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NEWS: Darker than Black Side Stories' Promo Video Streamed

From what I understand, it's expected that there will be 12 episodes from season 2 and 4 intervening episodes for a total of 16. So, it's not like they're going to have a whole separate show's worth of intervening episodes - more like on OVA (which it technically is, I suppose, given that the episodes only appear on the DVDs and BDs).

In any case, Darker than Black II is looking quite good thus far, and I'm eagerly anticipating the rest. The only thing that I find odd is that Funimation hasn't gotten their hands on it for simulcast. I'd have thought that they'd definitely want to license it, and they're already doing a simulcast of the new FMA, and both are made by Bones. Maybe it's because of some of the other companies involved, since it's probably not entirely the same set of companies for both shows. Still, I'd expect that Funimation will pick it up eventually. At this point, I'd say that it easily matches the previous series and probably surpasses it.

Only reason I can see the series being 12 eps is because they have their resources strecthed with the new FMA which is reported to be 63 eps in length.
Perhaps like suggested, they will just take a break, then do another 12 eps further down the line to properly tie up all loose ends.

Well now... we'll finally get an explanation of Hei's behaviour. Finally.

Heh, I wondered whether you'd post this. I watched the video last night.

I worry whether this series will actually be able to finish itself in 12 episodes... if they're going for a third season, they better be sure they have it, or I am going to be tearing out my hair like the end of last season. But I could easily see them doing 12 episodes, the OVAs on the Blu-Ray release, and then another 12 episodes. Just to, you know, torment the fans by dragging this out as long as possible.

I haven't heard anything about Darker Than Black s2 having only 12 episodes. Where did you get this info from?

The series will be released on both DVD and Blu-ray beginning from December 23, 2009 with an estimated eight volumes. Each odd-numbered volume will contain two series episodes, while an OVA episode will be released along with one series episode in each even-numbered volume. Altogether four OVA episodes, they will be side-stories of the main characters Hei and Yin, with the events set in between Kuro no Keiyakusha and Ryūsei no Gemini.

Both shows are by Bones + Aniplex. So I suppose it can't have anything due to companies invovled.

vulcanraven01 wrote:

Only reason I can see the series being 12 eps is because they have their resources strecthed with the new FMA which is reported to be 63 eps in length. Perhaps like suggested, they will just take a break, then do another 12 eps further down the line to properly tie up all loose ends.

That was a false report. Nobody knows how long the new FMA is going to be yet, since the manga isn't finished (though it is winding down to its conclusion as we speak).