Darker Than Black

....anyone else watched this anime?

I am digging it. I don't know why it has taken me so long to get into anime shows. Most are really good.

pretty solid series

Sometimes people think anime is all giant robots, magical girls and high school harem shows (or hyperviolet robot porn according to some in the media). It's simply a medium, animation, and unlike here in the west it didn't get pigeonholed into the "only for kids" slot by the cultural mainstream. In reality it's quite genre and age diverse besides introducing a number of different tropes that we don't see in western animation so it can seem fresh and interesting to first timers. Many go for long cohesive story arcs versus simple episode base stories as well as actual character development and greying the line between good and bad.

No, I haven't seen Darker Than Black yet. So much to do, so little time.

I tried to watch it once but I couldn't see anything happening on the screen.

I've seen it. Good series.

My wife is the anime nut, so when she finds a good series, she'll make me sit and watch it with her. I've yet to be disappointed by one of her picks.

I watched it on Netflix streaming a year or so ago. I'm not a huge anime fan, but it kept my interest and was, overall, something I enjoyed. Like a lot of anime, I felt it kind of fell apart at the end. But, that said, it was certainly worth my time for the rental.

It's good and sometimes great, but I felt it ended poorly.

I liked the series, despite my growing contept for the way many anime has a superman complex for its main protagonists.

I didn't think the ending was weak, but it was rushed because they tried to tie up many of the earlier episodes in what felt like a series of one-off stories into a meta-story. There was just too much ground to cover and they I'm not sure if those earlier episodes were written with the ending in mind, otherwise, they should have sprinkled in clues, or placed certain characters in the background etc... throughout.

I watched the first season on Netflix last year. I rather enjoyed it. I think I may now have to see if the second season is there.

I like anime in general. What I most like about anime is getting to watch an interesting story. Take Gunslinger Girl for example. It has some action, but it's the overall story that interests me. The interaction of the characters. Same was true for El Cazador de la Bruja that I just finished the other day, and even Elfen Leid. There may be super-powered characters in the stories, but it's the story that they tell that I like. I just cannot find such stories in more 'western' work.

I watched the first season, it was pretty good. Still waiting on the second season though.

I think it's one of *many* anime series sitting in my Netflix queue. I believe I watched an episode or three of it quite awhile back. Hard to say. Right now I'm focused on El Cazador de la Bruja (or something like that).

I'm sort of meh with El Cazador de la Bruja. I think I would find the story about the other bounty hunter with the little girl more interesting that the one about the two main characters.

FUNimation has posted the first two seasons of Darker than Black on Youtube.

Actually the OVA's are up on Youtube....look under Darker Than Black Gaiden as that is what they are also known...there are 4 epsiodes in total...