Brace yourselves, English dub for Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler has been announced.

For those who are waiting, Crunchyroll rolled up the lineup.

this is too magnificent for words

Is anyone talking about William’s drawing of what appears to be his pigeonsona?

me every Saturday morning

Is anyone talking about William’s drawing of what appears to be his pigeonsona?

I read somewhere that people were confused about the flaming person rising from the school in the OP and idk I took it as a metaphor for corruption? Like, it’s been a hot minute since I read the arc but isn’t the arc about how the environment festered in the school creates a pressure for tradition and righteousness so intense that this ends up with the golden children of the houses justifying murder?

I mean you could easily argue that the murder itself was a spur of the moment thing I guess, but the p4 very much tried to justify it with protecting the reputation of Weston. The very reason they don’t even REPORT Arden’s body and try to pretend he is still alive is because they are trying to protect the school’s traditions. It’s what allows the undertaker to take control of the head master’s spot - and with that the absolute power that these traditions give that role - in the first place. The P4 aren’t even really villains. You can tell the story isn’t trying to frame them as such, as they are shown trying their best even as they end up getting swept up in a cult and arc later. It’s the system, this harping on conservative traditions and strict power structures that produce evil. That’s the point. There are corpses running about - literally rotting the place from the inside out - because nobody questions those in power. Students literally throw stones at others from other houses.

The system is corrupt.

And well the fire person could very much symbolise what this kind of corrupt system breeds..destruction. Justifying murder. Hell, it would even fit Black butler specifically, considering fire is directly tied to Ciel’s tragedy and that in turn was most likely due to the phantom hives making some powerful enemies (most likely from the nobility) due to their activities as the queen’s watchdogs. Corruption leads to fire in black butler. If you want to argue that the phantomhives themselves are corrupt (they literally have a group called the noblemen of evil if I recall right) or the people who caused the fire were the corrupt ones or the system itself allowing for such an assassination attempt can be argued either way in my opinion. Wonder what that says about the circus incident though…

Anyway yeah I think the person in flames is a metaphor for the corruption of Weston college.

Kuroshitsuji S4 | Ep1 | Sebastian. Right here. You clean up here. “Very good, my lord. Well, then… To work!”

let’s play “count the Undertaker references” in the new OP!

Not sure if this is also meant to be him as well??

THANK YOU YANA TOBOSO 🛐

thinking about that sheet of elf drawings by ryoko kui and it's a Bunch of women looking amazing as hell and then there's like astarion really small in one corner and he looks like he was traced from the box art

So I'm rereading the manga for two essays that I'm working on rn and I literally just discovered that Violet is pointing out that Ches has the same hair as the chicken and I'm losing my mind sjdjdjjdjdjdjjdjdjd.

I apologize in advance for what I am about to say:

Chilchuck? More like Stressedchuck

otoha has released “The Parade of Battlers” in its entirety…which means, my fellow Kuro fans, that it is officially time to ROCK THE HELL OUT. 🔥😈

I’m here to distract everyone from the drudges with my recent discovery that the RMS Campania was in fact a real ship (albeit from 1892), and my screaming over Grey’s comment about Germany not being legit competition for another 10 years, which coincides with the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse beating Campania’s record for the fastest transatlantic crossing in 1899. Here are receipts:

wife

In some horrible alternate reality there’d be a Black Butler musical episode