Plot :
Junior high school student Shōyō Hinata gains a sudden love of volleyball
after seeing a national championship match on TV. Although short in
height, he becomes determined to follow in the footsteps of the
championship's star player, nicknamed the "Small Giant", after seeing
his plays. He creates a volleyball club and begins practicing by
himself. Eventually five other members join the team by his last year of
middle school, but they are defeated in their first tournament after
being challenged by the championship favorite team, which includes the
so-called "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama, in the first round. Though
Hinata's team suffers a miserable defeat, he vows to eventually surpass
Kageyama and defeat him.Black Bullet (ブラック・ブレット Burakku Buretto?) is a Japanese light novel series written by Shiden Kanzaki and illustrated by Saki Ukai, published under ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Bunko imprint. The series began publication on July 10, 2011, and 5 volumes have been published as of October 2013. A manga series began serialization on August 27, 2012 in ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Maoh. An anime adaptation by Kinema Citrus and Orange was announced at Dengeki Bunko's Autumn Festival 2013 on October 6, 2013 and started airing on April 8, 2014.
Plot :
In the year 2021, mankind was decimated by the epidemic of Gastrea, a parasitical virus, and is forced to live within Monoliths, which are created from Varanium: a metal that is able to subdue Gastrea. Soon, the "Cursed Children", children born with the Gastrea virus who are able to control it, which gives them superhuman abilities, are discovered. Due to the Gastrea virus' intervention, the Cursed Children could only be female. Civil Securities are formed to specialize fighting against Gastrea, operating with the pair of an Initiator, who are cursed children, and a Promoter, serving to lead the cursed children. Ten years after the epidemic, Rentarō Satomi, a high school student who is also a Promoter in his childhood friend Kisara Tendō's Tendō Civil Security, along with his Initiator Enju Aihara, receives a secret mission to prevent the Tokyo Area's destruction.