a5c7b9f00b The 2nd installment to the Darker than Black series. This follows Suo after her house has caught fire and she crosses paths with the previous protagonist Hei. He is searching for a lost friend and takes pity upon Suo and allows her to tag along with him. Together they start to unveil Suo&#39;s past and her relationship with her family. As they dig deeper, they discover that somehow what Hei was searching for ties in with Suo. They soon learn a dark secret that changes everything. In Tokyo, an impenetrable field known&quot;Hell&#39;s Gate&quot; appeared ten years ago. At the same time, psychics who wield paranormal powers at the cost of their conscience also emerged. Hei is one of the most powerful of these psychic agents, and along with his blind associate, Yin, works for one of the many rival agencies vying to unlock the mysteries of Hell&#39;s Gate. I ran across this by chance and was immediately hooked. Its starts out slowly developing the characters, plot and slowly introducing background<br/><br/>This is an adequate amount of action, humor and a bit of childishness, which may be possibly Japanese culture humor?<br/><br/>In any case, the choreography of the fight scenes, the character development, the background, the pretense each characters flaws, etc are spot on in my opinion.<br/><br/>I won&#39;t go into much detail in regards to the series, suffice to say there is a good deal of fighting, dying and blood letting. <br/><br/>The premise is that some cataclysmic event caused the whole scenario to start….present day Japan is the timeline basically..<br/><br/>Humans-Contractors-Dolls, those are the three classes of society, whilst the first class, humans, is not supposed to really know the contractors and dolls exist. I suggest buying all the series, getting a lot of popcorn..and watch them all back to back,then wonder why in the heck did they not make more episodes??? This anime series has a brilliant premise, interesting characters, great animation, music and sound effects, engaging action scenes and well written dialogue. It would seem that those would constitute a great anime show. Well, Darker than Black is good but it could have been a lot better, if one thing wasn&#39;t missing: <br/><br/>Character development. With the exception of episode 13 and 14 (the best ones, in my opinion) where we see a subtle, yet clear enlightenment of the side character Yin, there is very little character development in this series. The great titles like Death Note, Elfen Lied, Time of Eve or even the lighthearted Black Lagoon, always feature an emotional arc of one or more characters. They learn, they react, they change their attitude or moral stance because of the circumstances. We root for the characters, we empathise with them and we get closure when their character arc completes. This is missing in Darker than Black. The main character is conflicted but his attitude and behaviour stays almost constant throughout.<br/><br/>If not for the above, this would have been an outstanding series. As it is, it&#39;s still worth watching, but don&#39;t expect the thoughtful and emotional involvement that the best anime give.
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