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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[robotlove.livejournal.com]

OMG MY SISTER AND I DID THAT TOO. WE REPLAYED IT COUNTLESS TIMES. ALSO WITH THE ENDING SONG WHERE SEBASTIAN BATHES CIEL OMG CUTENESS ATTACK TO THE MAX *DIES*

I'm telling you though. That scene in episode 4. The one where they eventually show you that all that *fuss* is just over wearing the corset - I'm telling you they did that purely, absolutely on PURPOSE.
Lots of fanservice in this one, that's for sure. The art too is gorgeous xD

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

They KNEW. THEY KNEW THEY KNEW THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.

I mean, I don't even have to be insistent about it. It's plain how deliberate it is. :D

[robotlove.livejournal.com]

It was in the manga in the first place :D I have yet to sit down and properly go through it but I saw that part as I was QC-ing what I downloaded and if I'm not wrong it even includes a little gasp that goes "Sebastian!" (or was that in the anime as well? my memory fails me.) In fact it was a whole PAGE later before the authoress revealed what was REALLY going on - she is one hell of a talented genius =w=

They're all evil I tell you. All of them.

and sorry for the comment spammage. I haven't fangirled in.. a while eheheh ^^;