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Action and Mystery. A common combination of genres, isn't it?

Black Bullet is an adaptation of its still ongoing Light Novel, was announced last year, 2013. Then became a long-awaited series of 2014.

Although, the main idea isn't too impressive or original if we want to put it like that, the plot has much more in store. To be precise, the story is rather fast-paced. It is basically some short stories put together into 13 episodes. And even though it's true that there was some sort of bridge between two 'short stories', it is very obvious that the staff just wanted too many elements in the ... same place. Luckily, this doesn't spoil the whole atmosphere as a whole.

There were many truly good closing scenes which are suggestive and aditive to its genre. The thing is that many of these 'floating ideas' could as well have been used. But, they weren't. Most of them were left unexploted and to be straightforward, I'm pretty sure that using these ideas instead could have made a 20% better story.
With these said, however, there is one thing that I especially liked about the plot. That is the discussion of rarely mentioned and taught issues like discrimination, human inhospitality and cruelty. This little addition just made the everything twice as dramatic as it would otherwise be.

The art of Black Bullet was at times breath-taking but in other cases it was rather mehish. But, whichever is the case, the art, without a doubt, matches the story and contributes well to the mood of it. The best example for this would be the openings; as they indeed served as a good 'programme guide'. They showed what you should expect of the series and determined the attribute of the characters, too.

The characters sometimes tended to prove themselves amazingly unnecessary. To me some of them seemed to be introduced because the other person who, simply put, had exactly the same traits won't turn up again.

Also, everybody's lives revolve around the protagonist's. The main of all characters, Rentaro Satomi in this universe is a god. And this actually is true from the first to the last word. Not only is he incredibly strong but he's also drop-dead gorgeos, has his harem of little girls and has two teen girls with respectable size of chest love him. But he's lacking one thing; common sense. This is what, in fact, refers to all of the charcters. By this, I mean that when an unforeseen event occurs nobody seems to pose questions like 'why?', 'how?' or just the most obvios one 'what?!'.

Another problem is character development. As a matter of fact, there isn't any. Well, there is but it is so short-term. People go through very sad and tear jerking event, these scenes were done brilliant, to be honest, and they are emotionally shaken.. For an episode. Then in the next episode they are as happy as ever. Unfortunatelly, this is also applicable to peronalities and behaviour displayed towards other characters. Just change overnight.
This is so exposed to the viewers that this just ruins the characters.

The very best reason I would recommend this anime for is the soundtracks. They are unbelievably catchy and something that remains on your mind for like a week. They match the particular scenes they are in.

While there are many components that resemble things from real-life, many just really go in the face of nature.
There are tons of hilarious moments which are worth re-watched. It's rather sad to say; that is all that increases the value of re-watching.
I believe that many good words could be said about Black Bullet but liking (or not liking) it comes down to the viewers only. This is a type of series that you either hate or like sort. It is highly unlikely that it leaves you without any feelings about it.