Darkside Blues is brought to you by the same people who brought Vampire Hunter D and Demon City. But as a heads up do not expect to see anything like that from this. It is a very confusing story that has a point to it. The main character does not seem to have any real power other than to have you face your own fears(or emotional issues). Hence he helps other characters in the story become emotionally free. Little action, with the little there is being fun to watch but not amazing to watch.
Fairly typical anime, but beautifully drawn, Darkside Blues is just moody enough to convince the self-serious adolescents who are drawn to anime like water that it's a masterpiece. They're wrong, but who can convince them otherwise?
The story's a bit hard to follow, requires a few viewings to grasp what the heck is going on and what the dream treatment is. Buy the Graphic Novel, it helps to understand Darkside better.
Perhaps one of my favorite, if overly short, animes - the english voiceover, in particular, the old woman, is very well done. The characters are each interesting, and later on, many other anime copied them. An overall dark theme with some deep concepts :-) Enjoyable.
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