For Americans, Japanese Anime is a very daunting prospect. There are giant robots, strange card games, and weird animals being captured and forced to fight other weird animals to the death (Pokemon is a death sport, right?). The biggest challenge I've found while watching some Anime is that it's clearly not for us. It's literally from a world away, it references things we've never heard of, and of course there's the subtitles (or even worse, terrible terrible dubbed voices). So why on earth would anyone bother with it? There's some awesome stuff hidden in between all the bullshit. Case in point: Darker than Black.
