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#1The Fallen Star of a Contract... (Part 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 her from getting caught…2007-04-05 · 24m

#2The Fallen Star of a Contract... (Part 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 retrieving the…2007-04-12 · 24m

#3A New Star Shines in the Dawn Sky... (Part 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 flower he found in the gate. But…2007-04-19 · 24m

#4A New Star Shines in the Dawn Sky... (Part 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 they keep Mai.…2007-04-26 · 24m

#5Red Giant over Eastern Europe... (Part 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 watching a…2007-05-03 · 24m

#6Red Giant over Eastern Europe... (Part 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 her memories…2007-05-10 · 24m

#7The Scent of Gardenias Lingers in the Summer Rain... (Part 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 killing employers from that same company. As both…2007-05-17 · 24m

#8The Scent of Gardenias Lingers in the Summer Rain... (Part 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 bodies with a crow. He…2007-05-24 · 24m

#9The White Dress, Stained with the Girl's Dreams and Blood... (Part 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 the party, Misaki finds…2007-05-31 · 24m

#10The White Dress, Stained with the Girl's Dreams and Blood... (Part 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 and loses the crystal…2007-06-07 · 24m

#11When One Takes Back What Was Lost Within the Wall... (Part 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 breaks down not long after arriving at…2007-06-14 · 24m

#12When One Takes Back What Was Lost Within the Wall... (Part 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 dead, except Nick. Now Hei…2007-06-21 · 24m

#13A Heart Unswaying on the Water's Surface... (Part 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, but things change when Yin's…2007-06-28 · 24m

#14A Heart Unswaying on the Water's Surface... (Part 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 since th contractors from before are still after…2007-07-05 · 24m

#15Memories of Betrayal in an Amber Smile... (Part 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 more hectic a boy is going…2007-07-12 · 24m

#16Memories of Betrayal in an Amber Smile... (Part 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…2007-07-19 · 24m

#17A Love Song Sung from a Trash Heap... (Part 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 doll by his…2007-07-26 · 24m

#18A Love Song Sung from a Trash Heap... (Part 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 Shunsheng and BK201.…2007-08-02 · 24m

#19Dreaming Shallow, Uninebriated... (Part 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 to be in cahoots…2007-08-09 · 24m

#20Dreaming Shallow, Uninebriated... (Part 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 then Shihoko killing his…2007-08-16 · 24m

#21City Under Crackdown, Moist with Tears... (Part 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 a double agent for the EPR.…2007-08-30 · 24m

#22City Under Crackdown, Moist with Tears... (Part 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 to destroy the South American…2007-09-06 · 24m

#23God Is 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…2007-09-13 · 24m

#24Meteor ShowerHei'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…2007-09-20 · 24m

#25Does the Reaper Dream of 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…2007-09-27 · 24m

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Quick facts

Episodes25

Seasons1

StatusFinished

Aired2007

Japanese title: Darker than BLACK -黒の契約者-
Also known as: Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha, DTB

Synopsis

It has been 10 years since Heaven's Gate appeared in South America and Hell's Gate appeared in Japan, veiling the once familiar night sky with an oppressive skyscape. Their purposes unknown, these Gates are spaces in which the very laws of physics are ignored. With the appearance of the Gates emerged Contractors, who, in exchange for their humanity, are granted supernatural abilities. In the Japanese city surrounding Hell’s Gate, Section 4 Chief Misaki Kirihara finds herself at odds with an infamous Contractor codenamed Hei. Called "Black Reaper" in the underground world, Hei, like his associates, undertakes missions for the mysterious and ruthless Syndicate while slowly peeling back the dark layers covering a nefarious plot that threatens the very existence of Contractors. From the mind of Tensai Okamura comes a sci-fi thriller taking the form of a subtle exposé on a war in which political positions and justice have no sway—a war waged exclusively in the shadows. \[Written by MAL Rewrite\]