And why you should be watching it.

Lets say, for just a moment, that you do not live in a huge metropolitan city like New York, or Tokyo. You are some spineless fuckwad from who-knows-where and you grew up around normal people with normal, humble lives and you understand the joy of sunrises or walks on the beach. You also enjoy reading a book from time to time.

Come to think of it, this makes all country folk sound gay.

Oh well, we'll roll with it. Rather than mention all of those awfully homosexual tendencies every time I feel like referring to YOU, I will simply say you are gay.

So.

You. You are gay. Please come to terms with this. I will give you a moment.

...

Okay, good to go? You have just moved into a huge bustling city filled to the brim with lively people, with personalities you've never seen before and you can't help but feel foreign. You're human. You're the same race as the race majority. And, yet, you still feel like the minority.

Do I need to tell you why you're still part of the minority?

It's part of who you are. Don't feel ashamed.

You often feel like the fifth wheel during social situations. Everybody else just seems to click perfectly together like a well made jigsaw puzzle, and you feel like the poor single piece that got soaked in water for a few days. You have tiny foreign bacteria growing in you.

So, naturally, everybody else is going to steal the thunder from you in every single situation. In your world, you are the main character, but everybody else makes you seem like small fry. That's okay, by the way. It takes away from the vast irritation that many anime fans seem to feel towards your kind.

And, for once, I wasn't referring to your gay qualities on that one. Just the fact that you're the spineless main character who gets out-shined by everybody else, even the weak and shy females who apparently are better attuned to every single situation than you regardless of either of your histories. It's true, but, you're getting away with it on this one.

Everything around you is this amazing wonder. All the people you can see, all of their interactions, and their circumstances whether personal or public, are things that you're paying a lot of attention to. You can't help it, because you like glittery shiny stuff.

In your first few days, you've met virtually every single type of person that a city has to offer. You've met some thugs, some bullies, some friends (who are much cooler versions of yourself), some geeks, many foreigners, a damaged-goods female or two, a few cool & quiet people who are (not so secretly) complete badasses, and many others that I'm too lazy to bother mentioning. You already know who they are, anyway, and have all of their names memorized. 'Cuz you're g.. actually, that's getting kinda old. You get the picture.

Even with all of this new information, which paints a picture so much larger than life than you could have ever painted previously, you can't help but feel you've really been handed virtually no tangible evidence that everything ties together in some crazy, convoluted way. But you can't quite shake the feeling, anyway. You just like your feelings too much.

The question, at this point, isn't so much how you are going to fit in with all of this. In reality, nobody cares about YOUR autobiography once this is done, because everybody cares more about the details - how everything is going to tie together to form a (hopefully) beautiful picture of a bustling city.

And that, is why you need to watch Durarara. Mikado is supposed to be you, moving in to this huge environment you've never been to - and with the help of a friend who is already seemingly deeply connected with it in some way. You watch this because you are being shown this city through YOUR perspective, as the outsider, not because you want to be told a story.

It would also help if you're gay. You might empathize with Mikado even more than you already should.

That actually is a pretty good description of what it feels like to be gay, at times.

Nevertheless, I'm still not terribly interested in anime.

Holy crap, I'm gay? When did this happen?!

You know, I'm pretty much caught up on all the anime I was carring to watch for the time being, so I'll stream a few eps and see what it's like. I must say you sure did put a good bit of thought into that description.

Also, I read the title and started thinking of the beginning of a Lady Gaga song.


...I hate her.

Do note there's only "a few" eps out right now, the show just started 3 weeks ago.

By the end of it, this description will be inaccurate - only reason I know this is because of the novels. Wrote it after watching the 3rd episode as an introduction for anybody who hasn't been watching it or reading the novels so far, so it only has information given in those first 3 episodes to avoid spoilers~