Investigating a lead, Yūsuke Saitō and Yutaka Kōno, members of the squad hang out in a hostess bar and end up pursuing a girl they believe to be Chiaki Shinado. She later discusses the man's death with her police squad. Still in pursuit, the Public Security Bureau Section 4 chief, Misaki Kirihara, is informed of the man's death and discovers his identity as a DGSE agent. After the defeated man reveals that a girl named Chiaki knows the location of the package, the masked man, Hei, kills him. He lands a short distance away, but while attempting to complete his payment, he is confronted by a mysterious masked man who easily defeats him and demands to know the location of the package.

The police attempt to arrest a Caucasian man, but he escapes using gravitational power. The last episode, episode twenty-five, had no ending theme. 'Moonlight) by Rie fu served as the ending theme for the first fourteen episodes and ' Dreams' by High and Mighty Color was the ending theme for the last ten. Episode twenty-four had no opening theme. 'Howling' by Abingdon Boys School served as the opening theme for the first fourteen episodes, while episodes fifteen through twenty-three and episode twenty-five had 'Kakusei Heroism (The Hero Without a 'Name')' by An Cafe as the opening. The episodes have four pieces of theme music: two opening themes and two ending themes. Volume 4 was released on with Volume 5 released on June 23, 2009. The first English DVD was released on Novemand the second and third DVDs were released on Januand Marespectively. FUNimation received the license for the series in Region 1 and has released two DVDs compilation with another coming in the future. The DVDs were released between Jand Maby Aniplex. It was then released to nine DVDs, each containing three episodes, except for the first DVD, which had only two. The series also aired on Animax from to October 23, 2007. The series premiered on Tokyo Broadcasting System, Mainichi Broadcasting System, and their affiliated stations on Apand ran until September 27, 2007.

The series tells of the exploits of Hei and his Syndicate comrades operating in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo in his pursuit to discover the secrets behind the Hell's Gate. However, a manga has been created based on it. Darker than Black was originally written for anime form and is not based on any other media. The cover of the first English DVD compilation released by FUNimation on Novemfor North America.ĭarker than Black is a Japanese anime television series directed and written by Tensai Okamura, animated by Bones, and produced by Aniplex that originally aired 25 episodes from Apto September 27, 2007.

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