Easy isn’t it, to just make up characters for the convenience of the story? True, it isn’t the most respectable way to go about wrapping up a storyline but A-1 Pictures does it in a way that doesn’t seem like an obvious convenient plot device but actually attempts to build a relationship between the new characters and the viewers, which I can’t really say the same thing about the first set of master and butler.įirst things first: No, this season does include ANY material from the manga in any shape or form, but considering how much the first season had flown off on a tangent it does not really matter, as if content from the manga (such as the anticipated circus arc) were to be included it would just be filler and would not relate to the happenings of the season. Simultaneously it tells us of the involvement of the new master and butler to Ciel’s own past. Along with the beautiful dark skinned maid, Hannah Annafellows and the silent triplet servants you have yourself the Trancy Household.Īlready the anime is set up for a Trancy VS Phantomhive storyline, and it indeed takes that turn, for the better part of the show anyway. So how does one solve the problem of concluding the story from season one, especially with the amount of mess it had been put into? Why, just create a couple of new characters, slap ‘em in and you can create all sorts of plot lines and justifications.Įnter (or rather waltzes and tap dances in) our scapegoats Alois Trancy, a bipolar sadistic misogynistic and rather scantily clad fourteen year old boy and his poker-faced butler, Claude Faustus. Now that sound and art is covered, time to sink our teeth into the real meat of it. Animation for the OP is taken up a notch and again we have two sets of animation for the OP song “SHIVER” both of which were fitting to the song and showed two different styles of art the first animation being the more unique and visually stimulating one. Again, in keeping with the theme of high class Victorian England classical music (or pieces that are inspired by those roots) are used, violin being the most distinct sound out of the instruments. New pieces of music by Taku Iwasaki (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Soul Eater) are introduced along with new characters, thus being their character theme songs.
The art and animation is as beautiful and Victorian-Gothic as the first season, though the animation Let’s get the technicalities out of the way. To many, Black Butler II has done neither and to others it has done more than that: in other words, there is a clear division between fans. On one hand it has the job of following and wrapping up the previous season’s (to an extent, “original”) storyline and on the other hand, pleasing the fans.
Especially ones for shows that already do not follow the manga but instead, creates its own story. Sequels can be a dangerous territory to tread on.
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