In 2021, humanity was decimated by the Gastrea epidemic, a parasitic virus, forcing survivors to live within Varanium walls, a metal capable of subduing Gastrea. Soon, "Cursed Children" were discovered - girls born with Gastrea who could control it, granting them superhuman abilities. Civil Securities were formed to combat Gastrea, operating with an Initiator and a Cursed Child, along with a Promoter like Rentaro Satomi. Ten years later, Rentaro, a high school student and Promoter, teams up with his childhood friend Kisara Tendo and Initiator Enju Aihara to undertake a secret mission to prevent Tokyo's destruction.
Short special featuring 'Tenchu Girls', a group of characters from the TV series. Included in the 4th volume of the Blu-ray/DVD releases.
Season 1
13 episodes · 2014
Episode 1. The Last Hope
2014-04-08 · 24 min
Year 2031: Tokyo Area. Most of the human race has been wiped out by the parasitic Gastrea. Part of the Anti-Gastrea movement, high school student Satomi Rentaro works as a civil officer for Tendo Civil Securities. On a mission, he meets a…
Episode 2. The Mask of Madness
2014-04-15 · 24 min
Rentaro and President Kisara head to the Defense Ministry after being summoned. All of the reputable civil officers from the Tokyo Area show up there. The one who summoned them there is Seitenshi, in regards to destroying the host Gastrea…
Episode 3. The Children of Fate
2014-04-22 · 24 min
Enju is treated like an outcast at her school when it is found out that she is one of the Cursed Children, who have the Gastrea virus within them. Despite her sadness, they go look for the host Gastrea. She gives it her all and instantly…
Episode 4. Black Bullet
2014-04-29 · 24 min
Hiruko instantly takes care of 29 civil officer pairs and comes face to face with Rentaro and Enju again. Rentaro shows his true power to Hiruko, proving that he's not the only one that was part of the New Human Creation Project and they…
Episode 5. The Crimson Black Assassin
2014-05-06 · 24 min
The Tendo Civil Security Agency gets a job from Seitenshi. The job is to act as her bodyguard. Rentaro isn't very fond of the idea, but notices odd activity when it's revealed that Seitenshi will be meeting with the head of the Osaka Area…
Episode 6. Tragic Irony
2014-05-13 · 24 min
Seitenshi's vehicle is hit by a sniper while she in enroute to her meeting. Rentaro realizes this is more than a mere assassination attempt and gets help from Miori to find out more about the attack.
Episode 7. In the Still of the Moonlit Night, the Dawn Sky
2014-05-20 · 24 min
Rentaro gets hurt trying to protect Seitenshi from the sniper. The security plan that Seitenshi's bodyguards had set up were leaked to the sniper. Enju had gone after the sniper and falls into a coma.
Episode 8. The Monument on the Border
2014-05-27 · 24 min
Rentaro had set up an outdoor classroom for the kids in the outer district and was enjoying class. Seitenshi suddenly appears and lets him know that one of the Monoliths is about to be destroyed.
Episode 9. The Protectors of the Barrier
2014-06-03 · 24 min
The monolith finally starts to turn white. In fear of the great destruction to follow, the people of the Tokyo Area start panicking. Meanwhile, the civil officers start gathering around Monolith 32.
Episode 10. Tokyo Area Defensive Battle
2014-06-10 · 24 min
Before the battle against Aldebaran, Rentaro and Enju enjoy the outdoor class with the girls of the Outer District. Because the girls have very little hope and are unsure of their future, Rentaro takes them to a place where humanity had…
Episode 11. The Heart of Taurus, the Spear of Light
2014-06-17 · 24 min
The outdoor classroom is completely destroyed because of the bombing. Hope is starting to be destroyed along with the Monolith as the JASDF and Gastrea face off. However, the ones to show up at the civil officers' base were JASDF who had…
Episode 12. Crisis Point
2014-06-24 · 24 min
Rentaro is condemned for a decision he made in battle, and is told that there is another Gastrea named Pleiades that is protecting the already supposedly immortal Aldebaran. Rentaro is forced to face the enemy alone, and is helped by…
Episode 13. The Ones Who Aspired to Be Gods
2014-07-01 · 24 min
With the addition of Kagetane and Kohina, the adjuvant is complete. They choose the Flames of Revolution, the last place humanity won their battle against the Gastrea, as the ground for the final battle against Aldebaran.
**"In order for you to have the time to truly decide whether this world is worth saving or not, we need the world to keep existing"**
~Please forgive any spelling errors. English is not my native language.
I have my difficulties with "Black Bullet". I started the anime a few years ago, watched two episodes and then stopped again. Now I've seen it finished. So here are my thoughts.
The stucture of Black Bullet:
1. On the one hand, I think that the anime would have benifited from more episodes or a second season. Everything seemed so cramped and rushed to me.
2. On the other hand, I don't know if it was interesting enough to warrant more episodes.
3. Plot points were quickly introduced and rushed through. I was sometimes a bit confused during or at the end of an episode.
The writing of Black Bullet:
1. Either I was mentally absent for a short time and just didn't notice it or we learn almost nothing about Rentarou. Of course, we learn somethings about him (🦾🦿), but nothing really about him in terms of character.
2. Takuto Yasuwaki's "villain arc" is stupid and doesn't change or do anything within the story.
3. This is just a small point that gets on my nerves personally in some anime... Unnecessary conversations about the breasts of female characters.
4. This is now a somewhat bigger point, because I find it ... icky. The strange sexualization of the 'Cursed Children'. And the cursed children are, as the name suggests, children. I noticed it in some places, and I thinks it's well, strange.
~Again, sorry for any possible errors.
