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Darker than BLACK - 黒の契約者
Darker than black – the Black Contractor
Plot Summary: Ten years ago, an inscrutable and abnormal territory known as Hell's Gate appeared in Tokyo and altered the sky and wreaked havoc on the landscape. The heavenly bodies disappeared, replaced by false stars. During this time, people who possess various special abilities emerged. These individuals, known as Contractors, are able to murder in cold blood. Each fake star has a corresponding contractor, and they vibrate when their contractor's power is being used. As such, contractors are usually identified by their star's Messier catalogue number. They are implied to lack human emotions which include no aversions to murder, and regarded as extremely rational and logical in their decision making. Contractors are thus named because of their need to always complete a remuneration or payment each time their power is used (ie. eating flowers, breaking fingers, drinking blood). Contractors usually work for one of various rival Organizations as spies and assassins.
Director: Okamura Tensai
Character Design: Komori Takahiro
Art Director: Aoi Takashi
Animation Production: BONES
I was interested in watching this anime at first because it was previewed in Animax and I’ve seen the CD at a PC game shop
Darker than black – the Black Contractor
Plot Summary: Ten years ago, an inscrutable and abnormal territory known as Hell's Gate appeared in Tokyo and altered the sky and wreaked havoc on the landscape. The heavenly bodies disappeared, replaced by false stars. During this time, people who possess various special abilities emerged. These individuals, known as Contractors, are able to murder in cold blood. Each fake star has a corresponding contractor, and they vibrate when their contractor's power is being used. As such, contractors are usually identified by their star's Messier catalogue number. They are implied to lack human emotions which include no aversions to murder, and regarded as extremely rational and logical in their decision making. Contractors are thus named because of their need to always complete a remuneration or payment each time their power is used (ie. eating flowers, breaking fingers, drinking blood). Contractors usually work for one of various rival Organizations as spies and assassins.
Director: Okamura Tensai
Character Design: Komori Takahiro
Art Director: Aoi Takashi
Animation Production: BONES
I was interested in watching this anime at first because it was previewed in Animax and I’ve seen the CD at a PC game shop
Name: 李舜生 Li Shunsheng
Code name: 黒 Hei
Messier Catalogue: BK 201
Occupation: Assassin and Foreign Exchange Student
Seiyuu: 木内秀信 (Kiuchi Hidenobu) – Gunslinger Girl’s Jose, NANA’s Honjo Ren
On the surface world he is more known as Li Shunsheng but he is known as Hei by the syndicate with which he works as an assassin for. Hei blends in well with normal humans with his warm and gentle-hearted act but during his missions or when there is no necessity for it, Hei drops his smile and broods seriously. He also has a large appetite, which really reminds me of a certain silver-haired exorcist. He joined the syndicate to search for his sister, Pai, who got lost in the implosion of the Heaven’s Gate in South America a few years back. Unlike other contractors, Hei doesn’t seem to have an apparent remuneration and he has human emotions and doesn’t only care for his own sake. Later it was revealed by Pai that Hei wasn’t full Contractor. Rather, he was part of both human and contractor and in the end he couldn’t decide which side to choose.
Ah…I’m such a spoiler of the story. I prefer Hei as the nonchalant Li Shunsheng though because he looks nicer that way.
But…
Hei is so kakkoi!
Left to right: 黄(Huang), 銀 (Yin), 黒 (Hei) and 猫(Mao)
This is the group Hei works in. Huang is the only human in the team and is responsible for getting orders from the syndicate and they work together to get the job done. At the beginning of the anime, Huang expressed his deep hatred of Contractors because of his terrible past love life that ended with the death of his partner but the hate gradually lessened when he found out the truth and Hei spared his life. Mao is also a contractor and he also doesn’t have to pay his remuneration because he has already paid it by losing his real body. Mao’s power is the ability to possess the body of other animals. Yin is a doll, which are emotionless "mediums" created to mimic the forms of humans, and she does the tracking of their targets using water as her medium.
Well…so far in the series…
The animation quality is appealing to me and I like the actions in the whole series. Though it’s gore-ish, it doesn’t make me feel like throwing up so it’s good for my appetite. Overall is ok for me and I think the anime is worth watching.
This is the group Hei works in. Huang is the only human in the team and is responsible for getting orders from the syndicate and they work together to get the job done. At the beginning of the anime, Huang expressed his deep hatred of Contractors because of his terrible past love life that ended with the death of his partner but the hate gradually lessened when he found out the truth and Hei spared his life. Mao is also a contractor and he also doesn’t have to pay his remuneration because he has already paid it by losing his real body. Mao’s power is the ability to possess the body of other animals. Yin is a doll, which are emotionless "mediums" created to mimic the forms of humans, and she does the tracking of their targets using water as her medium.
Well…so far in the series…
The animation quality is appealing to me and I like the actions in the whole series. Though it’s gore-ish, it doesn’t make me feel like throwing up so it’s good for my appetite. Overall is ok for me and I think the anime is worth watching.
SPOILER alert!
The end…
It sucks in the end a bit with all the deaths but all is well because to gain some you lose some.
Hei got to see his sister for a bit and got a goodbye kiss from Amber. Huang dies by blowing himself up but he finally formed good terms with the gang. In the middle of the gate, Mao somehow dies, which puzzles me to no end. Evil police captain got caught red-handed by Misaki and Hei finally moves out of his thin-walled shack.
All in all…the ending was confusing and a lot of things feels like it has been left unanswered.
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Season 2 is being considered though.
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