You now remember Darker than black
Brighter than White spin off when

>>280462794 (OP)
I only remember her and that russian girl from the shitty second season.

>>280462945
It's not that bad

UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOehaHZUc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWuuENZ-Lc

>>280462794 (OP)
Hei and Yin will forever have a place in my heart.

>>280462945
Maybe it's time to give it a rewatch.
(The first season, I mean. Don't bother with S2.)

>>280462945
What second season

>>280462794 (OP)
I never forgot...

Anyone else felt s2 was overhated

>>280463272
S2 was okay after OVA

>>280462984
It's not just bad, it's bizarrely bad. Based on the director's later output, it's pretty clear he's obsessed with Lolis but kept it under wraps enough to just have a kuudere hebe in season 1. In season 2, he lost control and had a fucking random middle schooler with a magical girl transformation sequence as the main character dragging the plot down like an anchor for no fucking reason other than to ship Heiei with someone even younger.

>>280463272
>Anyone else felt s2 was overhated
Season 2 is such a massive departure from Season 1 that it's hard to even call them the same show except for the few characters shared between the two.
>>280463319
OVA was salt in the wound and was almost certainly made in response to the fan backlash season 2 had. The OVA should have just been the first four episodes of an entirely different season 2 that didn't include the retarded clone child and alternate earth shit at all and kept the tone of the OVA throughout.

>>280463272
Yes. I think every DTB thread ending up in discussion and debate about season 2 or the OVA is proof that there was not much meat on the bone for season 1. It has some individual standout stories but it's an excruciating rewatch because all of the bad parts (and there are more than people want to remember) are stretched into two episodes. Take a shot every time it cuts away to the police doing fuck all or the old contractor star reader woman mumbling schizobabble and you'll be dead within 3 episodes. Even the action in season 1 honestly kind of stinks when you put it next to the OVA and season 2.

>>280463432
>clone and alternate earth
I take it as "we want the eva audience". Or maybe they ran out of ideas of episodic mysteries.

>>280463500
If they wanted the Eva audience, exploring the concept of the gates and where the fuck they came from would have tied into season 1 and would have been far more welcome.

I'm still pissed that Darker than Black TO THIS DAY never got a proper followup and instead we got the Directors thinly veiled hoboxLoli fetish instead.

>>280463482
The fact that season 2 had a better budget and animation is a large reason why the retarded story stings so much. Season 1 wasn't perfect and a shorter, more focused story was a good idea for season 2. They wasted that opportunity by going full retard.

>>280463482
Nah. I'm currently rewatching S1 and it's still great. The first two arcs aren't as good as everything else, but they're fine.

>>280462794 (OP)
Chalk it up to me being a retarded zoomer but I tried watching this last month and couldn't make it past episode 3. It tried setting up too many mysteries without assuring me, the viewer, that they're competent enough to give any of them satisfying payoff. The first stretch is just a clusterfuck of mysteries being set up without any substance and it comes off as really pretentious. If you want to set up a bunch of mysteries then you need to earn the viewer's intrigue, which this failed to do imo

>>280463609
That was literally just how studio Bones used to write their anime originals in the 2000s. Wolf's Rain, Eureka 7, Xam'd, Darker than Black. They all set the plot up in pretty much the exact same way. And they always leave it up to the audience to piece shit together based on throwaway lines and scenes.

>>280463609
It's pretty straight forward though. The gate is on the opposite side of the Earth. So it's a cosmic ray shot through the Earth and gave people superpowers.

>>280463609
This honestly >>280463678
Darker than Black doesn't even feel hard to follow and piece together, especially after Wolf Rain

>>280463759
call me stupid, but I genuinely didn't catch that

>>280463026

Does anyone remember that one screencap of a girl crawling and people thought her skirt and hair resembled Hei's face? A joke version of DtB's OP was even made and posted on /a/ with her skirt and hair edited in for every shot of Hei.

should i rewatch this

>>280464692
Nah. You should just watch more obscure anime

>>280462794 (OP)
Post cute Yin

>>280462794 (OP)
whenever

>>280464692
if you have to ask this just stick to dandadan solo levelling and frieren, maybe chainsawman too

>>280464932
Here's an assertive Yin

>>280462794 (OP)
Kirsi!

>>280466226
solo leveling is the only bad one

>>280462794 (OP)
First Anime i found on my own and watched, everything before it i either already heard of or was forced to watch

>>280463272
Season 2 had half a good episode in it's entirety.

>>280466226
those are all better than darker than black though

>>280462945
I only remember the first two episodes bait and switch and that one NTR emotionless sex doujin where the russian girl gets raped by a russian dude.

>>280466645
did he say otherwise?

>>280464932

>>280466482
youre funny

>>280463095
>memes!

>>280463566
>Eva audience
Thank God it didn't

>>280463953
did you speedwatch

>>280464932

Chinese dress Yin sexo...

>>280469486
no, I only watched it at 1.5x

>>280469730
any speed that isn't default 1.0x is not normal

>>280469681
wheres here panties

>>280470852
Hei took it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtLSuxb9S3A
Somehow this opening incites a feeling of nostalgia and wanderlust. Anyone feel the same?

>>280471580
I've seen so many amv's with that song

Posting July during July

Which version of this OP is your favorite? Acoustic might be a contender for 2nd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtuBRVe-stU
Original's still the best. Stereopony's live performances are in a category of its own.

>>280472177
post the best amv

>>280472689
sex

>>280462984
stupid russian cunny

>>280466645
bait used to be believable

>>280464609
I remember

>>280462794 (OP)

Watched it recently. This show left out too many loose ends and nothing was explained. S2 should've expanded on the gates and contractors but instead felt like a detour between main arcs. Truth be told 80% of the plot of S2 and ova went over my head. S1 was much better with police girl and those British spy dudes. I especially remember that mafia daughter episode and the old team leader's back story of getting betrayed by a contractor.

It's world gave that realism vibe that I got from Black Lagoon

>>280462794 (OP)
I wish they gave a more conclusive ending to Hei's journey. He leaves the syndicate, loses Yin, becomes a drunk bum, and then gets Yin back. But what happened after, they just lived happily ever after? Is he still working as a contractor since BK 201's star is still there, even though he actually despises killing people?

>>280477411
I want to know what happened to these two

One of the very first anime I've ever watched (aside from the first HxH one when I was a kid, but I didn't know it was anime). Literally the second one, I think.
Despite this, not much nostalgia, it was very "mid" as the zoomoids would say. all I remember is that the police bitch had a crush on the MC, and the ED was kind of good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoVXDq2dPkk

>>280477784
Better link, actually, might as well give her the views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdY-nijUawg

>>280463609
Stick to shounen then. It's very easy to follow the story. It's not even one of those shows where broadcast order and chronological order are different. Are you the type of cattle who needs a trailer to spoil the entire story before you decide if you'll watch something?

>>280472279
Happy July

>>280463759
>The gate is on the opposite side of the Earth.
I thought they were chaotic spaces in Japan and South America? What is a cosmic ray?

>>280463272
s2 OST was pretty good and thing I remember most about it

Is Hei x Yin racemixing?

>>280479147
Aren't both asians?

>>280479147
No

>>280479345
No, Yin is Finnish

>>280479147
It's Asian x European so yes

I want a manga adaptation season

>>280462794 (OP)
>Boring story
>gets interesting when he choses to elope with white haired loli
>fucks up and loses her to pedos
What a piece of crap that was.

The sky disappeared because magic. Then a second Earth appeared.

>>280479147
no, she's finnish

>>280462794 (OP)
The first season was so fucking good. Second one was okay

>>280462945
The russian girl deserved better

>>280480052
They are asian

>>280480735
Finnish people are asian?

Yin's mother was a terrible woman who was cheating on her dead husband with Yin's piano teacher. Even Yin was disgusted and ran away even while blind, only for her mother to get trucked after she gained a conscience.

>>280480271
>>fucks up and loses her to pedos
????? Yin's own ability fucked her over and she was put in a coma cause she was too unstable and too dangerous. In the end Hei choses her over saving the world. Btw the loli is like 17 at the start of S1 and 20 at the end of season 2.

>>280480908
Yes

>>280481485
Interesting revelation

>>280481070
>Yin's own ability fucked her over
I thought it was dumb Yin was the super special doll of the prophecy. Felt like those powers came out of nowhere.

>>280481900
I think it's because she was developing emotions because of Hei. Dolls were supposed to be emotioneless, but she started to develop and grow thus her powers became special. It's still stretching but at least i can roll with it.

>>280482164
>I think it's because she was developing emotions because of Hei.
I should have rephrased that

>>280480106
Hei is chinese, not european.

>>280482659
Last i checked China is in Asia and Finnland in Europe

>>280482868
Very funny anon

>>280482868
Finland is asia and finns are from asia

>>280482977
I...I have nothing

>>280482992
Advanced gaslighting

>>280463482
S1 was brilliant up until the ending, which was just stupid. I actually agree with >>280463272 because the end of S1 trashed my expectations for any sequels so much that when S2 did come out I thought it was fine. People were kidding themselves by getting overhyped for it.

>>280483090
German cope

>>280463272
compared to other shows where people act like the second season never happened, it's nothing

>finns larping as euros
fucking mongols man...

>>280462984
>>280463272
I used to fap to her a lot.

Best girl. WASTED

>>280483090

>>280483274
>until the ending, which was just stupid
What was stupid about it? I liked that Hei made his own choice that allowed contractors and regular humans to coexist, instead of wiping out either side, since Hei valued both.

>>280484340
How do I interpret this?

>>280484788
The Mongol Empire

>>280486067
I see, so Yin's Asian.

>>280484340
>Haplogroup
Discarded. Autosomal DNA is how you measure ancestral similarity. Haplogroups are extremely limited.

The policewoman is an non-character and serves no purpose to the story. She is an episodic girl stretched for 2 seasons.

>>280462794 (OP)
Based art style. It looked so much more serious. No chibi, no shiny stuff everywhere. And it brings back such nostalgia for when I watched it several years after it came out. Don’t remember too much though.

>>280471580
Yes, extremely nostalgic OP and anime. Maybe because it gets mentioned so rarely it just has an older feel to it.

>>280484100
Nice tummy!

>>280486202
>Autosomal DNA is how you measure ancestral similarity.
What's the difference between it and Haplogroups?

>>280462945
second season was actually good
contrarian shitters will tell you otherwise

>>280462794 (OP)
Still one of the best opening songs of all time.

>>280486220
I don't remember a policewoman

>>280486220
When she first appeared I was so ready to love her.
Then she proceeded to do absolutely nothing for the entire show, while also regularly appearing for the entire show.

>>280487310
GANG BANG SON OF A GUN

>>280486819
this, it had best girl too

>>280486220
She was an alright character. Don't be a hater.

>>280463272
It is. I remember people in the threads were enjoying it until the last 2 episodes. The memes were great, but shame that it was a victim to the early days of anime deciding that every series must be 1 cours.

bump

SUN WILL RISE

Suou was hot as fuck

>>280490243
built for ryona

>>280489952
DOWNFALLEN

>>280481070
>>280481900
>>280482164
Was Yin even a doll in the end? They make you think so for a while, but eventually it seems like no one would have ever bothered to make a doll of her, and that the government's real goal was to use the concept of dolls to create a new form of absolute dehumanization by claiming traumatized people were just dolls.

>>280488498
What inspired this copypasta again? It describes the good ending of Shadow Hearts: Covenant almost to a T, but I know it didn't actually start with that.

bump

>>280490243
She was asking for it

>>280492924

>>280493123
You can tell the second the was dripping on the floor

>>280493147
bitches love pelmeni

>>280490243
>>280488222
>>280488498
Without s2 there'd be no Suou

>>280487310
yup

>>280490902
That's all there is to it: some anon posted that in a speculah thread during season 2, and people kept copying it.

>>280493388
Suou was a work of art

>>280486674
Haplogroups are inherited directly from father to son and very rarely mutate, so they can track migration and conquest well while autosomal DNA is just your overall makeup you inherit from both parents. So Finns had East Asian ancestors that migrated to Europe, but fucked local women generation after generation which is why they're still mostly European in autosomal DNA but mostly have East Asian haplogroups.

Now I've lost it

>>280495423
I know i can kill it

>>280495748

>>280495423
Made me skip the OP every time

>>280462945
I remember liking the first season and then getting really bored after the first couple of episodes of the second season and dropping it.

>>280483625
>I used to fap to her a lot.

Best part of this show are the 4 episodes with just the MC and his waifu trying to live a normal life

>tfw a russian loli will never lust after your CCP (colossal chinese penis)

>>280490819
>but eventually it seems like no one would have ever bothered to make a doll of her,
I thought the gate's appearance just made people into dolls, so it wasn't a process done by humans.

>>280495340
>speculah
What does that mean?

I'll be honest I can't really remember anything about either season at this point other than that I enjoyed them. Just totally memory-holed.

>>280462794 (OP)
Ponytail airvent!?????

>>280498905
Like a split ponytail?

>>280497108
Can dolls get pregnant?

>>280499939
Yes since they are still human. It's not like they're created in a lab.

>>280500407
I hope Hei put alot in Yin then

Stupid sexy russian loli

>>280500775

Still hoping for a 3rd season, although i have no faith in today's animators

>>280500476
She was training for it

Hobo Hei was entertaining

>>280500922
How can she get Hei to put it in her? Asking nicely?

>>280500887
It should follow the manga

>>280500775
>loli
she's a middleschooler anon
that's not loli

and yin is just petite

>>280501112
Suou is 13. That's loli in my eyes

>>280498859
I'm in the same boat. I never thought S1 was amazing, I thought both seasons were "pretty good" and I don't really get the hate. I think watching 10+ years later with a more critical eye for media in general would be interesting but honestly I don't even think it would be worth my time because I remember so little.

>>280463382
>Based on the director's later output, it's pretty clear he's obsessed with Lolis
He is?

>>280501034
Yes. 6 kids minimum.

>>280501137
shitty eyes

Yin so pretty with hair down

>>280463382
Holy based?
You're forgetting one part though, as an eternal 18 year old I cannot see a fellow teen >>280501137 Suou a loli nor as an Asian see Yin with normal Asian proportions >>280501112 as one as well.

>>280501486
I get older but the girls I like stay just the same.
Really, it's strange that I got a taste for teenage girls when I became an adult while my desires before were mostly for grown sexy women.

>>280498858
I've clearly been on /a/ for too long. Sora no woto used to have speculation threads: The term speculah was used for threads focusing on speculating story developments for that and other shows around that time.

>>280501677
Hobo Hei was based

Season 3 when?

>>280501747
Chinese Hobo batman was the best part about season 2

>>280502599
Why does Yin even like that asshole?

>>280502675
>why do womeme like drunks and violent men

>>280502675
Pics 1 and 3 are from season 1 and taken out of context. Pic 2 is from season 2 and the reason why Hei became a depressed drunk is because at that point he thought that Yin is dead. After he learns that she's still alive, he locks in immediately (John Wick style suit up scene when they killed his dog).

>>280503564
Are you looking at your monitor upside down?

>>280503720
>>280503564
Fuck i mean the first 2 pictures are pic 1 since they're from the same scene

>>280503820

>>280502675
>Why does Yin like a guy who literally chose to be with her over saving the world

>>280476569
I loved the russian glovies, short appearance but memorable. One of the best episode, between them, Yin and the detective roasting Hei. The opera singer who's contract is eating and spitting thing and reveal she could do it with anything but choose to do it with cigs because of her baby death was a great one off.

>>280481070
>put in a coma
Yeah, that's what I said. She was captured and turned into a vegetable sex blow-up doll for pedos, just like that bitch from Kill Bill. The MC was worthless and incompetent, and most of the anime was fucking boring. I only liked the part where they tried to elope together, but that came at the end and nothing came out of it. It was a shit anime.

>>280503969
I should maybe rewatch it but Hei was so cold to her at the start don't remember when that changed

>>280501008
>>280501677
>>280501747
Hobo Hei > NHK

>>280502675
He treated her like a human instead of a doll.

>>280504078
It's very subtle but you can definetely tell how Hei changes thought the season and how focused on Yin he becomes, from the way he looks at her or how he risks his life to protect her. It's very notable in the episode where he helps a guy who's in love with a doll. Hei projects himself onto him and hopes to get some answers. Hei then helps them run away together do they can live a normal life.

>>280504012
The things Hei tells the guy end up happening to him and Yin. It's subtle and nit in your face. Pretty good writing.

>>280504899
Fuck it rewatching it since 2020 or something don't really remember anything of the plot despite watching it multiple times

Did you guys fix your eating habits before it was too late?

fapped to Yin and Suou so many times I passed out

>>280504899
>from the way he looks at her
It's never in your face or a center of the story, but it's there if you pay attention to it

>>280505303
It's hard to not be into Yin she would look great with a pregnant belly

SAKETA
MUNE NO

>>280505522
OOPS WRONG SONG

Tfw you're not a 6'2 chinese chad with a smol kudere waifu

>>280505611
What song?

>>280505811
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlnPFmbu7W4&list=RDDlnPFmbu7W4&start_radio=1

>>280505811
That's D.Grey-Man

>>280472279
He's a good boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJaW8NUdUUc&list=RDjJaW8NUdUUc&start_radio=1&pp=ygUbaG93bGluZyBhYmluZ2RvbiBib3lzIHNjb29soAcB
KEGARETA YUBISAKI DEEEE

>>280505983
April is so hot

>>280506020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kji-0ceL5yY&list=RDKji-0ceL5yY

>>280506046
this board used to be fun....

>>280505758
There is no way a chink can be 6'2

>>280507330
Kirsi is just tiny

>>280507330
yao ming

>>280507508
I thought that's some ancient chinese emperor

>>280507330
just go to a college campus you're bound to run into a few lanky swagfag chinks in $50k fits

>>280501486
>>280500835
>>280500775
>>280500775
>>280498814
>>280498383
>>280493388
>>280495354
>>280490243
Hei, hei, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend.

>>280508453
Suou...

>>280508886
In the end, she won our hearts

>>280508312
>swagfag
What is that?

>>280508932
The love of my life hates men

>>280501112
You have clearly not read Lolita.

>>280509561
neither have most of you pedophiles

>>280509650
Pure projection.

>>280462794 (OP)
I now remember that I fucking hate Aniplex for making it unavailable o own or watch legally

>>280509441

>>280508932
Correction needed

There won't ever be a season 3

>>280510062
What did Aniplex do? They've just forgotten about the IP in the West?

>>280510062
wasn't it made with the west in mind, why would aniplex do that

>>280513695
>wasn't it made with the west in mind,
Sounds like a poor idea for an anime to succeed.

>>280498814
>>280500775
>>280508932
I am not a hebephile
But...

>>280514374
I am a hebephile
Butt

>>280514484
I WANT TO LICK

>>280513991
what is cowboy bebop

>>280515598
It wasn't made with the West in mind, and it was popular in Japan long before it arrived in the West

>>280515724
>nigger anime wasn't made with the west in mind
lol

>>280501068
Still find it funny how he went on to make a notHei/DarkerThsnBlack sci-fi and even get an anime

>>280500887
>although i have no faith in today's animators
In their ability or them deciding to make a season 3?

>>280502675
Hei attracts a certain type of women

>>280516588
Dimension W?

>>280516307
That's not a comment. Also, go back to /pol/, non schizos are talking.

>>280509561
fake loli novel

What's the presentday anime equivalent of DtB

>>280517807
Anime originals are dead, so there is none. I thought Metallic Rouge would fill the DtB void, but it was 100% rubbish

Back in high school I thought Hei was the most badass anime character ever. And I still do.

>>280516943
YWNBARW

>>280517831
sad but true

>>280517855
based

>>280505933
>D.Grey-Man
Does it get better

>>280507794
well what was it

>>280482868
finns are russian rapebabbies and russians are mongol rapebabbies

>>280519638
I actually like the second half of D.Grey-Man more than the first. It pretty much changes its genre completely from a battle shounen to like mystery drama

>>280462794 (OP)
The way S2 ended is proof that midwits should never be allowed to decide how a story ends without intense editor or producer oversight. They favor an ambiguous clusterfuck ending over a satisfying one because they believe anything that is hard to understand must be deep and intellectual, which is also why they like to use vague mythology or pop science concepts as plot devices. It's like forcing yourself to use big words because you want to seem smart to people who aren't smart. Except in this case it's more pathetic because not only did the directors out themselves as insecure pretentious faggots, they also shit on all the viewers who were invested in the series and wanted an actual resolution

Hei crossdressing

>>280521640
Would

>>280521339
>vague mythology or pop science concepts
Hate this so much. Genuinely confused why writers want to be pretentious. It makes sense when it's a shallow story and the writer needs to cover it up. But it happens on both good and bad works the same way. DtB, Eureka, EVA, WEP, GQuX, etc.

>>280463482
Yin's small boobs in my mouth please thank you

>>280521640
she's a girl now

Cheeky Mao

>>280473091
Peak action amv
https://youtu.be/VRLP4AXU0H4?si=K3ls-CYOJJ5DMsBd

>>280464932
OVA dress Yin a cute

>>280523446
breddy gud

originals made today can't compare to this

>>280525317
Originals can't make a good story in 12 eps

Opening 2 > Opening 1 > Opening 3

>>280525634
Neither can adaptations

>>280526119
Opening 2 was so bad i forgot it even existed. Genuinely thought it had only 1 op for S1 and one for S2 so i had to check it

>>280471580
It does for me. It's the last year before /a/ really went to shit.

>>280527469
Second to last year. The last time /a/ was good/decent was 2011.

>>280525634
There are many originals that are good/great in 12 episodes (some even fewer)

>Now and then here and there
>Paranoia Agent
>AnoHana
>Mononoke

>>280522766
>now

>>280527496
try 2007

She taught me the "petite" tag. My fapps haven't been the same since then(I'm now a huge lolicon).

>>280462794 (OP)
I barely remember this show but I remember everyone said season 2 was bad, so I never watched it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBwccprI5o8

>>280531097
anon, leave little girls alone
don't conflate loli with petite
don't be like those retarded nips who call petite women legal lolis

>>280531363
I don't conflate it, I'm just saying that the slope may be slippery, and I just so happen to be clumsy at walking.

>>280531482
Yin just appeals to everyone

>>280531482
Tbh that doesn't look like a loli. That's just petite

>>280531482
>slope may be slippery
normal asian figure
why is this hard for westoids to understand?

>>280533225
It's normal for every female to stop growing after 16. Don't know why people pretend western women lose their youth because of ageing instead of fucked up lifestyle.

>>280527574
>AnoHana
>good

>>280527574
>AnoHana
>good

>>280472777
now i've lost it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0EdE0uUmjE&list=RD_0EdE0uUmjE&start_radio=1

>>280533225
>normal asian figure
She's not Asian dumbfuck stop ragebaiting

>>280533727
>>280533740
Yes. I don't care about your faggot-ass opinion.

>>280472777
>Stereopony's live performances are in a category of its own.
Says they disbanded in 2012.

>>280534837
Why cannot I do this?

>>280534837
Serial killer type shit

>>280535161
calm down anon its just a porn game

>>280535334
What's the name of it so i'm sure i'll never play it

>>280536124
its a browser game so I feel less bad about spoonfeeding since finding it would be a pain in the ass
https://osawariheaven.sakura.ne.jp/home/p05/

>>280517807
Mahouka and Engage Kiss have some surface-level similarities, but it's too unique a series to really have a modern day equivalent.

>>280462794 (OP)
She seems cute, is this worth watching or does it go to shit at some point?

>>280537529
Yes

>>280532243
Except me. She was completely asexual in my eyes. Lacked soul and looked way too little/young.

>>280539206
too old

>>280539206
too old

>>280509441
Very hot

>>280539206
>looked way too little/young.
She is above the age of 18 my nigga

>>280540868
don't call him a nigger

>>280539206
Yin is for hugs and cuddles

>>280541334
And licking her clit until she cums in your mouth.

>is the better anime

>>280542438
No it really isn't, BL is horrendously overrated and laughably bad. Redditors only pretend to like it because of revy.

>>280542626
it got sovl
something darker than BBC does not
also there's this other anime which just does it better
I forgot the name, I just remember the end credits roll and then he get sniped in the head. Oh it's Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom, thanks quora
it's been over 12 years I've watched these anime, I can't even remember their plot. I just wanna be contrarian right now

test

>>280543860
do not test saar

>>280543860
Test test Johnny Test

>darker then black thread
>in 2025
Just realized i´ve forgotten pretty much everything that happened and I could rewatch this show as my first time again

>>280517807
DtB is a flawed mess comprised of frustratingly interesting elements so you're gonna have to get specific about which parts of it you want to re-experience in other shows. Otherwise, the short answer is: there isn't any anime equivalent to DtB, past or present.

If you're talking about the general vibes and the "beauty and the beast" element (i.e. stubby male x dainty female mc duo) then there are a number of animes you can look into

>Rakuen Tsuihou
Some detective-ing. Crumbling society in a near-post-apocalyptic setting. May be too sci-fi, but it has the ugly mofo x cute girl thing down pat.

>Psycho Pass (esp, Sinners of the System Case 3)
Far more cyberpunk than DtB (in fact, it's just flat out cyberpunk). Case 3 has the added similarity of being centered around going to far-off lands for detective shenanigans.

>Lazarus
Very recent, very controversial overall. But I'd argue that it has the EXACT same atmosphere as DtB. The setting is near-future and grounded, the world is crumbling, and the characters are going to the ends of the earth to solve something. Be warned that the ending and the twist is objectively atrocious.

>>280508453
>suou makes a self-loathing pun

>>280542438
overhyped
i can see the appeal but i'd still put dark above black by a few points

>>280462794 (OP)
10 episodes in and I think it's just kinda decent

>>280547936
I also really cannot pin down what it is about this show that's so mid to me. The first 2 episodes really drew me in, but some arcs are just bad and feel like filler and they always take 2 episodes. It feels like such a "stuff happens" show

Wasted pontetial: the show, pretty sad, it had many interesting elements.

>>280545532

>Be warned that the ending and the twist is objectively atrocious.

I doubt I'm ever going to watch it, can you spoiler tl:dr for me?

>>280548107
"In the moment" makes this by virtue a 10

>>280549137
It's kino, don't spoil yourself
If you're ever thinking of any seasonal this past 10 years or any ongoing anime, consider watching it in full fresh without outside influence instead

>>280548107
Season 1 starts to heat up in the next 2 arcs you're about to watch.

https://youtu.be/Fr_XGWk64C8?si=rAmXbpPCJmVAtx3x
Ready boyz?

>>280462794 (OP)
I still occasionally listen to the ost. I think it’s probably better to get my nostalgia that way than by rewatching it.

https://youtu.be/zjIWunRsdVM?si=39zZgQNaMPAwUQn5

>>280530413
Geass season 2 def brought in a new wave of newfags that lowered the quality of /a/, but generals and the catalog is what really killed /a/ and a lot of 4chan

>>280549857
We need more UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ in this thread

>>280551807
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_XjIRuAoqk

>>280549779
what's he thinking

>>280549857
Bigger

>>280544126
ME TOO
Anyone else rewatching

>>280462794 (OP)
I rewatched it awhile ago after remembering the second seasons OP being so damn good. First season is amazing. The second is... Fine

>>280477411
Literally everyone dies. Not! Satan wins and gets resurrected

>>280553118
That she is physically and psychologically ready

>>280553118
>I miss my wife
>I would trade this red hair shit just to see her smile one time
>What time is it I think I can make it to the liquor store before they close

>>280462794 (OP)
is this the one with chinese batman

>>280554788
Yeah

I love Suou

>>280554813
>>280554801
Made for big izanami cock

>>280554307
I plan on doing a rewatch soon

>>280462794 (OP)
>handsome Chinese man MC
was he one of the last in animu?

>>280484340
Why is the shallow coastal ocean very consistently in the 2-10% range even for regions with 0% on land? Is there something they aren't telling us?

I really want to fuck Suou

>>280555323
She's taken. Twins are for their twins. Especially when her twin is who he is

I saw the first season, the OVA that is set during the first season, and the first OVA set after the first season. I know that the second season stinks, but are the rest of the OVAs any good?

>>280495340
Years ago I remember some anon actually providing the name of an anime or LN that had that as the ending, but I don't recall what name he typed for said series.

>>280500407
Aren't they created in labs or with some power derived from the gate? They're homunculi.

>>280555439
The ovas when they are eloping are arguably the best episodes.

>>280555439
That's all of it anon

>>280531167
Season 1 resolves with enough closure for the major characters, you can just watch that.

>350 replies
>barely any mention of the British agents
April was such a cute brownfu

>>280555546
I've heard there were four of those.

>>280555563
See above. I only saw the OVA episode with the Contractor who can disguise themselves to look like Amber.

>>280555684
There are 4, and you should watch them all and treat them as a mini season rather than OVAs because they are all important and chronological

>>280554944
Nana Mizuki leaking into her character again.

>>280555520
No... When the Hell Gates appeared some of them just became dolls like how other humans became contractors. Before the Hell Gate Yin was just a normal human girl.

>>280555684
Those episodes shouldn't even be OVA's they are required to watch if you ever plan on watching season 2.

>>280555730
Why don't people act like the dolls are regaining their humanity then? Also, the doll in the first two episodes seemed to be a good match for the actual person, like it was made from scratch rather than coincidentally being the husk of a person they had on-hand who fit the bill pretty well.

>>280555323
Not Hei...

>>280555643
post images to show the thread how cute the agents are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOehaHZUc8

UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ

I still listen to the DTB soundtrack every now and then. Yasushi Ishii is bretty gud ;DDDDD

>>280557258
Dude still uploads new music to his blog every month after 20 years.

>>280557128

>>280558143
>posting men
show us the women bro

>>280558143
straightest post on /a/
let me guess gintama is your #1 series

>>280558143
Based November 11

Dive into the 9 fucks. HARD.

>>280558143
>posting nudity

>>280558143
BASED. November was a gigachad. Best send off in any series I can think of too
>>280558706
Are you sure? She's a drunk tomboy slag

>>280558143
this is a blueboard

He was staring at Mao in this scene, lol

>>280558143
He was staring at Mao in this scene, lol

>>280555781
>Why don't people act like the dolls are regaining their humanity then?
Probably don't want to acknowledge it since Dolls are exploited by whoever has ownership of them. It also doesn't seem like a common thing for dolls to show their humanity.

>Also, the doll in the first two episodes seemed to be a good match for the actual person, like it was made from scratch rather than coincidentally being the husk of a person they had on-hand who fit the bill pretty well.
What do you mean?

>>280558143
This asshole killed Havoc.

>>280562330
Is DtB a harem anime?

>>280462794 (OP)
>You now remember
>now
I just did a rewatch. I never forget that show. I love Electric Batman.

>>280505231
I'm skinnier now at 29 going on 30 than I was in my early 20s

>>280512673
It was distributed by Funi as I recall. Aniplex snatched all the rights to a bunch of their shows and many are still unavailable to watch (legally) to this day and the out of print Funi copies will set you back a lot of money (Glad I snatched up a bunch of box sets before the hammer came down)

>>280563201
>gigaslut who drank the blood of children
And nothing of value was lost

>>280567291
Can we see your collection anon

>>280500775
S2 is dogshit but I wanted to fuck her every episode.

>>280569150
Who

>>280569619
Amber's initial appearance

>>280480574
>The first season was so fucking good. Second one was okay

>>280534837
S1 is dogshit but I wanted to fuck her every episode.

>>280508453
Heheh

>>280570617
forgot to attach an image reaction?

>>280536804
Really nice Yin tummy thanks for linking

>>280569427
we all do

>>280569701
That's Amber? Looks different

All those vanilla doujin between Hei and Yin are canon as far as I'm concerned.

>>280578208
As canon as S2

>>280563201
deserved

s2 = true end

>>280555157
Historically people hop along the coasts far faster and in greater numbers than across large swathes of the inland. Only modern inventions like railroads and later the automobile (and the modern highways to support them) have made overland travel easy and fast. In Roman times for instance it was faster to get from Gibraltar in Spain to the Hellespont in Turkey by taking a boat along the coast, than to get from Gibraltar to southern France overland. With this particular image you can plainly see how an initial group in south eastern Eurasia (most likely merchants) hopped along the coasts of the old world landmass leaving behind bastards as they went.

I actually liked S2, but I still don't understand why or how Yin was going to destroy the world. Like I get her powers evolved for some reason, but how does "can see through water" become "destroy world", and how exactly were they going to destroy the world (literally blow it up? kill humanity somehow? erase reality?) and why (her little ghost was evil for some reason? why?).

>>280580948
That seemingly superpowered version of "Yin" was Izanami, who she acted as a host for. But this aspect of her character didn't exist at all until Season 2 and the OVA, hence it appearing to be an abrupt plot point. The circumstances around it are about as hazy as how Yin became a Doll in the first place.

>>280580948
Did you watch the OVA? It sounds like you didn't

Felt so random how Suou's twin Shion sniped her friend Tanya and then that was never addressed. No one brings it up, Shion never mentions it, they just talk like siblings when they finally reunite near the end of the season.

>>280581654
She was a huge bitch so it's ok.

>>280581654
waste of good pussy
>>280582217
she was just contracting

>>280542931
the woman in bl is trashy
>I just wanna be contrarian right now
Oh

>>280581654
Isn't Tanya never mentioned again after she gets killed?

>>280580814
It's one thing you learn in history books and interactive entertainment media where long distance travel usually take place through bodies of water and faster.

>>280582940
Yeah, I don't think she's ever mentioned after that. Hei even thought Suou was the one who shot her, and that's why they get into a fight and go their separate ways.

>>280583137
>interactive entertainment media
Like what?

>>280580948
Yin won't destroy the world. But she can basically kill anyone with her power methinks.

>>280562330
wife training

>>280554687
based hei

>>280582940
she's already dead

>>280463272
It had really good moments but it falls in the same trap as season 1.
>great premise
>strong storylead with protagonist
>extremely awful ending with no explanation or payoff... again

What does Yin smell like?

>>280582940
>>280581654
Wasted character design

>>280462794 (OP)
bump

>>280586439
I'd fuck her

>>280554307
>>280544126
I'm watching it for the very first time; coincidentally

>>280588935
When does it get good?

>>280463609
based zoomity zoomzoom doesnt buy overpromised horseshit

>>280586439
she was good cunny

>>280589720
from the start

>>280589720
Episode 1

TENSAI OKAMURA! GIVE ME SEASON 3!

>>280586770
What was the point of these 2 characters? Make Suou realize what love is?

>>280555085
yes because i dont consider "anime" not made by japs animu

>>280586770
I like the part where the sons gang tried to rape suou

>>280595782
>i dont consider "anime" not made by japs animu
Then what do you call it? Chinese and Korean cartoons?

>>280586770
traumatizing

>>280586770
Is this really what the audience wanted?

What was up with Hei killing April? Then July just hangs out with him like it's nothing.

>>280586770
this needs a spoiler

>>280586118
like flowers

Inconsistent height

>>280601271
high heels

>>280601271
Maybe she's wearing boots. That Yin is also the blonde guy with a purple streak in his hair using his contractor powers to disguise as her. That's a man hug.

>>280602648
Yeah i know, but he changes his shape to perfectly imitate the person he's transforming into. Height included.

>>280462794 (OP)
I refuse to watch S2 or the OVA. S1 had a good ending and I'm going to leave it at that.
Amber did nothing wrong.

>>280601271
She's tip toed

>>280604318
Imagine her kissing him.

>>280586118
Rotten fish

>>280601271
She cheats her height

>>280608834
How?

>>280608872
Yin is standing on a platform, Hei on the ground

>>280557377
>>280557258
>Dude still uploads new music to his blog every month after 20 years.
SOUL

>>280601271
This time Yin is on the box

>>280462794 (OP)
Yin and Felli are my wives

>>280545532

All of these 3 are bad

>>280557258
kino

Is it true that the author hates DTB because it is his only successful work?

I miss watching this show with /a/

>>280554788
They're not Chinese.

>>280613940
hei is 100% chinese. how the fuck is this thread still up

>>280613994
Okamura denies it.

>>280614054
w/e

>>280613386
What is special about the number 15,498?

>>280614054
Okamura's headcanon 30 years later doesn't change it

>>280614778
Endless eight

>>280614129
100%…

>>280615852
What he said is Hei's group aren't Chinese.

>>280615852
k

>>280616383
I understand that you can't understand Japanese.

>>280616614
Post japan grammar textbook

>>280616741
この画像抱えて5chでも行ってきたら？
みんな優しく教えてくれるよ。
そもそもスレタイに書いてあることだけどね。

>>280616802
語調下手すぎるわろた

>>280616802
日本語はアニメしか読めないけど、君よりはましだな

>>280617169
語調って話し言葉に対して使うものだけど、笑える自己紹介してくれて嬉しいよ。

>>280617239
「アニメでしか」な
正しい日本語使おうな

>>280617289
今辞書で学んだやつ？
じゃ you are not "talking" here but "writing" now ばかガイジンｗ

>>280617314
ギャル語　＞　日本語

>>280617329
日本人でごめんな笑

>>280617314
imagine telling 名無し to use proper language on 5ch lol

>>280617366
普段ギャル語使ってんの草
面白ガイジンやん

suou is pure sex but yin is ultra moe and I like her more overall

>>280617386
正しく日本語が使えると主張したんだから、当然の返しでは？

>>280617369
おまえは永遠に日本人になれない

>>280617426
生粋の日本人でごめんな観光客さんw

>>280617417
keep trying anon maybe you can write something I can't read with google translate like actual anons on image boards

>>280617441
why don't you just post japan textbook in the first post if you are actually a japan guy

>>280617523
それじゃあ今日の新聞でどう？
今夜はクレバテス観ような。

>>280617641
can still be a tourist like you said

>>280617751
しつこいなw
ほら日本で生まれないと持てない母子手帳だよ
京都人ですよ〜

>d-dude moonrunes
lmao
laugh at it
your life """""""""""achievement""""""""""" invalidated by a program that turns schizobabble into human letters

>>280617944
返して、邪丸！

>>280618318
まぁ付き合ってくれてありがとな
楽しんでアニメみてくれや
ほなな

>>280557258
These are the guys worthy of following
Those who give up or only continue due to high viewership and money are trendchasing bugs

Does anyone else feel like anime made around this time had a tendency to all go into exposition-heavy conspiracies for their finales? Hei was half-active and half-along for the ride in the final stretch of Season 1.

All I remember about this show is Chinese Batman and Amber being best girl.

>>280617402
suou was too hyperactive for a girl

>>280589720
by season 2 it gets good

>>280462794 (OP)
What is this pose called

>>280618193
>invalidated by a program that turns schizobabble into human letters
What program?

>>280555085
Chinese anime industry is huge anon

>>280624309
what?

>>280462984
its good

>>280622891
pixiv tagged it as 指笑顔
finger smile