Now, where was I? Oh yes...
Kuroshitsuji season I ended with Sebastian in the process of devouring Ciel's soul (http://quillicious.blogspot.com/2010/10/anime-review-kuroshitsuji-black-butler.html).
|Spoiler alert! I actually do not like to write the endings during review. However, I find the ending of this series as the best part of the entire story so I am going to write it down|
Kuroshitsuji season II opens with Sebastian entering Alois Trancy's maison to steal a ring that holds Ciel's soul. However, upon returning Ciel's soul into his body, Sebastian realized that Ciel's memory of the previous events is missing. Therefore, he does not realize that he is dead and that his contract with Sebastian has ended.
On the other hand, we are introduced to Alois Trancy. Alois is a frantic and somewhat insane child. His real name is Jim McCain and he used to have a brother named Luca. He was the old Trancy's mistress and became the Trancy heir after the old Trancy died. He also has a black butler named Claude Faustus. Alois Trancy wishes for Ciel's soul in order to avenge his brother's death since he suspects that Sebastian consumed his brother's soul upon fulfilling his request. His contract with Claude is written in his tongue. Unlike Ciel who was independent of Sebastian, Alois is obsessed with Claude.
Claude is a perfectionist demon butler and is not as laid back as Sebastian. He stole Ciel's soul before being devoured. He wears eyeglasses and can take the shape of a spider, He has four demons followers: Hanna the maid and the triplets demon servants - Thompson (his fringe is swept to the right), Timber (his fringe falls directly to the center) and Canterbury (his fringe that is swept to the left). In the middle of the series, he becames entranced with Ciel's soul and determines to keep it for himself and compete with Sebastian to claim it. Alois becomes jealous and confessed his love for Claude. Upon doing so, Claude murdered him and kept Alois' soul in a ring.
Claude fused Ciel's and Alois' soul and make Ciel deny Sebastian. Hanna, the demon maid, manages to make Alois take over Ciel's body and form a contract with both Ciel and Alois. It turns out that she was the demon who devoured Luca's soul and since she was taken by Luca's goodness she becomes Claude's followers to protect Alois. In the end, Alois makes Sebastian and Claude to fight each other. Sebastian wins and murder Claude. Alois' contract with Hanna ended and Alois died. Hanna dumps Ciel's body into the ocean and die with Claude to join Alois. Sebastian jumped into the ocean to save Ciel.
I find that the second season not as good as the first. the fight between Sebastian and Claude is just too repetitive and thus boring. There are too many unrelated episodes. In addition, there is only half as many episodes as the first season making the storyline becomes too packed and confusing.
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Some of the supporting characters from season one shows up briefly. However, Grell appears for several occasions and play an important role in aiding Sebastian find out the truth about Hanna.So as I mentioned earlier, the best part of this season is the ending. I somewhat think that this is the perfect ending.
