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Interesting! definitely not an Avoid, I watch tons of anime series every week and have pretty much seen them all and this is unique.
So, it seems from episode 1 a young boy loses his parents and makes a pact with a demon/raven to live again...the raven/demon butler serves and protects him Bond style against those that try to take the boy's family (name/crest) down and he does with grace and elegance!The butler looks after the household including the other servants that take their daily orders from him. I like the classical music and baroque like themes as well.
Try around 5-10 episodes and it will grow on you!
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(Three episodes watched): I wasn't sure what to make of this one; a dark comedy, I guess. Semi-funny and semi-creepy is the way I'd phrase it. The goofy mansion staff was the element which convinced me that there would be some humor to this. It looks like Ciel, the teenage Phantomhive master died himself after his parent's untimely deaths, and made some sort of bargain with the devil to attain his resurrection. One of the conditions must have been accepting Sebastian (who hints at being a demon) as his head butler. The character designs reminded me of Nabari no Ou, and Sebastian's behavior reminded me of Neuro. This looked like it might be fun. The preview of episode two seemed odd as it showed large scale gunplay which seemed out of sync with the life of nobility premise. A number of strange, eccentric characters appear out of nowhere, almost making me wonder if I'd in fact missed an episode. I don't know these flambouyant people, yet I'm being expected to laugh at them as if I did, apparently. It took awhile to sort them out and determine which were the latest crop of bad guys and which were friends of Ciel's. The mention of the "English underworld" which carries out the "Royal family's dirty work" almost made me gag--the story tries to set itself in an exotic foreign country, yet makes little effort to do it's homework on the setting. it became increasingly clear that this episode was pretty lame. The show tries to be both humorous and cool/awesome, but can't and fails at both. The action is ridiculous and the jokes are thinly stretched. The amount of fatal violence is surprisingly high, which clashes with the humor. People dying is treated almost as another joke, and likewise the fact that Master Ciel has sold his soul isn't being taken very seriously. The time when Kuroshitsuji was wounded (probably the single bullet fired during the entire episode which struck it's target) was kind of cool and raised my hopes briefly. But I can't help wondering why such an absurd, shallow episode was included in the first place. However, as exasperated as I was with this episode, the preview of the next one suggests it might be infinitely more plausible. No, I'm afraid that based on yet another episode, I can only conclude that this is one shoddy series on which I am wasting my precious time. For one thing, this is an extremely unfunny show. I cannot help noticing that the jokes aren't just the average ones, which make me smile but not laugh, but rather ones which just fall flat. Was this supposed to be a sort of dark humor? Is Grell trying to hang himself supposed to be funny? I hoped perhaps the plot would go somewhere, but no, there's nothing to hold my interest here either. Plus there's still no hint of the exact nature of the bargain Ciel made, which is frustrating. I really can't think of any reason why I shouldn't drop Kuroshitsuji from my already overloaded viewing schedule. Last updated Saturday, November 08 2008. Created Thursday, October 09 2008. | ||||||||
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ep 1. alot of silly hijinks make up this anime. but with the underlying mystery of why there is a contract and a morbid callousness (they almost nearly cooked the guy in the oven D:) and just general darkness hovering at the edges, it makes me wanna keep watching. Last updated Wednesday, October 08 2008. Created Wednesday, October 08 2008. | ||||||||
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