Special Episode 1:

The reasons I am late:

Hi guys, this is the author. Uh.

You probably knew that…

Anyways as I expected I am running late with the new chapter.

Thats just what a lazy bastard like me would do.

And to make up for it, I will:

Release it finally? Nope…

Anytime soon? Better yet!

Make excuses? Hell yeah!

And rub something utterly worthless under your nose? You got it!

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Sorry just too much Youtube. Thats not the reason why I'm late. I am actually fighting for my life here, and my opponent is the bloody school system! An opponent whose wickedness exceeds even the goverment's. And for this challenege I must prepare!

So first reason is my school leaving exam. (I'm too young to die!)

Second is that I've been rewatching the entire Darker than Black Series,(Finally something constructive!) to gather info and whatnot, and found out that (I'm an idiot) Hei and Pai are not actually real names ( AJ Sawyer, I am forever thankful), so I was forced to take actions which are:

Hei from now on will be called Lee (of course only when appropriate)

Pai will now be Xing.

(What a genius move, you are just too GODDAMN LAZY to edit the screwed up chapters!)

And now some extra: My thoughts on the DTB series

After rewatching and looking for every detail I had such an impression that I felt I must share with you. So while you wait for the next chapter I figured I might do some critic work. For, you know, anyone interested… uh…

Sorry this is the best I can do….

So First up ont he list comes: The Gemini of the Meteor:

This sequel I refuse to acknowledge, because of the following reasons. Most of the things that made the previous chapters good, were thrown out the window. Among those were:

The setting, which was changed beyond what is reasonable. The original was prety wild, but they made it work (more on that later), but here it's like adding a bowl of ice cream into a soup. One may like or not like that particular ice cream, but the two just don't fit at all: The Izanagi and Izanami legend taken from Japanese folklore (if I'm not mistaken) was a misfit mainly because it made no sense whatsoever, nor were there any implications in the original series that such things are possible. And adding to all these are the little senseless moments like a contractor's power being to summon a sniper rifle, or to copy a planet, and there are plenty of more little details that sting the eye. Plus they made us wait for the explanation about how the hell things turned out the way they were in the start of Gemini.

Those were the main issues, but the story itself lacked common sense sometimes, how the characters acted and behaved, but the chapter still had one postive thing to it, that is, it could actually produce romantic, and dramatic moments, that were arguably better than in the original. But they took place in an alltogether senseless enviroment. Still I have to admit, the moments that were intended to be touching, were.

The Gaiden:

Yet again proving that the writers were capable. They were trying to make a journey to a hellish place actually enjoyable, and while they did succeed somewhat, we already knew the outcome and they yet again did some overly dramatic things that DOES NOT MADE MUCH SENSE. When the series contains creatures whose motives are dictated by pure logic. I would actuall keep the first part of the first Gaiden episode because those moments were really beatiful and not yet tainted by the things that had yet to come.

And Finally why the original was a masterpiece:

Remember that I said how the setting of the original DTB was pretty crazy? Think about it: The gates, the sky, contractors, the Syndicate, dolls. It seems messed uő like some third grade anime. But what actually made it work, was how they made our world react to those changes.

Cover up the things you can. The three letter agencies trying to take posession of contractors.

U.N. intervention, studying the gates, isolating them, the greed of nations causing war in South America. It smells realistic. Something we would do if such a situation arose. And this was part of what made it fun: How the normal world reacts to these new supernatural things. This side of the story is represented by Kirihara and Section 4. Also quite new was the feature of non-evolving powers. After watching tons of Naruto ad Bleach the idea that the characters are not gonna get stronger, but instead stuck with a single power, was quite interesting, and it reminded me of Heroes, a TV series that I loved. But while they implemented new things, they also brought with them the things that made previous animes work. Like the power demonstration before the action scenes. The battles being fought by strength And wits. The suspense in crucial moments, turnarounds, drama and a little bit of romance, a little bit of comedy, a little bit of everything. The makers new what it took to make the series appealing, and they mixed it with their original ideas. What I must point out int he great things they did was the Character design, the setting, and the two-front storytelling: Misaki and Hei, the story being told on both ends.

However there were some slight mistakes on their part as well. Some chapters did not need to be two episodes long. Andi t really took some time to figure out where the story was heading. And at that point I feel they rushed it a little bit. The culmination at the end, while satisfying, I think it needed a bit more time to develop and to unfold. And a lot more explanations should have been given.

However DTB will still reamain one of the best animes I have ever watched and that's precisely the reason, while I want to contribute to it.

Thank you for bearing with me. I promise the next chapter will come out.

(And it's going to be Shocking) Zap!

Actually that's the chapter after that.

(Too much Spoilerz…)

Finally the Q&A section!

-If you have the time to write reviews like this, why didn't you write the next chapter instead?

O.O I think that's enough for today…

I hope you liked today's special edition. To everyone who got to this point in reading : You are awesome. Thank you for reading my stuff. It means a lot.

Until next time

Farewell.

Now play the Ending of the series.