It is officially announced today on October 5 at the Dengeki Bunko Aki no Saiten 2014 (Dengeki Bunko Fall Festival) event in Akihabara that the upcoming Durarara!!×2 TV anime will be a 3-cour project. The first cour titled "承" (Shou) is, as previously announced, scheduled for January 2015, then the second cour "転" (Ten) for July 2015, the third cour "結" (Ketsu) for January 2016.
"起承転結" (ki-shou-ten-ketsu) is the four-part organization of Chinese and Japanese narratives. So the 24-episode 1st season, which was aired from January to June 2010, presumably takes the part of "起" (Ki) in the four characters.
At the event, four additional voice cast for the second season are also announced as below:
Hiro Shimono as Aoba Kuronuma
M.A.O as Vorona
Yuuki Ono as Chikage Rokujo
Kappei Yamaguchi as Mizuki Akabayashi
http://www.durarara.com/
>We are in the age of three split cour series now
Baccanofags are killing themselves as we speak.
>>114757209
Eventually we'll have long running series going one cours on, one cours off.
>year and a half worth of durarara content
i'm ok with this
DRRR ALL DAY ALL NIGHT ALL YEAR
So they'll animate all the LNs, huh. I'm pretty happy.
I wonder if the OP will be as good as ROAR OUT LOUDER.
hell yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O9hRcIAza0
Tell me /a/, what made the OP so damn good? Is it the upbeat rhythm that describes the simplicity of city life?
>>114757283
I like both. I've come to accept that Japan doesn't like Baccano and I'm just glad the anime ended on a conclusive note, which most LN adaptions don't do.
But it's not brain based
>3 cour
>>114757209
>>114758455
Most of the same staff though.
Too bad I forgot most of the details since Drrr was like 2 years ago
>>114758387
>that drumbeat
>those guitar riffs
>dem rusty vocals
>rhythm guitar and bass twangs come in
>BLOW UP ROUDER
It's so godlike.
>>114758455
The staff set up their own studio.
>>114758487
IZAYAAAAA
BRAINS BASED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCUHLDDK8o8
HYPE
Fuck yes.
I mean, sure, I liked Baccano too, but nowhere near as much as Durarara. Couldn't be happier.
Good times.
>>114757283
I gave up hope for more Baccano animated after I started reading the novels, seriously they are damn good fun.
I just want more of them translated or licensed, I think Baccano is something that could actually do very well in the western market.
>>114757209
>Mizuki Akabayashi
When did they give him a first name?
>>114758521
>Too bad I forgot most of the details since Drrr was like 2 years ago
More like 4 years ago
>>114758717
It's not Brain Base
>>114757209
OH FUCK YES
>>114759852
I think the same thing.
Any time a western publisher takes suggestions for new series to license I throw the Baccano novels out there. Though the only response I've seen is "Too many books, too long, we want to to a shorter LN series or manga"
So how many episodes is that?
>>114761768
36 minimum, 39 maximum.
>>114761859
33 minimum.
>>114761859
>>114762046
>Durarara got 3 cours 2nd season
>SoRaNoWoTo gets fucking nothing
Maybe you shouldn't have shitposted DRRR threads to oblivion with "herp derp lol durarara yaoi shit lol" back then, SPECULAH faggots. Karma is a bitch.
>>114758935
This girl... I think I'm going to like her.
>>114760865
Isn't the sequel to Yahari also technically not being done by BB?
>Brains Base has to create subsidiary studios to maintain their reputation of no sequels.
So I went to sleep before the big announcements.
Did we get anything about Kamachi, Index or whatever?
>>114762938
Heavy Object is getting an anime
>>114762938
Heavy Object anime.
>>114762969
>>114762993
Fucking called it.
>>114757209
From what I know, I expect them to not rush it 3-cour is good, but it isn´t enough to reach the end
>>114763115
Hopefully they will only adapt up to 6 novels, anything more and it will be rushed.
>>114763488
>Text: The anticipated sequel has been approved for broadcast across three split cours (quarters of a year)!
>Text: It will depict the entire first arc of the original light novel series!
>Text: Durarara!!×2 Shō Starts January 2015
>Text: Durarara!!×2 Ten Starts July 2015
>Text: Durarara!!×2 Ketsu Starts January 2016
It sounds like they're doing all novels
>>114763705
At least there are parts easy to ignore or that could be done in later ovas to lesser the damage(being hopeful here) ?
>>114762723
Yes. They seem to hate money for some reason
>>114763705
I think they should be fine. Really the only long story arcs are in volumes 5-6 and 10-13. The other novels could fit into maybe 4 to 6 episodes/ Volume 9 especially doesn't need many episodes strictly devoted to it since it's almost all exposition on Shinra and Izaya's backstory.