"Mikado is an average high-schooler whose life has been anything but since moving to Ikebukuro after coming face-to-neck?-with the legendary "headless rider". Mikado can hardly wait to encounter more of the city's peculiar residents, but when Mikado is caught in the middle of a feud between Izaya Orimara and Shizuo Heiwajima, he soon realized that Ikebukuro's most unbellievable characters are also among its most dangerous."