Black Butler /Kuroshitsuji
Year: 3 October 2008 – 27 March 2009
Episodes : 24 +Ova
Black Butler II season
2 July2010 – 17 September2011
Genre: Supernatural , Dark fantasy, Demons, Action.
The story starts with young Ciel Phantomhive that makes a contract with a demon to revenge his family and find who killed them . The action takes place in Victorian times and all the background of the anime , manor and characters clothes are related to that time . Sebastian Michaelis is the mysterious butler that appears near Ciel and carry every request he has .
Not many know that this astonishing butler is not actually human and what was the price Ciel has to pay for his services.
Beside the comic and mystic moments this anime is a detective and main idea revolves around discovering the truth in different cases they have to solve , most of them are related to Queen requests or to figuring out who planed the murder of his parents.
Sebastian Michaelis is an exceptional butler it is true but in most cases Ciel himself solves the mystery behind the crimes and Sebastian has the role to fight against . Ciel is a good chess player so he is thinking his every move before his suspects would even consider that he is watching them, he is very good at intimidation and this is shown form the first episode, even he is just a little boy he can influence and terrorize others around him. Helped by his butler he usually makes different pranks and laugh about other people greed and stupidity , always very calm and confident in his butlers abilityto solve and save him from any situation . Ciel Phantomhive is very wealthy and as strange as it sounds his company has the first place on country toy market.
Manga was illustrated by Yano Toboso and started in 16 september 2006, since then this manga had been published in very many countries as France , Spain , Germany and even Finland .
The type of this anime and manga is mainly oriented to female readers , fans.
Due the popularity of this anime and manga it was made a musical “ That Butler , Friendship in 2009, a video game Kuroshitsuji Phantom and Ghost a book and soon a movie.
In every episode is demonstrated one or other amazing ability of Sebastian Michaelis , wich is one of the public favorite character of this anime , sometimes it shadows the main protagonist Ciel Phantomhive.
Black Butler characters / personages :
Ciel Phantomhive
The young head of a English noble family , he is only twelve old but he has a very grown up thinking due the tragic death of his parents. He is short and usually wears and eye patch that covers the eyes that he used to make contract with demon butler. He usually doesn’t manifest any emotions beside the times when he is with his potential bride , but they are not quite romantic, more like protective. His cold action portray him as much a demon as the butler that he has, but sometimes he shows good and protective sides of him , like the moment he sends toys to a pregnant women or the moments he protects him cousin and bride Elizabeth.
Sebastian Michaelis
He is the butler of Ciel Phantomhive and actis like his butler and bodyguard , always saves him from dangerous situations . He is completely devoted to Ciel and even he is a demon sometimes he shows subtile sparkles of affection toward him . He is very skilled , he can cook , fight , he is like an universal ideal butler that can accomplish anything , nothing seem impossible for him. He has red scary eyes when he wants to intimidate somebody but usually he acts very glamorous and seductive toward people around him , sometimes he tries to manipulate them or irritate to see their reaction. He looks like a young beautiful man with black hair but his true demonic form is not reviled .
Tanaka
A very old housekeeper that always walks around with a cup of tea, even if he looks very old and fraile he is a very capable butler and in critical moments he does amazing things . Tanaka always supports Ciel and always looks after him even Sebastian is around , and it seems the demon butler has a respect for him.
Mey- Rin
It is the house maid , she is usually very shy and at the sight of Sebastian starts to do stupid things . She has red hair and usually wears huge round glasses , but they seem not to help her very much because she can’t do anything right . She is very skilled with guns , latter is related that she been a sniper before . She is usually very comic and cute .
Finnian – (Finn , Finny) He is the house garden keeper , but he usually ends up destroying it . He usually wears a straw yellow hat and has a dump appearance , he is very friendly and has a super human strength , can drag around trees and huge objects .
Bardroy – he is the Phantomhive house cook but his cooking usually ends up with blowing the kitchen , so Sebastian ends up cleaning after him . He is one of the comic characters that always ends up blowing the house or himself , he usually tries to be better then Sebastin and gets in more trouble . As the other Phantomhive personal he is very loyal to Ciel and protects the house at any costs .
Grell Sutcliff at the bening of series
Grell Sutcliff changed with red hair
Grell Sutcliff
He is a comic grim reaper that has an infatuation with Sebastian . He is very hot tempered as his hair color , he usually has nifty outfit and walks around with a scissor . At the start of the series he has dark brown hair but latter it changes in red as his clothes. He has very sharp teeth and a creepy comic smile He is cunning even if most doesn’t understand his actions and tries different schemes to obtain anything he wants .
Grell Sutcliff at the bening of series falls in love with Sebastian
Elizabeth hugging Ciel
Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Midford
She is Ciel fiancé, she is very
cute and always tries to make surprises to Ciel , but it seems he doesn’t like it much . Her kind heart gets her in trouble
sometimes , she loves Ciel very much and usually does foolish things to impress
him . During anime is revealed that she has great sword skills , beside being
very cute and gentle , looking very helpless.
Elizabeth dressed Sebastian.
Tanaka dressed by Elizabeth
