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* {{Woolseyism}}: The first two episodes make more sense and fit the tone of the rest of the series quite a bit better in the dub; in particular, they changed Jean's completely-inconsistent-with-everything-else comments about "installing a personality" to something like "Contractors have feelings too" and replaced Mao's inexplicable line about Hei's coat only being bulletproof when ''he'' wears it with an excellent DeadpanSnarker moment along the lines of "Hei doesn't just wear that coat as a fashion statement."

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* {{Woolseyism}}: The first two episodes make more sense and fit the tone of the rest of the series quite a bit better in the dub; in particular, they changed Jean's completely-inconsistent-with-everything-else comments about "installing a personality" to something like "Contractors have feelings too" and replaced Mao's inexplicable line about Hei's coat only being bulletproof when ''he'' wears it with an excellent DeadpanSnarker moment along the lines of "Hei doesn't just wear that coat as a fashion statement."" ''However'', if you're taking the sequel into account, the source of "installing a personality" turns out to be implied {{Foreshadowing}} of [[spoiler:Suou's true nature]].
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* TheScrappy: Norio, for being a {{w|angst}}hiny, semi-delusional and just generally annoying paedophile stalker PlayedForLaughs and [[StalkingIsLove (attempted) sympathy]] who hits the wrong side of WhatMeasureIsANonBadass ''hard''. This is even lampshaded by the voice actors in the Darker than Black radio.

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* TheScrappy: Norio, for being a {{w|angst}}hiny, semi-delusional and just generally annoying paedophile stalker PlayedForLaughs and [[StalkingIsLove (attempted) sympathy]] who hits the wrong side of WhatMeasureIsANonBadass gets hit with NotBadassEnoughForFans ''hard''. This is even lampshaded by the voice actors in the Darker than Black radio.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** At one point, April tells someone to call the organization she works for the "Secret Intelligence Service," not "[=MI6=]." It sounds made-up, but ''that's the actual name of the organization''.
** The brand of cigarette November 11 prefers comes in a black pack with a white skull and the word DEATH on the front. You might think the show's creators are trying to make an {{Anvilicious}} point about smoking[[note]]Which, admittedly, they probably are; see WriterOnBoard[[/note]], but that's an actual British brand of cigarettes.
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* FoeYay: Misaki and Hei, ever so much. In the second season, Mina jokes that she's saving her virginity for him.

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* FanNickname:
** Yin's [[spoiler:OppositeSexClone from the season 2 finale is often called "Yang"]].
** For Hei: Chinese Electric Batman, for pretty obvious reasons. In the second season, with the addition of WildHair and PermaStubble, he has been dubbed "Hobo Hei". Or "Heibo", if you're one of those informal types.
** For Suou: Mary Sueoh.
** For Mina Hazuki: Japanese Lesbian ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, due to personality and style similarities to Hei and the fact that she's a PsychoLesbian.
*** Also, Lightsaber Lesbian.
** For Goran: [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Burger-kun]] or Russian Burger Flash.



* FanPreferredCouple: Hei/Yin. The art for the series makes them look like an OfficialCouple but the series portrays the exact nature of their [[ImpliedLoveInterest relationship as ambiguous]]. Yin developed feelings for Hei in the first season, the manga provided them with more ShipTease, and the OVA ramped this UpToEleven. However, they both have trouble expressing their emotions properly and Hei is a MasterOfTheMixedMessage so his protectiveness towards Yin could be his BigBrotherInstinct acting out. The official website states that Hei "feels strongly" about Yin and various staff members for the anime think of it as romance. There has been no official statement made on it though.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Goran, the Contractor so incompetent he was killed by rain drops and his own inability to prepare for any contingency whatsoever.

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Go figure. The show's love of the DevelopingDoomedCharacters trope makes it hard to get attached to anyone who shows signs of character depth.



* TooCoolToLive:
** [[spoiler:August 7. Or so we thought.]]
** [[spoiler: Also November 11 and Huang.]]

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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Go figure. The show's love of the DevelopingDoomedCharacters trope makes it hard to get attached to anyone who shows signs of character depth.
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* MagnificentBastard: See [[MagnificentBastard/DarkerThanBlack here]].
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* CrazyAwesome: Playing chicken with an ''airplane''. [[spoiler:Hei. Genma. Episode 9.]]

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* CrazyAwesome: CrazyIsCool: Playing chicken with an ''airplane''. [[spoiler:Hei. Genma. Episode 9.]]
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*** "The Doll Sings to the Wind Flower...": [[SerialKiller Ilya Sokoloff]] is a Contractor working for the FSB with a history of being a serial killing sadist behind him. Having slaughtered numerous women, including the niece of his own boss Repnin, Ilya eventually grew out of these tendencies as a Contractor having decided it was best to murder his victims by [[DeadlyGaze asphyxiating their brains]] to make their deaths "relaxing". Killing many more people, Ilya attempts to abducts Suou Pavlichenko and July while murdering others as he desires.

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*** "The Doll Sings to the Wind Flower...": [[SerialKiller Ilya Sokoloff]] is a Contractor working for the FSB with a history of being a serial killing sadist {{sadist}} behind him. Having slaughtered numerous women, including the niece of his own boss Repnin, Ilya eventually grew out of these tendencies as a Contractor having decided it was best to murder his victims by [[DeadlyGaze asphyxiating their brains]] to make their deaths "relaxing". Killing many more people, Ilya attempts to abducts Suou Pavlichenko and July while murdering others as he desires.

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** ''Gemini of the Meteor'' (season 2): [[FauxAffablyEvil Genma Shizume]] is a disarmingly laid-back Contractor working for Section 3 who is in reality a brutal sociopath. Sent to chase after the young Suou Pavlichenko, Genma insinuates his want to sexually assault her, and when a group of Russian soldiers prove problematic to his mission of capturing her, he sets up a massacre at a public train station to deal with them. Secretly a mole for the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}, Genma [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil brutally rapes]] and tortures one of his Section 3 teammates to death while extracting her memories and later mocks the woman's lover when he encounters her.

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Genma Shizume]] is a disarmingly laid-back Contractor working for Section 3 who is in reality a brutal sociopath. Sent to chase after the young Suou Pavlichenko, Genma insinuates his want to sexually assault her, and when a group of Russian soldiers prove problematic to his mission of capturing her, he sets up a massacre at a public train station to deal with them. Secretly a mole for the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}, Genma [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil brutally rapes]] and tortures one of his Section 3 teammates to death while extracting her memories and later mocks the woman's lover when he encounters her.her.
*** "The Doll Sings to the Wind Flower...": [[SerialKiller Ilya Sokoloff]] is a Contractor working for the FSB with a history of being a serial killing sadist behind him. Having slaughtered numerous women, including the niece of his own boss Repnin, Ilya eventually grew out of these tendencies as a Contractor having decided it was best to murder his victims by [[DeadlyGaze asphyxiating their brains]] to make their deaths "relaxing". Killing many more people, Ilya attempts to abducts Suou Pavlichenko and July while murdering others as he desires.
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* MagnificentBastard:
** Amber is an elusive, mysterious woman who betrayed UsefulNotes/MI6 to work for TheSyndicate, eventually leading the deadliest squad of Contractors in Heaven's War. Realizing the Syndicate's true intentions and using her powers to see and rewind the future countless times, Amber manipulated the Syndicate and her own side to seal off Heaven's Gate, which caused a massive disaster that rendered most of South America uninhabitable. Returning in modern day Japan, Amber orchestrates a series of bombings while kidnapping the scientist behind the Saturn Ring project, manipulating her former lover Hei and the world's intelligence agencies to place Hei close to Hell's Gate so he can seal it as well and prevent the Saturn Ring project from killing all the world's Contractors. After settling things with Hei, Amber sacrifices herself to rewind time and give him a chance to choose a third option, later revealing she had foreseen that possibility and left guidance in the new world Hei had made.
** November 11, alias Jack Simon, is a suave Contractor and one of MI-6's best agents. First seen recovering the inactive former war criminal Havoc, skillfully reversing a double cross and eliminating everyone after interrogation, November later kills Havoc before she can reawaken to her Contractor state, showing himself the equal of Hei himself with a plan to nullify his electric currents. Later learning of the Syndicate's true reach and schemes, November defects to Evening Primrose and leaves his close ally Misaki Kirihara with clues she needs to dismantle the scheme, sacrificing his life to kill his former superior Decade in a choice his partner April describes as a rational decision and end that any Contractor would be proud of.
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*** [[SmallRoleBigImpact Decade]], a high-ranking member of the Syndicate, is a ruthless supervisor in [=MI6=] who utilizes Contractor squads as assassins and operatives ostensibly to benefit Britain but in truth has many murdered simply for the ends of the Syndicate. After having numerous people eliminated by his forces, Decade is revealed to be targeting all the Contractors by helping to initiate the Saturn Ring project, stating he planned to keep November 11 in the dark until the final moment when Contractors were completely exterminated.
** ''Gemini of the Meteor'' (season 2): [[FauxAffablyEvil Genma Shizume]] is a disarmingly laid-back Contractor working for Section 3 who is in reality a brutal sociopath. Sent to chase after the young Suou Pavlichenko, Genma insinuates his want to sexually assault her, and when a group of Russian soldiers prove problematic to his mission of capturing her, he sets up a massacre at a public train station to deal with them. Secretly a mole for the CIA, Genma [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil brutally rapes]] and tortures one of his Section 3 teammates to death while extracting her memories and later mocks the woman's lover when he encounters her.

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*** [[SmallRoleBigImpact Decade]], a high-ranking member of the Syndicate, is a ruthless supervisor in [=MI6=] [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] who utilizes Contractor squads as assassins and operatives [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist ostensibly to benefit Britain Britain]] but in truth has many murdered simply for the ends of the Syndicate. After having numerous people eliminated by his forces, Decade is revealed to be targeting all the Contractors by helping to initiate the Saturn Ring project, stating he planned to keep November 11 in the dark until the final moment when Contractors were completely exterminated.
** ''Gemini of the Meteor'' (season 2): [[FauxAffablyEvil Genma Shizume]] is a disarmingly laid-back Contractor working for Section 3 who is in reality a brutal sociopath. Sent to chase after the young Suou Pavlichenko, Genma insinuates his want to sexually assault her, and when a group of Russian soldiers prove problematic to his mission of capturing her, he sets up a massacre at a public train station to deal with them. Secretly a mole for the CIA, UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}, Genma [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil brutally rapes]] and tortures one of his Section 3 teammates to death while extracting her memories and later mocks the woman's lover when he encounters her.
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** ''Gemini of the Meteor'' (season 2): [[FauxAffablyEvil Genma Shizume]] is a disarmingly laid-back Contractor working for Section 3 who is in reality a brutal sociopath. Sent to chase after the young Suou Pavlichenko, Genma insinuates his want to sexually assault her, and when a group of Russian soldiers prove problematic to his mission of capturing her, he sets up a massacre at a public train station to deal with them. Secretly a mole for the CIA, Genma [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil brutally rapes]] and tortures one of his Section 3 teammates to death while extracting her memories and later mocks the woman's lover when he encounters her.
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*** [[FantasticRacism Public Security Bureau Director Yoshimitsu Horai and PANDORA official Eric Nishijima]] are secretly high-ranking members of the sinister Syndicate. With enough pull to oversee the coverup missions assigned to their assassination teams, the Director and Nishijima regularly order witnesses to Contractor activity [[HeKnowsTooMuch silenced]], as well as having their own followers killed the moment they risk exposure for the organization. Ultimately aiming to eradicate Contractors out of [[AbsoluteXenophobe xenophobia]], the two have the "Saturn Ring" constructed to destroy the area which empowers the Contractors and lure a group of Contractor terrorists to Tokyo to justify their actions. When the Saturn Ring is neutralized by a heroic Contractor, Nishijima flies into a rage before being shot dead by the Director, who plans to cover up the whole incident and continue working towards the [[FinalSolution complete eradication of Contractors]].

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*** [[FantasticRacism [[BigBad Public Security Bureau Director Yoshimitsu Horai Horai]] and [[TheDragon PANDORA official Eric Nishijima]] are secretly high-ranking members of the sinister Syndicate. With enough pull to oversee the coverup missions assigned to their assassination teams, the Director and Nishijima regularly order witnesses to Contractor activity [[HeKnowsTooMuch silenced]], as well as having their own followers killed the moment they risk exposure for the organization. Ultimately aiming to eradicate Contractors out of [[AbsoluteXenophobe xenophobia]], the two have the "Saturn Ring" constructed to destroy the area which empowers the Contractors and lure a group of Contractor terrorists to Tokyo to justify their actions. When the Saturn Ring is neutralized by a heroic Contractor, Nishijima flies into a rage before being shot dead by the Director, who plans to cover up the whole incident and continue working towards the [[FinalSolution complete eradication of Contractors]].

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** ''The Black Contractor'' (season 1):
*** [[FantasticRacism Public Security Bureau Director Yoshimitsu Horai and PANDORA official Eric Nishijima]] are secretly high-ranking members of the sinister Syndicate. With enough pull to oversee the coverup missions assigned to their assassination teams, the Director and Nishijima regularly order witnesses to Contractor activity [[HeKnowsTooMuch silenced]], as well as having their own followers killed the moment they risk exposure for the organization. Ultimately aiming to eradicate Contractors out of [[AbsoluteXenophobe xenophobia]], the two have the "Saturn Ring" constructed to destroy the area which empowers the Contractors and lure a group of Contractor terrorists to Tokyo to justify their actions. When the Saturn Ring is neutralized by a heroic Contractor, Nishijima flies into a rage before being shot dead by the Director, who plans to cover up the whole incident and continue working towards the [[FinalSolution complete eradication of Contractors]].
*** [[SmallRoleBigImpact Decade]], a high-ranking member of the Syndicate, is a ruthless supervisor in [=MI6=] who utilizes Contractor squads as assassins and operatives ostensibly to benefit Britain but in truth has many murdered simply for the ends of the Syndicate. After having numerous people eliminated by his forces, Decade is revealed to be targeting all the Contractors by helping to initiate the Saturn Ring project, stating he planned to keep November 11 in the dark until the final moment when Contractors were completely exterminated.
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* MagnificentBitch:

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* SpiritualAdaptation: If somebody made an anime out of ''Film/{{Scanners}}'', this is probably what would be the result.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Li is so adorably inept, clumsy, kindhearted, and naive that you just want to hug him, and nobody would ever suspect he's secretly [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Black Reaper]].

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* MagnificentBitch: [[TheSpook The elusive, mysterious]] Amber betrayed [=MI6=] to work for TheSyndicate, eventually leading the deadliest squad of Contractors in Heaven's War. Realizing the Syndicate's true intentions and using her powers to see and rewind the future countless times, Amber manipulated the Syndicate and her own side to seal off Heaven's Gate, which caused a massive disaster that rendered most of South America uninhabitable. Returning in modern day Japan, Amber orchestrates a series of bombings while kidnapping the scientist behind the Saturn Ring project, manipulating her former lover Hei and the world's intelligence agencies to place Hei close to Hell's Gate so he can seal it as well and prevent the Saturn Ring project from killing all the world's Contractors. After settling things with Hei, Amber sacrifices herself to rewind time and give him a chance to choose a third option, later revealing she had foreseen that possibility and left guidance in the new world Hei had made.

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* MagnificentBitch: [[TheSpook The MagnificentBitch:
** Amber is an
elusive, mysterious]] Amber mysterious woman who betrayed [=MI6=] UsefulNotes/MI6 to work for TheSyndicate, eventually leading the deadliest squad of Contractors in Heaven's War. Realizing the Syndicate's true intentions and using her powers to see and rewind the future countless times, Amber manipulated the Syndicate and her own side to seal off Heaven's Gate, which caused a massive disaster that rendered most of South America uninhabitable. Returning in modern day Japan, Amber orchestrates a series of bombings while kidnapping the scientist behind the Saturn Ring project, manipulating her former lover Hei and the world's intelligence agencies to place Hei close to Hell's Gate so he can seal it as well and prevent the Saturn Ring project from killing all the world's Contractors. After settling things with Hei, Amber sacrifices herself to rewind time and give him a chance to choose a third option, later revealing she had foreseen that possibility and left guidance in the new world Hei had made.made.
** November 11, alias Jack Simon, is a suave Contractor and one of MI-6's best agents. First seen recovering the inactive former war criminal Havoc, skillfully reversing a double cross and eliminating everyone after interrogation, November later kills Havoc before she can reawaken to her Contractor state, showing himself the equal of Hei himself with a plan to nullify his electric currents. Later learning of the Syndicate's true reach and schemes, November defects to Evening Primrose and leaves his close ally Misaki Kirihara with clues she needs to dismantle the scheme, sacrificing his life to kill his former superior Decade in a choice his partner April describes as a rational decision and end that any Contractor would be proud of.
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** Hei in season 2, especially if you haven't seen the [[AllThereInTheManual OVAs]] that explain his sudden personality change. Some fans find him to be a JerkassWoobie with completely understandable reasons for his shift in behavior, and that it sets him up for a much more impressive HesBack moment. The rest just find him completely insufferable and the setup for his return to form utterly contrived.

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** Hei in season Season 2, especially if you haven't seen the [[AllThereInTheManual OVAs]] that explain his sudden personality change. Some fans find him to be a JerkassWoobie with completely understandable reasons for his shift in behavior, and that it sets him up for a much more impressive HesBack moment. The rest just find him completely insufferable and the setup for his return to form utterly contrived.



* CrazyAwesome: Playing chicken with an ''airplane''. [[spoiler: Hei. Genma. Episode 9.]]

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* CrazyAwesome: Playing chicken with an ''airplane''. [[spoiler: Hei.[[spoiler:Hei. Genma. Episode 9.]]



*** [[ManipulativeBastard Harvest]] serves as an EvilCounterpart to Hei, replacing Hei's respect for humanity with [[FantasticRacism contempt]], considering them to be weak and pathetic. Harvest possesses the titular "[[DealWithTheDevil Flower of Darkness]]" which can be given to a person to grant them powers, but sadistically forces the recipient to kill their best friend in return for power, also giving the best friend a Flower to entertain himself with the struggle. To prove his superiority to Hei, Harvest distributes Flowers to all of humanity in an effort to prove to himself that there is no such thing as morality, then pettily trying to destroy the whole planet when his plans are foiled.

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*** [[ManipulativeBastard Harvest]] serves as an EvilCounterpart to Hei, replacing Hei's respect for humanity with [[FantasticRacism contempt]], considering them to be weak and pathetic. Harvest possesses the titular "[[DealWithTheDevil Flower of Darkness]]" Darkness]]", which can be given to a person to grant them powers, but sadistically forces the recipient to kill their best friend in return for power, also giving the best friend a Flower to entertain himself with the struggle. To prove his superiority to Hei, Harvest distributes Flowers to all of humanity in an effort to prove to himself that there is no such thing as morality, then pettily trying tries to destroy the whole planet when his plans are foiled.



** November 11 was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff quite popular with North American fans]], at least partly due to his [[Film/JamesBond classy bearing]] and sense of humour.

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** November 11 was is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff quite popular with North American fans]], at least partly due to his [[Film/JamesBond classy bearing]] and sense of humour.



** What did the characters in the series did before, during and after the Gates show up and also what they did prior to the start of the show.
** Some write their own fics to not take Gemini of the Meteor into account.

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** What did the characters in the series did do before, during during, and after the Gates show up and also what they did prior to the start of the show.
** Some write their own fics to that do not take Gemini of the Meteor into account.



* FanonDiscontinuity: The finale of Season 2, for being needlessly [[DownerEnding depressing]] and [[GainaxEnding confusing]] to the point of utterly nonsensical and for accomplishing nothing in the long run. Some extend this to the entirety of the second season due to its huge change in tone and perceived inferiority.

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* FanonDiscontinuity: The finale of Season 2, for being needlessly [[DownerEnding depressing]] and [[GainaxEnding confusing]] to the point of the utterly nonsensical and for accomplishing nothing in the long run. Some extend this to the entirety of the second season due to its huge change in tone and perceived inferiority.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** Well, it's by Music/YokoKanno, so what do you expect? "GO Dark" and "[[AutobotsRockOut Deadly Work]]" in particular. The first OP is also impressive, even given the NarmCharm and MemeticMutation.
** The second OP isn't bad, either - it just has the misfortune of [[ReplacementScrappy turning up after]] ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Howling]]''.



** Suou Pavlichenko. One side of the fandom loves her for being a BadassAdorable who undergoes strong CharacterDevelopment and offers a fresh breath of air from Hei, and is not quite as needlessly overpowered. Others are not so kind to her, believing that she does not have a very distinctive personality and is often used as a vehicle for lolicon subtext and fanservice, which takes screentime away from focusing on established major characters like Yin, Hei, or Kirihara, and find her out-of-place for being a MagicalGirl in a gritty seinen series.

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** Suou Pavlichenko. One side of the fandom loves her for being a BadassAdorable who undergoes strong CharacterDevelopment and CharacterDevelopment, offers a fresh breath of air from Hei, and is not isn't quite as needlessly tension-breakingly overpowered. Others are not so kind to her, believing that she does not have a very distinctive personality and is often used as a vehicle for lolicon subtext and fanservice, which takes screentime away from focusing on established major characters like Yin, Hei, or Kirihara, and find her out-of-place for being a MagicalGirl in a gritty seinen series. A few would even go as far as to blame her singlehandedly for the failings of Season 2.



* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Go figure. The show's love of the DevelopingDoomedCharacters trope makes it hard to get attached to anyone who shows signs of character depth.



* FanficFuel: Several of them. Some include...
** How the Gates appear in the world.
** What did the characters in the series did before, during and after the Gates show up and also what they did prior to the start of the show.
** Some write their own fics to not take Gemini of the Meteor into account.
** [[HeroOfAnotherStory Others include Contractors/non-Contractors who try to take on the Syndicate and other like-minded factions.]] While some work together with Hei/Yin and Misaki.
* FanonDiscontinuity: The finale of Season 2, for being needlessly [[DownerEnding depressing]] and [[GainaxEnding confusing]] to the point of utterly nonsensical and for accomplishing nothing in the long run. Some extend this to the entirety of the second season due to its huge change in tone and perceived inferiority.



* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** [[DarkerAndEdgier Not much]], but Huang [[FantasticRacism slighting]] Mao into near-hissing only to be [[InsultBackfire verbally drowned in vitriol]] by [[DeadpanSnarker absolutely calm]] Hei might count. And there's the PrivateDefective team... "I'll totally sue you."
** Kiko's very existence serves as a comedy relief element for the series. Other than Mao's [[SweatDrop nervous sweat-beads]], she's the only other character who's frequently prone to over-exaggerated anime emotions, such as WingdingEyes whenever an opportunity to make money comes around, and ExpressiveHair.
*** One great Kiko moment was when she and a friend were complaining about AdaptationDecay of some unnamed series.
--->"I can't let that writer live!" * Pulls out pen with an [[MundaneMadeAwesome over-the-top]] sword sound effect* "[[Manga/DeathNote I'm writing his name in my notebook!]]"
** And, after Mao [[spoiler:wakes up in Amber's headquarters]], he gives a long, dramatic monologue about how contractors always do the logical thing. When he get caught by the others for trying to non-chalantly walk out of the room, he tries to logically respond with a [[spoiler:"Meow"]].
** Then there's the time when Hei was infiltrating a restaurant and a violent, drunk customer decided he had a problem with the waiter. Result: Huge tough guy trying to beat up a cute, skinny little waiter who [[CoverBlowingSuperpower isn't doing that great of a job of hiding his epic ninja skills]].
** The time when a couple of [[KnockingOnHeathensDoor door-to-door missionaries]] went after Hei. "Um... I just want to put away my groceries..."
*** '''"NI HAO!!!"''' (Cut from the dub)
** "[[AlienSky The stars are pretty.]]"
** Most of the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VA. It's basically an [[BonusMaterial omake]] parodying the main series, particularly mocking Hei's ChickMagnet status and the fact that a WhiteMaskOfDoom and [[BadassLongcoat a change of clothes]] really shouldn't be ''that'' effective of a disguise. Highlights include slightly loopy {{fangirl}} Mayu crushing on him due to his "sexy collarbone" and writing him into her yaoi fanfic (which ''[[CovertPervert Yin]]'' reads), and what is possibly the absolute silliest ResetButton in the history of fiction.



* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: A lot of the last episode of the first season, [[GainaxEnding assuming you can make any sense of it]]. And then there's episode 14... [[spoiler:"Kirsi..." "No. Yin."]]



* LessDisturbingInContext: Just ''try'' to explain that the show isn't {{Gorn}} to someone who walks in on Havoc's "[[EatsBabies blood of children]]" line.



* MemeticBadass: Hei, definitely.

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* MemeticMutation:
** Post the first line of the first OpeningTheme on /a/ and see what happens.
** If [=YouTube=] is any indication, "UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ" has become one in reference to Gemini's trance-filled OST.
*** So it's become the musical equivalent of [=Candleja=]''UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ''
*** Yeah, that's exactly i-UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ
** [[FanNickname Chinese Electric Batman!]]
** Veteran's Day (11/11) has been commandeered in honor of November 11. [[http://omaemo.dasaku.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/november-11-tribute.jpg Naked pictures]] [[BestKnownForTheFanservice are inevitably involved.]]
** [[PerverseSexualLust I wish Hei'd rape me. ;_;]]
** Hei will die. But his soul will choose to go back in time, the time when he was happiest, and he will be at season 1 first episode. Suou who loves Hei wants to be with him too and wants to be in a time when Hei'd love her, but since he already loves Yin she'll go back in time before Hei is born, and become his mother.[[note]]This copypasta jokingly places Hei, Suou, and Yin in the roles of three primary characters in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series. Said explanation is a note because it's also the [[spoiler: ending to the ''second game'']].[[/note]]
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%%** See TakingYouWithMe and DyingMomentOfAwesome. Since Hei lives and breathes pure awesome, though, it can be hard to pick out specifics.
%%** He pulls some seriously awesome stuff in the last episode, though, and there's some more clear-cut moments in the second season.



* NarmCharm: The GratuitousEnglish lines at the beginning of the first opening should by all rights sound stupid. Instead, they're ''awesome'', in an over-the-top, MemeticMutation kind of way.
* NightmareFuel: Mai's pyrokinesis burning her friend and her dad to death. Followed by the two police officers being sliced to pieces.



* {{Sequelitis}}: The second season is generally seen as inferior to the first. Various reasons cited include: Suou being seen as a much less compelling protagonist, Hei's personality change making him completely unlikeable, Yin's removal from the main cast taking away a great deal of pathos, a gratuitous uptick in [[HotterAndSexier sexual themes]] including {{Squick}}y lolicon fanservice, the mysterious atmosphere giving way to confusion for confusion's sake, and an overall decline in animation quality.



* TearJerker: Yin's nightmare. She keeps quietly saying Hei's name... which you quickly realize is the EmotionlessGirl equivalent of screaming for help.
%%** More than you'd expect. Episode 14 is a big one.
%%** The end of Episode 4, too.
%%** Hei's NotSoStoic moment in the Gaiden. The worst part is that [[spoiler:if you've watched the second season, you know she ''does''.]]
%%** Despite being a major MindScrew, [[spoiler: what happens to Nick in episode 12 is also oddly emotional, especially when you remember what his dream was.]]




!! Seasons 1 and 2
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** Well, it's by Music/YokoKanno, so what do you expect? "GO Dark" and "[[AutobotsRockOut Deadly Work]]" in particular. The first OP is also impressive, even given the NarmCharm and MemeticMutation.
** The second OP isn't bad, either - it just has the misfortune of [[ReplacementScrappy turning up after]] ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Howling]]''.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Go figure. The show's love of the DevelopingDoomedCharacters trope makes it hard to get attached to anyone who shows signs of character depth.
* FanficFuel: Several of them. Some include...
** How the Gates appear in the world.
** What did the characters in the series did before, during and after the Gates show up and also what they did prior to the start of the show.
** Some write their own fics to not take Gemini of the Meteor into account.
** [[HeroOfAnotherStory Others include Contractors/non-Contractors who try to take on the Syndicate and other like-minded factions.]] While some work together with Hei/Yin and Misaki.
* FanonDiscontinuity: The finale of ''Gemini of the Meteor'', for being needlessly [[DownerEnding depressing]] and [[GainaxEnding confusing]] to the point of utterly nonsensical and for accomplishing nothing in the long run. Some extend this to the entirety of the second season due to its huge change in tone and perceived inferiority.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** [[DarkerAndEdgier Not much]], but Huang [[FantasticRacism slighting]] Mao into near-hissing only to be [[InsultBackfire verbally drowned in vitriol]] by [[DeadpanSnarker absolutely calm]] Hei might count. And there's the PrivateDefective team... "I'll totally sue you."
** Kiko's very existence serves as a comedy relief element for the series. Other than Mao's [[SweatDrop nervous sweat-beads]], she's the only other character who's frequently prone to over-exaggerated anime emotions, such as WingdingEyes whenever an opportunity to make money comes around, and ExpressiveHair.
*** One great Kiko moment was when she and a friend were complaining about AdaptationDecay of some unnamed series.
--->"I can't let that writer live!" * Pulls out pen with an [[MundaneMadeAwesome over-the-top]] sword sound effect* "[[Manga/DeathNote I'm writing his name in my notebook!]]"
** And, after Mao [[spoiler:wakes up in Amber's headquarters]], he gives a long, dramatic monologue about how contractors always do the logical thing. When he get caught by the others for trying to non-chalantly walk out of the room, he tries to logically respond with a [[spoiler:"Meow"]].
** Then there's the time when Hei was infiltrating a restaurant and a violent, drunk customer decided he had a problem with the waiter. Result: Huge tough guy trying to beat up a cute, skinny little waiter who [[CoverBlowingSuperpower isn't doing that great of a job of hiding his epic ninja skills]].
** The time when a couple of [[KnockingOnHeathensDoor door-to-door missionaries]] went after Hei. "Um... I just want to put away my groceries..."
*** '''"NI HAO!!!"''' (Cut from the dub)
** "[[AlienSky The stars are pretty.]]"
** Most of the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VA. It's basically an [[BonusMaterial omake]] parodying the main series, particularly mocking Hei's ChickMagnet status and the fact that a WhiteMaskOfDoom and [[BadassLongcoat a change of clothes]] really shouldn't be ''that'' effective of a disguise. Highlights include slightly loopy {{fangirl}} Mayu crushing on him due to his "sexy collarbone" and writing him into her yaoi fanfic (which ''[[CovertPervert Yin]]'' reads), and what is possibly the absolute silliest ResetButton in the history of fiction.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: A lot of the last episode of the first season, [[GainaxEnding assuming you can make any sense of it]]. And then there's episode 14... [[spoiler:"Kirsi..." "No. Yin."]]
* LessDisturbingInContext: Just ''try'' to explain that the show isn't {{Gorn}} to someone who walks in on Havoc's "[[EatsBabies blood of children]]" line.
* MemeticMutation:
** Post the first line of the first OpeningTheme on /a/ and see what happens.
** If [=YouTube=] is any indication, "UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ" has become one in reference to Gemini's trance-filled OST.
*** So it's become the musical equivalent of [=Candleja=]''UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ''
*** Yeah, that's exactly i-UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ
** [[FanNickname Chinese Electric Batman!]]
** Veteran's Day (11/11) has been commandeered in honor of November 11. [[http://omaemo.dasaku.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/november-11-tribute.jpg Naked pictures]] [[BestKnownForTheFanservice are inevitably involved.]]
** [[PerverseSexualLust I wish Hei'd rape me. ;_;]]
** Hei will die. But his soul will choose to go back in time, the time when he was happiest, and he will be at season 1 first episode. Suou who loves Hei wants to be with him too and wants to be in a time when Hei'd love her, but since he already loves Yin she'll go back in time before Hei is born, and become his mother.[[note]]This copypasta jokingly places Hei, Suou, and Yin in the roles of three primary characters in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series. Said explanation is a note because it's also the [[spoiler: ending to the ''second game'']].[[/note]]
%%* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
%%** See TakingYouWithMe and DyingMomentOfAwesome. Since Hei lives and breathes pure awesome, though, it can be hard to pick out specifics.
%%** He pulls some seriously awesome stuff in the last episode, though, and there's some more clear-cut moments in the second season.
* NarmCharm: The GratuitousEnglish lines at the beginning of the first opening should by all rights sound stupid. Instead, they're ''awesome'', in an over-the-top, MemeticMutation kind of way.
* NightmareFuel: Mai's pyrokinesis burning her friend and her dad to death. Followed by the two police officers being sliced to pieces.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The second season is generally seen as inferior to the first. Various reasons cited include: Suou being seen as a much less compelling protagonist, Hei's personality change making him completely unlikeable, Yin's removal from the main cast taking away a great deal of pathos, a gratuitous uptick in [[HotterAndSexier sexual themes]] including {{Squick}}y lolicon fanservice, and an overall decline in animation quality.
* TearJerker: Yin's nightmare. She keeps quietly saying Hei's name... which you quickly realize is the EmotionlessGirl equivalent of screaming for help.
%%** More than you'd expect. Episode 14 is a big one.
%%** The end of Episode 4, too.
%%** Hei's NotSoStoic moment in the Gaiden. The worst part is that [[spoiler:if you've watched the second season, you know she ''does''.]]
%%** Despite being a major MindScrew, [[spoiler: what happens to Nick in episode 12 is also oddly emotional, especially when you remember what his dream was.]]

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* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Suou Pavlichenko. One side of the fandom loves her for being a BadassAdorable who undergoes strong CharacterDevelopment and offers a fresh breath of air from Hei, and is not quite as needlessly overpowered. Others are not so kind to her, believing that she does not have a very distinctive personality and is often used as a vehicle for lolicon subtext and fanservice, which takes screentime away from focusing on established major characters like Yin, Hei, or Kirihara, and find her out-of-place for being a MagicalGirl in a gritty seinen series.
** Hei in season 2, especially if you haven't seen the [[AllThereInTheManual OVAs]] that explain his sudden personality change. Some fans find him to be a JerkassWoobie with completely understandable reasons for his shift in behavior, and that it sets him up for a much more impressive HesBack moment. The rest just find him completely insufferable and the setup for his return to form utterly contrived.



* CreatorsPet:
** Suou Pavlichenko. She gets much more attention than Hei, which is particularly jarring since Hei's personality has changed drastically (and not for the better) with the explanation relegated to the OVAs released with the DVDs. Suou herself doesn't have a very distinctive personality and is often used as a vehicle for lolicon subtext and fanservice, alienating viewers who aren't interested. Some go so far as to say she singlehandedly ruined what could have been an interesting story; others just feel some of her screentime could have been better spent focusing on established major characters like Yin, Hei, or Kirihara. She also breaks what being a contractor is like as she goes back and forth between being a contractor and a regular girl. She's a Magical Girl in a setting that doesn't have them.



* IronWoobie: Havoc.

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* %%* IronWoobie: Havoc.



** Meena

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** %%** Meena



* FanDislikedExplanation: The complete [[AvertedTrope lack of explanation]] for the [[EldritchLocation Gates]], AlienSky, and the like generally works well enough that resolving exactly what's going on would probably be a bit of a letdown.



* FanonDiscontinuity: Some people ignore the second season entirely.

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* FanonDiscontinuity: The finale of ''Gemini of the Meteor'', for being needlessly [[DownerEnding depressing]] and [[GainaxEnding confusing]] to the point of utterly nonsensical and for accomplishing nothing in the long run. Some people ignore extend this to the entirety of the second season entirely.due to its huge change in tone and perceived inferiority.



* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** See TakingYouWithMe and DyingMomentOfAwesome. Since Hei lives and breathes pure awesome, though, it can be hard to pick out specifics.
** He pulls some seriously awesome stuff in the last episode, though, and there's some more clear-cut moments in the second season.

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* %%* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** %%** See TakingYouWithMe and DyingMomentOfAwesome. Since Hei lives and breathes pure awesome, though, it can be hard to pick out specifics.
** %%** He pulls some seriously awesome stuff in the last episode, though, and there's some more clear-cut moments in the second season.



* NightmareFuel:
** Mai's pyrokinesis burning her friend and her dad to death. Followed by the two police officers being sliced to pieces.
** Nika and cockroaches - just... ''gah!''
** Izanami's awakening.
* {{Sequelitis}} / SeasonalRot:
** A solid number of the fanbase are very and vocally dissatisfied with the new tone.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: To the second season, for people who liked it.
* TearJerker:
** More than you'd expect. Episode 14 is a big one.
** The end of Episode 4, too.
** Hei's NotSoStoic moment in the Gaiden. The worst part is that [[spoiler:if you've watched the second season, you know she ''does''.]]
** Yin's nightmare. She keeps quietly saying Hei's name... which you quickly realize is the EmotionlessGirl equivalent of screaming for help.
** Despite being a major MindScrew, [[spoiler: what happens to Nick in episode 12 is also oddly emotional, especially when you remember what his dream was.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Those who do agree are generally the same people who think that Suou [[SpotlightStealingSquad gets way too much screen-time]] and therefore like to call her "Mary-Suou".

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* NightmareFuel:
**
NightmareFuel: Mai's pyrokinesis burning her friend and her dad to death. Followed by the two police officers being sliced to pieces.
** Nika and cockroaches - just... ''gah!''
** Izanami's awakening.
* {{Sequelitis}} / SeasonalRot:
** A solid number of the fanbase are very and vocally dissatisfied with the new tone.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: To the
{{Sequelitis}}: The second season, for people who liked it.
* TearJerker:
** More than you'd expect. Episode 14
season is generally seen as inferior to the first. Various reasons cited include: Suou being seen as a big one.
** The end of Episode 4, too.
**
much less compelling protagonist, Hei's NotSoStoic moment in personality change making him completely unlikeable, Yin's removal from the Gaiden. The worst part is that [[spoiler:if you've watched the second season, you know she ''does''.]]
**
main cast taking away a great deal of pathos, a gratuitous uptick in [[HotterAndSexier sexual themes]] including {{Squick}}y lolicon fanservice, and an overall decline in animation quality.
* TearJerker:
Yin's nightmare. She keeps quietly saying Hei's name... which you quickly realize is the EmotionlessGirl equivalent of screaming for help.
** %%** More than you'd expect. Episode 14 is a big one.
%%** The end of Episode 4, too.
%%** Hei's NotSoStoic moment in the Gaiden. The worst part is that [[spoiler:if you've watched the second season, you know she ''does''.]]
%%**
Despite being a major MindScrew, [[spoiler: what happens to Nick in episode 12 is also oddly emotional, especially when you remember what his dream was.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Those who do agree are generally the same people who think that Suou [[SpotlightStealingSquad gets way too much screen-time]] and therefore like to call her "Mary-Suou".
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** This seems to be a common view of Suou; some fans even think that her [[SpotlightStealingSquad spotlight-stealing]] is ''entirely'' responsible for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot ruining an otherwise decent plot]].
** Of course, Suou also has her fans, who thought that she gave the season a fresh approach which it sorely needed, since season 1 all over again (just substituting Amber with [[spoiler: Yin/Izanami]] would have stagnated the plot).
** And then you have the people who think that second season ''did'' stagnate the plot, and that Suou's spotlight stealing made it ''even worse''.

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** This seems to be a common view of Suou; some fans even think that her [[SpotlightStealingSquad spotlight-stealing]] is ''entirely'' responsible for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot ruining an otherwise decent plot]].
** Of course,
Suou also has her fans, who thought that she gave the season a fresh approach Pavlichenko. She gets much more attention than Hei, which it sorely needed, is particularly jarring since season 1 all over again (just substituting Amber Hei's personality has changed drastically (and not for the better) with [[spoiler: Yin/Izanami]] would the explanation relegated to the OVAs released with the DVDs. Suou herself doesn't have stagnated the plot).
** And then you
a very distinctive personality and is often used as a vehicle for lolicon subtext and fanservice, alienating viewers who aren't interested. Some go so far as to say she singlehandedly ruined what could have the people who think been an interesting story; others just feel some of her screentime could have been better spent focusing on established major characters like Yin, Hei, or Kirihara. She also breaks what being a contractor is like as she goes back and forth between being a contractor and a regular girl. She's a Magical Girl in a setting that second season ''did'' stagnate the plot, and that Suou's spotlight stealing made it ''even worse''.doesn't have them.



** Though many were somewhat mollified towards the end, when the NoYay was turned down and [[HesBack Hei stopped acting so obnoxious]].

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