Black Butler Announces “Emerald Witch Arc”

Black Butler has announced it will adapt the “Emerald Witch Arc.”

At Anime Expo 2024, Black Butler revealed the “Emerald Witch Arc” will premiere sometime in 2025. Daisuke Ono and Maaya Sakamoto will reprise their roles as Sebastian and Ciel. Kenjirō Okada (RWBY: Ice Queendom and March comes in like a lion) who directed Season 4 will return for the new season at CloverWorks. A terrifying trailer has been dropped, featuring a foe resembling a werewolf.

Written and illustrated by Yana Toboso, Black Butler has ran in Monthly Fantasy for close to 20 years, beginning serialization in September 2006. The manga currently has 33 volumes and has over 34 million copies in circulation as of July 2023. The story follows Ciel Phantomhive, the 12-year-old Earl of Phantomhive who becomes the head of the Phantomhive House after his parents are brutally murdered. Vowing to find the person who killed his parents and tortured him, Ciel enacts a contract with a demon, promising his soul to the demon once he helps him get his revenge. The demon takes the form of Ciel’s butler who Ciel names Sebastian. As the two find the killer responsible for ruining Ciel’s life, they unravel conspiracy and secrets about Ciel’s family.

The manga received an anime adaptation with Season 1 airing in October 2008. Airing in July 2010, the second season features entirely new material and consequently not considered canon, introducing two new characters Alois Trancy and Claude Faustus. Season 3 adapted the “Book of Circus” and “Book of Murder” arcs which aired in July 2014. The “Book of the Atlantic” arc was adapted in an anime film which premiered in January 2017. The first three seasons of Black Butler were animated and produced by A-1 Pictures. Season 4 premiered in April 2024, more than seven years since its last adaptation. Season 4 switched studios to CloverWorks.

All four seasons are available on Crunchyroll.

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