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dancing_moonOhhh, it is soooo good!
But before I get to that point, a little preface: Sometimes, I don't quite get how people reporting news think. In the "real world" is the Swedish papers and their treatment of the whole Facebook-hacking thing. Okay, you warn a lot of users, good on you. But did you really have to mention the name of the plugin, so that any n00b can try hacking someone's account? Tsk.
A similar thing happened with manga scanlations recently, when Anime News Network posted about how one of the big scanlation sites put back up manga that they've pulled before, due to it being licensed. Since they mentioned that Kuroshitsuji / Black Butler was among them I *cough* made sure to read it this weekend, before it's pulled again.
Please misunderstand me correctly - I think the US official translation is pretty good. I buy each volume of YenPress' Black Butler as soon as they come out. But look at that release schedule... Volume 6 in July 2011? The japanese collections are at volume 8 currently (I think, +/- one) and the monthly chapters even further ahead. I'm sorry, I just - I CAN'T WAIT.
Especially not when it is this awesome-sauce good and full of locked-room murders, cliffhangers and mysterious goodness.
They wrap the Conan Doyle-suite up in this story and Yana Toboso handled the entire thing extremely well.
I loved all the Sherlock Holmes references, from the obvious speckled band, to old Tanaka's knowledge of Baritsu and the startling likeness "the pastor" had with many visal depictions of Professor Moriarty. There is probably much more, but it's good.
The art gets better and better every day, I think. Toboso's lines have always been very clear and sharp, but the way she layouts the pages and presents the work took a turn upwards somewhere around the circus arc IIRC and here - those images of Sebastian dead where chilling, even when I knew he wouldn't stay down. Then that completely crazy look in the eyes of the real killer, brrr~
And we get more and more little glimpses of what Sebastian's real form looks like! And his awesome hurry-hurry-must-switch-clothes-and-play-corpse while taking the time to save cats, awwww *snuggles*
And Ciel turns more creepy every chapter. Goddamn, that was one good story. I can't wait to have it in my hands in paper form and sit in bed and read it ^^
I also like the growth of the other servants, how they're slowly learning to become better at their job. And that they care so much *cuddles crying Finny*
Now there's a new addition to the household, invited on a shaky lie but with good intentions (and a slightly annoying speech-pattern. Oh well)
I don't watch season two of the anime, btw. I didn't hear good things about it in the beginning, and when I read a summary of the end, completely lost all interest in watching it. Besides, the manga is so much better.
But before I get to that point, a little preface: Sometimes, I don't quite get how people reporting news think. In the "real world" is the Swedish papers and their treatment of the whole Facebook-hacking thing. Okay, you warn a lot of users, good on you. But did you really have to mention the name of the plugin, so that any n00b can try hacking someone's account? Tsk.
A similar thing happened with manga scanlations recently, when Anime News Network posted about how one of the big scanlation sites put back up manga that they've pulled before, due to it being licensed. Since they mentioned that Kuroshitsuji / Black Butler was among them I *cough* made sure to read it this weekend, before it's pulled again.
Please misunderstand me correctly - I think the US official translation is pretty good. I buy each volume of YenPress' Black Butler as soon as they come out. But look at that release schedule... Volume 6 in July 2011? The japanese collections are at volume 8 currently (I think, +/- one) and the monthly chapters even further ahead. I'm sorry, I just - I CAN'T WAIT.
Especially not when it is this awesome-sauce good and full of locked-room murders, cliffhangers and mysterious goodness.
They wrap the Conan Doyle-suite up in this story and Yana Toboso handled the entire thing extremely well.
I loved all the Sherlock Holmes references, from the obvious speckled band, to old Tanaka's knowledge of Baritsu and the startling likeness "the pastor" had with many visal depictions of Professor Moriarty. There is probably much more, but it's good.
The art gets better and better every day, I think. Toboso's lines have always been very clear and sharp, but the way she layouts the pages and presents the work took a turn upwards somewhere around the circus arc IIRC and here - those images of Sebastian dead where chilling, even when I knew he wouldn't stay down. Then that completely crazy look in the eyes of the real killer, brrr~
And we get more and more little glimpses of what Sebastian's real form looks like! And his awesome hurry-hurry-must-switch-clothes-and-play-corpse while taking the time to save cats, awwww *snuggles*
And Ciel turns more creepy every chapter. Goddamn, that was one good story. I can't wait to have it in my hands in paper form and sit in bed and read it ^^
I also like the growth of the other servants, how they're slowly learning to become better at their job. And that they care so much *cuddles crying Finny*
Now there's a new addition to the household, invited on a shaky lie but with good intentions (and a slightly annoying speech-pattern. Oh well)
I don't watch season two of the anime, btw. I didn't hear good things about it in the beginning, and when I read a summary of the end, completely lost all interest in watching it. Besides, the manga is so much better.
