Darker than BLACK / Series Introduction

Darker than BLACK 2 – CM

 

There was a Darker than BLACK 2 – officially titled Darker than BLACK: Ryuusei no Gemini – commercial that aired with today’s episode of Basquash. As you can see above, it starts with a quick montage of stuff that happened in the final episode of the first series, including Hei’s line about how there is no longer any man named Li. Then comes the interesting part of the commercial, the much wilder looking Hei. It’s not a lot to go on (there are magazine spoilers that reveal more), but it’s exciting to me all the same, and I’m looking forward to the series. The fact that the commercial aired during Basquash today means that it’ll most likely be taking over that MBS timeslot come October, the same Thursday timeslot that the first series had.

Miscellaneous

A Sigh of Relief

The CT Scan came back with nothing out of the ordinary, so no collapsed lung like three years ago, no tumor, etc. The doctor thinks now that I might just have a strained or pulled chest muscle (I don’t remember his exact wording), but it was necessary to do all the tests because of my medical history. Hopefully everything will return to normal soon…

Fullmetal Alchemist / PV

NICO Touches the Walls – Hologram PV (FMA: Brotherhood OP2)

 

The current Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood opening song is performed by a group called NICO Touches the Walls that I wasn’t familiar prior to this, but apparently they had sung an ending song for Naruto last year. Regardless, I took an immediate liking to Hologram back when I first heard it in the commercial that aired for the current FMA story arc, and over a month later, I still like it, especially the way the song starts. It’s worth noting though that I’ve been listening to the new ending song LET IT OUT a lot more and am interested in the PV for that too after seeing a commercial for it during last night’s episode of FMA. In any case, despite the catchy song, the PV for Hologram is rather bland. It has a lot of colors and semi-flashy effects, but the video mainly just shows the band standing around and playing the song. It’s not worth watching more than once or twice.

The single for Hologram is due out August 12th, 2009.