Darker

Darker

暗黑者
Ended First aired 24/Jun/2014 China Chinese 4 season(s) 126 episode(s)
AnimationAction & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyMystery
Ten years ago, a mysterious spatial anomaly now known as "Heaven's Gate" appeared in South America, shortly followed by the opening of "Hell's Gate" in Tokyo altering the sky and wreaking havoc on the landscape. The real stars disappeared, replaced by false stars. During this time, people possessing various special abilities — called "Contractors" — emerged, each capable of different supernatural feats. Following the disastrous Heaven's War, the United States lost its dominant position as a superpower to a mysterious organization named the Syndicate. The story revolves around a Chinese contractor codenamed "Hei" as he undertakes various espionage and assassination missions in Tokyo.
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Season 3 · Season 3
24 episode(s) · Air date: 28/Mar/2019
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Season 2 · Darker 2
51 episode(s) · Air date: 03/Aug/2015
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The special task force is adrift after their epic loss to Darker, the mastermind behind series of high profile vigilante killings. With their captain on the run for murder and them no closer to catching Darker, the team switches gear and investigates a decades-old hostage case. In those dusty old files, they discover Darker's real identity and a possible police coverup, but establishing the wrongdoer and the aggrieved party proven more difficult than it seemed. The team must determine the true culprit before Darker does, lest he kills his way through the suspect list.

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The special task force is adrift after their epic loss to Darker, the mastermind behind series of high profile vigilante killings. With their captain on the run for murder and them no closer to catching Darker, the team switches gear and investigates a decades-old hostage case. In those dusty old files, they discover Darker's real identity and a possible police coverup, but establishing the wrongdoer and the aggrieved party proven more difficult than it seemed. The team must determine the true culprit before Darker does, lest he kills his way through the suspect list.

Season 1 · Death Notify Season 1
46 episode(s) · Air date: 24/Jun/2014
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A killer called "Darker" has been leaving a death notification card after killing scumbags who evaded the law. Police reacted by forming a task force with the elite personnels from each field to capture the vigilante. But in reality, what each department did was dumping their best but most eccentric members to the task force. There is the high IQ but low EQ criminalist Luo Fei, the ill-mannered profiler Mu Jian Yun, the inflexible captain Han Hao, the cowardly crime lab specialist Yin Jian, the gothic loving forensic pathologist Liang Yin, the hacker Zeng Ri Hua, and the volatile combat specialist Xiong Yuan. With each murder, the task force uncovers the crimes the victims had committed, at the same time, gets closer to finding the mysterious vigilante.

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A killer called "Darker" has been leaving a death notification card after killing scumbags who evaded the law. Police reacted by forming a task force with the elite personnels from each field to capture the vigilante. But in reality, what each department did was dumping their best but most eccentric members to the task force. There is the high IQ but low EQ criminalist Luo Fei, the ill-mannered profiler Mu Jian Yun, the inflexible captain Han Hao, the cowardly crime lab specialist Yin Jian, the gothic loving forensic pathologist Liang Yin, the hacker Zeng Ri Hua, and the volatile combat specialist Xiong Yuan. With each murder, the task force uncovers the crimes the victims had committed, at the same time, gets closer to finding the mysterious vigilante.

Season 0 · Specials
5 episode(s) · Air date: 26/Mar/2008
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S0E5
Darker than BLACK Gaiden: OVA 4
Air date: 21/Jul/2010 · Time: 01:25 · Runtime: 25 min
Summary

Claude gives Yin an unknown substance which should make her unstable to fasten her awakening. He calls every secret organization in the world in order to set them up against each other. The Chinese Secret Organization is first, whom Claude sells Yin to. He throws the money out of the window. In the next scene, Hei is seen with the real contractor body of the dog who helps him now because of Claude's irrational actions. They are able to enter into the building, killing contractors in the process. Outside the building, several organizations are fighting each other just as Claude had intended...

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Claude gives Yin an unknown substance which should make her unstable to fasten her awakening. He calls every secret organization in the world in order to set them up against each other. The Chinese Secret Organization is first, whom Claude sells Yin to. He throws the money out of the window. In the next scene, Hei is seen with the real contractor body of the dog who helps him now because of Claude's irrational actions. They are able to enter into the building, killing contractors in the process. Outside the building, several organizations are fighting each other just as Claude had intended...

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Darker than BLACK Gaiden: OVA 3
Air date: 26/May/2010 · Time: 01:25 · Runtime: 25 min
Summary

Picking up from last time,the men barging in to help Hei turned out to be Amber’s former Evening Primrose members led by Amagiri. Upon talking to Hei about how books from over fifty years ago predicted the appearance of a girl with the power to change the world and wondering if Amber foresaw all this, Amagiri asks Hei what exactly does he think of Yin. Hei is unable to give an answer...

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Picking up from last time,the men barging in to help Hei turned out to be Amber’s former Evening Primrose members led by Amagiri. Upon talking to Hei about how books from over fifty years ago predicted the appearance of a girl with the power to change the world and wondering if Amber foresaw all this, Amagiri asks Hei what exactly does he think of Yin. Hei is unable to give an answer...

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Darker than BLACK Gaiden: OVA 2
Air date: 24/Mar/2010 · Time: 01:25 · Runtime: 25 min
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After having a dream where she’s being pulled on by a glowing child-like figure, Yin wakes up to Hei watching over her, and he promises to protect her. The two soon arrive in Hong Kong, and Hei finds a man named Chen to make some fake passports for them so that they can keep running. Yin, however, speaks out because she feels that it’s pointless and suggests attacking their enemies instead. She proposes spreading the rumor that he wants to sell her in order to lure their enemies in, and she believes that they can’t run away while there’s a Doll watching her. All of this plus Yin’s attitude worries Hei, but he decides to have Chen set everything up. While Chen is away, Hei questions why Yin didn’t tell him about the enemy Doll, but she seems not to remember what she said before. She does tell him though that she wants to be with him like this forever. Chen then comes running back because he encountered a dangerous group while spreading the rumors, but Hei is undeterred...

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After having a dream where she’s being pulled on by a glowing child-like figure, Yin wakes up to Hei watching over her, and he promises to protect her. The two soon arrive in Hong Kong, and Hei finds a man named Chen to make some fake passports for them so that they can keep running. Yin, however, speaks out because she feels that it’s pointless and suggests attacking their enemies instead. She proposes spreading the rumor that he wants to sell her in order to lure their enemies in, and she believes that they can’t run away while there’s a Doll watching her. All of this plus Yin’s attitude worries Hei, but he decides to have Chen set everything up. While Chen is away, Hei questions why Yin didn’t tell him about the enemy Doll, but she seems not to remember what she said before. She does tell him though that she wants to be with him like this forever. Chen then comes running back because he encountered a dangerous group while spreading the rumors, but Hei is undeterred...

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Darker than BLACK Gaiden: OVA 1
Air date: 27/Jan/2010 · Time: 01:25 · Runtime: 25 min
Summary

Sometime after the Tokyo Explosion incident, Hei had fought and defeated some Syndicate Contractors and had then fled with Yin to Okinawa. The two posed as newlyweds on their honeymoon, and Hei had tried to find a way out of the country. What began to bother him though was how Yin started acting on her own. The two ended up not leaving by boat because of the ferry ticket lady’s warning about Yin getting seasick, and this led to Hei running into a woman at the hotel who looked exactly like Amber. Yin noticed this as well, and after seeing Hei talking with the woman and later feeling distant from him, Yin had made use of her observation spirit that night. Although Hei had woken up and stopped her from doing anything drastic, Yin saw enough to be able to say that the woman was not Amber but was indeed a Contractor. Yin had tried to suggest that he get out of there, however Hei had just hugged her and vowed not to leave her by herself...

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Sometime after the Tokyo Explosion incident, Hei had fought and defeated some Syndicate Contractors and had then fled with Yin to Okinawa. The two posed as newlyweds on their honeymoon, and Hei had tried to find a way out of the country. What began to bother him though was how Yin started acting on her own. The two ended up not leaving by boat because of the ferry ticket lady’s warning about Yin getting seasick, and this led to Hei running into a woman at the hotel who looked exactly like Amber. Yin noticed this as well, and after seeing Hei talking with the woman and later feeling distant from him, Yin had made use of her observation spirit that night. Although Hei had woken up and stopped her from doing anything drastic, Yin saw enough to be able to say that the woman was not Amber but was indeed a Contractor. Yin had tried to suggest that he get out of there, however Hei had just hugged her and vowed not to leave her by herself...

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Beneath the Fully Bloomed Cherry Blossoms
Air date: 26/Mar/2008 · Time: 01:25 · Runtime: 25 min
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Mayu Otsuka works at the 4th Foreign Affairs Department in the Japanese National Police Agency as a liaison officer with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. She wrote a story about a masked man that supposedly seemed to be a dream, but she isn't sure. Hei and his comrades got themselves a new task and are looking for a numeric password with a sample. A contractor took it from the Gate and buried it under a blossom tree. As events unfold, Mayu seems to fall in love with Hei, while Saitou struggles to confess his feelings for Kirihara.

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Mayu Otsuka works at the 4th Foreign Affairs Department in the Japanese National Police Agency as a liaison officer with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. She wrote a story about a masked man that supposedly seemed to be a dream, but she isn't sure. Hei and his comrades got themselves a new task and are looking for a numeric password with a sample. A contractor took it from the Gate and buried it under a blossom tree. As events unfold, Mayu seems to fall in love with Hei, while Saitou struggles to confess his feelings for Kirihara.

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Guo Jingfei
Guo Jingfei
罗飞
Gan Lu
Gan Lu
穆剑云
Li Qian
Li Qian
梁音
Candice Zhao
Candice Zhao
陆飘飘
Shawn Wei
Shawn Wei
薛天
Zhang Ruihan
Zhang Ruihan
尹剑
Li Mincheng
Li Mincheng
韩灏
Zhu Jie
Zhu Jie
尹剑
Jing Chao
Jing Chao
尹剑
Hu Yunhao
Hu Yunhao
阿华
Liang Dawei
Liang Dawei
薛天
Wang Jing
Wang Jing
熊原
Su Beichen
Su Beichen
曾日华
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Zhang Liming
丁局长
Qu Shaoshi
Qu Shaoshi
周浩
Du Ruoxi
Du Ruoxi
孟芸
Wang Chuang
Wang Chuang
文成宇
Meng Asai
Meng Asai
豹头

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Han Bing
Han Bing
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Bai Yicong
Bai Yicong
Screenplay
Qicen Tang
Qicen Tang
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Zhang Yuan'ang
Zhang Yuan'ang
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