A Complete Guide To Izaya’s Hideous Jacket Collection
Between the manga, anime, and novels, Izaya wears a myriad of different jackets. However, there is a common furry thread that ties them all shittily together: Each one is horrifyingly bad very stylish, of course, so I decided to document them so we can admire his amazing fashion sense in one place. I have named them all as accurately as possible in accordance with the image they give off.
For reasons that are probably obvious, this sleek, snazzy number never made it to the anime. Appearing most commonly in the novels and pretty often in the manga, too, it’s unclear what happened to this article of clothing that is clearly dear to Izaya’s cold, black heart. But let’s be honest here - odds are that Shizuo probably had something to do with its demise (but only because he was jealous of how cool it looked).
Rating: 10/10. Actually, not gonna lie. I really like this one.
Anime Couture aka “The Classic Asshole”
The most common jacket Izaya is often portrayed in, and the only style we really see him wearing in the anime. It also appears in the novels and manga as well, making it the only one to cross terrible fashion borders in all forms of Durarara. It’s distinguished by its average length to slightly past his bodacious booty, and sports two awful fuzzy cuffs and a nice fluffy ring around the hood. As observed in the pictures above, the fluffiness may vary depending on artist.
Rating: meh/wtf even is this. try harder, Izaya
Manga only, I believe. This appears to be the jacket Izaya likes to wear when committing even more douchey acts than normal, all while acting like he’s being the most kind and understanding person ever. It’s most memorable appearance took place during a scene where he drugged some suicidal girls and went into a pretentious douchey speech from which his sad, pathetic character never fully recovered from for the rest of the series.
Rating: 100/10 on the douche scale
This jacket’s unique design seems to be purely focused on the massive, tacky fur collar, and Izaya’s wearing a smile as if proud of the fact he just killed like 10 puppies to make said jacket. It could have been a classy fit, if it were not for the animal cruelty.
Rating: -100/10 (someone call the cops, honestly)
The slightly less gay, but still fairly homosexual, version of Izaya’s “Anime Couture” model. For whatever reason, it’s practically the same thing, but there’s no fur around the cuffs. It’s preceded only by its weird cousin, a form of Izaya’s jacket that has neither wrist cuffs nor a bottom fur lining, but lining around the hood, which he wears while posing with one hand in his pocket and the other pointing and blaming others for his problems.
Before Descent Into Furry Madness
At first glance, Raijin and Middle School aged Izaya appeared to be normal. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security. They were only hiding their inner true desires to burn everyone’s eyes out in Ikebukuro with an obscene amount of fur and poor color choices later on.
Rating: you’re not fooling anyway, Tinyzaya. 0/0
Aka “That One Time Izaya wore something appropriate with no fur lining anywhere in sight”. Anime only, and the caption says it all tbh. I’m convinced this was just an off day for him, or a sad attempt to mislead the Drrr universe into thinking he might be a somewhat decent person. Either that, or Shizuo ripped up all his jackets and he was simply mourning his loss before he went on another crazed shopping spree to one up his fashion mistakes in an even more appalling manner.
Rating: you tried/being a reasonable and normal human being
Over the series, Izaya’s gratuitous fur addiction and love for all things terrible has only evolved to become worse and more dire over time - until it leads us here, to this…disaster from Sunset. It’s not even a jacket. It’s a fuzzy ass robe because apparently Izaya has moved into Flea royalty now and continues to have no sense of shame. He’s obviously going through some…things.
Rating: 10/10 (surprisingly, it’s still in better taste than most of the others, somehow. you know, with 10 being the rating for how pretentious it is)
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