Wednesday, February 03, 2010

just a note..., i wont be updating this blog as frequently as the past few weeks as school has officially started again and i most probably would not have the time to blog, like once per week or so, studies are still impt =) would try my best to fish out some spare time to update though, so do check back! =D

Had finally completed Darker than Black, both season 1 and 2, including the latest OVA episode... it really IS a great series, great plot, great storyline and kind of a sad + touching ending to end it all... unless a season 3 appears which i definitely would not mind =)

So for season 1, the story starts with 2 unique gates that had appeared at opposite places on the Earth, one called the Heaven's Gate while the other is known as the Hell's Gate. The gates have caused special people to obtain special abilities and they themselves would lose their "heart" and have minimal emotions, like not really feeling sad when someone gets killed, they are then known as contractors. The sky became fake as well with the stars replaced by stars which represented a contractor's life. There was an incident that happened near Heaven's Gate however, which the main character, Hei, was present in the war in that area. The main character was known as the Black Reaper and was feared by the other contractors, he uses 2 names in the series, one is Li while the other is Hei. He has the power to emit electricity and has no remuneration, which is smth that a contractor HAS to do or accomplish after they have used their power, like drinking alcohol for example. Hei works for an organisation called the Syndicate and has allies with him, another contractor, a human and a doll. Dolls are like mediums where they are programmed to have very little emotions and are only equipped with simple means of surviving, they also have special powers which allows them to scope the surroundings as long they are in contact with certain mediums. In Hei's team, the doll called Yin uses the medium water where when she is in contact with water, she is able to scout the surroundings as long as water is present, like sending out an observatory spirits. So mainly the 1st season shows Hei following the orders of the Syndicate and carries out the missions with caution to prevent himself from being caught. Near the end of the series, he meets a girl of the past, Amber, who has the ability to stop or reverse time but the uses are limited as her remuneration is causing herself to become younger, and attempts to question her on the whereabouts of his sister, Bai, who went missing after the incident near Heaven's Gate. Hei, however, helped in Amber's plan and successfully thwarted the plan to remove the existence of contractors from the face of the Earth, at the cost of Amber's life where she sacrifices herself to reverse time. The 2nd season continues some time after the 2nd season where Hei is now working for the CIA and is no longer with the Syndicate. Hei is seen in Russia at the start of the series and encounters a girl called Suou who has a contractor brother, Shion who is wanted by many people. Suou was given by her brother a piece of the meteor fragment which is a substance retrieved from the Hell's Gate and it grants Suou with contractor power which allows Suou to materialise a large rifle and her remuneration was folding origami. Hei helps Suou in trying to find her brother again after people went after their family in Russia. Hei taught Suou how to fight and sees her as an incomplete contractor as she was unwilling to take the lives of living beings which a contractor could easily take. Hei also loses his contractor powers early in the season but he could still complete missions he was given. Near the end of the series, Suou realises that she was a copy created from her brother, Shion's ability and she had already died many years before. She was however determined to meet with her brother once again which she sees her brother for the last time inside the Gate. On Hei's side, Yin had awakened as the Izanami and if she meets up with another being, disaster will befall the earth and Hei advances to kill Yin. Suou, at the last moment, pointed her gun at Izanami after seeing that Shion was gone and so was July, their ally, but Izanami had destroyed the meteor fragment she was carrying, resulting in her losing her memories. It had seemed that Suou was created to carry out an experiment as the was only able to retain her memories as a copy due to the meteor fragment. Suou however tries to aim at Izanami again but Hei stops her and lay her to rest beside July. It was later seemed that Hei's star started to glow again which could mean that his powers had returned again and was last seen with Yin before the both of them disappears and was never seen nor heard again. It was later shown that Suou was happily living with her dad and mom, without Shion, and had seen July as a human and not a doll. It was in fact Suou living in another Earth that Shion had sacrifice his life to create, a copy of the Earth without the Gates so that his sister, Suou, would be able to live happily there.

Season 2 wasnt that great as season 1, maybe due to the fact that there was lesser action since Hei had lost his contractor power. Suou's rifle could take up a more unique shape instead of looking more of like a military rifle. Season 2 had a sad ending and i felt bad about Suou being used as an experimental subject and was in the end sent to a copied world to live in. Hei and Yin COULD be brought to the copied world as well since Hei had told Suou that he would always be by her side and at the copied world, Suou had felt something missing which COULD be either Shion or Hei. Would've preferred a happier ending for Suou though =X

For the OVA, the Gaiden series, it seems to be happening in between S1 and S2 which would most probably and hopefully show the transformation of Yin to Izanami and im hoping for the OVA, perhaps the last one, to show the aftermath of Hei and the others AFTER season 2.

It was definitely a nice series, shldve watched it earlier lol =X Loved the last few episodes from both series though =) Love their music as well :D



The starting portion of Sora no Woto really did surprised me with the "engaged with enemy" scene which most probably would not happen for the rest of the series since i dun tink this series would be moving towards action and their tank has yet to be completed. really did LOL-ed when Noel joked to Kanata about a professor whoes surname was Pro and the name Fessor ._. still loved the episode though... somehow i just cant get bored from it =X

this really IS another WOT =X