Durarara!! Episode 19

Title: Sōten sudeni shisu (蒼天已死) - The Blue Sky Perishes

Date Aired: 20 May 2010

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The title of this episode is Sōten sudeni shisu (蒼天已死) or "The Blue Sky Perishes" which, when taken in context with the fact that the Yellow Scarves' name is a reference to The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is certainly a reference to the Yellow Scarve Rebellion's slogan “The Blue Sky has perished, the Yellow Sky will soon rise; in this year of Jia Zi, let there be prosperity in the world!” (蒼天已死，黃天當立. 歲在甲子，天下大吉. ). In the context of the original rebellion, the Blue Sky was a reference to the Han Dynasty, the Yellow Sky was the rebellion.

The first four kanji (蒼天已死) are identical to the title of the episode. In addition, these same four kanji are seen spraypainted onto a rusting iron support in the episode, just after Celty leaves with Anri on the back of her bike. At this point Kida goes over to it, and we are explicitly told by the narrator, "A phrase that means everything changes for the worse. It was a phrase from the banners of the Yellow Scarves in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Kida says "The sky ain't blue...sure as hell ain't yellow either" a clear reference to the second section of the slogan.