Volume 25Previously:>>290257065
>>290284652Making one of your performers anemic was probably not the best idea.
What even is this arc
>>290284851The silver bracelets are kind of a waste. If they sell them, they no longer serve their purpose for either the recipient or Blavat. So their monetary value is irrelevant or even actively detrimental. He would have been better off with something with zero resale value.
>>290285050One Harcourt bunny, please.
>>290285211Clayton, that's not your bit.
>>290284349i dont read manga but my sister found two dvds of this while clearing behind the fireplace of her new house
>>290285414Ciel seems to be getting more emotional since the mustard gassing. Could also be hormones, I suppose.
>>290285502>as a butlerWasn't the 4 star room the one with the psycho slashes?
I miss the servants
Are you guys into any boyband?Are the beatles a boyband?
>>290285029What savage beastHe needs correction
>>290285395>>290285414The fujos might disagree but ciel and elizabeth are a better pairing than ciel and sebastian>but its hotterCant denied it ciel was made for buttrape
>>290286161Dunno if Ciel truly likes Lizzie
>>290286152It's really not any different from if they had just staked out the forest and waited for another inevitable death at the previous rate. They just sped up the process. And even drew some people away from the cult in the meantime, which no one else had been successful in doing. It only sounds bad because Ciel likes to play up his aristocrat of evil character.
>>290286353kek
>>290286353Poach the S4. You can just say they didn't know about the murders.
>>290286421hate Ciel
>>290286108They could've gotten away with the operation indefinitely if they'd realized AB can accept donations from all types.
>>290286402No, it definitely does not. This would be like blaming the police because someone murdered a witness.
Even gay manga are not save from idol shit
>>290285050>>290285095Absolutely scandalous.
>>290286929Why must my boner producing characters suffer?
>>290285834Hey it's Underline
>>290285914Not really.I don't think so.
I thought this was Bible Black story time for a minute.
brb
>>290287328>what's your point?>nothingIs that not a lie?
>>290285069Incredibly slutty shota
>>290285645Our heros
>>290285571What are they worried about? With a camera like that all they have to do is move an inch and the exposure is fucked
I don't hate Blavat but I can't say I particularly care for him and his scheme
I despise the idol arc and I think Yana's team should have fought harder to keep her idolshit hyperfixation away from Kuro but goddamn I would be lying if I said Violet doesn't make my boner twitch
>>290287525It's just conjecture at this point, so technically he didn't lie. It would be a different case if he knew something definite about it though.
>>290287039>You have a familiar faceIs he talking about O!Ciel or kid Claudia? since I bet whatever happened 50 years ago has something to do with her.
>>290287708I don't like this dude, feels like a cheap/charmless version of Lau and Vincent and his hair is also shit.
>>290286987I don't recall, have any reapers ever had any remarks?
>>290267648Claudia is the only Phantomhive from his mourning lockets, the rest are random names and I'm pretty sure UT has only started interacting with the Phantomhives during her time.
>>290288002None. From what William said, the only reason they'd have cause to make remarks is if the deceased is the one-in-a-million case where their survival would be a net good.
>>290288279they are going to die right?
>>290288305One of them.
We're finally here
>>290284939This is Yana's apologyto her assistants for making them draw gloomy buildings, cold laboratories and women in plain uniforms in the last arc instead of the usual lively cities, fancy mansions and pretty boys with beautiful attire.
>>290288464OH N-
FUUUUUUCCKKKKI hate this part the most
>>290288518damn it was just getting good
>>290288552Yana loves LOVES to end stuff in a cliffhanger
>>290288577>>290288603Not even a preview like the last two volumessickening
Thats it everyone until tomorow
>>290288464I was feeling this manga didnt have enough despair>>290288754Thanks op
>>290288464Soma kneels down and the gun still comes from below. And it's someone he is friendly with, or at least thinks he is. The picture probably had Ciel hiding in the background or in a reflection or something that Agni noticed but the reporter never did. And it's the other one that somehow survived being sacrificed that just showed up with the gun.RIP Soma. You were a true friend.
>>290285645>The true intent of Funtom Music Hall was to steal Sphere's audience and put a dent in your blood totals in order to induce more deaths from blood loss!We did it Sebastian! We saved London!
>>290288933Imagine his face if they actually started drawing blood from Elizabeth and then she died.
>>290289232He's not that stupid. He knew she was Canopus from Edward. And he knew she was healthy enough to fight Sebastian. She may be at risk now that the blood supply has completely dried up. But he expected her to return once the murders were exposed. There was no real risk to her before then.He was, however, perfectly aware that Violet might die and was totally OK with that.
>>290288464>>290288493>>290288518Well, fuck. I was expecting them to die sooner or later, but not like this.
>>290288493Traded in the Baby Browning For Big IronAssuming that is him
The ending kinda saved the volume, though let's see how it develops
>>290286472>They could've gotten away with the operation indefinitely if they'd realized AB can accept donations from all types.Could be that they didn't know that you also have to separate the plasma out from the blood. AB can receive A, B, and O blood but can only receive AB plasma.
Well that escalated quickly
>>290285436>crossdressing event
>>290285693Cute shady reporter
>>290291385That time Harcourt is the one that got the "just be yourself" instructions.
>Czech serologist Jan Janský was the first to recognise and designate four blood types in 1907 that he published in a local journal, using the Roman numerical I, II, III, and IV (corresponding to modern O, A, B, and AB respectively).[53] Unknown to Janský, American physician William L. Moss introduced an almost identical classification in 1910, but with Moss's I and IV corresponding to Janský's IV and I. Thus the existence of two systems immediately created confusion and potential danger in medical practice.>To resolve the confusion, the American Association of Immunologists, the Society of American Bacteriologists, and the Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists made a joint recommendation in 1921 that the Jansky classification be adopted based on priority. But it was not followed particularly where Moss's system had been used.>In 1927, Landsteiner, who had moved to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, and as a member of a committee of the National Research Council concerned with blood grouping suggested to substitute Janský's and Moss's systems with the letters O, A, B, and AB. There was another confusion on the use of O, which was introduced by Polish physician Ludwik Hirszfeld and German physician Emil von Dungern in 1910. It was never clear whether it was meant for the figure 0, German null for zero or the upper case letter O for ohne, meaning without; Landsteiner chose the letter.Kek, imahine all the deaths thst could havebeen avoided IRL if scientists had used Blavat's system named after stars that avoids any confussion.>>290291385I wonder how often real boy bands do this (crossdress and wear silly costumes like the P4's catboy attire).
>>290291786>Blavat's system named after starsHoroscope fags would become even more insufferable. Luckily the western world has mostly been spared the idiotic practice that assigning blood type to personality is, unlike the japs.
>>290291786O, A, B, AB make sense. The reason for blood incompatibility is the presence or absense of antigens on the blood cell and the immune response to them. Type A blood has one kind, B another, AB both, and O neither. This makes it much easier to understand which types of blood (and plasma) can be given to who. Whereas a system like Blavat's or the initial Roman numerals would just require rote memorization for anything other than like to like transfusion. Which would definitely cause more mistakes. Although the first people to discover the blood types probably didn't initially know the mechanism behind the reactions, so it's understandable.
>>290286534I want a steak and ale pie. It's genuinely very good.
>>290292213How do they all know it anyway? I'm an adult and I still don't know mine. And I never had blood drawn as a child.
>>290292764It's part of their culture so they just ask their doctor and then memorize it. Unlike us, it's not a big deal to know or not know it so we don't remember it if we bother to ask.It wouldn't be inaccurate to assume your blood type is either A+ or O+ since your chances of it being either are over 60%, regardless of race.But assumptions will get you killed if you need a blood transfusion. Best to let the doctor figure that out.
>>290285358Blavat! Don't say that!
>>290285629>The reason CIel entered the competition was to make the other party ramp up the kill countMore devilish than Sebastian, I swear
>>290285040Yeah, when you think about it, they're your identification for what blood type you are, so someone selling theirs to someone with a different blood type could be actively disastrous.
>>290288261Huh, he sees through Sebastian pretty well.
>>290293823They were going to end up killing that woman anyway. They were already killing people before Ciel knew they existed. And Violet passed out the night Ciel's band made their debut. That was most likely the height of the S4's popularity. And yet there was still such a shortage of Sirius blood that Blavat was jeopardizing the whole thing by drawing blood from Violet. This is one of Ciel's least morally objectionable schemes. Intentionally planning on letting the ripper get to the last victim was worse than this.
>>290288464When were you when Indian prince die?
>>290288518What a cliffhanger.Time for wacky murder mystery number 2!
OP here unfortunaly tomorow i will be busy and wont be able to storytime the next volume, it is kinda mean to do that in such a big cliiffhanger but unfortunaly i wont have time
>>290285957Given the Victorians' propensity for dressing young boys in dresses I think this is a most natural reaction. Even though it is not the reason>>290286765>the pubWonderful naming sense
>>290285645what a murderous fuck
>>290287238>Dead parliamentariansGiven Ciel's track record, I wonder if the Queen sent him there to weed out the Parliament kek
>>290287328>Sebastian always handle things for his master>This time instead he gives him the umbrella and Ciel has to conjecture on his ownIt's the little graphic touches
>>290288022Thanks!
>>290285588The concept of such a camera making a proper foto in the middle of the night
>>290288174Impossibly based prince, Ciel doesn't deserve a friend like that.
>>290296333He has a light. And I don't know what exposure times were back then, but they already had moving pictures, so they couldn't have been that long.
>>290294634Prince Soma is smart, athletic, handsome and has the purity of a newborn child.
>>290284493I wonder how the anime would do his hair.
It feels like the exact same thing is happening on every page. I hate this arc.
rip prince
That last arc and this one just decided to completely throw what year they are in out the window.
>>290285928Damn freckles. I can't resist.
HARCOURT! Stop tempting me, you damn brat!
Imagine this Harcourt on one side and Ciel on the other.
>>290298180Silence ye tempter! Succubus be gone!
>>290296692But is he bulletproof?
>>290298180Add McMillen and Cole on each one of my legs and we have a deal.
>>290296680Horse in motion was filmed on 10 years prior.
>>290297063This one does at least have a reaper going "this shit is totally anachronistic".
>>290284877ENTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER
Jo agya
>>290286152I like how this comes back to bite him
>>290288427WHAT DID HE SEE
>>290286353Reminds me ofhttps://youtu.be/AgcvwWFWoEM?si=2vqFvsQQsvNZsucZ
>>290302442I hope he fixes things. I need my Victorian Era kino. It is what drew me into this series to begin with.
Nina's strike zone is so arbitrary. Like what exactly changes at age 15 that wasn't already lost two years prior?
>>290287307Lizzie's huge futa cock...
>>290304043I have various theories:>it's a reference to how kids in the 19th century hit puberty when they were 15-17yo>it's a reference to how today puberty ends at 15-16yo on average>15yo is the mark where most shotacon (Yana included) separate shotas (young/little boys) from shonen (teen boys) due to major physical differences between the groups (take Naruto as an example)>it's a foreshadow of Ciel's death on his 15th birthday
>>290304043They start Japanese highschool. Which means they get drawn looking like young adults rather than like older children. This is my theory anyway. 14 really is the most common answer given for the upper end of the age range for shotas. But there are no major developmental milestones between 14 and 15 in real life to explain it. However there is a pretty noticeable trend in animanga of 14 being the cutoff point for boys being drawn like children.
>>290285316>fireplace>in a black butler storytimeHmmm...
>>290286848>everyone on the epstein list is dead
>>290287165what did he mean by this
>>290285957so freckles here is aware of the truth but just doesn't care?
>>290284576>gaslighting they fell for it, heh
>>290284816So he's the only one with that one blood type
>>290284934>First mic actually invented at 1870sThat was far earlier than I could imagine
>>290285153>Using the future knowledgeTHIS IS CHEATING
Harcourt didn't really do much for me until this outfit.Probably the hat.
>>290305259Well, judging from Soma's guest, Grelle knows that one of Sebastian's acquaintances is on his list.>>290305673Each of the four was one of the four different blood types.
>>290306455>Each of the four was one of the four different blood types.Hell of a coincidence
I was on 3 day vacation and couldn't gush over how cute Harcourt is but finally here I am :omg Harcourt is the cutest
>>290307339It's true.
>>290286161You can't convince me Ciel doesn't care about lizzy, he cares, he just put his avenge among everything which I can't even judge him at this point, hence what happened later actually broke my part, and the OG doesn't even seem to care about her
>>290307339You are too late.Phantom Five has disbanded
>>290307781Harcourt is the cutest whether he's in the P5 or not
>>290307729I do think he cares about her feelings while not strictly being in love with her, which is why the whole situation is so awkward (needing to play the role of fiancee to a childhood friend who was actually engaged to your brother and who's completely deceived by your true identity).There's also the fact Elizabeth seemed to be content with R'Ciel surviving / being indifferent to O'Ciel apparent death, despite the fact all three grew close together. Or that if she did grieve, having the one she loved return was enough to get over it. That must be an insanely bitter pill to swallow. To me it's no wonder Ciel had so much trouble acting as the loving husband for so long
>>290285769Sebastian looks so happy
>>290305429I'm sure some of them were aware but do not care much as well, like lizzy mother
>>290284363Harcourt my beloved
>>290286219>>290286238For what sake though, do they believe injecting some young blood would make them younger?
>>290286438He's right, go home before it's too late, please
>>290286877He mistook him with the OG here, right?
>>290293823The manga makes it very clear that Ciel is not a good person
>>290288754The last time I read I skipped the entire arc except this exact chapter and later on due to the lack of sourceThanks OP
bump
>>290284851Don't you dare insult stuffed animals.
>>290311574Imagine the training for this. At some point Sebastian had to instruct Harcourt to strike poses like this. Possibly by physically manipulating his body into position. He had to instruct him in his flirtatious little brother act. Which definitely included them acting it out together. All the while Harcourt is eager and blushing at all the attention from "Mister Michaelis".
>>290296333>fotoGerman?
alt version of the arc where instead of managing a boy band the cult ran a brothel so Ciel had to pimp the Phantom Five to drive them out of business.
>>290311955Hot.
>>290286337Sigh.... *Lichtstock*Stimmschachtel*Vogelwagen
>>290286353What clubs do you think Harcourt is in? Definitely the literature club, if there is one, but I wonder what others he'd join.
>>290286353...*Magiebühne
No matter what happens, Nina was the true winner of this arc. She got the direct patronage and the advertising value of working for both groups in an escalating costume battle.>>290286353I wouldn't put it past Ciel to have been the one who indirectly informed Edward's mom of what he was up to so that he could justify ending the shows. He'd already gotten what he wanted out of them.>>290312234He was reading Hegel, right? So some kind of philosophy club for sure.
>>290304306Imagine if Nina became a futa.
>>290312234I'd say cricket, but he might be a bit traumatised after his last showing.
>>290288754Thank you, OP!
>>290312450WAKE ME UP
>>290311633>harcourt's poseBRATTY BRATTY BRATTY
>>290312534So which Phantomhive earned the attention of reaper forensics? My bet is Claudia getting up to something with the undertaker.
>>290313921My theory is that kid Claudia was about to lose her life but UT spared her for some personal reason and he got in trouble because of that.
moe-gap punks my beloved~
>>290314841That sounds plausible to me. There was that bit with the undertaker crying over Vincent as if he was the one the undertaker had a special connection to. But that could also be from watching him grow up due to being close to Claudia.
I wish Kuro had more porn that wasn't SebaCiel. So many cute twinks yet no one wants to draw them.
ah yes, the arc that turn the manga into a pain to read after that big revealI cannot overstate how much I hate how slow-paced the manga became after that reveal
Punks, in the 1800’s? What’s next, fuckin MOON NAZIS in the 1800’s?
Hell of a cliffhanger to take a break on
>>290317122Next are the cartoon bats.
>>290317122At a certain point I stopped noting the anachronisms, it's loaded with them
>>290316746I agree, there are so many great male characters, but I find it difficult to find fanfics and fan art that isn't SebaCiel. I've searched more than once for P4 or even Vincent/Diedrich.
>>290317183There’s anachronisms, and then there’s robot confederates riding t-rexes with laser guns. At this point BB is the latter. Honestly it makes it hard for me to get invested into BB anymore. Though I can’t speak for others, maybe most people don’t care?
>>290317418I'm okay with the tech anachronisms. the flouting of Victorian (and even modern Western) mores for the sake of cute designs is the worst followed by all the culinary anachronisms. The fact is wearing earrings as males would bar Vincent or Ciel from polite society, and their designs are reserved by the manga's standards. Oh well, there's always Emma.
>>290317418It’s okay, I’m a huge Black Butler fanboy and even I couldn’t stomach the idol arc. Maybe Yana should have made it more clear earlier in the story that this is a bizzaro/steampunk version of England. At the end of the day I’m more focused on the characters and whether they’ll succeed and/or live.
>>290318136Steampunk or Teslapunk Black Butler sounds cool as fuck. Plus, you could set it past Victoria’s IRL death. How is she alive? Science magic or something.
>>290318136I love this arc, but I love P4 and the school boys and I really want to see the anime next year! After all, even next year they're going to celebrate the manga's 20th anniversary and I hope there will be announcements.
>>290318262Even if the anachronisms bugged me I can't lie and say Violet and Soma didn't turn me on with their idol personas. Season 6 fucking when.
My only complain about the idol arc is that Ciel wasn't one of the idols and neither got to wear any of the cute costumes made for the idol teams.
>>290318540I don't know, but it would be nice to announce it soon, because of the 20th anniversary. After all, a new season of the anime would be a good announcement, right? And I wonder if, like Iruma, which I think took longer to premiere last season because they had to make new songs and animate the idol shows.
>>290311798>>290311633>>290311574Props to Toboso for being able to draw this with one hand
>>290318136Ciel got delivered a gameboy game in the first chapter. And not long after Sebastian chases down some thugs in a car. Yana did dial back the anachronisms afterwards. But that still should have been a clear sign that things were not going to be particularly historically accurate. Or even realistic. In the circus arc they have better prosthetics than we do today.I think these last couple arcs that have specifically drawn attention to things that weren't quite there yet are a neat way of giving context to those advancements. I can't speak for anyone else, but I often have a hard time intuitively placing historical events in relation to one another unless I have something to connect them. Yana having her characters discover blood types a decade early doesn't make me think that's when it actually happened. But it does make it easier for me to place the actual discovery relative to other things like the jack the ripper murders or the invention of the microphone.>>290317991Clothing and grooming anachronisms are the ones I question the least. All I expect there is a bit of verisimilitude. I will never complain about Edo period men having full heads of hair.>>290318549Same. I'd already seen a pic of idol Harcourt. So once I saw the S4 I knew that was a real outfit he was going to canonically wear and that there were going to be more idols. I was really hoping Ciel would be among them.
>>290312529I wonder if she liked Harcourt more than Ciel. Both of them are around the same age
>>290319013The fuck would a gameboy in 1889 look like? Proto-plastics were still brand new in the 1800’s, let alone everything else.
>>290319192Let's just assume those are hanafuda card games like the ones Nintendo made at the beginning of the 20th century. Nintendo was founded in 1889, but hanafuda cards have existed since the 16th century.
>>290319192Forget the plastic housing, without transistors a victorian era gameboy would be enormous. Ever seen those early computers?
For those of you who do like the idol/boyband aspect of this arc and are also shotacon, you might like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEaXG4rvHZchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7d874nH0HIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN7ZBptGjgY
>>290287268>what brings blavat back to london?>he managed to get away scot-freewell if he got away scot-free he's not gonna go to edinburgh now is he
>>290315740I wonder, what does his hair look like when he has just woken up and not yet styled it?
Where the fuck is today's chapter
>>290320671OP is busy. He said he would be back tomorrow.
>>290320671OP said he had other obligations today >>290295477
>>290320671OP had to go answer the door.
>>290320671OP
op died defending prince soma from the killer
>>290320365Len my beloved.
>>290320671OP is fucking dead.
>>290320671OP has become a lady in waiting.
OP is either undergoing brat correction or giving brats correction
>>290319050Probably. She likes working with girls too. So a trap should be right up her alley.
Violet
>>290328048I really hate old-timey comedies for what they did in making sock/shirt garters into something of a punchline.
>>290308051Except they didn't exactly grew closer together. MC was the outcast, and OG the real friend. It's not really that Lizzy struggles to get CIel's changes, but rather she didn't really ever know MC. Because if she did, she would have spotted it most likely. MC's tragedy is that he is completely unseen. Which is why he gets angry when Blavat talks about the competition: during a first read, we think it's because Blavat spoke about Elizabeth. On a second reread, we realize it's mostly because Blavat said "a copy cannot compete with the original". Not only it reminds MC of the perceived neglect, it also reminds him of how much of a failure he feels.
>>290309197The fuck are you talking about, he makes candies with a cat logo. No evil person would make candies with a cat logo, it's almost like science.
>>290329148It's been a while since I read it but I thought I remember flashbacks of the three of them playing together, even though they made a point to emphasize how MC was often only watching from afar, because of his poor health and also from the necessity to be hidden from the public eye since he's "the spare".We're very close to those flackbacks and "the" confrontation so I'll get my refresher soon enough I guess
>>290309197>>290329193Is there any living witness who is willing to come forward and testify that Ciel is not a good boy? I don't think so.
>>290320671a nice cliffhanger you have there, can't spoil you without 2 days of hanging
>>290321237He's still there?
>>290322886Beautiful image.
>>290330021The real question is whether Santa still gives him presents, or only coal.
>>290316746I think it's more common than not for one really prominent ship to totally eclipse all others. But it is unfortunate. I'd really like to see some Sebastian x Harcourt and Finny x Ciel.
>>290331538Santa no longer visits the Phantomhive estate after what happened to Dasher in '86.
What's the go-to site for new chapter scans? I usually check mangafire every other day. I thought chap 229 would have dropped by now, they usually seem to come out in the middle of the month.
>>290324999Thoughts and prayers for a speedy correction.
>>290334127Its out in september
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