Despite the fact that Netflix has turned to the money-grubbing, price-raising, dark-side of the scale, for the moment I'm still able to enjoy their streaming videos and thus I was lead to another anime series to get hopelessly addicted to. Black Butler is a series about orphaned 12-year-old Ciel Phantomhive who also happens to be the head of a very large toy company and his ever faithful and demonic servant, Sebastian Michaelis. Basic rundown of how that happened follows as thus; Ciel's parents got killed, he was dying, Sebastian offers to serve him and help him take revenge in exchange for his soul, Ciel agrees and there you go. The series isn't overly long, only 24 full episodes, so it's an easy and short-lived addiction at least. Nonetheless, you can't help but fall in love with Sebastian as naughty as he is (hell, every other female in this series seems to). I'm not sure how it's managed to evade me so long since the anime was originally released in 2008 and the manga came long before it in 2006. And it doesn't hurt that the series has some of the best music attached to it I've ever heard. The opening and closing titles fit SO well with the mood. Don't believe me? Take a listen to the song Lacrimosa by Kalafina, which is the ending theme...
If you get the chance, definitely give this series a look. The ending isn't what you'd normally expect and some of the additional characters are hilarious.
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