The BEST episodes written by Yukinori Kitajima
#1 - Heart and Limbs
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 3
Ten years ago, many Buranki fell to Earth and were destroyed by Banryuu Reoko and her Buranki, Entei. That was the day Reoko and Entei's reign of terror began. In the present, Azuma and his companions flee Shinjuku and meet a woman named Horino, who tells Azuma that his mother was the only person who ever defeated Reoko. She then tells him there's more he should know, and leads him to the "Kazuki library."
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#2 - Death Suppressants
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 3
Murakami learns that witches need to take "death suppressants" in order to stay alive. Can they find a way to get more pills before tragedy strikes?
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#3 - Right Hand and Gun
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 4
Kogane's enraged cry of "I'll gouge out your everything!" rings out as she engages Matobai in battle, but her opponent's attack power overwhelms her. When Azuma tries to help her, Matobai mercilessly fires his Bubuki gun at him, but the heart Bubuki shields him. Azuma tries to use the heart to call Oubu to fight, but it doesn't respond... and Matobai sneers at their confusion as he takes out Entei's heart Bubuki.
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#4 - The Reason For Her Smile
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 6
The truth behind Kana's forecast of Kotori smiling over Neko's dead body is revealed, and Murakami has a possible lead on extending their pill supply.
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#5 - The Witch's Son
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 1
Kazuki Azuma returns to Japan after ten years away, only to be chased down by the Bubuki police. He's saved by a childhood friend, Asabuki Kogane, and her right-hand-shaped Bubuki. He then meets the Bubuki users Nono Hiiragi, Ougi Kinoa, and Taneomi Shizuru. Azuma has never even heard of Bubuki, but after learning that he's the user of the "heart" Bubuki, he makes his way to the Buranki prison in Shinjuku's underground to awaken the sleeping Buranki called Oubu.
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#6 - Fragments of Hope
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 7
The gang waits out the result of Kogoro's initial analysis of the pill to find out if he'll be able to copy it in time. Neko tries karaoke. Murakami and Kazumi head to Akihabara.
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#7 - Fake Memories
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 9
Nanami demonstrates her ability to scan and modify people's memory, Black Suit buys her sweets for her cooperation. After crossing with Kitsuka and scanned her memory of Ryōta, she erases Black Suit's memory of her existence for the time-being. Nanami apparently wants to enjoy herself in the outside world more. She later manipulates Kitsuka to lure Ryōta to her not knowing why. Nanami scans Ryōta and learns of the observatory and the girls. Shock for being discover, Ryōta talks Nanami that there is hope for her to live normally. Disbelieving, Nanami erases Ryōta's memories and leaves. Ryōta appears unaffected due to his photographic memory, and alerts the girls; makes a decision. After staying at a hotel, Nanami tries to socialize with people but doesn't how to make friends. Ryōta, Neko, and Kotori (both wearing sunglasses) found her at a park and try once more to befriend her. Neko takes off her glasses to convince Nanami but she alters Neko's memories to attack Ryōta and Kotori. When Neko remarks Nanami as a 'friend' she realizes her wrongdoing and undoes her magic. Nanami finally decide to go with them. Black Suit eventually learns what's going on.
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#8 - While I Wait For You
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 1
Murakami Ryouta's best friend, Kuroneko, died in an accident trying to prove aliens existed when they were kids. Now, a girl who looks just like her transfers into his high school. When confronted Kuroha Neko insists she isn't Kuroneko, but she ends up revealing something else even more surprising...
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#9 - The Headless Titan
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 7
When Azuma sees the Buranki approaching the train that's transporting Oubu, he recognizes it as the headless Buranki that attacked his family on Treasure Island ten years ago. Frozen in place, it seems Azuma is about to be trampled underfoot, but Kinoa saves him in the nick of time with Hoemaru and Himekiri. The relieved Kogane joins them along with Hiiragi and Shizuru, when the four Bubuki come together, the heart in Azuma's hand radiates an intense light in concert with a shining beam emitted by the skeleton of Oubu.
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#10 - A Sudden Reunion
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 11
An army of police confronts the Valkyria for questioning, provoking her to unleash her antimatter magic that erupts the mountain. Having the citizens devastated of the explosion, one of the witches, Hatsuna Wakabayashi, recovers from her wounds thanks to her regeneration ability and freed away. Looking up on what happened, the girls tell Ryōta that Valkyria is an ultimate witch with many types of magic. Despite that fighting Valkyria is out of their league, they think of any strategy to avoid her. Hatsuna who overheard Valkyria has detected the witches at an observatory searches for them. She finds the club members faking their deaths as to protect themselves. Hatsuna is welcome to the astronomy club and goes to wash at the onsen. The girls tell Hatsuna how reliable Ryōta is. Testing if he really is trustworthy, she pretends to be helplessly struck on a radio tower and calls Ryōta to get her. She deliberately slips off and Ryōta grabs her. Refusing to let go, even though she plead her regeneration power, Ryōta swings her back onto the tower but sends him falling to the ground. Luckily, Kotori saves him, at which point reliefs Hatsuna. Touch of Ryōta's actions, Hatsuna bluntly confess and kisses him in front of the others, incited Neko to blast down the tower in jealous rage. Later, Kogorō calls in Ryōta with a theory that the witches' melting is based on a digestive enzyme: protease. Using a thesis that he learned from a man (Chisato) in college, it's possible to shorten the time of producing the medicine, however it will still take a month. Mako Fujisaki the Valkyria is sightseeing when Chisato appears to her. Revealing to have unrequited feelings for him, Chisato requests Mako to bring him to where #1107 is. Ryōta returns with the good & bad news, although there a possibility for one of the witches can survive, but unwilling to sacrifice anyone. Kotori carries some juices then accidentally spills them on Neko. Exposing her chest, Ryōta discovers the mole
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#11 - Proof She's Alive
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 10
Taking Nanami to the observatory, Kogorō, who is there, asks him to find a way to remove the beacon on Nanami's harness. As Neko talks about how important friends are and painful it is to lose them. Before Kogorō can do anything, the beacon activates and Nanami melts to her death. She erased their memories of her, except Ryōta and Kogorō, to relief grieve. Ryōta cries then, Nanami appears beside him saying that she inserted her consciousness within his memory. Sometime later, studying for test finals next week, the club members decide whether continue going to school or not since they only have three weeks' worth of pills left. Ryōta reminds them how they wanted to live as high school students. He motivates them for a trip to the beach. In the evening, listening to Neko singing he comforts her. He notice Neko doesn't remember the time she went to karaoke with friends. Fearing that she will forget about him, Ryōta embraces her. After the finals, seeing the test scores: Neko 1st, Ryōta 2nd, and Kazumi 3rd. They then head for the beach as promise. Thinking of what they been through so far are happy with their lives for now. Elsewhere, Chisato took the initiative to release a Valkyria: an S-rank witch. In order to detect #1107, he has team of A-rank witches to monitor her but underestimate her, who had already killed them.
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#12 - Hexenjagd
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 12
Meeting Mako and Chisato who have arrived at the observatory are demanding to hand over #1107 who's in fact—Kotori. Ryōta distracts them for Hatsuna to jump on Mako from behind, but can't figure out which button to push on Mako's harness having her to slice Hatsuna. Wanting an explanation why they have to be killed, Chisato states the B-rank witches are unreasonable to live. He orders Mako to kill Neko, but Ryōta push her away and takes the hit from Mako's magic. Losing consciousness, Nanami appears in astral form to Ryōta informing that Neko used to be an S-rank witch stronger than Mako, the way to regain her power is by pressing the top button of her harness but it's a high risk; then Ryōta dies. With the girls distressed and defenseless, Mako about to finish them off, but then a group of black individuals arrive who have neutralized Mako's magic. Following the device's signal that Ryōta turned on earlier. Yet, Chisato escapes using Mako's teleportation taking Kotori along. Hatsuna had recovered and using her ability to heal; with Neko and Kazumi giving heart aid, they revive Ryōta. Hatsuna melts in the process however. Miki and the individuals introduce themselves as Hexenjagd, a group resisting the lab, stating the witches still has to die because the amoebas "drasils" inside them - the witches' true form - will eventually hatch and devour their bodies into monsters. Moreover, Kotori has an entity called the "Grane" that can destroy all humanity. They tried to capture Kotori once, but failed, causing the witches' escape and losing a comrade (Akane). Kotori awakens before Chisato, calling her Rena. Rena was Chisato's younger sister whom believed was the only life meaningful to him until she died of sickness. He tells Kotori how aliens were believed to be the creation of humans on Earth. His efforts to revive Rena's soul within Kotori's body somehow. Not giving up, despite the revelation, Kazumi hacks in the lab's database locating Chisato's whereabouts ne
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#13 - Astronomical Observation
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 5
To welcome Kazumi and Kotori as members, the astronomy club goes stargazing on a mountaintop. Then Kana sees a forecast that wrecks the atmosphere.
#14 - Swords and Rings
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Bubuki battle continues aboard the train that's carrying Oubu toward Treasure Island. A beam fired from Arabashiri's Bubuki ring hits Kinoa, causing her own past to replay in her mind and slow her down. Azuma tries to help, but Kinoa stops him, saying she must settle her own score with Arabashiri. So Azuma agrees to just watch, but Hiiragi can't help wondering what Kinoa's relationship with Arabashiri is. What really happened in their past?
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#15 - The Gray Jewel
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 6
Azuma's companions have won their second Bubuki battle, but the next opponent is one of Reoko's Four Gods who was in disguise as their friend Horino. Hiiragi and the others are shocked to learn that their trusted friend is actually working for their mortal enemy.
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#16 - Witches
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 2
Now that Murakami knows Kuroha is a lab-made witch on the run, he can't just leave her to fend for herself. Overcoming rejection, he manages to learn a bit more about her living situation... and her companion.
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#17 - The Boy from Treasure Island
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 12
As Reoko, full of bitter resentment, grasps Migiwa in Entei's hand to try to crush her, both women look back to when they were sixteen years old and best friends. Reoko called forth Entei in Ueno to bring the long-buried existence of Buranki to light, but Migiwa burned Entei's limbs to stop this uprising, which left Reoko's body with the curse it still bears today. Why did Reoko decide to walk a path of blood after she was released from her years of confinement? Their hidden past is finally revealed.
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#18 - Fist Against Fist
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 9
Azuma does everything he can to restart the heart of Oubu, which stopped beating during the battle with the American Bubuki users. Hiiragi tries to protect Azuma from a vicious attack, but ends up sent flying and crashes to the ground.
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#19 - The Shattered Heart
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 10
As Oubu finally achieves its complete form, Entei stands before it controlled not by Reoko, but by Zetsubi. Laughing boldly, she tells the shocked Azuma that he can't beat Entei, but Kinoa insists that they and Oubu are different from before. Zetsubi is cornered by Oubu's ferocious attack, so she takes the Russian team's Bubuki to use as Entei's limbs, and Oubu is overwhelmed again. Can Azuma and his party win this fight?
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#20 - Things to Protect
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 13
The light covers the Earth with Hexenjagd left praying for God, so Ryōta, Neko, and Kazumi go to rescue Kotori on their own. They knock Ryōta out - not wanting him to risk his life any longer. Chisato remarks how Takachiho's aim is to use "Ain Soph Aur" to reset the Earth in a whole new era. Though his only intention is to revive Rena, Kotori responds Chisato how she wants others to smile regardless of her life, so she ejects her own harness therefore cancels the light phenomenon. Mako slices Kazumi, but spares Neko as her little sister. As Nanami guides Ryōta, he finds Kotori's melting body. Listening to her final words, she asks Ryōta to tell her big brother not to harm anyone, and that she was happy till the very end. He also hears over Kazumi, as she mutters of wishing to have kids with Ryōta. Mako recalls how Chisato saved her once when exposing himself to radiation. Chisato commands to have Neko ejected until Ryōta hits him aside, shouting out Kotori/Rena's words at him.
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#21 - The Stopped Heart
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 8
The only two Buranki currently on Earth that possess a beating heart are Oubu and Entei. What's more, Reoko has defeated the headless Buranki, also called the "déraciné," and obtained its heart. One man declares this a situation that cannot be overlooked, and sends several Bubuki users to Japan in order to reclaim the stolen heart. Meanwhile, as Azuma and his companions continue to ride the Buranki transport train, a man carrying a guitar shows up in front of them and forces Hiiragi to slam on the brakes. Just who is this man?
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#22 - Lost Memories
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 4
Having overcome the immediate death suppressant shortage issue, the witches start to settle into their lives as astronomy club members. A visit to the local onsen ends painfully for Murakami.
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#23 - The Clue That Was Left
Brynhildr in the Darkness - Season 1 - Episode 8
Murakami learns how reckless it is to act alone as he investigates the map. Meanwhile sex-obsessed Kazumi causes all kinds of awkward situations.
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#24 - The Immortal Girl
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 11
The foreign teams continue to hunt the headless déraciné Buranki, so they can take its heart and use it to awaken Buranki in their home countries. Meanwhile, Arabashiri is fighting his own battle for Reoko's sake. He has watched Reoko endure the ceaseless pain of fighting déraciné Buranki one after another with the incomplete Entei, and now his rage explodes on Azuma's mother, Migiwa.
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#25 - Fire Titan
BBK/BRNK - Season 1 - Episode 2
Azuma stares in stunned shock at Oubu, now reduced to bones, as Hiiragi, Kogane, and the others successfully hold off Matobai. Hiiragi realizes this is the best chance to awaken Oubu and demands the heart Bubuki from Azuma, but Azuma insists he has no such thing. Believing that the heart Bubuki will react if its owner is in danger, he attacks Azuma with Iwatooshi!
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#26 - Black Oubu
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 1
Half a month after the battle on Treasure Island, Kogane, Kinoa, Shizuru, and Hiiragi ride through the lively streets of Taiwan in a taxi... but Azuma got stuck in immigration and had to catch a later flight. The girls are thrilled by the sights of their first visit to Taiwan, but Hiiragi reminds them that they're there to find the body of the Buranki that went missing when Treasure Island fell. Just then, a headless Buranki shows up at the airport where Azuma is soon due to arrive...
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#27 - The False Heart
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 2
Guy praises Leticia for destroying most of the headless Buranki lurking around Europe. This irritates Kaoruko, who wants Guy to acknowledge her as the number one heart user. Then, when Kaoruko finds out Maxim was given a special mission, Guy tells her that she must first demonstrate her talent as a heart user. Still, Kaoruko boldly laughs, convinced that she will be the one to protect the world with Oubu.
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#28 - The Right Hand's Scar
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 3
As Azuma and Kaoruko stare each other down, their respective limbs battle it out with their Bubuki. Angus is on the defensive against Kinoa's fierce attacks, Shepherd is overwhelmed by Shizuru, Joan can't get a single attack in against Kogane, and Lakshmi struggles against the cooperative relationship between Hiiragi and Iwatooshi. As the members of the Asian team, who have been under the complete control of their leader Justin, watch the Japanese team fighting without being tied down by their leader, they start to show signs of changing...
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#29 - The Hunter's Bullet
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 4
The Buranki Entei flies freely through the sky... and the one controlling it is not Reoko, but Kaoruko. Demokratia, led by Guy, has used its technology to make Entei recognize Kaoruko as Reoko. Guy then tells Kaoruko that there is a traitor among them in Demokratia, but she's unable to conceal her shock when told that the traitor is a fellow Bubuki user and ordered to eliminate them.
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#30 - The Island Fortress
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 5
In a room somewhere deep in Demokratia's island fortress, Kaoruko discovers the identity of the Bubuki users that Guy had called "traitors." She asks Double why she never knows what's going on and why all this happened, but Double only tells her that if she doesn't live up to Guy's expectations and eliminate the approaching Azuma and Oubu, she'll receive the same treatment as the traitors... and that there are some things she doesn't need to know.
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#31 - The Butterfly and the Gallows
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 6
Kaoruko has been trying to find a way to see her father again ever since he left her at a boarding school in Taiwan. One day, Guy tells Kaoruko that her father reunited with her mother by going up to Treasure Island in a Buranki that still had its brain. Sensing that Kaoruko, despite her brave act, really wants to see her parents again, Guy makes a proposal that will allow him to use her feelings to serve his purposes...
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#32 - Older Brother and Younger Sister
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 7
Peaceful scenery passes by outside the car window, but Azuma has no idea that the kind old man giving him a lift toward the island fortress is Guy himself. Meanwhile, back at their hideout, Kogane and the others are being attacked, and Matobai and Tsuwabuki realize that Azuma is gone. Hiiragi and Kinoa say that until he comes back with Kaoruko, they're on their own, but Matobai's subdued gaze is fixed on the Buranki Batolov.
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#33 - The Rebellious Limb
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 8
The Buranki Epimew soars over hills and plains, faster and lighter than the wind, disappearing from sight in an instant only to rise high into the sky again. In the cockpit, Laetitia is delighted by the sight of whooper swans flying by. Since she lives her life in a wheelchair, the world as seen from the birds' point of view is wondrous to her. Epimew flies past the birds and shoots high above the clouds, higher and higher. What's going through Laetitia's mind as she finally reaches the heights of space?
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#34 - Swan Song
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 9
After rescuing Reoko from Guy's island fortress, Azuma and the others rest of the Japanese crew flies back to Japan... but the moment they're over Japanese waters, a flying craft approaches at high speed. From the heart waveform, Matobai determines that it's Mega-lala. Azuma leaps out to the hull of their flying boat to face the Buranki, and a battle between two heart users who could have been great friends if not for the involvement of Bubuki and Buranki begins.
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#35 - The Comet Opens Its Eyes
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 10
Inheritance: if one were to express it with a different word, it would be "curse." Guy, an inheritor of a heart Bubuki, was released from the curse through the only possible method... only to have it return to him in a sudden turn of events. In anguish, Guy made up his mind to eliminate from this world all the Buranki that had tainted human blood and placed this detestable curse on them, thereby returning the world to untainted human hands. Now, 16 years later, everyone watches the sky as a huge comet approaches Earth...
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#36 - The Gentle Giants of the Galaxy
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 11
The massive Deus Magna seems to pierce the heavens as it makes its appearance amidst a raging storm, and inside its cranium is the enemy, Guy. The Buranki Batolov and Mega-lala, along with Zampaza piloted by Kaoruko, wield the Bubuki from Laetitia's fallen Buranki as they charge forward to stop him, each for their own individual reasons. But no matter how fiercely they attack Deus Magna, they can't even leave a mark. Meanwhile, inside Deus Magna's body, Azuma and his team enter the battle with Oubu to try to stop Guy and save Reoko.
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#37 - The Adventurers
BBK/BRNK - Season 2 - Episode 12
It's been a year. Peace has returned, and everyone is back to living their old lives again. Azuma has started living on his own and now attends the same high school as Kogane. All Buranki controlled by Guy's Demokratia have been handed over to government-managed companies. As he watches the news over breakfast and opens a letter from Epizo, Azuma can't help but feel how much quieter his life is now.
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