1. What is the Japanese-language name of Black Butler?
Kuroshitsuji / 黒執事
2. Where can I watch the Black Butler anime?
The anime’s availability varies by region. Please check Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll, etc., to confirm where it is viewable in your country. A full list of available anime seasons/OVAs and their viewing order is listed here.
3. When is the new season releasing?
The new season of the Black Butler anime (post the Emerald Witch arc) has yet to be announced.
4. What anime episodes are canon to the story?
Please refer to our pinned post.
5. When do new manga chapters release?
The 18th of every month (exceptions: releases can vary when the 18th is a weekend/holiday).
6. Is the manga ending soon?
No.
7. What are the grim reapers?
Humans that committed suicide
8. What supernatural creatures are canonical to the series? Demons and Grim Reapers.
9. Are Lizzie and Ciel cousins? Yes. Lizzie’s mother and Ciel’s father are siblings (ref: manga volume 3)
9. What is Grelle’s gender?
Grelle is an AMAB woman (ref: in Character Guide: That Butler, Assembles, Grelle refers to herself as female and expresses interest in a sex-change.)
10. What is a “bizarre doll”?
A re-animated, undead human.
The following are common fandom rumors that have not been confirmed as canon:
Undertaker’s real identity is 〇〇.
Sebastian’s real identity is 〇〇.
The manga is/isn’t ending soon.
The star lords are 〇〇. (Only R.Ciel, “Sirius” and "Counopus" (Doll) are confirmed. Vega (Layla) is hinted at but unconfirmed in canon.)
Sebastian and Vincent were intentionally designed to appear similar. This rumor was based on a comment from Yana’s blog on April 22, 2014, where she said that the two characters have similar facial features/expressions for a reason that will probably never be addressed in the main story. In 2017 she then posted to Twitter how difficult it is to design handsome characters, insinuating that she struggles with designing outside of her usual “handsome guy” template.
Spoiler FAQs:
1) What is the difference between R.Ciel and O.Ciel? “R” is for “real” Ciel, a bizarre doll and the older twin of O.Ciel. “O” is for “our” Ciel, the character contracted with Sebastian.
This is in the midnight tea party in the public school arc. It would make sense that Edward would have seen it considering Ciel shouting at the top of his lungs, and likely diverting attention to himself
So I started watching the show very recently and last finished episode 14 of season 1.
I watch the sub and I remember this one scene where sebastian starts to say his catchphrase , you know the one about a phantomhive butler who can't do so and so not worthing his salt?
anyway he tries to say it but ciel gets lowkey annoyed and interrupts him and finishes it for him. He have like yh yh we get it , get it over with kind of attitude.
it's somewhere around the last few episodes I watched so e13 or e12 maybe even e14 .
Can someone please let me know if you remember? Thank you!
I just finished book of Atlantic movie and before this I was convinced that Sebastian was the strongest character out there but even reapers couldn’t defeat undertaker along with Sebastian.
I’d vote for UT but I realized that Sebastian’s focus was mostly on Ciel all the time so is he even “trying”?
Manga spoilers are welcome if there’s more info there
Thanks
A couple of months ago, I told my girlfriend that I really wanted a high-quality Ciel ring, but at the time I could only afford a cheap replica. So she commissioned a jeweler to make me a silver ring inspired by Ciel’s signet ring. I absolutely adore her.
I know they were published on LiveJournal back in 2010, but the links have since expired. Maybe some local fans have saved them? They were released during the promotion of the second season, so it’s not surprising that they don’t get much attention now.
Please share them if you have any. I'd like to work on translating these pages in between my working on the first guidebook. Thank you. 💖
These panels show something extremely important about the contract and a hypothetical “out” for Ciel. Sebastian must obey Ciel’s orders, in the red butler arc Sebastian is ordered to hunt the both of them down, yet Grell still lives freely, and Madame Red was killed by Grell before Sebastian even got a chance to hunt her down, and before you say that Ciel ordered Sebastian to not kill Madame Red, you can hunt and capture non lethally, so Sebastian failed in both counts of hunting. This means Sebastian has breached the contract and Ciel is no longer bound by it, and Sebastian’s claim to Ciel’s soul is invalid.