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This is the supporting character page for the many characters of Durarara!!:

Warning!! The examples below may include spoilers for the light novels, as well as the anime.

If you're only following the latter[1], proceed at your own risk!

Saki Mikajima

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (JP), Cassandra Lee (EN)

"You'll come back. That's how things are. So you can love all the other girls you want, and I don't care. In the end you'll love me more than you love them."

A young woman currently residing in the hospital who is Masaomi's (ex?) girlfriend and follows Izaya's orders to the very letter.

  • Cold-Blooded Torture/Ill Girl: Both her legs were broken due to a plan by the Blue Squares' leader to lure Kida out.
  • Curtains Match the Window: After her hair fades to its original colour. In flashbacks, it was dyed brown.
  • Disabled Love Interest: Subverted. It turns out she was faking it.
  • Extreme Doormat: She'll listen to whatever Izaya tells her to do, even if it means endangering her life. Even after she betrays him, she continues loyally obeying him afterward, too.
  • Fan Girl: For Izaya until she gets over him.
  • Gray Eyes
  • Hands-Off Parenting/Parental Abandonment: Assuming she has parents, they probably don't care about her if she's allowed to travel around the world with her boyfriend and not attend school.
    • It's implied that they were abusive.
  • Honey Trap: And Kida knew this from the beginning but went along with it anyway. He even knew that Saki was feigning illness to make him feel guilty, but he also went along with it.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Saki is the one that motivates Kida into returning to Ikebukuro for Anri and Mikado ("You can always come home to me, Masaomi. Don't forget that. But I won't be able to help your friends. That's something only you can do, isn't it?")
  • Lazy Bum: Morally so; she pretty much flat out tells Masaomi, "just don't bother making up your own mind because Izaya will take care of everything for you!"
  • My Master, Right or Wrong: Saki worships the ground Izaya walks on, and even admits that if he told her to jump off a cliff and die, she would do so. Subverted at the end when she betrays him out of love for Masaomi, spilling the beans on Izaya's plans to Simon.
  • Official Couple: With Masaomi.
  • Perpetual Smiler: Saki always has a serene smile on her face, no matter what happens to her. The only time she actually stops smiling is when she phones the Russian Sushi and confesses to what Izaya has been doing all along.
  • Red String of Fate: Says that she and Kida are this whether he likes it or not, and so it's ok with her if he sees other girls because no matter what he will always come back to her, because "Izaya says so."
  • Satellite Character: To Izaya and Masaomi.
  • Shallow Love Interest: She's seen as this to some people because her background isn't really explained. After all, she was working with Izaya to get close to Kida, thus her personality isn't fleshed out like most of the characters.
  • Strange Girl: Most of her behavior can only be attributed to this. She's not quite a Cloudcuckoolander, but she gets pretty close at times.
  • Walking the Earth: Leaves Ikebukuro with Kida at the end of the series after they reconcile.
  • Yandere: The way she talks to Kida about them being "destined" has shades of this.

Kasuka Heiwajima (stage name "Yuhei Hanejima")

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio & Kanae Oki (JP), Blake Lewis (EN)

A famous model and actor who got his start after saving a talent scout who made the mistake of attempting to scout his older brother Shizuo. While amazingly talented as an actor, Kasuka's natural demeanor is very robotic and unemotional.

With the occasional mention of his brother aside, Kasuka usually keeps his personal and family life under wraps. Journalists who insist on interviewing his family usually find their cars mysteriously overturned.

Affiliated with the Dollars, by proxy of Shizuo.

Shinra: You need to smile a little bit when you give cats to other people to pet. Otherwise it's just scary.
Kasuka: ...But I am smiling.

  • Identical Stranger: Kasuka bears an uncanny resemblance to Baccano!'s Charon Walken, which is noted by Saki in volume 8. Of course, since Charon is Huey Laforet's Identical (Great-)Grandson, this also means Kasuka bears an uncanny resemblance to him as well. Wild Mass Guessing has arisen from this.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: His birthday is on the national cat day in Japan for a reason.
  • Large Ham: While acting, Kasuka really gets into the role.
    • In the second OVA, Simon kidnaps him and his film crew and takes them to Russia Sushi to keep them from filming Celty. Kasuka just rolls with it, and turns it into a kind-hearted critique of the restaurant.

Kadota: I can't believe they're still filming this.

Tom Tanaka

* sigh* Shizuo's at it again...

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP), Keith Silverstein (EN)

Ikebukuro's resident "Debt Collector" and was Shizuo's Sempai in middle school. He's a pretty nice and normal guy that keeps Shizuo under control when he rages.

  • All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks: Subverted; Tom is generally a pretty nice guy and would rather avoid violent confrontation. He employs Shizuo mainly to use his name to scare his clients into paying him back on time, since only a complete idiot would pick a fight with Shizuo Heiwajima. Guess what kind of people a debt collector meets?
  • Alliterative Name
  • Ambiguously Brown: Has noticably darker skin than many characters, not to mention the dreadlocks, and his name suggests that he might have some non-Japanese ancestry.
  • Benevolent Boss: One of the main reasons Shizuo is able to keep his job.
  • Bishounen
  • Brown Eyes
  • Dude in Distress: Back in middle school, some other kids would occasionally get the idea that kidnapping Shizuo's sempai would give them leverage in a fight. This is because they were idiots.
  • Face Palm: Default reaction when someone (usually the person he's getting to pay their debt) pisses Shizuo off.
  • Improbable Hairstyle: Sports dreadlocks, very neat ones at that, probably not all that improbable from a maintenance prospective, but is somewhat rare in the world of anime.
  • Katsuyuki Konishi
  • Kid with the Leash: Subverted, as Tom takes offense at the suggestion -- Shizuo is his friend, not his attack dog.

Tom: The kid's not a dog, and he's not on anyone's side to begin with. You try talking to him and you'll know. He's far more normal than you may think.

Saburo Togusa

Go on, just try to even touch his van.

Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (JP), Spike Spencer (EN)

The fourth member of Kyohei's gang, as well as the gang's official driver.

Affiliated with the Dollars, by proxy of Kadota.

Semyon "Simon" Brezhnev

Want some sushi? Hey, why are you running away?

Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda (JP), Patrick Seitz (EN)

A Badass Black Russian sushi hawker. Being an immigrant, his Japanese isn't very good and his physical appearance actually frightens some people. Despite, he's a kind and intelligent man who only wants customers to visit the restaurant.

Affiliated with the Dollars.

  • The Atoner
  • Anime Accent Absence: Averted, but in the wrong way. His accent sounds like an English speaker's, not a Russian's.
  • Badass: The only man in Ikebukuro who can physically stop Shizuo, and he does it casually and routinely. Luckily, he's very friendly and peaceful, so it stops here.
    • Badass Pacifist: Aside from one memorable incident in which he gave Izaya a black eye, he's one of the most non violent people in the entire show.
  • Black Vikings: Lampshaded.

Kida: His name's Simon. He's a Russian of African descent. He works as a tout for a Russian sushi shop here.
Mikado: ...I'm sorry, but there are just so many things wrong with what you just said.

    • It was mentioned that Simon's parents were African Americans who emigrated to Russia from the United States.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Was in the KGB until the Soviet Union fell, after which he (along with Dennis, the future owner of the Russian Sushi shop he now works at) took a job under Russian weapons dealer Drakon. What exactly he's done under Drakon's orders is vague, but it obviously wasn't good.
  • Eloquent in My Native Tongue: He's deep, eloquent, witty and philosophical (as evident from his inner monologues), but it's hardly visible behind his intimidating appearance and broken Japanese.
  • Face of a Thug: Simon is friendly as all hell, but the fact that he's both a Scary Black Man and a Husky Russkie tends to scare people away.
  • Famous-Named Foreigner: Brezhnev, while not terribly rare, is still a rather uncommon surname in Russia, and will immediately invoke the late Leonid Brezhnev and The Seventies.
  • Former Regime Personnel: He and Dennis were former KGB, and true to stereotype, transitioned from that into involvement with The Mafiya.
  • Funny Foreigner: Though he could just be playing this for what it's worth.
  • Gentle Giant: He still towers over most Japanese people and intimidates them. Must be the power of the Gaijin Smash.
  • Hidden Depths
  • Husky Russkie
  • It's Raining Men: He leaps down from the seventh floor of an apartment building and, of course, lands safely.
  • I Was Just Passing Through: He says that the aforementioned leaping off the building was only because he was making a delivery to a client on the top floor when he saw the fight.
  • The Mafiya: Simon and Dennis (now Chief Chef) are former members of such an organization.
  • Martial Pacifist: Simon doesn't even like talking about violence, and only uses his martial arts skills to either defend himself or break up a fight. He has, however, killed someone in the past.
  • Mother Russia Makes You Strong
  • Obfuscating Stupidity
  • Running Gag: His apparent inability to bring customers to his shop.
  • Scary Black Man: Simon's career as a sushi tout seems to suffer as a result.
  • Static Character: Although we learn more about him, Simon himself doesn't change during the anime.
  • Super Strength: Simon jumps from a building and manages to stop Shizuo's rampage. From the reaction everyone involved give, this evidently happens a lot.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Punches Izaya in the face and gives him one.

Simon: Have you ever killed people? I have.

Kaztano

Voiced by: Tohru Ookawa (JP), David Lodge (EN)

An illegal immigrant from Italy. He is friends with Dotachin Kyohei's gang.

Affiliated with the Dollars.

  • Anime Accent Absence: Justified in this case -- Italian has pretty much the same pronounciation for words as Japanese.
  • Beady-Eyed Loser: The only character with these kinds of eyes.
  • Big No: Sort of. His e-mail address is "kaztanooooooo".
  • Funny Foreigner
  • Guile Hero: Attempts this in his intro episode to escape a kidnapping, but isn't very successful. He gets to be a more successful example when he and the other Dollars work together to save Anri from Horada.
  • Lost in Translation: The dub gives him quite a thick Italian accent while Japanese dialogue is replaced with English, which makes his attempts to pass himself off as Japanese sound utterly ridiculous.
  • The Illegal
  • The Nicknamer: Kaztano seems to have a habit of adding "no" to the end of names to make them sound Italian, e.g. "Togusano" and "Dotaccino".

Rio Kamichika

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (JP), Stephanie Sheh (EN)

A girl who ran away from home after discovering her father was having an affair and was later kidnapped and rescued by Celty. She was an anime-only character by Narita at first, but then he later used her as a minor character in the novel.

Takashi Nasujima

Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (JP), Kirk Thornton (EN)

A teacher at Raira Academy who takes an interest in Anri.

  • Butt Monkey: The poor guy is in trouble with lots of people. And constantly finds himself being thrust into worse situations. But, then again, he deserves it... maybe.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Hot for Student: Dated Haruna Niekawa, who transferred school supposedly because of their relationship, but changed his preferences to Anri. This changes after he finds out Anri is the original possessor of Saika and runs away in fear following her fight with Haruna, who was thought to be Saika.
  • Mugging the Monster: A panicked Nasujima runs from Anri and tries to rob the first person he sees -- who happens to be Shizuo.
  • Stalker with a Crush: He tends to follows Anri around quite a bit during school and even tries to visit her apartment in Episode 16.

Haruna Niekawa

Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (JP), Sandy Fox (EN)

A high school student who mysteriously transferred out of Raira Academy after an incident involving her and Nasujima.

Shuji Niekawa

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (JP), Joe J. Thomas (EN)

The father of Haruna and a news reporter writing a magazine story on the strongest person in Ikebukuro (i.e. Shizuo).

Namie Yagiri

Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (JP), Bridget Hoffman (EN)

Chief of the 6th lab of Yagiri Pharmaceuticals and older sister of Seiji Yagiri -- with whom she has a rather disturbing romantic attachment to. This has repercussions later on when she tries to capture Mikado in order to get a hold of Mika Harima, resulting in the first First ever Dollars meeting and Yagiri Pharmaceuticals shady business involving kidnapped people being used for medical experiments being exposed which in turn leads to Yagiri Pharmaceuticals being completely absorbed by the American company Nebula, and her out of a job, at least until Izaya offers her one...

  • Brother-Sister Incest: Onesided, but her affection for her brother is clearly not platonic. This obsession results in her effectively throwing her father's company away, all to try and keep Seiji close to her.
  • Brown Eyes: Anime only. In the novel, they're dark navy to match the curtains.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Deadpan Snarker: When she's not lusting after her brother, that is.
  • Demoted to Extra: Went from heading R&D at a chemical corporation to stirring soup and serving tea for Izaya.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: After getting humiliated by Mikado, she later tells Horada that he's the leader of Dollars in the hopes that Mikado will be killed by him. Lampshaded by Izaya, who says vindictive people like her are scary.
  • Foe Yay: With Mika.
  • Girl with Psycho Weapon: Often depicted with a cleaver or something in official art.
  • Hypocrite: She likes to rub Izaya's nose in his lack of friends. But while he possesses at least one friend, she doesn't have any.
  • Hot Scientist: Until she lost said job.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Listen to her monologue about her "pure" love of her brother. It must run in the family.
  • Jerkass: A slightly subtle version, but Namie doesn't really give a rat's ass about anyone but her brother. She's also not particularly fond of teenagers, and she's constantly insulting Celty, Mika, and Izaya, but you probably won't feel bad for the latter.
  • Lack of Empathy: Being told that she's an awful person for all of the human experiments she's been doing really doesn't phase her at all. If it doesn't hurt Seiji, then she simply doesn't care.
    • Actually she does posses something akin to empathy and common sense since she seemed rather bothered by her employer's more cruel actions. She even expressed some sympathy for Celty after Izaya met her while hiding her head. But arguably, the fact that she posses a conscience and can ignore it so easily, makes her even a worse person.
  • Love Makes You Evil: There is nothing she won't do for Seiji's sake.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: Many of the experiments she conducted on Celty's head in the lab involved her trying to destroy it somehow, although the head would undermine her efforts by regenerating from any injuries it sustained. Also, she later attempted to kill Mika in the light novels, although she was thwarted.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Moreso in the manga, where she's shown naked in the shower for about three pages. Granted, she's bathing her brother, so....
  • Non-Action Snarker: There are several action girls in Durarara but Namie isn't exactly one of them.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: Once again, to her brother, who she pretty much drapes herself around every chance she gets. If he still lived in the same house as her, she would still be taking baths with him. (That last part was only in the manga.)
  • The Ojou
  • Oral Fixation Fixation: Yasuda Suzuhito, the illustrator of the original novel, seems fond of depicting her with something in her mouth.
  • Parental Neglect: Likely the main cause of her...erm, "pure" love for Seiji. It's a little more elaborated on in the novels and the manga.
  • Poisonous Friend: More like Poisonous Sister, but still.
  • Promotion to Parent: After their parents lost their jobs, she was expected to take care of her little brother while they argued about what to do. Which she did, happily.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
  • Sassy Secretary/Sexy Secretary: Izaya hires her as his personal assistant after the whole fiasco with Yagiri Pharmaceuticals. Much snark is tossed around between them.
  • Servile Snarker: To Izaya.
  • She's Got Legs: Oh, yes. Her stockinged legs are proudly displayed in any art piece that she's included in. Sometimes, Suzuhito just draws her legs.
  • Snark-to-Snark Combat: With Izaya on occasion, though he isn't really snarky with anyone else.
  • The Stoic/Not So Stoic: She's generally quite icy, especially in comparison to Izaya, but melts into a puddle of warm, bubbly water when Seiji's around (the manga takes that Up to Eleven). Also, she has quite the breakdown when The Dollars gang up on her and her goons .
  • Sugar and Ice Personality: Unfortunately for most, the deredere side is reserved exclusively for her brother.
  • Supreme Chef: She gets a 95% rating for her cooking skills.
  • Sweater Girl
  • Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Almost always described as this in the novels. Even Izaya thinks she's foxy.
  • Those Two Bad Guys: When teaming with Izaya. Particularly evident in the Akane arc.
  • Volleying Insults: Her interactions with Izaya tend to subtly fall under this in recent volumes, though usually it's just her threatening to kill him and him taunting her.

Izaya: I've already had you working on everything that needs to be worked on at this point! Ahh, how boring.
Namie: ......May I beat you up?
Izaya: No. What's the matter, am I not paying you a pretty decent salary? I don't think beating up your head man would be a good idea.
Namie: In that case, I'm going to beat you up once I receive my salary.

  • Yandere: A milder example as she was willing to hide the fact that Mika was almost killed by her brother and get rid of Mikado because he knew too much. She usually acts like she has a Sugar and Ice Personality. On the other hand, the manga version plays up this angle of her a lot more regarding Celty's head.
  • Younger Brother Attraction
  • Zettai Ryouiki: Type A; novel only. Her thigh-highs are often drawn with tears in them, for extra sexy.

Seiji Yagiri

Voiced by: Kazuma Horie (JP), David Vincent (EN)

The above mentioned's younger brother. Dropped out of high school on the first day to be with his lover. He has now returned and is now Mika Harima's boyfriend until he retrieves Celty's head once more.

  • Armor-Piercing Question: Shizuo fires off a few about his love life when Seiji stabs him with pens.
  • Batter Up: He does this to Mika in the manga, after she breaks into his apartment room through the window.
  • Broken Ace
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Freaky Is Cool: Dude fell in love with a head. And plunked it on top of a conveniently available body so he could talk to it. It's like he's competing with Shinra for the title "Lover of the Uniquely Beautiful."
    • Which makes it more funny since technically they ARE competing.
  • Insane Troll Logic: He must have learned it from his sister.
  • Irony: Gives Mikado some constructive advice concerning his love life in the anime.
  • Love At First Sight/A Love to Dismember: Seiji's been in love with Celty's head the moment his sister snuck him in to see it.
  • Loving a Shadow: Seiji decides to stay with Mika after she confesses that she's not really Celty's head -- not because he actually likes her, but because she's a close enough substitute until he can get his hands on the real thing again.
    • This may be subject to change if you take his recent speech to Mikado about love into account, where he says "no matter what you learn about her, once you decide you love her, it's your responsibility to never stop."
  • Mad Love: Mika's love for him definitely counts, since he not only tried to kill her once, but even after he agreed to stay in a relationship with her, he outright states he is only using her until he can find the real head of his beloved Celty again.
  • Oblivious to Love/Selective Obliviousness: It hasn't been said whether or not he's aware of what his sister thinks of him.
    • In the novel he states that he knows about Namie's affection but simply doesn't care.
  • The Pen Is Mightier: Does this to Shizuo, who is more amused though than actually pissed off.
  • Shallow Love Interest: Is there anything we know about him that isn't related to his love life on some level?
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: Subverted hard by him and Mika. Although they're always seen cuddling and acting lovey-dovey, their relationship is extremely disturbing.

Seiji: I'm in love with the scars on your neck...

  • Show the Forehead
  • Tall, Dark and Handsome: Just enough so that when Kida meets him just before he drops out of school, he suggests that he join him and Mikado in picking up girls.
  • Yandere: Puts three pens in Shizuo for looking at Mika Harima wrong. Strangely enough, it was Celty who grabbed her, not him, then he tries to stab Mikado with a scalpel.
    • And earlier than that he grabbed Mika by the hair and smashed her face into a wall just because she caught sight of Celty's head (which he had stolen from his sister's lab), resulting in Mika having a facial reconstruction which resulted in her face looking like Celty's as part of a ploy by Namie to keep Seiji under her control.
  • You Know Too Much: His reason for trying to kill Mika after she sees Celty's head in his room.

Mika Harima

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (JP), Carrie Savage (EN)

Seiji's girlfriend. She resembles the disappeared Mika Harima, and has a scar around her neck. She is, in fact, Mika's body with a different head sewn on. This head may or may not be Celty's Mika Harima given plastic surgery to have Celty's face, after she got her head smacked against a wall by Seiji when she breaks into his apartment and discovers Celty's head.

  • Chekhov's Gunman: Shows up in the opening theme, unnamed. Anyone who saw Baccano!'s opener (and the conspicuously unnamed Claire Stanfield) knows she's important.
  • Curtains Match the Window: Before she had the surgery to make her head look like Celty's.
  • Cute Mute: Pretends to be one at first.
  • Ditzy Genius: According to the manga, Mika is an academic genius who gets straight As in all of her classes. She could have gone to a prestigious high school if she wanted to, but chose Raira Academy instead to be with her friend and foil, Anri. Nonetheless, she shows a surprising lack of common sense by breaking into the room of a guy who barely knows her and loudly announcing her presence to him, without maybe considering first that he might be dangerous. Not to mention how she decides she's still in love with him even after he just brained her.
  • Easy Amnesia: She claims that she doesn't have any memory of who she is. She's lying, of course.
    • Namie was actually planning on doing this to Mika after the plastic surgery was finished, namely by removing her memories about Seiji and Celty's head, although Mika manages to escape before she can carry it out.
  • Foe Yay: With Namie.
  • Foil: To Anri.
  • Girl with Psycho Weapon: Hers is a trowel, and she's not afraid to use it.
  • Green Eyes
  • I'm a Humanitarian: She is planning to eat Celty's head if she ever finds it.
  • Improbable Weapon User: At one point, she picks up a mop and begins bashing the heads of a Girl Posse with it. She also carries around a trowel.
  • Mad Love: With Seiji. Even getting brained by him won't stop her from agreeing to illegal plastic surgery so she can hook up with him.
  • Magic Plastic Surgery
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: Mika has... plans for Celty's real head if she ever gets her hands on it.
  • Nice Hat: She wears a cute white hat adorned with a heart nearly all the time.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: This girl knows EVERYTHING that's going on: Mikado being the leader/founder of the Dollars, Izaya being stabbed, what Celty is looking for, who's who on Izaya's chat, Anri hosting Saika inside her, etc. She knows it ALL, and more. All because she has tapped EVERYTHING and EVERYONE relevant in the story due to the fact that they are all connected to her love, who she wants to keep safe. The only reason she hasn't revealed all that information to her friends is because Seiji might find out and intervene, getting himself hurt or killed in the process. Now digest that for a second, and then realize she might have more information than Izaya. Thank you.
  • Red Herring: The visible scar around her neck is designed to deliberately throw off both characters in-universe and viewers who are not already in the know about the location of Celty's head.
  • Scars Are Forever: Has a large, jagged scar running around her entire neck. This was part of her plastic surgery in order to fake having a new head.
  • Shallow Love Interest: To Seiji.
  • Spoiled Sweet: She is said to be from a rich family, but she's not particularly spoiled or petty, since she befriended Anri during middle school, who was bullied often and had no other friends besides her at that point.
  • Stalking Is Love: Apparently, Seiji is not all that bothered by her extreme stalker tendencies, even after she says she's snuck 20 hidden cameras in his room. Averted in the manga where he's at least shown to be disturbed by it.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Very. She even had stalker tendencies before Seiji came into her life, and since then she has taken her stalking Up to Eleven.
  • Supreme Chef: She gets a 100% rating for her cooking skills.
  • Surgical Impersonation: Of Celty's head so that Seiji would love her.
  • Yandere: If you thought actually getting together with Seiji would make her lighten up on the crazy stalking, you'd be wrong. Turns out that she been wire-tapping everyone remotely associated with Seiji ever in an effort to "protect" him.

Siri

Voiced by: Shiori Izawa (JP)

A blonde foreigner who is introduced in the anime version as another member of Dollars. Her real name is unknown, although her username is called Siri. She carries around a "Most Desired Object" sign in Episode 8, asking people to write down what they're looking for in a journal, and later helps Anri escape from Horada and his gang.

Ryo Takiguchi

Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (JP)

A fellow classmate of Masaomi, Ryo Takiguchi is just an average joe who likes composing his own music, playing on a harmonica, and just so happens to be a member of Dollars. He is later targeted by members of the Yellow Scarves, who beat him up horribly and leave his unconscious body next to graffiti as part of their self-declared war against Dollars. He considers leaving the organization afterward, but just can't bring himself to do it in the end, and sticks around to help out.

  • Bishounen: Just look at him!
  • Canon Foreigner: A minor character who was only introduced in the anime version.
  • Collateral Angst: Poor Takiguchi gets beaten up brutally by several of the Yellow Scarves who are actually former members of the Blue Squares. However, being a minor character, his suffering is mostly ignored in favor of Mikado's angst about Dollars in general.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Defector From Decadence: Takiguchi briefly considers leaving Dollars after realizing they've lost their original non-color ideology, but ends up changing his mind again in a Heartwarming Moment of Team Spirit with the other members of Dollars.
  • Delinquent: Mikado assumes this at first, but it ends up being a misunderstanding.
  • Innocent Bystander: At first, but he later becomes a Heroic Bystander when he's given the chance to help out.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After getting beaten up by Horada's gang, Takiguchi gets some karmic retribution when he happens to be in front of a stack of boxes in a shop, right when Horada is passing by. Naturally, he "accidentally" pushes them over at this point, and causes the whole pile to fall on Horada and slow him down.
  • Last-Name Basis: Everyone who knows him just calls him Takiguchi.
  • Nice Guy: Which makes his subsequent, undeserved assault by the Yellow Scarves even more cruel and painful to watch.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The unfortunate victim of one. The beating is so severe, Takiguchi has to be hospitalized for a while afterward.
  • Number One Dime: A subtle example. Moments before he is attacked, his harmonica falls out of his pocket and is subsequently smashed by the bat that one of the thugs brings along.
  • Open Secret: Unfortunately, Mikado and Masaomi weren't the only ones who knew he was secretly a member of Dollars...
  • Peek-a-Bangs: One lock of hair partly covers his left eye.
  • Sitting on the Roof: He is apparently fond of sitting on the school's roof during his lunch break to compose his own music and play his harmonica.

Kinnosuke Kuzuhara

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Christopher Smith (EN)

A motorcycle cop brought in to Ikebukuro to take down Celty. Often just a little bit too into chasing down suspects, to the point that he causes as many accidents as he prevents.

Shingen Kishitani

Fwhooosh!!

Voiced by: Akio Ohtsuka (JP) Doug Stone (EN)

Shinra's father and source of most of his weirdness, Shingen was living in America up until recently, when he decided to return to Japan and impose himself on his son for reasons he has yet to disclose. Believing Tokyo's air to be terribly filthy and unfit for breathing, he opts to wear a gas mask 24/7.

  • Badass: His introduction involves him stoically mouthing off at three armed members of the Yellow Scarves...at which point they kick the crap out of him. Celty was there to pick him up, and it gave him a false sense of bravado since he thought she would step in. She didn't.
  • Brother Chuck: drops off of the radar completely after episode 14, one episode after he was introduced.
  • Bunny Ears Lawyer: He's a brilliant doctor by all accounts, but he's obsessed with air pollution, hence the gas mask. It doesn't help that's he's also a...
  • Cloudcuckoolander: No one who looks that menacing should act that goofy.
  • Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: A self-acknowledged flaw.
  • The Faceless: His face was never shown in anime.
  • Gas Mask Mooks: Because Tokyo's air is just so terrible. The mask stays on even when he's naked in the shower, as Shinra witnessed to his misfortune.
  • Horned Mask: His mask has what look like devil horns, a contrast to the cute-looking cat ears on Celty's helmet.
  • Large Ham: Generally, at the others' expense.
  • Mad Doctor: And for "mad" we mean "totally bonkers" here.
  • Papa Wolf: According to the novel, Shingen cut Celty's head off and selling Saika's sword off to Anri's parents was in order to protect Shinra from Namie's grandfather who threatened to kill Shinra if he didn't.
  • Parent with New Paramour: Vol. 4 reveals that Shingen remarried while he was in America -- to a woman younger than his son.
  • Refuge in Audacity
  • Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Why couldn't you not be sexually attracted to headless women, Shinra?
    • And it's the most normal thing he said yet.
  • The Wonka

Horada

Voiced by: Wataru Takagi (JP), Kyle Hebert (EN)

A jerkass member of the Yellow Scarves who becomes an antagonist in the second half of the series when he usurps Masaomi's position as leader. He's revealed to have been the Right Hand Man to the leader of the Blue Squares, and directly responsible for breaking the leg of Masaomi's girlfriend, Saki.

Ganguros

A trio of ganguro girls from Raira academy who frequently picked on Anri, until the Slasher attacked them.

Hiroshi

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (JP)

The boyfriend of one of the Ganguros'. He is also a fake member of Dollars.

Ruri Hijiribe

Voiced by: Saki Fujita (JP)

An idol singer who Togusa is obsessed with.

Shiki

Voiced by: Hochu Otsuka (JP)

An executive of the Awakusu-kai, Shiki is also one of its youngest members. He is the only Yakuza who uses honorific speech at all, except to his subordinates, and is the one responsible for dealings with the informant, Izaya. He is briefly seen in episode 15 of the anime, when the reporter Shuji Niekawa interviews him about the strongest person in Ikebukuro.

Sayaka Sonohara

Voiced by: Ayano Ishikawa (JP)

Anri's mother. She was the original Slasher of Ikebukuro and possessed Saika before her daughter did. After getting repeatedly assaulted by her drug-addicted husband, she finally snapped and killed him from behind. Afterward, she killed herself, too.

Ran Izumi

Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka (JP), Doug Erholtz (EN)

The leader of Blue Squares that got into a confrontation with the Yellow Scarves. He was the one that kidnapped Saki and broke her legs in order to get Kida to face his gang directly. He is foiled by Kadota's gang who turn on him and rescue Saki. He is then arrested and convicted thanks to Saki's testimony. He is the older brother of Aoba Kuronuma and was used to hide the fact that his younger brother was the real leader of Blue Squares. After many years, he's out of jail and he wants revenge on the people who betrayed him and ruined his life.

  • Big Brother Bully: The things he did to Aoba are unbelievable. For one thing, he came out unstable at the end of it all.
  • Cain and Abel: He is the Cain to his brother's Abel despite the younger being a Manipulative Bastard.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: He beat up on Aoba just because he thinks he's The Unfavorite of the family. However, Aoba hints that really isn't the case. And then finally, he goes past the limit of physically beating him up and does something else that makes the poor kid snap and set his room on fire.
  • Dumb Muscle
    • Or maybe not, he did perform his role in Izaya's trolling of Earthworm and Shijima pretty well.
  • Gonk
  • Jerkass
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Mikage would have let Izumii smash Earthworm's face in or set her on fire, but not rape her.
  • Revenge: When he gets out of jail, he tells Izaya that he only the Hot Pot group so he can get information on those he wants revenge on and kill them. He has his eyes set for Aoba, Kida, Kadota, Walker and Izaya.
    • It should be noted that while Aoba did trick him into becoming the leader of Blue Squares, Aoba NEVER did anything to ruin his life. Before his brother beat up on him, he was acting his normal self but when the beatings started, he started becoming more crazy but even setting the room on fire is nothing compared to what Izumi did. See Disproportionate Retribution.
  • Scarf of Asskicking
  • Smoking Is Cool: Subverted. He likes smoking but Aoba uses this to his advantage to set his room on fire. This causes their dad to punch him and shout that it was his fault the room caught fire.
  • The Unfavorite: He thinks he's this compared to Aoba.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Aoba uses him to control Blue Squares. Of course, because he's a dumbass he nearly ruins it for Aoba.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He didn't hesitate to beat his little brother. He was also going to rape a middle school girl after breaking her both legs
  • Would Hit a Girl: Or break her legs for that matter.
    • And fingers. And shove a rag into her mouth and light it on fire.

Mairu and Kururi Orihara

Voiced by:
Mairu: Eri Kitamura (JP)
Kururi: Hisako Kanemoto (JP)

The younger twin sisters of Izaya

Mairu is the one on the right, in white. Kururi is the one on the left, in black.

Shoro: You two are such a great pair. Honestly.
Mai: We're not a pair.
Kyo: We're one person. You're insulting the real pairs in this world by saying we're a pair. Though none of them are here to hear you, you should still apologize to them.

  • Early-Bird Cameo: Both of them can be seen briefly in episode 8 of the anime, even though they aren't introduced until much later in the series. They are officially introduced in the second OVA of the anime.
  • Fangirls: Both of them are raging Kasuka fangirls.
  • Genki Girl: Mairu.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: Or as their brother puts it, "what a pair of intolerable eighth-grade-disease[3] patients." When asked what he meant by that, he simply suggested googling it.
  • Incest Subtext
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Shizuo, of all people.
  • Kick Chick: Both of them are, since Kururi has no problem with kicking men who are harassing her and her sister right in the groin, and Mairu doesn't mind flashing her panties when delivering her own powerful kicks backed by iron-plated shoes.
  • Meganekko: Subverted. Mairu wears glasses, but she doesn't have the sweet and innocent personality to go along with it.
  • Morality Pets: To Aoba to the point where he outright states for Blue Squares not to involve them in this Gang War because he has taking a liking to them. Especially Kururi.
  • Murderous Thighs: Mairu, in a fight with some thugs in the OVA.
  • Noodle Incident: Whatever happened between Mairu and the schoolgirl bully she dragged into the lavatory, especially after Mairu emerges holding the girl's bra, is never explained.
  • Porn Stash: Mairu has one, although it's hard to call it a stash when she carries at least one porn mag on her person at any given time and reads them in public.
  • The Quiet One: Kururi, when she's not in a chatroom.
  • Rapid-Fire Typing: Kururi's fast typing allows her to talk nearly non-stop online, at least until she hits the word limit.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Just like Izaya, they tend to get depicted with devilish eyes.
  • Sibling Seniority Squabble: Averted. Mairu always addresses her twin as "Kuru-nee" (big sister).
  • She Fu: Mairu, as demonstrated in the second OVA.
  • Shrinking Violet: Kururi, again.
  • Single-Minded Twins: Despite the Different As Night and Day personas, Mairu and Kururi don't actually consider themselves as individuals. This is best evidenced by the fact that, on the internet, the two switch roles entirely -- Mairu's practically a Lurker while Kururi never shuts up.
  • Trickster Twins: They're called troublemakers by Izaya, and are completely uninhibited by social norms.
  • Twin Banter: Particularly on the internet.
  • Twincest: When the two kiss.
  • Twin Threesome Fantasy: They are this trope incarnate.
  • Verbal Tic: Kururi's speech is very brief and somewhat disjointed. She also almost never raises her voice above a whisper. On the internet, she speaks normally.
    • Averted in the second OVA, where she speaks complete sentences in a normal tone of voice.
  • Waif Fu: Mairu. Justified because she regularly attends a gym school, where she learns self-defense techniques.
  • Yuri Fangirl: After Kida tells a somewhat-dirty joke in the chatroom:

Kyo (Kururi): "Speaking of which, um...if Bakyura-san (Kida) is a female, I would really be confused as to how to react. If two females are to blow the same clarinet...and kind of kiss that way...it would have been just beautiful and elegant and worthy of a place in my permanent memory. Should I say dreamy or unrivaled? Anyway, that's how I would feel."
Mai (Mairu): "So erotic!"

  1. ↑ which covers up to volume 3
  2. ↑ at 9mins 14seconds - give or take a second - when Walker is asking Simon if he's seen Erika
  3. ↑ chuuni-byou/中二病
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