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Which Durarara Characters Have Romantic Relationships?

Anyone else shipping Izaya and Shizuo after the crazy Shizaya fanworks? This anime's romance feels so ambiguous compared to clear canon pairings.
2026-02-01 04:39:00
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Suhannie Van Der Merwe
Suhannie Van Der Merwe
In Durarara!! there’s complicated single-sided love between Shizuo and Vorona, and married Celty and Shinra living together. Anri is secretly in love with Mikado but he doesn’t really return her feelings, and Izaya manipulates people to get whatever he wants and to have fun. If you like to read stories where the central, mostly volatile, romance is heavily affected by the tension in the underworld of serious and hard crime of the main characters, then ‘Mafia’s Love Bond’ is probably the right story for you. It’s about a mafia heir and a rival’s daughter who are forced into a marriage by their families and try to trust each other while being constantly threatened by other members of their families and other outsiders.
2026-08-02
Yasmine
Yasmine
I’m a sucker for ‘Durarara!!’ and how it portrays love in much the same way an ecosystem handles growth and decay – it’s not always easy to distinguish what’s ‘good’ and what’s not, and the series makes it a point to show us all of the possible interpretations. While it’s easy to view Celty and Shinra as the main ship of the series (due to them living together and displaying tender affection towards each other), it’s just as easy to recall the possible history between Saki and Masaomi, and how it plays out within his storyline. Mikado and Anri are another example of potential romance. While their feelings are overtly displayed by the young club leader, the feeling is generally reciprocated in quiet, reserved fashion by Anri. This slow unfolding of true feelings is especially endearing as the two grow in emotional depth towards one another. In contrast, there are people like SD, who display pure and ferocious obsession in his endless pursuit of his goal (Durarara!! portrays this in ambiguous lighting to note that he isn’t exactly heroic). He’s often perceived by the viewership as more hostile than anything else, but that just makes him complex in my book. That ambiguous portrayal of love is part of why I keep going back to it. As for my preferences, it’s that every single character’s feelings don’t necessarily have to get wrapped up into neat little pairs in order for me to enjoy. Their personalities, complex though they are, are sufficient in and of themselves.
2026-02-02
Julia
Julia
It's kind of hard to talk about the romance in Durarara!! because it feels kind of like just walking around Ikebukuro. It's all a bit messy, unexpected, and has lots of little lights and points of interest. The clearest example of romantic love in Durarara!! is between Celty Sturluson and Shinra Kishitani. I think it is pretty clear that Shinra is in love with Celty. And Celty definitely feels something for Shinra as well. The two of them live together for a start. This is true in the novels as well as the anime.

In the case of Masaomi Kida and Saki Mikajima, there is a history of real romance between the two. Saki is Masaomi’s ex-girlfriend and child of Ikebukuro, and in many ways their past informs his actions in the present day, including his role in protecting the residents of the city. In fact, it is an emotional anchor for him in the Durarara!! series.

And than there is the softer, but more complicated love between Mikado Ryugamine and Anri Sonohara. He seems to be in love with her and she cares deeply for him too. But whether they end up being more than friends in the end of Durarara!! is up to interpretation and how one chooses to view their relationship in the end. Many other relationships and connections in the novel are one-sided or even unclear to the reader. Some are just obsessions or friendships. But for me the key to their emotional depth are the connections between Celty & Shinra, Masaomi & Saki (tragic in the past but hopeful in the present) and Mikado & Anri (tender but unresolved and that’s just great).
2026-02-04
Victoria
Victoria
A brief look into the single relationships of Durarara!! from my own perspective: We only really get to see a single relationship be treated much like the writer would treat a canonical couple, which is that of Celty and Shinra. Masaomi and Saki are a pair of childhood lovers, who are separated and then brought back together, greatly affecting the current story of Masaomi. Mikado and Anri are the show’s slow-burn/ambiguous pair. It is very obvious that Mikado has had feelings for Anri for quite some time, and she in turn greatly cares for and protects the boy. The feelings between the two of them are left somewhat open to interpretation, however. The rest of the characters experience a wide range of emotions that often border on obsession or attachment, but none of them are anywhere near to being remotely as composed or in control of their feelings in a romantic capacity as what would be required for them to be considered to be in a relationship such as Masaomi and Saki’s or Celty and Shinra’s. I love how Durarara!! has portrayed all of the relationships in the show so that they are all felt by the viewer and are all very real and raw, as opposed to typicalgenre romps.
2026-02-06
Henry
Henry
A brief list of Romanations in Durarara!!: This first includes Celty Staul and Shinra Kusakabe in the most notable of the ‘_pairs’ within the story: the two are Affectionate, Live Together and Reciprocate. Masaomi Kida and Saki Mikajima had had a romance in the past that affects both characters, for better or worse. For Mikado Ryugamine and Anri Sonohara, there are definite undercurrents of Romance between the two; however, these are left largely ambiguous and never really declared between the two. Other than these three sets of romantic partners, many of the ‘Attachments’ that are scattered throughout the series are of the One-Sided variety, or Complex in some way (Obsession, Protective feelings, Manipulation with Flirtation). It is quite nice that Durarara!! leaves most of the Romanations somewhat in the air: keeping the reader engaged in the varying emotions of the characters.
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