Demon butlers and the boys who love them

So guess what I spent the weekend doing?

Watching all twenty-four episodes of the first series of Black Butler.

OMG SO GOOD YOU GUYS SO GOOD I MIGHT DIE

It’s my first anime, and it was heaven. I had an idea that the first anime I watched, unless I went for ‘gritty’, would be like kittens and rainbows and sunshine. In fact it was like being taken roughly in the orchard then slapped in the face with The Revenger’s Tragedy.

OMGGGGGG.

thank you marbletables, thank you son_of_darkness, everything is better now

I mean the premise? Just so cool. Obviously ripe for kink and slash, but also just genuinely cool and interesting. A twelve-year-old boy named Ciel, heir to an earldom in Victorian England, sees his parents burnt alive and his manor destroyed and is kidnapped and tortured by nasty creatures. Near death, Ciel makes a deal with a demon: if the demon will defend him from all harm, serve him and obey every order, and ensure that Ciel gets his revenge on those who did him harm, then once the revenge is complete the demon can eat Ciel’s soul. So the demon, named Sebastian by Ciel, becomes his butler.

It’s kind of Artemis Fowl meets The Golem’s Eye except with more sparkly cake and nun-fucking.

( more detailed squee behind the cut )