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Durarara!! Light Novels #12
デュラララ!! ×12
『やあ、シズちゃん。あれで死なないなんてね。君は本当に、大した大した化け物だよ。そんな君が、人間を庇うなんて滑稽以外の何ものでもなかったけどね──』
壊れ始めた街、東京・池袋。
罪歌で刺され自我を失っていく新羅。そして新羅を奪われたセルティは怪物と化していく。正臣は泉井の手によりケガを負い、杏里の家を訪れた沙樹は彼女を問いつめていく。門田は病室から消え、セルティの首は人の手を彷徨う中、帝人が手に入れた力とは──!?
そして戒めを解かれた静雄が臨也へとたどり着き──。
壊れ始めた街、東京・池袋。
罪歌で刺され自我を失っていく新羅。そして新羅を奪われたセルティは怪物と化していく。正臣は泉井の手によりケガを負い、杏里の家を訪れた沙樹は彼女を問いつめていく。門田は病室から消え、セルティの首は人の手を彷徨う中、帝人が手に入れた力とは──!?
そして戒めを解かれた静雄が臨也へとたどり着き──。
328 pages, Paperback
First published June 7, 2013
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About the author
Ryohgo Narita
348 books383 followersRyohgo Narita (成田 良悟, Narita Ryōgo) is a Japanese light novelist. He won the Gold Prize in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize for Baccano!, which was made into a TV anime in 2007.[1] His series Durarara!! was also made into a TV anime, which began airing January 2010
There are two traits found in most of Narita's works:
* Narita writes extremely fast, one volume a month if he wishes - with tons of spelling errors and missing words as a tradeoff. The editors like to leave them sometimes just for fun, though.
* His work titles often have an exclamation mark at the end (i.e. Baccano!, Vamp!, Durarara!!, etc.).
Kanji names: 成田 良悟 & 成田良悟.
There are two traits found in most of Narita's works:
* Narita writes extremely fast, one volume a month if he wishes - with tons of spelling errors and missing words as a tradeoff. The editors like to leave them sometimes just for fun, though.
* His work titles often have an exclamation mark at the end (i.e. Baccano!, Vamp!, Durarara!!, etc.).
Kanji names: 成田 良悟 & 成田良悟.
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May 24, 2020
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This should have been the thrilling conclusion to the series according to Narita himself – but he left too many loose ends so it looks like Volume 12 will just be setting up for the final volume.
And it definitely feels like it’s setting up. Everything reached a climax near the end and we’re close to a lot of things happening but few things actually happen. We leave everyone on a cliffhanger right before they do the big thing that we’ve been waiting for them to do for the entire series.
As you can imagine that doesn’t make for a very satisfying book – but it does make you want to dive right into the next one. So while this book feels like a bridge between Volume 11 and Volume 13…at least it makes you want to read the next volume. That’s perhaps its only value as a volume of the series.
I liked seeing more of Kida and Saki, especially seeing what sort of person Saki truly is. We got more of Anri and Saika which I think is sort of the least interesting and also messiest plot thread. Celty and Shinra weren’t really in this book and Izaya barely made an appearance until the finale.
I’m sad the chatroom has essentially been removed from the plot, barely turning up in this book. We also only got around four illustrations which seems like far fewer than usual. I hope that Volume 13 will be the conclusion all the readers were hoping for and use all the things that make Durarara!! Durarara!! to the best of its abilities.
Anyways I’m excited for the final book and I’m glad it will be the last time I have to read those copy-pasted paragraphs about Celty being a dullahan like I didn’t understand that at some point in the past twelve volumes already.
This should have been the thrilling conclusion to the series according to Narita himself – but he left too many loose ends so it looks like Volume 12 will just be setting up for the final volume.
And it definitely feels like it’s setting up. Everything reached a climax near the end and we’re close to a lot of things happening but few things actually happen. We leave everyone on a cliffhanger right before they do the big thing that we’ve been waiting for them to do for the entire series.
As you can imagine that doesn’t make for a very satisfying book – but it does make you want to dive right into the next one. So while this book feels like a bridge between Volume 11 and Volume 13…at least it makes you want to read the next volume. That’s perhaps its only value as a volume of the series.
I liked seeing more of Kida and Saki, especially seeing what sort of person Saki truly is. We got more of Anri and Saika which I think is sort of the least interesting and also messiest plot thread. Celty and Shinra weren’t really in this book and Izaya barely made an appearance until the finale.
I’m sad the chatroom has essentially been removed from the plot, barely turning up in this book. We also only got around four illustrations which seems like far fewer than usual. I hope that Volume 13 will be the conclusion all the readers were hoping for and use all the things that make Durarara!! Durarara!! to the best of its abilities.
Anyways I’m excited for the final book and I’m glad it will be the last time I have to read those copy-pasted paragraphs about Celty being a dullahan like I didn’t understand that at some point in the past twelve volumes already.
August 5, 2017
Nie wiem, czy moja opinia na temat Durarary się zmieni, gdyż ten tom (według mnie) zawiera mankamenty poprzednich. To nie to, że jest on zły, bo czyta się świetnie, jest parę ciekawych sytuacji, ale zarazem są fragmenty bardzo nudne i mam wrażenie, że z książki młodzieżowej ktoś próbuje robić książkę dla dorosłych. Zamiast humoru i świetnej akcji są ciężkie, czasem pełne okrucieństwa sceny. Zamiast czuć napięcie, czuję raczej smutek, że muszę cyztać takie sceny. Poza tym czasami brakuje dynamiki w walkach, co jest dla mnie dziwne. Wcześniejsze tomy (szczególnie 4-7) były napakowane świetną akcją, bohaterami, humorem itd. itd. Tu brakuje mi kilku postaci, niektóre powróciły, co mnie bardzo ucieszyło, ale większość nie znalazła tu swojego miejsca.
Mimo wszystko przygoda z Durararą jest cudowna i ja kocham tę serię, tylko nie do końca podoba mi się kierunek, w którym zmierza, a w zasadzie kończy zmierzanie...
Mimo wszystko przygoda z Durararą jest cudowna i ja kocham tę serię, tylko nie do końca podoba mi się kierunek, w którym zmierza, a w zasadzie kończy zmierzanie...
April 5, 2019
The final showdown between the immortal couple of this series-Shizu-Iza-has struck the pages. The city coverd in darkness and seethes of inhuman wrath, what would become of it? Can't wait till the finishing book hits the shelf.
April 8, 2019
More build up! The next volume will end the story, but this volume includes quite a few “wow didn’t see that coming” moments. I have high expectations for volume 13! The only reason it lost a star was that it didn’t conclude any of the plot points... in fact it opened quite a few more!
August 7, 2022
Durarara!! 12: 5 Stars ♥
December 15, 2022
Fabulous build up for the last book
August 28, 2013
13巻に引き続きます( *｀ω´)
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