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noirshitsuji · 4 days ago

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every once in a while I will see this take in the bb fandom that like 'nothing has felt like Black Butler since X arc' (usually Noah's Arc Circus) which I find. very interesting. I think the implication is usually that nothing has felt as like serious or gritty or psychological thriller-y or devastating, or that somehow the vibe has gone weird. and like, this is not to diss anyone's interpretation. but also.

this is a story where one moment the main boy character is wearing a dress and being accosted by a pedophile nobleman and the next he's nearly been human trafficked. and then it turns out his aunt is jack the ripper and she dies at the hand of her grim reaper ally who decides to turn on her for being unable to kill her nephew. cue flashback to the extremely tragic life she's had and the complicated feelings she has about said nephew as a result, although ultimately her love for her sister, that she seems in him, means that she cannot slaughter him as she has so many others.

and then next arc, the culmination of an indian prince's coming of age where he's processing his loneliness and neglected upbringing comes during a contest where people are trying to obtain the royal warrant for curry. and the main character wins it by inventing the curry bun, a japanese dish, in Victorian England, after the elderly queen rides in on a horse wearing sunglasses and declares him a winner.

like. idk what to tell you, like yes the Circus Arc was very dark and all but are we really going to pretend that the boy band thing during the blue cult arc was out of left field??? for the person that did pride and prejudice and zombies on the titanic?? like this has always been the type of story this is wdym-

#and still managed to have some emotionally impactful storytelling to go with it??#like granted the lizzy reveal is not blue memory arc but also. blue memory arc??#like this sort of thing is just bb standard it's like a metaphor for sebastian's swings #between his polished butler aesthetic and his savage demonic nature #or something. idk. standard shounen (is bb a shounen?? a different discussion) shit.#anyway #even tho the boyband this was like 10 years later or whatever #and yana explicitly said it was meant to remind ppl this was ultimately a fantasy story #you can like tell that ah yes this is the same person #who had soma sit down in front of a tv in arc 2??#like she really has always been about exploring different parts of the victorian english world but also having fun with it #it's what makes this work for me personally #there is a whole second rant inside this one about the shotakon ciel treatment in the first arcs #and what we learn later about his backstory and like. everything that happened in the circus arc #but that's for a different day #anyway. just ramblings #my posts #kuroshitsuji fandom #we've had close to 0 comedy this arc but yes #ciel phantomhive #o!ciel #soma asman kadar #elizabeth midford #kuroshitsuji queen victoria #madame red #grelle sutcliffe #this ain't targeted and is probably of interest to exactly 0 people but hey. my blog my rules #queué bourgeois

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