50 free Black Butler trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Black Butler starts with a bargain: a twelve-year-old earl sells his soul to a demon, names him after the family dog and puts him to work in a tailcoat. Yana Toboso's Victorian revenge story has been running in Monthly GFantasy since 2006, has sold more than 36 million volumes and has spawned five anime seasons, a film, seven stage musicals and a live-action movie. These 50 questions cover the manga and the adaptations: the contract mark in Ciel's eye, Mey-Rin, Baldroy and Finnian, Tanaka's tea cup, Snake's pets, Madam Red and Grell as Jack the Ripper, the Aurora Society and Ciel's twin, Alois and Claude, Book of Circus, Book of the Atlantic, the Public School and Emerald Witch arcs, the Nintendo DS game and the voice casts in Japanese and English. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo or print it for an anime night.
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Q 01Who writes and illustrates the Black Butler manga?
Yana Toboso
She later created the concept and character designs for Disney's Twisted-Wonderland mobile game.
Q 02What is Black Butler's Japanese title?
Kuroshitsuji
The manga has run in Square Enix's Monthly GFantasy since September 2006.
Q 03In which magazine has Black Butler been serialized since 2006?
Monthly GFantasy
It is a Square Enix shōnen magazine; the first collected volume came out in February 2007.
Q 04How old is Ciel Phantomhive when the series begins?
12
He acquired his title after the Phantomhive manor was attacked on his tenth birthday.
Q 05What nickname describes Ciel's role solving crimes for the Crown?
The Queen's Watchdog
The Phantomhives are also called the 'Aristocrats of Evil' for managing London's underworld on the Queen's behalf.
Q 06What does Sebastian receive in exchange for his service?
Ciel's soul
The Faustian contract ends with the demon consuming his master once Ciel's revenge is complete.
Q 07In which era is Black Butler set?
Victorian
Queen Victoria herself hands the Phantomhives their cases.
Q 08Which studio produced the first Black Butler anime in 2008?
A-1 Pictures
Toshiya Shinohara directed the 24-episode first season, which aired on MBS and TBS.
Q 09How many episodes did the first anime season run?
24
The second season, Black Butler II, was only 12 episodes and told an anime-original story.
Q 10Which 2014 anime series adapted the Noah's Ark arc?
Book of Circus
Unlike the first two seasons it closely followed the manga; Book of Murder was a two-part OVA that same year.
Q 11Which 2017 animated film adapts the arc set aboard the Campania?
Book of the Atlantic
It premiered in Japan on January 21, 2017, and Funimation gave it a limited North American run that June.
Q 12Which studio produced the fourth season, Public School Arc, in 2024?
CloverWorks
Kenjirou Okada directed the eleven-episode run, which aired on Tokyo MX from April to June 2024.
Q 13What is the subtitle of the fifth anime season, aired in 2025?
Emerald Witch Arc
It ran from April 5 to June 28, 2025, again from CloverWorks and director Kenjirou Okada.
Q 21What secret organization experiments with reanimated corpses?
The Aurora Society
It is led by Undertaker, the seceded Grim Reaper who was once a Phantomhive informant.
Q 22Whose body does Undertaker ultimately aim to revive?
Ciel's older twin brother
The real Ciel Phantomhive was sacrificed in the ritual that summoned Sebastian; the boy we follow took his name.
Q 23Which two anime-original characters star in Black Butler II?
Alois Trancy and Claude Faustus
Both were designed by Toboso; Claude is a rival demon butler obsessed with Ciel's soul.
Q 14Which publisher licensed the Black Butler manga in North America?
Yen Press
It debuted in the Yen Plus magazine's August 2009 first-anniversary issue.
Q 15By August 2025, roughly how many Black Butler manga copies were in circulation?
Over 36 million
Individual volumes regularly reached Oricon's weekly best-seller chart.
Q 16On what date was the Phantomhive manor attacked, killing Ciel's parents?
December 14, 1885
It was Ciel's tenth birthday; he was then taken and sold into slavery.
Q 17Ciel named his demon butler after what?
The family's late dog
The original Sebastian was a black Borzoi who died in the attack on the manor.
Q 18On which part of Ciel's body is the Faustian contract symbol placed?
His right eye
He covers the pentagram with a black eye patch; Sebastian's matching mark sits on his left hand.
Q 19Who is the household sniper posing as a maid?
Mey-Rin
Her extreme long-range eyesight makes her clumsy up close, which her round glasses do not fix.
Q 20What is the Phantomhive estate's teenage gardener famous for?
Superhuman strength
Finnian, or Finny, keeps destroying the garden by accident despite being warned to be careful.
Q 24Which Japanese voice actor confirmed the second season on his blog in 2009?
Junichi Suwabe
Suwabe's announcement came the same day as the official event reveal on June 14, 2009.
Q 25Who played Sebastian in the 2014 live-action film?
Hiro Mizushima
Ayame Goriki co-starred as Genpou Shiori, an original character standing in for Ciel.
Q 26What was the first stage musical adaptation, staged in 2009, called?
That Butler, Friendship
Yuya Matsushita played Sebastian at Ikebukuro's Sunshine Theater.
Q 27The fifth musical, Tango on the Campania, adapts which manga arc?
Luxury Liner
It ran from December 2017 to February 2018 with Yuta Furukawa as Sebastian.
Q 28On which console was the 2009 game Phantom & Ghost released?
Nintendo DS
Square Enix sold it in a regular edition and a pricier limited first-press edition with extra goods.
Q 29What was the official comics anthology released in March 2009 called?
Rainbow Butler
Nijishitsuji reached seventeenth on Oricon's weekly chart, selling 41,083 copies in one week.
Q 30In Recochoku's annual survey, Sebastian ranked ninth in which category?
The Character I Want to Be My Groom
The Japanese music distributor polls fans on which anime characters they would like to marry.