In this special I will talk to you in detail about all the Kuroshitsuji sagas. Before we begin, let’s talk a little about the work. The Kuroshitsuji manga was written and drawn by Yana Toboso .
The plot revolves around Ciel Phantomhive, a 12-year-old earl who has lost his family and to find the culprits , makes a contract with a demon, who becomes his butler . The butler will be known as Sebastian and will help Ciel find the culprits, and they must also fulfill the mission of the Phantomhive Family, secret agents of the Queen of England whose mission is to preserve and eliminate the peace of the kingdom from the dark. Ciel must fulfill each special mission ordered by his majesty and in the process face all kinds of supernatural creatures while he tries to reach those responsible for the death of his parents. The environments present an England in the Victorian era and you will see customs, attitudes of the characters and events related to the same era, such as the famous case of Jack the Ripper.
Arc: The Abduction Arc (Kuroshitsuji I: Chapter 1 to 13)
The first arc that introduces the protagonists of the story. It tells of Ciel’s mission as the queen’s guard dog and the excellent butler he has as an assistant, as well as introducing the other servants of the house and Ciel’s fiancée, Elizabeth, as well as other secondary characters who will become important in the future. .
The conflict of this small arc begins when Ciel and other nobles are gathered to discuss a mysterious person who is moving things in the shadows. The culprit is one of the guests who will be in charge of kidnapping Ciel, without knowing that he has a very dangerous butler who will be in charge of eliminating all of his men and himself in order to rescue his master. Here it will be revealed that Sebastian is not a normal butler and his strange relationship with Ciel.
Arc: Jack The Ripper (Kuroshitsuji I: Chapters 1 to 13)
Based on a real case, of the well-known Jack the Ripper who attacked female prostitutes for a long time and killed them. It is a case that has taken many interpretations and versions in different sources and this case is no exception.
Ciel and his butler will have to investigate the strange case of the serial killer named Jack the Ripper, who has suddenly been killing several prostitutes . The story begins when Ciel along with Sebastian, Lau and Madame Red meet to discuss the string of murders that have occurred in London and discover that the culprit is a doctor who has not had a cut before the incidents. They start looking for said doctor and will find that things are not what they seem. This arc is one of the darkest and saddest. Shinigami are introduced for the first time .
Arc: The Curry Contest (Kuroshitsuji I: Chapters 1 to 13)
Third arc of the manga and last based on the manga that appears in the anime. The chapters that followed this saga are no longer related to the original manga. Recently there have been attacks on a group of Anglo-Indians who have been assaulted, stripped and hanged upside down in the vicinity of the Indo-British Coffee House . That has caught the attention of police who have been searching for the culprits.
Ciel’s new mission will be to find the culprits of such assaults and to do so they must investigate the Indian neighborhoods, with the help of Lau who is in charge of trade between England and Asia. In the neighborhood they are attacked by a group of dissatisfied Indians and are saved by Prince Soma and his butler Agni , who end up staying at Ciel’s house in London. They will soon discover the relationship between these two and the incidents and will be forced to participate in a cooking contest.
Arc: Noah’s Ark Circus (The Kuroshitsuji Sagas: Book of Circus, 10 chapters)
Fourth arc and first not to appear in the anime. This time a chilling case will have to be investigated by the count.
Various children have begun to disappear all over England, a situation that has bothered the queen, so she will send Ciel the mission of finding the children and rescuing them.
Ciel and Sebastian begin to investigate these disappearances and discover that the Noah’s Ark Circus seems to be involved with them, since the places where the circus has been are the same places where the disappearances have occurred. They decide to investigate and to do so they infiltrate the circus pretending to be two homeless people looking for a home. And there they will find a world where not everything is the same as it seems.
In this arc, important information about Ciel’s past is revealed, and a familiar face of his servants is shown.
Arc: The Phantomhive Mansion Murder Case (Kuroshitsuji Book of Murders, Ova I and II)
And no, Sherlock Holmes does not appear in this arc in case anyone had that doubt. In this arc the narrator will be a young writer named Arthur Wordsmith who has received an invitation from Count Phantomhive who is organizing a party at his mansion.
When he arrives he feels out of place because the other guests are too important compared to him.
Everything seems to be going great until Arthur comments that after that incident his life would turn 180 degrees, and the only thing we can see afterwards is a photo of Sebastian lying on the floor covered in blood spilled everywhere, giving us to understand that something terrible will happen. at that party.
This arc is full of typical mystery elements and deductions about the culprits, quite based on mystery and detective books. In this saga Ciel will acquire a new servant.
Arc: The Campania Arc (Kuroshitsuji Book of The Atlantic, Movie)
The sixth arc and one of the decisive arcs in the manga’s plot due to the importance of the data that is revealed.
This time it will be Ciel’s turn to investigate certain reports about an illegal human experiment being carried out at the Karnstein hospital, where it is said that they can revive the dead. At the same time Elizabeth, Ciel’s fiancée, invites him to go with her and her family on a ship called the Campania that will depart from England to America , he at first refuses but later they discover that the Aurora Society that was involved with the incident Karnstein Hospital will be gathered there and Ciel has no choice but to embark with Sebastian and his new servant, meeting his fiancée and his family.
The ship moves calmly, without knowing that a terrible event is about to happen, an event that will change the lives of many people, and will reveal unexpected things about some characters that we never believed were possible.
Arc: The Weston School Arc (Not aired in anime)
No, we have not changed the manga, they are still the adventures of Ciel and Sebastian, only now transferred to an important school in England and which suddenly reminds us of Harry Potter. Among the fans this arc began to be called “KuroPotter”
Queen Victoria sends a letter to Ciel, telling him of her concern for Derrick Arden and other students who have not returned home after a long time. They study at Weston School, where strange things have started to happen. Did you have fun with Ciel as a circus? Well now they are going to enjoy Ciel more as a student because for this arc he will have to enter as a student to be able to investigate in more detail and at the same time Sebastian will enter as a teacher.
And Ciel will discover that life as a student is not as easy as it seems, and that to achieve his goal he will have to perform all kinds of tricks to get closer to his goals: The Prefects of the students. Interesting facts about the plot are also revealed in this arc.
Arc: The Green Witch Arc (Not aired in anime)
Eighth arch. For the first time the incident will not occur in England but in another country: Germany . Strange incidents have caused some hunters to die in strange ways: their faces become deformed, some survive but live in madness, and others simply die . That incident has worried Queen Victoria, so she decides to send Ciel to Germany, who for the first time is not very happy with the idea but has no choice.
Ciel, Sebastian and for the first time all their servants will travel to Germany to investigate the incidents, exactly to a town in the south of Germany, where it is said that the entire town lives tormented by werewolves and that they are related to those strange ones. deaths. In this incident they talk about witches and werewolves.
Arc: The Blue Cult Arc (Not aired in anime)
Current arc of the manga. Edward Midford receives an invitation from Herman Greenhill, the former prefect of The Green House, to his next meeting with the ex-4Ps at the Sphere Music Hall. Lizzy asks him to accompany him to her next meeting, and after her insistence Edward agrees. Already there, Elizabeth is enchanted by Bravat’s fortune reading , learning among other things about her protective star, Canopus, and her relationship with Ciel.
In this way, Lizzy stops coming home to find out more about it, and Edward will ask Ciel for help to bring her back, to the surprise that her majesty, the Queen of Her, also wants to investigate that place.
As the manga and its adaptations progress further, this article will be modified.
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