Durarara!!

How to say this? I won't lie that I did a number of google search;
Is Durarara worthy?
Should I continue watching Durarara?

Bless reddit, came across a few threads that say its worth the hype and what catch me the most is the comments saying its similar to steins;gate in terms of slow world-building in the first 10 episodes or so. So, despite feeling bored out of my mind, I continued.

Personal comment after finishing it about half an hour ago; I guess I watched this with a different expectation in mind, I expected it to be more exciting? This reminds me so much of Bungou Stray Dogs, the atmosphere and such. But it was wrong of me to try to categorize this with any other animes. Or maybe I just haven't watched any of this genre.Truthfully I kept comparing this to steins;gate, I mean that's why I think, I felt so disappointed halfway through.

Steins;Gate had a long character introduction that made us really understand a lot of the characters and also treasure the friendship that they have. That pose a similarity although I think in this introduction, each character has their own personal view, history and secrets on how they end up here in Ikebukuro which are important to solve the upcoming conflict. I remembered this writing a prompt, a story where the readers are in on a secret that the characters are unaware of. And truthfully, by the end of it, I am very much emotionally invested because I want to see how it turns out for the characters.

On second thought, I don't know what genre this anime is, it says action, mystery, supernatural. Yes but it has less action than the usual action animes . Another genre that this would be in is drama. Next, It has this Josei vibe, maybe from the mature story telling. And there's a lot of words said that has double meaning.

spoiler alert

24 episodes into it, I would say its not that bad. I was quite disheartened once I reach episode 15 where I was halfway to the end. After a hefty introduction of characters we get a resolve of conflict, is it by episode 10? That's where I would say, okay I think after this it might get better. But then the graph goes down again, to the next plot build-up which we can see got resolved at the last episode. I think I am not satisfied by how quickly it got resolved, I mean considering how long it took to get there. Now that I've finished it, despite everything, I think I want more of Durarara. The ending was complete, they tied most of the loosed end. Lucky me there is season 2.

And lastly please let me rant how about Izaya. I mean a mastermind behind other people's miseries? I don't understand why? Maybe Izaya's backstory is in 2nd season but I would still hate how he keeps on doing those for fun, like you know something bad is going to happen looking how Izaya kept on playing that ridiculous chess piece and keep on saying checkmate and stuff. Its super annoying. And the favorite characters are of course Shizuo, Simon and the doctor guy, whats his name again? Yes, shinra.

To anyone that actually read up to here. Wow thank you for reading