Durarara!!

Durarara!!:  A

Very rarely does a series grab me by the nuts and make me watch it as Durarara did.

I could praise it for its excellent treatment of the supernatural elements within the story, making them  outstandingly bizarre, and somehow more human for it.

I could praise it for it's honesty, how it isn't about good or evil, just about some things that happen in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and it doesn't judge them as much as hold them up and tell you what these characters learned.

I could criticize it and say that due to the fact that it's about what goes on in this district, it tends to jump viewpoints and repeat sections from different perspectives a lot, which can be disorienting if you're not the sort of person to watch closely for things and people in the background.

Instead, I'll say you should watch it.

It is a show about love and how love makes people crazy.  It is a show about change, and how some things do change and some things do not change.  It's a show about choices and consequences.  And it's worth your time.

(( Also, it has some voice talent from other shows I've watched, enjoyed and reviewed, which I will nerd about here because it's not relevant to the rest of the review:  Hiroshi Kamiya (of Bakemonogatari and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei), Kana Hanazawa (of Potemayo, Bakemonogatari, Kuragehime, Infinite Stratos and Dog Days), Mamoru Miyano (of Star Driver, Death Note and Dog Days), Miyuki Sawashiro (of Bakemonogatari, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Maria Holic, Hidamari Sketch), and Daisuke Ono (of Haruhi Suzumiya), and these are all main cast! ))