Anime Analysis - Darker than Black (Commentary)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Whew, finally got it done! This review took forever to make, and it turned out to be one of my longest yet, nearly reaching 16 minutes. And the show itself? Um...the main character has a cool mask, I guess?
Next review will be on a fantasy anime.
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I digged this series 9 yrs ago: It was actually my gateway to the world of anime.
Same here, loved it
It’s my gateway into finding out more about anime. I have seen a few animes in the past but didn’t know it was called anime. I thought it was just cartoons
@@JEMA333 they are cartoons. just made in japan 💀
@@seekpenance yeah but googling it wouldnt bring them up yk. I didmt find any of the “animes” i was lookkmg for till discovered the word anime itself
@@seekpenance I started seeing people mention it online and kept sahinf it was their fac anime but i saw it on cartoon nerwork on adult swim bloxk
You didnt really pay attention or have really bad memory:
-Bai isnt dead just MIA/AWOL at the beginning
-Hei's has a goal: finding his missing sister by working for the syndicate
-the reason the organizations are fighting is that some want to destroy the anomaly and others want to use it for their own stupid plans
-Contractors not known to the general public is pretty logical, not sure how the existance of the 2 anomalys would change that. There arent that many around and even if someone learns of it he dies or the special police force "erases" their memory (not sure how that is supposed to work but OK its magic)
-the stars and sky: the anomaly has trapped earth and projects a fake sky over it - rockets cant leave earth as they "disappear" (dont remember what happens)
-Contractors are emotionless - if they said that they show sociopath behavior the whole thing wouldnt be a problem and make sense (not sure if this was intentional though - talking about mental illness is a big nono in japan even today)
DTB wasnt perfect but its a good show. At least its not like todays anime with the whole harem BS.... god I hate animes with harems....
Where did they explain the part where the anomaly trapping Earth?
@@DO9000J Episode 11 and 12, the scientist that is also fascinated with the stars mentions that they've attempted to send rockets and all sorts back out to space but they all failed. I forgot if it's because they vanished/crashed/ or another reason but he also left it vauge. I think it's left vauge because they simply don't know what's going on, as at the end of that segment, he mentions go currupt and little everyone actually works together when it comes to the gates and what's going on above them.
The wipe their memories like they do in the scp foundation or men in black with a machine.
All contractors were going to dissappear except Hei, why didn't that happened
Hei didn't used his power afterall
I hate anime that throws weakass clumsy harem female characters in the mix just so the main character can go super Saiyan when said characters are in danger
I love the fact how u missed the whole point of the show and than rage about it. It was trying to say that maybe they werent that evil bastards like society thought and they are still humans, the only thing that changed is their mindset because they are thinking they are just mindless killing machines. There was a whole conversation about this in the anime, and about the wall and stars; i must agree that shit was random
It's been awhile but wasn't it implied that Hei wasn't actually a contractor? That it was his sister who gave Hei an Ability using her Ability before she died?
hei's sister fused their bodies together with her ability which is Molecular/Electricity Manipulation
Yeah and he is only playing the part of a cold killer to keep up the act. I the part he reunite with his sis for a bit he is said to have been pretending to be fine with killing only because he never wanted his sister to be alone and he actually feels guilt towards the lives he has taken.
This guy's facts are all wrong, he clearly didn't watch the anime properly
Idk i think he’s criticizing it for not being like other anime. It’s weird.
Yea he’s contractor and probably top tier just didn’t know what his power actually were until the end.
maybe and maybe not his prize for the electric manipulation is his sister. so could say he is the only contractor who pay upfront all of his life ability cost...
i agree with alot shadow said, but i still like this show. i actually LIKE that Yin and Hei's romance is just kind of hinted at and underdeveloped. i would've hated to see them end up together. can't believe the detective and his side kick didn't get a mention, what the hell man.
True!! The detective was literally my favorite character outside of Hei's team. She was an absolute badass.
You shouldn't because his facts are so wrong, legit bro like they explain those things he clearly didn't listen. Like with the stars, people not knowing about contractors etc.
@@optiona3667I think he’s talking about Guy and Kiko
The story of this show is just amazing!!! I got so immersed in the characters I bing watched all the seasons.
Good thing you decided to watch it. This RUclipsr seems to be fairly nitpicky, which to be fair is his opinion (everyone has one). The best thing to do is find you for yourself if you like it or not. I personally liked it and it is one of those anime I remember years later. I can't exactly say that for most of the anime I've seen, since most start to repeat the same unoriginal stories.
felt the same way
This show really needs to be rewatched multiple times in order to understand.
And when you do, its so dark and tragic you get shook.
That's your opinion, this anime rocks.
I think you missed something, explained by Mao when he is captured : Contractor does have emotions, they can just bypass it for rational decision. But they do feel fear, love, anger, envy and so on. And the whole point of the show is to emphasize about how strange that makes them. So basicaly, the duality of that was showed like this : They talk like normal human being, feel etc... then once the fight is started they can kill off friends or lovers if that serves their interest.
I just finished this anime today and I felt a strong connection to a lot of the characters I can't lie I loved the show I have already gained a soft spot for it but I agree that the show at times was very confusing and had me stuck but I enjoyed that also I thought that the MC goal was to find his sister I don't remember him coming to terms with her being inside her even though I remember they spoke about the merging
that’s exactly how i feel abt it except i watched it the first time 5 years ago, it has a lot of flaws but i still really love it
@@minal564 it's definitely in my top ten tho
His facts are all wrong in the video I should make a vid correcting all his mistakes
6:57 That’s the point… I watched it as if contractors were in denial of emotions or were emotionally underdeveloped. It makes a lot more sense to me since the relation between Yin and Hei seemed to make her “evolve” despite it making her more human
This anime is easily one of the greatest spy, assassin, etc… type anime, the power system is great, the mc is perfect, the plot is hit or miss but I find it amazing, and the side characters are perfect
I literally just finished the first season of this show after putting it off for a decade, and as much as I'm loving it I think younger me would find it slightly boring. The humor is there, but it's pretty understated, and the show has no problem killing people off. There's a surprising amount of nuance there for how cheesy it can be at times. Plus for some reason they STACKED the dub with anyone of note who has *ever* worked for Funimation it seems like. Also, electric Nightwing is a cool concept and in my opinion, enjoyable as hell. But that's just me.
Jeez ur review sucks
I felt the same way. Loved the series and younger me would definitely have been bored. I kinda was at 16 or 17, but I stuck it out and I loved the series by the end of s1. I loved everything about it and I still adore the series as an adult. Li is one of my all time favorite characters in anime!
This show is better than he's making it out to be, look into it for yourselves and make your own opinion, he's glossing over good parts and over thinking things that really don't need explanation.
I agree that the story/worldbuilding has a shitton of flaws (the writers really should have clarified that Contractors are more like sociopaths than mindless killing machines) but considering this was 2007~2010's attempt at a multimedia project, I think it was a pretty good one (season 2 doesn't exist).
I also think a part of its charm was how dreary and depressing it was, especially at the beginning (akin to how a person who smiles, talks and interacts with many people can secretly still be lonely) but it's nice to see the characters warm up to each other over time. :)
I definitely still give a shit about darker than black. Top tier anime for sure.
This is the worst analysis possible for such a good show. DTB has some of the most intriguing characters in anime, with a very particular double-faceted protagonist which I've seen in very few shows (such as Lelouch from Code Geass or Kira from Death Note); with a very original plot that would've had so much potential as to what could come next if the show was continued; amazing OVAs; fantastic playlist; and incredibly well-developed episodes that contained just the right amount of main plot combined with different little stories to make each feel fresh, new and interesting.
I feel that what many people fail to appreciate in DTB is the display of power and agility in characters, because we're so used to seeing these big fights with incredibly super-human abilities, where many powers are centered in each character. A bunch of people with special abilities that need to eat paper to pay for them is nothing compared to a Shinigami like Ichigo or a legendary ninja like Naruto, but when you make things so big, nothing can surprise you anymore. Dragon Ball, for example, has really entertaining episodes at first, with characters training hard and truly struggling to win a fight. They have you gripping the edge of your seat. But then? It becomes bigger, and bigger, and bigger, to the point that death is inconsequential, distance is inconsequential, even time itself is inconsequential; you just know they're gonna win in the end. Smaller stories with smaller characters have so much more potential to develop, surprise you and leave an impression, without stopping to be super-human. Another thing which you've mentioned yet then completely threw out the window, is thay this show has to be considered compared to other shows within the time it was published, and not to stuff that didn't even exist until very recent years with a entirely different approach to plot, animation and dialogue.
Idk. Tastes are tastes, but an analysis should look depeer than just what you liked or didn't like (ahem like the cursed second season),and especially if you're dropping mistaken facts about the show as mentioned by many comments below...
Bro, your view is wrong
Hei isn’t technically a contractor, and Hei does have a goal, which is just to find his sister Bai. Eventually at the end of season one you find that his sister disappeared at the battle of Heaven’s Gate and (somehow?) fused with him to give him is contractor powers, for which he doesn’t have to pay a price for. The thing with “emotionless” is pretty weird, yeah, and it certainly is inconsistent, but at the same time there are a few sparse explanations including the episodes with Havoc, and just random comments about them paying their consciences when gaining contractor powers. It’s not airtight or anything, but I think it’s important to understand that the emotion they no longer feel is remorse, guilt, or attachment, which would’ve been much better to specify rather than fully cold and stoic.
Then season two.... idk, I’ve decided not to watch it for now. The whole thing with Yin is just so weird I don’t feel like watching it.
Several people have pointed out the whole Hei finding his sister thing, and I did mention that in the review. The problem is that the story in the fist season mentions it so rarely and it's given so little focus that it doesn't stop the story from feeling aimless.
Damn I can't believe this guy still makes videos. I used to watch his videos all the time when I was a kid. Definitely gonna start watching his vids again
Now you're making me feel older than I am lol.
this is actually my favourite anime idc about the flaws
It's okay his facts are all wrong legit, it's annoying, for example the public don't know about contractors due to each exposure the government wipe their memories like in men in black, or scp foundation
I am with you!!
I love the idea that contractors have to do something unpleasent to pay for their powers. The protag has to eat until he's sick and there's another contractor that has to smoke.
the protag has no price due to the power coming from his sister who fused herself with him, the eating is just his appetite
@@nobody5093 I don't remember that but ok
@@kirishima638 His sister had to sleep as a punishement and she is literally sleeping inside him and paying for him. His appetite comes from the two bodies he has to sustain similar how in FMA edward needs more sleep etc. as he is sustaining his brothers body somehow
@@curties Ok thanks. Haven't seen the anime is years.
@@kirishima638They’re correct. It’s just a funny anime trope of having characters love to eat. Hei never had a payment in canon. There have been fanfics trying to make his love for food more than just because anime though.
Lol, when you complained about the contractors being covered up.. is that really so far fetched to you when so so much less is already covered up irl..? A lot was misrepresented here and questions / complaints you made were explained in the show..
Yeah it's got its flaws, but this video feels like a review for a superman movie where the lead complaint is "he's too strong"
Agree. I’ve noticed stories used to have secret societies and there was always a rule about not telling other characters about the main draw of the series. Like being magical girls, or magic users, or mermaids or having superpowers or whatever and a lot of current stories have dropped the whole secret thing. Secret societies/ secret identities.
It seems modern audiences have come to like stories where magic is known everywhere or if there’s people with powers like in DtB then the whole world should know. MHA comes to mind. Both are interesting, but I think these are just two different types of stories. Though, I do kinda prefer the secret society stories more and I think this kind of thing makes more sense than thinking the world would be accepting of mermaids or the son of Satan, etc. Society isn’t accepting of people on the fringes. Differences are often rejected.
I kinda suspect the uptick in stories dropping the secret thing is due to the world trying to be more accepting and drawing comparisons to the fictional aspects and irl circumstances. Not a bad thing, but I do wish they wouldn’t kill the secret society stories. Fiction can just be fiction still. It doesn’t always have to have an irl comparison.
Personally, I LOVED Darker than Black, and I think you're being WAY too harsh on it. They didn't WANT to make a cyberpunk world. They WANTED to make a creepy dark supernatural world that suddenly got thrust onto a modern tech world and the world is struggling to figure out how to handle it.
IIRC, the 'stars disappear' and space travel is explained as 'they tried, and whatever they sent up just disappeared and they never heard from it again'. Including manned missions that didn't explode, but also never came back down. Hell's Gate and Heaven's Gate and the stars are all undeniable mysteries that no one can hide, but also don't hugely impact the day-to-day lives of everyday people. The existence of random people with superpowers, on the other hand, would be the kind of thing to make people panic. A coverup there feels legit.
Lastly, the 'they have no souls' is written not 'they have no emotions' even though that's what they say, but rather 'they have no interpersonal bonds' like they're all sociopaths. There's a lot of 'not everything is explained', and that's ok. That's a style of storytelling.
You're expecting this to be something completely different from what it actually is, and pissed that it isn't what you wanted it to be.
Stopped at 4:01 in season one the scientist who has tbe same abilities as li said rockets that go to the stratosphere gets lost.....
Also public don't know about contractors because the government wipes their memories of the events, like men in black. All his facts are wrong
I object!!! Darker than black kept me coming back
Im rewatching it rn. Such an amazing anime. Sadly s2 sucked but idc. I came for action and story and stayed for Hei and Yin❤
W take
Personally for me, I still love the animation and the fights, even compared to some of the more current anime fights I've seen
While the show had its flaws, I still think its the weirdness and the oddities that made no sense that got me in love with this anime. It's so niche, compared to bigger names like Death Note, Naruto, SAO....all those for that time. Especially now with big tier shows like My Hero Academia...everyone loves it, there's merch of it everywhere. But the thing is, the story and characters are so in your face and obvious that it makes it so mainstream, because it's so expanded and lovable. That's not a negative thing (I still enjoyed those shows), I just think it's less interesting than companies trying strange and questionable stuff if that makes sense? The stuff nobody really cares about, too. I know I sound like a "special snowflake" perhaps, but that's just what I think...
Darker than Black was the 3rd anime I've ever seen around 2010-ish. I recently rewatched it since then and understood more about it than I did 10 years ago. And from all the anime I've seen, I think it's become my second most favorite anime. But it's a little conflicting, because even if I feel positive towards this anime, I also know it lacks a lot of depth that should've been expanded with the potential it has. So therefor I also feel disappointed about it. It's strange. Nevertheless, this anime show has a special place in my heart(and yes, even if season 2 wasn't as good imo...).
Hell yeah it's about time. Btw I think they mention somewhere that they sent rockets into space. But they got lost or blown up. I like that the powers and the world are kinda like Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl where it's all strange, bizarre and unexplainable. The setting is really just set dressing for cool relatively grounded supernatural fight scenes and fun stories. Some themes and characters were kinda wasted and underdeveloped. But there were standouts here or there. I'd say its main problem besides its characters is it takes itself too seriously unlikely something like say Symphogear(2nd season onwards) where it embraces its silliness or acknowledges it. It feels like cowboy bebop except it has less character and charm.
I used to think this showc
was bad but after watching some clips I see now I was wrong. This anime is not bad just underappreciated
i dont like cyberpunk, i rather like that vibe of "the end of the world has already happened and people have not realized yet" that darker than black has
You definitely watched the show with your eyes closed most of your points made no sense or just straight up not appealing to what you like to see in a anime meaning the plot/World building is bad I think you should rewatch it with your eyes open
Yeah, I think the only reason this show got popular was that Hei was basically Chinese Electric Batman. lol
when I first got into anime, i skipped this show so many times because of the cover. ended up as my second favorite tv show or movie of all time. really sad it didnt really get a second season
13:18 Partially. Though, really it was because they made Hei a drunk child abusing hobo, killed off Mao and made him a babysitter in chipmunk form, destroyed the back and forth between Hei and Mao, and idr everything else, but basically s2 destroyed everything amazing about s1.
I actually didn’t mind s2. I just wish it wasn’t s2 of Darker Than Black. That’s what broke my heart! If it was it’s own story completely unrelated to the franchise and characters, it’d be fine. I’ve heard other fans express the same. The real issue is Gemini is s2 to DtB.
Jesus. I grew up watching Shadow. Still love ya.
3:45 they explained anything they send into space disappears
I remember watching this show while I'm highschool, I loved it and the music was so amazing
One of my favorite of all time.
I want a season 3
Also, the idea that being “cold, rational, nonemotional” is “the next phase of evolution” is a really, REALLY shitty idea for a lot of reasons, but ALSO bc it’s been used to pathologize and objectify autistic people (almost exclusively autistic men) and excuse shitty behavior instead of trying to help manage and deal with social struggles.
Humans are an inherently social species, struggling to connect with others can cause a LOT of issues.
Source: I’m autistic and didn’t get a lot of social support/help because I was “too smart”
It was for something like an episode and a single character having that idea.
I haven’t seen this show in years but I’m fairly certain the “next step in evolution” thing didn’t get mentioned outside of a single episode.
Yo I also have autism and just personally I feel like a large theme of the show is that contractors and dolls are *people* and the whole 'rational, no feelings' dogma is just bullshit propaganda. I don't remember who went on the evolution spiel but I'm fairly sure Hei probably kicked their ass at some point.
Cause forreal, contractors and dolls are metaphors for people with autism. You cannot convince me a single 'non-human' you see in the show is neurotypical, especially not Hei and Yin.
Just my two cents c:
To be honest I think this series needs a remake because I didn't like seasons 2 because it ruined the anime and I really enjoyed the manga and I'll like to see this series become a remake after rewatching this series yesterday kirihara is basically the female version of James Gordon from Batman and hei kind of reminds me of Robert Pattinson Batman
6:54 I always saw this part of the series as intended. You’re meant to recognize the contractors in the series do not match what people in the series say contractors are like. This goes for the dolls, too. They all show human sides viewers are led to believe early on shouldn’t be possible if information about these beings in the story is true.
I loved the world of the series. I’m not sure if I’d want the series to be cyberpunk. That’s not what the series is. Though, perhaps, if you want cyberpunk, you should pick up a cyberpunk series. Maybe you should pick up that Edgerunners show I keep hearing about.
Even if I disagree with you, I’m glad you’re making videos again. I love to see it!
Although I love this show, it is heavily flawed and they don't capitalize on a lot of their good ideas. So I don't necessarily disagree with you that its heavily flawed, most of the reasons I like it are heavily subjective but you kinda messed up on a few points. A major thing you mentioned a lot and got wrong is that while contractors are supposed to be emotionless its only new ones that actually are. Thats why Mai (or whatever fire girls name is) becomes extremely emotionless instantly but older contractors, as in ones that have been contractors longer, are far more human. They are evolving just like dolls and regaining their human emotions. Amber (time travel lady) outright says it at the end of the story. As other commenters mentioned rockets also get lost when they go up and no one knows for sure what happened to the real stars. I do agree making it a cyper punk world might have been much simpler but I feel like they actually use the phony night sky fairly well and use it to craft different narratives.
Been awhile I never really forgot about this but I've had it in the back of my mind, only those who were into anime in the early 2000's would really know how cool it was when it came out, also ATTACK ON TITAN SEASON 3.
I just finished s2 and started the show from there because the op song. Tbh I actually liked it, it felt like it went too fast but dam I liked characters
I'm not sure why you'd be annoyed by the sci-fi aspects of the anime. Why even watch any anime then??
Fantasy anime next. I’m gonna guess the Rising of the Shield Hero.
Fingers crossed.
Domeju I’m saying tower of god
I bet it will be either cautious hero or magical slime
Hey man, everyone has their own opinions but I do definitely disagree with you. Based on your comments i can't help but feel like you either didn't pay attention or didn't care enough. Granted the show doesn't spoon feed you details, but is not inherently bad, that is not how the show was written and I do think it was written okay. Anyway, just posting cause I though the video was very one sided and you completely got some parts wrong and hopefully will read this comment and think twice before putting the show off to the side.
First of all they are trying to show us that contractors actually have feelings
Its not a plot hole
Second: Hei is not really a contractor
Third: if im not mistaken they mention about going to space (my guess is all the spacecrafts out there are out of commision)
Im kind of bias on the show, but i can also admit there are some flaws. That said it really grinds my gears with videos that overtly outline what they feel are negatives without taking a step back on the overall message. Example, the stars and the episodes involving it. There is a clear comparison to the allegory of the cave from plato. A premise the matrix trilogy heavily leans on, where dtb summarizes in a more simplic way through its illustration of the stars. Aside from this example there a numerous others. Im not expecting everyone to have backhand knowledge about all of its concepts and themes. In the same way bleach is ridiculed for being shallow with no character development. There is a narrative of show dont tell. Not everything lands perfectly but there is always a sense of there is something bigger going on in the background and you only get to see a small peice of its world. And dissecting a show like this without attemting to acknowledge its underlying themes seems like a bit of a disservice. Its like saying ergo proxy is boring because robots are supposed to be robots and its too slow because there is too much downtime from the characters traveling by flying boat. Its a criticism that ultimately misses the themes the show focuses on. Hopefully this makes sense. As for the second season, idk about everyone else but the reason it wasnt as good is because it took away some those elements of overarching evolution in contractors and dolls, as well the thematic traits that incorporate platos philosophy, personal ideologey vs governmental structure, the needs of the many vs the few and inevitably vs the idea of the future is what you make it. In lou of a pure character drivin, episodic narrative.
Darker Than Black is what got me into Anime
Regardless of the story what I loved about darker than black and still love is the atmosphere of the show even in the most intense moment it is lighthearted and exciting rather grim and dark (ironically)
There is an episode where Guy is collecting stories about the old stars and it is episodes like this gives the show a different flavor
Also Yoko Kano music did a lot of heavy lifting
So people who liked the show (like me) remember how it made them feel at the time not any story
And as a lonely immigrant of over 10 I connect with these now more than when I watched it originally
I swear it must have been a translation error, I remember them saying that contractors don't have emotions, and the only person who showed no emotion was Yin, who is(was?) not a contractor.
Yea, the faults of this one strongly remind me of HxH plots. Also lots of overcomplicated and super-layered concepts, which are not complex themselves, but have huge boring explanations, and the aspects of those concepts are not really that much important to the whole picture.
Sorry, maybe they came as standarts, but Darker Than Black had the same problems that have Fate or Swords Art Online - stories get booring very fast. As about Attack on Titans, I really don't understand why that show is so popular.
Disagree with you, 'cause I'll better one more time enjoy Darker Than Black first season or OVA
From what I've heard, a lot of people actually hate the second season because of Hei. He's just too unlikable. I imagine there are plenty of other reasons people have, but yeah.
what he is one of my favortie anime characters .....
@@Lexipumpkin783 in short after losing yin he became like a hobo and people didnt like that. For me it was because he wasnt "The MC" and because I was waiting for the moment him and yin reunited and embraced but that was at the end and sadly nothing happened. But thats just me if you liked it cool
@@luckycookie5994 yea the ending was just kind of random and didn't sit well with me, i would have liked to seen him and yin together and some aftermath of it but also the acceptance of contractors in society
@@Lexipumpkin783People love Hei. It’s what happens to the characters like Hei in the second season that people hate. Though, I’ve heard there’s more to the story that has come out like the OVAs and the manga continued the DtB concept as well.
bruh stop dissing my childhood anime lmfao, im rewatching it and yeah it is really hard to follow and i have SO many questions but i feel like its so poetic and the i love the music SOSOOSO much and i absolutely love the concept about contractors and dolls and how contractors have to pay a price to use their powers i feel like thats something that makes the show soooo unique and worth watching!! the main character is so cool too, he definitely makes the show so much more enjoyable.
This is one of my favorite anime!!. I am so happy people are still talking about this gem of a show!. Thank you Shadow!.
actually dtb season 1 is one of the top 10 best anime all time
let me tell you something, i lost you when u compared the animation to aot etc, look the animation is good, it fits the pacing of the story and it goes well with the vibe just like other anime like durarara, gangsta, 91 days and many more with the same bgm and vibe...... so reviewers stop dissing an anime which has a completely different vibe and stop comparing it to animes which are a different genre, have different bgm and have no similarities whatsover....
I miss shows that are just a vibe.
I love this show but this review was pretty fair although I don't agree with all your complaints. I take the animation of this over most modern anime any day of the week.
His facts are so wrong
If you ain’t aint pay attention to the show just say that 😂
Wow. This was a strange take. The point of the contracters was an alagory for discrimination against an unkown/misunderstood minority group. The people see their strength and percieve them as dangerous and to keep them in check, dehumanize them.
Just like in reality the more you look into the minority group the more you realise that the main Idea about them is a half truth and there's more to them then the official narrative.
Like irl minority groups many of them see their only way of surviving in the larger society as leaning into their stereotype. In other words staying in their lane. On top of that some of them try to reclaim their own identity by actively embracing their distinctive qualities like in the case of November 11. Who doesn't just accept it but becomes proud of being a contracter.
Like in the case of black people where they had movements such as Black and Proud or Black is Beautiful where they rejected the official narrative that blackness was defective.
We even see a contracter challenging another contracter (hei) on the official narrative. This contracter even professes to having a dream where contracters can live in peace along side humans/non-contracters.
She emphasis that the differences between humans and contracters is superficial and if you go just a single layer beneath the surface you'll realise that they are virtualy the same.
Later the evening primrose goes even further demanding human rights for contracters and threatining to go public with their existance.
You say 'those are all irational human emotions'.
Yeah that's the point!
I liked Darker Than Black. I saw the whole series 1 and 2 and the ova online 1st then saw them all again on DVD Boxsets ages ago.
Season 2 was kinda boring but when the ending came it made me watch season 2 over again (OP)
Its super underrated anime
You didnt pay much attention while watching the anime and thats why ur looking for plot holes
7:05 they also said that contractors evolved, going from stone cold killers when they first appeared to causing problems whe the show happens; at first they are cold, like that girl from episode three or that russian gril just to name a few, but then it is stated that they start to act human-like, like that blood swingin dude at the end who knows is going to die
Eh, this analysis has completely different views than most of us. You kinda pointed out all the reasons to watch this anime for _why it is not popular_.
Darker Than Black!! 💗❤💗
On the topic of contractors who are showing emotion even though they are described as heartless and rational, didn't they say in the show about how contractors and dolls are changing and the mold they should be filling is no longer part of them?
Someone else has already pointed out your mistakes and lack of info retention so I won't but maybe don't call this video an analysis if you're not even analysing it correctly.
15 minutes and 49 sec of hate and to bad that youtube removed the dislike button...
Apart from the vagueness of many of the events of this story, the main question is whether yin survived in the end or did hei kill her? Or were they connected or not?
Good to see you again shadow
.....down vote...this show is one of my all time favorites, it's amazing
Good his facts are so wrong it's triggering haha, I have a answer for every single one even if in not being bias, for example the stars are still there but they can't see or reach them since the appearances of the gate, rockets disappear thing of the earth being blocked out by a fog, they tested it, the public don't know about contractors due to them having their memories wiped with a machine just like they do in men in black, hei is not a contractor his sister fused with him giving him the abilities, he lost it in season 2 due to the meteor shard absorbing it from him. I could go on all day this guy is just a tool
facts
I think you really hit the nail on the head here. I went into it with high expectations because it used to be a show that was talked about a lot for its greatness, but a lot of it is a jumbled mess and it ends up being less than the sum of its parts.
He didn't though, his facts are wrong he didn't even watch the anime properly and it shows.
Oh yes, chinese electric batman with some wannabe stalker/roardside picnic vibes that were never really explained/expanded upon.
I disagree that popularity died because first season was bad - people liked the action, the mystery and chinese electric batman, but instead in season 2 they got a fucking sailor moon spinoff. And thats why popularity died. Darker than black season 2 to first season, was like .Hack//Legend of Twilight in comprasion to .Hack//Sign (.Sign was great btw).
I mean tbf if you are just watching the animes of .hack you are already doing it wrong the games are the real meat and twilight wasn't even what killed the series
Just another day at work and no passion
Welcome to corporate world
Aren't majority of real people living that way just going through life
Especially when you consider Japan work environment
The whole "contractors don't have emotions" thing could have been much better if it was in world propaganda and contractors were a known element to the general population. You can have the conspiracy angle that way too, governments trying to control them by painting them as dangerous sociopaths when they're still fully human save the powers.
I think its just like the Witchers ...
That's kind of a thought i had when watching it the first time. Bc isn't strange that all contractors are assassins for the spy organizations yet clearly they do have feelings especially since using their powers comes with a price usually a painful action that causes them pain and suffering. Yet the "normal" people keep saying contractors have no feelings so they're not human
I totally agree with you. Its sort of a "Meh" Show. Its not terrible but also not really anything outstanding. Its overall pretty well made but nothing really sticks in your head for a long time. Atleast thats how i feel about it. Its been some time since ive watched it and i gotta be honest, i can remember almost nothing about the show and that is i think because as you said they tried to put so many complicated things at once in it. Not that that is inherently a bad thing its just that the way they did it made everything so hard to follow and also to enjoy tbh
I love Darker than Black, but sadly have to agree with all of your points.:(
Darker than Black is in my top 5 anime. Season 2 sucks tho.
I watched the whole thing years ago. Had no idea wtf was going on. Decided today that I was stupid as a kid so want to know what I missed. No, kid me was right. This shit doesn't make sense😂 thanks for the summory of the lore dude
Blud didnt really watch the show
I’m all for people having their own opinions but this has to be one of the worst analysis I’ve seen for a series.
Can you please review Texhnolyze in the near future?
Yes please
Funny enough that show for me was Haruhi. Didn't get around to watching it until around 2015. I told the person who got me into anime in the first place that I finally checked out Haruhi and all I got was a blank stare followed by a "What?"
3:57, all rockets they attempt to launch are destroyed in flight and never make it into space
Public got their memories wiped of all encounters with contractors
I love DTB, and I love what you said about it as well. I don't consider it the best anime ever, it didn't age well. But it's one of those shows that I just love looking back to for nostalgia's sake.
If studio trigger made touhou anime with a original plot, anti hero, characters from the pc98 canon, and influence from zun, what do you think? Wouldn't be hard to pull off.
one of the few animes that don't hand the plot over on a silver platter
this review is a 2020 testament of that.
you focus far too much on powers when you should be questioning the renumeration each contractor pays for their power.
Just witnessing the renumeration leads to countless branches of a contractor's backstory. Branches that you need to contemplate on and maybe discuss with others to climb out on.
spoilers below
the fake stars hints that the entire world in DtB is not real.
to what extent and whether it's a dreamworld and who's dreamworld is not written in crayon.
but you can never get to that observation without rhetoric.
Yooo, it's so weird to me how I keep finding your videos. 2 years later I was like "Hmmm, let's go over my original 'must watch list'" and see darker than black. Search for a review and see ShadowACS it's like ey yo.
But Lightning Batman go BZZZZZT
I would comment on this, but u pretty much said all i would have said, so i guess there is no point. Except i prefer season 2 to season 1, since its not episodic anymore.
Can you review more of Lyrical Nanoha in the future?
The first and last time i watched it was in like 1st grade or before that on the tv alongside d gray man, fma, deltora quest and beyblade (in order of darkness of course) and i have such fond memories with all of these shows
I remember being so intrigued by darker than blacks story because it was a pretty difficult one for a 7 year old to understand lol but i thought it was genius at the time. If i try to rewatch it it may ruin the magic (as it happened with deltora quest) so for now i aint doin that
I watched this anime within 2 days and I feel like I wasted my time. The story is way too complicated or maybe I'm just too dumb to understand? Can someone explain the anime? I still don't feel like I got everything. It was a pain in the ass
I would prefer Zwei and Cal in Phantom Requiem for the Phantom over those two. Try reviewing Phantom Requiem since it doesn't feel confusing.