Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha

**Ryllharu** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 08:59 AM

I found myself rather disappointed about the insignificance of all the events prior to this. Doing a whole Copy Earth is a cop out but what bothered me more is where it exists. Opposite the real Earth in orbit around the sun? Judging from the telescope that Suou was looking through, they have real stars unlike the old Earth. Orion was pretty easy to recognize. Eventually the Copy Earth will find Old Earth.

Everything just gets wiped clean, and the only real development in the whole series was Misaki, Mao, and Golgo 13 switching sides as America sweeps in (yay more anti-Americanism!) to become the new Syndicate.

They opted to leave out everything that happens with Hei and Yin.

There were some bright moments. Hazuki getting her revenge on the pervert was nice, and it really made sense that he was the one to needlessly torture Youko when he put her through the questionably lethal ME Squeezer (since it is usually used on dead bodies). I also really liked Mao freaking out when he discovered he was on Misaki's head all of a sudden.

While I certainly enjoyed this series, and allowed for plenty of good speculation, it did not really end up as fulfilling or have a nice climax like the first series did. That and I hate Reset Endings. Always have, always will.

**Archangel** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 01:18 PM

Wtf did i just watch? I got flashbacks from evangelion's finale...

Like many others it's not that i disliked this second season but that i was expecting much more seeing how fantastic the first one was

I wouldn't call this a reset ending though, not entirely anyway. And i guess that if the blurays bring enough money to the pot there are still a few sequel possibilities out of this mess...

**RyougaZell** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 01:22 PM

eh?.......
That sums it all. But unlike the above posters, who never like anything, I did like the whole series

**Archangel** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 01:25 PM

The above poster can kiss my ass <3

And like i said i did overall enjoy the series, i was simply expecting more of it. What i can clearly say i disliked was this ending, i hate presumptuous finales that don't make a lick of sense

**Board of Command** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 02:22 PM

The last scene with Misaki made up for whatever the rest of the series lacked.

**Archangel** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Board of Command

The last scene with Misaki made up for whatever the rest of the series lacked.

Yeah because... she showed up. Who needs finales to make sense when Misaki shows up

**Board of Command** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by Archangel

Yeah because... she showed up. Who needs finales to make sense when Misaki shows up

My thoughts exactly.

**digitalrurouni** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 04:07 PM

I really dont understand what the heck happened. Alternate reality?!

**Ryllharu** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Archangel

And like i said i did overall enjoy the series, i was simply expecting more of it. What i can clearly say i disliked was this ending, i hate presumptuous finales that don't make a lick of sense

Agreed. It's not that the series was bad, or even that the ending was bad, it was just disappointing. I expected a few questions answered, and instead they gave us answers to questions that were never asked.

It tried to be a clever ending, and it failed at that. I never really felt like this series had a climax, not in the same way that Amber's War did in the first. The tension just wasn't there.

**Pandadice** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 04:49 PM

i wanna know what happened to Contractors being able to erase peoples memories.. I don't think that came up at all in this series, did it?

plus the whole like, dolls with fabricated memories/changing regular people's memories was a common thing in the first season O_o. so why was it supposed to be such a shocking realization in this finale?

**Archangel** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 04:50 PM

That was simply another application for the ME, but erasing memories became pointless once the existence of contractors became public knowledge

**digitalrurouni** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Ryllharu

I found myself rather disappointed about the insignificance of all the events prior to this. Doing a whole Copy Earth is a cop out but what bothered me more is where it exists. Opposite the real Earth in orbit around the sun? Judging from the telescope that Suou was looking through, they have real stars unlike the old Earth. Orion was pretty easy to recognize. Eventually the Copy Earth will find Old Earth.

Everything just gets wiped clean, and the only real development in the whole series was Misaki, Mao, and Golgo 13 switching sides as America sweeps in (yay more anti-Americanism!) to become the new Syndicate.

They opted to leave out everything that happens with Hei and Yin.

There were some bright moments. Hazuki getting her revenge on the pervert was nice, and it really made sense that he was the one to needlessly torture Youko when he put her through the questionably lethal ME Squeezer (since it is usually used on dead bodies). I also really liked Mao freaking out when he discovered he was on Misaki's head all of a sudden.

While I certainly enjoyed this series, and allowed for plenty of good speculation, it did not really end up as fulfilling or have a nice climax like the first series did. That and I hate Reset Endings. Always have, always will.

Err so you are saying Shion copied everyone on Earth!? And that room that had all the memories were all the memories of all the living creatures on this planet and that after Shion created copies of everyone on the new Earth...they all got their memories there?

**Pandadice** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by Archangel

That was simply another application for the ME, but erasing memories became pointless once the existence of contractors became public knowledge

but i mean like, they can still make people pass out and erase their memory. who cares about keeping contractors existence a secret? it's still an awesome ability to have, that wasn't brought up at all..

***Buffalobiian*** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by digitalrurouni

Err so you are saying Shion copied everyone on Earth!? And that room that had all the memories were all the memories of all the living creatures on this planet and that after Shion created copies of everyone on the new Earth...they all got their memories there?

Yes. That is exactly what appeared to have happened.

Originally Posted by Pandadice

but i mean like, they can still make people pass out and erase their memory. who cares about keeping contractors existence a secret? it's still an awesome ability to have, that wasn't brought up at all..

Memory erasing/brainwashing probably exists in our own Contractor-less world already, just that we don't know about it.

As for why care about keeping it a secret?

a) so as to not freak out the general public
b) so murders can be passed off as accidents.

**Lucifus** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 08:36 PM

This season couldn't hold a candle to the first. How rushed. =(

**Archangel** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 08:47 PM

Rush isn't the word, i don't think the plot would have been any less of a mess even if they have had more time.

**Lucifus** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 08:50 PM

Yea, your right on that one. So many questions and that finale episode just threw a spike in the gears.

**RyougaZell** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Lucifus

This season couldn't hold a candle to the first. How rushed. =(

Rushed? Uhh... first series, albeit it was indeed good, was a mesh of tons of smaller stories, whereas this second season was just one big story.

The ending could have been better, yes, but if we think it slowly... aside from it being a sequel... how can we compare the two series when its format is completely different.

How many mini-arc did we have on the 1st series anyway?

**Archangel** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 09:04 PM

Lol Zell, i appreciate how very hard you're trying to like this show as a force of opposition against "the above posters" but there's no denying that the first season was just so damn good that it puts this second one to shame

And the format is the one usual to a first season, mini arcs are the best way to introduce the characters to the audience by focusing on one at a time and still giving hints about the overall plot before the big final arc that usually holds all the answers

For this second one they needed only to focus on one character and that was Suou. In fact i could even argue that she took the spotlight from Hei on several occasions and again i'm not so sure that was a good thing. I mean, if they had actually concluded this in a manner that would have pleased me i would have rolled with it but after this mess...

***Buffalobiian*** · Sat, 12-26-2009, 09:09 PM

The biggest problem was as Ryll (I think) pointed out: they answered what wasn't important and left out what was.

So what's this new being that came from the Izanami meeting that world organisations tried so hard to avoid? We got a 2 second glimps of it.

All 12 episodes was arguably focusing on that one point, and that's all we got.

It wasn't exactly the doomsday ending everyone feared.

Meanwhile, we got a conclusion to the Pavlichiko family affairs, which when compared to the bigger picture, hardly matters.

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