History Trivia / Durarara

** The irritable and agressive Shizuo Heiwajima is played by Creator/DaisukeOno, mostly known for playing smooth-talking {{Bishounen}} such as Itsuki Koizumi (''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'') and Sebastian Michaelis (''Manga/BlackButler'').

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BrycePapenbrook, who had largely been cast as secondary characters prior to getting the part of Kida. This show arguably kickstarted the trend of him landing a large portion of the leading young male roles in high-profile California anime and video game dubs- a trend that lasted at least four years. [[note]]For reference, the dub of the first season came out in 2011[[/note]]. Also for Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being the first anime role she did as Akane Awakusu. Same for Creator/KyleMcCarley with Aoba being the first big role he's done.

* PlayingAgainstType: The irritable and agressive Shizuo Heiwajima is played by Creator/DaisukeOno, mostly known for playing smooth-talking {{Bishounen}} such as Itsuki Koizumi (''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'') and Sebastian Michaelis (''Manga/BlackButler'').

* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: After getting bombarded by calls from his friends over his thoughts on yaoi (thanks to the [[FanPreferredCouple infamous Shizaya pairing]] showing up in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''), Narita finally made his stance known in a tweet: [[JustForFun/OneOfUs if he can femslash]] [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei Harumi/Chiri]], then the {{LightNovel/Durarara}} fans can ship whoever the hell they want to too.
** He then decided to screw with the fans by writing a Shizaya story as an April Fools joke. [[http://hi.baidu.com/datacat/blog/item/52c6cbfb1c700b68024f5610.html Found Here]].

* ThrowItIn: Celty's kitty-ear helmet was originally just a joke by Narita, but the character designer liked it too much to not keep it.

* ActorAllusion:
** Patrick Seitz (Simon Brezhnez in the English dub) actually lampshades the fact that "[He's] played [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline black]] [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct guys]] and [he's] played Russian guys, but never at the same time".
** [[Creator/SakiFujita Ruri Hijiribe]] is probably better known as [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} another idol singer.]] [[Anime/LoveLive So did]] [[Creator/CristinaVee her English voice actress]].
** Creator/CrispinFreeman must have had some serious [[Anime/EurekaSeven Deja Vu playing a character that enjoys pounding the living tar out of]] Creator/JohnnyYongBosch.

* CastingGag: Doug Stone was [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid previously playing another character who has a respirator on.]]

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** The Raijin boys ([[Creator/HiroshiKamiya Izaya]], [[Creator/DaisukeOno Shizuo]], [[Creator/JunFukuyama Shinra]], and [[Creator/YuichiNakamura Kadota]]) were [[Anime/OsomatsuSan brothers]] and [[Manga/ShirokumaCafe animal buddies]].
** For the English dub, you'll probably start questioning why [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon and Koizumi]] have [[Creator/CrispinFreeman started trying to]] [[Creator/JohnnyYongBosch kill each other.]]
** Many of the voice actors for the dub such as Creator/CarrieSavage (S1 Mika Harima), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Izaya Orihara), Creator/KariWahlgren (Celty Sturlson), Creator/SandyFox (Haruna Niekawa), Creator/MichelleRuff (Anri Sonohara), Creator/KirkThornton (Takashi Nasujima), Creator/KarenStrassman (Sayaka Sonohara and Emilia Kishitani), Creator/SteveBlum (Kyouhei Kadota), Creator/LexLang (Shu Aozaki and Egor), Creator/DarrelGuilbeau (Mikado Ryugamine) and Creator/StephanieSheh (Rio Kamichika) previously worked together on the dub of Anime/StellviaOfTheUniverse.

* NamesTheSame: Kida.

** Also, Creator/SandyFox, who is well-known to voice [[TastesLikeDiabetes cutesy]], [[NiceGirl kind-hearted]] girls gives you [[spoiler: AxCrazy Yandere [[LoveFreak Haruna Niekawa]]]].

* {{Defictionalization}}: [[http://dollars-bbs.org/ You know the password.]]

* FanNickname:
** Shizuo: Shizzy, The Gartender
** Celty: [[{{Tsundere}} Tsundullahan]]
** Izaya: {{Troll}}zaya. In Japan he is known as Uzaya from "uzai" which means annoying.
** Mikado: [[spoiler:[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Poole Moot]]]]kado, Moekado and [[spoiler:Boss]]kado also occasionally pop up. And when his character single came up, he was nicknamed Mikadork.
** Masaomi: Brosaomi, {{Moe}}saomi.

** Mikado: [[spoiler:[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#moot Moot]]]]kado, Moekado and [[spoiler:Boss]]kado also occasionally pop up. And when his character single came up, he was nicknamed Mikadork.

** Mikado: [[spoiler:[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#moot Moot]]]]kado, Moekado and [[spoiler:Boss]]kado also occasionally pop up. And when his character single came up, he was nicknamed [[{{Adorkable}} Mikadork]].

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BrycePapenbrook, who had largely been cast as secondary characters prior to getting the part of Kida. This show arguably kickstarted the trend of him landing a large portion of the leading young male roles in high-profile California dubs- a trend that lasted at least four years. [[note]]For reference, the dub of the first season came out in 2011[[/note]]. Also for Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being the first anime role she did as Akane Awakusu. Same for Creator/KyleMcCarley with Aoba being the first big role he's done.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BrycePapenbrook, who had largely been cast as secondary characters prior to getting the part of Kida. This show arguably kickstarted the trend of him landing a large portion of the leading young male roles in high-profile California dubs- a trend that lasted at least four years. [[note]]For reference, the dub of the first season came out in 2011)[[/note]]. Also for Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being the first anime role she did as Akane Awakusu. Same for Creator/KyleMcCarley with Aoba being the first big role he's done.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BrycePapenbrook, who had largely been cast as secondary characters prior to getting the part of Kida. This show arguably kickstarted the trend of him landing a large portion of the leading young male roles in high-profile California dubs- a trend that lasted at least three or four years (For reference, the dub of the first season came out in 2011). Also for Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being the first anime role she did as Akane Awakusu. Same for Creator/KyleMcCarley with Aoba being the first big role he's done.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BrycePapenbrook, who had largely been cast as secondary characters prior to getting the part of Kida. This show arguably kickstarted the trend of him landing a large portion of the leading young male roles in high-profile California dubs- a trend that lasted at least three years. Also for Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being the first anime role she did as Akane Awakusu. Same for Creator/KyleMcCarley with Aoba being the first big role he's done.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BrycePapenbrook, who had largely been cast as secondary characters prior to landing the part of Kida. This show arguably kickstarted the trend of him landing a large portion of the leading young male roles in high-profile California dubs- a trend that lasted at least three years. Also for Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being the first anime role she did as Akane Awakusu. Same for Creator/KyleMcCarley with Aoba being the first big role he's done.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being the first anime role she did as Akane Awakusu. Same for Creator/KyleMcCarley with Aoba being the first big role he's done.

** Bridget Hoffman as Namie Yagiri. She plays well-mannered women or nice women.

** [[Creator/SakiFujita Ruri Hijiribe]] is probably better known as [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} another idol singer.]]

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker, being the first anime role she did as Akane Awakusu. Same for [=Kyle McCarley=] with Aoba being the first big role he's done.

* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: After getting bombarded by calls from his friends over his thoughts on yaoi (thanks to the [[FanPreferredCouple infamous Shizaya pairing]] showing up in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''), Narita finally made his stance known in a tweet: [[OneOfUs if he can femslash]] [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei Harumi/Chiri]], then the {{LightNovel/Durarara}} fans can ship whoever the hell they want to too.

** The Raijin boys ([[Creator/HiroshiKamiya Izaya]], [[Creator/DaisukeOno Shizuo]], [[Creator/JunFukuyama Shinra]], and [[Creator/YuichiNakamura Kadota]]) were [[Anime/OsomatsuSan brothers]] and [[Anime/ShirokumaCafe animal buddies]].

* ContinuityCameo: In episode 8, among the requests the blonde tourist has gathered, there's a doodle of two girls searching for Hanejima Yuuhei - the [[spoiler:Orihara]] twins from the novels. They actually [[LastEpisodeNewCharacter show up in the last episode/second OVA and don't have much plot importance]].
** There are occasional mentions of Yagiri Pharmaceuticals being at risk of being bought out by an American company called Nebula -- The same Nebula that constructed the [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Flying Pussyfoot]] in the 1930s.
** The Dollars website password? LightNovel/{{Baccano}}.
** [[spoiler:[[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} "Hey, Isaac..." "What is it, Miria?"]]]]
** There are also an instance of a clip from Baccano (specifically the fight between Ladd and the Rail Tracer atop a train) playing on a big-screen TV on the side of a building, and again, in the background of one shot was a poster of the Rail Tracer. Both of these instances cause a slight contradiction to the theory that both series are in the same continuity, since Baccano appears to be a TV show or movie in the Durarara era. However, given the existence of Isaac and Miria and Nebula, it could just be a non-fictional movie. But who really knows?
** Ennis from LightNovel/{{Baccano}} again shows up on a big screen in the background during the second OVA/episode 25.
** In volume 5, Shizuo briefly mentions that he once got into a fight with a [[HealingFactor very-difficult-to-injure]] foreigner. BonusMaterial suggests that the man in question is [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Nile]]
** In volume 8, Saki mentions meeting an American kid that has [[IdenticalStranger suspicious resemblance to Kasuka Heiwajima/Yuuhei Hanejima]]. The kid in question is Charon Walken, [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Chane Laforet]] and [[spoiler:Claire Stanfield]]'s great-grandson.

* RoleReprisal: [[Creator/MasayaOnosaka Isaac Dian]] and [[Creator/SayakaAoki Miria Harvent]] are the only characters to retain their original Japanese voice actors.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Invoked in Episode 6 by Togusa, who corrects the semi-conscious goon [[spoiler: when he calls the group "Dollar"]].
** The fansubbers sometimes subtitle the title as "Dullalalah", which is probably the intended translation seeing as the show is about a Dullahan. Artwork is often emblazoned with "DRRR", but fans tend to take it as a quicker way to refer to the series, and not its actual title proper.
*** Technically, ''DRRR!!'' '''would''' be the proper title, given that Narita decided the title the last minute after hearing someone flip through the pages of a book. Since symbols (letters) are made out of ''sounds'' in Japan, it would be デュラララ (lit. ''durarara''). In the west, however, it should be romanized as ''drr''[rrr]. It's even written as such in the second opening credits where all of the names are spelled in English. Durarara, however, is decidedly catchier and easier to say.
** There's also the Dullahan herself, over whom official materials are totally inconsistent. "Certy" appears late in the novels, she herself uses "Selty" on a computer in the anime's fourth episode, and Shinra has her as "Celty" in his cell phone address book in the sixth episode.
** The new opening now gives us the "correct" way to spell the characters names in English.