You Know, I Think They're Molesting These Children...
The first series of Black Butler was a fascinating story, involving some very dark comedy, some downright weird historical anachronisms, and some nice interplay between the characters. Little girl Queen Victoria and crazy angels and a "New London Bridge" being constructed of human souls. It was just a fun watch from start to finish.
The second series is by no means bad, and I did enjoy it, but the introduction of Alois Trancy (which ended up being the whole storyline) was really uncomfortable. It took all the weird molestation undertones that Sebastian-Ciel's relationship had (buried behind a "demon devouring a soul" motif) and brought it really far out into the open. Alois is damaged goods from the ground up, he's literally molested by his adopted father and he's got his own father-figure demon to devour his soul, just like Ciel does. But where Ciel comes off as vulnerable (and desperate to hide it), resigned to relying on Sebastian even with the knowledge that the...
Holy POOP!
GORGEOUS packaging!
Full of the entire season on both blu-ray and dvd, and it contains all the OVAs listed!
The box and the series is absolutely stunning!!
WELL worth the 3 month pre order wait if you ask me!! LOL
I love it! I recommend it to EVERYONE!!!
Keeps getting better.
I must say, I bought this the day it came out and honestly, I have no regrets. the case is HUGE and there is a surprise for everyone. I am not dissapointed at all. FIVE STARS! Sadly it's only 12 episodes but I hope they go on. This is a good series.
It's SOOO worth it.
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