Anime “Black Butler – Boarding School Edition” will be broadcast and distributed at the earliest from 23:30 on 4/13 (Sat)!!

The synopsis and advance cut of the first episode of the anime “Black Butler – Boarding School Edition” scheduled to be broadcast on various stations from 23:30 on Saturday, April 13, 2024 have been released.

“Black Butler” (Monthly G Fantasy/Square Enix) is a popular manga by Yana Toboso that has sold over 34 million copies worldwide. Set in Victorian England at the end of the 19th century, the story follows Ciel Phantomhive and his butler Sebastian as they take on various cases.
The new series “Black Butler – Boarding School Edition”, which is the sixth animated series, is directed by Kenjiro Okada, who brought a delicate world view to the screen with “March Comes in Like a Lion”, and the series composition is “Black Butler”. Hiroyuki Yoshino, who has been writing the script since the first work, character design by Yumi Shimizu, who is the chief animation director of “Horimiya”, music by Ryu Kawasaki of “Fate/Grand Order -Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia-“, The production company is CloverWorks, which is responsible for Horimiya'' andSPY x FAMILY.” Inheritance, renewal, and talented staff color the images.

Today, five scene cuts of characters appearing in the anime “Black Butler: Boarding School Edition” were released. Including shots of Ciel Phantomhive with shining blue eyes and a powerful gaze, the four prefects who are the main characters of this work, P4 (Prefect Four), stand behind their dormitory badges. It’s a cut full of elegance, so be sure to check it out.

[Synopsis & advance cut]

■Episode 1 “The butler goes to school”

<Synopsis>
Ciel will be attending Weston School, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in England, as a new student. The school, ruled by P4, the supervisors of the four dormitories (Ruby: Prefect), was a closed space that respected tradition and was bound by strict discipline. As Ciel is at the mercy of his unfamiliar school life, Sebastian, a butler disguised as a dormitory supervisor, appears.

[Work information]
■Anime “Black Butler Boarding School Edition”
<Broadcast information>
Broadcast starts on each station from Saturday, April 13, 2024
TOKYO MX, BS11, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV: April 13th (Sat) 23:30~
MBS: April 13th (Sat) 27:38~
*Broadcast date and time may change due to programming circumstances.

Simultaneous terrestrial broadcast on ABEMA!
In addition, it will be distributed sequentially on each distribution site!
*Broadcast date and time may change due to programming circumstances.

<Staff>
Original work: Yana Toboso (published in Monthly “G Fantasy” published by Square Enix)
Director: Kenjiro Okada
Series composition: Hiroyuki Yoshino
Character design: Yumi Shimizu
Sub-character design: Akira Takada
Chief animation director: Yumi Shimizu, Akira Takada, Yusuke Shimizu, Mio Inoguchi
Color design: Asuka Yokota / Art setting: Risa Iraha (KUSANAGI)
Art director: Kuniaki Nemoto (KUSANAGI)
Technical Director: Yuya Sakuma
Director of photography: Tsubasa Kanamori
CG director: Katsuaki Miyaji
Editing: Rina Oguchi
Music: Ryu Kawasaki
Sound director: Hitoshi Akedagawa/Production: CloverWorks

<Cast>
Sebastian Michaelis: Daisuke Ono
Ciel Phantomhive: Maaya Sakamoto
Edgar Redmond: Toshiki Watanabe
Lawrence Bruer: Junya Enoki
Herman Greenhill: Shunsuke Takeuchi
Gregory Violet: Ryumaru Tachibana

<Introduction>
“Black Butler” has sold over 34 million copies worldwide, and continues to fascinate fans around the world with its beautifully detailed worldview and colorful characters.
This is the 6th animated work, and is directed by Kenjiro Okada, who brought a delicate world view to the screen with March Comes in Like a Lion,'' and Yoshino, who has written the script for the series since the firstBlack Butler.” Hiroyuki, the character design is by Yumi Shimizu, who is the chief animation director of “Horimiya”, the music is by Ryu Kawasaki of “Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia”, and the production company is responsible for “Horimiya” and “SPY x FAMILY”. CloverWorks is in charge.
Inheritance, renewal, and talented staff color the images.

<Boarding school story>
19th century Britain
Sebastian Michaelis, a butler of the prestigious aristocratic Phantomhive family, was assigned to do dirty work in the underworld as the “Queen’s watchdog” along with his 13-year-old master, Ciel Phantomhive.
One day, Ciel receives a letter from the Queen saying that Derrick, a relative of his who attends Weston School, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in England, and several other students have not heard from him.
Sebastian and Ciel infiltrate Weston School to investigate the incident. What is the truth behind the incident…?

<Boarding school story>
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