MBS After the appearance of "Hell's Gate" came the super-powered "Contractors".It may not shoot for the moon, but it also doesn't blow off its own toes - and it hits squarely all the things it does aim for.
What ultimately makes the show work is a good sense of the fundamentals: an intriguing premise, a lively cast, the intelligent development of the ingredients, a sense of fun that doesn't distract from the main mission, and a worthy way to wrap everything up. The best of influences do not automatically make for the best of end products, although they sure help. Darker than Black is, in the abstract, full of borrowings - some obvious, some more cryptic - but the fact that the creators had good taste guiding what they borrowed from wasn't the only thing that paid off. If an anime, or any popular entertainment, borrows from other things, that by itself is never the crime it's only a crime when the work in question begins and ends with such borrowing, and never moves past that.
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