La historia sucede en Inglaterra en plena épocca victoriana, el protagonista Ciel Phantomhive es un conde que tras la tragica perdida de su familia hereda todos los bienes y el capital ligados a su apellido. Junto a él, el misterioso mayordomo , Sebastian Michaelis, ayuda al joven conde en todas las tareas del hogar y otras deberes como aristocrata de la alta sociedad inglesa.
En este primer manga ,obviamente, no se puede ver reflejado la excelente amplitud de detalles historicos que ofrece; la sociedad inglesa en ese entonces, tradiciones matrimoniales, platos tícos de la epoca, eventos anuales a los que debias asistir como aristocrata, mortalidad infantil, la colonia de las indias, importanción de opio desde china, el fetiche de la alta sociedad por el mundo del ocultismo,...

Y todo esto rodeado de un alo de misterio y suspense. ( )

This is actually a reread. The art's kind of bad and the writing is as well, but it's neat to see how the series began. The world-building elements are interesting and I've seen enough of the parts of the anime that better adapt the manga that I'm willing to stick around to those. If you really love Sebastian/Ciel, this is for you, and the anime did a pretty decent job of adapting this. But otherwise it's just... kind of uninteresting. ( )

I must admit I was disappointed. Having watched the anime I knew the beginning was slow, but still I expected the plot to start sooner in the manga. Unfortunately that was not what happened and this first volume felt just like random everyday situations for these characters without giving away anything about the story. It didn't show much about the characters personality either so I really gained nothing from it.
The art is pretty at least. I am just sad because I remembered liking the anime for the most part and I was expecting more. I am unsure if I will continue since I fear it will continue to be a lot of stalling until we get to the good parts. ( )

Wow, I think I have a crush on the Black Butler. . . how did that happen? He's not real!

This was weird and quirky and took awhile to get into, but I liked it.

It's about - well, a butler. A larger than life, kick-ass butler who surely can't be human, can he? He fought off gun-toting Italian gangsters with forks and table knives while hanging from the chandelier. . . . His young master is the head of the Phantomhive family and it takes place in an alternate Victorian England that seems to be mixing up the timeline a little bit.

The rest of the staff provides the comic relief but that was the only thing I found a bit distracting.

Definitely reading on in this series! ( )

Picked this up because the anime is super popular and I had to read the manga before watching the anime. I'm not very impressed by this volume. Hopefully, the next volumes will be good. ( )