Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini

[Lenaxia]

Originally Posted by Elminster

I wish my memory of s1 wasn't so fuzzy, because it would be a lot easier to tell what's going on. Oh well, really great animation to say the least. Looking forward to this one!

To be honest, aside from knowing what contractors are and that they have a renumeration to pay after using their powers, there isn't much else to know. They're reintroducing everything in Gemini.

What are you fuzzy about? I already listed all the returning characters from S1.

[Elminster]

I just remember some crazy stuff happening with that Amber character at the end of the last season, but I don't remember how it resolved itself; or if it even resolved in the first place.

[Lenaxia]

Summary of S1 ending

The Syndicate was trying to get rid of all contractors around the world by some reaction that the old crazy scientist came up with. Amber knew about this because of her time travelling ability. Her overall goal was to stop this from happening and save everyone, especially Hei since she loved him. Their final assault was basically a full on rush by a bunch of contractors on the facility but most of them were killed despite having meteor fragments given to them.

Amber, using the last of her powers before vanishing from overuse of her own powers showed Hei that his little sister who he'd been searching for was inside him all along, after all she was the source of his powers. With a final kiss from Amber, she and everyone else who had perished fighting with or against him said their farewells. He took it upon himself then to destroy the anti-Contractor weapon and vanish from there.

Misaki had discovered her boss worked for the Syndicate and obtained damning evidence against him, and also realized that BK201 was Li-san, aka Hei. She tries tracking him down and fails.

Due to the evidence that Misaki reveals, the existence of contractors and the syndicate becomes common knowledge.

Story ends. Gemini starts.

[Xephelion]

Oo, I've been looking forward to this for a while now :) first episode is downloading.

[Elminster]

Originally Posted by Lenaxia

Summary of S1 ending

The Syndicate was trying to get rid of all contractors around the world by some reaction that the old crazy scientist came up with. Amber knew about this because of her time travelling ability. Her overall goal was to stop this from happening and save everyone, especially Hei since she loved him. Their final assault was basically a full on rush by a bunch of contractors on the facility but most of them were killed despite having meteor fragments given to them.

Amber, using the last of her powers before vanishing from overuse of her own powers showed Hei that his little sister who he'd been searching for was inside him all along, after all she was the source of his powers. With a final kiss from Amber, she and everyone else who had perished fighting with or against him said their farewells. He took it upon himself then to destroy the anti-Contractor weapon and vanish from there.

Misaki had discovered her boss worked for the Syndicate and obtained damning evidence against him, and also realized that BK201 was Li-san, aka Hei. She tries tracking him down and fails.

Due to the evidence that Misaki reveals, the existence of contractors and the syndicate becomes common knowledge.

Story ends. Gemini starts.

Thanks much for getting me up to speed; it's been a few years since I watched S1.

[azanimefan]

seems like it's been 2 years since the end of season 1... where season 2 kicks off.

I hope it's as good as season 1. i rather enjoyed it during the marathon to catch up.

[azanimefan]

ep 2... alright... actually the action was pretty good.

the narrative style changed. is a different studio doing it this time?

[Xennon]

Just watched episode 1, gonna watch episode 2 right away.

Episode 1 was fucking fantastic. Awesome directing, really. The music, which had been good in the first season, was amazing in episode 1, really, it just fit everything.

All throughout season 1, they kept telling you contractors are soulless killing machines. They have no hearts... but it never really felt like that. They all had their own reasons and despite what humans thought, for the most part, contractors weren't soulless killing machines. But damn, after the first episode of season 2, they did a great job of making them all soulless killing machines.

[Lenaxia]

Actually that's something that kinda bothered me about DtB. They said contractors are heartless yet many of them showed emotions such as anger and glee. And even fear. I think they are closer to Vulcans than anything else.

[azanimefan]

Originally Posted by Lenaxia

Actually that's something that kinda bothered me about DtB. They said contractors are heartless yet many of them showed emotions such as anger and glee. And even fear. I think they are closer to Vulcans than anything else.

That was one of the points of season 1... that the conception, the popular conception that contractors are heartless sub humans was incorrect... or at least not entirely correct.

the contractors who spend a deal of time with humans seem to regain some of their humanity... especially those who were treated as human.