It's the end of the 19th Century, apparently just a little while after the giant final battle of the first series that almost burnt London to the ground. Things do start a little strange in the first episode of Black Butler 2. And I must be quite honest with you, they actually pulled it (a good sequel) off. Rat penis!īut, I actually calmed myself down, and when Black Butler 2: Blacker, Butlier! finally came out I gave it a go. There'd be no real way to make a sequel to Black Butler without pretending that the final last ultimate scene didn't occur, I thought, and it's that closing quiet moment that made me love this thing so damn much. Like I said said before, to give this show a direct sequel would be like making a follow-up series for Cowboy Bebop, or Chrno Crusade - the brilliant finales of both would just be shat upon in order to sell another season of advertising. But to follow it up with, well, ANYTHING just seemed like blasphemy. And the last ten minutes of it were absolutely amazing! The risks that the storytellers took, and the very last few moments of the show made me applaud the series with hoots and hollers of approval. See, the original Black Butler was actually a decent yarn of betrayal, vindication, and damnation that turned very murky, then outright bitter and dark (but in a GOOD way) by the final episode. Last year, just after I finished up the original Black Butler anime series, I had heard some terrible rumors that they were making a sequel to the Victorian Era demon tale of revenge, and that made me so sad.