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| and thus started the beginning of the end, yin captured and hei as an alcoholic |
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| Ahhh man... *Cries* NOOOO YIN......Confess and then die?! Whaaa... :( |
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| I was wondering why Hei became an alcoholic in the beginning of Season 2... QUESTION HAS BEEN ANWSERED! |
| This OVA series was kinda disapointing and not really needed as the two seasons already completed each other pretty well. Of course the last 5 minutes or so were great and were like the missing link to the introduction of Ryuusei no Gemini, but overall, those four episodes didn't really convince me of anything except that the second season was more interesting character-wise than the first (and the direction and action were better too). |
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| That's a damn manly ability. Blowing boubles~ : D The martial artist dude was pretty cool though xD Well. I must say, I am terribly satisfied with this, even though there could've been more Hei×Yin. (And I know I've said this before but.. Unlike the second season, this was goood.) Also, ain't that a strange bomb? Ruins the landscape but leaves the people there unscathed. Enter, Heibo! And now, even more than after the second season, I demand a third season. (Though I can't really see how it's possible to end it all happily anymore ^^; Unless whatever Yin was talking to inside herself actually does grant her wish after the end of the second season.) |
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| Oh god it was so sad when she tried to force Hei to kill her.. and then Hei says he doesn't want to loose anymore dear to him :l And then Hei and Yin don't see each other again, so that's why Hei begins to drink? ;o.. Hmm it seems like some people didn't think this ova was that good or something?.. I really don't understand that, for me this ova was one of the best things in this anime. I liked it alot, now I really wanna know what happend after season 2... |
KazeFalcon said: Finally she said that she liked Hei! But too bad Hei didn't answer >.< Well,at least Hei said he didn't want to lose anymore people who are important to him ^-^ i think it'a the same :)) she know he likes her too.. i mean,just look what he became afterwords bcs of her <3 i would sooo like 3 season.. :( yin x hei 4ever :)) |
| "If it's your wish, I will follow you everywhere, Even if your throne crumbles, And your shiny crown turns to rust, Even if the bodies pile up endlessly, Above the bottomless pile corpses, Beside you as you lie softly down, I will be.....Until i hear the words "check Mate." ♥ |
| What an awesome, amazing, great, epic 4 episodes! I just can say good things about this OVA, I've really really really enjoyed it ^o^ 9/10 |
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| This episode is just friggin great. The scenery is soo epic and I mostly felt bad for Hei and Yin. Forbidden love can be such a bitch. |
| Loved the fight scene, style reminded me of the kid in the animatrix. Half hobo Hei looked pretty hot =3 Awesome music, great art 10/10 Season 3 please ^^ |
| 10/10 !!! cute Yin x Hei scenes and awesome action! loved it! felt so sad that it ended. i might watch season 2 again. and yes the part where she says : 'she's still alive' and hei looks up was a masterpiece way to end the ep! omg i loved it..... i dont think a season 3 will be good unless they can maintain the mysterious aura+awesome action+heiXyin cuteness without destroying it...which will be very hard. i think the ending is fine.....dont want them to go ahead, make a crappy s3 and ruin the whole DTB name |
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| One question: why didn't they air this after season one, instead of jumping right into season two? Gemini would've actually made sense. In retrospect, it was a strange decision. The Gaiden had everything I loved about the first season. Badass Hei(and look, he actually had his powers! weird concept, that), touching Yin x Hei scenes, and amazing fights. Of course, stripper lady also helped. =) Better than S2 in every possible way. 8/10 |
| Still not exactly a fan of Hei x Yin, and I'm still kinda confused about the whole Izanami/Izanagi/Mitaka documents business, but the action was pretty cool, and I think I understand a little bit more of the plot. Shmeh. :/ |
| Ha-cha! |
| Dam fell in love with DTB again man the fights were epic just like season 1 or more so...ooo Yin was so cute >:3, became HeixYin fan through this OVA :D. ME WANT SEQUEL,PREQUEL,SPIN-OFF i don't know, WHATEVER! :( Come on BONES you can do it! |
| That was enjoyable. Didn't really answer much that we didn't already know from the second season but it was still good to get clarification. One thing I'm still wondering about is how they mentioned Yin's awakening was similar to the Gates and how she'll cause the stars to fall and descend before a new gate. From the second season we already know Yin's other self brings the contractors to a new world. Does that mean the other two gates that we knew about from the first season did the same thing? One (hells gate) brought the contractors to the earth and another (heavens gate) took some away? It would explain why when Hei's sister died and gave him her power, he saw so many stars disappear despite them only killing a few hundred within the vicinity of the gate before the heavens gate activated and ultimately disappeared. |
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llamaben said: The only thing that was good in the OVA was the link between the stories, but everything else failed in comparison to season 1 and 2. S2 > S1 > OVA. I personally liked the OVA, I gave it the same rating as both of the series, they were so close together. I agree though, S2 > S1 > OVA. |
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| After this episode I finally understand Series 2. That was the main success of these OVAs. SERIES 3 NAO!!!!!!!!! |
GarLogan78 said: Well I watched God-Speed-Subs, which I thought were fine. Even after watching Seasons 1, 2, and this OVA, I still don't understand so much of what happened. That the biggest problem with Darker than BLack. They leave a tone of things unanswered. For example no ever told us what this "awakening" of Yin is and why it's happening. What caused it? Shit is happening and no one is explaining why. I don't know what to think in the end. The OVA's had some nice action and characters, along with interesting plot but as usual they didn't really explain much. If Darker than Black ever gets a new season they better start explaining shit because this is getting ridiculous. It's getting tiring watching things happening and not knowing what is all about. We need the big picture. At least we got the reason the organization was first created. |
| tat was good. it answered quite a bit of things and really made me wanna watch season 2 again to refresh my memory |
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| great ova indeed :D i love the action here it's more intense than ever though i kinda wish season 2 was longer than season 1 seriously, i wanted to see more Hei vs that Magician Guy. hopefully there will be a season 3 and they will use the same composer who did season 2 and ova :) |
| I enjoyed the OVAs they provided some answers as to what happened between S1 and S2. I don't think it's impossible to say they won't do a third season, but I'd be shocked if they did, I personally think it's all over now. Either way Darker than Black series was pretty good and gave us some great characters: S1: 8/10 S2: 9/10 OVAs: 8/10 |
Sinamon said: Here's my take on the end of season 2 (in light of the OVA's) with regards to Hei and Yin (don't read if you hate SPOILERS!!) 1.) Yin's alter/supra ego is Izanami 2.) Shion's alter/supra ego is Izanagi 3.) Izanami, mythologically speaking, is like the god/being of destruction. As we have seen, all Izanami pretty much does is kill or cause chaos (many bodies in her wake) 4.) Izanagi, mythologically speaking, is like the god/being of creation. As we have seen, Shion is able to create copies of people as well as a new earth (!!!) 5.) The two must meld together and become one again (for some greater purpose/fulfillment of prophesy. Maybe they were whole at one point in time and the appearance of The Gate was a result of the sundering of the two halves (this has been a huge theme in literature and film i.e. The Dark Crystal). 6.) Hei has always said, regardless of the prophesy and other some such, that his goal was to kill Izanami...he never said he was going to kill Yin. He wants to destroy that which separated him from Yin. When he says that he's going to kill her, HER is in quotes ("her"). 7.) As Izanami draws Izanagi's and July's souls to her, Yin extends herself as a last ditch effort and appears and appeals to Hei to kill her because it's not too late. Though she was not able to keep the awakening from happening like she did initially, she manages to send herself out one last time to Hei 8.) Misaki sees Hei's star shine exponentially brighter in the night sky than ever before. His powers and that of his sister have returned in full force (and then some) and he has taken the meteor shard (either still in pieces from when Izanami broke Shuou's pendant or it formed into a whole piece again after the fact like it did in season one when amber had broken it into pieces but it went back to being whole) to destroy Izunami via Yin's last ditch attempt to save this crazy world. 9.) Hei changes Izanami on a molecular level via Yin’s projection thus preventing the Iza/Iza binding. 10.) Soon after, we hear that another Gate has appeared (the twins call it out) because the actual completion of Izanami and Izanagi was prevented by Hei and Yin. 11.) Thus resulting in the boy we see in the fields. He looks like a boy version of Yin. He is now the new yet incomplete Izanami incarnate signified by the arrival of a new Gate as Yin proper has split from that entity completely and there is no consciousness to hold anything back now. So this kid wakes up and just starts consuming as soon as his eyes open. 12.) During the molecular change, as noted above, Yin and Izanami disconnected as beings totally. Yin was never a shell that remained in that box though that’s what everyone thought. Izanami had just seemingly taken over her wholesale and their entities were tightly intertwined but Yin boldly asserted herself at the last moment to Hei. Once the disconnect occurred, the remnants of Yin returned to her body. 13.) Yin's wish is to be with Hei (she has said this a few times in the OVA's), not for Hei to kill her. In the end, she counted on Hei to know the right time and do what was needed so she didn't need to wish for that. Hei knew what he had to do so she didn't have to waste her wish. Her knowing smile and his knowing smile at the end complimented each other. 14.) Hei is seen carrying Yin’s naked body off. This is clearly the Yin from the box in the room, not Yin that showed herself to Hei moments before. Hei went back to the bldg after the change, disconnected Yin from the tubes and carried her off with him, at last alone together. At some point later, Yin regains consciousness and though it takes a long time, she slowly but surely returns to herself. 15.) Amber, who has seen and knows the future, knows the budding relationship between Hei and Yin (episode 16) so she entrusts Yin to watch over Hei. I doubt she would tell Yin this if Yin was going to die. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!!!!! They live and are happy together eventually!!!!! Waaaaah!!! Thank you so much for explaining this to me! I love this anime, but after the finale I was like wtf happened? I hope there's a third season coming out and that Kirihara and Hei will get closer. |
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| The OVAs were great and explain why Hei felt so guilty about Yin, but still there are so many questions unanswered. I would really like a S3, but I'm not sure I want Hei on it. I kinda feel bad for him at this point, he is always loosing someone or something terrible is happening to him. I rather watch a whole season about some kind of conspiracy theory and Kirihara trying to put things together (answerer wth are the gate)... unless they bring back Yin ^^ At this point I don't believe Shion was Izanagi. At the end of the OVA Yin says that Hie is going to tell her when she was ready to awaken(i guess?) and the things inside of her agrees to that. Also when Shion dies nothing happens( at the end of S2 Izanagi ,not Yin, tells Hei that "Is not to late" so i guess the awaking was not started by Shion), but when Hei does w.e he does to Yin the new Gate appears (with the kid) and things pretty much end. |
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Sinamon said: Here's my take on the end of season 2 (in light of the OVA's) with regards to Hei and Yin (don't read if you hate SPOILERS!!) I agree with your event explanation and find fascinating. So I do go towards like in the GIF but the way I saw it in this episode is the gate had some sort of EMP and the plane fell. Yin tried to kill herself but instead a tomhawk missile in all this blows up a nasty hole. Izanami wakes and Hei is all in this. Comes the beam cannon that Yin's awakening is stopped due to that cannon stopping the particles properly. What I don understand is if the being of gold inside of Yin is Izanagi not awakened or still Izanami stuck inside of Yin? It could Izanami stuck inside but that would explain happening upon the Hei contact. Another is after what happens, at the end of all that Hei x Yin are humans on the new earth and live happily ever after having many kids. Because a)they are humans with no memories but feelings intact. b)Izanami cannot go another world? Even if she lives she will be stuck alone on that planet provided it never dies out. The end. Unless season 3 makes me wrong on this one. It was a blast seeing this last OVA! |
| Oh, so that's how Hei got the fuzzy unattractive bum look in season 2. But, Yin. :< Whyyyy do Hei and Yin have to be apart? :( |
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Monad said: GarLogan78 said: Well I watched God-Speed-Subs, which I thought were fine. Even after watching Seasons 1, 2, and this OVA, I still don't understand so much of what happened. That the biggest problem with Darker than BLack. They leave a tone of things unanswered. For example no ever told us what this "awakening" of Yin is and why it's happening. What caused it? Shit is happening and no one is explaining why. I don't know what to think in the end. The OVA's had some nice action and characters, along with interesting plot but as usual they didn't really explain much. If Darker than Black ever gets a new season they better start explaining shit because this is getting ridiculous. It's getting tiring watching things happening and not knowing what is all about. We need the big picture. At least we got the reason the organization was first created. Perharps you should give the show an other go: I'm pretty sure I understood everything after a re-watch of the whole serie. And this episode made me sob again... great. |
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| still didnt get it.... okay I am going to re-watch season 2 as everyone did.. >> |
| This was a GREAT special. Honestly you could simply watch this without even having to see the second season! Ends the series perfectly! |
| With all those souls inside Yin i can only imagine what she'll do when that time comes...great OVA anyways |
| One conclusion is ... There must be Season 3 |
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| Overall this was a great OVA/Specials or whatever you wanna call it. I would even say this is essential if you followed the TV series and I am so glad I watched this before second season, it had so much more impact. A little characteristic of these episodes is that they are so much more brutal and action-packed than the series. Well done. Evangelion vibe anyone? |
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| Hate this crap. Darker than Black was beast in season 1. I watched this right after that, and wth happened with Yin and Hei. It was kinda obvious Yin had feelings for him in the last few episodes, but what happened to Hei? All this hugging between them. I mean, seriously what happened? Did losing Yin make him become so depressed to start drinking? What about Huang, and Mao? God this is annoying. There was no signs of any love that Hei had, except for Amber in the past, maybe. I really like Kirihara and Hei, and then outta nowhere I see this and I'm like -_- did Darker than Black really become so stupid and like so many other animes out there? Reminded me alot of Gurren Lagaan, but that was so much more well-made. I heard this was supposed to fill the gap between Season 1 and 2 but the developments in this special were SO rushed. I wish they REALLY showed how Hei and Yin grew to love each other instead of just putting us in the middle of things. Showing how they escaped the city and the syndicate would have been a good start. This really disappointed me. I gave the first Darker than Black a 9. The music and animation were great, and the plot even better. This crap at least had good music and animation, and I must admit the fight scenes were as great as the first season, but the plot sucked so badly and had horrible pacing in developments. I would give it a 6, but because Darker than Black had amazing characters (although they were put to waste in this special) and great music, animation, and fight scenes, it deserves a 7. Hated this, but it had the characters I had grown to love, so had to watch it. If you watch it without thinking about the plot, or the characters, it'll be great. |
fishergirl16Aug 16, 2011 10:36 PM
| Well my thoughts on this is that it was great! 9/10 I always wanted to see some romance between Hei and Yin :3 I watched this before S2 because supposedly it is a prequel but still I've heard that S2 is quite disappointing -_- I hope they kept with this storyline because I wanna see the end so bad! |
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grar564 said: Sinamon said: Here's my take on the end of season 2 (in light of the OVA's) with regards to Hei and Yin (don't read if you hate SPOILERS!!) 1.) Yin's alter/supra ego is Izanami 2.) Shion's alter/supra ego is Izanagi 3.) Izanami, mythologically speaking, is like the god/being of destruction. As we have seen, all Izanami pretty much does is kill or cause chaos (many bodies in her wake) 4.) Izanagi, mythologically speaking, is like the god/being of creation. As we have seen, Shion is able to create copies of people as well as a new earth (!!!) 5.) The two must meld together and become one again (for some greater purpose/fulfillment of prophesy. Maybe they were whole at one point in time and the appearance of The Gate was a result of the sundering of the two halves (this has been a huge theme in literature and film i.e. The Dark Crystal). 6.) Hei has always said, regardless of the prophesy and other some such, that his goal was to kill Izanami...he never said he was going to kill Yin. He wants to destroy that which separated him from Yin. When he says that he's going to kill her, HER is in quotes ("her"). 7.) As Izanami draws Izanagi's and July's souls to her, Yin extends herself as a last ditch effort and appears and appeals to Hei to kill her because it's not too late. Though she was not able to keep the awakening from happening like she did initially, she manages to send herself out one last time to Hei 8.) Misaki sees Hei's star shine exponentially brighter in the night sky than ever before. His powers and that of his sister have returned in full force (and then some) and he has taken the meteor shard (either still in pieces from when Izanami broke Shuou's pendant or it formed into a whole piece again after the fact like it did in season one when amber had broken it into pieces but it went back to being whole) to destroy Izunami via Yin's last ditch attempt to save this crazy world. 9.) Hei changes Izanami on a molecular level via Yin’s projection thus preventing the Iza/Iza binding. 10.) Soon after, we hear that another Gate has appeared (the twins call it out) because the actual completion of Izanami and Izanagi was prevented by Hei and Yin. 11.) Thus resulting in the boy we see in the fields. He looks like a boy version of Yin. He is now the new yet incomplete Izanami incarnate signified by the arrival of a new Gate as Yin proper has split from that entity completely and there is no consciousness to hold anything back now. So this kid wakes up and just starts consuming as soon as his eyes open. 12.) During the molecular change, as noted above, Yin and Izanami disconnected as beings totally. Yin was never a shell that remained in that box though that’s what everyone thought. Izanami had just seemingly taken over her wholesale and their entities were tightly intertwined but Yin boldly asserted herself at the last moment to Hei. Once the disconnect occurred, the remnants of Yin returned to her body. 13.) Yin's wish is to be with Hei (she has said this a few times in the OVA's), not for Hei to kill her. In the end, she counted on Hei to know the right time and do what was needed so she didn't need to wish for that. Hei knew what he had to do so she didn't have to waste her wish. Her knowing smile and his knowing smile at the end complimented each other. 14.) Hei is seen carrying Yin’s naked body off. This is clearly the Yin from the box in the room, not Yin that showed herself to Hei moments before. Hei went back to the bldg after the change, disconnected Yin from the tubes and carried her off with him, at last alone together. At some point later, Yin regains consciousness and though it takes a long time, she slowly but surely returns to herself. 15.) Amber, who has seen and knows the future, knows the budding relationship between Hei and Yin (episode 16) so she entrusts Yin to watch over Hei. I doubt she would tell Yin this if Yin was going to die. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!!!!! They live and are happy together eventually!!!!! Waaaaah!!! Thank you so much for explaining this to me! I love this anime, but after the finale I was like wtf happened? I hope there's a third season coming out and that Kirihara and Hei will get closer. Thank you 7/10 |
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supermegasonicDec 19, 2011 10:20 PM
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| As I haven't watched season 2 yet I assume Hei will work with the CIA from now on and thus accept the offering of the blond woman. Overall this was a great OVA series. Let's hope the second season will continue on this level! |
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| Bit of a slow depressing OVA series, oh well on to the next series... |
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| Nice music, nice atmosphere and good characters. I wished they could have made this as season 2 instead. Only question is, when did Yin and Hei fall in love? It seemed a bit forced to me. I'd love a prequel focusing on Hin and his sister though. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| OMG... Whats gonna happen to Yin now! ;~; |
MisterStabilo said: Ohh, why it had to come to an end... ^I say this quite often, but now I mean it really - it was one of the best things I've watched in anime. I don't know if there would be third season according to this gaiden, but I think I should rewatch ep 1 of S2(because I've watched only this episode from S2) because I might have missed something important connected to it. Anyway, this episode served as a rather strange finale - you can't say if it was a good or bad ending, but maybe that's the better way to do it, because such good episodes would need either too good ending or the one we actually got(and this is anime after all, such endings are to be expected). Xi-Qi died and I don't like this much - he was indeed a great antihero, and actually had ideals. But, well, this is Darker Than Black - if people weren't dieing this anime wouldn't have been as good. Yin's transformation was great, I didn't know she'd make such great character in the start of the show - both in terms of strength and person. And of course, Hei is good(= too good) as always... no, even better than S1, this is for sure. And now, it's time for my thorough assessment. 1. Characters. +1. This might have been OVA, consisting of just 4 episodes, but we Xi-Qi who did better than the bad guys in S1. Also Hei and Yin got so much better character development for such a short amount of time. 2. Atmosphere. +1. Hmm, there wasn't a single flaw for even a moment in this gaiden. It was actually this atmosphere I was expecting, when I started DTB back in the time, but it didn't fulfill my expectations to their fullest. I so want more episodes like this OVA ;__; 3. OST. Great OST, the background themes were just perfect and the ED is really good too, imo. 4. Animation. +1. I remember that I despised DTB's animation on start, back in S1, and I'm not sure if I just got used to it(which usually is my case) or it really got slightly better. I think it's great now. 5. Background story. You can't expect real background story in an OVA imo, and we didn't get one here either, but it was ok without it anyway. 6. Storyline. +1. For a 4-episode OVA, we had the chance to witness a real storyline(it wouldn't be possible in 1 - 2 episodes) and it turned out better than what I could possibly expect. At the end contractors turned out to be failed dolls, exactly opposite to what I've(and most of the watchers besides me imo) been thinking. In the same time, dolls can reach their fullest extent of power only when somebody loves them and cares about them. The plot twists were all over the place. And of course, as we're talking about DTB, the storyline was quite dramatic one. 7. Ending. Hmm, I don't know what to say about the ending tho. I didn't really get what actually happened(BUT WELL, we are talking about Darker than Black here >_<) in the end. Still, I liked how Hei changed after he thought Yin was dead. It developed him even further in that direction, where he's actually human in his soul, despite he's got the powers of a contractor and is seen as one by the world to the extent where he's even forced to act like one of em'. 8. Fight scenes. +1. I actually forgot that I had to score this part too. Hm, well the fight scenes were actually good enough, despite this OVA didn't revolve around action as much as some the episodes in Season 1. So I guess it scores a point here. 9. Drama. +1. Drama here was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than in Season 1. Yin almost completely regained her consciousness, but then this turned out to be a catalyst for something really bad. And Hei, completely throwing away his life every moment for her every single second, when she's the last important thing for him left to protect... He couldn't do anything but win me this way. And of course, Xi-Qi - a contractor with ideals, who threw his life away for them. And so much more between the lines. Nope, I just couldn't get enough of it. 10. Overall feeling. +1. I can't say that it just "felt great". This OVA won my support for DTB probably even more than the original first season. As I said before, I just couldn't get enough of it. I just can't imagine what it would be if there were like 26 episodes like these four. I can't reject that it left me deeply impressed. It's masterpiece in my opinion and I rarely score anything like this. Bonus(extra) point for:... +1. Yeah, it's time for this part of my assessment. I already said it few times, but Xi-Qi impressed me quite a lot and I don't think the OVA would be complete without him. I guess antiheroes are to be expected in DTB, but he somewhat moved me. I'll give him what he deserves. Too bad he doesn't even exist in the character database of MAL... I'd probably even consider him as a Top 10 favorite, if the case was different. Overall score: 9/10. I don't remember why I scored DTB S1 just 7/10, but if we get more DTB in the spirit of this Gaiden - I wouldn't be able to feel in a better way about these series for sure. |
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| Great OVA series, I loved all the caring moments between Yin and Hei. Hopefully the 2nd season wont disappoint. 9/10 |
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| badass hei, i want yo babies |
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| The last episode was really good. Can't believe Yin actually confesed to Hei. Anyway, loved these 4 ovas. |
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