| 9:56pm | Darker than Black 19-20: “Memory” |  | | | Poor old Gloomy Gus. All he really wants is to drink. To forget. The shame of being drunk.Watching this for the second time did not do anything to lessen the impact of the arc–probably as perfect and cohesive an arc since Yin’s, and we have Onishi Shinsuke to thank for the superb script.... | | |
| 3:57pm | Darker than Black 17-18: “Dying to Escape” | | | | The calm before the storm, and by storm I mean the next arc which I can’t stop referring to in a veiled manner since it’s so awesome.But so is this one (in an understated way), and as pictures of Kenji and The Nameless Doll That Could are in scant supply–in fact, they’re not in... | | |
| 3:59pm | Darker than Black 15-16: “The Carver” | | | | Poor, poor, misunderstood Amber.People do crazy things in the name of love, but you take the cake.“Amber’s Smile is a Memory of Betrayal” And by “betrayal” I mean that Amber likes to play with little boys’ hearts, if you know what I mean. It’s actually hinted–not... | | |
| 3:50pm | Darker than Black 13-14: “Atonement” | | | | Oh, Yin, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I guess I could start with the fingersmile tag.“She Does Not Waver on the Water’s Surface in that Silver Night”(I used ‘She’ because 心 doesn’t really lend itself to translation here, and it seems more appropriate... | | |
| 3:58pm | Darker than Black 11-12: “Equivalent Exchange” | | | | Poor Mina. Admirable attempts at portraying a woman of Indian ethnicity (as the Bindi on her forehead, name, and skin tone will attest to) aside (she looks waaaaaay too Japanese, and by Japanese I mean the general anime-ish look of wide-eyed innocence), she’s one of my favourite characters for... | | |
| 3:50pm | Darker than Black 09-10: “In Dependence” | | | | Everybody loves Misaki in a Qipao. C’mon, everybody! Say it with me one more time. Everybody loves Misaki in a Qipao! “Her Dreams and Blood Dye the Snow-White Dress” This is important:Shocked Alice is shocked.I mean, d’awww. Misaki is established as someone who cares for more... | | |
| 3:59pm | Cruel Angel Theses is two years old. | | | | What can I say? I’ve been so tied up with Darker than Black.*insert your own bondage joke here*Unlike my first anniversary, whoa. It sure is getting old around these parts, and while I daresay I’m getting better at doing this, that doesn’t mean I’m doing this any faster. Or even... | | |
| 7:04am | Darker than Black 07-08: “Scentimental” | | | | Ah, the first of three arcs that develop the regulars, namely Mao, Yin, and Huang–in that order, each one greater than the last. You’ve certainly got to hand it to BONES for attempting understated development of what is essentially a talking cat, although I wouldn’t exactly call this... | | |
| 8:31pm | Darker than Black 05-06: “Redrum” | | | | The subtext littered throughout is, I do think, a sort of rare gem that keeps this series miles above its peers. I’ve only ever seen anything close to it in True Tears, and while True Tears had the problem of being mistaken for melodrama (it being rather dramatic and whatnot) or utterly misjudged... | | |
| 8:34pm | Darker than Black 03-04: “Family Matters” | | | | It’s too easy to write this off as just another simple arc. I mean, it’s pretty straightforward, right? Rocks fall, everybody dies There’s a girl with family problems, her uncaring, distant, aloof dad, Hei as some sort of Ginko-cum-Medicine-Seller-cum- X-Man; something’s gotta... | | |
| 10:05pm | Darker than Black 01-02: “Still Alive” | | | | It’s been two years since it aired, so that would make this the second anniversary? I think that, for the most part, Darker than Black was utterly underrated and completely overwhelmed by Spring 2007. My sporadic blogging of the series was filled with errors of a fanboy nature, which is to say,... | | |
| 11:54am | Wanko to Kurasou, or A Postmodern Patrasche | | | | There are no pet psychologists. Not in our world at any rate, due to the nature of what constitutes a pet; they have no mouth, and they must scream seek to articulate their discomfort in other ways, like shedding excessively, losing control of their bodily functions, getting sick, or even dying. This... | | |
| 7:50pm | Developer’s Diaries: Fate/Meta Narrative | | | | A newly-minted enmity of mine is the Fate/stay night anime, especially when those watching it have yet to read the visual novel in all its glory; as all adaptation purists are so disposed to argue, the quality of the former when juxtaposed against the latter forms a significant portion of that criticism,... | | |
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