S01E01 The Star of Contract Flowed... (1)
Li Shanshun is a Chinese student just moving to Japan. Upon moving in his new apartment he meets a woman named Haraguchi. He sees here again that night, after observing the stars, and even saves...
Darker than Black
Overview
Ten years ago, a mysterious spatial anomaly now known as "Heaven's Gate" appeared in South America, shortly followed by the opening of "Hell's Gate" in Tokyo altering the sky and wreaking havoc on the landscape. The real stars disappeared, replaced by false stars. During this time, people possessing various special abilities — called "Contractors" — emerged, each capable of different supernatural feats. Following the disastrous Heaven's War, the United States lost its dominant position as a superpower to a mysterious organization named the Syndicate. The story revolves around a Chinese contractor codenamed "Hei" as he undertakes various espionage and assassination missions in Tokyo.
Episodes
S01E02 The Star of Contract Flowed... (2)
As Li and Haraguchi continue to avoid Alan and the other Contractors, Haraguchi reveals that her actual name is Chiaki Shinoda. She also says she will give him the information she received from Rui. Upon...
S01E03 The Nova Glitters in the Daybreak Sky... (1)
Not long after the appearance of the gate, a group went in to investigate the gate. Among the group only one man survived. Tahara now spends his time in his office taking care of the...
S01E04 The Nova Glitters in the Daybreak Sky... (2)
Things have taken a turn for the worse, with Tahara's daughter being a contractor, but not being able to control her powers. Now Mai has been kidnapped and the group responsible wants Tahara's research or...
S01E05 A Crimson Dream of Disaster Disappears in Eastern Europe... (1)
A group of Contractors, called MI-6, capture a once deadly Contractor called Havoc, who has lost her powers. Upon retreiving her they take her to Tokyo to be experimented on by the Pandora Institute. After...
S01E06 A Crimson Dream of Disaster Disappears in Eastern Europe... (2)
Havoc is iterrogated by Hei on the whereabouts of Amber and Pai (Who is Hei's younger sister) Unfortunately, Havoc does not know anything useful. She offers to help Hei by approaching the Gate and recovering...
S01E07 The Gardenia Releases its Fragrance in the Early Summer Rain... (1)
Gai and Kiko get hired by a widow and are asked to find the widow's lost black cat. While trying to find the cat, they meet Hei, who is looking for the Contractor that is...
S01E08 The Gardenia Releases its Fragrance in the Early Summer Rain... (2)
As Gai investigates the murder of Toshiko he is attacked by the mind switching contractor, who wants his jacket back. Mao makes an attempt to steal the jacket and take off with it by switching...
S01E09 Girl's Pure White Dress Stained by Dreams and Blood... (1)
Misaki finds herself reunited with her old high school classmate, Alice, who is also the daughter of the boss of the Hong Kong mafia, Chen Long Tang, on the night of Alice's birthday party. At...
S01E10 Girl's Pure White Dress Stained by Dreams and Blood... (2)
After Hei and Misaki barely escape from Alice, Hei goes his separate way after Misaki and Saitou find each other. After Hei steals the crystal hidden within the stone flower garden, he runs into Wei...
S01E11 Beyond the Gate, Recovering the Lost... (1)
When an explosion is set up to steal a meteor fragment from PANDORA headquarters, Hei is sent it to steal it before anyone else does. On his first day he meets up Corinna Moku, who...
S01E12 Beyond the Gate, Recovering the Lost... (2)
Nick and a few other researchers are sent into the restricted section of the Gate to retrieve what is to believed to be the meteor fragment. Everything goes wrong and the entire team ends up...
S01E13 On a Silver Night, the Heart Does not Sway on the Water's Surface... (1)
Hei, Yin, and Mao are targeted by a group of contractors and now must fight to survive. Things become problematic when Yin goes missing. Now Hei and Moa must find her before the enemy does,...
S01E14 On a Silver Night, the Heart Does not Sway on the Water's Surface... (2)
Kastenin, Gai, and Kiko take Yin back to her home town, meanwhile Hei is given the order to kill Yin and is given her location. Getting to Yin is not going to be that easy...
S01E15 The Memory of Betrayal is an Amber-Colored Smile... (1)
A sunspot called the Great Dark Spot, that makes the sun look like an eye, is about to appear and the last time it appeared the gate in South America dissappeared. To make everything even...
S01E16 The Memory of Betrayal is an Amber-Colored Smile... (2)
The Stargazer of the Astronomical Bureau finally speaks, giving vague information on the Evening Primrose. November 11 kills Maki in a final showdown as Hei finally reaches Amber, who has taken Yin. Misaki also arrives...
S01E17 I'll Sing a Love Song at the Garbage Dump... (1)
Hei meets Sakurai Kenji of the Nakazawa Group, a clumsy yet ambitious young man. New characters are introduced who live in Hei's apartment building. Later, Kenji is given the assignment of taking care of a...
S01E18 I'll Sing a Love Song at the Garbage Dump... (2)
Kenji falls for the doll, and they try to run away together with Hei's help. While out shopping, Hei is nearly identified by Kirihara Misaki as BK201, but Misaki doesn't see the relation between Li...
S01E19 Without Dreaming Shallow Dreams, and Falling Drunk... (1)
Hei is sent to infiltrate a religious organization and kill the Prophet, Alma. He is aided by an insider, another Contractor by the name of Shihoko whom Huang appears to know. Amagiri and Alma appear...
S01E20 Without Dreaming Shallow Dreams, and Falling Drunk... (2)
The Organization orders Huang to kill Shihoko, and as a secondary directive secretly orders Mao and Hei to kill them and Alma if Huang fails. In Huang's past we see him falling for Shihoko, and...
S01E21 The City of Regulations is Moistened by Tears... (1)
A doctor is abducted by agents of the EPR, while the American embassy in Tokyo suffers attack from Hei and his team. A new contractor with the power to teleport herself and others appears as...
S01E22 The City of Regulations is Moistened by Tears... (2)
Mao is taken by Amber to the headquarters of the EPR. While there, Amber calls a meeting for all of the EPR's contractors, including Mao, and the Doctor. She reveals that there was a plan...
S01E23 God's in His Heaven...
Eric Nishijima is using a particle accelerator to wipe out the contractors. Amber gathers numerous contractors to destroy the accelerator, and dolls to be used for some other unknown reason. Nijishima is related to the...
S01E24 Meteor Shower...
Hei's team, on the orders of Eric Nishijima, has been kicked out of the syndicate and contracts taken on all their lives. Misaki discovers that the "syndicate" is really a collaboration between intelligence agencies of...
S01E25 Is the Dream that a God of Death Has a Darkness Darker than Black?
After meeting with Amber, Hei learns that against common knowledge Contractors can become more humane than was thought to be possible. Realising his own position between the world of contractors and humans, Hei has to...
Cast
Hidenobu Kiuchi
Hei (voice)
Kiyomi Asai
July (voice)
Ikuya Sawaki
Mao (voice) / Petya (voice)
Kana Hanazawa
Pavlichenko Suou (voice)
