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for I am Hei, a lonely wanderer of all the back alleys of the wooorld
So I saw the last episodes of Darker Than Black some time ago. The series didn't follow the route I expected it follow, but in the end I'm satisfied with it.
It's. It's kind of eerie that an anime I'm watching suddenly pulls something I've been thinking about for months and months, namely making people who really shouldn't be killing kill. Just what comes of the mind of a character who is forced to kill against their will. And now that I actually wrote it it sounds totally cliché, but it didn't feel like that in the story.
Goodbye, tobacco man, I shed a single tear just for you. Oooh, did I catch a parody there? Isn't it usually that the badass guy gets one last drag from his cigarette? As compared to:
November 11: Oh, guess I don't need to do this anymore, with me bleeding to death anyway, hahaha! *pauses. throws it away.*
...Besides that, every single thing this show had to say about smoking made me roll in joy.
Episode 23, Misaki and Li's little getaway? Exactly what she needed at that point. (Random: Misaki really would have been a more traditional main character.)
In the end I like that we didn't get any real answers about the big things (just where did the need for the gate come from? what are the contractors, anyway?). I've seen people say the solution was lazy and disappointing, but I think it makes the whole thing more real somehow. (Still interested what the extra episode that's supposed to be released on DVD has to tell, though.)
Other stuff: Especially to the beginning of the series, you could have made a whole movie out of pretty much every supporting character (that usually got offed in two episodes, oops). That's what I'd call an accomplishment!
The daughter of the mafia boss totally had the hots for Misaki.
Huang's exit was awesome. Mao's made me :´(.
And there should have been more of the police investigation team.
[off-topic="she's an unmarried girl, goddammit!"] ...oh oh oh oh, an Ayakashi Ayashi OVA. My beloved lives still. [/off-topic]
It's. It's kind of eerie that an anime I'm watching suddenly pulls something I've been thinking about for months and months, namely making people who really shouldn't be killing kill. Just what comes of the mind of a character who is forced to kill against their will. And now that I actually wrote it it sounds totally cliché, but it didn't feel like that in the story.
Goodbye, tobacco man, I shed a single tear just for you. Oooh, did I catch a parody there? Isn't it usually that the badass guy gets one last drag from his cigarette? As compared to:
November 11: Oh, guess I don't need to do this anymore, with me bleeding to death anyway, hahaha! *pauses. throws it away.*
...Besides that, every single thing this show had to say about smoking made me roll in joy.
Episode 23, Misaki and Li's little getaway? Exactly what she needed at that point. (Random: Misaki really would have been a more traditional main character.)
In the end I like that we didn't get any real answers about the big things (just where did the need for the gate come from? what are the contractors, anyway?). I've seen people say the solution was lazy and disappointing, but I think it makes the whole thing more real somehow. (Still interested what the extra episode that's supposed to be released on DVD has to tell, though.)
Other stuff: Especially to the beginning of the series, you could have made a whole movie out of pretty much every supporting character (that usually got offed in two episodes, oops). That's what I'd call an accomplishment!
The daughter of the mafia boss totally had the hots for Misaki.
Huang's exit was awesome. Mao's made me :´(.
And there should have been more of the police investigation team.
[off-topic="she's an unmarried girl, goddammit!"] ...oh oh oh oh, an Ayakashi Ayashi OVA. My beloved lives still. [/off-topic]