his Fan Nickname
  • Memetic Sex God: Many a fan have declared their desire to be punched out of their clothes by the GARtender.
    • Its obvious from this that Japanese fans feel the same way. (There's also an Izaya version)
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: It's been noted that Shizuo's pretty skinny for a guy known to uproot vending machines and overturn cars on a regular basis. His muscle is probably just denser than granite.
    • Keep in mind: most people, including the musclebound, are limited to using only a third of their true strength. Shizuo lacks this limit.
  • My Greatest Failure: Seriously injuring the very woman he was attempting to save. The novels note that this was not even close to an isolated incident.
  • My Name Is Not Shizu-chan
  • Nigh Invulnerable: Sort of. Technically, you can injure Shizuo — You'll just find it damn near impossible to make a wound any deeper than half a centimeter, and he probably won't feel a thing.
  • No Holds Barred Beatdown
  • Noodle Incident: Shizuo's has a number of these with Izaya, ranging from an off-hand comment about being framed by him to something called the "Real Flesh In The Art Room" incident.
  • No Social Skills: A lot of Shizuo's general rudeness (such as forgoing honorifics, not remembering people's names, etc.) isn't because he's a jerk, but because he's never really talked to people enough to learn basic social etiquette
  • One Man Army: What other man can single handedly beat down almost all of the Slashers with his bare hands?
  • Le Parkour: Shizuo teaches it to himself to chase Izaya.
  • Punched Across The Room: Shizuo punches a thug so hard the thug's clothes fly off.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Shizuo is almost never seen without his trademark scowl.
  • Perpetual Poverty: Thanks to the arrangement mentioned above in Hero Insurance, Shizuo doesn't usually get a lot of extra funds. He doesn't really mind though - in fact, he's surprised he still gets paid at all.
  • Precocious Crush: Shizuo had his own Precocious Crush on a Yamato Nadeshiko-ish shopkeeper when he was around ten or so. Then he walked by her store one day, only to see a group of thugs assaulting her. She was seriously injured in his resulting psychotic episode, and Shizuo was too ashamed to see her ever again.
  • Red Baron: Ikebukuro's God of Destruction (occasionally with the added subtitle of "in a Bartender's Suit").
  • Reluctant Warrior: Hair Trigger Temper aside, Shizuo doesn't like fighting.
  • Required Secondary Powers: Subverted when it turned out that Shizuo didn't build up the requisite physical resistance needed to handle his Super Strength until around high school. Cue the montage of the many fractures he suffered from as a result.
  • Running Gag: IIIIIII-ZAAAAAA-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    • Also, his inability to remember who Anri is.
      Anri: [sees Shizuo bleeding copiously] "Heiwajima-san... what happened to you?"
      Shizuo: "Huh? Who're you again?"
  • Say My Name: See above.
  • Shooting Superman: As Seiji found out, blood aside.
    • The fact that Seiji managed to damage him at all is pretty impressive. Vorona couldn't penetrate his chest more than half a centimeter with a ballistic knife, and Shinra's destroyed some of his best scalpels operating on him. According to Narita, the pens Seiji used are advertised to hold up against a tank.
  • Sibling Yin Yang: With Kasuka.
  • Slasher Smile: Shizuo is fond of sporting one of these right before he's about to hurt someone.
  • Smoking Is Cool
  • Spanner In The Works: To Izaya. Just how much of one becomes apparent in volumes 5 and 6: Most of Izaya's trolling and screwing over of Shizuo is an effort to keep him out of his real plans. One of these backfires spectacularly when Shizuo demonstrates just a smidgen more self-restraint than he did in a similar past setup and sets of a chain of events that brings Awakusu-kai down on Izaya's head.
  • Super Strength: You can tell Shizuo is out and about by the flying vending machines.
  • Sweet Tooth
  • Too Dumb To Fool: Shizuo is far too simple to be manipulated by Izaya. This is the very reason why Izaya detests Shizuo so much.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Shizuo apparently really likes milk, as Tom found out when he once agreed to buy him dinner.
  • Tranquil Fury: After finding out that Izaya told a little girl that Shizuo was going to kill her family.
    Shizuo: Don't worry, Izaya and I are friends. What he told you is a misunderstanding. In fact, I'm going to sort out this misunderstanding right now. (To Tom) If I get convicted for murder tomorrow, tell everyone that I quit yesterday.






  • Ultimate Job Security: Lampshaded in a side story. Most people (including and especially Shizuo himself) are surprised that Shizuo hasn't been fired yet, then again.






  • The Unsmile: At one point in Vol. 5, Shizuo forgoes his usual Slasher Smile for the most uncharacteristically dorky smile imaginable◊. Shinra has only one thing to say in response.
    Shinra: I'm sorry, Celty, but it may turn out that I have to die before you. Here. Now.
    • Keep in mind — this is the angriest Shizuo has ever been. This is right after Izaya told a little girl that Shizuo was going to kill her family. He's giving this face because he doesn't want to frighten the little girl.






  • Unskilled But Strong






  • Unstoppable Rage






  • Waistcoat Of Style: Comes with the job of being a(n ex-)bartender.






  • Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Shizuo's spent much of his post-high school life in and out of jobs thanks to his temper. He finally caught a break when Tom (who already knew how to deal with Shizuo for the most part) offered him a job as his bodyguard/debt collector.






  • World's Strongest Man






  • Wouldn't Hit A Girl: Previous romantic developments have gone horribly, horribly wrong for just about everyone involved thanks to his temper (see Heartbroken Badassand Precocious Crush). As a result, Shizuo is generally disgusted enough at the thought of violence against women that it's actually quite difficult to provoke him into it.






  • Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Shizuo has it deeply ingrained into his head that Children Are Innocent. Thus when small child does something like try to murder him with a heavily modified taser, the event simply doesn't register.






  • You Will Be Spared: Found Seiji attacking him amusing enough that he let him off lightly... by headbutting him (though this was after he threw him into the side of a truck).
    Shizuo: I like you a lot more than Izaya, which is why I'm going to let you off the hook with just this.






  • You Won't Like Me When I'm Angry: You really won't...







Shinra Kishitani


He only looks normal.
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama & Aoi Yuuki (JP), Yuri Lowenthal (EN)

The young Back Alley Doctor of Ikebukuro who lives with his future wife Celty. Shinra is a bit...odd. He has a huge love for supernatural events and loves to run his mouth, especially when Celty is involved. He went to high school with Izaya and Shizuo and knows the two very well.
  • Back Alley Doctor
  • Bishounen
  • Bunny Ears Lawyer: Shinra is a pretty good surgeon (especially considering his age), but he's also pretty weird. For example, he's probably the only Back Alley Doctor to talk your ear off about White Day while extracting a bullet from your arm.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: Twenty years, he's been trying to get with Celty. Twenty years.
  • Dressed To Heal: Shinra almost never takes off the labcoat.
  • Freaky Is Cool: Shinra makes it known that he thinks Celty is beautiful without a head. Yeah, he's kinda weird.
    • He also spent most of gradeschool and highschool fanboying Shizuo's crazy rage fits. Shingen did not raise that boy right.
  • Friend To All Children: Shinra turns out to be inexplicably good with small children, much to everyone's horror.
  • Harmful To Minors/Troubling Unchildhood Behavior: Much of Shinra's weirdness can be attributed to Shingen's less than stellar parenting techniques. These included such wonderful ideas as bringing Shinra into the operating room and encouraging him to vivisect a struggling, naked, headless woman at the age of four.
  • Horny Scientist: And, unlike most examples, Celty has to live with him. At least he's pretty.
  • Improbable Age: Shinra started practicing medicine straight out of high school. It's justified in that he's not practicing legally.
    • And he started operating (well, vivisecting) at four. Shingen is called Mad Doctor for a reason.
  • Innocent Cohabitation: With Celty.
  • Iron Buttmonkey: Thanks to his tendency to annoy Celty and Shizuo on a regular basis, Shinra usually finds himself at the end of a Super Strength-backed punch quite often. These do nothing to stop him from getting back up and annoying them again.
  • Japanese Pronouns: Shinra's pronoun use is weird in that he'll switch between watashi, boku, and ore completely at random, for no other reason than because he likes to. Celty thinks it's annoying.
  • Just The Way You Are: Shinra's opinion on the whole deal with Celty's missing head. The truth is that he's worried that, with her head and memories, she won't be the same Celty he knows and loves — if she doesn't disappear altogether, that is.
  • Limited Wardrobe: Shizuo finally asks him what the deal with wearing labcoats 24-7 is in Volume 5. Apparently he likes to be the Man In White to Celty's Woman In Black.
  • Little Kid Lover: With Shinra being the very vocal pervert he is, most people tend to assume the worst when it turns out that he's very good with children. Shinra is offended - not because his friends are implying he's a pedophile, but because they're implying that he's attracted to anything other than headless eldritch psychopomps named Celty.
  • Love Makes You Evil: Has explicitly stated that there is absolutely no line he wouldn't be willing to cross for Celty's sake.
    I feel like we hear the phrase "love and justice" a lot, but no one seems to ever mention "love and evil". An evil guys whose love is deeper than the ocean. If the object of affection is narrowed down to Celty, then I am one.
  • Mad Doctor's Handsome Son: Although he didn't escape being raised by Shingen without a loose screw or two
    Celty: I expected Shinra would never grow up to be a decent human being raised by such a parent...And I was right.
  • Man In White: Deliberately invokes it with his ever-present labcoat.
  • The Medic
  • Mister Exposition: Shinra's usually the one to throw in a hypothesis or two for things like, "How does Celty see and hear without a head?" and, "Just how is Shizuo that stupidly strong, anyways?" Naturally, he's also the only one who ever seems to care about this sort of thing, as demonstrated by Shizuo (attempt at) relaying Shinra's explanation for his Hollywood Healing
    Shizuo: I've destroyed my body countless times, but I just kept getting stronger. Shinra says it's because...You know what, who gives a crap?
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Perhaps a little more literally than others
    Celty: They called me a monster.
    Shinra: How rude! I would have used the term "Naughty Lady" myself...
  • Non Action Guy
  • Precocious Crush: Shinra says that he's been attracted to Celty since the day that he her. That would be when he was four.
  • Shoot the Medic First: In volume 8 of the novel, it was going in this direction when Ruri's stalker decides to kill him after failing to kill Celty. Luckily, Celty saves him.
  • Single Target Sexuality: You get no points guessing for who.
  • Too Kinky To Torture: If it's done by Celty, it's hot. He also doesn't consider regular asskickings a barrier to his friendship with Shizuo.
  • Too Much Information: Usually what gets him in trouble with Celty or Shizuo. Note, it takes supernatural strength to get him to shut up and even that's temporary. You can knock him unconscious mid-sentence; and he'll continue the conversation upon waking up.
    Shinra: But it's not like you to act so faint-hearted! I only really like it when you're frail in be—[WHACK!]
    • And from the last episode: "I'm going to have to take a shower and change the sheets!" Really, Shinra?
  • True Neutral: He's not a bad guy, but while the bad actions of others might bother him, he generally doesn't intervene unless it is something that harms Celty. Further, he's not at all picky about his client base.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Shizuo are friends for most of their lives, but being a resident motormouth of the series, he tends to prance on Shizuo's many Berserk Buttonsas a jolly pony. Which never really bothers either of them.
  • What The Hell Hero: Celty gets pissed when she discovers that Shinra knew exactly where her head was, but deliberately withheld the information. Even after he explains his actions to her and they get something of a resolution to the argument, Celty punches him into a wall before she lets herself forgive him.
  • Wife Husbandry: Shinra's really hoping a gender-reversed example with Celty.
    Shinra: Shizuo, Celty here is my roommate. Or should I say future wi-AAIIGH!
    • Looks like he finally got his wish... er, sort of.

Kyohei Kadota


Voiced by: Yuuichi Nakamura (JP), Steve Blum (EN)

"If you guys do decide that we're your enemy... if you want a fight, you'll get one."
Leader of a pretty small-time gang consisting of himself, Erika, Walker, and Saburo. Also works as a tile layer.

Erika Karisawa and Walker Yumasaki


Erika is voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki (JP), Mela Lee (EN)
Walker is voiced by: Yuuki Kaji (JP), Brian Beacock (EN)

Erika: "A great man once said that the world is a myth. I think he said it, anyway. Even if he didn't, I'm sure someone else said something similar."
Walker: "A great man once said that the world is symbolic. I think he said it, anyway. Even if he didn't, I'm sure someone else said something similar."
A pair of hardcore otakus who hang around with Kyohei and Saburo. There is more to them than meets the eye.
  • Beware The Nice Ones/Tranquil Fury: Don't make Walker angry. You may get yourself stabbed in the hand with a pair of chopsticks.
    • Or set on fire.
  • But Not Too Foreign: It's regularly implied in the Light Novels that Walker is biracial, probably with American or European ancestry.
  • Chaotic Neutral: Walker and Erika (as well as Kadota and Togusa) mostly do their jobs for the fun of it. They don't hurt innocent people and have helped them occasionally, but this isn't their primary motivation.
  • Cloudcuckoolanders: They both launch into a rather extensive conversation in episode 20 where they characterize Chief Chef of Russian Sushi as a character in a cooking manga, and invent a backstory involving him serving with the Red Army and fighting the The Mafiya. Which, of course, is distressingly on the mark.
  • Crack Pairing: Not one themselves, but they're certainly not adverse to shipping them.
    Erika: Which one is better — Fans/Trolls or Trolls/Fans?
    Walker: Are we assuming that's yaoi or yuri? That's important. Very important!
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Erika is hinted to have this.
  • Daydream Believer: Walker's a certifiable Otakin.
  • Defector From Decadence
  • Even Evil Has Standards
  • Eyes Always Shut: Walker
    • He does open them briefly when he's planning to do something especially devious (like in episode 18 when he sets some Blue Squares on fire), revealing that he possesses Eyes Of Gold. Lampshaded here:
    Walker: I'd glare at you, but they're closed!
  • Eye Scream: They were going to brand the eyeballs of one of the thugs they caught that work for Yagiri pharmacy.
  • Gratuitous English: Walker's name, though the books regularly imply that he's probably biracial.
  • Heroic Sociopath: Both Walker and Erika have very few qualms about doing anything with their characteristic cheerful nonchalance. They've just figured that being nice is more fun and less trouble.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Walker may rag on Erika for her excessive Yaoi Fangirl tendencies (particularly her tendency to write her friends into elaborate slash fantasies) but, slash aside, he's just as bad (he once wrote a Kadota/Erika BDSM fic).
    Walker: Wait, Karisawa-san, please stop! Why are you fantasizing about Kadota-san and me in a Boys Love relationship!? I've said over and over that people like Karisawa-san are the reason the society has a negative impression of otaku culture in general! I say Kadota-san and I should become heroes in Galgames who win over the hearts of loads and loads of heroines! Actually, we can even do without Kadota-san! I'll be happy as long as I have this bondaged right hand blessed with the power of ancient moe-moe peoples so that every girl who sees my right hand would go 'Woo ~'...
  • I Owe You My Life: Erika states that Kadota saved her from the darkness and that she would follow him anywhere.
  • Kill It With Fire: Walker sets the Blue Squares leader's van on fire with molotovs when he and the rest of the gang rescue Saki.
  • Let's Get Dangerous
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: Erika. It doesn't help that she's a yaoi fangirl and gropes Anri.
  • Meta Guys
  • Medium Awareness: Both Walker and Erika have said things that suggest they know they're in a Light Novel.
  • My Master Right Or Wrong: Subverted. Walker and Erika have vowed to follow Kadota no matter how many people they have to stab, torture, or firebomb. Of course Kadota never asks them to do this stuff, and has to veto (most of) their more sociopathic ideas.
  • Nice Hat: Erika's is definitely on the "normal" end, but still pretty spiffy.
  • No Sense Of Personal Space: Erika does not know the meaning of the phrase "sexual harrassment"◊.
  • The Nicknamer: Erika. Examples include Yumacchi, Dotachin, Iza-Iza/Izayan, Shizu-Shizu/Shizu-chan and Mikapuu.
    • "Dotachin" is Izaya's invention, actually, but Erika seems to love it.
  • Noodle Implements: "I don't care what you do to him. Just don't use gasoline inside the car like you did that last time."
  • Obfuscating Stupidity/Refuge In Audacity
  • Old Shame: Walker once published a doujin novel sometime ago. He is not happy with it at all. Erika however loves to tease him about it.
  • One Hour Work Week: As it turns out, Walker and Erika do have jobs — they're an ice sculptor and a jewelry maker respectively. They just have really flexible schedules due to being freelance.
  • Otaku
  • Shipper On Deck: Erika's Shizuo/Izaya shipping aside, Walker once wrote Celty/Shinra fanfic. They both ship each other with Kadota.
  • Shipping Goggles: Erika.
  • Sleep Cute: After falling asleep next to Masaomi's hospital bed.
  • Strange Minds Think Alike: As demonstrated when both came to the conclusion that Anri was a Flame Haze at the exact same time, despite being separated.
  • Those Two Guys
  • Those Two Bad Guys
  • Too Much Information: Erika's never learned that it's in bad form to tell your friends that you fantasize about them having gay sex with each other.
    Erika: Speaking of which, seems like Dotachin and that Chikage guy are nurturing some kind of friendship after fighting each other!
    Kadota: Stop talking in that way, it makes people twitch when you do.
    Erika: Then I'll just say it! From my point of view, it was totally a "Thanks for the yaoibait, it was delicious" kind of moment!
  • Unholy Matrimony: The happiest couple in the series so far.
  • Torture Technician: They enjoy torturing people for information using methods from manga and novels. Case in point: that guy they wanted to interrogate at the end of episode 6, they were going to brand his eyeballs with solder, and can be seen explaining/acting out how the "procedure" will go right in front of him in graphic detail.
  • Yangire
  • Yaoi Fangirl: Erika, and she ships Shizuo/Izaya and Walker/Kadota
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