Bible Black (バイブルブラック, Baiburuburakku^?) is an eroge video game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by ActiveSoft. Sei Shoujyo is the original creator of the games artwork, character design and penned the original script for the game. It was published on July 14, 2000.^[3]

Milky Studio has since adapted the game into several hentai original video animations. The first adaption, simply titled Bible Black, consisted of six episodes animating numerous scenes from the video game. The following year, a two-episode OVA titled Bible Black: Origins was released, which served as a prequel to the events of Bible Black. In April 2004 Milky Studio produced a sequel series titled Bible Black: New Testament, which follows the exploits of the original characters ten years after Bible Black takes place. The latest OVA adaption, Only, consists of gaiden stories explaining what happened to various characters during the plot of Bible Black.

The Japanese game was republished in 2006 as Bible Black Slim featuring extended scenes, followed by a short sequel named Bible Black Infection in 2008. Neither of which the games original artist/writer Sei Shoujyo was involved with as he had left Active Soft by this time.

Setting

The game takes place in a high school rumored to have been the base of operations for a coven twelve years prior to the premier installment. This "Witchcraft Club" practiced black magic in a storage room deep within the basement of the institute. Both teachers and students practice an occult religion involving incantations. Sex, horror imagery and human sacrifice are common at the school and in the game.

Characters

Taki Minase (水無瀬 多喜, Minase Taki^?)

The main character. A college student who discovers the black magic book (known as the "Bible Black") in an abandoned school basement. With this discovery, he becomes a pawn of powerful forces in a sinister plot.

Kurumi Imari (伊万里 胡桃, Imari Kurumi^?)

Minase’s childhood friend and de facto girlfriend. She comes over to wake Minase up every morning. She knows everything about Minase, and tries to help him in every way.

Hiroko Takashiro (高城 寛子, Takashiro Hiroko^?)

The school art professor. She’s in charge of the art club, which both Minase and Imari are part of. She’s very popular among the students for her good looks and personality.

Reika Kitami (北見 麗華, Kitami Reika^?)

The campus doctor. Minase doesn’t really like her. She’s a mysterious character. The rumors that are going around about her are not good ones.

Kaori Saeki (佐伯 香織Saeki Kaori^?)

Minase’s classmate. She’s obsessed with the occult, and has established a new occult group based on the one from 12 years ago. She knows a lot about black magic, and her fortune telling is very popular. She becomes interested in Minase after learning about Minase possessing the book.

Rika Shiraki (白木 里香, Shiraki Rika^?)

The head of the student council. Wealthy and untouchable, she’s very popular among the boys. She also has a crush on Minase.

Jun Amatsuki (天月 純, Amatsuki Jun^?)

A member of Saeki’s occult club.

Maki Kurimoto (栗本 真紀, Kurimoto Maki^?)

A member of Saeki’s occult club.

Miyuki Nonogusa (野々草美由紀 (ののぐさみゆき) ^?)

A member of the school swim team. She was once in the same class as Minase. The other members of the swim team envy her.

Shinobu Kobayashi (小林 忍, Kobayashi Shinobu^?)

Captain of the school swim team. She loathes Nonogusa.

Mikimoto (美樹本^?)

A member of the school swim team. One of Kobayashi’s flunkies.

Yukiko Minase (水無瀬 由起子, Minase Yukiko^?)

Minase’s live-in cousin and guardian, and the two act like siblings. She’s a strong-willed person, and enjoys tormenting her younger brother and likes teasing Minase at home with flashy outfits. Since she learned Latin and French in grad school, she helps Minase translate the contents of the book.

Mika Ito (伊藤 美香, Itō Mika^?)

Minase’s classmate and one of Saeki’s followers. She defends Saeki when Minase makes fun of her. She’s the first victim of Minase's practice of the book.

Ayumi Murai (村井 亜由美, Murai Ayumi^?)

Minase’s classmate and one of Saeki’s followers. She finds out that Minase can use black magic, and asks him to chant an incantation for her.

Characters from the Origins

Video game

Taki Minase, a high school student, finds a book of black magic in the isolated storage room of his school. He begins practicing black magic, which has extreme sexual effects that benefit him and his friends, until evil comes forth from the dark craft. Eventually, the origins of the book are revealed, as is the incident on Walpurgis Night twelve years prior, when the evil force was at its strongest. After coming to his senses, Minase struggles to get himself out of the darkness into which he has put himself and his best friend and secret love, Kurumi Imari.

The game has twelve different endings and the storyline often diverges based on choices made by the player, which influence "neutral" endings, "chaos" endings and "law" endings. However, there is only one outcome regarded by its developers as the "true" ending. Bible Black was published in English in 2006, under the name Bible Black: The Game after Active-soft ceased operations.

Anime

"The Night Of Walpurgis"

Bible Black

Bible Black (バイブルブラック, Baiburuburakku^?, Bible Black) is the eponymous first OVA adaption of the video game. At what seems to be a fairly ordinary high school, dark secrets unfold. Normal student, Taki Minase, finds a strange book when exploring an un-used room of the school. With the help of his stepsister he translates the Latin-French writings and finds them to be instructions for dark magic, which is actually a form of Satanism.

Using the magic, Minase is able to change the feelings of Rika Shiraki towards him as well as help his friend, Murai, to get the boy she loves to love her back. Reika Kitami, the school nurse, hears of his magical acts and decides to convince him onto her side as she needs the book for herself. Twelve years prior, Kitami was used as a sacrifice for the previous witchcraft club and only survived after making a contract with the devil. She now needs a virgin girl to act as a vessel for her reincarnation as the life that Satan had given her is running out. Kaori Saeki, the head of the new Witchcraft club, also notes Minase's magic acts and persuades him to come to one of her meetings along with the book. After being possessed by a lesser demon, he goes along with Kitami who takes over the witchcraft club.

Kitami holds private counselling sessions for girls, trying to find the virgin girl she needs. She reveals to Minase that the two girls she had her eyes on were his new girlfriend Shiraki and his childhood friend, Kurumi Imari. However, since Shiraki is no longer a virgin (thanks to Minase) Kitami pursues Imari, who has been missing school recently after walking in on Minase and Shiraki during intercourse. Kitami also regularly kidnaps the art teacher, Hiroko Takashiro, and performs sexual totures on her after finding out that Takashiro was the head of the Witchcraft club that had sacrificed her, even though Takashiro had left the circle prior to the ritual.

After Imari is taken by Kitami and Saeki, the lesser demon leaves Minase and he realises that he loves Imari and must save her. With the help of Takashiro and the Bible Black, he finds a spell Takashiro believes will stop Kitami's evil scheme. By this point, it is Walpurgis Night once again when Kitami is going to reincarnate herself in Imari. Kitami slits her wrists and has sexual intercourse with Imari in order to reincarnate herself, but Minase interrupts the ritual and casts the spell on Kitami. It seems that this causes the ritual to fail, and then Kitami to die from blood loss.

The series ends with Minase and Imari confessing their love for each other and having intercourse. After this, you see Saeki in the witchcraft club sanctuary holding the Bible Black which was going to be left in there as it was cemented in. Imari enters the basement and reveals herself to Saeki as Kitami reincarnated and suggesting to "test my new body on you".

All six episodes of Bible Black have since been re-cut as a 110 minute film titled Bible Black Complete Version (バイブルブラック: 完全版, Baiburuburakku Kanzenban^?).

Cast and characters

Episodes

Bible Black: Origins

Bible Black: Origins (バイブルブラック: 外伝, Baiburuburakku: Gaiden^?, Bible Black: Side Story) is the game's second OVA adaption, released on May 25, 2002. Before the events of Bible Black, Takashiro and Kitami were still high school students. Takashiro starts the first Magic Club and then they find the Black Book, in an antique bookstore. Her experimentation with its black magic powers escalates to include the whole school. Kitami, the pure sexy virginal transfer student, is also caught up and corrupted by the ensuing debauchery.

Cast and characters

Episodes

Bible Black: New Testament

Bible Black: New Testament (新バイブルブラック, Shin Baiburuburakku^?, New Bible Black) (subtitled "The Spear Of Longinus"), is the third installment of the OVA series. Years have passed since Walpurgis Night, and the girls of the Witchcraft Club have all graduated and made their way in the world. Both Shiraki and Saeki become teachers at their school, while Takashiro becomes a nun. Imari has become a police woman, who serves as a psychic investigator in the Tokken division. Her team is looking into a series of horribly gruesome murder cases that all happened during sexual intercourse.

Strangely, witnesses see a ghostly figure at the crime scenes. Saeki restarts the Witchcraft Club with a new crop of girls, but it's unclear at first, if she is fighting Kitami or helping her. Meanwhile, Imari and her Tokken subordinate, Aki, are caught up in a bank robbery conducted by occult robbers. An impromptu ceremony performed at the scene causes Kitami to take over the possessed Imari. In the aftermath, Imari steals the Lance of Longinus from the bank vault that the robbers were after.

Imari/Kitami has found the virginal "Scarlet woman" in Aki. She indulges in the sexual ceremony with her using the Lance of Longinus. Meanwhile, the ghostly figure, identified as Jody Crowley, and Takashiro both interfere with the ceremony but with different intentions. The Lance becomes permanently lodged within Aki's vagina and she is now targeted by the various forces of black magic.

The final ceremony climaxes with the black magic forces of Imari/Kitami and Jody Crowley competing over the Scarlet woman. Attacks fly all around while Takashiro and Captain Yuge struggle to defeat both of them and end the dark ceremony. When Jody seems to emerge triumphant, the Lance of Longinus reappears out of Aki and reanimates the original grimoire, Bible Black. The devil emerges to take the souls of contract: Kitami Reika and Jody Crowley. A final effort by Takashiro manages to seal the grimoire while Jody's soul is taken and Kitami manages to possess Jody's body instead. The final scene seems peaceful with everybody content with the world, but in one of the final shots, we see that Aki's laptop screen saver happens to be several images of a menacing Kitami, hinting that there may be a third season.

Most of the characters from Bible Black return in New Testament, however, Minase doesn't appear and is only mentioned once. It is possible that under the influence of Kitami, Imari killed Minase even before the events of New Testament since Kitami did mention to Minase that she would kill him after possessing Imari's body. It is also possible that Takashiro had something to do with his disappearance, since during episode 3, Kitami/Imari blames Takashiro for taking "my Minase away from me." Each episode of New Testament has a title beginning with the letter "R".

All six episodes of New Testament have since been re-cut as a 120 minute film titled New Bible Black Complete Version: Restored ~Rinne~ (新バイブルブラック完全版 Restored 〜輪廻〜, Shin Baiburuburakku Kanzenban Restored ~ Rinne ~^?), and in addition contain extended animation.

Episodes

Bible Black Only

Bible Black Only (バイブルブラック・オンリー版, Bible Black オンリー版^?) consists of seven short films, which depict sexual side stories that take place around the time of the original series.

Episodes

Episode 1

• "Takashiro Hiroko Hen: Shokuin Toire de..." (高城寛子編：職員トイレで…, "At the Faculty Room Toilet…"^?).^[4][7][8] Takashiro-sensei is assaulted by the vice principal while she is masturbating in a toilet stall.
• "Itō & Suieibu Hen: Himitsu no Tokkun" (伊藤＆水泳部編：秘密の特訓, "Secret Lesson"^?).^[4][7][8] Various students—mostly members of the girls swim team—have an orgy in the girls locker room.
• "Saeki Hen: Jitsuroku Kōishitsu" (佐伯編：実録・更衣室, "Events in the Locker Room"^?).^[4][7][8] Saeki masturbates in the shower after swim practice, and is then joined by two male students. "Saeki Hen: Jitsuroku Kōishitsu" was originally released with the movie on 25 September 2003.^[9][10]

Imari Ryōjoku Genba

• Imari stays late at school, and is sexually assaulted by a male student.

Episode 2

• "Saeki Hen: Dōtei Kari / Inbusuru Akuma-tachi" (佐伯編：童貞狩り 淫舞する悪魔達, "Virgin Hunting/Obscene Dance of the Devils"^?).^[6][7][8] Members of the magic club gather virgins' semen for a black magic spell.
• "Yukiko Hen: Himitsu no Chōkyō" (由紀子編：秘密の調教, "Secret Torture"^?).^[6][7][8] After the incident with her stepbrother in episode 2, Yukiko Minase can not control her lust, and ends up being sexually dominated by one of her professors.
• "Takashiro Hen: Sore wa Sensei..." (高城編：それはセンセイ…, "That's a Teacher"^?).^[6][7][8] Takashiro-sensei fantasizes about an orgy with her male students. "Takashiro Hen: Sore wa Sensei..." was originally released with the movie on 25 September 2003.^[9][10]

Notes

1. ^ "Bible Black -La noche de walpurgis-関連商品" (in Japanese). Getchu.com. p. 2. http://www.getchu.com/php/search.phtml?search_reference_id=215761&sort2=&sort=&pageID=2. Retrieved 30 December 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Bible Black コンプリートBOX" (in Japanese). Getchu.com. http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=215761. Retrieved 29 December 2009. 
3. ^ "Bible Black -La noche de walpurgis-" (in Japanese). Getchu.com. http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=1152. Retrieved 30 December 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} "BibleBlack オンリー版 VOL.1 高城寛子編・伊藤＆水泳部・佐伯編" (in Japanese). DMM. http://www.dmm.co.jp/rental/-/detail/=/cid=22dmlk6247/. Retrieved 29 December 2009.  (Click the cover image thumbnail.)
5. ^ I timed it myself—10 minutes 18 seconds.
6. ^ ^{a b c d} "BibleBlack オンリー版 VOL.2 由起子編・佐伯編・高城編" (in Japanese). DMM. http://www.dmm.co.jp/rental/-/detail/=/cid=22dmlk6644/. Retrieved 29 December 2009.  (Click the cover image thumbnail.)
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "BIBLE BLACK ONLY" (in Japanese). Erotoku DVD (エロとくDVD). http://www.erotoku-dvd.com/contents/dvd.php?NUM=10704. Retrieved 29 December 2009. 
8. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Full Cast – Bible Black Only (OVA) (episodes 1 to 6)". Crystal Acids. http://www.crystalacids.org/database/title/1249/bible-black-only/fullcast/. Retrieved 30 December 2009. 
9. ^ ^{a b} "BibleBlack 完全版" (in Japanese). MS Pictures. http://www.ms-pictures.com/label/milky/products/detail.php?id=118. Retrieved 29 December 2009. 
10. ^ ^{a b} "BibleBlack 完全版" (in Japanese). DMM. http://www.dmm.co.jp/rental/ppr/-/detail/=/cid=22mlk0659/. Retrieved 29 December 2009.  (Click the cover image thumbnail.)

External links

• Official Region 1 website for the game at Kitty Media
• Bible Black (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Bible Black Only (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Bible Black Only (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Bible Black: New Testament (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Screenshots and reviews of the game at Universal Videogame List
• Bible Black at the Internet Movie Database
• Bible Black Origins at the Internet Movie Database