Taking place 130 years after the events of the manga, in the year 2020, Western and Eastern cultures have blended and 17-year-old Shiori Genpo, a distant relative of Ciel, is the head of the Phantomhive/Genpo estate and Phantom/Funtom Corporation after her parents were mysteriously assassinated when she was a child and she was subsequently kidnapped.

Both seasons were dubbed and distributed in the Americas by Funimation.Ī live-action movie starring Mizushima Hiro, Gouriki Ayame, and Shirota Yuu was released on January 18, 2014. A second season was produced two years later, with an original story, new characters, and most of the previous season's cast returning. No, seriously.Īn anime adaptation was produced for the Fall 2008 season by A-1 Pictures, although it detours away from the manga's storyline very early on. Mix and stir Hellsing and Count Cain and a pinch of Batman and Loveless, at least toward the beginning. So Ciel leads a double life, his service to the Queen combined with his own dark supernatural dealings, and maintaining the peace of the Phantomhive Mansion and its less than serious staff. He has agreed to aid Ciel until he 'succeeds in all of his tasks', upon which Ciel's soul belongs to him. It does help that Ciel contracted a demon to serve him: Sebastian Michaelis, whose skills range from dispatching any threat to baking the perfect pastry. Despite a mysterious fire killing off the previous Lord and Lady Phantomhive, their twelve-year-old (later thirteen) son Ciel Phantomhive has managed to rebuild the family legacy, creating a massive toy and candy company within just three years, and serving the Queen as a major contributor to England's black-ops. The Phantomhive family is a respected and distinguished house in Victorian London. Originally created by Yana Toboso, the manga began serialization in Monthly G Fantasy in 2006, and is still ongoing. Black Butler ( Kuroshitsuji in Japanese) is a Shonen manga and companion anime series (although it's pretty obviously looking for a crossover Shoujo audience).

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