Darker Than Black

Darker Than Black had a lot of promise at the beginning. The premise is about superhuman assassins or contractors fighting amongst each other and their effect on humans. But after a few episodes the whole series started spiraling down.

There is no concrete story line. It's very episodic and without any real focus. I didn't see any significance in most of the characters and most of the episodes did not make sense. Once there is a seemingly interesting development, the next episode is about something completely irrelevant. It felt like the writers did not know what to focus on - Hei or everyone else around him. There is also no explanation about where the contractors came. What did it take for a human to become a contractor? And the ending was too abrupt and without any real closure.

I liked the action sequences and the music in the openings, but other than that I could not really follow the story. There is no character development and a lot of plot twists did not make sense. I wanted the plot to focus on something specific, instead I got a lot of segmented and forgettable story lines.