German distributor Peppermint Anime finished off the two volume release of the original Durarara!! anime series on Friday and they’ve now got three dub clips out to highlight the releases. They were done with twelve episodes for each plus the .5 OVAs where appropriate and the sets were priced at about 72 euro for the Blu-ray and about 65 euro for the DVDs. The show was originally solicited for four volumes so seeing it reconfigured is definitely a plus.
The main staff includes Takahiro Omori directing based on scripts by Noboru Takagi and character designs by Takahiro Kishida. Animation production is being done by studio Shuka, their first production, instead of Brains Base which handled the first series.
The cast includes Miyuki Sawashiro as Celty, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Mikado. Mamoru, Miyano as Masaomi Kida, Kana Hanazawa as Anri Sonohara, Daisuke Ono as Shizuo Heiwajima, Hiroshi Kamiya as Izaya Orihara, Sanae Kobayashi as Namie Yagiri, Jun Fukuyama as Shinra Kishitani, Eri Kitamura as Mairu Orihara, Hisako Kanemoto as Kururi Orihara, Houchu Ohtsuka as Haruya Shiki, Ayahi Takagaki as Erika Karisawa, Kazuma Horie as Seiji Yagiri, Mariya Ise as Mika Harima, Takaya Kuroda as Simon Brezhnev, Takuma Terashima as Saburou Togusa, Yūichi Nakamura as Kyōhei Kadota, Yuuki Kaji as Walker Yumasaki, Saki Fujita as Ruri Hijiribe, Daisuke Kishio as Kasuka Heiwajima, Misato Fukuen as Saki Mikajima, Akio Ohtsuka as Shingen Kishitani, Katsuyuki Konishi as Tom Tanaka, Keiji Fujiwara as Kinnosuke Kuzuhara, M.A.O as Vorona, Kappei Yamaguchi as Mizuki Akabayashi, Hiro Shimono as Aoba Kuronuma and Yuuki Ono as Chikage Rokujo. Masaya Onosaka as Max Sandshelt, Misaki Kuno as Akane Awakusu, Yasuyuki Kase as Mikiya Awakusu, Shozo Iizuka as Dogen Awakusu, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Егор (Egor), Satoshi Mikami as слон (Sloan), Atsumi Tanezaki as Emilia and Kiyoyuki Yanada as Shu Aozaki.
Plot concept: A pitch-black headless motorcyclist who roams the city?! High-tension suspense and action are taking over Tokyo’s Ikebukuro District! Warped romances and friendships – and plenty of hidden secrets – lie behind these big city walls!
[Source: Durarara!!]
