Black Bullet

Black Bullet is an anime about humans and a virus called Gastrea. This virus turns its victims into monsters. However, Gastrea has one weakness: a material known as Varanium. To combat the Gastrea virus, there are female children known as Initiators, also referred to as "Cursed Children." The Initiators' bodies have minute amounts of Gastrea, granting them superhuman powers. Initiators are assigned partners, called Promoters, whose role is to protect their Initiator. One such pair is that of Enju Aihara (Initiator) and Satomi Rentaro (Promoter), who fight Gastrea in Tokyo.¹

Improper Clothing and Pedophilia

There are some immodest things in this show. For example, girls wear short skirts, and there are bathing scenes². This anime sexualizes the young girls, and this is not godly! One blog notes that the show hypersexualizes loli (that is, young female) characters.³

The Scriptures instruct women to dress modestly (1 Timothy 2:9). Yet, this anime not only goes contrary to that, but it actually takes it further and is pedophilic! I have a post I wrote about why pedophilia is evil and disgusting, according to the Bible, which you can read here.

Fighting Demons With Demonic Power

Enju has a superhuman power, called "physique", which gives her legs incredible strength.⁴ Those who are infected by Gastrea turn into monsters,² which are demonic entities. If you recall from earlier, the Initiators have small traces of the Gastrea virus in themselves. This anime promotes the idea that one can use devilish powers to, apparently, defeat evil (demons)!

However, God is clear when He states that we cannot "drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils" (1 Corinthians 10:21). We must choose one or the other! You cannot use demonic power and expect to be in the right. And since, as Christians, we must also make a choice, we ought to partake with the things of God, not with the "unfruitful works of darkness" (Ephesians 5:11)!

Violence

Additionally, there is violence and gore in this show. According to IMDb, some people are stabbed and shot.² "There is a fight scene between a woman and a man,[ ]the woman cuts his leg off".² Does this seem like the type of content that Jesus Christ would have His people watch? Did Jesus or the Apostles ever go to the Colosseum to watch people be murdered and killed?

No! Violence should not be used for entertainment. The Bible states that one reason God destroyed the old world with a flood was because "the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11). Who are you going to follow? God, or entertainment? Who is your authority? The Word of the LORD, or the currently accepted norm of media?

Profanity

Lastly, the anime has some bad language.² Obviously, I will not be giving any examples, but the Bible does tell us that what we allow ourselves to listen to matters. It is a biblical principle that "evil communications corrupt good manners" (1 Corinthians 15:33). If we want to have "good manners", we need to stay away from "evil communication"!

You cannot flee from the evil communications and still pump your mind full of impure things (see Philippians 4:8). For this reason, we are to keep ourselves from this anime!

Conclusion

For these reasons, I conclude that Black Bullet is an anime that God would condemn. I believe that Christians should not be involved with this show, and especially should not consume it. May we heed the Scripture's warning and purify the things we let our eyes look at.

Sources:

1. "Black Bullet." MyAnimeList,  myanimelist.net/anime/20787/Black_Bullet. Accessed 7/25/2025.

2. "Black Bullet: Parents guide." IMDb, imdb.com/title/tt3257166/parentalguide. Accessed 7/25/2025.

3. "The Lolis of the Apocalypse – Anime Critique: Black Bullet." And The Geek Shall (Inherit the Earth), 7/21/2025, andthegeekshall.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/its-the-lolis-of-the-apocalypse-anime-critique-black-bullet. Accessed 7/25/2025.

4. "Enju Aihara." Black Bullet Wiki, blackbullet.fandom.com/wiki/Enju_Aihara. Accessed 7/25/2025.