Review of Black Butler
This review will not contain any spoilers! Also, I will shorten the title to "Black Butler" A.K.A the English title. Story: 5/10 (Mediocre) Black Butler's premise is pretty simple, Ciel Phantomhive wants to find the person who killed his parents, he uses his demon butler to do so, once that mission is completed the demon (Sebastian) gets his soul. Simple, and quite frankly, a tiny bit boring. This whole idea is stretched out into little mini stories that COMPLETELY stray from the plot and got quite confusing. It isn't until other seasons (the second) that they explore the actually made plot. The humor can fall flat sometimesand it can get boring but it gets faster in the end.
Art: 7/10 (Good)
Black Butler is decently old so the animation/art is just good. There isn't anything that makes it distinctive like Danganronpa, but there isn't anything that makes me want to rip my eyes out like Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven.. so the art is probably the best thing to be honest.
Sound: 6/10 (Fair)
I feel like the voice actors tried so hard to sound deep in tone but then it just started sounding unnatural and weird. This goes the most for Ciel, a 13 year old boy that the VA tried to make sound so edgy and it became a pain to hear his voice.
Characters: 5/10 (Mediocre)
As I said, made them sound as edgy as possible. The Victorian vibe was kind of okay, also the fact that they were British. But besides that they were pretty basic stereotypes that I've seen dozens of times and I really hated how OP Sebastian was it's just awful. I would rate lower but Lizzy was my favorite, she is cliche happy and cute like but, I felt like there was more to her than, "I lost my parents >;( boo hoo! I'm so edgy and cliche!" sorry, I needed to get that out.
Enjoyment: 5/10 (Mediocre)
This was just something I put on for background noise to be honest. I would fall asleep and have to watch the episode again, I'd hate it. It felt like a chore to watch it, and the third season is AMAZING so going back to this and the second I was so disappointed.
Overall: 5/10 (Mediocre)
Did I like it?.. Meh.. Would I watch it again? No.
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If you really like the Butler/Maid animes then go ahead watch it, but if you looking for something fast pace, vivid, out of the box, and crazy then this is defiantly not for you.
Thank you for reading, have a good day/night!
~sakisanily