Rumors about it being a two-cour season were fake.
Black Butler: Public School Arc (Kuroshitsuji: Kishuku Gakkou-hen) Episode 1 has finally aired and you can already experience the new take on the series by CloverWorks.
11-Episode Season
There were a lot of questions about the adaptation, and many of them were answered by the premiere of the season, including the episode-count one. Public School Arc is listed for 11 episodes, so it will finish airing mid-June 2024, if everything goes smoothly and there are no breaks.
The 11-episode information came from Japanese Blu-ray and DVD releases, so it’s official: the season will only have one cour, which makes much more sense than the previously circulating rumors about it being two-cour.
Just the Public School
Public School is a rather short Black Butler manga arc, it’s 19 chapters long, so fans were really confused when the news about 20-something episodes started appearing online.
We can’t lie, there was a slight hope for the new season to adapt more manga arcs, but there’s always a chance to get them later, so it’s not an issue.
The new season has always been advertised as the Public School Arc only, so a lot of fans didn’t buy the two-cour news in the first place.
However, those who were hoping for a longer season are somewhat upset. They’ve been waiting so long for another part of Black Butler to be animated that it just feels unfair the season is rather short.
Still, it’s nice to know that there won’t be fillers and unnecessary parts in the Public School Arc. If the season is 11 episodes, it means the story will stay faithful to the original source, and the pacing will be spot-on, which is good news indeed.
Possible Sequels
Fans have high hopes that the new Black Butler season will be successful, and the anime won’t stop there. The Emerald Witch Arc comes after the Public School Arc, and manga readers want that to be animated next.
Black Butler used to be a huge thing in the anime community, and there’s still hope that the new season will bring back even a sliver of its former greatness. There are so many interesting things that have happened in the manga in the past 10 years, and seeing them in an anime feels like a dream.
We wouldn’t expect any official announcements about possible sequels until the Public School Arc finishes airing. But June might surprise us with something exciting. After all, Episode 1 did really great, so there’s a good chance that Black Butler the anime will stay with us for years to come.
The season is going to be shorter than we thought.
Rumors about it being a two-cour season were fake.
Black Butler: Public School Arc (Kuroshitsuji: Kishuku Gakkou-hen) Episode 1 has finally aired and you can already experience the new take on the series by CloverWorks.
11-Episode Season
There were a lot of questions about the adaptation, and many of them were answered by the premiere of the season, including the episode-count one. Public School Arc is listed for 11 episodes, so it will finish airing mid-June 2024, if everything goes smoothly and there are no breaks.
The 11-episode information came from Japanese Blu-ray and DVD releases, so it’s official: the season will only have one cour, which makes much more sense than the previously circulating rumors about it being two-cour.
Just the Public School
Public School is a rather short Black Butler manga arc, it’s 19 chapters long, so fans were really confused when the news about 20-something episodes started appearing online.
We can’t lie, there was a slight hope for the new season to adapt more manga arcs, but there’s always a chance to get them later, so it’s not an issue.
The new season has always been advertised as the Public School Arc only, so a lot of fans didn’t buy the two-cour news in the first place.
However, those who were hoping for a longer season are somewhat upset. They’ve been waiting so long for another part of Black Butler to be animated that it just feels unfair the season is rather short.
Still, it’s nice to know that there won’t be fillers and unnecessary parts in the Public School Arc. If the season is 11 episodes, it means the story will stay faithful to the original source, and the pacing will be spot-on, which is good news indeed.
Possible Sequels
Fans have high hopes that the new Black Butler season will be successful, and the anime won’t stop there. The Emerald Witch Arc comes after the Public School Arc, and manga readers want that to be animated next.
Black Butler used to be a huge thing in the anime community, and there’s still hope that the new season will bring back even a sliver of its former greatness. There are so many interesting things that have happened in the manga in the past 10 years, and seeing them in an anime feels like a dream.
We wouldn’t expect any official announcements about possible sequels until the Public School Arc finishes airing. But June might surprise us with something exciting. After all, Episode 1 did really great, so there’s a good chance that Black Butler the anime will stay with us for years to come.
