Darker Than Black: The Black Reaper
[(left) Li Shengshun as the Black Reaper/Hei/BK201, (right) Li Shengshun as an ordinary Chinese exchange student]
This anime is for the fans who go for shounen and supernatural. It revolves mainly around a Chinese exchange student named Li Shengshun. He is a Contractor working under the organization Syndicate as a spy/agent/assassin together with his teammates, Huang (the only human in the group), Mao (a contractor in the body of a cat), and Yin (a girl from Finland that was transformed into a doll; reason and how is unknown).
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>Contractors are individuals that gained superhuman abilities when the Hell’s and Heaven’s Gate were built. Each contractor has a corresponding star. Hei’s star’s code is BK201.
>In order to continuously using their abilities, they have to make a payment (called obeisance). Some have to eat, kiss people, etc even if they don’t want to for their obeisance.
>Hell’s Gate is a wall structure built around the Tokyo area to prevent infiltration of other people and particles in the area. (Heaven’s Gate is in South America.)
>Dolls are “emotionless” mediums. They are mainly used as spies and guides to contractors as seen in the anime, since they can manipulate surveillance spectra.
While in missions, Hei continues to look for his younger sister, Pai, who has been missing since the Heaven’s Gate incident. Hei wears a white mask with a purple lightning drawn over the right eye and a black trench coat which becomes bullet-proof when he puts it on.
The Pollice, headed by Misaki, is after him because Misaki thinks that he was always involved in the contractor cases that she handles. She doesn’t know that the Li she knows is the Black Reaper that she’s after to.
That’s pretty much about the first things you have to know. It has a second season already completed but I haven’t watch it yet.
Some things that I love about this anime is Hei himself because he’s so cool, their moves when they are in a battle, and finding out what the contractors obeisance are. All in all, this anime got me hooked. Must watch!
Darker Than Black: The Black Reaper
♡♡♡♡ of 5 
