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Darker than Black: Season 1

Poster for Darker than Black Season 1

25 episodes · premiered Apr 6, 2007

In Tokyo, an impenetrable field known as "Hell's Gate" appeared ten years ago. At the same time, psychics who wield paranormal powers at the cost of their conscience also emerged. Hei is one of the most powerful of these psychic agents, and along with his blind associate, Yin, works for one of the many rival agencies vying to unlock the mysteries of Hell's Gate.

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  1. Episode 1: The Star of Contract Flowed... (1) Apr 6, 2007 · 25m 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…
  2. Episode 2: The Star of Contract Flowed... (2) Apr 13, 2007 · 25m 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…
  3. Episode 3: The Nova Glitters in the Daybreak Sky... (1) Apr 20, 2007 · 25m 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…
  4. Episode 4: The Nova Glitters in the Daybreak Sky... (2) Apr 27, 2007 · 25m 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…
  5. Episode 5: A Crimson Dream of Disaster Disappears in Eastern Europe... (1) May 4, 2007 · 25m 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…
  6. Episode 6: A Crimson Dream of Disaster Disappears in Eastern Europe... (2) May 11, 2007 · 25m 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…
  7. Episode 7: The Gardenia Releases its Fragrance in the Early Summer Rain... (1) May 18, 2007 · 25m 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…
  8. Episode 8: The Gardenia Releases its Fragrance in the Early Summer Rain... (2) May 25, 2007 · 25m 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…
  9. Episode 9: Girl's Pure White Dress Stained by Dreams and Blood... (1) Jun 1, 2007 · 25m 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…
  10. Episode 10: Girl's Pure White Dress Stained by Dreams and Blood... (2) Jun 8, 2007 · 25m 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…
  11. Episode 11: Beyond the Gate, Recovering the Lost... (1) Jun 15, 2007 · 25m 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…
  12. Episode 12: Beyond the Gate, Recovering the Lost... (2) Jun 22, 2007 · 25m 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…
  13. Episode 13: On a Silver Night, the Heart Does not Sway on the Water's Surface... (1) Jun 29, 2007 · 25m 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…
  14. Episode 14: On a Silver Night, the Heart Does not Sway on the Water's Surface... (2) Jul 6, 2007 · 25m 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…
  15. Episode 15: The Memory of Betrayal is an Amber-Colored Smile... (1) Jul 13, 2007 · 25m 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…
  16. Episode 16: The Memory of Betrayal is an Amber-Colored Smile... (2) Jul 20, 2007 · 25m 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…
  17. Episode 17: I'll Sing a Love Song at the Garbage Dump... (1) Jul 27, 2007 · 25m 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…
  18. Episode 18: I'll Sing a Love Song at the Garbage Dump... (2) Aug 3, 2007 · 25m 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…
  19. Episode 19: Without Dreaming Shallow Dreams, and Falling Drunk... (1) Aug 10, 2007 · 25m 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…
  20. Episode 20: Without Dreaming Shallow Dreams, and Falling Drunk... (2) Aug 17, 2007 · 25m 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…
  21. Episode 21: The City of Regulations is Moistened by Tears... (1) Aug 31, 2007 · 25m 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…
  22. Episode 22: The City of Regulations is Moistened by Tears... (2) Sep 7, 2007 · 25m 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…
  23. Episode 23: God's in His Heaven... Sep 14, 2007 · 25m 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…
  24. Episode 24: Meteor Shower... Sep 21, 2007 · 25m 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…
  25. Episode 25: Is the Dream that a God of Death Has a Darkness Darker than Black? Sep 28, 2007 · 25m 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…