(cw: suicide, violence, underage relationship, canon-typical dark themes)
A meta about interpreting the first season of Kuroshitsuji’s anime as a Sebaciel love suicide story.
In the centuries-old Japanese genre of love suicide stories, lovers caught in a forbidden romance escape their troubles by committing suicide together, preserving vows of love through death. Kuroshitsuji clearly follows many conventions of love suicide stories, and so we can view Ciel and Sebastian as lovers who commit a double suicide, even undergoing extended journeys to reach their place of death, as is typical in love suicide stories. In this interpretation, Kuroshitsuji’s characters preserve their vows– the stipulations of a Faustian contract– through a love suicide of their own.
Specifics below (with citations and everything! There’s also a tl;dr, because this got long):
"Sebastian buzzed with nervous energy. Centuries of monotony coming to a head at that very moment. He was uncannily aware of his absent heart, of where it should have been beating. Then he saw Ciel descending the central staircase and none of it was of import since Sebastian was truly unworthy of the sight that befell him."
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I can't believe the death of Queen Elizabeth literally revived the Black Butler fandom back to life for like 5sec and brought it together like a fucking high school reunion goodbye.
I was going to make a joke about Aniplex and Disney working together so I went to the Wikipedia for Twisted Wonderland and that’s how I found out Yana Toboso, the creator of Black Butler, was in charge of the script and character designs 💀💀💀 This is how I imagine the meetings going:
Yana Toboso: so the backstories for the antagonists are a little dark but it’s nothing too bad, just like bullying and helicopter parenting, lots of family issues
Disney Japan: Alright, that sounds fine
Yana Toboso: And the characters are heavily implied to be gay for each other but don’t worry, nothing is canon, like you wanted
Disney Japan: *sweating* o-okay
Yana Toboso: also the students are incredibly violent and almost kill each other sometimes, but there’s no murder, like you wanted
Disney Japan: *on the verge of tears, trembling* Toboso sensei-
Yana Toboso: Then Vil tries to murder Neige, but don’t worry-
Disney Japan: *crying* Toboso sensei, we can’t say that!
So I was reading in the Kuroshitsuji character guide when I found this gem.
“Cats, who are soft and adorable and don’t exist in the demon world, allow Sebastian to consider life in the human world not that unpleasant. SIDE NOTE: CIEL’S CHEEKS PROVIDE THE SAME EFFECT”.
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“i was very surprised. he was very energetic from the beginning. i didn’t know he was a coach. but now i know why he went crazy. next time, i’ll make sure that i’ll hold on to him.”
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