List of Darker than Black episodes



Darker 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 April 5, 2007 to September 27, 2007. Darker than Black was originally written for anime form and is not based on any other media. However, a manga has been created based on it. 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.

The series premiered on Tokyo Broadcasting System, Mainichi Broadcasting System, and their affiliated stations on April 5, 2007 and ran until September 27, 2007. The series also aired on Animax from May 8, 2007 to October 23, 2007. It was then released to nine DVDs, each containing three episodes, except for the first DVD, which had only two. The DVDs were released between July 25, 2007 and March 26, 2008 by Aniplex. FUNimation received the license for the series in Region 1 and has released two DVDs compilation with another coming in the future. The first English DVD was released on November 25, 2008 and the second and third DVDs were released on January 20, 2009 and March 10, 2009 respectively. Volume 4 was released on May 5, 2009 with Volume 5 released on June 23, 2009.

The episodes have four pieces of theme music: two opening themes and two closing themes. "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 "The Hero Without A Name" by An Cafe as the opening. Episode twenty-four had no opening theme. "Tsukiakari" by Rie fu served as the closing theme for the first fourteen episodes and "Dreams" by High and Mighty Color was the closing theme for the last ten. The last episode, episode twenty-five, had no closing theme.

OVA
The ninth and final DVD included an unaired original video animation (OVA) that focuses on the romantic relationships between characters. Like the last episodes, the OVA had "Kakusei Heroism: The Hero Without A Name" as its opening theme and "Dreams" as its closing theme.