Comments on: Darker than Black Review - 87/100

by: Shinigami

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:47:54 +0100

Wow.. seems like we are on the same opinion on quite a lot of stuff. I am surprised to read this… The creativity of the contractors and the contract’s prices to be paid, I haven’t paid that much attention to the arc separately, but I do feel you have a reason there too…

Btw, you can read my review here: http://shinigamilist.com/2011/10/23/darker-than-black-a-really-good-combination-of-sci-fi-and-everyday-life-review/

in case you’re interested ;)

by: Topaz

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:40:58 +0100

One of my favorite anime of all time! I was so hooked that I finished it all in one day! DtB has an great plot which was surprisingly very interesting and felt real even though it was clearly fantasy. It was very suspenseful with many excellent, subtle plot twists. The main characters are all well developed throughout the episodes. Unlike most anime, the minor characters were all essential to the plot and their motives were convincing. My rating for this is more of 92/100.

by: josh

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:08:38 +0000

Loved fhe anime goin from episode 25 to 26 really confussd me nade no sense at all :o

by: asdf

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:25:06 +0100

I disagree with your rating as it should have been at least a 90. But I agree with your comments. But I do feel that it had too much of a short life span lasting 37 & OVA(25 in S1, 12 in S2)

by: Alex

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:21:05 +0100

I got to agree with Perrin4869. This is possibly one of the best animation I have watched so far. It’s subtle and the characters have profound depth. I agree the episodes are uneven, 13 and 14 obviously being the best. However, I found most minor characters interesting and belivable enough and the director is able to address something quite philosophical without sacrifying the entertainment value. The second season is good, but it really lack the depth of the first season. Hope a third season can bring a satisfactory conclusion to the story.
Finally, I have nothing to complain about the ending. A lot people believed it was over ambitious and many things left unexplained. However, that’s where I see the beauty.

by: Alex

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:20:39 +0100

by: Xanza

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:10:15 +0000

Absolutely loved this anime which I finished in roughly 2 days.
While the major story arc finished the second last episode of season 1 the last episode was a nice way to end it, I spend the episode in giggles.

by: Snowolf

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:11:27 +0100

For some reason, I was strangely addicted to this series (finished it in three days!). I just finished it, and I really think it’s a bit different than any type of dark, crime/supernatural based animes in that it’s very subtle. And the animation, music, and dialogue fits the characters perfectly. In fact, everything was pretty much perfect for me except the OPs, in which the second one looked like an opening for Initial D (-_-) and the random “filler” episodes. Which I understand, is part of the whole series and thus makes it different than all the others, but sometimes it really lagged me down. Otherwise, Darker than Black was a truly fascinating and interesting anime to watch, and I can’t wait to see the second season. :D

by: Perrin4869

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:53:01 +0100

Rewatching the anime again made me realize why I loved it so much in the first place. And I must say, the score you gave it hardly makes this anime justice. It has astonishing production values, and extremely intricate plot, believable characters, an original and unique and imaginative setting… It also manages to be funny without resorting to low humor, with the detective they created. No other anime I can think of boasts of such feats. I also disagree with you about the ending being rushed, it had a proper build up of 5 episodes (21-25 can be called the ending in my opinion), and the conclusion was more than satisfactory, at least to the plot threads presented throughout the season. Season 2 will take a completely different approach, because of the way this season ended, so it’ll probably focus on completely different things.
The only 2 things I can say badly about this series is that some arcs are definitely lower in quality when compared to the rest of the series, and that the opening and ending songs are not suitable to my tastes at all.
Maybe this is just a fanboy speaking here, but I can’t wait any longer for season 2!

by: L.A

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:47:19 +0000

Although Okamura Tensai is one of my avoritetop 3 directors, I really did not like this one.
Too many things, I say more than half of them are unsolved and unexplained. (Now I seriously doubt that BONES intend to do this all the time!)
Of all things, I hoped him to write more scripts. I know he doesn’t write many scripts, and he may not be an experts…
He wrote only the first 2 episodes but they turned out to be the best among all the episode from the series.
(Well I sure admit Suga Shotarou and Nomura Yuichi are both great writers too)
Not that I completely hated the show, I was rather dissapointed maybe as well as I was expecting too much from the start.

by: naneya

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:24:03 +0000

Just finished this series.

I find it is a quite well series in many detail , but Its story’s structure is just a mere story about “Badass hero and his gang” and his enemy(of cause evil organization).

Like I said before, I known well that this series managed its detail very well but it just a detail, its story line is so lame, completely wasted its potential to be a good series.

by: kiseki gurl

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:34:25 +0100

While I liked DtB I personally think this is a little overhyped. I felt like a lot of the arcs were kinda pointless (I forgot half of them) and I felt some were placed at the wrong time (i.e. Huang’s arc). I thought DtB had a lot of potential that it wasted. And the ending did not help.

by: Archer

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:15:34 +0100

as i see this anime seems to be liked by the majority of people and by almost all anime blog writers i visit and it is nice to see such a anime
overall for me it was an interesting anime,that had a dark,adult theme,an arc based series that i usually enjoy watching,some interesting characters and even if there were some episodes that were not as good there were enough better ones to make this a great anime so i think it deserves the high rating