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Light and Shade (landscape and accessories, no people), Episode 2: The Butler, in disguise

“We received detailed consultations about even the smallest details that you might miss if you were to just look at it casually, and we offered various references. Things like irons, feather brooms, butter containers... (is that it?). I'm happy if we were able to quietly contribute to increasing the appeal of the work. I remember being surprised at how much attention to detail they paid to things like photos of Derrick, and questions about not only the size but also the texture.”

I’ve been following Yana Toboso’s consultant Rico Murakami on everything about the UK. She wrote this after the first episode aired explaining that the production team meticulously asked for her advice concerning the items one could find in Victorian England.

There was a time I wished that MAPPA take over the animation, but after a couple of years we have known how insidious that studio is. I am glad that CloverWorks took over, although it is a subsidiary of Aniplex. The backgrounds are breathtaking. The texture, the finer details of every furniture, chandeliers, flowers, etc. Of course, there are always naysayers (skin colour is off, etc., etc.). But the number of people who is satisfied weighs more than the negative ones and it is a great that we are witnessing the animated Public School arc unfold before our very eyes in 2024.

#mappa only ever does blockbuster battle shounen nowadays anyway #RIP yuri on ice #they would've never touched kuroshitsuji #and I'm glad they didn't I don't want this series to be made by the single worst sweatshop company in the entire anime industry

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When the camera pans away in the ED, they obviously kiss.

#kuroshitsuji #black butler #sebaciel #sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive #my art

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since you say youve been in the kuro fandom even before BoC aired, could you tell me about how it was back then? :D ive always been interested in learning how internet culture used to be, how things eventually changed, how they improved/declined etc, more so when the current community is pretty much dead. was there an experience that marked you, what do you remember most fondly? was there an event that excited the fandom more than any other (like the release of a chapter or smth)? which blogs were the most popular? Its okay if you dont want to tho, i understand!

Super interesting question! I hope I can provide some equally interesting information in return.

Before the fandom had reached Tumblr, much of it centred around a forum, or at least much of what I knew. It wasn't originally a Kuroshitsuji forum but a sub-forum of a Bleach forum, actually. I think it was called Bleach Asylum? And I don't know exactly how it came to be but I think that Bleach forum had lots of sub forums for then-popular anime and manga but Kuroshitsuji gained so much popularity and the fandom happened to gather there, so that sub forum really took off and it ended up being an anchor point for the fandom. I used to always look for the most recent scanlations there, back before we were able to buy them legally.

I didn't actively participate in that forum but I lurked occasionally. It was full of wild discussions, one of which was the "two Ciel(s) theory"/"2CT" as it was called back then. It had a strong following on the website back then already. I sadly don't remember any of the other theories that were making rounds back then...

I didn't really participate in much fandom stuff back then, limited my art posts to deviantArt and my personal facebook... but eventually, I made a tumblr specifically to interact with the fandom.

As for blogs, I don't really like doing any name dropping, especially because it would go into some people who used to ship sebaciel and turned anti, and other stuff I'd rather not talk about. I do feel like back in the day, there were a couple of gigantic Kuroshitsuji blogs with massive followings that got a LOT of asks every day (to the point where it seemed like a full time job to keep up with them). Discussion around sebaciel was very different, there have always been people who disliked it but unfounded rumours like "did you know that Kuroshitsuji was supposed to be a yaoi" made rounds without people questioning it. That always annoyed me a little tbh haha.

There was one fan artist on deviantArt whose name I sadly don't remember but I think they were THE kuro artist in Western fandom back then because their style looked very similar to the anime style. I still see their art sometimes.

And fun fact on the side, I grew up in German fandom spaces and we had a big website called Animexx (I think it's still around) that was dedicated specifically to all things manga, anime, and related stuff. They had really convenient ways of browsing on-site fanart, fanfic, doujinshi, cosplay, and other fan creations, as well as forums and ways to host your own fan events. Until the early 2010s, I hung out there a lot so until then, my perspective is distorted by that German lens. I used to post my early Kuroshitsuji fanart there too.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask! I feel like I could go on tangents for much longer but idk how interesting that would be.

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#sebaciel

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Been going feral over that art of Ciel's TIGHT LITTLE BUTT

Wait which one?? The one that has two versions, Prof. Michaelis and butler Sebastian vers.?

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The BoM side story won't let go of me

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#hahaha lovely #sebaciel

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heya! do u know where I’ll be able to watch the new season of kuro in sub when it comes out? for BOC I used to wait every week for someone to new eps upload it to YouTube, but I imagine copyright is little more strict than it was in 2014😅 I’m also an adult w money now so I can actually support the show now too lol. thanks!!

Hey! As far as I know, Crunchyroll acquired the license for most regions outside of Japan. North America and (most of?) Europe is definitely gonna get it on Crunchyroll, and I'm guessing it's gonna be there exclusively because the international marketing for the new season seems to go hand in hand with Crunchy.

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AUs are so fucking funny. Here's my blorbo. In an alternate universe he fights everyday to keep himself alive against an uncaring world. In another universe he sings sometimes.

#Why is this a perfect summary of my sebaciel fics

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Should I have added the mask?

#NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAHAHAHA #THIS IS AWFUL DELETE IT

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He has THE scary dog privilege

#sebaciel

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Behold! The legendary dick cake (that turned out to be ice cream topped with a macaron)

#My art #I'm not putting this in any of the fandom tags I don't wanna die young

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fun adventures in Yana's old blog/the wayback machine: we were trying to find the original blog post of this image to try and find context for what/why Ciel's cake appears so phallic in shape

we eventually discovered that it's intended to resemble Ciel's Robin dress (but also it still looks like a penis)

We may not have found what we were expecting but happy memories were made and that's the most important part of all.

#What a day it's been

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#wanderlust chapter 27 has Ciel finally overcome his biggest fear

#ciel phantomhive #sebaciel #my art #my writing #wanderlust au

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FINALLY ended my adaptation of Edward Burne's "Night" into Undertaker. It had been in my drafts folder for sooo long.

If you ask my why he would be in such a scene you can think of him being recently born as a reaper (the stitches are still recent and all). He's probably still in the island of the dead.

Now I'm wondering why and how he died and to have such gruesome wounds (he's now my little kitty, as you can see). Do you have any guesses?

#undertaker #Wow

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Ahhhh coloured pencils my beloved

Started out as a study of this beautiful piece

#Ciel Phantomhive

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The idea was so cute

#Ciel and Adoroza!! Yes!!!!! #ciel phantomhive