The opening and ending animations of the Black Butler: Public School Arc anime, which premiered in Japan on April 13, have been uploaded to the Aniplex YouTube channel.
The opening was storyboarded and directed by the unit Masashi Ishihama, director of Horimiya-The Missing Pieces-, Horimiya, Persona5 The Animation and From The New World, their last opening anime was for Horimiya-The Missing Pieces-. The OP sequence in Ishihama's Black Butler: Public School Arc is filled with mesmerizing and stylish shots and transitions, like when Sebastian covers Ciel with his black cloak, its darkness spreading and enveloping screen, and immediately takes us to the next shot.
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In other parts of the opening, an umbrella seen from the top town's perspective spins and creates flames, a first-person shot frames the characters in a shard of glass set by moving hands constantly held by someone and four arms sliding out from the back of an umbrella. The quadrangular frame is embraced by the sound director. Ishihama's penchant for doing interesting things with the placement of the credits also shows up elsewhere, such as a shot midway through the opening where the water doesn't just reflect the setting moon fast but also the credits hovering in the air.
Meanwhile, the ending, storyboards and storyboards are created by the artist Oka Okazaki director (Sword Art Online the Movie-Progressive-Scherzo of Deep Night, co-promoter), is less dramatic but offers a more pleasing, “modern” aesthetic and character art . Part of it is devoted to showing Ciel falling from the sky, before Sebastian grabs his hand and descends with Ciel, the two looking at each other.
The opening theme song of Black Butler: Public School Arc is “The Parade of Battlers” by otohawhile the ending song is “Shokuzai” by Sid.
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Black Butler: Public School Arc is the first new Black Butler anime since 2017's Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic. Crunchyroll and Bibili are streaming it, and Crunchyroll describes the plot as:
Among Britain's elite, Weston College defies government oversight. So when students disappear—including the son of Queen Victoria's cousin—Her Majesty dispatches Watchdog Ciel Phantomhive to investigate. Together with his loyal demonic butler, Sebastian, Ciel must navigate dangerous school politics and infiltrate Weston's model prefects, P4, if he is to unravel the overarching mysteries. this organization.
Black Butler is based on Square Enix-published Yana Toboso's dark fantasy manga, which began serialization in the monthly G Fantasy magazine in 2006 and has 33 tankōbon volumes as of July 2023. The first season is out. debuted in 2008 and was followed by two more seasons and a two-episode OVA. Previous Black Butler anime by A-1 Pictures manufacture.
Staff
→ Director: Kenjirou Okada (Director of the series March Comes in Like A Lion)
Series composer: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Black Butler: Book of Circus)
à Character designer: Yumi Shimizu (Locodol)
Composer: Ryou Kawasaki (To Your Eternity)
→ Animation production: CloverWorks
Performer
Maaya Sakamoto as Ciel Phantomhive
Daisuke Ono as Sebastian Michaelis
© Toshiki Watanabe as Edgar Redmond
Junya Enoki as Lawrence Bluewer
Shunsuke Takeuchi as Herman Greenhill
à Tatsumaru Tachibana as Gregory Violet
Source: Aniplex YouTube channel