History HoYay / Durarara

*** [[spoiler: The dialogue of this scene can be translated as: I- Ahh... I've forgotten everything else, but I feel like I've seen your face before... To feel so at ease just from you holding me... Surely you were really close to me...
S- You don't need to remember the past. Forget everything, including today. If you remember... I won't be able to ''love'' you anymore.]]

*** [[spoiler: The dialogue of this scene can be translated as
I- Ahh... I've forgotten everything else, but I feel like I've seen your face before... To feel so at ease just from you holding me... Surely you were really close to me...

*** [[spoiler: The dialogue of this scene can be translated as:

*** [[spoiler: The dialogue of this scene can be translated as:]]
*** [[spoiler: I- Ahh... I've forgotten everything else, but I feel like I've seen your face before... To feel so at ease just from you holding me... Surely you were really close to me...

** In the manga, the first thing Mikado does when he's reunited with Kida is to grab both of his hands and blush while happily squealing "It's really you Masaomi!". And he does this ''twice''.

* I think people were too busy spazzing over the [[FoeYay Shizaya]] HoYay in ''{{Durarara}}'' to actually list it on this page. [[YaoiFangirl Erika is a fan, if only to be refuted by everyone else's horror.]] There's also Mikado/Kida (HeterosexualLifePartners if we remember the point that Kida was practically begging for Mikado to come and [[spoiler:[[strike:save]]]] stay with him), Shizuo/Tom (Tom is the only one who can keep Shizuo calm), [[IncestYayShipping Shizuo/Kasuka]], Izaya/Kida (more FoeYay, though to Izaya, Kida is merely [[spoiler:a sacrificial piece that he thinks of as a little brother]]), Izaya/Mikado (Izaya mainly likes getting too close to the guy's space, though anything with Izaya usually develops into FoeYay), Shizuo/Dotachin, etc... There's also Mairu, [[spoiler:one of Izaya's younger twin sisters,]] who's willing to take a girl if she applies (since the spot for a guy in the sisters' heart is taken up by one [[spoiler:Heiwajima Kasuka]], in a {{Fangirl}} kind of way. Celty also tends to have girls who (apparently) believe her to be a man and crush over her.

* There is a bit between Anri and Mika, and Anri's feelings towards Celty are very crush-like.

** To just touch on the Shizuo/Izaya subject with regards to adaptation differences. The ship ''is'' undeniably intensely popular, and often a flamewar topic in and of itself, but a lot of the popularity and serious fanworks of it come from the anime, and for not completely insensible reasons. In the anime, Izaya and Shizuo do have a hate-obsession relationship, with Izaya playing [[MindGameShip mind games]] with Shizuo, the clashes of intense violence, the hate-at-first-sight beginning etc. If you look at it [[HoYay in a certain way]], yes, you can read a lot of subtext into their relationship, and with a little AlternateCharacterInterpretation you can make things even worse. ''However'' the same cannot be said in such a literal way for the light novel. In the light novel they don't go looking to fight each other as much, tending to deliberately stay out of each others' way, Izaya mainly tries to ignore Shizuo and kill him from afar without getting personally involved, and their relationship tends to look more like plain loathing. Both anime and novel are of course similar, and you can read the same relationship from both ''but you often find people arguing on the differences'', and this is one of those cases where the adaptation changes the relationship dynamic enough to make it... [[{{Shipping}} interpretable]] in different ways. This should be kept in mind by anyone wanting to go out and participate in any {{Shipping}} wars!!

** To just touch on the Shizuo/Izaya subject. The ship ''is'' undeniably intensely popular, and often a flamewar topic in and of itself, but a lot of the popularity and serious fanworks of it come from the anime, and for not completely insensible reasons. In the anime, Izaya and Shizuo do have a hate-obsession relationship, with Izaya playing [[MindGameShip mind games]] with Shizuo, the clashes of intense violence, the hate-at-first-sight beginning etc. If you look at it [[HoYay in a certain way]], yes, you can read a lot of subtext into their relationship, and with a little AlternateCharacterInterpretation you can make things even worse. ''However'' the same cannot be said in such a literal way for the light novel. In the light novel they don't go looking to fight each other as much, tending to deliberately stay out of each others' way, Izaya mainly tries to ignore Shizuo and kill him from afar without getting personally involved, and their relationship tends to look more like plain loathing. Both anime and novel are of course similar, and you can read the same relationship from both ''but you often find people arguing on the differences'', and this is one of those cases where the adaptation changes the relationship dynamic enough to make it... [[{{Shipping}} interpretable]] in different ways. This should be kept in mind by anyone wanting to go out and participate in any {{Shipping}} wars!!

** To just touch on the Shizuo/Izaya subject. The ship ''is'' undeniably intensely popular, and often a flamewar topic in and of itself, but most of the popularity and serious fanworks of it come from the anime, and for not completely insensible reasons. In the anime, Izaya and Shizuo do have a hate-obsession relationship, with Izaya playing [[MindGameShip mind games]] with Shizuo, the clashes of intense violence, the hate-at-first-sight beginning etc. If you look at it [[HoYay in a certain way]], yes, you can read a lot of subtext into their relationship, and with a little AlternateCharacterInterpretation you can make things even worse. ''However'' the same cannot be said for the light novel. In the light novel they don't go looking to fight each other, but deliberately stay out of each others' way because they can't stand each other, Izaya just tries to ignore Shizuo and kill him from afar without getting involved, and their relationship is more straight-up loathing. This is one of those cases where the adaptation changes the relationship dynamic enough to make it... [[{{Shipping}} interpretable]], and this should be kept in mind by anyone wanting to go out and participate in any {{Shipping}} wars who may not be able to understand where the appeal comes from. Just a warning.

* Izaya admitting to Aoba that he's a masochist who is still looking for a special someone to be his sadist. He also states that he wouldn't mind being used by a better manipulator than himself and that he would admire that person due to their superior skill. Said person very well could be [[spoiler: Jinnai Yodogiri, the main antagonist and ultimate manipulator of the whole Durarara!! series]], whether Izaya had him in mind or not at the time of the converstation.

* Izaya admitting to Aoba that he's a masochist who is still looking for a special someone to be his sadist. He also states that he wouldn't mind being used by a better manipulator than himself and that he would admire that person due to their superior skill. Said person very well could be [[spoiler: Jinnai Yodogiri, the main antagonist and ultimate manipulator of the whole Durarara!! series]], whether Izaya intended to refer to him or not.

* Izaya admitting to Aoba that he's a masochist who is still looking for a special someone to be his sadist. It very well could be [[spoiler: Jinnai Yodogiri, the main antagonist and ultimate manipulator of the whole Durarara!! series]].

* Mikado and Aoba. As soon as Aoba is introduced in the novel, he instantly latches onto Mikado. Then you realize he's the leader of Blue Squares and simply wants to control Mikado. When it seems like he'll get his wish, Mikado retaliates by stabbing him with a ballpoint pen (thus earning his title as Memetic Badass and telling him that he stabbed him for involving Anri in his little game. Now the two are working together in the merged Dollars/Blue Squares group and Aoba seems to have taken Masomi's place in Mikado's life...almost completely. Add to the fact that Izaya admitting to Aoba that he's a masochist who is still looking for a special someone to be his sadist. It very well could be [[spoiler: Jinnai Yodogiri, the main antagonist and ultimate manipulator of the whole Durarara!! series]].

* Mikado and Aoba. As soon as Aoba is introduced in the novel, he instantly latches onto Mikado. Then you realize he's the leader of Blue Squares and simply wants to control Mikado. When it seems like he'll get his wish, Mikado retaliates by stabbing him with a ballpoint pen (thus earning his title as Memetic Badass and telling him that he stabbed him for involving Anri in his little game. Now the two are working together in the merged Dollars/Blue Squares group and Aoba seems to have taken Masomi's place in Mikado's life...almost completely. Add to the fact that Aoba admitting to Izaya that he's a masochist who is still looking for a special someone to be his sadist. Looks like he's found the person.

* I think people were too busy spazzing over the [[FoeYay Shizaya]] HoYay in ''{{Durarara}}'' to actually list it on this page. [[YaoiFangirl Erika is a fan, if only to be refuted by everyone else's horror.]] There's also Mikado/Kida (HeterosexualLifePartners if we remember the point that Kida was practically begging for Mikado to come and [[spoiler:[[strike:save]]]] stay with him), Shizuo/Tom (Tom is the only one who can keep Shizuo calm), [[BroYay Shizuo/Kasuka]], Izaya/Kida (more FoeYay, though to Izaya, Kida is merely [[spoiler:a sacrificial piece that he thinks of as a little brother]]), Izaya/Mikado (Izaya mainly likes getting too close to the guy's space, though anything with Izaya usually develops into FoeYay), Shizuo/Dotachin, etc... There's also Mairu, [[spoiler:one of Izaya's younger twin sisters,]] who's willing to take a girl if she applies (since the spot for a guy in the sisters' heart is taken up by one [[spoiler:Heiwajima Kasuka]], in a {{Fangirl}} kind of way. Celty also tends to have girls who (apparently) believe her to be a man and crush over her.

* I think people were too busy spazzing over the [[FoeYay Shizaya]] HoYay in ''{{Durarara}}'' to actually list it on this page. [[YaoiFangirl Erika is a fan, if only to be refuted by everyone else's horror.]] There's also Mikado/Kida (HeterosexualLifePartners if we remember the point that Kida was practically begging for Mikado to come and [[spoiler:[[strike:save]]]] stay with him), Shizuo/Tom (Tom is the only one who can keep Shizuo calm), [[BroYay Shizuo/Kasuka]], Izaya/Kida (more FoeYay, though to Izaya, Kida is merely [[spoiler:a sacrificial piece that he thinks of as a little brother]]), Izaya/Mikado (Izaya mainly likes getting too close to the guy's space, though anything with Izaya usually develops into FoeYay), Shizuo/Dotachin, etc... There's also Mairu, [[spoiler:one of Izaya's younger twin sisters,]] who's willing to take a girl if she applies (since the spot for a guy in the sisters' heart is taken up by one [[spoiler:Heiwajima Kasuka]], in a {{Fangirl}} kind of way. Celty also tends to have girls who (apparently) believe her to be a man and crush over her (despite her nice assets being...nice, if [[MostCommonSuperpower much more modest than a certain other girl's in the show]]...).

* Izaya and Shinra seems to have something going on in middle school. I mean [[spoiler: Shinra took a knife wound for Izaya and Izaya's reaction is to have revenge on the person that stabbed him. Mind you that this is the only time that Izaya shows human behavior.]]

* There is a bit between Anri/Mika.

* Izaya and Shinra seems to have something going on in middle school. I mean [[spoiler: Shinra took a knife wound for Izaya and Izaya's reaction is to have revenge on the person that stabbed him. Mind you that this is the only time that Izaya shows human behavior.]]