Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha
Darker than Black

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Well...What can i say? I haven't wrote a review in a while and i'm not that good at them, but i will try.As long as i can remember the most important thing about this manga is that it has nothing to do with the anime! There is another manga that (i think) folllows the story of the anime.The art is...well for me it's bad :D All the pages are blue and all...But there are only 9 chapters so you will survive it ^.^

WHERE IS YIN??!???!?

That’s all I want to know. There’s a guy whose power is controlling water, and Yin is somehow nowhere to be found(!?). For a S1 side story that has Mao and Huang in it, that’s kind of…unacceptable??

That aside, the story was alright, I guess. Even season 2 haters would probably put that story ahead of this one though. I’m glad I picked this up for cheap, and it’s certainly a Darker than Black style story (I thought the art was fine personally, seems some people didn’t like it very much). The second half gets too chaotic though, ruins the mood that was set ... up by the first half, and the main girl of this particular story gets tossed into the background a bit. It got to a point where I wasn’t sure what she was even doing in the story anymore, it seemed like her plot was already finished but she just got dragged along for some reason. If I was watching this as an anime, I’d say the writers didn’t really know how to end it. (You know, season 2 had a similar problem, didn’t it?)

To sum up, it’s Darker than Black, I guess. It’s not related to the main anime continuity, just in case I didn’t make that clear enough. And yeah if you like Yin, she does not show up AT ALL. Go figure, who knows what they were thinking.

I read this manga right after finishing the first season of Darker than Black, and I ended up not being a huge fan of it because it gave off a totally different vibe from the original series. The story was there, but I couldn't bring myself to be very invested in it. The characters were written pretty flatly—even ones that have already had plenty of time to be fleshed out in the anime. I wasn't a huge fan of the art, either; it doesn't resemble the original style in the slightest, and each panel is incredibly hard to follow, which is worrisome considering this is ... an adaptation of an action series....

Overall, if you're looking for more works set in the Darker than Black universe, you might wanna sit this one out. The plot, which I assume takes place during or before the first season, isn't crucial to your understanding of the series as a whole, doesn't provide any character development for the main cast, and DEFINITELY won't answer any of the burning questions left by the season one finale.

But if you're fantasy is to see BK-201 and November 11 duke it out as bishie boys? You're strangely in luck....