"The Devil's Black Rabbit of an Unknown Time.", aka, "A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives."
Kurogane Taito is a freshman in Miyasaka High. Being rendered unable to perform karate due to an accident, he believed himself to be a normal guy. But an accident that should have killed him occurred. And the lost memories of a childhood love with the vampire, Most Ancient Sorcerer, Saitohimea, came flooding back from nine years ago. Soon he was once again plunged into the mysterious, with the destinies of their allies and foes already woven and foretold in an ancient prophecy of epic proportions.
Based on a Light Novel by Takaya Kagami of The Legend of the Legendary Heroes and later Seraph of the End fame and illustrated by Yuu Kamiya, it has an ongoing manga illustrated by Shiori Asahina, and an anime series for the summer of 2011 produced by ZEXCS. It also has a Spin-Off series, Kurenai Gekkou no Seitokaishitsu (Gekkou Kurenai's Student Council Room).
This show provides examples of:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Magical version happens at episode 4 & 5. And it's on the level of SHODAN.
- To elaborate, in episode 4, Himea is revealed to have a male personality called Bahlskra, made by Himea herself in order to ward off her loneliness. It goes apeshit over Taito by taking over Himea and attempts to kill Taito multiple times.
- In episode 5 the rapture (or Bliss, depending on the translation) spell, also made by Himea herself sometime in the past, goes Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds over Taito. Much of the episode 5 is spent on Taito's attempt to recover Himea's true personality, despite endless attempts of seduction to the point of Himea being fully naked last half of the episode.
- Age Without Youth: Taito has an (Immortality only) version of immortality.
- Artifact Title: Inverted for the anime adaptation. the Black Rabbit isn't awakened yet as of the last episode of the anime adaptation.
- Bland-Name Product: The soft drink Dr. Cinnamon.
- Breather Episode: episode 12. MUCH Hilarity Ensues, especially on the guys' part.
- Cast from Hit Points: Kurogane Taito can use a magical fist power which is also granted by Himea, that's taking from his "lives", as seen below.
- Cursed with Awesome: Kurogane Taito can only be killed SIX times (the Seventh time will kill him for real) and Fifteen minutes after the first death they reset again.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Eldritch Abomination are almost regular Monster of the Week in the series.
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Two of the lead female characters are extradimensional entities.
- Die for Our Ship: In-universe — Taito/Haruka shippers (read: all their classmates) are more than willing to give him Death Glares if he refuses to eat her lunch and/or make her cry.EAT IT!!!!!
- Eldritch Abomination: Featured so much. Though for now, except for the Tenma, suffers from Monstrosity Equals Weakness.
- Episode 7 has an evil wish granter that would give Kyubey a run for his money.
- Gag Penis: in episode 12, Nyankichi, Taito's familiar, conveniently lands in front of Taito as Scenery Censor for the latter's jewels.
- Gender-Blender Name: Hinata, who is a guy.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Taito must be killed seven times within a fifteen minute period before he stays dead. So in any fight against any opponent, you can put good money on him dying at least six times.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: After Gekkou cut Taito's arm off during a fight, Tait uses it to hit Gekko with.
- Human Hammer-Throw: In one episode of the anime Mirai Andou grabs Taito Kurogane's arm, spins around and throws him straight up into the night sky. Watch it [1]
. - Humanoid Abomination: Himea and Mirai. Both having inhumanly strong magical powers even after both of them are supposedly largely depowered, the former by offering her life through an evil wish granter to save Taito, and the latter being weakened and turned into Gekkou's servant.
- Immortal Life Is Cheap: Taito is given an powerful fire spell by Himea that is normally forbidden since it is as lethal to the wielder, but in his case...
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Mirai is the series premiere source of Panty Shots.
- Jerkass: Gekkou. He has some Pet the Dog moments though, more shown in the manga.
- Justified Extra Lives: Taito. Thanks to his encounter with Saitohimea.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Hinata's magic makes this happen to Taito in regards to Saitohimea until Taito receives his first fatal accident.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Taito and Himea vs. Gekkou and Mirai in episode 2, until Hinata arrives.
- Mood Whiplash: Happens from the beginning to the point of instant HSQ. Cute girl confesses her love. Then something bad happens.
- Named Weapons: Gekkou's sword Spell Error.
- Oh, Crap!: Taito gets a hilarious one when he finds out that the two Spell Breakers that antagonized him previously are now his new classmates.
- One-Hit-Point Wonder: Apparently any injury can trigger Taito's resurrection, making it Blessed with Suck.
- Our Angels Are Different: The Tenma, who can also be called the Seraphim.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Saitohimea's description is read as "Most Ancient Sorcerer".
- Our Zombies Are Different: Taito is effectively an undead.
- Patient Childhood Love Interest: Haruka. Not so much though after episode 8, though she apparently likes to use the "sad face" facade too much.
- Phrase Catcher -> Catchphrase:To Gekkou: "Who do you think you are?"Gekkou: "A genius."
- Required Secondary Powers: inverted, Taito's immortality effectively becomes one when Himea gives him a second, more offensive ability: the power to wield Cursed Flame with his fists.
- School Uniforms are the New Black: Gekkou is always seen wearing his school uniform.
- Self-Made Orphan: Hinata killed his parents.
- Shipper on Deck: THE ENTIRE CLASS ships Taito/Haruka.
- Aomi, meanwhile, is a Himea/Taito shipper.
- Tsundere: Gekkou towards Mirai is a rare male example of Type A. Otherwise he's just a Jerkass to everyone else.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: yes, she granted him immortality, but Himea still doesn't like it when Taito gets hurt, even when Professor Kurosu justifies it as "training".
- Yandere: Saitohimea when she has the "Bliss" spell take over her personality (As detailed in the AI is a Crapshoot above).To Taito: "Do I have to kill all the women who distract you?"
