What a waste of time

i watched all three seasons. no answers to the mysteries of the series. why did the sky get replaced, where do the gates comes from etc etc etc

why is it rated so highly

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>Now I've lost it

Someone bring up the noir pasta

It is good, but I do agree it lacks closure.

I guess it is what it is.

>3 seasons.

i feel like the directors got cocky and thougt it would do better than it did.

i just finished giving it a rewatch and yeah, it didn't live up to the hype the first time i watched and it failed to do so again this time. its not bad, it's like a 6 to 7 out of 10, but it's just mindless entertainment.

I started watching because I heard that the mc beats women

DtB for the confused:

First you need to know where the anime is coming from. It's a FILM NOIR. Film Noir is more style then content, though the content tends to be similar as well, the style is "dark lighting" with themes of " pessimism, fatalism, and menace”. Film noir often contains adult themes with objectified sex, never/rarely any real love, the best you can hope is lost love, betrayed love or convent purely sexual relationships. If you didn't know DtB was a modern film noir, the "comedy" arcs with that horrible detective and otaku girl are actually direct parodies of classic film noir (which was the main joke for those sections, if you're not a fan of film noir those sections would seem rather dull, but to fans of the genre, the parody is on point and funny).

What we have in DtB is a world which has been confronted with the "death of dreams". This is what the gates represent. See when the gates appeared, humanity was "blocked" from space, no longer could humans venture into space, they were trapped on earth. Symbolically, as a species we were put into a cage. The wall humorously represents humanities attempt to WALL off the mysterious force which has trapped humanity on planet earth.

Continuing this symbolism, the "change" to the world brought by this event brought in "contractors" which is basically a new type of person who are high functioning sociopaths with superpowers (at a cost, and that cost typically being something ironic to the person paying it). What's interesting is the Dolls, who also evolved in this new world; The world believed the dolls (as their name suggests) were incapable of human reaction, simply living puppets to be ordered about. The fact that this is the public perception of them only underlines how badly humanity has rejected reality.
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With humanity rejecting reality and entrapped on earth, the world sort of devolves as hopes and dreams vanish; you'll notice almost no one in DtB has either, and the ones who do stick out like a sour thumb and typically never realize them either.

Into this world we get what's basically a series of short stories with Hei and sometimes others playing the lead roles. These stories are all typical Film noir type stories, usually mostly ending in some type of tragedy, or revolving around one. However the point of these stories is to build background lore to the world, and character arcs for the main cast. Flesh everyone out for the end.

In the end we discover the Hei has been working for the people building the wall around the gates (that's who the syndicate is), and the syndicate's goal is to destroy the gate in japan. I suspect they believed the gate was going to vanish and take a hundred million people with it like heavens gate in Brazil, however they're also hoping to take all the contractor's powers. An action which should probably kill all the contractors and dolls alike.

This is where it gets sketchy, see this plan is literally doomsday for Hei and people like him, and over the course of the anime we've grown to view the contractors and dolls alike as human beings, not autistic or sociopathic monsters. So as an audience you have a rooted interest in seeing the plan foiled. Furthermore you probably should feel conflicted about that because the other side (while reprehensible) is motivated to break out of the bird cage wrapping around earth, and ending the dead end to human advancement, furthermore if they were right about the gate going nova they'd be saving hundreds of millions of lives, so while the syndicate are reprehensible their plan isn't.

Of course Hei is right, he knows why Brazil won't happen again is because it was his sister that caused it; not the gate, so the syndicate's plan to destroy the gate is simply genocide.
2/4

>i watched all three seasons
You should've stopped after the first one, the rest are trash.

Of course being a film noir we have a bunch of governments and non governmental organizations all with their own plots and plans, which muddies the water and tosses a lot of characters with unknown motivation into the story.

Ultimately Hei saves the contractors and foils the syndicate's plan and at the same time finds his sister, basically she had merged with him, essentially dying yet giving him her "contractor" power. His search his sister Bai being over, he vanishes into the night, cue credits.

Darker than Black would have been a betrayal of the film noir genre had it had a happy ending, or had it had a clear ending. Typically film noir likes to end the "plot" but not the character's story. The result being it's fairly easy to write fanfiction "after story" continuations for film noir, as there is typically a lot of loose threads laying around to make a cohesive continuation.

Of course this is also a problem, because the studio came along and made a fanfic sequel to DtB called something something of the gemini which betrays everything DtB was about. but we can talk about that trash some other time since I'm simply addressing DtB.
3/4

>three seasons
are you talking about the OVAs?

There is a lot more to the world building of course. You could probably expound on the names for the gates, and how the whole "gate" is a biblical symbol for being cast out of the garden of eden (cut off from god. is it any wonder heaven's gate is the one walled off and unreachable by humanity?) meanwhile we're literally cut off from creation (the universe) by the appearance of the gates.

There is a lot in DtB if you want to start to dig into it.
4/4

The OVA were absolute K I N O

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>three seasons
theres only one season

I'm rewatching it now, god, it's good. It wasn't pleb palate after all.

I like season 1 and gaiden. Especially gaiden.

the gates are just a plot device, a tempting mystery but ultimately it doesn't matter where they came from or why
best left a mystery, I like that it leaves it open to interpretation

>you know what people would like?
>lets just piss over what everyone liked in season one

what were the threads like when it was airing

The Ova was pretty good.

Lays the groundwork for S2 though

The Ova came after season 2.

I liked Season 1 more, but I didn't realize so many fans hated Season 2 so much. I picked this series up because of my interest in the novel Roadside Picnic led me to discover it.

Isn't the OVA chronologically in between seasons? Watching it after finishing Season 2 annoyed me, because I really could have used that setup for drunk Hei.

Who the utter hell came up with this?

Chinese. Electric. Batman.
Ruined for some reason because S2 needed a twist.

Or some dumb red hair loli

It is, but I think it explained what happened between seasons rather than specifically setting up for S2 because it came after it. It really sucks that they did it in that order, it was such a retarded choice but Bones will be Bones with their sequels.

With Hei slapping women left and right, and the tone, I didn't realize how big the man's harem is.
Just think about how many girls were fawning over him.

all me of course