Basically we have Ciel and Sebastian boarding a luxury liner called Campania in order to investigate a mysterious group called the Aurora Society, which seems to be re-animating corpses in the name of medical breakthroughs to save humanity. But on the whole, this is a splendid fit for a theatrical film and it works well in this format. In anime terms Kuroshitsuji has pretty much never missed a beat as long as it stayed true to the source material which makes the disastrous second season the stark exception. It can be easy to be distracted by all the puffery, but once you look deeper you realize just how deep you can look when it comes to these characters. And about Kuroshitsuji in general, which is really one of the more remarkable franchises in anime and manga. Deceased individuals are coming back to life, but they have changed into something other than human.Ī few words, then, about Kuroshitsuji: Book of the Atlantic belated though they may be. In April, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his servants, Sebastian Michaelis and Snake, board the luxury passenger ship Campania alongside the Midford family-not for recreational purposes, however, but for investigating illegal human experimentation, which is later demonstrated at an Aurora Society meeting headed by a questionable doctor.
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From March 26 to March 27, Aniplex promoted the film at AnimeJapan and sold limited-edition advance tickets to the movie screening. Ciel Phantomhive, the queen's watch dog, is given two tickets to go to a traveling circus for himself and his demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis. In February, the official website for the anime film disclosed that the film is titled, "Kuroshitsuji: Book of the Atlantic," and that it will adapt the sixth arc of the manga. Black Butler: Book of Circus: With Matthew Mercer, J. Additionally, Square Enix opened a website for the film. In October, the official Twitter account for the Kuroshitsuji anime franchise announced that an anime film has been formally approved. It was released on January 21, in Japanese theaters. Ciel chases Stoker but meets Elizabeth and Snake instead in the ship's cargo, where they find several other reanimated corpses who attack them, but Sebastian appears in the nick of time to rescue them. While sneaking into a meeting of the Aurora Society, where they have a short meeting with Undertaker, Ciel and Sebastian witness doctor Rian Stoker use a machine to reanimate a dead woman, who starts attacking the attendants. Onboard the ship, is also Elizabeth, her older brother and parents as well.
Ciel, Sebastian and Snake board the luxury liner Campania on her maiden voyage to investigate the mysterious Aurora Society, who is rumored to perform experiments to raise the dead. It premiered in Japan on January 21, A few months after its Japanese release, Funimation announced that they had licensed and would screen the film in a limited theatrical release in North America later in June of that year. Black Butler: Book Of The Atlantic (Kuroshitsuji: Book Of The Atlantic) () - Rotten Tomatoes