Durarara!!

Anyone seen this series through? Asking because it started on AS Saturday/Sunday and I always think it's interesting when a Japanese series lifts a supernatural being from a western mythos. In this case a Dullahan, a Celtic reaper / headless horseman. Their twist is it's a she, her horse appears as a motorcycle, and she chats online.

Hopefully it unfolds faster that Kekkaishi.

The main character seems like an overly whiney pain in the butt.

Well the main character is playing the country rube in the big city, way outside his comfort zone. Next is seeing how he handles life in his new school as well as the inevitable supernatural weirdness.

Seems like it could be interesting. I'll give it a few episodes to start up, I know a lot of the time the first introductory episode isn't necessarily the greatest.

Scrappers need Motorcycle Melee now, though.

Uncoloured people and way too much chat room exposition so far. Seems pretty lazy with a tiny smattering of coolness. And a horrible ending theme. There's not enough good about it for me to give it any more episodes.

It's written, produced, and directed by the same guys as Baccano!, which is one of my favorite shows of all time... but I'm in Tenzhi's camp. I watched three or four episodes way back when and nothing in it really grabbed me enough to merit watching more.

Is this supposed to be about me? I saw the topic and was like is Xmas trying to say something to me and couldn't remember how to say my name and was just too lazy to find it...

But seriously... anime... i'll get around to it probably... Why isn't Ranma on Netflix?

I started watching it on Hulu a couple weeks ago, a little over halfway through right now. Really have been enjoying it. There's a lot of disparate characters and threads that don't seem to be going anywhere early on, but since it's fiction, it's easy to watch secure in the knowledge that it's going to come together and go somewhere. I enjoy the mystery of figuring out how it's all going to play out.

And when it does come together, hooboy. Even though I've only finished the first arc, it's already looking like one of those shows where I end up wanting to go back and see how everything was dangled just out of reach.

I wasn't that keen on Durarara!! early on, in fact I wouldn't have watched beyond the first 3-4 episodes were it not what my uni anime society was showing. However, I'd suggest you persevere with it, as it gets much much better later on.

it does seem interesting but the issue I have right now is they seem to be character cramming. Bleach has a similar large cast but it introduced said cast slowly over a long time to give the audience a chance to get used to it.

this one introduced no less then a dozen characters in the span of the first 10+ minutes of the episode and then expects you to keep up, as well as adding in the chat room which does have the issue of trying to figure out whos chatting at the time through only voice recognition.

its got some cool mythos in it though so Im gonna see where it goes.

It takes a bit to get going but is really worth the watch, so give it about 6 episodes. I watched it on Crunchyroll when it was streamed from Japan and it was my favorite stream of that season.
There are 2 special (OVA) episodes..12.5 & 25...only time will tell if A.S. will show them. I don't have a working television anymore, so I haven't watched any cable/ broadcast for about a year now.

i remember reading a bunch of episodes of the manga last year and it was getting pretty interesting. i'll probably give this a look at some point. Maybe after i finish watching the Wakfu episodes i currently have queued.