50 Fun Facts About Black Butler

Who writes and illustrates the Black Butler manga?

She later created the concept and character designs for Disney's Twisted-Wonderland mobile game.

What is Black Butler's Japanese title?

The manga has run in Square Enix's Monthly GFantasy since September 2006.

In which magazine has Black Butler been serialized since 2006?

It is a Square Enix shōnen magazine; the first collected volume came out in February 2007.

How old is Ciel Phantomhive when the series begins?

He acquired his title after the Phantomhive manor was attacked on his tenth birthday.

What nickname describes Ciel's role solving crimes for the Crown?

The Phantomhives are also called the 'Aristocrats of Evil' for managing London's underworld on the Queen's behalf.

What does Sebastian receive in exchange for his service?

The Faustian contract ends with the demon consuming his master once Ciel's revenge is complete.

In which era is Black Butler set?

Queen Victoria herself hands the Phantomhives their cases.

Which studio produced the first Black Butler anime in 2008?

Toshiya Shinohara directed the 24-episode first season, which aired on MBS and TBS.

How many episodes did the first anime season run?

The second season, Black Butler II, was only 12 episodes and told an anime-original story.

Which 2014 anime series adapted the Noah's Ark arc?

Unlike the first two seasons it closely followed the manga; Book of Murder was a two-part OVA that same year.

Which 2017 animated film adapts the arc set aboard the Campania?

It premiered in Japan on January 21, 2017, and Funimation gave it a limited North American run that June.

Which studio produced the fourth season, Public School Arc, in 2024?

Kenjirou Okada directed the eleven-episode run, which aired on Tokyo MX from April to June 2024.

What is the subtitle of the fifth anime season, aired in 2025?

It ran from April 5 to June 28, 2025, again from CloverWorks and director Kenjirou Okada.

Which publisher licensed the Black Butler manga in North America?

It debuted in the Yen Plus magazine's August 2009 first-anniversary issue.

By August 2025, roughly how many Black Butler manga copies were in circulation?

Individual volumes regularly reached Oricon's weekly best-seller chart.

On what date was the Phantomhive manor attacked, killing Ciel's parents?

It was Ciel's tenth birthday; he was then taken and sold into slavery.

Ciel named his demon butler after what?

The original Sebastian was a black Borzoi who died in the attack on the manor.

On which part of Ciel's body is the Faustian contract symbol placed?

He covers the pentagram with a black eye patch; Sebastian's matching mark sits on his left hand.

Who is the household sniper posing as a maid?

Her extreme long-range eyesight makes her clumsy up close, which her round glasses do not fix.

What is the Phantomhive estate's teenage gardener famous for?

Finnian, or Finny, keeps destroying the garden by accident despite being warned to be careful.

What secret organization experiments with reanimated corpses?

It is led by Undertaker, the seceded Grim Reaper who was once a Phantomhive informant.

Whose body does Undertaker ultimately aim to revive?

The real Ciel Phantomhive was sacrificed in the ritual that summoned Sebastian; the boy we follow took his name.

Which two anime-original characters star in Black Butler II?

Both were designed by Toboso; Claude is a rival demon butler obsessed with Ciel's soul.

Which Japanese voice actor confirmed the second season on his blog in 2009?

Suwabe's announcement came the same day as the official event reveal on June 14, 2009.

Who played Sebastian in the 2014 live-action film?

Ayame Goriki co-starred as Genpou Shiori, an original character standing in for Ciel.

What was the first stage musical adaptation, staged in 2009, called?

Yuya Matsushita played Sebastian at Ikebukuro's Sunshine Theater.

The fifth musical, Tango on the Campania, adapts which manga arc?

It ran from December 2017 to February 2018 with Yuta Furukawa as Sebastian.

On which console was the 2009 game Phantom & Ghost released?

Square Enix sold it in a regular edition and a pricier limited first-press edition with extra goods.

What was the official comics anthology released in March 2009 called?

Nijishitsuji reached seventeenth on Oricon's weekly chart, selling 41,083 copies in one week.

In Recochoku's annual survey, Sebastian ranked ninth in which category?

The Japanese music distributor polls fans on which anime characters they would like to marry.

Who voices Sebastian in the Japanese anime?

Morikawa voiced him on the first drama CD; J. Michael Tatum is the English voice.

Which actress voices Ciel in the Japanese anime?

Sawashiro voiced him on the first drama CD; Brina Palencia plays him in English.

What animal does Sebastian have a helpless fondness for?

He admits he cannot control his reactions around felines.

What breed was the original Sebastian, the Phantomhive dog?

The demon's real name, and his age, remain a 'secret'.

What business does Ciel run?

It makes toys and sweets and later added a food branch after winning a Royal Warrant.

What does Ciel's first name mean in French?

His real name is unknown; he assumed his dead twin's identity and title.

What were the names of Ciel's parents?

The manor Ciel lives in is an exact replica of the original that burned.

What does the household cook Baldroy use to prepare food?

The American ex-soldier believes cooking is an art requiring explosions; Sebastian calls the results charcoal.

Which servant ends every sentence with the name of one of his pets?

He joined as footman after the Noah's Ark Circus arc and speaks through his snakes.

What is the house steward Tanaka usually seen drinking from?

He was stabbed protecting Ciel during the attack and is often drawn in super-deformed form.

Which infamous killer did Madam Red and Grell secretly operate as?

Grell posed as Angelina Dalles's butler while the pair committed the Whitechapel murders.

What is Grell Sutcliff's Death Scythe modeled after?

Ronald Knox wields a lawnmower and William T. Spears an extendable pruner.

Who was Madam Red before her marriage?

Ciel's aunt hated her red hair until Vincent Phantomhive said he liked it.

All Grim Reapers in Black Butler were once humans who did what?

They must work until they have fully repented, and they rival the demons who eat souls for nourishment.

What business does Lau, the Phantomhives' Chinese contact, run?

He heads the British branch of the Kong-Rong trading company and the Qing Bang mafia.

Prince Soma is the twenty-sixth child of which ruler?

His devoted servant Agni was once a Brahmin nobleman named Arshad.

What is Elizabeth Midford's nickname?

Ciel's fiancée hides her fencing skill because he once said he disliked girls who could fight.

Which Black Butler family head leads the British Knights?

Ciel's uncle-by-marriage is an expert swordsman like the rest of the Midfords.

Where is Alois Trancy's contract mark located?

Born Jim Macken, he contracted with Claude Faustus to avenge his younger brother Luka.

Which Disney mobile game did the manga's creator design characters for?

The 2020 Aniplex game centers on characters inspired by Disney villains.