Audience reviews
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maya_kotori
Kuroshitsuji is one of those anime that completely pulls you into its world before you even realize what’s happening. It was only my third anime ever, and somehow I got totally lost in it in the best possible way. I watched it together with my sister, and that alone made the experience even more special. There’s something about sharing all the twists, the humor, the dark moments, and the absolute chaos of this series with someone else that makes it unforgettable. The atmosphere of Kuroshitsuji is unlike anything else. It mixes elegance, mystery, gothic aesthetics, and dark humor so perfectly that every episode feels like stepping into a beautifully twisted Victorian fairy tale. And of course, Sebastian and Ciel are such iconic characters. Their dynamic is intense, clever, emotional, and so…
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I picked it up from my dropped list and I finished it. I regret. That's nothing compared to what the original black butler's thrill holds. Maybe in the middle a slight interest can be raised, but at the en,d I do feel it became nevertheless a trash. I don't know why this season was necessary cause it's a complete filler. Still why am I rating it 6? Cause I am a black butler FAN
The only thing enjoyable here is SEBASTIAN'S Hotness with Claud. This season doesn't explains or shows any revenge or the bad side of ciel. Ciel is literally doll here. That is what made it boring. Ciel's feeling and what made the situation into face some people like Soma, Undertaker and others. Even Grell also just a side chick role, nothing that influences the story.
And making Ciel demon....just didn't devour…
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I know I might be in the minority, but I genuinely enjoyed Black Butler Season 2 and believe it brought a refreshing perspective and a creative twist to the franchise. Even after watching Book of Circus, Book of Murder, Book of the Atlantic, and the Public School Arc, I still consider Season 2 a worthwhile entry, though I do think it requires a certain mindset to truly appreciate it.
Let’s talk about the biggest point of contention: Alois. A lot of viewers find him irritating: Emotional, unstable, and overly dramatic. And yes, he can be cruel, but personally, I can’t help but feel sympathy for him. Beneath all the chaos is a deeply broken boy shaped by a traumatic past and a society that failed him. His actions come from a place of pain, and while understanding him isn’t easy, it’s defini…
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Kuroshitsuji II, I find this second season disappointing since it is essentially filler episodes and is generally not very interesting. It is still a pleasure to follow the protagonists of the series. As for the new character, Alois is sadistic but in reality, he is the most complex and important character than Ciel in this season. Claude is devoted to his master. The animation and character design remain the same. In terms of the soundtrack, I love the opening which is incredibly catchy. The endings are very beautiful and very melancholic. The OST is constantly good. In short, it is a little disappointing but it is partly made up for by the soundtrack.
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An utter train wreck from start to finish. Season 2 took the worst aspect of Season 1’s storyline, the narcissism of other supernatural beings, and amplified it. Despite Ciel being an already unlikable character, we are introduced to another even more horrible character to serve as Ciel’s rival; a child so cruel and sadistic for no good reason that he doesn’t make for a very compelling villain. The other villains of the season also have zero justifiable motivations for the utterly baffling heinous acts they commit during the season. A season that can be best summed up in three words; garbage incompetent writing.
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This season is abominable. It has no narrative clarity nor compelling characters to follow in terms of any meaningful growth they might experience. Alois Trancy is a revolting sadist, Claude Faustus is a spider demon with a shounen soul fetish, and Hannah Annafellows is a kiddie-fondling cunt with a fake family fetish. Needless to say, Kondo, Sakurai, and Hirano delivered mediocre performances voicing the aforementioned characters, respectively. Also, it was insulting to hear legendary seiyuu Daisuke Ono so brutally underutilized, especially after a stellar performance in the 1st season as Sebastian Michaelis. Same missed opportunity applies to seiyuu Jun Fukuyama for Grell Sutcliff. Sebastian and Grell were sent off a cliff narratively speaking while the lazy trio mentioned above were giv…
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Read the manga
Don't watch this. It's like they shredded the plot and characters through an AI and asked it "write the worst possible thing in existence", used its script, and animated it while drunk. Strange, abnormal amount of fanservice, weird fujoshi bait (for EVERY pairing you can imagine) and some wildly unnecessary gore. The timeline is so messed up I don't even understand how the animators understood what they were doing--it's not messed up in a fun, creative way, just in a bad, messy way.
So watch it if you want to get an all around experience of Black Butler, but make sure to read on the correct chronological order of the animated series. You shouldn't judge this series as a whole based on this season, as, as you know, it isn't manga canon.
This was really a one of a kind exp…
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Season two of the 13 year old that signed his soul away to a demon for some muddled reason he never follows through on until the finale.
No not Ciel, the other kid! Yes, we're doing this again only with a "we are not so different" kind of mirror image rival.
One thing you'll notice in every single review of S2 is this line (this is fanfiction, it's not from the manga.) This line sums up the entire season. You have the same aesthetic, same style, characters from S1 return AND you get double the fun with not just one hell of a butler but two.
If you can get over the whiny brat (doesn't matter, just pick one.) that is all there is and the show doesn't shy away from that premise. In fact here Sebastian is VERY conscious of his sexual appeal and weaponizes it... way too often.
Although this…
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The second season of Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) basically is let's add a second pairing of young boy and demon and do the same show again. I think it really ignited the yaoi craze of the time and the pairings from this season specifically really took off when it came out. If you are reading this, I assume you have already watched the first season. This season is nothing groundbreaking and also ends on a weird rushed finish. The true shining star honestly is the opening "Shiver" by the Gazette. The animation level was also a big step up from season one. It truly is just fanservice though. I you liked season one and want to see more of the characters, watch it, but if you are a story based person mainly, just read the manga instead (which this is not true to).
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FINALLY got around to finishing this season and with that Black Butler comes to a close. I've officially seen all the Black Butler anime content and I have to say... it has been a fun ride!!! I love Sebastian and Ciel so much, they are my OTP!!! Judge me all you want, but I was here for the fan service and I stayed for the content <3 <3 <3
The visuals here are even better than the first season, and the character development keeps getting better. There are clear differences in character dynamics from the first season.. you can literally feel the growth. Sebastian and Ciel are genuinely closer and surprisingly care about each other. The action is also so much better; I would actually be interested and on the edge of my seat for various portions of it.
Above all, the music!!! I also love…
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No thanks
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I really enjoyed the first season. But in S2, the fetishization of violence against women and sexual abuse of minors brought down a season already plagued by a convoluted plot and continuity problems. This season takes the show too deep into the realm of distaste.
It is disturbing to think that after ditching the manga's storyline, this is the original story the creators wanted to tell. One female character is maimed, repeatedly beaten, stripped and humiliated over the course of the story in ways that seem to be used as fan service. Later revelations in the story cannot justify or undo these kinds of actions. This season also dives into themes of sexual abuse of children, but also includes lingering sensual shots of minors in various states of undress. The subje…
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Writing a review can be a hard thing, and the hardest thing of all is to know where to start, so I'll just categorize my points.
Story & Characters: The story of Kuroshitsui II supposedly picks up where the first season ended. Now, I know the first season started diverging from the manga towards the end, but it at least gave a pretty satisfying conclusion to Ciel and Sebastian's adventures. Season 2 does not. Season 2 is a jumbled mess which mixes characters and progressions from the 1st season wildly, adding back multiple characters that were dead, erasing previous events and such. There are some new characters added to the roster, and they fit the style well enough, but they don't have nearly the same depth as the original ones. All in all, the story can be enjoyable if you turn off your…
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Black Butler 2
After the catastrophic result of the first season, I had practically no hope of recovery, and thank God I was taught better.
The second season is the direct (not canon) sequel to the first season and the official conclusion of the (not canon) seasons. Everything that comes after that is based directly on the manga.
This season managed to refresh in almost all areas. First and foremost, the plot has been given more background and more individuality. The characters got more intelligent, charismatic and personality. The visual representation, fluid animations, and music that accompanied the scenes have also been improved well.
The actual plot was not convincing, but it was a considerable improvement. Due to the various backgrounds that were distributed over episodes, there…
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I think the first time I saw Kuroshitsuji was something like 10 years ago. It was on TV every day after school, and it is probably one of the first anime I’ve ever seen with FMA, One Piece and Bleach… I’ve seen so many anime since, still I had very clear memory about this one. A few days ago, I decided to watch it again.
I like Kuroshitsuji. I like the characters, the butler, the shinigamis (especially the red one), I like the story, I like (love) the OST, and most of all I like the 1880s London’s context. Historical references are various, and as a civil engineer I was so pleased to see the Crystal Palace in this anime (it burned tragically in 1936).
And I guess there is nothing more to say… If it wasn’t for S2. Seriously, what happened? What is this? The ending in S1 was perfect, why…
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Unnecessary sequel to a properly concluded anime. When a rubber band is stretched way too much , it may lose its elasticity or may even break.
Plot itself was mediocre.
New character Alois is extremely annoying.
Opening , animation was pretty good. Everything about this anime good or above average , but plot is what breaks this season for me. They could have made this into a 2 hour long movie , if they just remove fillers and unnecessary scenes.
Ending was also very disappointing. Fans of sebestian may feel they got a slap to their faces.
Studio should have adapted more arcs from manga rather than making this trashy anime original sequel.
Fans craving more black butler should skip this one and watch book of circus and the new movie or just read the manga.
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Black Butler II turned ten years old two weeks ago, which is quite surreal to think about considering how recent it feels. There's a rather peculiar phenomenon that happens in popular culture with time. It would seem that stuff that was popular ten years ago tends to age poorly, and yet 20 years later, we laud it as a retro classic. Given that, we must ask ourselves whether or not history will vindicate Black Butler II. Indeed, it wasn't the most critically acclaimed at the time of its release, and yet there was this rather notable subset of the fandom that tried to find the good in an extremely controversial second season. Even so, some would argue that this show's transgressions are so unforgivable that what little good this season accomplished would never be enough to justify all the no…
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I watched the first season with very high expectations. Afterall, Black Butler is one of the most popular anime here in the states. Anybody who claims to watch anime surely must have seen Black Butler. Well... for me the first season was very... dull. I found the characters irritating and bratty. The only character I cared at all for was Sebastian. But I watched the whole thing simply because of the show's popularity. I gave season one a score of 6.
Now season two pleasantly surprised me. The story is exceedingly better. They introduce two new characters- Hannah and Claude- for me to enjoy. Normally second seasons are never as good as the first one. But Black Butler II gets a score of 8 in my book. Please if you will suffer through the first season, you may quite enjoy the second season.
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Let me be frank - I don't like to think of this as a sequel to the original.
What I liked was basically just the return of my favorite characters from the first season (other than our MC, but I'll discuss that later).
[kind of spoiler territory]
At the beginning, I thought every season would simply be the antics of a new master and butler, with the previous season intertwining within the narrative. Unfortunately, it wasn't nearly as good as I expected. Our new pair wasn't nearly as dynamic as the original and the ending was...something.
If this was a standalone series, I might have liked it slightly better, but not after such an interesting first season.
There's my two cents.
Happy Watching!
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I am very late to the Kuroshitsuji train. About ten years too late. Whilst all of my friends were gushing over animated demons, I was re-watching Free! for the thirteenth time, and now, after four years, I have finally finished the ever so divisive Black Butler. And, though I quite enjoyed season one, season two was definitely not a very enjoyable experience. Most people had told me to avoid it, and continue on the the much better Book of Circus, and I wish I had, for this season very much ruined a lot of my perception of the show and the fanbase surrounding it.
First off I was not opposed to the idea of Black Butler receiving a sequel, even after finishing its predecessor. From a critical standpoint it probably wasn't the best choice, but there was still a lot of material to cover from t…
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Do not watch this season. Do your research on Black Butler, maybe read the manga, and only watch the canon episodes of the anime. The rest is simply a waste of your time. The storyline made no sense at all, and all it will do is confuse you.
The reason I haven't rated this season as a 1 is because I do still love Sebastian and Ciel as characters, Alois and Claude were interesting for a while, and the ending was poetic in a way. Had Claude and Alois been a part of the manga, I think their addition to the anime would've been stunning. For people thinking that these two are just a rewrite of Sebastian and Ciel's characters, that is not the case. They have a completely different relationship, and each of the characters have their own, interesting backstories. That is one of the few things I…
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