Black Butler: Book of Circus
黒執事 Book of Circus
In late-nineteenth-century England, the Noah's Ark Circus enlivens the city of London with their grandeur and spectacular stunts. However, children are mysteriously disappearing from the town in a manner correlating to the troupe's movement. The Queen, then, sends her notorious Watchdog, Ciel Phantomhive, on an investigative mission to retrieve the missing children. Ciel and his demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis, infiltrate the circus, disguised as team members, to study and possibly unearth its ulterior motive. This arc immediately follows the Curry Contest Arc in the manga, which ended at episode 15 in the first season of the anime.
Black Butler: Book of Circus is a tv with 10 episodes, from Summer 2014, produced by A-1 Pictures, rated 7.9/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
In late-nineteenth-century England, the Noah's Ark Circus enlivens the city of London with their grandeur and spectacular stunts. However, children are mysteriously disappearing from the town in a manner correlating to the troupe's movement. The Queen, then, sends her notorious Watchdog, Ciel Phantomhive, on an investigative mission to retrieve the missing children. Ciel and his demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis, infiltrate the circus, disguised as team members, to study and possibly unearth its ulterior motive. This arc immediately follows the Curry Contest Arc in the manga, which ended at episode 15 in the first season of the anime.
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- Demons — Prominently features malevolent otherworldly creatures.
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Butler — Prominently features a character who is a butler.
- Circus — Prominently features a circus.
- Anti-Hero — Features a protagonist who lacks conventional heroic attributes and may be considered a borderline villain.
- Foreign — Partly or completely set in a country outside the country of origin.
- Gender Bending — Prominently features a character who dresses and behaves in a way characteristic of another gender, or has been transformed into a person of another gender.
- Urban Fantasy — Set in a world similar to the real world, but with the existence of magic or other supernatural elements.
- Historical — Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.
- Food — Centers around cooking or food appraisal.
- Shounen — Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.
- Gore — Prominently features graphic bloodshed and violence.