Darker than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini

Review: Hei comes back for a second season with a different goal, working for a different agency, striped of his powers, looking his worst and looking after a girl on the run from the FSB and the MIAC Bureau’s as well. Yin is not really seen until later episodes, the Japanese government and section 3 captured her and they call her Izanami, she is kept sedated in a containment box.

This season’s story mainly revolves around Suō Pavlichenko, a thirteen year old girl who is separated from her father, Dr. Mikhail and brother, Shion, after one of the bureaus raided their house in search for her brother. Suō later meets Hei and July, all three head to Tokyo together, while she is in search of her mother and Hei is following leads on to where Yin might be kept. Suō starts to like Hei and July starts to like Suō. ( for some reason I find that funny and odd). When Suō becomes aware of her contractor ability she starts training with Hei and July.

The story itself is entertaining, you see some characters from the first season again and some new ones with cool powers. Although contractors are known for not having human emotions, Suō’s character seem to show some emotions at times which made some episodes drag a little. I would have liked to see more of her using her ability to the fullest and taking over for Hei since he could not use his ability, instead she would either hesitate before shooting or miss. Hei would still save the day without his powers, of course, but I still don’t see why they couldn’t make Suō’s character a bit more heroic. I did like how both July and Suō get to live normal human lives at the end and how they make you believe Hei is still alive at the end.

The second season is good but not as good as the first one, hopefully if they do a third season they can explain more of the new world Shion created and of the kid that wakes up with the same ability that Yin had.

Genres: drama, psychological, science fiction, supernatural

Episodes: 12

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