Question: why is izaya orihara a strange name?
Answer: His name comes from a combination of the biblical Isaiah and Japanese for "the one who looks over the crowd". Izaya shares his birthday with Daisuke Ono who is the Japanese voice actor of Izaya's rival Shizuo Heiwajima. ... Izaya's nickname for Shizuo, "Shizu-Chan", wasn't actually made by Izaya himself.