Based on the manga series by Yana Toboso which began in 2006 and is
still ongoing, Black Butler is a twenty-four episode series that takes
us to the realm of 19
th century England. The manga and this
first season of the anime scored quite a lot of fans during its initial
release and the cosplay crowd really took it to heart as well with
numerous incarnations of a few key characters throughout the 2009
season. Going into this show was kind of awkward as I had missed it the
first time around but watched the simulcast of the second season so I
have a familiarity of it going into but from a very different
perspective based on how that season went. The
series takes place in the Victorian period of England where we're
introduced to a young Ciel Phantomhive who is about twelve years of age.
He's the master of his mansion as his parents died some three years
prior in a fire that destroyed everything. In the time since then, he
was essentially missing only to return to a mansion that was rebuilt
down to the same exacting details of the first. And with his return,
he's come with a butler named Sebastian who tends to his every need and
carries out his every order. There are other servants that work there
carrying out chores inside and outside of the mansion, but they're there
largely for comedic effect more than anything else. At times they prove
useful but I found them to be more of a distraction than anything else
from the show.
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