Shiden Kanzaki Launches Black Bullet Reboot With New Ending
The reboot rewrites the ending of a series that concluded in 2014, adding a final volume that did not exist in the original run.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Dengeki Bunko announced that Shiden Kanzaki's Black Bullet light novel series will get a reboot titled Black Bullet: New World Order, releasing two volumes a month from November 2026 to February 2027. The first volumes reprint the original story with additions and edits, but from January 2027 the story diverges, and the February volumes end differently. Kanzaki also has a new original work, Aku no Shinzui, planned for spring 2027.
Black Bullet: New World Order runs two volumes a month from November 2026 through February 2027. The first four volumes reprint the original story with additions and edits; the January 2027 pair begins to diverge, and the February 2027 volumes close with a different ending. The final volume, Justice & Unjustice, carries a title that did not exist in the original run. Kanzaki's original series ran seven volumes from July 2011 to April 2014 with Saki Ukai on art, and it spawned a manga and a 2014 television anime.
- Black Bullet: New World Order 01 - Those Who Would Be Gods: November 2026, reprints the original story with additions and edits
- Black Bullet: New World Order 02 - Against a Perfect Sniper: November 2026, reprints the original story with additions and edits
- Black Bullet: New World Order 03 Book 1 - The Destruction of the World by Fire: December 2026
- Black Bullet: New World Order 03 Book 2 - Vengeance is Mine: December 2026
- Black Bullet: New World Order 04 Book 1 - Tōbōhanshi, Satomi Rentarō: January 2027, title slightly different from the original volume 5
- Black Bullet: New World Order 04 Book 2 - Purgatory Strider: January 2027, story begins to diverge
- Black Bullet: New World Order 05 Book 1 - The Bullet That Changed the World: February 2027
- Black Bullet: New World Order 05 Book 2 - Justice & Unjustice: February 2027, completely new title with a different ending
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- Anime News Network News Shiden Kanzaki Launches Black Bullet Reboot Project, New Original Work