Darker than Black Argument

My argument will be based on Kiriska's review on Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha. The gender of this person is unknown so I'll be referring Kiriska as a female. Most of Kiriska's responses were positive, but there were subjects that I couldn't agree with. For instance, the reviewer mentions how Darker than Black doesn't give straight answers and explanation which she found frustrating. I didn't have this problem because I was able to figure out what was going on when I continued to watch the episodes. If I had I would have tried to come up with my own theories or to make things more clear I could have read the manga since it contains more details than the anime just like how a book is with a movie.

Another thing that Kiriska mentions is how unclear it was to determine Hei's, who is the main character, real personality. She didn't know if it was Hei or Li Shun Sheng, his facade as a foreign exchange student from China. I was sure that Li wasn't his true personality but a disguise to fool those around him and avoid being caught. For instance, in episode eighteen Kirihara Misaki, the Section-Chief of Foreign Affairs who is particularly interested in a contractor who goes by the code name BK201, is at a department store with a fellow colleague and sees a man with his back turned. She suspects him to be BK201 but discovers that it was only Li. Kirihara never figured out that Li was the contractor she was looking for because of his convincing charade. When I thought about what Kiriska said over again, I realized that she had a point. Li could have been his real personality. It was even mentioned later in the series how contractors are able to experience emotions and how Hei was also told by other characters that he was considered more human than a merciless contractor.

Lastly, there was a minor subject that I disagreed with the critic and that was her opinion on some of the characters. Kiriska said, "The rest of the characters aren't nearly as interesting, but together they make a great supporting cast. Mao and Huang are both fun in their own way, though I do wish they had explored the former's past more." I thought all the characters were interesting, but I did I agree with the fact that the anime did not explore too much on the supporting cast's past. For example, with Mao it's only known that he's able to possess animal bodies and that his original body was lost. It wasn't explained why he lost his body, how he received his ability, or his background before that. However, Huang's and Yin's past were clearly accounted for. Overall, I liked Kiriska's opinion in the end since it sounded like she enjoyed the anime as much as I did.