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Tiger Mascot Yin by Takahiro Komori

Top Fifteen Underappreciated Anime Series as Voted by my Followers

#7: Darker Than Black Bones, 2007

Yin initiated hugs

Not sure who initiated but arms are wrapped around

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More things I love about Darker Than Black’s story-telling when it comes to Hei and Yin, because every time I watch these scenes, my heart bursts.

I love how at the end of Episode 12, Hei looks completely lost. But then, he sees Yin’s spirit.

Yin’s spirit coming to him brings Hei back to himself. It’s ultimately what allows him to pull himself together in time to leave the scene. We even see him thanking Yin for this later.

However, that is not the only time Yin is there to bring Hei back to his senses.

In Episode 16, Hei comes face to face with Amber  — the only main player in his past alongside his sister and a woman he may or may not have loved. Yet, what are we shown?

When Hei is about to lash out, Yin instinctively calls out to him  — No!

And Hei immediately reacts. He looks up, surprised, at the sound of her voice  — and it is then that he is frozen in time.

How fitting is it that we have Amber staring right at him  — yet Hei is frozen, looking at Yin?

It’s absolutely fantastic imagery, but what it symbolizes is much bigger than that. Amber essentially represents a way for Hei to go back to all the people he has lost, yet as he faces her, he looks beyond her at the girl who will ultimately represent the choice he makes at the end of the series.

But before we get there, of course, we have this:

(The post is image-heavy and has spoilers for the first season, the manga, the OVAs and the second-season-that-must-not-be-named.)

Sure Amigiri is there but he’s not even in the shot as Hei doesn’t care about him

Also how does one explain this:

He sees her as a literal angel of sorts in the manga like he even says he doesn’t believe in God,then why does she look like that!!

Like they just practicing fighting moves together?! The lone fighter changing his style to incorporate his new found partner, how easy Yin knows what to do you bet they practice a lot.

This part he was so worried for her like when before he was so aloof and was content with admiring from afar, for the entirety of s1 he was fine with it, but now after everything that happened in Hell’s gate as the manga is set after the events of s1 but before the ova it gives us more insight. Hei has been fighting non stop and he wants them to have a brake from it all. For a moment he lets them have it, but it doesn’t work out. When they find the camp. He saw how Yin was around the others especially the baby. She became more alive in his eyes when she held the child, bro was he was so ready to leave Yin if it meant she would be happy even if that didn’t include him. Like he saw her hold the child and was like shit this has awaken something in me. As shown above he gets mocked by the other contractors for dreaming that he and Yin could be something more. It gets me wondering if it’s just because he’s a contractor and she’s a doll. Or is it the fact that Yin is Izanami and is expected to be a contractors worst nightmare.