![]() ![]() It was the best thing since sliced bread. It was a world of superheroes called Contractors, where powers always came with a price, and where nation states employ these Contractors to act clandestinely against each other. Manga Entertainment's release of Darker Than Black a few years ago introduced the UK fanbase to one of the smartest, action packed anime shows in recent memory, the show that Heroes could have been. On top of that, the bigger the hit, the more people want a sequel, despite knowing how most sequels turn out. It's no less true for anime, and another observation is that the bigger the hit the first time around, the greater the decline with its sequel. On TV there was the Muppet Show and then Muppets Tonight, the continuing attempts to resurrect Charlie's Angels, and so on and so forth. You see it happen again and again, in movies like The Matrix and its sequels, Star Wars and its prequels, and the Terminator movies. Sometimes the result is only a minor disappointment compared to the original, sometimes it's utterly deflating. You may manage to bottle magic once, mostly through sheer good luck, coincidence and random factors, but if you try and replicate the feat through design, you either fail, or you over-egg the pudding. Introduction It's been my observation that lightning rarely strikes twice in the entertainment industry. ![]()
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