| Drunk Hei is best Hei so hell yeah, continue watching it. |
| First season is definitely worth it. It’s an episodic anime mostly so MC background will slowly be explored as episodes continuing on. |
| It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person. |
| It is a pretty good franchise in my opinion. 8/10 |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| I thought it was pretty good. Second season isn't too bad but that and the ova that leads into it can be skipped if you want. Honestly I liked the the ova more than the second season. |
| I haven't watched the second season or OVA that leads into it, but the first season is worth it. |
| Im glad someone has done this ... Ive been wanting to watch Darker than black for a while.. so the comments will help me decide |
| First season is worth it, but not the following seasons. |
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| S1 is great, the Gaiden OVA is more of the same, but then comes S2... |
| ったく、嫌な世の中だよ。 |
| Yeah, in second season the plot gets weird but it's visually better (if you ignore the recycled Sailor Moon type of transformations) and has fewer but better action scenes. Also it gets darker. |
alshuApr 2, 2019 6:49 AM
| I liked the first season when I watched it years back but it was hard to get into. The world, MC, Concept etc etc was cool and all but it didnt fully grip me. I stuck with it though and from my vague memory, I think the last quarter full of episodes....or maybe even the 2nd half is when I began to enjoy it. 2nd season however? I loved it! It dropped the episodic format for one long story. I mean it's a short anime but I loved it. The soundtrack is awesome too. I'd say you should stick with it for its 2nd season but if your not enjoying it then screw it. Find a different anime. |
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| I want to watch it, but I keep putting it off. I think I’ll start when I finish one of the other shows I’m watching. |
| Its only worth it for Hei and the action scenes. |
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| Darker than black is a gift from God himself to the anime community. It isn't worth watching it's a series every anime watcher should watch. |
alshu said: How much darker? Even more than the black?Yeah, in second season the plot gets weird but it's visually better (if you ignore the recycled Sailor Moon type of transformations) and has fewer but better action scenes. Also it gets darker. |
| "I think I wanted to attack something. Like betraying people or hurting people. And, well, it's not exactly nice, but hurting the readers too... In all honestly, I feel that's what I really wanted to do. For me, as a reader, when I think, "this manga will remain in my heart," it means, for example, it phenomenally hurt me: It's those kinds of experiences I'm after." - Pajime Hisayama (My favourite hurting author). |
Peeti said: Even more than the black? Isn't it this...like in the title? Yeah, actually ultraviolet. |
alshu said: I see, you like ultraviolet anime. A symbol of high capacity right there.Peeti said: Even more than the black? Isn't it this...like in the title? Yeah, actually ultraviolet. |
| "I think I wanted to attack something. Like betraying people or hurting people. And, well, it's not exactly nice, but hurting the readers too... In all honestly, I feel that's what I really wanted to do. For me, as a reader, when I think, "this manga will remain in my heart," it means, for example, it phenomenally hurt me: It's those kinds of experiences I'm after." - Pajime Hisayama (My favourite hurting author). |
Peeti said: I see, you like ultraviolet anime. Only this one as far as I know. Peeti said: A symbol of high capacity right there. How is that any different from infrared anime? I am more of the "The spectrum is green" guy. Funnily this comes from a very scarlet show. |
alshu said: Green is always good. Remember green vegetables, trees🌲 etc. So your spectrum has it's own merits.Peeti said: I see, you like ultraviolet anime. Only this one as far as I know. Peeti said: A symbol of high capacity right there. How is that any different from infrared anime? I am more of the "The spectrum is green" guy. Funnily this comes from a very scarlet show. Ultraviolet represents wavelengths shorter than visible light. So more anime absorbing into you in a shorter period of time which needs more capacity/space in mind whereas infrared represents electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than those of visible light, so more time period to travel the anime wavelengths to get into your mind. You can call infrared a symbol of durability. |
| "I think I wanted to attack something. Like betraying people or hurting people. And, well, it's not exactly nice, but hurting the readers too... In all honestly, I feel that's what I really wanted to do. For me, as a reader, when I think, "this manga will remain in my heart," it means, for example, it phenomenally hurt me: It's those kinds of experiences I'm after." - Pajime Hisayama (My favourite hurting author). |
Peeti said: So your spectrum has it's own merits. Naaah. Not an actual spectrum, a nonsense expression from a Gerry Anderson show. It's a reference to an organisation called Spectrum and dispute the James Bond-esque name they are actually the good guys. Peeti said: Ultraviolet represents wavelengths shorter than visible light. So more anime absorbing into you in a shorter period of time which needs more capacity/space in mind whereas infrared represents electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than those of visible light, so more time period to travel the anime wavelengths to get into your mind. You can call infrared a symbol of durability. I don't think this works for anime since both are invisible. On the other hand when I turn the infrared heaters in my oven, the cheese sandwiches are done faster. Maybe "infrared anime" could mean that it will melt your brain for no time? |
alshu said: Well, that fast mode thing can backfire for anime because as I said, infrared need more time to adapt perfectly. For increasing the speed everything depends on the mind i.e. how fast it is. So ur brain may be faster.Peeti said: So your spectrum has it's own merits. Naaah. Not an actual spectrum, a nonsense expression from a Gerry Anderson show. It's a reference to an organisation called Spectrum and dispute the James Bond-esque name they are actually the good guys. Peeti said: Ultraviolet represents wavelengths shorter than visible light. So more anime absorbing into you in a shorter period of time which needs more capacity/space in mind whereas infrared represents electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than those of visible light, so more time period to travel the anime wavelengths to get into your mind. You can call infrared a symbol of durability. I don't think this works for anime since both are invisible. On the other hand when I turn the infrared heaters in my oven, the cheese sandwiches are done faster. Maybe "infrared anime" could mean that it will melt your brain for no time? |
| "I think I wanted to attack something. Like betraying people or hurting people. And, well, it's not exactly nice, but hurting the readers too... In all honestly, I feel that's what I really wanted to do. For me, as a reader, when I think, "this manga will remain in my heart," it means, for example, it phenomenally hurt me: It's those kinds of experiences I'm after." - Pajime Hisayama (My favourite hurting author). |
Peeti said: Well, that fast mode thing can backfire for anime because as I said, infrared need more time to adapt perfectly. For increasing the speed everything depends on the mind i.e. how fast it is. So ur brain may be faster. It's a question of transferred energy not frequency thus your "faster" and "slower" doesn't work here. |
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