Manga Entertainment license Black Butler's first season

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Another day, another new license from Manga Entertainment, with the company tonight announcing a new acquisition for the UK via their Twitter account.

The series in question is the first, twenty-four episode season of Black Butler, aka Kuroshitsuji, A-1 Pictures adaptation of an on-going supernatural black comedy manga (published by Yen Press in the UK) which centres around young orphan and English noble Ciel Phantomhive and his demonic butler Sebastian Michaelis who is tasked with solving the various mysteries and problems which plague the country.

There's no news yet of release dates or formats (although bet on a DVD-only release, probably consisting of two half-season sets as per FUNimation Entertainment's North American release of the series)Are you looking forward to seeing this series hit the UK?
 
Bleh I already have Funi's LE release bought, watched and shelved. This could do well here though if they manage to tap into the right audience.

R
 
Never touching that fujoshi **** with a barge pole.

It won't have BDs (doesn't in Japan) it's aimed at fujoshi, not otaku. Blurays for series not aimed at adult men are much less common.
 
Reaper gI said:
Squeeling yaoi fangirls etc.
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Black Butler reviewed well at ANN, so I might give Manga's release a try. It sounds like an amusing show.

I wouldn't let a show's audience, or a particular subset thereof, dictate what I watch... unless that show is Naruto. Guffaw.
 
Paradox295 said:
A bunch of Yaoi Fangirls aren't running around the forum, and you see that as a bad thing?
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I don't see how it is any worse than anyone else running around the forum. Girls who happen to like BL aren't *all* squealing 15 year old Americans with yaoi paddles and 'free hugs!' signs. And Black Butler is hardly a twisted BL orgy series - it's loaded with fanservice nods but at heart it's just a fun supernatural-lite show which doesn't take itself terribly seriously. The London setting was a bonus.

It's plausible that if people go into it expecting a completely sensible, mature angst-fest, they will be disappointed. However, I thought it was great and I don't even particularly like butlers or grumpy, strangely-attired young heirs.

Note that when I see fanservice, I mean it in the wider sense, not that the series is full of a bunch of men running around naked.

R
 
I'm certainly not into Yaoi, but I did quite enjoy Kuroshitsuji.

Basically, what Rui said, I suppose. And I didn't think there was all that much fanservice and many instances appeared to me to be for comedy purposes.
 
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