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Black Bullet (ブラック・ブレット Burakku Buretto)

is a Japanese light novel series written by Shiden Kanzaki and illustrated by Saki Ukai, published under ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Bunko imprint. The series began publication on July 10, 2011, and 5 volumes have been published as of October 2013. A manga series began serialization on August 27, 2012 in ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Maoh. An anime adaptation by Kinema Citrus and Orange was announced at Dengeki Bunko's Autumn Festival 2013 on October 6, 2013.

Plot:

In the year 2021, mankind was decimated by the epidemic of Gastrea, a parasitical virus, and is forced to live within Monoliths, which are created from Varanium: a metal that is able to subdue Gastrea. Soon, the "Cursed Children", children born with the Gastrea virus who are able to control it, which gives them superhuman abilities, are discovered. Due to the Gastrea virus' intervention, the Cursed Children could only be female. Civil Securities are formed to specialize fighting against Gastrea, operating with the pair of an Initiator, who are cursed children, and a Promoter, serving to lead the cursed children. Ten years after the epidemic, Rentarō Satomi, a high school student who is also a Promoter in his childhood friend Kisara Tendō's Tendō Civil Security, along with his Initiator Enju Aihara, receives a secret mission to prevent the Tokyo Area's destruction.

Characters :

Tendō Civil Security:

Rentarō Satomi (里見 蓮太郎 Satomi Rentarō)
 Voiced by: Yūki Kaji
Rentarō is a second year student in Magata High School and also a Promoter in Tendō Civil Security. Rentarō's parents died in the war against Gastrea ten years ago, and was adopted by the Tendō family, but left the family along with Kisara. Rentarō lost his right leg, right arm and left eye in a fight with Gastrea to protect Kisara, and was saved by Sumire's "New Human Creation Plan" which replaced his lost limbs with Varanium. He uses an XD and is a beginner in Tendō style martial arts.


Enju Aihara (藍原 延珠 Aihara Enju) 
Voiced by: Rina Hidaka
Enju is a cursed child, and is Rentarō's Model Rabbit Initiator in Tendō Civil Security. She lives with Rentarō and went to primary school girl normally until her status as a cursed child was revealed during the incident involving Kagetane Hiruko, and thus was forced to transfer. When first introduced to Rentarō by the International Initiator Supervising Organization (IISO), Enju had severe trust problems, but this has since improved through getting along with Rentarō.


Kisara Tendō (天童 木更 Tendō Kisara) 
Voiced by: Yui Horie
Kisara is the president of Tendō Civil Security. Originally from the Tendō family, she left the family after a certain conflict along with her childhood friend Rentarō. Kisara has diabetes, and her condition worsened due to witnessing her parents eaten up by Gastrea. Believing that her parent's death is related to the Tendō family, she swore revenge and is extremely skilled at Tendō style martial arts, but is unable to fight for long periods due to her body condition.


Tina Sprout (ティナ・スプラウト Tina Supurauto) 
Voiced by: Tomoyo Kurosawa
Tina is a product of Ayn Rand's mechanized soldiers and formerly her Model Owl Initiator. Tina was ordered to assassinate Seitenshi by Ayn but was instead foiled by Enju's interference and eventually defeated by Rentarō. Seitenshi gave her special treatment and only ordered to keep her under observation, and was hired by Tendō Civil Security when she was released. She later on forms a pair with Kisara.

Tokyo:

 Area Seitenshi (聖天子 Seitenshi) 
Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki
Real name unknown, Seitenshi is the ruler of Tokyo Area, one of the five largest areas in Japan after the war. She is idealistic and wishes for everyone to be able to live in harmony. Recently pushed through basic human right laws for the cursed children and has incited dissatisfaction from the Deprived Generation.


Kikunojō Tendō (天童 菊之丞 Tendō Kikunojō) 
Voiced by: Tamio Ōki
Kikunojō acts as Seitenshi's adviser and holds the greatest political power. He is also Kisara's grandfather and also Rentarō's foster father. Due to his wife being killed by Gastrea 10 years ago, he is extremely unhappy about Seitenshi implementing human rights for the cursed children, thus requesting the Hiruko pair to create an upheaval.


Sumire Muroto (室戸 菫 Muroto Sumire) 
Voiced by: Yūko Kaida
Sumire is one of the Four Sages and the person in charge of the "New Human Creation Plan" and a researcher in a medical school near Magata High School.


Miori Shiba (司馬 未織 Shiba Miori) 
Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu
Miori is the student council president of Magata High School and Rentarō's sponsor. She has a poor relationship with Kisara.


Kagetane Hiruko (蛭子 影胤 Hiruko Kagetane) 
Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama
Kagetane is formerly a Promoter in a Civil Security, but had his license revoked due to excessive killing. Kagetane is a product of the "New Human Creation Plan", and was requested to destroy the Tokyo Area. His pair was eventually defeated by Rentarō and Enju.


Kohina Hiruko (蛭子 小比奈 Hiruko Kohina) 
Voiced by: Aoi Yūki
Kohina is Hiruko's daughter and his bloodthirsty Model Mantis Initiator.


Shōgen Ikuma (伊熊 将監 Ikuma Shōgen) 
Voiced by: Hiromichi Tezuka
Shōgen is a battle-crazed Promoter who died in a fight against Kagetane Hiruko.


Kayo Senju (千寿 夏世 Senju Kayo) 
Voiced by: Megumi Han
Kayo is Shōgen's Model Dolphin Initiator. She has an IQ of 210 but is unsuited to front-line battles. During her mission to eliminate the Hiruko pair, she was separated from Shōgen and met Rentarō. As she protected the area from Gastrea led by the Hiruko pair's battle, the amount of Gastrea virus in her body exceeded the critical value, thus she requested Rentarō to shoot her while she's still human.


Takuto Yasuwaki (保脇 卓人 Yasuwaki Takuto) 
Voiced by: Subaru Kimura
Seitenshi's personal guard who is unhappy about Rentarō being hired as part of Seitenshi's protection squad from Tina's assassination attempts.

Third Kanto War Troops

Tamaki Katagiri (片桐 玉樹 Katagiri Tamaki) Tamaki Katagiri Civil Security's president who accepted Rentarō's request to join his support group for the Third Kanto War.

Yuzuki Katagiri (片桐 弓月 Katagiri Yuzuki) Yuzuki is Tamaki's sister and his Model Spider Initiator.

Shōma Nagisawa (薙沢 彰磨 Nagisawa Shōma) Shōma is Rentarō's longtime friend and senior in Tendō style martial arts. He joined Rentarō's support group during the war.

Midori Fuse (布施 翠 Fuse Midori) Midori is Shōma's Model Cat Initiator.

Nagamasa Gadō (我堂 長政 Gadō Nagamasa?) Nagamasa is the leader of the private security troops during the war.

Asaka Mibu (壬生 朝霞 Mibu Asaka) Asaka is Nagamasa's Initiator. Formed an impromptu pairing with Shōma as both lost their partners.

Hidehiko Gadō (我堂 英彦 Gadō Hidehiko) Hidehiko is Nagamasa's son and leader of Rentarō's division during the war. Kokone (心音 Kokone).

Others :

Sōgen Saitake (斉武 宗玄 Saitake Sōgen) Sōgen is the ruler of Osaka Area, and an ambitious man who dreams of one day ruling the world.

Ayn Rand (エイン・ランド Ein Rando) 
Ayn is one of the four sages that heads the Mechanized Soldier Plan American Division, "NEXT". Ayn breached the agreement between the four sages and mechanized healthy cursed children, creating mechanized Initiators called "HYBRID". Ayn is formerly the Promoter of Tina Sprout, but as Ayn does not possess combat abilities, she acts as a command tower instead.