Kuroshitsuji viewers out there?

[amanuensis1]

Gratuitous anime art. Too pretty not to.



Anybody else watching the anime of Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) right now? Cripes, talk about a change in tone! It's as if we were watching, I dunno, the Barbie Cinderella for three episodes, and then they dumped the goofy characters and the show turned into the Disney Cinderella with the right blend of humor and darkness and perverted subtext (this is exactly the right metaphor, right down to the violation in a pink dress), and now on episode 5 they've suddenly whipped Grimm's Aschenputtel in our faces, what with the slicing-off-of-heels and pecking-out-of-eyes. I'm not saying I don't like it, but, whoa.

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Isn't that pretty? The S.O. looked at it and said, "Please tell me that's a girl." I said "Which one?" and he said, "Forget it, I should have known better. But that's okay, still great fantasy fodder." ^_^