Bible Black
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is an eroge
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video game developed by ActiveSoft and published on July 14, 2000. Sei Shoujo is the original creator of the games artwork, character design and penned the original script for the game.
Milky Studio has since adapted the game into several hentai
original video animation
s. 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, Bible Black 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 Shoujo was involved with as he had left Active Soft by this time.
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 incantation
s. Sex, horror
imagery and human sacrifice
are common at the school and in the game.
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.
A high school student, Taki Minase, finds a strange book while exploring an abandoned room in the school's basement. With the help of his cousin, he translates the Latin-French writings and finds them to be instructions for dark magic, which is actually a form of Kabbalistic satanism (the translation was not mentioned in the OVA).
Using the magic, Minase is able to make Rika Shiraki love him, as well as help his friend, Ayumi Murai, to get the boy she loves to love her back. Reika Kitami, the school nurse, hears of his magical acts and decides to sway him to her cause since 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 deal with Satan. She now needs a virgin girl to act as a vessel for her reincarnation as the life that Satan has 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 with the book. After being possessed by a lesser demon, he brings Kitami with him and she takes over the Witchcraft Club.
Kitami holds private counseling sessions for girls, trying to find the virgin she needs. She reveals to Minase that the two girls she has had her eyes on were Shiraki and Minase's 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 tortures 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 abducted by Kitami, the lesser demon leaves Minase and he realizes 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, and Kitami plans to reincarnate herself in Imari. Kitami slits her wrists and has sexual intercourse with Imari as the reincarnation ritual demands, but Minase interrupts it and casts his spell on Kitami. This apparently causes the ritual to fail and Kitami to die from blood loss.
The series ends with Minase and Imari confessing their love for each other and having intercourse. Afterwards, Saeki is seen in the Witchcraft Club sanctuary, planning to steal the Bible Black, which was going to be left in there before the entrance was cemented over. Imari enters the room and destroys the Bible Black with a spell that causes it to burst into flames, then reveals herself to be a hermaphrodite, showing that Kitami's ritual was successful. Kitami then decides to test her new body out by raping Saeki.
All six episodes of Bible Black have since been re-cut as a 110 minute film titled .
, here we see Hiroko Takashiro and Reika Kitami as students at the school, and several new characters are also introduced. The first episode opens with two female students, Nami Kozono and her lover Junko Mochida, having sex in a classroom after school. In another classroom, Hiroko Takashiro and her two best friends Rie Morita and Saki Shindou are reading Tarot
cards. They receive a fortune reading: Great change is upon you. Something will change your life, completely. Soon, Nami Kozono interrupts the girls' Tarot reading, and ridicules them for their interest in Witchcraft
, though Hiroko warns Nami to be fearful of it.
The next day, the school receives a new transfer student, Reika Kitami, a beautiful but naive girl; meanwhile, Rie finds the titular Bible Black in an antique store and shares it with Hiroko and Saki. Here it is also revealed that the girls' request to start a Witchcraft club has been denied by Nami, who is the head of Student Council
.
Nami takes a strong interest in Reika, and flirts with her in the bathroom later that day, though she does not seem to understand it. When Reika does not return Nami's affection, her flirting soon turns into unwanted sexual advances. One day after school, Nami offers to tutor Reika in a class she is having trouble with, and ends up fondling her. Nami becomes furious when a humiliated Reika rejects her.
Hiroko and her friends begin to translate the Franco
-Latin
-Hebraic
text of the Bible Black, and to get revenge on Nami for forbidding them to start a Witchcraft club, the girls do their first experiment with magic on Nami's lover, Junko Mochida. As a test run, they cast a simple spell on Junko which causes her to masturbate
in front of the whole school in the middle of giving a speech. Their trio soon gains several followers after this, and Nami, concerned for her lover, becomes suspicious of them.
One day after school, Hiratani, an outcasted male student who is obsessed with Nami, asks Hiroko to put a spell on Nami to make her fall in love with him, and she does so. When Nami arrives at school the next day, sure enough, she runs to Hiratani and begins to flirt with him. She later meets him in the Student Council room during lunch, where they have sex many times. Hiroko, Rie and Saki look on through a window, amazed that their magic has worked.
After their sexual encounter, Nami, still under the spell, is eager to have sex with Hiratani again, and goes to Hiroko and her friends in desperation. She begs them to use their magic to make him love her forever. Hiroko says they will do this, if only Nami give the three girls a place to practice their rituals and perform their ceremonies in. Nami lets them use an old abandoned room (the very same room where Taki Minase would later find the book twelve years later) and Hiroko agrees to cast the spell. But instead, she casts a "release spell" on Nami, causing Nami to come to her senses and become furious, disgusted that she "fucked that filthy man", before storming out of the room.
Returning to school the next day, Nami is disgusted to find that Hiratani is still very much in love with her. She orders a group of thugs to beat him to unconsciousness on the street. With Hiratani gone, Nami starts to pursue Reika Kitami again, begging her to have sex with her in order to "purify" her body of Hiratani's scent. This causes Reika to finally lash out and slap Nami across the face, saying she is "totally crazy".
Hungry for revenge, both on Reika and Hiroko's trio (which is now called Rose Cross), Nami gains the trust of Hiroko, who allows her to join their club, amused at how eager Nami is to join them after initially berating them. For their first ritual, they decide to summon a demon
, in order to get Satan
on their side. For the sacrifice, they slaughter a puppy that Reika had befriended upon first coming to the school. However, the ritual goes horribly wrong and the demon proceeds to violently rape
Hiroko, thus sending her to a hospital.
In the meantime, with Walpurgis Night
fast approaching, Nami takes advantage of Hiroko's absence and makes herself the leader of Rose Cross. On the day of Walpurgis, she decides to use Reika as a virgin sacrifice that will open the Gates of Hell
. She has her thugs kidnap Reika and take her to a building, where they show her the carcass of the puppy the group had killed as a sacrifice. Nami allows the thugs to rape Reika while she and the group prepare for the ritual. As she leaves, she tells them that they can only engage in anal intercourse with Reika, in order to keep her status as a virgin. However, the thugs soon grow bored and begin to have vaginal intercourse with her anyway, unbeknownst to Nami. Meanwhile, Hiroko wakes up in the hosptial and, realizing that it is already Walpurgisnight, checks herself out. Upon returning, she urges the group to stop using magic, saying that its power is far too strong for them to handle. However, she fails to convince them, and is forcibly ousted by Nami and the rest of the group, and is placed by Rie and Saki in a closet until the ritual ends.
As the ritual begins, the group chants several spells until a naked Reika is finally stabbed with a large sword several times by Nami as the sacrifice. However, since Reika is no longer a virgin, the Gates of Hell react, but they do not open. The group slowly becomes terrified as they realize that they murdered Reika for nothing. Nami remains calm and demands they need more blood in order for the Gates to open. She goes into a murderous rage and begins to slaughter the other group members (including Hiroko's friends) with her sword until the Gates finally begin to open. Nami, dropping her sword on the ground, stands in front of the gates and begins to deliriously chant to Satan. But she is interrupted when Reika—severely injured and dying of blood loss, but alive—grabs the sword and, with the last of her strength, stabs Nami several times in the back until she falls to the ground dead. A frightened and traumatized Reika falls to the ground in front of the Gates and continues to die of her wounds. Satan
sees that she is frightened and dying, and asks her if she wants to live. He offers her a deal: he will let her live if only she give him her soul in return. Sobbing, she replies "I...I don't want to die...I don't want to die!", and she reluctantly accepts.
Moments later, Hiroko, having managed to free herself, hurries down to the basement, only to find that the ritual had ended, and that the members of Rose Cross (Nami, Rie, and Saki included) have been savagely slaughtered. The series ends with a visibly disturbed Reika, naked and bloodied from head to toe, roaming through the town at dawn. The scene fades out with a shot of her looking blissfully towards the sky, thus revealing herself to be the woman that Kurumi Imari and Taki Minase would meet twelve years later.
.
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: Reika Kitami 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 a possible future installment to the series.
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 , and in addition contain extended animation.
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PC
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video game developed by ActiveSoft and published on July 14, 2000. Sei Shoujo is the original creator of the games artwork, character design and penned the original script for the game.
Milky Studio has since adapted the game into several hentai
Hentai
is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and computer games. The word hentai is a kanji compound of 変 and 態...
original video animation
Original video animation
, abbreviated as media , are animated films and series made specially for release in home-video formats. The term originated in relation to Japanese animation...
s. 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
Prequel
A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...
to the events of Bible Black. In April 2004, Milky Studio produced a sequel
Sequel
A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...
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, Bible Black Only, consists of gaiden
Gaiden
is a Japanese-language word meaning "side story" or "tale", used to refer to an anecdote or supplementary biography of a person. This use of gaiden is commonly used in popular Japanese fiction to refer to a spin-off of a previously published work that is neither officially considered a sequel nor...
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 Shoujo 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 covenCoven
A coven or covan is a name used to describe a gathering of witches or in some cases vampires. Due to the word's association with witches, a gathering of Wiccans, followers of the witchcraft-based neopagan religion of Wicca, is also described as a coven....
twelve years prior to the premier installment. This "Witchcraft Club" practiced black magic
Black magic
Black magic is the type of magic that draws on assumed malevolent powers or is used with the intention to kill, steal, injure, cause misfortune or destruction, or for personal gain without regard to harmful consequences. As a term, "black magic" is normally used by those that do not approve of its...
in a storage room deep within the basement of the institute. Both teachers and students practice an occult
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...
religion involving incantation
Incantation
An incantation or enchantment is a charm or spell created using words. An incantation may take place during a ritual, either a hymn or prayer, and may invoke or praise a deity. In magic, occultism, witchcraft it may be used with the intention of casting a spell on an object or a person...
s. Sex, horror
Horror fiction
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imagery and human sacrifice
Human sacrifice
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual . Its typology closely parallels the various practices of ritual slaughter of animals and of religious sacrifice in general. Human sacrifice has been practised in various cultures throughout history...
are common at the school and in the game.
Characters
- The main character. A high school 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.
- 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. Note: She is black belt holder of shrinji kempo and very tough. She is good at cooking and takes care of Minase when Yukiko is away.
- 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.
- The mysterious, seductive school nurse and the main antagonist of the series. She seems to take a liking for Minase, and she knows about his experiments with black magic. She has a lengthy history. As a teenager with an innocent personality, she was a student at the school twelve years ago. After a long chain of events, she was eventually used as a sacrificial virgin in a ritual for the original Witchcraft Group (which was originally led by Miss Takashiro, though she left the group before the ritual). However, since she was in fact not a virgin (as a result of rape) at the time of the sacrifice, the ritual went horribly awry, causing the group's new leader to slaughter the other members in rage. Finally, the Gates of Hell start to open. Reika, having miraculously lived through being stabbed multiple times as the sacrifice, gets up from the alter and uses the last of her strength to kill the group's leader. She reluctantly agrees with SatanSatanSatan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
to make a contract with him, in order to stay alive. This turned her into the person she is now. Now, the time that Satan gave her to live is running out, and she is searching for a new female virgin body to use as a reincarnation. In order to do this, she holds special counseling sessions for the female students. Having the ability to turn her clitorisClitorisThe clitoris is a sexual organ that is present only in female mammals. In humans, the visible button-like portion is located near the anterior junction of the labia minora, above the opening of the urethra and vagina. Unlike the penis, which is homologous to the clitoris, the clitoris does not...
into a fully functioning penisPenisThe penis is a biological feature of male animals including both vertebrates and invertebrates...
, she has sex with the female student during the session in order to see if she is a virgin. After learning that Miss Takashiro was in fact the leader of the group that used her as a sacrifice (although she was not the leader when she was sacrificed), she seeks revenge on her and uses her in many torturous experiments.
- Minase’s classmate. She’s obsessed with the occult, and has established a new occult group based on the one from twelve 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.
- The head of the student council. Wealthy and untouchable, she’s very popular among the boys. She also has a crush on Minase.
- A member of Saeki’s occult club.
- A member of Saeki’s occult club.
- 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.
- Captain of the school swim team. She loathes Nonogusa.
- A member of the school swim team. One of Kobayashi’s flunkies.
- First presented to be his stepsister, she is actually Minase’s live-in cousin and guardian, with the two acting like siblings due to them being close. She’s a strong-willed person, and enjoys tormenting Minase as well as teasing him at home with flashyExhibitionismExhibitionism refers to a desire or compulsion to expose parts of one's body – specifically the genitals or buttocks of a man or woman, or the breasts of a woman – in a public or semi-public circumstance, in crowds or groups of friends or acquaintances, or to strangers...
outfits. Since she learned Latin and French in grad school, she helps Minase translate the contents of the book.
- 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.
- 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.
Bible Black: Origins Characters
- The main character. A mysterious, raven-haired lesbianLesbianLesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
who is the president of the school's Student CouncilStudent councilStudent council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...
. She is very popular with the boys, despite not being interested in men. She is first seen having sex with her lover, Junko Mochida. At first, she denies Takashiro and her friends permission to start the Witchcraft Club. However, this changes when Hiratami, an outcast male student obsessed with Nami, offers the club money to make Nami his. After the girls cast a love spell on her, Nami becomes obsessed with Hiratami and wants only to please him. After having sex with him many times in the Student Council room at school, Nami goes to the girls in desperation, asking them to make Hiratami have sex with her again. The girls say they will do this in the event that Nami give them a place to practice their rituals. Nami lets them use an old abandoned dungeon, but instead of casting a spell on Hiratami, they cast a "release spell" on Nami, which causes her to come to her senses and become furious. Eventually she joins the club and becomes their leader, in order to blindside them for making her have sex with Hiratami. She sets in motion the events of the original Bible Black.
- Nami Kozono's lover who is also a member of the Student Council. She refers to Nami affectionately as "Onee-sama" (Big sister). Junko is the group's first experiment with magic; she was put under a simple spell that caused her to masturbate in front of the whole school during a speech. This both caused Junko social rejection and caused Takashiro to establish the Witchcraft Group.
- Hiroko is a normal high school girl who is very interested in the occult. With her two best friends, Rie and Saki, she forms the school's first Witchcraft Group, which she calls "Rose Cross". To get revenge on Nami Kozono, the School Council president, who bans Hiroko and her friends to establish a Witchcraft Club, she and her friends do their first experiment with magic on Nami's lover, Junko Mochida. They cast a spell on her to cause her to masturbate in front of the whole school. After Nami Kozono gives the club an old dungeon to practice magic, they perform a ritual to summon a demonDemoncall - 1347 531 7769 for more infoIn Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an "unclean spirit" which may cause demonic possession, to be addressed with an act of exorcism...
, in order to get Satan on their side. However, the ritual goes horribly awry, and the demon proceeds to violently rape Hiroko, causing her to recover in a hospital. While she is recovering, Nami Kozono, having made herself the club's new leader, prepares to use Reika Kitami as a virgin sacrifice in a "Gate-Opening" ritual on Walpurgisnacht. Several days later, Hiroko realizes that it is Walpurgisnacht, and checks herself out of the hospital, hurrying to the group, trying to convince them to stop using magic, but to no avail. Nami, now hellbent on getting revenge on the group, has Rie and Saki lock Hiroko in a closet until the ritual ends. Later, having managed to free herself from the closet, she hurries back to the basement, only to realize that the ritual has ended, and the group (including Nami and Hiroko's friends) have all been brutally slaughtered.
- The pure, sexy, virginal transfer student. Nami takes a liking to her immediately, even going as far as to sexually assault her on many occasions after school. After a humiliated Reika rejects Nami's sexual advances, Nami, who has never been rejected by anyone, becomes angry, and after becoming the club's new leader, plans to use Reika as a virgin sacrifice in order to open the Gates of HellHellIn many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations...
. Nami first kills a puppy Reika had befriended as a sacrifice, and then allows a group of thugs to sodomize her (keeping her virginity intact) while they prepare for the ritual. However, the thugs eventually ignore Nami's command that they only engage in anal intercourse with Reika, and thus take her virginity without Nami knowing. When the ritual is ready and Reika is stabbed by Nami with a sword multiple times, the Gates of Hell react, but because Reika was no longer a virgin, they do not open. Nami goes hysterical and demands that they need more blood to open the gates. In a fit of insanity, Nami brutally slaughters the rest of the club until the Gates finally start to open. As Nami begins chanting before the gates, Reika, severely injured but alive, gets up and stabs her repeatedly in the back until she falls to the ground, dead. SatanSatanSatan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
, seeing Reika, visibly frightened and slowly dying of blood loss, offers her a deal. He offers to let her live if she makes a contract with himDeal with the DevilDeal With The Devil is the fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band Lizzy Borden released in 2000 .A return to form, featuring a cover by Todd McFarlane.2 covers were recorded...
, which she accepts.
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 NightWalpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night is a traditional spring festival on 30 April or 1 May in large parts of Central and Northern Europe. It is often celebrated with dancing and with bonfires. It is exactly six months from All Hallows' Eve.-Name:...
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
English language
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in 2006, under the name Bible Black: The Game after Active-soft ceased operations.
Bible Black: La Noche de Walpurgis
is the eponymous first OVA adaption of the video game.A high school student, Taki Minase, finds a strange book while exploring an abandoned room in the school's basement. With the help of his cousin, he translates the Latin-French writings and finds them to be instructions for dark magic, which is actually a form of Kabbalistic satanism (the translation was not mentioned in the OVA).
Using the magic, Minase is able to make Rika Shiraki love him, as well as help his friend, Ayumi Murai, to get the boy she loves to love her back. Reika Kitami, the school nurse, hears of his magical acts and decides to sway him to her cause since 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 deal with Satan. She now needs a virgin girl to act as a vessel for her reincarnation as the life that Satan has 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 with the book. After being possessed by a lesser demon, he brings Kitami with him and she takes over the Witchcraft Club.
Kitami holds private counseling sessions for girls, trying to find the virgin she needs. She reveals to Minase that the two girls she has had her eyes on were Shiraki and Minase's 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 tortures 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 abducted by Kitami, the lesser demon leaves Minase and he realizes 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, and Kitami plans to reincarnate herself in Imari. Kitami slits her wrists and has sexual intercourse with Imari as the reincarnation ritual demands, but Minase interrupts it and casts his spell on Kitami. This apparently causes the ritual to fail and Kitami to die from blood loss.
The series ends with Minase and Imari confessing their love for each other and having intercourse. Afterwards, Saeki is seen in the Witchcraft Club sanctuary, planning to steal the Bible Black, which was going to be left in there before the entrance was cemented over. Imari enters the room and destroys the Bible Black with a spell that causes it to burst into flames, then reveals herself to be a hermaphrodite, showing that Kitami's ritual was successful. Kitami then decides to test her new body out by raping Saeki.
All six episodes of Bible Black have since been re-cut as a 110 minute film titled .
Cast and characters
| Character | Japanese actor | English actor |
|---|---|---|
| Taki Minase | Osamu Tokita, Takuya Hiramatsu (first two episodes only) | Chris Sasson |
| Kurumi Imari | Kaori Nishijima | Josephine Clemens |
| Hiroko Takashiro | Nagisa Futami, Akemi Kimura (first two episodes only) | |
| Rika Shiraki | Rika Koyama | Cinthia Gough |
| Kaori Saeki | Haruna Kanbayashi | Michelle Duhard |
| Reika Kitami | Michiru Shirozaki | Christie Tibodeaux |
| Mika Ito | Kimika Sasa | Louise Moran |
| Yukiko Minase | Kanan Yuzuki |
Episodes
| # | Title | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bible Black: Origins
is the game's second OVA adaption, released on May 25, 2002. Set about twelve years before the events of the original OVAPrequel
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, here we see Hiroko Takashiro and Reika Kitami as students at the school, and several new characters are also introduced. The first episode opens with two female students, Nami Kozono and her lover Junko Mochida, having sex in a classroom after school. In another classroom, Hiroko Takashiro and her two best friends Rie Morita and Saki Shindou are reading Tarot
Tarot
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cards. They receive a fortune reading: Great change is upon you. Something will change your life, completely. Soon, Nami Kozono interrupts the girls' Tarot reading, and ridicules them for their interest in Witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
, though Hiroko warns Nami to be fearful of it.
The next day, the school receives a new transfer student, Reika Kitami, a beautiful but naive girl; meanwhile, Rie finds the titular Bible Black in an antique store and shares it with Hiroko and Saki. Here it is also revealed that the girls' request to start a Witchcraft club has been denied by Nami, who is the head of Student Council
Student council
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.
Nami takes a strong interest in Reika, and flirts with her in the bathroom later that day, though she does not seem to understand it. When Reika does not return Nami's affection, her flirting soon turns into unwanted sexual advances. One day after school, Nami offers to tutor Reika in a class she is having trouble with, and ends up fondling her. Nami becomes furious when a humiliated Reika rejects her.
Hiroko and her friends begin to translate the Franco
French language
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-Latin
Latin
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-Hebraic
Hebrew language
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text of the Bible Black, and to get revenge on Nami for forbidding them to start a Witchcraft club, the girls do their first experiment with magic on Nami's lover, Junko Mochida. As a test run, they cast a simple spell on Junko which causes her to masturbate
Masturbation
Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation of a person's own genitals, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation can be performed manually, by use of objects or tools, or by some combination of these methods. Masturbation is a common form of autoeroticism...
in front of the whole school in the middle of giving a speech. Their trio soon gains several followers after this, and Nami, concerned for her lover, becomes suspicious of them.
One day after school, Hiratani, an outcasted male student who is obsessed with Nami, asks Hiroko to put a spell on Nami to make her fall in love with him, and she does so. When Nami arrives at school the next day, sure enough, she runs to Hiratani and begins to flirt with him. She later meets him in the Student Council room during lunch, where they have sex many times. Hiroko, Rie and Saki look on through a window, amazed that their magic has worked.
After their sexual encounter, Nami, still under the spell, is eager to have sex with Hiratani again, and goes to Hiroko and her friends in desperation. She begs them to use their magic to make him love her forever. Hiroko says they will do this, if only Nami give the three girls a place to practice their rituals and perform their ceremonies in. Nami lets them use an old abandoned room (the very same room where Taki Minase would later find the book twelve years later) and Hiroko agrees to cast the spell. But instead, she casts a "release spell" on Nami, causing Nami to come to her senses and become furious, disgusted that she "fucked that filthy man", before storming out of the room.
Returning to school the next day, Nami is disgusted to find that Hiratani is still very much in love with her. She orders a group of thugs to beat him to unconsciousness on the street. With Hiratani gone, Nami starts to pursue Reika Kitami again, begging her to have sex with her in order to "purify" her body of Hiratani's scent. This causes Reika to finally lash out and slap Nami across the face, saying she is "totally crazy".
Hungry for revenge, both on Reika and Hiroko's trio (which is now called Rose Cross), Nami gains the trust of Hiroko, who allows her to join their club, amused at how eager Nami is to join them after initially berating them. For their first ritual, they decide to summon a demon
Demon
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, in order to get Satan
Satan
Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
on their side. For the sacrifice, they slaughter a puppy that Reika had befriended upon first coming to the school. However, the ritual goes horribly wrong and the demon proceeds to violently rape
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...
Hiroko, thus sending her to a hospital.
In the meantime, with Walpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night
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fast approaching, Nami takes advantage of Hiroko's absence and makes herself the leader of Rose Cross. On the day of Walpurgis, she decides to use Reika as a virgin sacrifice that will open the Gates of Hell
Hell
In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations...
. She has her thugs kidnap Reika and take her to a building, where they show her the carcass of the puppy the group had killed as a sacrifice. Nami allows the thugs to rape Reika while she and the group prepare for the ritual. As she leaves, she tells them that they can only engage in anal intercourse with Reika, in order to keep her status as a virgin. However, the thugs soon grow bored and begin to have vaginal intercourse with her anyway, unbeknownst to Nami. Meanwhile, Hiroko wakes up in the hosptial and, realizing that it is already Walpurgisnight, checks herself out. Upon returning, she urges the group to stop using magic, saying that its power is far too strong for them to handle. However, she fails to convince them, and is forcibly ousted by Nami and the rest of the group, and is placed by Rie and Saki in a closet until the ritual ends.
As the ritual begins, the group chants several spells until a naked Reika is finally stabbed with a large sword several times by Nami as the sacrifice. However, since Reika is no longer a virgin, the Gates of Hell react, but they do not open. The group slowly becomes terrified as they realize that they murdered Reika for nothing. Nami remains calm and demands they need more blood in order for the Gates to open. She goes into a murderous rage and begins to slaughter the other group members (including Hiroko's friends) with her sword until the Gates finally begin to open. Nami, dropping her sword on the ground, stands in front of the gates and begins to deliriously chant to Satan. But she is interrupted when Reika—severely injured and dying of blood loss, but alive—grabs the sword and, with the last of her strength, stabs Nami several times in the back until she falls to the ground dead. A frightened and traumatized Reika falls to the ground in front of the Gates and continues to die of her wounds. Satan
Satan
Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
sees that she is frightened and dying, and asks her if she wants to live. He offers her a deal: he will let her live if only she give him her soul in return. Sobbing, she replies "I...I don't want to die...I don't want to die!", and she reluctantly accepts.
Moments later, Hiroko, having managed to free herself, hurries down to the basement, only to find that the ritual had ended, and that the members of Rose Cross (Nami, Rie, and Saki included) have been savagely slaughtered. The series ends with a visibly disturbed Reika, naked and bloodied from head to toe, roaming through the town at dawn. The scene fades out with a shot of her looking blissfully towards the sky, thus revealing herself to be the woman that Kurumi Imari and Taki Minase would meet twelve years later.
Cast and characters
| Character | Japanese actor | English actor |
|---|---|---|
| Mochida Junko | Midori Sakioka | Cynthia Gough |
| Seiji "Hiratani" Hiraya | Yasuteru Momozawa | Fred Arons |
| Hiroko Takashiro | Nagisa Futami | Michelle Duhard |
| Nami Kozono | Kaori Sanada | Christie Tibodeaux |
| Saki Shidou | Yoko Iwatani | Mike Cruise |
| Reika Kitami | Michiru Shirozaki | Josephine Clemens |
| Rie Morita | Noriko Kitani | Patty Comeau |
Episodes
| # | Title | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bible Black: New Testament
, 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 intercourseSexual intercourse
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.
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
Prostitution
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" 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: Reika Kitami 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 a possible future installment to the series.
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
R
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".
All six episodes of New Testament have since been re-cut as a 120 minute film titled , and in addition contain extended animation.
Episodes
| # | Title | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bible Black Only
consists of seven short films, which depict sexual side stories that take place around the time of the original series.Episodes
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External links
- Official Region 1 website for the game at Kitty Media
- Screenshots and reviews of the game at Universal Videogame List