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| This is like the ending from S1.........They better make a season 3! |
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| Another splendid season, I hope they will make season3! |
| Same I really hope their is a season 3, this is just like season 1 with the really open ending... also what the heck happened to Suou, did she really just get teleported to another world, and somehow she hopes to meet with Hei again? Cause pretty sure that isn't going to happen, also where was the giant calamity they were talking about, nothing really bad seemed to happen. |
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| Hei gets all the ladies and they die... and the OVAs explan why hei acted the way he did. I was sad how it ended for Suou though..Hei PROMISED he wouldn't leave her!! :( Season 2 gets a gold star from me but I await the day season 3 appears. Hopefully in Oct as this "rumor" states. if not I'll make sure lots of stars fall in that month >.> |
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| Ok, good first season and good OVA's too. Season 2 it was a little disappointment after all. From one hand it had some stuff I like more than season 1 (eg. more emotions on characters) but this season really rush up the all thing. The plot it was started somewhat good but episode after episode the things goes worse. The story have many many "holes". After all the ending it was tricky and mindfuck, but I felt like they did it in this way to end up the season in 12 episodes. Seriously, it was the half of season 1. DTB2 have only a few good moments. :P |
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| This episode... You know, the only thing I really liked about it was the fact that The Magician survived. Man, he's my favorite contractor ever! I thought that this season sucked because they killed him. This part pretty much made my day. My day? Fwck it, my year! Btw, what was Shizumi's remuneration? Btw, dat traitor. 1. Characters. +1. Well, this season pretty much made the character aspect of DTB times better than it was in S1. Tbh, back then, this anime lacked the level of development it had now. 2. Atmosphere. +1. For one aspect, I don't think DTB can be much topped - it's the atmosphere. Even if DTB had thousand seasons, I'd probably watch it just because of the bleakness in the air. This season made no difference and I enjoyed it fully. 3. OST. +1. The OP was really great and totally fitted the season, as did the ED. The tracks beside them were 10/10 too, no matter if they were dynamic themes or not. 4. Animation. +1. At this point, I think that DTB has one of the best animations ever. And I love the dark tones of it! 5. Background story. +1. If you've watched the Gaiden you wouldn't have a reason not to like the background imo(otherwise you might think it's vague). But that's when it comes to Hei's background. Suou's one was at least as good as Hei&Yin's. 6. Storyline. +1. Unlike S1 we directly jumped into the plot and got 12 dynamic episodes of a storyline. I liked the idea behind it, I like the plot overall. 7. Ending. Blah, that's the part I didn't like at all. The ending itself was kind of neutral - it allows a sequel and at the same time this anime might over just like this. The birth of the new being at the end kind of gives me hope for a next season, tbh it's the only bit of the ending which gives me the hope. The part I hated was when Suou got send into new world. I guess that from her brother's point of view that was for the best sake of hers' but I liked way more Suou from the real world. This was bad way to deal with her. And I'm sure it was just a way to deal with her because she was in the way of the plot at this point. Yeah, Hei got to deal with Yin, so what's he gonna do about Suou. Screw this ending I hate it. Otherwise, it ended in such a neutral way, it's like now everybody are living everyday life. Hm. 8. Fight scenes. +1. As always, DTB excels with great fight scenes. Not much to comment here. 9. Drama. +1. We needed second season to get actual drama in this anime(I'm excluding the OVA). Tbh S1 wasn't nearly as dramatic as I expected(for some reason). The drama quality level was high in S2. 10. Overall affect. +1. I liked it times more than S1All the episodes were linked together, and not for a moment I felt like "everything is good at this point, it can end this way", nothing like S1. I cared for most of the characters, because they were very well done. Almost nothing was out of place. In my opinion this season is a masterpiece and I could easy put in my top 5 if there weren't already animes I just don't want to remove. I'd pay price close to anything to see 3rd season. Bonus(extra) point for:... +1. The Magician. It might sound silly to you, but from the second I noticed him, I felt like he's my favorite contractor. And then he kinda died... And my "WIN!" moment out of this season was when he appeared before July. Hahahaha, from the moment I saw the shadow silhouette, I was sure it's him. It's like... such a cool character can't just die the way he "did" :D Overall score: 10/10. I hope my wish for another DTB season gets granted one day. |
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| Very nice mindfuck ending. Too bad so many people disliked it, but we were dealing with weird dimensional gates to begin with, so this was more a less bound to happen. I'm too lazy to read all the 26 pages, so here are a few remarks: - not sure yet was Shion wish was. To copy the entire earth seems a bit of an overkill, but it still explains neatly why Suou gets into another world having its own moon with July. - Hei probably kills Yin, and get his power back. The real problem is the (male?) copy of Yin, and where s/he wakes up. Should read the manga (>lazy). So nothing really overwhelming. I was hoping to see more Amber, that would have been a nice complexification, but they had their hands full with dealing with new twists and powers, and I can accept that. The subplots where kind of classic sf (a bit like season 1 were), but the emotional touch was fine most of the time, definitely a plus from s1. They still should have made golem guy's treason a bit clearer/hinted, until the end I thought Madame Oreille had killed Youko >_<. Overall I think I liked it because I've watched Gaiden before Gemini. This order is definitely better. So weird, but a nice evolution. |
EratiKSep 21, 2012 3:08 AM
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| Thankfully, I realized that this is more of a side story than a sequel, pretty much straight off the bat, so I think I was able to enjoy it a bit more as being Suou's story rather than a direct continuation of Hei's story. |
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| Best serie ever :3 |
Zee530 said: Well, i couldnt get into season 1 cos i had no idea what was happening throughout the whole 24 episodes but this season and the gaiden were amazing. Agreed, this ending was still a bit confusing but after looking it up I understand it somewhat. 9/10 Hope that someday they decide to make more. |
| I still can't understand what happened when the meteor fragment touched pai/hei. A whish become true but as a payment the whole area will be destroyed??? May somebody correct me? |
| That ending... |
| That possibly male yin at the end.... |
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| Back when i was watching this anime, i freaking loved it. Both seasons. Seems like there won't be a new season...too bad :) |
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| The Boy that everyone is saying is Yin isnt her just to releave some of you the doll that looks like Yin is suppose to be the new Izanami…all part of the probable "Season 3" i do believe they made this new character as a way to give hei and yin a happy ending and for her to actually live... *SPOILER* At the end of "Darker Than Black Gaiden OVA" Yin is talking to another specter and says she is waiting for hei...she isnt dead but asleep waiting for hei to tell her when its "time" my main point is that Yin will not be a male....she is still a female thank God... ._. |
| "It's Just that this blonde little shit strolled in, blew up my 70inch Plasma screen TV, and is now trying to impress me like i'm his alchoholic father, Now be a sport and grab daddy another beer would you?" ~Alucard |
KyokoYuzuki said: The Boy that everyone is saying is Yin isnt her just to releave some of you the doll that looks like Yin is suppose to be the new Izanami…all part of the probable "Season 3" i do believe they made this new character as a way to give hei and yin a happy ending and for her to actually live... *SPOILER* At the end of "Darker Than Black Gaiden OVA" Yin is talking to another specter and says she is waiting for hei...she isnt dead but asleep waiting for hei to tell her when its "time" my main point is that Yin will not be a male....she is still a female thank God... ._. But Gaiden is a prequel.... It's set between the first and second seasons time wise. Here we are 3 years later and we still don't have our long awaited third season. WHY!? T_T |
| like i said my main point is that Yin will not be a male....she is still a female thank God... ._. i forget the time periods anymore |
| "It's Just that this blonde little shit strolled in, blew up my 70inch Plasma screen TV, and is now trying to impress me like i'm his alchoholic father, Now be a sport and grab daddy another beer would you?" ~Alucard |
| Between the two worlds, the old and the new one that Shion made, the only difference should be that Shion doesn't exist and neither do contractors. So yea, I guess Yin is female :D |
| Well the ending wasn't bad. It was just so open. However, since Hei and Mao survived that's good enough for me. Anyway, the season was pretty exciting and interesting. I'm glad I found the time to watch it. |
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| first episodes are craps.and the ending is confusing hope there will be a another season |
| I aggree that this needs next season, too good series to end in confusion .. many things were unexplained .. Id prefer if they would somehow make a sequel .. I know that prequel would be good to explain many things and so but still .. end showed boy (or whatever) with izanami powers and hei's star came back and so .. would be nice to continue |
 I've got a bad habit of clicking spoilers too fast, then regret it .. "The only ones who should kill are those who are prepared to be killed." |
| Well there goes another anime which overcomplicates itself and explains basically nothing.... But I enjoyed it all the same :3. good series, just wish they gave some answers and a more understandable ending. |
"When everyone else is about to give up, the fighter who becomes the role model, is the true Leader."  |
| Well it took nearly everything I loved about the first season and threw it all away. Shame. |
| Great ending of this series! I really liked how they stepped of the case per 2 episodes and actually showed a buildup story with great character development as well! It was also very nice to see some of the characters from the first season combined with this great ending it sure topped the first season! The ending it self was slightly unexpected to be like that but well it's a good way to end the series with a good ending! It does feel rather unfinished and well I wouldn't mind a third season! I had a great watch of this whole series and especially this last season! |
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versuz said: first episodes are craps.and the ending is confusing hope there will be a another season Sounds funny cause I disliked the ending and liked the rest of the episodes. Through anime I felt like I was eating sweets and droping thier papers to garbage, when I reached the ending someone took this garbage and throw all the trash on my head. What I liked mostly? -> the new character Suou |
KrunchyApr 16, 2013 6:08 AM
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| I found many of the early episodes of Season 2 enjoyable, tbh. The ending was crap though, and they made Hei an absolute mess. I mean, sure, it fit his trauma, but to go through over half the series like that? Pathetic. Suou was absolutely cute. She had good character design despite having an almost cliché personality. But the contrast with the rest of the Contractors was done extremely well, and I ended up liking her predictable personality. Perhaps it helped that I watched the OVA episodes right before marathoning "Ryuusei no Gemini," and that the last time I watched the original "Darker than Black" was actually almost three years ago. :P |
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| The end is a little vague, but you can piece together some things. The OVA makes it a little more sensible, but still, another chapter would close this anime out nicely (4+ eps)... Kirihara endlessly pining for Hei... |
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| remember how suou was a female copy of shion, because shion always had a problem with his copies. something was always different. That might help explain the male Yin at the end.. Other than that I dont want to believe everything because its too farfetched, so much could be wrong or right who knows. I just hope for a 3rd season that isnt a spinoff type like this was. and please have an abs theme song in it, that would just continue the awesome flow. I somehow luckily watched gaiden before the sequel and the two yins made sense, one being Yin, and Yins memories; the other being Yin; and Izanami(or Izanagi i cant remember) why couldnt it have been like Yin and Yang... wouldve been easier to keep track of |
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| cool episode and the white haired kid in the end was yin's child since she wished for it and hells gate makes wishes come true for a price so that kid was yin's son only no idea from who the child was I guess Hei and what her price was maybe that she died. I surely hope for a season 3 cause it is really interesting to see if they can continue but this ending wasn't all that bad. but its pretty long ago but still hope for another season. |
RobertovkJun 11, 2013 6:50 PM
| "When a flat-chested loli hugs you, she holds you closer to her heart" "--I am a single bullet. It has no heart. Therefore, it does not think. It just flies straight towards its target."  |
| I want my 4 hours back. |
| 日本人はイッちゃってるよ あいつら未来に生きてんな |
| After watching this and the OVAs, I have 2 words. The Fuck? |
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| Honestly I think this season was so much better than the first one. I gave the first one 8/10 and this one 10/10. Somehow this ending made more sense and wasn't confusing & frustrating as season 1 ending. Seriously, this ending. Made me cry. July with November (?), Souo with her mother and father in this sea thing (forgot what's its name in English) D: And Souo misses July, Mao and Hei even though they didn't "met" :'( And no Shion in second/new world... how sad is that. Souo will never know that her brother created her and gave her fresh start... I enjoyed this season so freaking much. Every episode was just simply awesome. I especially enjoyed music (OP, ED and background). It was soo fitting! <3 |
DawnJ said: I want my 4 hours back. Same...well except I did enjoy seeing more of Hei, July, Mao, and Misaki. The ending was a huge wtf, and I did not want to see Hei hugging Suou. I just don't even know what to think of this. And did that car just fly off into the sky in the end? |
| Great anime 9/10 ...somehow I understand what is happening ..after thinking deeply xD |
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tingy said: DawnJ said: I want my 4 hours back. Same...well except I did enjoy seeing more of Hei, July, Mao, and Misaki. The ending was a huge wtf, and I did not want to see Hei hugging Suou. I just don't even know what to think of this. And did that car just fly off into the sky in the end? Strong Suou hater, she's the only reason s2 was so great |
| GREAT SHOW BUT THAT ENDING WAS JUST DISAPPOINTING. TO MANY HOLES |
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| Only one thing to say: WTF was that. |
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| As much as I love Darker than Black... this ending incorporates 2 of my most HATED aspects. 1. An ending that's based on interpretation. 2. The worst of all: MEMORY LOSS!!!!!!! I absolutely despise endings where one of the protagonists loses their memories. Its basically a giant reset button that makes all character development pointless. |
| (>'_')># ~Here's a waffle, please calm down... "See that? She's cute and popular. You could say that her milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard. But YOU club President... your milkshakes are wasted on you. In other words, you're wasteful." ~D-Frag (Best.Reference.Ever.) |
| Season 3 NOW. Mixed feelings about the ending. It "felt" like a good ending, even though I know it wasn't. I'm really hoping for a season 3 even though I know its probably not possible anymore. (since its been over 3 years since the last DtB) |
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| Hmm, I just finished the OVAs so many of my questions about this have been answered. Overall this was good, the fight scenes were awesome (especially the last sequence with Hei), Suou was cute, and the story seemed decent. I didn't really find it as interesting or enjoyable as S1 or Gaiden, but I don't feel it was a complete blasphemy against the series. Although I am a bit disappointed that there still isn't any revelations about the gate (can forgive that is there's a sequel which clears that up) and the truth behind the Syndicate was a bit anti-climatic. Overall I'll give this a 7/10, Suou's story felt more like it would've been better for an episodic side story from S1 rather than a full out 12 episodes. |
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