This is the sequel to the original series “Darker Than Black” and the story revolve around protagonist Hei who works for a mysterious organization known only as “syndicate” to gather information and material related to the radiation cause by the meteor crash. Due to the meteor crash causes some of the people on to have special ability and power. Those who have that ability are known as “Contractor”. Hei who is a contractor is known by Messier Code “BK-201” and in this sequel he left the syndicate organization after betraying them in at the end of the first series together with Yin.  The sequel will take place 2 years later after the first series and on the run from the organization that they used to serve. They left Tokyo and end up in Russia to encounter Suou Pavlichenko whose family was pull into a war with several government intelligent agency due to their research into contractors.

For those who haven’t watch the first series it is recommended to so in order to follow the second series and think of it like your TV series “Heroes” with a bigger conspiracy and need to some sort of contract payment to use their special power. At the moment the second series is plan to run on 16 episodes only and currently broadcasting in Japan since 8 of October 2009.