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is a Hentai Anime . It is based on an Eroge of the same name. The series is separated into four titles. The game was created by Active-Soft, and was adapted into an anime by the Milky studio. It has been released in the U.S. by Kitty Media.

''Bible Black: La Noche de Walpurgis''

The original series consists of six episodes (Episodes 5 and 6 are known as Bible Black Revelations). The story's protagonist is a male student who discovers a book of black magic (the eponymous Bible Black). The book had been used in demonic practices by a primarily female Satan -worshipping cult that used virgin sacrifices to accomplish its goals. Sexual powers and spells are featured in the series, even when used for less explicit purposes.

''Bible Black Gaiden'' - (Bible Black: Origins)

Set 12 years before the events of ''Bible Black: La Noche de Walpurgis''. This title consists of two episodes exploring the origins of the all-female witchcraft club. It is recommended these episodes are watched after part 4 and before part 5 of the original series

''Bible Black: La Lancza de Longinus'' - (Shin Bible Black La Lanza de Longinus)

Something of a sequel to the original series. In the US, it is known as Bible Black: New Testament.

''Bible Black: Only'' - (Bible Black: Forbidden Art)

A set of vignettes set either during or immediately after the events of Bible Black: La Noche De Walpurgis.


SERIES AND EPISODES


Series 1: ''Night of the Walpulgiss''

Known titles:
  • ''Bible Black''

  • ''Bible Black: La Noche de Walpurgis''

  • ''Bible Black: Night of the Walpulgiss''


Release year: 2001

Plot Summary ( from Anime News Network '''):'''
Minase, a high school student, found a book of magic in an isolated room in his school. He started practicing black magic that has extreme sexual effects that benefited him and some of his friends. Intrigued, Minase got deeper and deeper into using the craft, not realizing the evils that will come forth. Eventually, the origins of the book was revealed, and so did the incident twelve years ago on the night of the Walpurgis, the night when the power of evil is at its strongest. After coming to his senses, Minase struggles to get himself out of the darkness that he had put himself into.

Japanese staff

''Director:''
  • Hamuo (ep. 3-4)

  • Kazuyuki Honda (ep. 2)

  • Sho Hanebu


''Storyboard:''
  • Hamuo (ep. 3-4)

  • Kazuyuki Honda (ep. 2)

  • Sho Hanebu

  • Sosuke Kokubunji


''Episode Director:''
  • Kaito Asakura

  • Nitaro


''Character Design:'' Yoshiten

''Animation director:''
  • Wataru Yamaguchi (ep. 2)

  • Yoshiten


''Color Model:'' Rumiko Suzuki

''Color setting:'' Kanamu Kobayashi

''Mix:'' Mike Porter

''Producer:''
  • Jun Shibata

  • Kazuiko Yagami

  • Taketo Watarai


''Production Assistant:''
  • Makoto Fujisaki

  • Tomoya Narita (ep. 3-4)


''Production Design:'' Koji Higashi

''Screen Writer:'' Yasuyuki Muto

Japanese cast

Akemi Kimura (eps 1-2)

Haruna Kanbayashi

Hitomi Sae (eps 1-3)

Kaori Nishijima

Kimika Sasa (eps 1-3)

Michiru Shirozaki

Nagisa Futami (ep. 3-4)

Osamu Tokita (ep. 2-4)

Rika Koyama

Takuya Hiramatu (eps 1-2)

English staff

''Director:'' Joe Queens

''Art director:'' Chevy Leonard

''Translation:''
  • EM

  • J. Yoshizawa


''Audio Engineer:'' Julian Grossman

''Audio Operator Pro Tools:'' Richard Grossman

''Editing:''
  • B. Splice

  • iksnae (ep. 3)


''Executive producer:'' Gary Sierra

''Graphic Design:'' Chevy Leonard

''Production Assistant:'' Roller Girl

''Production manager:'' Scottie Mack

''Production Supervision:'' Jharmoni Magasaki

''Script Adaptation:''
  • Joe Queens

  • Peter Illingworth (ep. 3)


English cast

Chris Sasson as Minase

Christie Tibodeaux as Kitami

Josephine Clemens as Imari

Cinthia Gough as Shiraki

Michelle Duhard as Saeki

Christie Tibodeaux as Murai

Cinthia Gough as
  • Kunimoto (ep. 2)

  • Priest 2


Joe Queens as Incidental Male Voices

Louise Moran as
  • Amaki

  • Itu


Mary Rosenbaum as
  • Girl

  • Nonosuka (ep. 2)

  • Priest 3

  • Student


Mickie Cruise as
  • Priest

  • Takashi

  • Yukiko (ep. 2)


Omar Reed as
  • Asada

  • Man A


Rick Duval as Incidental Male Voices (ep. 3)

Steward Cassidy as Incidental Male Voices (ep. 3)

Japanese companies

''Co-Production:'' Milky

''Editor:'' AMGA Co., Ltd

''Photographer:''
  • AMGA Co., Ltd (ep. 3)

  • Sanko Production


''Planning Cooperation:'' Image Works

''Production:'' Museum Pictures

''Production Cooperation:'' Studio Jam

''Sound:'' Morihide

English companies

''ADR Production:'' Perfect Sound Studios

''Distributor:'' Kitty Media

''Licensed by:'' Media Blasters

''Packaging And Design:'' Kitty Media


Episode 1: ''Bible Black 1''

Running time: 28 minutes


Episode 2: ''Bible Black 2''

Running time: 28 minutes


Episode 3: ''Second Sacrament 1''

Running time: 28 minutes


Episode 4: ''Second Sacrament 2''

Running time: 28 minutes


Episode 5: ''Revelations 1''

Running time: 28 minutes


Episode 6: ''Revelations 2''

Running time: 27 minutes


Series 2: ''Origins''

Known titles:
  • ''Bible Black: Origins''

  • ''Bible Black Gaiden''


Release year: 2002

Plot Summary ( from Anime News Network '''):''' Twelve years prior to it's discovery by Minase, the origins of the magic book with dark,sensuous powers is revealed. Initially owned by a female student, Takashiro, who, along with other curious students form the first magic club on campus. The club begins to use the erotic spells to carry out favors for fellow students, and vengeance. After underestimating the powers behind the book, Takashiro is taken out of the picture, as a new leader guides the club towards a darker course, one that will force school newcomer Kitami to make a dire choice.

Japanese staff

''Screenplay:'' Yasuyuki Muto

''Storyboard:'' Hamuo

''Character Design:'' Yoshiten

''Art:'' Kohji Azuma

''Color Set-Up:'' Rumiko Suzushiro

''Producer:''
  • Jun Shibata (ep 1)

  • Kazuhiko Yagami

  • Taketo Watarai

  • Wataru Yamaguchi


''Production Assistant:''
  • Ichiro Ishii (ep 2)

  • Satoshi Suzuki (ep 1)


''Production Design:'' Koji Higashi

Japanese cast

Kaoru Sanada

Michiru Jyozaki

Midori Sakioka

Nagisa Futami

Noriko Kitani

Yasuteru Momozawa

Yoko Iwatani

English staff

''Director:'' Albert Shaw

''Translation:'' Aximoto Del Mar

''Audio Operator:'' Julian Grossman

''Editing:''
  • Scottie Mack

  • Sting Ridgewood


''Executive producer:'' Gary Sierra

''Mix:'' George Ryan

''Producer:'' Gary Sierra

''Production Supervision:'' Jharmoni Magasaki

''Script Adaptation:'' Joe Queens

English cast

Christie Tibodeaux as Nami

Cynthia Gough as Junko

Josephine Clemens as Reika

Michelle Duhard as Hiroko

Mike Cruise as Saki

Patty Comeau as Rie

Fred Arons as Hiratami

Fred O'Raley as Vendor (ep 1)

Joe Queens as Gang Leader (ep 2)

Louis Kent as incidental voices

Japanese companies

''Planning Cooperation:'' Image Works

''Production:''
  • Milky

  • Museum Pictures


''Production Cooperation:'' Studio Jam

English companies

''Distributor:'' Kitty Media

''Licensed by: Media Blasters

''Recording:'' Perfect Sound Studios


Episode 1: ''Black Brand''

Running time: 28 minutes


Episode 2: ''Black Altar''

Running time: 30 minutes


Series 3: ''New Testament''

Known titles:
  • ''Bible Black: New Testament''

  • ''Bible Black Revival''

  • ''Czarna ksiega, nowa historia'' (Polish)

  • ''New Bible Black: The Spear of Longinus''

  • ''Shin Bible Black: La Lanza de Longinus'' (Japanese)


Release dates:
  • 2004-04-25 (Episode 1)

  • 2004-10-25 (Episode 2)

  • 2005-03-25 (Episode 3)

  • 2005-10-25 (Episode 4)


Plot Summary ( from Anime News Network '''):'''
Bringing new meaning to Back in Black! Time has past since the Night of Walpurgis, and the girls of the Witchcraft Club have all graduated and made their way in the world. Imari has become a police woman, who serves as a psychic investigator on a series of horribly gruesome murder cases. Strangely, witnesses see a ghostly image that looks like the dead school nurse, Kitami, at the scene. Saeki restarts the Witchcraft Club with a new crop of girls, but is she fighting Kitami or helping her? Then the women of the psychic investigation squad are the target of murderous robbers, and the stress as likely to cause the devil in Miss Imari to emerge... from between her legs.

English staff

''Executive producer:'' Gary Sierra

Japanese companies

''Production:'' Milky

English companies

''Distributor:'' Kitty Media

''Licensed by:'' Media Blasters


Episode 1: ''Chapter I - Revival''

Running time: 29 minutes


Episode 2: ''Chapter II - Reunion''

Running time: 28 minutes


Episode 3: ''Chapter III - Rule''

Running time: 27 minutes


Episode 4: ''Chapter IV - Recollection''

Running time: 28 minutes


Series 4: ''Only''

Known titles:
  • ''Bible Black: Only''

  • ''Bible Black: Special.''



Episode 1

Running time: 24 minutes


Episode 2

Running time: 4 minutes


Episode 3

Running time: 4 minutes


Series 5: ''Box Compilation''

Known titles:
  • ''Bible Black: Box Compilation''



Episode 1

Running time: 83 minutes


Episode 2

Running time: 29 minutes


Episode 3

Running time: 25 minutes


Episode 4: ''Imari'' (dvd easter egg)

Running time: 10 minutes


STORY CHARACTERS


  • Reika Kitami


The school doctor. Twelve years ago, when she was a student, she was chosen as a sacrificial victim for a demon-summoning ritual by the witchcraft club. During this ritual, the club director went insane and murdered all of the participating members (Takashiro Hiroko was forcibly absent) before being stabbed by a dying Kitami. With so much blood shed, a demon was summoned, willing to grant one wish. Kitami, dying and in pain, wished to live, so the demon granted her wish - after a fashion. Kitami's body was healed, but in twelve years time, the corruption of her soul would cause her to die and she would be sent to hell. She realized that if she were able to switch bodies with someone, her original body (and any soul inside it) would be destroyed instead. Kitami's driving need to live becomes a major story plot for the "Bible Black" series.

  • Taki Minase


A young student who discovers the black magic book, "Bible Black", in an abandoned cellar. With this discovery, he becomes a pawn of powerful forces in a sinister plot. Although alluded to in La Lancza de Longinus, as of the fourth episode he has not yet appeared and his fate is unknown.
  • Kurumi Imari


A female student with a crush on Minase. As a virgin, she is chosen by the school nurse, Reika Kitami, for a mysterious plan. During the events of "Bible Black: La Lancza de Longinus", she is an agent for a government agency whose priority is to investigate supernatural events.
  • Takashiro Hiroko


A teacher. In her days as a student at the same school, she was a member of the witchcraft club. She is the only person apart from Reika Kitami to survive a terrible event involving the witchcraft club at that time. Before the events of "Bible Black: La Lancza de Longinus", she retired from education and became a nun.
  • Rika Shiraki


Prefect of her class, one of the members of the school council and the most popular girl of her class. Shiraki becomes embroiled in the sinister events revolving around the "Bible Black" when she is magically charmed by Minase. During the events of "Bible Black: La Lancza de Longinus", she is a teacher at the same school she attended.

  • Kaori Saeki


The student director of the current witchcraft club. Her hobby is, of course, dabbling into the arcane, such as the use of tarot cards and magic books. Realizing that Taki Minase had obtained a powerful book of magic, Saeki is determined to acquire it at any cost. During the events of "Bible Black: La Lanza de Longinus", Saeki is a teacher at the same college she attended and still secretly controls the witchcraft club.
  • Miyuki Nonogusa


Star of the swimming club. She is a classmate of Taki Minase.
  • Shinobu Kobayashi


The student director of the swimming club. She has a lesbian relationship with Mikimoto.
Kobayashi only appeared in the "Bible Black" adventure game, but she was later featured in the "Bible Black: Only" short stories.
  • Mikimoto


A member of the swimming club. She has a lesbian relationship with Shinobu Kobayashi. Mikimoto only appeared in the "Bible Black" adventure game, but she was later featured in the "Bible Black: Only" short stories.
  • Mika Itoh


A classmate of Taki Minase. In the game, she is the first victim of a spell from the Bible Black.
  • Yumiko Minase

  • The elder sister of Taki Minase. Seemingly employed in an unknown profession, she has a minor role in the overall story.

  • Ayumi Murai


A friend of Taki Minase and Kurumi Imari.