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A community dedicated to anything and everything Black Butler (黒執事 "Kuroshitsuji"), written and illustrated by Yana Toboso.

"You struggle desperately, knocking down others in your way… You steal and are stolen from, you make endless excuses… And still you strive to get over the hill and far away. I suppose that’s why humans are so interesting." - Sebastian Michaelis

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Happy Halloween! (Offical Art)

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2024/10/31
14:18 UTC

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Happy Halloween!

And Happy Birthday to Sebastian as apparentli there's this new thinu (hew to me for sure) ofacelebratong his birthday in Halloween 💜

Coloring: me Original art: Toboso Yana, Chapter 181

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2024/10/31
12:51 UTC

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In Brazil, the person who gave voice to Grell Sutcliff was a trans woman. Did you know that?

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2024/10/31
06:03 UTC

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THE WAY I CRINGED😨

when Sebastian said he ripped out ciel’s loose tooth.

6 Comments
2024/10/31
01:19 UTC

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Until death do us part... [Unknown artist]

8 Comments
2024/10/30
23:56 UTC

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it's the oldest story in the world really

A maiden voyage that ends with BLOOD, there's no taking it back, this ship has sailed now!

Her lower deck, will NEVER be the same!

OUCH!

This is such an underrated line, can't even find a clip of it

4 Comments
2024/10/30
20:53 UTC

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Does Nina Know?

I was having a think about the filler chapter (37) where Nina is first introduced and when I checked my volume I noticed something; I think Nina knows about the brand on Ciel's back. If you look at the pages where Ciel has his shirt ripped off him and Sebastian is trying to cover the brand, once Lizzie has been scared off Sebastian makes no effort to conceal it again until Soma barges in. Based on how close in proxemity Nina is to Ciel surely she'll have seen, and since Ciel doesn't seem bothered- despite the fact how he reacts when Doll sees it and how he mentions in Public School that he has to 'bath quickly here to hide the brand on my back' (sic)- he doesn't make any attempt to conceal it whilst Nina's measuring.

He also specifically says that it would be bad if Lizzie sees the brand and doesn't mention the fact Nina could possibly see it too. It makes me think that Nina has seen the brand when she first measured him up after his 'return' and has been paid off/ sworn to secrecy. Her family have tailored multiple generations of 'Guard Dog' and she's no stranger to unusual happenings within the household (She does make Mey Rin's skirt belt thingie and bulletproof corsets without prompting so there must be some experience there, plus she presumably didn't bat an eyelid at being asked to make a 'muslin drenched French dress' for Ciel and providing a bunch of others) so it wouldn't be hard to pay her off or make her sign an NDA.

If you look at the top left and top centre panels Ciel nor Sebastian seem bothered Nina could get a glimpse of the brand, and Nina can be seen in the foreground of the bottom right panel, if she turned around she'd see the brand quite plainly.

12 Comments
2024/10/30
14:52 UTC

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Sebastian 💜

It's you guy, Michaelis! Preparihg for Halloween, (CDawgVA voice xD)

Cokoring: me Original Art: Tobosoy Yana, Chapter 180 cover - so no spoiler here 😀

5 Comments
2024/10/30
04:48 UTC

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My attempt at manga coloring. This was pretty challenging

10 Comments
2024/10/29
20:33 UTC

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Lizzie✨ Manga Panel Coloring

This whole reveal took me by surprise when I first read it!

3 Comments
2024/10/29
16:46 UTC

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[TW] SA in Black Butler?

Hello!

I have a request about a rather serious topic. I’m planning to re-watch *Black Butler* with my girlfriend. I watched everything a while back (all the seasons, OVAs, movie, etc.), but I’ve forgotten a lot since then. I remember there being mentions of sexual assault/violence in the series, but I can’t recall exactly when or where these occur. My girlfriend is very sensitive to this topic, so could anyone let me know which episodes contain these scenes?

Thanks!

18 Comments
2024/10/29
09:53 UTC

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Another Panel! This one took a while

I’m a recovered Lizzie hater ( young me hated her… )

I hope you like it!

3 Comments
2024/10/29
02:04 UTC

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I know season 2 isn’t canon, but I was wondering if anyone has a rough estimate of how many months apart is season 1 and season 2?

I’m writing a fanfic ✌🏼

12 Comments
2024/10/29
01:26 UTC

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Roast him (I believe this is official art by Yana, btw)

Doesn’t have to be a roast to the sketch of him, it can also be him in the manga and anime. Roast him.

29 Comments
2024/10/28
22:24 UTC

539

Halloween boys

I'm preparing the whole Halloween series of colorings for this year. Not to mention how many I have for previous years. I love Halloween so much 🎃😈👻

9 Comments
2024/10/28
19:49 UTC

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Alrigth 2025 is around the corner and so is the animated green witch arc,who do you think the seiyus for Sullivan and Wolfram will be?

20 Comments
2024/10/28
17:24 UTC

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Why did Claude lie about Sebastian to Alois?

Claude tells Alois that Sebastien was the demon who burned down his village and killed Luka. Why did he lie and pin the blame on Sebastian? Does he have some sort of demon grudge on him and is using the contract as an excuse to fight him?

5 Comments
2024/10/27
23:18 UTC

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Sebastian and Ciel manga coloring

Guuuyssss! I guess I uave this! Finally managedsto get 100 points and I can publish my work. So here it is. Made it 2 months ago and nwo I'm working on Halloween coloriny series 💜🎃👻😈

12 Comments
2024/10/27
19:07 UTC

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What does that mean?

When Claude was rearranging the Mansion he said "Day into Night, Sugar into Salt, Living to Dead, and Silver into Gold. That's what makes a Trancy butler." Sebastian was commenting on it too, while infiltrating the trancy mansion, to steal the new moon drop, like it was something important.

So what exactly dies that sentence mean, or is it just a cool line? Thank you.

8 Comments
2024/10/27
09:36 UTC

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Manga panel coloring of one of my favorite panels

When I first read this scene, I got shudders

11 Comments
2024/10/26
20:01 UTC

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Ciel Phantomhive (unfinished artwork 😭) by me

7 Comments
2024/10/26
13:29 UTC

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What is Alois's initial fascination with Ciel?

He knows him by name and gets excited when he sees him in the suitcase and demands Claude to retrieve him. He also tries to take him during the ball and gets really excited when Sebastien is carrying Ciel while running towards him.

As the Queen's Spider its his job to clean up any evidence left behind by Ciel so that explains why he knows about him but why is he fascinated with Ciel and wanting to take him?

2 Comments
2024/10/26
06:47 UTC

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Was it ever said what materials / programs yana toboso uses in her illustrations ?

I’m guessing clip studio paint , but if any one knows more in depth especially about brushes and stuff please tell me 🙏

5 Comments
2024/10/25
15:31 UTC

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Bewitching Grell [OC]

I had almost forgotten to post this witchy Grell.

7 Comments
2024/10/25
13:57 UTC

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Why did Claude get the crazy camera woman to commit the combustion murders?

3 Comments
2024/10/25
10:12 UTC

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Mey-Rin's Nun Costume [OC]

This was just a little something I drew tonight.

11 Comments
2024/10/25
03:43 UTC

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Cant believe these 2 shared the same english va once

5 Comments
2024/10/23
23:56 UTC

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how has this story been going on for almost 20 years and not ended??

i dont mean this in any offense way to the writer, I'm aware that she releases new chapters monthly, i'm just confused. I dont read many manga, but I remember watching the black butler anime as an 11 year old (im 25 now) so for nostalgias sake I thought Id re-watch, and catch up on the new seasons, I finished the anime a couple days ago so spent the past 2 days reading the rest of the manga. only to find out its still not finished, and its been almost 20 years? If the writer has been releasing new pages monthly for that long how has the manga seemingly got so few chapters? 🥲 I feel like I'm missing something

I know that other series are well known for having been spanning much longer, such as one piece, but thats been running only 9 more years than black butler and has 1000+ chapters/episodes, so how comes black butler only has 200ish chapters so far? Or maybe one piece is just abnormal in that respect? but surely its not common for manga to run on for so long?

i have adhd and maybe am just too used to the wests way of pushing out media. i just know that after I just finished marathon reading all the manga, i'll probably just forget about it and never ending the series (until maybe another 10 years time for another dose of nostalgia lol)

34 Comments
2024/10/23
18:27 UTC

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