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Witch Hunter Robin
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Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha
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Both shows are about worlds in which a small percentage of humanity have magical-type powers, and in both worlds, there are shadowy, secretive organisations trying to understand, control and exploit those powers. On the ground, these efforts involve small, elite teams who, as they go about their business, learn more than they ever wanted to and more than they should have about what really goes on behind the scenes. The two shows also share dark colour palettes and dour male leads. WHR keeps a narrower focus and thus does more to develop and reveal its characters, who generally are more realistic than in KnK. The music is also some of the best of any show. So overall, I think WHR is better but once I got past the first couple of episods of KnK, I quite enjoyed it too.
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Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
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Maria†Holic
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Beyond the obviousness of their both being Shaft productions, each has a single theme that gets beaten senseless. These one-trick ponies get lost in the wilderness and well before they actually finish, each runs out of things to say. Many episodes would have benefitted from losing 5-10 minutes since much of the repetition would have been cut. Losing a few episodes would have helped the series as there were a few too many in which nothing happened -- the season finales offending most egregiously. Typical for Shaft shows, the music is mostly interesting. The artwork is good and the characters are visually attractive. To sum the experience up... I feel like I've watched two comedy skits that were turned into feature films.