#not yana

[yanaluvz]

ive noticed youre a bit ooc /nm id say you need to be a bit nicer to people who rp as yanas friends because yana is a rather mom friend :] this is lighthearted advice i swear

yeah thats the point lol!!! its a joke :3

-shif

[sunskaiis]

some comic 7 stuff

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey showing off his belly dancing bona fides on the WWDITS set.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Yana Bau

[randomomensandportents]

From this Etsy Shop. Sadly this print is sold out, but they have a bunch of other prints and cute pins and charms

[soulstarrz]

malleusified sebastian cause im yana toboso’s biggest fan

[troubledtealover]

[rabbastian]

Some more cute parallels that the anime staff decided to show in the anime

[bihastuff]

Black Butler on the cover of G-fantasy July issue

[cheekinpermission]

Twisted Wonderland has such a wonderful array of sibling dynamics!!

So beautiful <3

[azuronel]

my predictions for the end of book 7

EDIT: part two here

[yanaluvz]

Ohhh thanks for the clarification im sorry if i got mean. hcs for the blog are ofc okay id just suggest you mention it in pinned/intro :] but with explanations it seems fine (just pls remember other rp blogs are also run by people and dont get too mean lol)

<33

[sp00ky9]

“I am not so noble that I would stake my life for someone else, nor am I so forgiving that I would sit by and allow someone to trample me.

I am a selfish and self righteous human being.

I, to clear my own shame, used your power. Not for anyone else! But for myself!” - ciel phantomhive

Prints can be found here

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey spreading a lovely holiday message from the Shadows family.

[dumdeedummy]

they have a new addition to the family 😇

[kuroshitsuji-wiki]

It's Yana Toboso's birthday! (January 24, 1984)

Yana forgot her birthday this year...

... so there's even more reason to congratulate her and celebrate!

Some trivia:

She chose her penname "Yana Toboso" to indicate what kind of manga she wanted to create: Because there are so many mangas whose central themes are dreams, hope, friendship, and love, she wanted to make a manga whose focus is the opposite. "Yana" derives from "iya" (unpleasant, detestable, disagreeable; here: unpleasant/nasty child), and "toboso" is meant to signify importance: a "toboso" is a cavity in the frame of a door used as part of a pivot hinge; as doors wouldn't work without hinges, hinges are important objects. "Yana Toboso," therefore, is meant to mean "the hated/bad child is in the middle" (憎まれっ子がど真ん中にく る). (Character Guide, page 146)

Yana once stated that Ciel resembles her the most out of her characters. (Character Guide, page 147)

*cough* Obviously.

Exhibit A:

(Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji VII, from Volume 17)

(Chapter 76)

Exhibit B: The iconic Pancake Saga from 2018!

Yana's grandmother encouraged her to become a mangaka, and her mother pushed her to submit her work to a publisher when she was 20. Both have since passed away. (sources: akumadeenglish, The Japan Times)

She is a fan of the band L'Arc-en-Ciel (source). HYDE, the vocalist of that band, wrote the opening for Season 5. Yana was obviously very happy about that!

Yana contemplated making "fluffy spin-offs" to Kuroshitsuji, e.g., "a gourmet manga featuring the canteen of the Shinigami dispatch association HQ, or a manga where the Indian butler cooks curry or the black butler makes sweets, or where the servants make small discoveries." However, she dropped those ideas because her "fluffy concepts" kept becoming ominous after a few chapters. (source)

Kuroshitsuji was not meant to be set in 19th-century England from the beginning. Mr. K and the chief editor eventually suggested England as the setting. Yana, who did not know much about England (and could not find many materials early on; source: Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji II in Volume 2), especially not about 19th-century England, and did not believe the manga would be a hit anyway, then cooked up the wonderfully anachronistic Volume 1. Since then, Yana has become more knowledgeable about Victorian England, got a historical advisor (Rico Murakami) who also, sometimes, translates sources for her (source: Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji Special in Volume 15), has been (re-)learning English, and visited England twice. The manga has, thus, become significantly more historically accurate over the years. Still, as it's a fantasy manga, Yana likes to incorporate anachronistic elements for story purposes (e.g. Grim Reaper tech and possessions, Wolfsschlucht) anyway (or simply because she wants to; e.g. the idol groups, I suppose). Anachronisms have, thus, shifted from accidental to deliberate.

Sebastian's mobile phone will be forever iconic, but it has been retconned for over a decade now.

And The Wild Earl lost more than his head was cancelled when all TVs were thrown out of the continuity with the end of the Indian Butler Arc (TVs are last mentioned in Chapter 23).

May we learn many Victorian things alongside Yana in the next years too!

(Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji II, Volume 2)

And may she have a happy, restful birthday so that she doesn't forget it again^^' (And the best of health^^)