#black butler public school arc episode 10

[fionnalovesanimeboysandholo]

Undertaker had no right to be so hot that episode and being so silly at once ! I swear I will end him myself !

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Aahhh!!! The animation storyboard director’s Okazaki’s illustration for today’s episode.

[diakitty]

Baby John got his voice and said his first words at the age of 16, so proud! 😖🙏

[tr0llskog]

Man why am I so bad at finishing anime?

[fallinblossoms]

Undertaker

Black Butler: Public School Arc - Episode 10

[undertakerlmao]

Undertaker

Anime VS. Manga: Chapter 84 & Episode 10

Black Butler: Public School Arc

[sonnyjohnson]

Black Butler: Public School Arc

(Episode 10)

[turtlycute]

2024 Anime Watch List

June:

This post is part of my ongoing record for the new (to me) anime I watch in 2024. I'm excited to see what new shows and films I discover as this list grows through the year.

Tadaima, Okaeri (2024) episodes: 12 started: 4-8-24 finished: 6-24-24 rating: 9.5/10

A Condition Called Love (2024) episodes: 12 started: 4-8-24 finished: 6-20-24 rating: 8/10

Black Butler: Public School Arc (2024) episodes: 11 started: 4-13-24 finished: 6-22-24 rating: 8/10

Kageki Shojo!! (2021) episodes: 13 started: 6-11-24 finished: 6-12-24 rating: 7.5/10

Love of Kill (2022) episodes: 12 started: 6-13-24 finished: 6-15-24 rating: 8/10

The Story of Saiunkoku (Saiunkoku Monogatari) (2006) episodes: 39 started: 6-17-24 finished: 6-26-24 rating: 8/10 note: I really enjoyed this show. I'm so disappointed that season 2 never got a western release

Previous Months:

January Watch List

February Watch List

March Watch List

April Watch List

May Watch List

[mamanbou]

I might just be too optimistic but the two cour announcement for black butler season 4 only really leaves 3 options

1) each cour is 6 episodes or something, giving us a total of 12 which means it's school arc only. But that format would be nigh-unheard of in current anime so it's 99% not the case

2) it's two 12/13 ep cours but it's all school arc. based on the existing contents of the arc this would only be possible if they either padded the whole thing out with a LOT of anime-original content (for reference, book of circus adapted 13 chapters into 10 episodes with a couple added scenes and the school arc is 18 chapters), or stretched the sports portion to ridiculous proportions to fill out the second cour (which, like, maybe??? but I wouldn't get it from a marketing/appeal standpoint because bb's audience is not a sports anime audience, and drawing in that crowd for part 2 doesn't make sense because that is the only part of the entire story that dips into the sports genre and there's so much context required. Its just not incentivizing). This is a devastatingly real possibility but I kind of have hope otherwise? They skipped the easter chapter, and episode 1 covers the first two chapters of the arc. At that rate, if there aren't any added scenes, the cricket match could start by episode 6 easily, leaving lots of room for time consuming sports maneuvers

3) The easiest answer: public school's done in 13 episodes and cour 2 is green witch arc. walk with me to this beautiful future

[ridley-was-a-cat]

Spring 2024 Anime Roundup

Anime of the Season – Delicious in Dungeon

Source readers both online and in my own house have been talking this series up for years, so when I saw that it was getting an anime, and that Trigger would be the ones adapting it, I was pretty excited. Despite that excitement, I admit that it took a little bit to grow on me.

At the beginning, I found it awkward that the crew was in a hurry to get back into the dungeon to resurrect a party member before she’s digested by the dragon who wiped them out, but the story kept stopping to describe in detail the monsters they caught and prepared for dinner. Once I started to see more of the way the dungeon worked, with its resurrection mechanic making death merely annoying for adventurers, and the complex population of dungeon creatures representing a whole thriving ecosystem, the pace began to make sense, and the plot started to really take off. Being hungry is what lead to their party getting wiped out in the first place, so they have to work with the dungeon as another cog in its gears if they want different results this time. As they travel deeper into the dungeon, the wild situations and plot twists lead the characters to gradually reveal more depth as they respond to the challenges, and coupled with an excellent voice cast and fantastic visuals, it truly becomes a superb fantasy anime by the end of the second cour. Once the second season adapts the entire manga in full, this will be one of those series we’ll be talking about for many years. 9/10

First Runner-Up – Tonari no Yokai-san

The way this series began, it seemed like it was going to be a laid-back slice of life about the people living in a rural Japanese village in an alternate reality where humans and yokai coexist together. Eventually, though, it revealed its more dramatic ambitions, and tested the connections the characters had with each other through a series of unusual events. I think I liked it best when it was quietly focused on the characters daily lives, but the sci-fi flavored ending made for an emotional finish. 8/10

Second Runner-Up – Oblivion Battery

I don’t like amnesia plots, and I find Mamoru Miyano’s zany comedy mode to be nigh insufferable, so I nearly dropped this series after one episode when he was voicing an amnesiac catcher who yells bad jokes until someone breaks out in pity laughter. Luckily for me, the show got better and better each week as it added more lost boys to the baseball team and handled everything from the yips, toxic sports culture, and disordered eating, all with tons of feeling and superbly directed animation. 8/10

Black Butler: Public School Arc – Ciel and Sebastian infiltrate an elite school to get to the bottom of a missing persons case, and find themselves involved in everything from underhanded bullying schemes to intense cricket matches as they stalk their prey. I can’t say this is my favorite arc in the series, but it was so good to see the Black Butler gang back in a TV anime, and with better visuals than before. 8/10

Vampire Dormitory – A girl passing as a guy while living on the streets becomes the thrall of a handsome young vampire, moves into his dorm room, and begins an absurd, gender-bending romantic adventure. At no point could I guess what was going to happen next, because the mangaka’s galaxy brain was operating on a level I can’t reach, but I’ll always remember it fondly as highly entertaining shoujo camp. 7/10

I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability – Every season there’s a show I didn’t look twice at before the season started that turns into one of my favorites, and this was it this spring. By all rights, I should’ve been driven off by the busty maids and the ten year old protagonist’s booty shorts and rosy knees, but he’s such a likeable little magic-obsessed gremlin, and the magic battles were so well designed, that I couldn’t help but have a great time. 7/10

KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! S3 – There’s just something magical about the main quartet in this series that makes the sort of raunchy situations they get into hilarious rather than obnoxious. It’s all the standard stuff of ecchi-adjacent shounen series, but the character’s chemistry and the story’s commitment to the bit makes it impossible not to laugh along with them. 7/10

Kaiju No. 8 – This series centered on a guy who’s been turned into a humanoid kaiju, who uses his new power to join the force that fights against the monsters, doesn’t really do anything that a million other shounen action series hasn’t done before, but the animation quality is pretty great, and the all-adult cast has good chemistry, making them fun to watch. Depending on the choices the story makes from here, it could easily go stale, but they’ve given me an promising setup with this opening arc. 7/10

Train to the End of the World – A group of high school girls from a small town take a wild train ride through a world turned inside out by the activation of a 7G wireless network on a journey to find their friend in Ikebukuro. The bizarre, chaotic world created by 7G is unique and fun, with each stop on the train line having its own kind of madness for the girls to navigate, and it makes for a good adventure story. It needed more ambitious visuals, or a slightly deeper story, to be a great anime, but it was consistently entertaining week after week. 7/10

Tadaima, Okaeri – While I found the omegaverse content confusing and a bit weird the whole way through, I’m glad I gave this a try. Not only is it useful to know for sure what you’re not into, I definitely enjoyed more of this than I didn’t. It did some very welcome things with showing a young married gay couple being physically affectionate and doting on their kids like a typical family, and the story did a good job with topics like reconciling with estranged family and making friends as adults. 7/10

Laid-Back Camp S3 – The camp girls return, and this season had them tackle everything from backyard camping, to touring various suspension bridges, to the many kinds of vintage trains still serving remote areas. This season lacked a bit of the magic that made me love the previous seasons, although I’d be hard-pressed to point to any one reason why, but it still reliably delivered an effective dose of chill each week, and had a top notch OP to boot. 7/10

Wind Breaker – Delinquents seem to be having a moment in anime right now, and this season’s entry has the main character showing up with a chip on his shoulder and planning to fight for the top, only to find out his school of tough fighters acts as a local defense force and mutual aid society. The large cast is stacked with colorful, likeable characters you want to root for in their nicely animated fights. If it wasn’t for an awkwardly placed, overly long arc involving a rival team, it could’ve been a great show instead of a good one. 7/10

Tonbo! – A former pro golfer hits a low point in his life and moves to a small island south of Kyushu to start a new job, where he meets a middle school girl with a wild talent for golf. The production values are not particularly high, but the writer’s deep knowledge of the sport really comes through, and it was a lot of fun to watch the heterodox, instinctual Tonbo confound the experienced golfers she meets along the way. I look forward to the second half this fall. 7/10

Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy S2 – I remember really enjoying season one of this series, and thought it was a fun romp that played around with common isekai tropes, but I don’t feel like I got that from this sequel. The plot cut around abruptly at some points, dragged on at others, and never totally got me on board with his scheming and maneuvering. I still enjoy the cast, and I’ll probably keep watching the series, but it definitely felt like a downgrade. 6/10

Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnouji – Adapting a stage play that adapted part of a mobile game, the swords reanimated as handsome guys go to the Sengoku period to make sure Nobunaga’s end goes the way it’s supposed to. The plot is quite similar to Katsugeki Touken Ranbu, but with less impressive visuals, and a more annoying focus character. I got more Mikazuki Munechika (my beloved), though, so I was mostly satisfied. 6/10

A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics – If you watched Hinamatsuri and thought that it would be better with sleazy fanservice, generic light novel art, and less funny jokes, then this is the anime for you. It was entertaining enough to watch the characters flail around, but it hits nearly all the same plot beats as a much better series, and it’s hard not to compare them. 6/10

Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again – I hung in after a plainly bad first episode, and I’m glad I did, because it shaped into a genuinely enjoyable comedic slice of life that looked at growing old, rural depopulation, and passing things on to younger generations. The production was just a little too economical to quite call it good. 6/10

Astro Note – In a pretty clear nod to the classic series Maison Ikkoku, a young man moves into a boarding house full of boisterous residents and immediately becomes smitten with the young owner. Unlike the other series, though, this one involves aliens and a talking dog. Whether or not someone would enjoy this series likely hinges on how well the comedy direction lands for them, and a lot of it left me cold, especially the reaction faces. 6/10

Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night – I honestly enjoyed the first half of this original series following four girls drifting aimlessly in their lives who come together to form a virtual pop group. The visuals were excellent, and the voice actors were giving great performances despite the occasionally awkward dialog. Starting from something I’ll call the “boob incident” in episode seven, however, the show lost all of my trust, and the writing fell apart at the seams before limping through the finale with a pile of overly facile resolutions. 5/10

Unnamed Memory – Sometimes you don’t need to be familiar with the source material to know that the show you’re watching is doing an awful job of adapting the story. Whoever did the series composition here has abridged the life out of the text, stripping out all character development and story background we needed to feel for our cursed male lead and his forbidden romance with a witch with a tragic history. Without this connective tissue, the plot cuts abruptly from scene to scene, leaving the viewer behind. 4/10

A Condition Called Love – I probably should’ve just dropped this at the three episode mark, but so many people in shoujo fandom stan it that I wanted to see if there was something more to it. Unfortunately, my opinion remains the same in the end: he’s a pile of red flag maladaptive behaviors, and a teenage girlfriend who can’t tell when she’s been wronged by people is not a substitute for therapy. I couldn’t root for the romance, and the production ranged from mediocre to straight up bad. 4/10

[aceshadowstar]

Black Butler: Public School Arc ‒ Episode 10 https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/black-butler-public-school-arc/episode-10/.212000

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Episode 10 Synopsis, Manga vs Anime, The Butler Agreeing (Giving Assent)

The truth about the students’ disappearance was the murder of five people including Derrick Arden by the four prefects, and the resurrection of the dead by the secret society, Aurora.

In addition, it becomes clear that the identity of the person who was dressed as the head master is the funeral parlour director, Undertaker, who was once a collaborator/informant of the Phantomhive Family. His purpose is to evolve the “moving corpse.”

We are entering the much-awaited duel between Undertaker and S that the GFantasy released the face of the funeral parlour director as the character cover.

[usagi-cri]

Black Butler: Public School Arc - Episode 10

Dearest Gentle Reader, it would seem some rather questionable individuals will not be joining the marriage market...

[diakitty]

So, about episode 11...

7 of 11 episodes of Black Butler Public School arc already out. The cricket match was nicely wrapped up in only 2 episodes, which was a bit surprising to me. Originally I thought it would take at least 3 and a half episodes, but there were 5 pages of chapter 76 cut from the anime, with Baldroy explaining cricket rules. It probably would've been the expected 3 and a half eps if that scene wasn't cut off.

With only 5 and a half chapters and 4 episodes left, I once again decided to estimate what would be shown in the remaining episodes, and here's my conclusion:

Episode 8 — the remainder of chapter 80 to the very end of chapter 82. That would be the same number of pages as the previous episodes;

Episode 9 — chapters 83 to 84, maybe the last pages of 84 will be in the next one.

Episode 10 — (presumably) what's left of chapter 84 and chapter 85, which wraps up the whole arc.

Alternatively:

Episode 8 — the remainder of chapter 80 to the very end of chapter 81, I have a feeling that with chapter 82 the episode will be too long;

Episode 9 — chapters 82 and everything else as written above.

These are just my assumptions, but either way it looks like everything that's left could perfectly fit in 3 episodes.

And now the question is... what is episode 11?

I had posted about this before, but I lean to think that episode 11 may take us back to the beginning of the arc, back to chapter 66. Considering the ending of this chapter, anime only may be intrigued by the next arcs, not to mention that this is simply a very fun chapter!

Yes, I could be completely wrong.

Looking back at what we have, the pacing differs in some episodes: the first two episodes were adapting two chapters each, then the third episode consisted entirely of one chapter. With that in mind, it is also possible that we will get something like this:

Episode 8 — chapters 80 to 81;

Episode 9 — 82 to 83;

Episode 10 — chapter 84;

Episode 11 — chapter 85.

It would be sad not to see chapter 66 adapted, but it's not like we can do anything about it.

We'll have to wait and see. What do you guys think?

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Silence, wind and Kuroshitsuji

What I like about the latest season is the sound director’s (and director’s) decision to use the effect of silence=no dialogue in between the scenes and supply natural backgrounds like the howling of the wind in order for the audience to absorb how serious the P4’s decision has been to justify their askew sense of justice to preserve the traditions of their school.

True, Derrick Arden, his friends and Johann Agares deserved it, and laws it seems didn’t affect them bc they were rich and had influence. Still, the P4 shouldn’t take the matter in their own hands, or else anarchy would prevail.

Then you have Undertaker finding the whole thing so absurd and hilarious at the same time that his laughter stunned the others. Their reaction to his maniacal laughter fuelled more fear in their hearts.

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Let me scream. Aahhhhhh!!!

CloverWorks really promised and they delivered! They know how huge the thirst for Undertaker has been and they made it special. Even focusing on his waist based on the small cap from the manga. However, insignificant that was. But in the anime they wanted he audience, us, to focus on that part.

Apologies, he’s the reason I discovered the anime and learned to love the manga afterwards.

I can’t believe they announced that the final episode will be next week. Am expecting a full-blown announcement next week.