Genres: action, drama, mystery, psychological, science fiction, supernatural Themes: assassins, conspiracy, crime, fighting, living dolls, neo-noir, police, superhuman, superpowers Objectionable content: Significant Number of episodes: 26 Vintage: 2007-04-05 to 2007-09-27 Plot Summary: In Tokyo, an impenetrable field known as “Hell’s Gate” appeared ten years ago. At the same time, psychics who wield paranormal powers at the cost of their conscience also emerged. Hei is one of the most powerful of these psychic agents, and along with his blind associate, Yin, works for one of the many rival agencies vying to unlock the mysteries of Hell’s Gate.
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor / Darker than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini
Genres: adventure, drama, mystery, psychological, science fiction, supernatural Themes: assassins, conspiracy, crime, fighting, girls with guns, post-apocalyptic, superhumans, superpowers, twins Objectionable content: Significant Number of episodes: 12 Vintage: 2009-10-08 to 2009-12-24 Plot Summary: Two years have passed since Hei and Yin escaped the Syndicate after the events of the first season. Making their way to Russia, Hei encounters a young girl named Suou Pavlichenko, whose family is gradually pulled into the war between contractors and various intelligence factions. Meanwhile, Misaki Kirihara has quit her position in Foreign Affairs to begin her own investigations into Hei, the Contractors and the Syndicate.
As great as Darker than Black is I don’t know if I want to order this. The inclusion of a “display easel” leads me to believe that storing this product will be awkward, like the Bebop premium collections.
Has Funi pulled off a premium collection without any errors yet? The “self-destructing” Lain set and the print errors with Psycho-pass concern me.
This is the one that I really like the box art for, and I suppose with the new Premium edition getting ready to ship they decided they didn’t want any lower priced alternative version of S1 concurrently on the market. Like everything else in life, fewer choices are better for the TPTB. Fortunately we still have some FN-07459 in the warehouse so if anyone still wants only the classic edition we should still have them in stock for a short while.
Dunno about the RACS assessment of this one: isn’t that Anime Classics version of DtB a DVD-only set? Now that DtB is going to be out on bluray it’s better that they stop producing that version in preparation for the eventual bluray version of DtB Anime Classics. IMO.
My LE of Darker than Black Season 1 arrived and it’s interesting. It’s done in a “secret mission dossier” scheme, and Funi, for better or for worse, went the whole nine yards and made it so that the box is held shut by the “loop the rope around the rivets” system seen on the Manilla envelopes that report cards used to come in back in the day.
Kinda seems like Funi should have made it like those old “song” greeting cards and had it play Secret Agent Man when it is opened.
Artbook art doesn’t look that sharp, but not too blurry.
Tragically, as soon as I took the holder for the blurays out of the box, the discs all fell out of the bottom. Discs are only affixed by cheap cardboard partial sleeves that cover <50% of the disc. That’s not a good idea.
