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黒執事 XIV (2012)

by Yana Toboso(Favorite Author)

4.56 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

4757536119 (ISBN13: 9784757536111)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

スクウェア・エニックス

series

Black Butler

review 1: I absolutely adore Yana Toboso--the artwork is so fantastic, the story is engaging and humorous--it's just the best manga can offer. I am reading these out of sequence as I can grab them at the library or sometimes used but I would love to own the whole collection--the little stories at the end of each are worth the price of admission by themselves. And let's get down to facts---no one draws beautiful and androgynous men as well as Toboso. Bonus --appearances by Grell and The Undertaker. Love it.
review 2: This was a very satisfying conclusion to the zombies at sea arc. It opens where we left off with more of Sebastian’s cinematic record spooling out. It was a very interesting bit, really. Both Ciel and Sebastian have to learn their roles very fast. It’... mores a good reminder of just how young Ciel is. He hasn’t been groomed yet to be Earl Phantomhive. His father thought he had more time. Sebastian has to train Ciel in all the things a good earl needs to know, from lessons in Latin to shooting to horsemanship and can be rather brutal in his lessons. On the other hand, Ciel gives as good as he takes in training a demon to be the perfect butler. Interspersed with this is the trauma Ciel is still undergoing inside his head from all the torture (mental, physical and assumed sexual) he endured, not to mention people are still out to kill him.And the ship begins to sink. Terribly injured by the Undertaker’s scythe, Sebastian still has to protect Ciel even as the Grim Reapers begin to fight each other and him. Grell, Ronald and the Undertaker are all great. Grell has some of the best lines. And once free of the battle, the Undertaker assures the reader he’ll be back by giving something over to Ciel’s keeping. Unfortunately for Ciel, icy water isn’t the only thing he has to endure as the ship goes down. Those zombies aren’t as dead as one would have hoped.After the conclusion, there is an Easter filler piece to a) allow master and servant time to heal b) to give some relief from the badness. Lizzie is back to her old self and she has arranged an Easter Egg hunt. Soma and Agni are hysterical in this. Yes it is just filler but there is a nugget of story fodder there when Lizzie mulls over the implications of things Ciel says/does in this. I hope she continues to grow as a character.The last chapter is the beginning of a new arc. Ciel has to infiltrate a high powered, highly exclusive all-boys boarding school at the behest of Queen Victoria. Young men going there have begun to act strange and have refused to return home to their families on holidays and she wants him to see what’s wrong. It’s immediately obvious that Ciel didn’t do his homework on investigating the place before showing up but as for the real threat, will have to wait til next time.As always, the art is beautiful. Some of the fight scenes are a tad muddy but otherwise, I love the art. The story telling is really picking up in this. less

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