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Me after waking up from a 30 years coma: is black butler over?

My mom in tears: they're still in the hotel arc

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little finny and his newfound mom

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undertaker really just came and told diedrich that he was gay, fat shamed him, had a mental breakdown and then left

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Starting on the 21st of June 2025 at 7PM Tokyo time the kuroshitsuji musicals will be available to watch for free (no subtitles) on Youtube starting with The Most Beautiful Death 2013 here:

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Oh thank god myu ciel is a kid again

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Did you by any chance see that doctor silhouette theory on Reddit just recently? Because if you did, that was me lol. Which would be even more funny because I indirectly mentioned you too in the comments below;)

I did! I saw it on the post about how will is unfairly judged by the fandom. I had to hold myself back from making a "back in my day-" old man type comment because oh lord it used to be so much worse 😭 so many fics where he was the ooc abusive antagonist...

I think my biggest issue with the theory as it currently stands is that the hairstyle is parted the wrong way. Though it would be extremely funny if will is doing some kind of dr jekyll and mr hyde thing where he combs his hair the other way and now he's in Evil Mode, I'm almost certain that can't be it, and I'll be sticking securely with my "will's narrative purpose is to arrest UT and in the process of that then maybe defect" theory and not getting my hopes up that they're already in cahoots

Way back before will showed up in the witch arc, I spent a lot of time puzzling over how he immediately knew/assumed there was another party involved when he told grelle and ron to write a report about the culprit, but I suspect now that it was truly just him putting the pieces together in that moment

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Seeing a theory that the doctor was will because of the similar silhouette and staring off into the distance as I am torn between "uwill things I really wish would be canon" and "utwill things I think are simply too extreme and sudden to be canon"

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A este hombre le tiembla el ojo por el estrés (canon)

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kuroshitsuji should end with lizzy beating sebastian to death with a crowbar

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Green witch anime in april omg

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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^^)

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ok. I think re-reblogging it fixed it actually. weird edit: spoke too soon.

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