Review of Black Butler

Ok, my first review. please be kind! English is not my native language so please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors. Okay, first of all I will be comparing this series to the original manga, mostly because well I'm following it and it is pretty awesome, but also because I began to read the manga when this series first aired and I wanted to know what it what about before I saw the anime. I'm going to start with animation and music, and then end with story and characters. The animation is good but not great. The animations style is very similar to X an anime seriesreleased in 2001, which had fantastic animation. However there are two problems with the animation in Kuroshitsuji compared to X. The first and biggest problem is that the quality of the animation is not consistent. Some of the scenes are really beautiful, while others are really amateurish. And this is something that really bothers me. If you can't keep the quality on the highest level consistently through the whole series, then don't. It is distracting, and don't look very professional.
The second problem is that it is to brightly colored in relevance to the mood it's trying to set.

If you listen to the soundtrack separately from the series, then it sound great and it really fits. But in the anime you can barely hear it because the volume is to low, especially the music that isn't cheerful or bright. It is a big mistake they did.
The opening theme is fantastic, especially with the first animation opening. The animation is perfectly matched with the music. But the second one not so much. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea that you keep the opening theme but change the animation, however it does not work in the second one. The animation don't keep up as well as the first one did and the images don't grip you the same way the first one did.
And the endings? Liked them, nothing more to comment on really.

Ok, time for the characters and the story. This is were some of my real problems with the series lies. Both Sebastian and Ciel is... I would not say completely wrong but there is some misinterpretation here.
Yes, agree with some of the of the other reviewers, Ciel is a little brat in the anime. And sure he is a little brat in the manga to, but he is far more likable and interesting. Mostly because in the manga they really go into what has happened to him in his past better, and because he there really seams like a child how had to grow up to fast. But, yes he is very poorly executed in the anime.
Now on to Sebastian. He is not a Gary Stu. I will say that again. He is NOT a Gary Stu. He isn't that type of perfect. Yes, he can do amazing things but that is because he isn't human. He is a demon and therefor extremely strong, and well... awesome. He was written specifically like this because of who he is.
However I can see why he doesn't work that well in the anime. And that is because he is well... to nice. In the manga he isn't kind or nice. He gives an appearance of being that but that is only because that is the role he has been ordered to take. He doesn't give a rats-ass about the other servants or Ciel. What he does he does for himself and not for anyone else. The only reason that he does what Ciel tolds him to is because they have made a deal. The ordeals that Ciel is put trough amuses him. He is intrigued by humans and find them interesting even though he does not care about them.
And this is one of the biggest problems. There is a big misinterpretation when it comes to Ciels and Sebastians relationship between each other. They're not supposed to have attachment towards each other that they way have they have here. It doesn't work as well as the type they have in the manga.

On to the story. After the Jack the Ripper part things go downwards. At first it is problems with what kind of mood the series want to have. How dark it is supposed be. But then it just stopped making sense. I don't want to spoil to much, but at the end you just sits and wonder why, how and what is happening. It feels a little that they just threw things in that they though could work.

Unfortunately Kuroshitsuji is an series that couldn't deliver when it ran out of source-material. It gets confusing and somewhat annoying at the end.
The beginning is great, they keep very close to the original story but things just goes downhill. One of the main problem is that it isn't consistent with ether animation nor the darker elements of the story.

You can still watch it, and if it makes you interested in the manga then fine. But this is one of my disappointments of great manga-series not getting a proper animated adaptation