Manga Review
I've finished "Durarara Vol. 2" by Ryohgo Narita.
Product Description
The Black Biker of Ikebukuro, gliding along the dark streets on her pitch-black motorcycle, may take on any number of delivery jobs, but Celty's objective remains fixed on one single task: recovering her severed head. The dullahan of Irish lore has sensed her head in Tokyo, but even with the research of her unorthodox doctor friend (perfectly suited to examine her unorthodox body), she has made little progress finding it. Meanwhile, the color gangs of Ikebukuro are dealing with a newcomer even more mysterious than the Black Biker: the colorless gang known as the Dollars has the usual thugs fearful and uneasy ... and they have good reason to be scared ...
Product Details
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Yen Press (April 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316209317
ISBN-13: 978-0316209311
My Review:
In this volume we learn more about Celty's background about how she lost her head. She has sensed her head is in Tokyo but even with the help of her unconventional doctor friend she hasn't been able to locate it.
Two people are kidnapped and tortured to find out who they are working for. One guy is asked to pick a manga and his kidnappers will torture him the same way as described in the manga. He picks an issue of Black Butler and he is about to get his eyes drilled but they are interrupted (it would have happened) by another one of their gang members. He finds out he is being held by the Dollars Gang which is the deadliest ones around and no one knows who their leader is and seem them.
Mikado Ryūgamine is walking with one of his friends when they see Anri Sonohara being harassed by a group of girls. They hide behind a corner of a store and watch what happens. Then all of a sudden Izaya Orihara appears behind Mikado and talks to him. We see Anri still being harassed when Izaya grabs the bully leader's phone and smashes it. She is in shock but is unable to move and finally leaves. Izaya is moving towards Mikado when all of a sudden a refrigerator is thrown at Izaya and hits him.
Then we see are introduced to Shizuo Heiwajima who starts to fight with Izaya. They are in a grabbing match when all of a sudden an object is thrown at Mikado and he is saved by another man Simon Brezhnev. Then Shizuo and Simon start fighting and Izaya escapes. Meanwhile Mikado and his friend have escaped to a restaurant and start talking.
This volume has a lot of violence and really crazy and psychotic characters.
5/5
Other manga in series:
1. Durarara Vol. 1
2. Durarara Vol. 3 (July 24, 2012)
3. Durarara Vol. 4 (October 30, 2012)
Thanks Hachette Book Group Canada and Yen Press for sending me this manga to review, greatly appreciated!
1 comment:
Wow - eyes drilled. That sounds painful. Interesting that it references Black Butler. That's a series I've been wanting to read.
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