Comments on: Darker than Black 14 – On a Silver Night, the Heart Does not Sway on the Water’s Surface… (Part 2)

By: October

October — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:50:55 +0000

I also thought this episode was pretty good. The flashback with the piano, pointing to Yin’s lack of feeling in the piece, contrasted with the later performance was good. I liked how Yin changed in those little aspects compared to her in the flashback.

By the way, does anyone know the name of the song Yin played?

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PreMagination » Post Topic » Darker than Black Continues to Impress — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:41:49 +0000

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By: Briar

Briar — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:47:00 +0000

@ Keith: I see, that makes sense. So there are actually even worse stuff than being a contractor.

I actually quite like the titles. They are a lot more poetic and interesting than normal anime titles.

By: Vane

Vane — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:32:07 +0000

I really like this episode too, it was very sweet, i love how Kirsi choose to be Yin because Hei call her comrade.
And I love Hei making his own heart beat again!!! so badass!!!!

By: Ackmm7

Ackmm7 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:11:02 +0000

@Raymond I feel the same way its hard to give a character with no emotion an emotional back story.

@Briar From my understanding dolls can be programmed to do whatever the user wants they are emotionless spirit mediums. Where as contractors have some type of control and a renumeration for there power.

@Xerox I do enjoy that we get to see more emotional interaction between the syndicate.

@BriHaus You dont wanna see next weeks title XD

By: BrikHaus

BrikHaus — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:21:44 +0000

The length of the episode titles are becoming ridiculous.

By: Xerox

Xerox — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:39:55 +0000

Briar, you are not in the minority. I also really liked this episode. And the smile at the end was so charming, it was so sweet. I’m finally beginning to see emotional interaction between the people of the syndicate, Yin, Hei, Huang and Mao. I also liked Berta and Itzhak, some contractors I can sympathize with.

By: Briar

Briar — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:20:00 +0000

I still don’t understand how Yin get to become a doll. And what exactly is a doll, anyway? How is it different from a contractor?

Anyway, I must be in the minority, because I truly love this episode. In fact I love both episodes about Yin. The way she used her finger to smile is so cute and funny, not to mention a sign that she is a lot more emotional than most people thing. In a way, she reminds me of being a new born baby, starting out with a clean slate. She doesn’t know anything, so she has to learn everything from the start. The people around her are emotionless, at least on the surface, so she learns to be emotionless as well. At least that’s my take on it.

This episode is sad and uplifting at the same time, IMO. And with Huang’s change of attitude, I wonder if the working dynamics of the group will change for the better.

By: Raymond Hu

Raymond Hu — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:47:31 +0000

I’d say this eps is so-so because I didn’t find it all that memorable. For some reason they just couldn’t make Yin’s back story heart moving enough. Yin is very much like one of these almost loli characters without expressions, kind of reminds me of Primula from Shuffle. What is very interesting to me near the end is the fact that Huang, the street wise cynic NYC/Mafia gangster-ish person who always treats contractors and dolls like disgusting tools, did not snipe Yin after witnessing her closest emanation (that’s the closest word I can think of expressing, not using bigger words on purpose) of feelings and a soul. In short, Yin cried and that stopped Huang from shooting her. Here we see Huang’s prejudice and fear is based on the fact that contractors and dolls are often emotionless. The dolls, especially, in their primary state, act just like robots. That made it easy for Huang to despise and to treat them like lifeless tools. But in this case, he is so stunned by the revelation that literally shined on him that he couldn’t pull the trigger.
Huang would make a great character in a novel, a fanfic. It’d be interesting to team him up with the detective Gai.