| Bilgi :Darker than Black - Kuro no Keiyakusha is another new series opening this week. There are no manga this show is based on, so don't bother looking. The first episode aired 12 hours ago, on Hokkaido TV or something, and I've already watched it. Isn't the internet amazing? Again, I will give a brief rating on the overall quality of the show: VERY GOOD. This review is also a mix of a preview and a first impressions, here we go! The first episode starts off with the police chasing down a French person (as revealed through a police report) who was running/jumping on top of large buildings... actually, parallel to the police cars (one has to wonder why they don't turn sideways to shake chasers off). They finally catch up, and the stair doors burst open: two cops now point guns at the man. The man smirks and does his psychic tricks. He flies into the air, outlined in blue, and immobilizes one of the cops. He gets away. A woman from an agency listened to a tapped cop report, and drives off. The man lands on a building at the other end of the city, and is very tired. At this time, he begins breaking off his fingers (wtf), and stops because he has heard a sound. He is suddenly attacked by a masked man in black. The psychic blonde guy levitates the masked man, but the masked man slings hooks at him and the railing, bringing himself down. Soon the man is beaten to a corner, and the masked man kills him by placing a hand on his face. The police (now referred to as "cops") show up and the mysterious woman shows up and they say something like, oh its about the Hell's Gate again.. Opening song starts. And that's all I can think of.. yes its pretty generalized. I will continue watching this series. I don't really like the backwards story telling, and the strange woman/psychic and man/psychic romance-on-the-run thing, but I'll deal with that later. The production quality is high, as expected from BONES. The most pretty chars right now are In and Misuzu Ooyama, however, the first episode did not have lots of In, so we'll find out about her later. |
