Definitely the best anime series airing right now, always something interesting to see in each episode. I just hope its a full length series & not a short 13 ep type series alot of new anime seem to suffer from.
Subaruhess, a 14 ep run would suck seeing as its such a cool series.
Cool anime Danny, i've been watching it since the first episode it has a very smooth animation indeed and the story is quite interesting it's being released in little doses to really keep the viewer interested.
i watched the first couple episodes. then i felt it got repetitive. it really didnt have anything that made me want to keep watching it.
is it just me or does this feel of X-men?
Once again you have brought my attention to a show that I thought I'd never watch. *adding to watch list*
It looks more like witch hunter robin to me..the powers anyways
Just finishing the download for Death Note 32 (watched it all in a row the last 3 days) and then it's Darker than Black. I'm especially curious about the music now that you said it's Yoko Kanno's.
yer its one of the top anime on my watchlist this season.
Did anyone else notice the western otaku who lives in Li's apartment building? I think he was in the first episode, or one of the beginning episodes where he's actually at his apartment. He's wearing an anime shirt and has headphones on! I thought it was funny that he was in there - is that how the Japanese see western otaku? Wouldn't be too far off.... hahaha
odd storyline anime even for typical anime stories but the mix-n-match characters and some of the outlandish contractor's special abilities keep you wanting to see more... trying to learn enough Japanese to start just watching the raws instead of fansubs as something is definitely getting lost in translation with this series probably...
now thats my type of anime ! hehe , and Bones you never cease to amaze me good job!
THis looks really cool. The style of animation is really nice and the dark sinister feel from the night time images is really nice. Anf the music, if its by Yoko Kanno then it will definately be very good and atmospheric. I'm going to see if i can find episode 1 right away.
Promised myself i wouldn't start any new anime series for a while but this looks and sounds really interesting so i will definatley give it a watch.
It was on my anime watch list before it started airing, but after 6 episodes I gave up. I have not found a single thing to like about the story, and more importantly about the characters. I actually had to force myself into watching episodes 5 & 6. I won't force the rest of the series upon me. I'll let you guys enjoy it and watch something else. :-)
I've followed "Darker than black" since episode 1 and I felt episode 1-6 were mediocre. It was always the same theme e.g. Hei rescuing some chick and that chick always die except for the fire starter girl. But episode 7-8 definitely shine and they were very funny. If I were recommending this anime, I'd ask them to start from episode 7-8 first before watching the earlier episodes to understand the deep stuff about contractors & all.
Darker than Black, together with Seirei no Moribito, has to be one of my favs this season. I somehow feel like Bounty Hunter, though. Up until now it feels very episodic. I didn't see ep7 and 8 yet and I'm reluctant to hear that things are going to change.
Yep, Darker than Black is good show. This season there are very good animes. This week I began to watch Dennou Coil too
awww ders soo mani gdd animes and i don knw where i can watch from sigh...
having been watching the show lately..but i like the opening song! Howling!! it just rocks!!
A friend of mind recommended me this anime, now I want to see it after seeing the trailer. Gonna watch this after I get over the Lucky Star & iDOLM@STER ^^
Currently busy watching "Ergo Proxy" but once I am finished with that one I'll give it a try :)
Wow i should watch this soon ^^ Have been too busy to watch anything lately! haha.
My biggest problem is so many shows are good this season. I have been feeling a bit of overload. Odd part of it all is none have really developed into favorites for me. ^^; DTB has been on my secondary list. Meaning, I'm watching it but not keeping up with it regularly. This year's summer season for drama looks boring to me, so I will probably watch more then.
heheheh Danny what do you think? I'm watchin it or not^^ I think a is a very nice anime. For me most of all is nice the fact that the main caracter " the reaper" is a contractor little bit over the others but not so much... So is difficult for him evry time save his back... The stoy is still little bit confused, but it will be better i'm sure, Bones never fail. The musics are also very nice i think Bye everyone| XIII
Gorgo ^^; Kaori, its been a while ^^;
Definitely an excellent show... I had to cut down onanime for my exams but this was one of the series I still had to keep up with =P
I like darker than black :D the ending track reminds me of one of blood plus's ending tracks? Can't wait for the next episode!
Darker than Black sounds really awesome! It's going to be on my list^^
hey DAnny...here is sad 3rd world...heros is just starting on TV... saw the first ep and don't know what the hype is about but i guess i'll see right???anyway i prefer anime over heros...
looks and sounds like an awesome show .... cant wait to get into it ... pity it doesnt air worldwide ... =(
Heroes ended on a weird note with a lot of unresolved questions such as why was Sylar's corpse remained unprotected in such a popular city as New York? Or why did Nathan become the pilot to fly instead of Peter? Whatever happened to Claire's real mother? The man with the invisibility power? Darker Than Black is so-so. The first two episodes came off strong, but hasn't grabbed my attention span as other series. I must admit that this season of anime is probably the best I've seen the past few years in terms of animation quality, character driven, and mucho story. I hope they ride this gravy train to continue down this path.
Oh... a esper-ish-themed anime! Sounds and looks great. I got to watch this as soon as it is available. @shou': Spoiler alert! Wait, I am not concerned ^^
And here I though Hell Gate was in NYC! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate ;)
Darker than black is awesome honestly in my opinion, I even found an RPG site! s11.invisionfree.com/Darker_Than_Black/ Please join cause we need more members
is it true dat dis anime is onli is 25 episode long because i saw it in a website i hope that the site is wrong
Yep the series is 25 episodes long, with an extra episode 26 on the DVDs.
apparently it seems that one of the ppl working on the series quit and ran away with the script for the anime. Thus it has a lousy ending as it is.
Yeah he ran away with the manuscript, but nothing was said about him quitting. I would like to know where you got that from.
Darker Than Black is a great series. Too bad it raises far more questions than it answers in the end.
No it did not, it answered most of the pressing issues. Sure it left some things as a cliffhanger, but you could probably infer the answers if you paid attention to what they were saying.
Contemplated several times if I should watch it...still haven't I like the animation style, and on the whole have heard decent reviews of the series. If I manage to get past my backlog of anime Ive yet to watch, I might come back to this one.
Other than what you may have already heard, the animation was done by BONES, and BONES is well-known for its series. I believe DtB to be the best of 2007, but then again that is my personal opinion. Great story with good action and all.
Anyone watch the OVA? >_>;
Didnt even know there was one. Any good?
Not an OVA, but a DVD-only episode. Watched, it is like a normal DtB episode set sometime after the story about Yin's background. Pretty much what you would expect of a normal DtB episode, was pretty good for me.
Wow, well done Danny for summurazing it, because the plot is rather obscur and very difficult to undertand. Lot is not said and I have the feeling that the director rely a lot on the watcher to make the link between various event and understand by themselves. So the show requires a lot a thinking, which is good - better than dumbing the audience with only fan service - but make it difficult to follow. Not my advice after a heavy day of work when you just want to lay back. But the animation is sure great and the story (contractors etc...) clever.
This series should have been finished last year if I'm not wrong. Anyway, it is unique on it's own. This series is good! Absolutely nothing like x-men or heros to begin with... not any western superhero flicks at all.
This is one of my favourite series from last year. I also recommend it. By the way, I watched the extra episode and it wasn't as good as I expected :S it didn't answer the questions from last episodes :S
Are you sure eps 8 is the most resent, im sure i have already seen all 25 episodes online with subs and i thoroughly enjoyed it though, one of the best animes i've seen and the ending is spectacular.
LOL. This is "this time last year" article ^^;
I never tried Darker Than Black last year when I noticed that it was usually on people top watch list but it does sound very intriguing and I might try and add to watch list if I can be bothered to find all the eps and download them. I think Yoko Kanno's music are great and I'm still behind in Eureka Seven!
this is a really nice anime for me, like Yin and Amber the most. btw, why it is a last year article... =.=..
