Monday, January 24, 2011

Characters: Durarara part 2

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     Supporting characters (Anime) 

Saki Mikajima

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (JP)

"You'll come back. That's how things are. So you can love all the other girls you want, and I don't care. In the end you'll love me more than you love them."
A young woman currently residing in the hospital who is Masaomi's (ex?) girlfriend and follows Izaya'sorders to the very letter.
  • Cold Blooded Torture/Ill Girl: Both her legs were broken due to a plan by the Blue Squares' leader to lure Kida out.
  • Curtains Match The Window: After her hair fades to its original colour. In flashbacks, it was dyed brown.
  • Die For Our Ship: If you don't ship her and Kida together, she'll always suffer this treatment. (Mostly in the Izaya/Kida stories.)
  • Disabled Hottie: Subverted. It turns out she was faking it.
  • Fangirl: For Izaya until she gets over him.
  • Grey Eyes
  • Honey Trap: And Kida knew this from the beginning but went along with it anyway.
    • He even knew that Saki was feigning illness to make him feel guilty, but he also went along with it.
  • I Want My Beloved To Be Happy: Saki is the one that motivates Kida into returning to Ikebukuro for Anri and Mikado ("You can always come home to me, Masaomi. Don't forget that. But I won't be able to help Masaomi's friends. That's something only Masaomi can do, isn't it?")
  • My Master Right Or Wrong: Saki worships the ground Izaya walks on, and even admits that if he told her to jump off a cliff and die, she would do so. Subverted at the end when she betrays him out of love for Masaomi, spilling the beans on Izaya's plans to Simon.
  • Official Couple: With Masaomi.
  • Red String Of Fate: Says that she and Kida are this whether he likes it or not, and so it's ok with her if he sees other girls because no matter what he will always come back to her, because "Izaya says so."
  • The Scrappy: See Die For Our Ship and Shallow Love Interest. Also, many people think that she destroyed the Three Amigos dynamic with Mikado, Anri and Kida to the point that Kida left Ikebukuro with her and fails to communicate with the other two as time goes on.
    • Mis Blamed: The main accusation thrown at her by fans is that she's responsible for Kida dropping out of school and leaving Ikebukuro. In reality, it has very little to do with her. Kida left Ikebukuro because he was too ashamed to face Mikado and Anri after the whole Yellow Scarves incident. The extent of Saki's involvement is giving him a place to stay after he ran away from home.
  • Shallow Love Interest: She's seen as this to some people because her background isn't really explained. After all, she was working with Izaya to get close to Kida, thus her personality isn't fleshed out like most of the characters.
  • Walking The Earth: Leaves Ikebukuro with Kida at the end of the series after they reconcile.
  • Yandere: The way she talks to Kida about them being "destined" has shades of this.

Kasuka Heiwajima (stage name "Yuhei Hanejima")

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio & Kanae Oki (JP)

A famous model and actor who got his start after saving a talent scout who made the mistake of attempting to scout his older brother Shizuo. While amazingly talented as an actor, Kasuka's natural demeanor is very robotic and unemotional.
With the occasional mention of his brother aside, Kasuka usually keeps his personal and family life under wraps. Journalists who insist on interviewing his family usually find their cars mysteriously overturned.

Tom Tanaka

* sigh* Shizuo's at it again...
Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP)

Ikebukuro's resident "Debt Collector" and was Shizuo's Sempai in middle school. He's a pretty nice and normal guy that keeps Shizuo under control when he rages.
  • All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks: Subverted; Tom is generally a pretty nice guy and would rather avoid violent confrontation. He employs Shizuo mainly to use his name to scare his clients into paying him back on time.
  • Alliterative Name
  • Ambiguously Brown: Has noticably darker skin than many characters, not to mention the dreadlocks, and his name suggests that he might have some non-Japanese ancestry.
  • Distressed Dude: Back in middle school, some other kids would occasionally get the idea that kidnapping Shizuo's sempai would give them leverage in a fight. This is because they were idiots.
  • Face Palm: Default reaction when someone (usually the person he's getting to pay their debt) pisses Shizuo off.
  • Improbable Hairstyle: Sports dreadlocks, very neat ones at that, probably not all that improbable from a maintenance prospective, but is somewhat rare in the world of anime.
  • Katsuyuki Konishi
  • Kid With The Leash: Subverted, as Tom takes offense at the suggestion — Shizuo is his friend, not his attack dog.
    Tom: The kid's not a dog, and he's not on anyone's side to begin with. You try talking to him and you'll know. He's far more normal than you may think.
  • Nice Guy
  • Non Action Guy: In his own words, "I'm just not good at fighting."
  • Only Sane Man
  • Sempai Kohai: Shizuo's sempai.
  • Weak But Skilled: Let us reinterate, he is the only person who knows how to prevent Shizuo from raging, or keep him under control when he inevitably starts.

Saburo Togusa

Go on, just try to even touch his van.
Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (JP), Spike Spencer (EN)

The fourth member of Kyohei's gang, as well as the gang's official driver.
  • Angrish: Mutters to himself incoherently over Walker and Erika's choice of replacement door for his van. When they ask if he's OK he bellows at them to shut up.
  • Berserk Button: Do not damage his van, or kidnap Kaztano.
  • Big Damn Heroes: In epsiode 24 alongside Kadota.
  • Butt Monkey: Wonders why he has this status when Shizuo tears off the side door of his van to use as a weapon.
  • Calling Your Attacks: "Turning LEFT!"
  • Car Fu
  • Cargo Ship: With his van according to some, and given how protective he is of it there may be an element of truth to this.
  • Cool Van
  • Defector From Decadence
  • Drives Like Crazy: When he's particularly pissed he indulges in somewhat maniacal driving.
    • Or even when he's not particularly pissed. Case in point: driving down stairs.
  • Heroic BSOD: Seeing Shizuo tear off a door of his van briefly sent him into shock.
  • Otaku: Unlike Walker and Erika, the object(s) of his obsession are Idol Singer/ Serial killer Ruri Hijiribe and his Toyota Tarago.

"Simon" Brezhnev

Want some sushi? Hey, why are you running away?
Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda (JP), Patrick Seitz (EN)

A Badass Black Russian sushi hawker. Being an immigrant, his Japanese isn't very good and his physical appearanceactually frightens some people. Despite, he's a kind and intelligent man who only wants customers to visit the restaurant.
  • The Atoner
  • Anime Accent Absence: Averted, but in the wrong way. His accent sounds like an English speaker's, not a Russian's.
  • Bad Ass: The only man in Ikebukuro who can physically stop Shizuo, and he does it casually and routinely. Luckily, he's very friendly and peaceful, so it stops here.
  • Black Vikings: Lampshaded.
    Kida: His name's Simon. He's a Russian of African descent. He works as a tout for a Russian sushi shop here.
    Mikado: ...I'm sorry, but there are just so many things wrong with what you just said.
  • Dark And Troubled Past: Was in the KGB until the Soviet Union fell, after which he (along with Dennis, the future owner of the Russian Sushi shop he now works at) took a job under Russian weapons dealer Drakon. What exactly he's done under Drakon's orders is vague, but it obviously wasn't good.
  • Eloquent In My Native Tongue: He's deep, eloquent, witty and philosophical (as evident from his inner monologues), but it's hardly visible behind his intimidating appearance and broken Japanese.
  • Face Of A Thug: Simon is friendly as all hell, but the fact that he's both a Scary Black Man and a Husky Russkie tends to scare people away.
  • Famous Named Foreigner: Brezhnev, while not terribly rare, is still a rather uncommon surname in Russia, and will immediately invoke the late Leonid Brezhnev and The Seventies.
  • Former Regime Personnel: He and Dennis were former KGB, and true to stereotype, transitioned from that into involvement with The Mafiya.
  • Funny Foreigner: Though he could just be playing this for what it's worth.
  • Gentle Giant: He still towers over most Japanese people and intimidates them. Must be the power of the Gaijin Smash.
  • It's Raining Men: He leaps down from the seventh floor of an apartment building and, of course, lands safely.
  • I Was Just Passing Through: He says that the aforementioned leaping off the building was only because he was making a delivery to a client on the top floor when he saw the fight.
  • The Mafiya: Simon and Dennis (now Chief Chef) are former members of such an organization.
  • Martial Pacifist: Simon doesn't even like talking about violence, and only uses his martial arts skills to either defend himself or break up a fight. He has, however, killed someone in the past.
  • Mother Russia Makes You Strong
  • Neutral Good
  • Obfuscating Stupidity
  • Running Gag: His apparent inability to bring customers to his shop.
  • Scary Black Man: Simon's career as a sushi tout seems to suffer as a result.
  • Super Strength: Simon jumps from a building and manages to stop Shizuo's rampage. From the reaction everyone involved give, this evidently happens a lot.
  • The Reason You Suck Speech: Punches Izaya in the face and gives him one.
    Simon: Have you ever killed people? I have.

Kaztano

Voiced by: Tohru Ookawa

An illegal immigrant from Italy. He is friends with Dotachin Kyohei's gang.
  • Anime Accent Absence: Justified in this case — Italian has pretty much the same pronounciation for words as Japanese.
  • Big No: Sort of. His e-mail address is "kaztanooooooo".
  • Funny Foreigner
  • The Illegal
  • The Nicknamer: Kaztano seems to have a habit of adding "no" to the end of names to make them sound Italian, e.g. "Togusano" and "Dotaccino".

Ryo Kamichika

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (JP), Stephanie Sheh (EN)

A girl who ran away from home after discovering her father was having an affair and was later kidnapped and rescued by Celty. She was an anime-only character by Narita at first, but then he later used her as a minor character in the novel.

Takashi Nasujima

Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (JP)

A teacher at Raira Academy who takes an interest in Anri.
  • Curtains Match The Window
  • Hot For Student: Dated Haruna Niekawa, who transferred school supposedly because of their relationship, but currently changed his preferences to Anri instead. This changes after he finds out Anri is the original possessor of Saika and runs away in fear following her fight with Haruna, who was thought to be Saika.
  • Mugging The Monster: A panicked Nasujima runs from Anri and tries to rob the first person he sees — who happens to be Shizuo.
  • Stalker With A Crush: He tends to follows Anri around quite a bit during school and even tries to visit her apartment in Episode 16.

Haruna Niekawa

Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (JP)

A high school student who mysteriously transferred out of Raira Academy after an incident involving her and Nasujima.

Shuji Niekawa

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (JP)

The father of Haruna and a news reporter writing a magazine story on the strongest person in Ikebukuro (i.e. Shizuo).


Namie Yagiri

Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (JP), Bridget Hoffman (EN)

Chief of the 6th lab of Yagiri Pharmaceuticals and older sister of Seiji Yagiri — with whom she has a rather disturbing romantic attachment to. This has repercussions later on when she tries to capture Mikado in order to get a hold of Mika Harima, resulting in the first First ever Dollars meeting and Yagiri Pharmaceuticals shady buisness involving kidnapped people being used for medical experiments being exposed which in turn leads to Yagiri Pharmaceuticals being completely absorbed by the American company Nebula, and her out of a job, at least until Izaya offers her one...

Seiji Yagiri

Voiced by: Kazuma Horie (JP), David Vincent (EN)

The above mentioned's younger brother. Dropped out of high school on the first day to be with his lover. He has now returned and is now Mika Harima's boyfriend until he retrieves Celty's head once more.
  • Armor Piercing Question: Shizuo fires off a few about his love life when Seiji stabs him with pens.
  • Curtains Match The Window
  • Freaky Is Cool: Dude fell in love with a head. And plunked it on top of a conveniently available body so he could talk to it. It's like he's competing with Shinra for the title "Lover of the Uniquely Beautiful."
    • Which make it more funny since technically they ARE competing.
  • Insane Troll Logic: He must have learned it from his sister.
  • Love At First Sight/A Love To Dismember: Seiji's been in love with Celty's head the moment his sister snuck him in to see it.
  • Loving A Shadow: Seiji decides to stay with Mika after she confesses that she's not really Celty's head — not because he actually likes her, but because she's a close enough substitute until he can get his hands on the real thing again.
    • This may be subject to change if you take his recent speech to Mikado about love into account, where he says "no matter what you learn about her, once you decide you love her, it's your responsibility to never stop."
  • Oblivious To Love/Selective Obliviousness: It hasn't been said whether or not he's aware of what his sister thinks of him.
  • Tall Dark And Handsome: Just enough so that when Kida meets him just before he drops out of school, he suggests that he join him and Mikado in picking up girls.
  • Yandere: Puts three pens in Shizuo for looking at Mika Harima wrong. Strangely enough, it was Celty who grabbed her, not him, then he tries to stab Mikado with a scalpel.
    • And earlier than that he grabbed Mika by the hair and smashed her face into a wall just because she caught sight of Celty's head (which he had stolen from his sister's lab), resulting in Mika having a facial reconstruction which resulted in her face looking like Celty's as part of a ploy by Namie to keep Seiji under her control.

Mika Harima

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (JP)

Seiji's lover. She resembles the disappeared Mika Harima, and has a scar around her neck. She is, in fact, Mika's body with a different head sewn on. This head may or may not be Celty's Mika Harima given plastic surgery to have Celty's face, after she got her head smacked against a wall by Seiji when she breaks into his apartment and discovers Celty's head.
  • Curtains Match The Window: Before she had the surgery to make her head look like Celty's.
  • Easy Amnesia: She claims that she doesn't have any memory of who she is. She's lying, of course.
  • Foil: To Anri.
  • Green Eyes
  • Magic Plastic Surgery
  • Murder The Hypotenuse: Mika has... plans for Celty's real head if she ever gets her hands on it.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: This girl knows EVERYTHING that's going on: Mikado being the leader/founder of the Dollars, Izaya being stabbed, what Celty is looking for, who's who on Izaya's chat, Anri hosting Saika inside her, etc. She knows it ALL, and more. All because she has tapped EVERYTHING and EVERYONE relevant in the story due to the fact that they are all connected to her love, who she wants to keep safe. The only reason she hasn't revealed all that information to her friends is because Seiji might find out and intervene, getting himself hurt or killed in the process. Now digest that for a second, and then realize she might have more information than Izaya. Thank you.
  • Stalker With A Crush: Very. She even had stalker tendencies before Seiji came into her life, and since then she has taken her stalking Up To Eleven.
  • Yandere: If you thought actually getting together with Seiji would make her lighten up on the crazy stalking, you'd be wrong. Turns out that she been wire-tappingeveryone remotely associated with Seiji ever in an effort to "protect" him.

Kinnosuke Kuzuhara

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP

A motorcycle cop brought in to Ikebukuro to take down Celty. Often just a little bit too into chasing down suspects, to the point that he causes as many accidents as he prevents.

Shingen Kishitani

Fwhooosh!!
Voiced by: Akio Ohtsuka (JP)

Shinra's father and source of most of his weirdness, Shingen was living in America up until recently, when he decided to return to Japan and impose himself on his son for reasons he has yet to disclose. Believing Tokyo's air to be terribly filthy and unfit for breathing, he opts to wear a gas mask 24/7.
  • Brother Chuck: drops off of the radar completely after episode 14, one episode after he was introduced.
  • Bunny Ears Lawyer: He's a brilliant doctor by all accounts, but he's obsessed with air pollution, hence the gas mask. It doesn't help that's he's also a...
  • Cloudcuckoolander: No one who looks that menacing should act that goofy.
  • Crowning Moment Of Funny: "Fwhooosh!"
    • "Fine. I approve. However, you shall call me..." [holds up a piece of paper with 'dad' written on it] "...daddy from now on!"
  • Did I Just Say That Out Loud: A self-acknowledged flaw.
  • The Faceless: His face was never shown in anime.
  • Gas Mask Mooks: Because Tokyo's air is just so terrible (Oh, Shingen. Tokyo is nothing). The mask stays on even when he's naked in the shower, as Shinra witnessed to his misfortune.
  • Horned Mask: His mask has what look like devil horns, a contrast to the cute-looking cat ears on Celty's helmet.
  • Large Ham: Generally, at the others' expense.
  • Mad Doctor: And for "mad" we mean "totally bonkers" here.
  • Papa Wolf: According to the novel, Shingen cut Celty's head off and selling Saika's sword off to Anri's parents was in order to protect Shinra from Namie's grandfather who threatened to kill Shinra if he didn't.
  • Parent With New Paramour: Vol. 4 reveals that Shingen remarried while he was in America — to a woman younger than his son.
  • Refuge In Audacity
  • Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Why couldn't you not be sexually attracted to headless women, Shinra?
    • And it's the most normal thing he said yet.

Horada

Voiced by: Wataru Takagi (JP), Kyle Hebert (EN)
A jerkass member of the Yellow Scarves who becomes an antagonist in the second half of the series when he usurps Masaomi's position as leader.

Ganguros


A trio of ganguro girls from Raira academy who frequently picked on Anri, until the Slasher attacked them.

Ruri Hijiribe

Voiced by: Saki Fujita (JP)

An idol singer who Togusa is obsessed with.

    Novels only characters 

Vorona Douglanikov

A former Mafiya assassin and Blood Knight that fled to Ikebukuro, taking a truck filled with guns along with her.

Slon



Chikage Rokujo

Leader of the Toramaru biker gang who comes to Ikeburo after some members of his gang were allegedly attacked by the Dollars and involved innocents in the crossfire. Also a shameless manwhore, and rarely seen without multiple women hanging off of him.
  • Badass Biker: Leader of a bosozoku gang.
  • Bandaged Face
  • Berserk Button: Hurt a girl in any way and he will likely kick you in the nuts.
  • Biggus Dickus: Implied by one of his girlfriends.
  • The Casanova
    • Chivalrous Pervert: Gerneral horniness and complete irreverence for monogamy aside, Chikage is careful to make sure that he (or anyone else, for that matter) doesn't hurt women.
  • Cavalier Competitor: Very laid-back about fights even in his quest for vengeance.
  • Defiant To The End: In his fight against Shizuo
    Shizuo: Yeah. When I was about to punch him a fifth time he said "Ah, and I have girls willing to tend to me when I’m in the hospital bed. Are you jealous now?" ...Well, something like that. His tooth broke so I wasn’t able to hear very well.
  • The Dulcinea Effect
  • Ethical Slut
  • Fearless Fool: His very first order of business upon entering Ikebukuro? Picking a fight with Shizuo, hence the bandages.
  • Foe Yay: With Kadota, according to Erika.
  • Friendly Enemy: Despite a grudge over injuring some of Chikage's Toramaru pals (which is why he picked a fight in the first place), both Chikage and Shizuo are both tremendously civil about the affair. Shizuo even dropped him off at Shinra's after handing him his ass.
    Chikage: Hell if that wasn't the most enjoyable fight I've had in years. He was nicer than I expected, too.
  • Graceful Loser: Not at all annoyed at getting the crap beaten out of him by Shizuo. He thought it was kinda fun, actually.
  • Harem Seeker: And a successful one at that.
  • Made Of Iron: Shizuo notes that it took him four punches to finally render him unconscious
  • Sexy Man Instant Harem: Is rarely seen without his many girlfriends.
  • Wouldnt Hit A Girl

Mairu and Kururi Orihara


Aoba Kuronuma


An unusually young-looking freshman that quickly latches onto Mikado. Also the leader of Blue Square.
  • Abusive Brother: Subverted when it comes to his mother. However, his brother is the one that beat him up regularly to the point that he just snapped. His father isn't even mentioned...
  • Bitch In Sheeps Clothing: One reason why he is a...
  • Break the Cutie: In his childhood, he was regularly assaulted by his brother. Sure he was a Creepy Child but he didn't retaliate until something made him snap and burn his brother's room down. He then fakes innocence and throws his brother in jail.
  • Cain and Abel: With his brother Izumi. Although he can act like the "Cain" most of the time, he really is the "Abel" in the relationship.
  • Chaotic Evil
  • The Chessmaster: Fancies himself this, though your mileage may vary
  • Cute Shotaro Boy: By appearance.
  • Creepy Child: Not technically a child, but from what we see of his childhood, he definitely counts. Just ask his brother...or Mikado...or Masaomi..
  • Deliberately Cute Child
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Mikado claims that if he were to dress up in a girl's uniform, no one would find out he was a male unless he spoke. Of course, this has to do with his childish looks.
  • Everything is Even Worse with Sharks: Not only is it his favorite animal but he often refers the Blue Squares as a group of sharks. Doesn't help that the group is forced to wear a shark hat.
  • Expy: Of Czeslaw Meyer.
  • Foe Yay/Ho Yay: With Mikado in the novel.
  • Freudian Excuse: His brother constantly beating him as a kid messed him up psychologically that he became the Manipulative Bastard he is today.
  • Hair Color Dissonance: He has black hair but many people draw him with blue hair instead.
  • In Love With Your Carnage: His interests/opinion in Mikado is taken up to eleven after Mikado stabs him with the pen. It doesn't help that he admitted to Izaya that he was a masochist and that he was looking for his special someone to be his sadist in the relationship.
  • Jerkass Woobie: YMMV but if you glance at half of these tropes, this is all caused by being abused by his older brother. Add the fact that his parents might have known but did nothing to stop it might make you feel sorry for him.
  • The Man Behind The Man: The real leader of the Blue Squares.
  • Manipulative Bastard: He's described as a younger version of Izaya.
  • Moe: He's either drawn like this in fan art or drawn as a Creepy Child. It's to be noted that he deliberately aims for this.
  • Never Live it Down: Despite not appearing in the anime, he's best known for getting stabbed with a ballpoint pen by Mikado of all people.
    • To the point that, since there are very few official illustrations of him and we don't get a good look at his face, he is usually made recognizable in fanart by his wounded and/or bandaged hand.
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: Unlike Izaya, he hates humans with a passion. From what his brother did to him, it's kind of given why he hates humans.
  • Older Than They Look: Aoba's described as looking like a middle (or even elementary) school student.
  • Sempai Kouhai: Is Mikado and Anri's junior in school. Mostly just applies to Mikado, though.
  • Ship Tease: The kiss with Izaya's sisters of all people.
  • Stepford Smiler: Type 3 definitely, but YMMV if it's Type 1 or 2 as well.
  • Surrounded By Idiots: Is generally not impressed by the intelligence of his fellow Blue Square members.
    Gin: Let me see - after an awesome fight, they realized The Power Of Friendship, and then a bunch of weird guys came and used hostages but bang! — Light was everywhere, and we got a big fire too!
    Aoba: ...I was a fool to send you on a spying mission.
  • Why Did it Have to be Fire?: Aoba has a huge fear of fire. However, this works to his advantage as he's able to frame his brother for arson by using this fear. He plays this straight though after the incident though.
  • Yangire: And he's getting close to becoming Yandere.

Akane Awakusu



    Game only characters 

Yoshimune Miyoshi

Protagonist of the recently-released visual-novel style PSP (and Japan exclusive) videogame, Durarara!!: 3Way Stand-Off. He is described as a good listener, frequent mover, and lover of gadgets.

Chiaki Igarashi

A new character; a freshman from a different high school.

Yatabe

Member of the Yellow Scarves. Has cameos in the main works as well.
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