#chapter 214

[theunstealthiestninja]

Okay, I was talking with someone about who this could be and how I think it could be someone we see in the Emerald Witch Arc because the timing of the manga return and the beginning of the anime season. I'm still speculating about them possibly being someone from the case where they saved Finny mostly because we know Undertaker was in France (Europe) in 1889. And based on the IV, this individual may be an early imperfect doll. Then the person I was talking to said they thought this individual was Hilde and after looking up her image I gotta say this definitely has merit. I know she doesn't have the tattoo marking but she had enough interaction Sebastian to explain her aggression.

Edited to add: I'm still not 100% sure that mark around their neck is a tattoo. It looks like it could also be a decorative design on a high collar. So that isn't a decisive factor for me yet.

Kuro 214 spoilers

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I initially really thought it could be Joker with a proper haircut (mostly because of the little pointed teeth), but :

the cliffhanger makes it seem like they were looking mostly for Seb and not for Ciel & Seb

Also they seem to have a neck tattoo (?) and no earring hole, unlike Joker :

So maybe it's not Joker.

I also checked to see if the church on their hood was the same as the cult that abducted the twins and summoned Seb 4 years ago...

...but it doesn't seem to be the case, so I guess he's not this guy either from ch137 ?

Otherwise, I guess this person could look like the hired killers from ch3 if we're reaching ?

Anyway, the possibility of Joker's rather new look aside (to make him more butler fitted), it'll be cool to see if UT was petty enough to track down someone from Seb's past somehow, unrelated to when he started to work for Ciel, and brought them back as a BD.

[inu-chan-san]

Not me thinking about everyone that Sebastian has wronged in the history of ever...

[cielphantomhive321]

No way!! What if tho?!!

[nymphkoi]

bb spoilers

Hmm Ciel and Sebastian forced to be apart in the new chapter... Is this a play to get Ciel (or Sebastian?) physically vulnerable or is this a play to separate Ciel from his demon and try to convince him its better that way

[truedarkhunter]

thedarkestcrow has the goods!! These are great comparison shots. <3 Quite a score for those who want to describe it with words.

The "Nectar Springs" Hotel

I think I found the inspiration for the "Nectar Springs" Hotel that Ciel and Sebastian are investigating in the latest chapter.

It's modeled after the Grand Brighton Hotel, a Victorian seafront hotel in Brighton that was built in 1864:

Take a look at the lobby:

And the suite:

Just like the "Nectar Springs" Hotel, the Grand Brighton Hotel was famous for its outstanding service. And it had several advanced engineering features, like the very first lift in England outside of London (called "ascending omnibus").

[sashamosu46]

Kuroshitsuji Chapter 214 SPOILERS

Art imitates life

Yes the guy on the right is Sebastian's JP VA Ono Daisuke, who wore a bathrobe for photoshoot of his calendar merch many years ago lol

[bull-shit-suji]

plot-wise it makes way more sense for the new (?) character to be an old contractee of sebastian's but a tiny part of me yearns for an estranged lover trope. like that would horrific and absurd and reads like an early 2010s wattpad self-insert and i think that's what black butler is all about actually

[cedric-k-rossignol]

[sensitive-trash]

Damn the chosen number of the chapter was a real future prediction xD

Find the difference

I forgot to post my most important art of 2015

[funtomrabbitt]

my own greed sickens me, i need the next chapter now.

[sebaztianlovesgeek]

Literally all of us after the newest chapter:

[namisiaa]

OMG I'm kinda dying RN ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

And I can't wait to find out who this new person is!

[roguish-rhubarb]

So hear me out…

I’ve always wondering about this dead servant O!Ciel trips over during the flashback arc. First of all:

Is it just me…. Or does it look like his eyes and mouth have changed position in that last box??? Like… SIR, are you not completely dead?????

ALSO:

TELL ME this doesn’t look like our new mystery man??? The hair checks out. The blood obscures any neck tattoo business (unless he got the tattoo after this event). Idk. It could be same face syndrome, but y’all know Yana and her affinity for “insignificant” details….

[siriustaar]

helloooo

To celebrate the new season of Black Butler and the new chapter (after a year!), I'm posting a new colored manga panel :3 Enjoy!

[sebadztian]

Okay, so I just read chapter 214 and I have thoughts...

SPOILER ALERT

Right, we started off with Sebastian being highly affronted at the implication that some 'experts' are better than him in serving Ciel. I can basically hear him screaming internally, "WHAT EXPERTS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! NOBODY CAN SERVE BOCCHAN BETTER THAN ME!"

In all seriousness tho...

We've been given many new information, but we still don't know enough to draw any conclusion.

Sure the Monopoly guy is important, but how is he related to UT? Is he one of UT's benefactors? A founder of Aurora? Or someone who's in it just for the money?

And then there's the creepy bellboy who paid too much attention to Ciel's sparkling clothes and shoes? I mean, Yana wouldn't have drawn two panels about that if it weren't important. And he looks somewhat similar to Seba (at certain angle)? Now I'm very scared that @castleartsebaciel theory would become a reality 😭😱

Most especially with the appearance of Polaris, who seemed to have been waiting for them.

Now, without any colour and looking at how much Yana's artstyle has changed over the years, it is difficult to guess exactly who Polaris was.

He knew that Seba is a demon and that means they've met before. We haven't seen Ciel's reaction yet, but since Doll had made her reappearance and both Joker & Doll would know about Seba's true nature (because he was the one who killed them), my first thought was Polaris was reanimated Joker. But they have different hairstyle and when I compared them, they don't look alike? But again, like I said, Yana's artstyle has changed so much since the Circus arc.

This is Joker from chapter 210 (Snake's flashback)

And this is Polaris

Now, Joker's eyebrows are much shorter. I've checked and yes, they were alao much shorter in the earlier chapters. But Polaris has, uh, 'normal' eyebrows.

My second thought was Ryan Stoker. But he couldn't have known that Sebas is a demon and he was in no way, a butler. We know that Polaris used to be a butler and especially loyal to r!Ciel and Stoker was neither a butler nor did he know about r!Ciel (probably).

Now... Here's a crazy theory about Polaris... what if Sebastian was somehow involved in the Phantomhive fire? He might've been in contact with Vincent before the fire and this guy used to work at for the Phantomhive as one of their butlers? But he got killed in the fire and UT reanimated him. But he knew that Sebas was a demon from that time before the fire.

And lastly, he might be someone related to Sebastian's past, before he formed a contract with Ciel. He could also be Sebastian's ex-lover, in which case Ciel will get extremely jealous.

In this case, things are looking very, very bleak for the boys. If Ciel recognized him and he told Ciel that Sebas was somehow incolved in the fire, it will drive a huge wedge between them, something that they cannot afford right now.

But it will be in line with Seba's character development.

Well, I guess, there's no way to know the answer until next chapter. Here's hoping for the best for the boys...

In the meantime, let's just enjoy what we have...

[ceoandslutler]

he's so human in this new chapter it's crazy