With his ‘one hell of a butler’, Sebastian, at his side, the pair must go undercover to find out what the circus is up to, and find the missing children. His latest task is to investigate the Noah’s Ark Circus that has recently rolled into town, as several cases of missing children across the country have been linked to said circus but with no witnesses to confirm. Making this series effectively take place midst Season One of the anime, allowed fans of the manga to jump right into the action, and those who weren’t overly fond of the latter half of the anime’s direction to get back to basics, as it were.Ĭiel Phantomhive is the head of the Phantomhive family, its namesake toy company and Queen Victoria’s personal guard dog, who’s tasked to take care of unruly cases that are dragged up from London’s Underworld. Later that year however, an all-new anime series was released that went in an unusual direction instead of continuing with its own anime canon, they decided to adapt the much-loved Book of Circus arc from the original manga. A live action film, that took the concept even further by setting it in modern times, was released in 2014 and again was met with mixed results. However, in 2010 it got one anyway at first glance, it seemed to be a whole new earl and demonic butler dynamic but was actually a continuation of the previous series, ending in a controversial manner that divided many fans. The Black Butler franchise has had an interesting history to say the least the still on-going manga spawned an anime adaptation in back in 2009 which lasted 24 episodes, and, rather unusually for the genre, provided a very satisfying conclusion that left no room for a sequel.

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