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A new season of the popular dark fantasy series Black Butler has been announced at the Anime Expo 2023, which is all set to arrive in 2024, much to the excitement of the fandom. The series will be making a comeback after almost a decade; the last season, Black Butler: Book of Circus, concluded in September 2014, and the first season premiered in 2008, followed by Black Butler II in 2010. Two anime films have also hit the screen in the last decade.
The series is adapted from the ongoing manga of the same name by Yana Toboso, which began serializing on September 16, 2006, in Square Enix’s Monthly GFantasy magazine and currently consists of 32 tankobon volumes. The English-translated version of the manga is licensed for publication overseas by Yen Press.
All you need to know about the new season of Black Butler set to arrive in 2024
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The anime panel of Crunchyroll at this year’s Anime Expo 2023 officially announced the return of the Black Butler anime with a brand-new season, which Aniplex is producing. Accompanying the announcement, a teaser trailer and a visual poster were also unveiled by Crunchyroll.
As clarified by the creators, the upcoming season shall not be a remake but will be adapting new content from the manga. The upcoming installment will be arriving in 2024, and much like the previous seasons, it will be streamed on Crunchyroll.
So far, the voice cast of only Sakamoto Maaya as Ciel Phantomhive and Daisuke Ono as Sebastian Michaelis, who will be reprising their roles from the previous seasons, has been confirmed. Essential staff and crew members have also been revealed, and several have worked on the earlier seasons.
The new season is produced at CloverWorks animation studio under the direction of Kenjirō Okada. Hiroyuki Yoshino, who wrote the script for Book of Circus, is at the helm of the series composition for the upcoming season. Yumi Shimizu, who had previously served as the episode animation director and key animator in the Black Butler 2008 anime, will now take over the character design. The music will be composed by Ryo Kawasaki.
Here is how the series is introduced on the official website of Crunchyroll:
"Ciel Phantomhive is the most powerful boy in all of England, but he bears the scars of unspeakable suffering. Forced to watch as his beloved parents were brutally murdered, Ciel was subsequently abducted and violently tortured. Desperate to end his suffering, the boy traded his own soul for a chance at vengeance, casting his lot with the one person on whom he could depend: Sebastian, a demon Butler summoned from the very pits of hell. Together, they’ll prowl the darkest alleys of London on a mission to snuff out those who would do evil."
All the previous seasons of Black Butler are available for streaming on Crunchyroll.
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