Quick notes on Darker Than Black, episodes 1-12 and 26.

[snarp]

The Close Encounters communication-music keeps showing up in these last two episodes. This is even more distracting than the fact that the default Creepy Music involves the first few notes in Chrono Trigger's 600 AD theme.

(I have nothing else to say yet because Hulu panicked in the last fifteen minutes of 12, and I haven't finished it yet.)

I accidentally watched episode 26 first, and had no idea that it had been the last episode, rather than the first, until I scrolled down to find episode 2. (Hulu, you are really not set up for watching shows that have finished their run.) I've noticed that as long as you watch the to-be-continued episode sets together, so far, you could watch this show in any order without it making any less sense. It's completely temporally unhooked. Which might explain why, in episodes 9 and 10, Saito and Kirihara seem to have no recollection of having met Li in episode 2.

Comments

[nijibug]

The 2-episodes-per-arc pacing was one of my favorite things about DTB.

Oh yikes... I hope 26 was the "omake" episode? and not the actually finale because... there kind of is a spoiler. xD

Hope you enjoy the rest! DTB is probably my favorite original anime (as in, not an adaptation of some existing media) in recent years. Li/Hei is such an interesting protagonist.

The DTB TvTropes page is also fun ♥

[snarp]

26 involves otaku getting excited about Li's collarbones and writing fic. So, maybe this qualifies as omake?

[nijibug]

That's the one :'D Ahhh Li's infamous collarbones.

Oh, if you currently aren't already, I highly recommend watching the English dub.

[yeloson]

DTB took a bit to catch on for me, but I really liked it. I can't lie, I enjoyed the superpower use early on, though it had some really interesting concepts I got into. The character development was slow, but I liked it.

[salinea]

I love that show, especially episode 26 XD

I dunno if their failing to recognise Li is so weird given that it was a quick visit during just for the sake of checking the inhabitants of the building. As cops they probably meet a lot of people in those conditions.

[rilina]

You can also watch DTB at the Funimation YT channel; I found the connection to be a little more reliable than that of Hulu. Also, if I remember correctly, no commercials at YT, though that may have changed.

DTB was definitely an anime that grew on me as it went along; I went from being mildly interested at the beginning to very engaged by the end.