Let’s have one more character tell us how they are similar. Alois has had a tragic childhood and has made a contract with a demon. I know some people really like the second season ( for example: Irina) but I just can’t bring myself to enjoy it.Īnd the absolute worst thing is the addition of a new master and his butler. Seriously, Black Butler 2 could have at least had a decent opening theme. Or worse, the brother of a character who died in the first season intrudes on several episodes and then disappears without any purpose what-so-ever.Īnd don’t even get me started on the opening theme and how badly it matches the tone of the show. Characters who have outlived their purpose in the series reappear regardless of how pointless and out-of-place their appearance might be. New motives and rules are forced upon the characters for narrative convenience. The perfect resolution from the first season is undone and then utterly lost.

Mondo: The Art of Soundtracks (hardcover)īlack Butler 2 is everything that is wrong with sequels.Ĭharacters who should be dead aren’t. (That said, if you want some good reasons to try season 2, you should check out the debate Irina and I had about it.) You know, how you build up all the negative points over time and forget the good things. Besides, maybe it wasn’t as bad as I thought I remembered it being. Plus, AnimeLab runs the two seasons together and leaving half of it unwatched just didn’t feel right. However, for the sake of reviewing it fairly, I had to watch this series again. The anime ends with Ciel getting his revenge and Sebastian devouring his soul. Since then, whenever the occasion to rewatch Black Butler has come up, I have chosen to ignore the existence of a season 2.

Back when I originally watched this anime, I remember how excited I was to learn there was a sequel, and how bitterly, bitterly disappointed I was when I finally saw that sequel. I previously reviewed the first season of this and to be honest I really should have stopped there.

Spoilers of season 1 are going to appear as we discuss Black Butler 2.

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