Is Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha (Darker than Black: The Black Contractor) is a TV series from Spring 2007 by Bones Inc.: 25 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 8.16/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 25
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2007
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Bones Inc.
- Score
- 8.16/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, urban fantasy, cooking, crime, detective, drama, episodic, martial arts, gore, love triangle, magic, mystery, post-apocalyptic, superpowers, psychological, sci-fi, seinen, shoujo, supernatural, time travel, tragedy, violence, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: DARKER THAN BLACK -Black Contractor-; Darker Than Black.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha?
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha?
- About 10 hours for all 25 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha have?
- 25 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha finished?
- Yes, Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha is finished (25 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha listed?
- Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha is on AniList (id 2025) and MyAnimeList (id 2025); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists