Black Bullet
Crunchyroll has filled another slot in their spring 2014 anime lineup with the announcement of Black Bullet joining the ranks of shows they’ll be simulcasting. The series is set to debut on Tuesday, April 8th, at 12:30pm ET for premium members while free members will get the show a week later. Black Bullet is one of several light novels that’s part of the Dengeki Bunko library that they’re turning into anime form these days in order to bolster their position in the market. The original work had its sixth volume released this past October, which is when the anime adaptation was first announced. The property began back in the summer of 2011 from Shiden Kanaki and Saku Ukai and it has some great names behind it with Masayuki Kojima directing based on scripts by Tatsuhiko Urahata with character designs by Chihi Umishima.
The show has some decent availability to it with it being open (with caveats in certain territories) to viewers in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, Latin America, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Middle East, the Arab League, France and DOM/TOM, Belgium, Switzerland, Andorra, Luxembourg, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco. (Please note that French-speaking territories have a 6-month holdback).
Plot concept: Based on the light novel written by Shiden Kanzaki and illustrated by Saki Ukai, Black Bullet takes place in an alternate future where mankind was defeated by a parasitic virus, called Gastrea. Humanity is now forced to live within walls made of material that is able to subdue the Gastrea virus. Soon, children with the ability to control the Gastrea virus, a consequence of being born with the virus inside them, are discovered, and are used to fight against the Gastrea in Civil Securities teams that pair them with a normal human.