#bad ones

[illegalvampire]

hey guys what if cooper sees his daughter one more time and she doesn't recognize him. what if she's afraid. what if she's afraid of the monster that's claiming to be her dad. what if he doesn't recognize himself

[jellybirb]

Black Butler watch order and Timelines

When I first watched the anime it was hard to keep track of the plot over the course of all of Season One and only until I had started Season Two did I glean that it was probably because half of S1 and all of S2 was filler/non-canon, following the manga.

After finishing everything up, I feel like there are three (4) ways to watching Kuroshitsuji, or if you put it a little differently, three timelines to go after.

1. The 'intended' Timeline

From Episodes 1-6, where you would find the black butler arc, introducing the general idea of Kuroshitsuji, and the red butler arc where a few darker themes are touched, skipping to Episodes 13-15 covering the indian butler arc, where we get introduced to one of the best characters in the whole series, Soma Kadar and his Butler, Agni. The rest of season 1 and all of Season 2 is non-canon and not relevant in this timeline. We continue with Book of Circus, Book of Murder, Book of the Atlantic (my most rewatched and beloved arc), Public School arc and lastly Emerald Witch arc. This is the Timeline following the manga

2. Season 1 Timeline

Just watch Season one. That's it. Season 1 works really good on its own as a finished 24 Episode anime and I personally find this timeline peak, as it basically squeezes all of what Black Butler is into one season, especially with the ending (many are unsatisfied with, which I could understand from an emotional view, cause we all don't want Kuro to end this quickly, even though we know this will eventually happen, or at least is played at from the beginning.).

3. Season One + Season Two

Season Two is a direct continuation where Season One left off, (even if the potential space that was lacking got forced into a working plot device) directing the attention over to another pair of Master and Butler. This was a really fun season and even though many consider this very crappy (which it quickly developed into after EP10 with the utter crazy shit going on) I enjoyed the ending specifically. Yes, it's pulled out of nowhere and yes, no one has any idea how this even makes any sense, but the ending has very much potential and is abnormally bittersweet in my eyes

(4. The Everything Timeline)

Not a Timeline but I'll call it that. Every Kuro fan will eventually watch everything they throw at us, so if we watch all of season 1/2 and all of the coming arcs we do have to draw at least an imagined line between them, as they don't intwertwine at all. Having watched Season 1 before reading BotA spoiled the potential of the Undertaker for me as the big reveal was already revealed but just set back? Also Lau died but came back in Season 2??? Hello? (At least if I remember correctly).

So really this 'Timeline' is just a Way of Watching (depending on whatever you watch/read first)

[ceriseangels]

I just redownloaded tik tok and…the cm fanbase on there…they have some takes! 😃

[stevehairingtit]

The thing about the book is that it's kind of sociologically interesting. In a way, I think it is probably reflective of our cultural moment that she is deploying double-barrelled East Asian and Eastern European Orientalism.

[stradiivarrii]

It is shocking that she was banned, because she is racist. Usually the white queers on tumblr ignore that

[nico-flo]

OH COME ON YOU CANT MAKE THEM ALL HAVE CHILDLIKE FUN TOGETHER AND MAKE ME LISTEN TO THEIR LAUGHS FULL OF JOY RIGHT AFTER KILLING MISTY AND NOW ZOE GETS IMPALED AND DIES TOO??? FUCK YOU RYAN MURPHY AND THE OTHER GUY AND THE WHOLE TEAM FUCK YOUUU

[dearfurfur]