#Sebastian Michaelis

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Kuroshitsuji S5 Preview - Emerald Witch Arc

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AnimeJapan 2025 and S5 Early Screening: Yana's art

Yana drew a few pieces of artwork for the panel and the early screening! Not only the first but the first two episodes were shown there.

Art for the AJ 2025 panel:

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Yana was watching the panel from a corner of the venue, and drew this while waiting for it to start <3 She illustrated the Phantomhive servants with the clothes their respective voice actors were wearing!

To compare, their voice actors (and the moderator on the very left):

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Art for the early screening:

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Sebastian, looking a bit confused, according to Yana.

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Yana could chat with Sieglinde's, Wolfram's, and Sebastian's voice actors!

Bonus:

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Welcome sign for the early screening!

If you missed the AnimeJapan event, you can still watch it at niconico until March 30!

[oya-oya-okay]

Hi! I love your Kuro in TWST AU and have been looking at all the artwork for it. You draw the characters so well and you're inspiring me to try drawing the TWST and Black Butler characters :)

I just have one question about Malleus and Sebastian. Why does Malleus dislike the latter so much? Is it because he can sense that Sebastian isn't human in a bad way?

DEAR OMG!! Hiii😭💓💖💓❤️💖 I am really very touched by your message!! Thank you very much!❤️❤️❤️ I really tried on everything kuroXtwst and I am very happy that someone is still trying, considering that all the drawings are quite old. I need to start painting it again!🙏💖❤️💖❤️ And I am sure that your drawings will be wonderful!!<3💘💘💘

When they meet, they look like this🙃🤭🤭🤭 Sebastian tries to pretend that everything is fine, but Malleus finds it difficult to control himself XDD: (answer⬇️⬇️⬇️)

Tysm for your question!!!💖💖💖

Malleus doesn't really like Sebastian bc he really immediately felt an unpleasant aura and energy from him😳🖤 Besides, he found it suspicious that a new teacher suddenly appeared who began to take care of Ciel!! Sebastian's kind of Ciel's guardian and lives with him and Grim in their dorm🤝✨

Malleus loves Ciel very much, but hates Sebastian💢 He's disgusted with him because he seems very suspicious. Sometimes it really gets in the way of Ciel and Sebastian, because he's constantly trying to get in their way and not leave them alone when the two are trying to discuss their plans LMAO

[earlgreyandco]

[grelleswife]

New sketches that Yana drew while attending AnimeJapan 2025 for the advance screening of Episodes 1 & 2 of the Green Witch Arc!

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I’m pretty sure that the servants’ outfits in the first illustration are based on what their seiyuus wore to the event:

[toshiimura]

Remember when

[ydotome]

Sullivan and Wolfram + Sebastian - Black Butler: The Green Witch Official PV

[ruileciel]

one thing i saw on tiktok and would like to share is that art of yana, which was made in honour of ono daisuke's netsuretsu answer videoclip, released in december 2010.

while sebastian is wearing onod's clothes, ciel is wearing the boy's rabbit costume from the video !!

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Yana T: I thought about scrapping this because Sebas's face looked too confused, but I thought it was important to keep it lively, so I decided to include it.

Yana T: Thank you for the special stage!

Someone called out to the live camera, "Are you watching?", but in fact I was watching from the corner of the venue.

And here are some servants I drew with stationery I got at Daiso while waiting for the advance screening at a karaoke booth.

Yana T: Thank you to everyone who came to the advance screening!

After the show, we headed home, chatting with the staff and saying, "Even though we wrote the original story ourselves, I'm really curious to see what happens next!"

Thank you Ono-san, Kugimiya-san, and Kobayashi-san for the fun chat!

Danke! 🤩

Yana T’s commemorative illustrations for today’s advance screenings of episodes 1 and 2!!!

[sebadztian]

NEW TEASER FOR GWA!!

アニメ『黒執事 -緑の魔女編-』本PV｜2025年4月5日（土）���り各局にて放送開始！

[lemonsquezie-official]

GRELL SUTCLIFF!!

She is actually 1 of my fav characters EVER. i lowk dont tink ive even had a character I’ve actually lieked lollz. SHES SO SILLI !! i luv being a teen/child prodigy-lol

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AnimeJapan 2025: Character designs and new trailer!

At the AnimeJapan panel, the present voice actors (re-)introduced the characters they are voicing; for that, the S5 character designs of Finnian, Mey-Rin, Baldroy, and Snake were unveiled.

Later, the Main PV was revealed! In it, we do not only get more glimpses of Wolfsschlucht and, finally, the rest of the Phantomhive household, but also get to listen to bits of the ending WALTZ and opening MAISIE for the first time as well!

The German: Hilde: Klappe! Ihr Zuteiler!* (Silence! You informants!) The villagers: Tod für die Zuteiler! (Death to the informants!) Sebastian: Sind Sie der Landsherr Sullivan? (Are you the landlord Sullivan?) Sieglinde: Genau. (Indeed.)

*it sounds a lot like "Zuteiler" for me but it doesn't seem correct? it means "allocator" but could have been mixed up with "Mitteiler" (informant); the Japanese subtitles say "密告者" (informant, betrayer, snitch)

[midnight-in-town]

TOP 10 reveals during the Green Witch arc

Since this arc is airing soon, I thought I’d recap what to look forward to, plot wise, since most of these are still very relevant to the current storyline. :)

10) A new ally

Spoilers for anime-onlies, but obviously Sieglinde's introduction is a big deal. Her genius aside, like Soma, Sieglinde is one of the few characters who has only known our!Ciel and who owes him a lot, which explains why she'd remain a friend and ally to him, in the current arc against real!Ciel.

The fact she's a genius is also extremely plot relevant, because Sieglinde's laboratory is funded by Queen Victoria, which means Sieglinde will definitely play a big role in the series until we get to the heart of the Victoria vs Ciel conflict.

9) Diedrich

Long time hinted at, first real time actually seeing him in action and, man, did he serve !

Despite his grief, he's a genuinely caring evil noble, because he promised Vincent, but also, because he simply cares that a kid like Ciel has to shoulder this burden. That's why he immediately chose to side with him, instead of his own army : patriotism, who ? Friendship is the real deal.

He's also one of the few characters who may have known that our!Ciel was lying about his identity, considering he never called him "Ciel", which means that he might remain an ally of our!Ciel in the current conflict between the twins.

8) Finny's backstory

Finny's the first servant to have his backstory revealed, because this arc happens in Germany, but also because Finny has similar circumstances to Sieglinde. Both of them were "experiments" of the German military, Finny with enhanced strength and Sieglinde with intelligence, creating new weapons.

The bond between Finny and Ciel is revealed to be deeper and a more emotional one than we could imagine, as Ciel is Finny's savior and Finny would even stand against Sebastian for his sake.

There is also the possibility that our!Ciel gave Finny his birth name that he discarded 4 years ago, making that bond even more significant if this turns out to be true.

7) All the servants in action

Not seen since the Circus arc, will not be seen again until our!Ciel runs away from Scotland Yard in the current arc (and will probably be seen next time against bizarre doll!Snake T_T).

We had many badass moments, for all of them, showing how much they want to be helpful to their master, which is heartwarming. Bonus point for Dee's remark :

In other words, Tanaka aside, Vincent didn't have a household full of talented fighters.

Finny's backstory and standing against Sebastian also proved that the servants are all definitely devoted to our!Ciel, making them his most secured allies, which will be hella significant (as we now know) when real!Ciel returns (and in case there is one day a conflict between Seb and Ciel).

6) More development for the War subplot

This story has different subplots (the main plot being Ciel's path to revenge) and this one was introduced back during the Murders at Manor arc :

Queen Victoria is said in the story to be a visionary (*cough* thanks to Brown being a supernatural being *cough*), reigning over the most powerful Empire in the world.

Twice now, she sent her Watchdog to thwart Germany's military achievements (when Ciel saved Finny and again during the Green Witch arc), to say nothing of her interest in bizarre dolls as weapons.

German Shinigamis also commented on the possibility of a massive world war being launched soon and it seems clear Victoria is preparing for that.

For now though, our!Ciel positioned himself as a threat, because he managed to convince Sieglinde not to give the Queen the formula for the SuLIN gas, which is what she was mainly coveting.

This means that our!Ciel probably has a huge part to play in avoiding the launch of WWI, 25 years early (could even be why he might be judged worthy, should he...ahem... die).

5) Family tree and special lineage

Ch103 made a lot of noise when it was released, between hints of real!Ciel's existence, the reveal of the birth & death dates of Claudia and Vincent, contrasting with the absence of dates for Cedric K. Ros-, thus the theory that it could be the Undertaker's previous identity.

On top of that, it's also in this chapter that our!Ciel noticed the German Shinigamis, despite them hiding, when Seb couldn't, implying the existence of a Phantomhive lineage very useful against supernatural beings.

In fact, to this day I remain a strong advocate of the theory that the Watchdog's duty is the Phantomhives' burden because of their special lineage.

4) Shinigamis' origins

The GW arc is also when we got the confirmation that Shinigamis were once humans and that other deserters besides UT exist.

The implication that the Shinigami system is an unfair one that deserters like UT might be trying to take down also started with this reveal and could be, as some of us theorized, very significant to the current arc.

3) Our!Ciel's inner guilt

The GW arc was a painful arc for Ciel, because it triggered some traumatic memories that left him lost inside his own head for a few days. A peak into his mind in ch95 showed that our!Ciel feels guilty about many people's death...

...and that it's why he bears with the contract, giving up hope for a happy future, because he's the one who made that choice 4 years ago, for his own sake.

2) The Undertaker's tearful moment

The arc started with our!Ciel trying to find info about UT and questioning Klaus about him. But Klaus turned him down, saying Dee would know more, because he was an evil noble before Klaus was.

So it was quite memorable when it turned out that UT had visited Dee, not long before our!Ciel arrived in Germany. xD

And while we can question what he was doing there before going to France (trying to sell bizarre dolls as weapons to Victoria's enemies ? or recruiting Shinigami deserters from these countries ?), what mostly struck is UT's reaction to seeing a picture of Vincent during his Weston days :

Obviously, this scene was a big hint about real!Ciel being turned into a bizarre doll, but also to the bond existing between UT and Ciel's family (aka the possibility that he's Cedric K. Ros).

This scene also confirmed that, unlike real!Ciel, Vincent can't be brought back as a BD, because his body (which is where the cinematic records remain) is too damaged.

This begs the question : was the fire, which destroyed the manor, started to damage Vincent's cinematic records, 4 years ago ? Not because of the bizarre doll project, because it didn't exist yet, but rather to hide who actually killed him and Rachel ? Food for thoughts.

1) Initial sparks of a possible conflict between Seb and Ciel in the future

A part of the fandom loves to joke about the "90% serious" incident that happened during this arc, but actually, comic relief is often used by Yana to hide a darker truth.

As far as Seb is concerned, him being 90% serious about eating our!Ciel's soul means he was more than ready to end it then.

This proves that Seb doesn't have Ciel's best interests in mind (in case anyone had doubts lmao), he just acts by the 3 rules of their contract, as long as Ciel still has his path of revenge well in mind.

Their dynamic is a chessgame that's been ongoing for the last 4 years and this indeed means that...

...Seb is the one Ciel trusts least of all, because a simple lack of focus can be deadly for him. So there might come a day when our!Ciel questions if the contract is really what he wants, but before that day happens, he will need to deal with all that inner guilt first.

For more details, please read these posts :

Rise of a possible conflict about the contract between Seb and Ciel [part 1] [part 2]

About Ciel’s inner guilt and how it might eventually cause a conflict between him and Seb

Thanks for reading ! Looking forward to more commentaries about this arc by Yana-sensei and Editor K, as the anime airs !

[enemywasp]

Redrawing memes is the reason I learnt to draw tbh.