History Headscratchers / BlackButler

** Black Butler takes places in an AlternativeUniverse, maybe it wasn't illegal.

** Mathilda's scene seemed very consensual all-around. Beast's, on the other hand, was indisputably sexual coercion, a form of rape.

* If she hated it so much, why on Earth did Madam Red give abortions to those sex workers? It was illegal at the time so it's not like her career would've taken a hit. (If anything, those operations likely would've ruined her reputation and her career if word had gotten out about them.) Did Angelina have a desire to help her patients regardless of the problem, but her feelings twisted into resentment later on? Or is it a case of CriticalResearchFailure?

** Minus the technology in the Emerald Witch arc, all this seems largely to be the result of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness or CriticalResearchFailure, sometimes a mix of both.

** Not going to lie, that is weird and if he wanted to [[spoiler: Sebastian could ''really'' attempt to kill Demon!Ciel, especially since Ciel shouldn't have the experience to properly defend himself.]] That said, the terms of the last ordered included that [[spoiler: Sebastian would serve Ciel until he consumes Ciel's soul, and since he now has no soul to be eaten Sebastian is now stuck forever unless he wants say "screw it" to his aesthetics.]]

* This troper initially got to know the series via the manga, then heard of the anime and read that Ciel had an AdaptationDyeJob for the anime to a blue color, where as in the manga, he was sometimes depicted in color images with dark hair to the point of being black with blue highlights... was this troper the only one who thought, prior to seeing these color images, that Ciel had reddish-auburn hair (likely coming from his mother's side)? This troper still feels like blue-haired Ciel is foreign.

* This is just something that came to mind. At the end of the Book of Murder when everyone dug Sebastian out of his grave after they saw he was still alive, how ''in the hell'' was it that they didn't try to question just how he could be alive and fully funtioning after his injuries or even try to get him medical attention? Even if they were all overjoyed at the time... it still is kind of off.

** Been years since I watched season 1 but to be fair the speech is coming from Ciel, a little kid who doesn't mind dying after getting revenge, has a lot of traumatic baggage and believes you are supposed to deal with your problems without the help of others (probably because he knows his problems would usually get everyone he cares about killed) and Sebastian, who's an amoral demon. They don't have anything resembling a good moral compass and Ciel himself has quite some nihilistic views. Souma was acting like a spoiled brat who believed everyone should love him just because he is who he is. He complains that Agni too is vanishing when he himself doesn't even try to figure out what's wrong with Agni; he expects people to give him stuff like love and loyalty (the same way his money, his servants, his name were all given to him) without trying to understand them in return. He just takes it for granted. Ciel's point wasn't so much "don't let anyone help you" (though I wouldn't pass that notion behind him) such as "Stop needing people for everything and walk on your own feet".
* This is just something that came to this troper's mind. At the end of the Book of Murder when everyone dug Sebastian out of his grave after they saw he was still alive, how ''in the hell'' was it that they didn't try to question just how he could be alive and fully funtioning after his injuries or even try to get him medical attention? Even if they were all overjoyed at the time... it still is kind of off.

* I've been hearing this rumor time and time again and I am hoping someone here could lead me to some proof toward its validation. Is it true that Black Butler's creator intended the story to be a hardcore Yaoi first and just changed it around because it wouldn't be published if it was? Because I've also heard an opposing rumor that the author claimed that absolutely nothing about Black Butler is meant to be seen as a Yaoi and instead the relationship between Ciel and Sebastian should be seen as toxic at best. Neither rumor has proof backing it up, so does any one here know where to find out?
** I don't have any confirmation for either, but I'm pretty sure both rumors are correct. Their relationship is intended to be toxic at best, and in the original hardcore-yaoi version they were supposed to have a destructive, manipulative, toxic relationship where the sex makes the entire thing even more fucked up. So originally it was going to be a story about a manipulative sexual relationship, until Yana Tobos wrote out the sex and made it a destructive, manipulative, toxic relationship without sexual tension. Read the manga chapters where Sebastian manipulates and sleeps with Beast- you'll see what I mean.
** As it turns out, there was never any real confirmation found on this and this idea supposedly doesn't even exist in the Japanese fandom (you know, Black Butler's home fandom). So unless something legitimate actually pops up it's probably safe to view this as merely a rumor (albeit a pretty convincing one, given all the HoYay and Toboso's past works).

** You have to admit, for the first few chapters and even sometimes in the curry competition arc, Kuroshitsuji did seem like somewhat of a parody manga, usually parodying {{Shounen}} manga clichés. e.g. in the first chapter, when Sebastian fought against a martial artist calling out stupid-sounding moves; not to mention the fact that Sebastian is "perfect" and uses knives as weapons. And having a flamboyant gay/maybe transsexual death god. All of those (at least at the beginning) seemed a bit overdone and funny. As the series went on and it actually got a serious plot, you'll notice there aren't as many "mistakes" such as the mobile phone or television.

*** It's a translation error. Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Butler]] says that Kuroshitsuji ended '''March 26, 2009''' and that Kuro II started '''July 1, 2010'''. Also Yana Toboso herself said: "1 year and 3 months have passed since the first TV anime finished" on her [[http://bleachasylum.com/threads/16001-Yana-Toboso-s-2010-7-3-quot-must-read-quot-entry-in-case-someone-missed-it blog]] (look under "Everything for the sake of that person").

** Probably just the standard YouGottaHaveBlueHair rule in play, especially with other characters having non-natural hair colors with little to no fuss over them (Angelina and Grell having red hair, Mei-Rin having magenta-ish hair in the anime and red in the manga, Ciel having blue-grey hair, etc.).

* Other than "because plot", if Claude wanted Ciel's soul so badly why didn't he just try to take it from Sebastian, like he already had done prior to the beginning of the season? Demons and humans don't need to have a contract for the former to be able to eat the latter's soul.

** More like par for the course for the series considering we already have a pair of cousins that are engaged.

** Not going to lie, that is weird and if he really wanted to [[spoiler: Sebastian could ''really'' attempt to kill Demon!Ciel if he wished, especially since Ciel shouldn't have the experience to properly defend himself.]] That said, the terms of the last ordered included that [[spoiler: Sebastian would serve Ciel until he consumes Ciel's soul, and since he now has no soul to be eaten Sebastian is now stuck forever unless he wants say "screw it" to his aesthetics.]]

** Not going to lie, that is weird and if he really wanted to [[spoiler: Sebastian could attempt to kill Demon!Ciel if he wished, especially since Ciel shouldn't have the experience to properly defend himself.]] That said, the terms of the last ordered included that [[spoiler: Sebastian would serve Ciel until he consumes Ciel's soul, and since he now has no soul to be eaten Sebastian is now stuck forever.]]