Black Butler, Vol. 27

黒執事 [Kuroshitsuji] #27

by Yana Toboso

Three years prior, on his tenth birthday, Earl Ciel Phantomhive lost everything...but he was not alone. From the attack on the Phantomhive manor to the moment the contract with a certain devil was made, Ciel starkly recounts all that has come to pass...leaving all who bear witness breathless!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Horror, Supernatural, Comics, Comics Manga

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 27, 2018

About the author

Yana Toboso (枢 やな Toboso Yana) is a female Japanese manga artist born in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan and currently resides in Yokohama. She is best known for Black Butler (黒執事 Kuroshitsuji), a popular shonen manga series.

She has also written yaoi under the pen name Yanao Rock (簗緒ろく).

Appearance
Yana Toboso draws herself as a devil with a black body and horns, a white head, and a pointed tail. She has never uploaded a picture of herself, so her actual appearance is unknown.

Reviews

[Karissa]

This is the 27th volume in the Black Butler series and was the darkest and most disturbing volume of the series. It was incredibly well done and I really enjoyed it.

Volume 26 left the readers on a huge cliffhanger, this volume explains the backstory behind that. We finally learn the true story behind the death of Ciel’s family and how Ciel ended up bound to Sebastian.

This series continues to be amazingly well done, although I will warn this is a very dark book in the series. The illustration is amazingly beautiful and I absolutely love the characters. Learning all the backstory behind Ciel and Sebastian was incredible.

Overall I continue to really love this series and this book was an excellent addition to it. I am dying to know what happens next!!!

[Andragel]

That's probably the volume everyone has expecting to read ever since they one. Even so, it broke my heart several times 😭😭😭

[tig :3]

lord take me back to the sillies of volume one, this was absolutely gut wrenching i feel DRAINED o<—<

[Noura Khalid (theperksofbeingnoura)]

That was wild! 😱

[Ash(eaux)]

(2nd read) Absolute cinema. Scrumptious content even

[Mahdiye HajiHosseini]

اپدیت ۹ شهریور ۴۰۰-
و فاینالی، داستان واقعی پیمانی که شیل با شیطان بسته و یک ماه جهنم قبلش.
اوج دارک بودن داستان توی این جلده. و اوج زیبایی آرت هم.
تمام این فاکینگ بیست و هفت جلد رو منتظر این لحظه بودم. جایی که میبینی واقعا ارزشش رو داشت این همه وقت بذاری روش.
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بازی قدرت بین شیل و سباستین حالا معنی پیدا میکنه و صریح ترین شکلشو تو مذاکره اولیه‌اش نشون میده.
واقعا ناراحتم که اینقدر روی این بچه بیچاره فشار روانی گذاشتن. به‌خصوص بابای عوضیش⁦ರ_ರ⁩
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[Sarah]

Holy hell. So that happened. I’m honestly a bit surprised Yen Press didn’t bump up the audience rating for this volume. It’s a lot going on and most of it not very nice. Actually, 97% of it is not very nice for certain characters.

[Anastasia]

This is a lot. So freaking painful to read... Poor characters.

[Vinnie]

5/5⭐
DAMN

[Bailey Salinas]

CIEL MY POOR BABY

[Sharon]

Content (and I cannot stress this strongly enough) Warning: child death, death of a parent, death, murder, violence, blood, sexual assault, rape, child abuse, physical abuse, torture, animal death

So there we finally have it. The full story of the contract.
This volume is fucking brutal, at least as bad as Hawkeye's war trauma volume of Fullmetal Alchemist. As graphic and upsetting as it is, the art is still completely beautiful and breathtaking. I love the way the contract scenes were drawn, there was such an elegance about it.

Still not mad at this new plot revelation. Toboso did a very, very good job at fitting it into the story. (Though I'm doubtful she had the idea in mind right at the start.)

[✧desiree✧]

5☆ Review:

“We were equally powerless. All we could do was cry. For we were merely children—“

The darkest and most upsetting volume thus far. I’m rereading and it still hurts just as much.

“Dear God—why are you smiling?”

[Nining Sriningsih]

asal muasal Sebastian, ngeriiii adegan" nya..
(+_+)

[frankie⭐️]

plot twist of the century

[Ozan]

Naisu desu... :P

And we finally learned the true origin of Sebastian and his master (false) Ciel's first meeting and making a covenant in vol.27. The (false) Ciel sacrificed the (real) Ciel, his brother to the devil so how the (real) ciel returned was big mystry, especialy since we learned that even the devil sebastion was not able to bring the (real) Ciel back to life. This brings the question of Is the returned (real) Ciel, really (REAL) Ciel... lol I liked the volume but there was nothing really imperesed me in this volume. I wrote short a review 'cause i haven't wrote a review to The Black Butler for many volumes, 'cause nothing really pushed me to write about the manga but i need to keep a track... HA HA!

[Madhumita]

We've seen bits and pieces of what happened to Ciel after his parents were killed, and now we get the whole story. This was definitely the darkest volume so far. Some of the scenes were actually so horrifying.

What I liked from the flashback was that it shows the beauty of Ciel's and Sebastian's relationship. As a demon, Sebastian always tries to get the upper hand through deceit and pretty lies. Even though Ciel is a young boy, he is smart enough to see through it and is set on his revenge. They're perfectly matched.

[omar ☆]

I've read up to volume;
#36; with an average rating of: ★★★★☆ 3.9/5


the boyband arc was kinda fun but cringe, glad it was just the start of an epic plot.
I AM LOVING THE RESURRECTED CIEL PLOT!
It was the intrigue, the drama, the revenge storyline, different factions and the gang splitting up!
Volume 30 was a bit awkward cause it splits the current arc but we are back at the end

[C.T. Yen]

Despite already knowing what had happened to Ciel in the past, it was still hard to read about it and learning that he had lost his brother was just as painful. I’m gonna cry. We still don’t know who is behind this tragedy... I hope they find out soon with the return of the real Ciel...
I’m just gonna go cry in the corner.

[Victoria]

Been reading chapters as they came out, ITS SO GOOD!!

[Giulia B]

Nope. Nopenopenope.
How is this even rated for teens?
This is the darkest volume of them all - and we had the Noah's Circus arc, just to say.

[elise rose]

I’m just slowly dying, it’s totally cool

[KSena]

Well. One thing is for sure. The writer, Toboso, does NOT shy away from dark and dead dove material. Geezes!

(Hiding this behind spoilers because, well… Spoilers. And because of some VERY triggering subjects! Continue with care! Which goes for this manga series as well….)

So. Yeah. Now we know the details. Thank you ever so!

It ended on a bit of a cliffhanger the last volume since the twins just sat there waiting for their 10th birthday party to start. Instead… They find the entire mansion being brutally attacked!

And everyone is killed! (At least I know sweet old Tanaka survives since he shows up throughout the story.)

But that’s not the worst part of it… Oh no, no, no…

The twins are taken. And sold. Yes. Sold. As one of the sellers say ‘It takes all sorts…’ Yeah, OK. We’re talking Victorian human trafficking. OF KIDS! Geezes…

And it just gets worse. WAY worse!

The first time Toboso showed glimpses of how Ciel and Sebastian met in an earlier volume, we just saw glimpses. And I was guessing the poor boy got sexually abused. Well. Now I know. He was. Both he and his brother. We’re not seeing any details and it is not spelt out, but it is so HEAVILY HINTEED AT, Toboso might just have spelt it out. My gawd. As well as being tortured, starved and I don’t even know what.

Do I have to remind you, the twins just turned 10 years old?

Toboso, you got some big freaking balls. And you pulled it off. You made it work. I was transfixed. I HAD to know what would happen next!

And then one of them gets sacrificed to call upon Sebastian from hell.

The amount of BLOOD in this volume is through the freaking roof, my gawd.

Despite the extreme violence in this, there’s still interesting stuff going on, things that explain stuff (even the more lighthearted ones) we’ve read in earlier volumes.

I guess Toboso had to remind us that Sebastian IS a devil/demon and Ciel IS not only traumatized through all hells, he is cursed to.

I got the message, Toboso. Loud and clear.

I have limited myself to reading one volume a day. I can not WAIT to see what will happen next!!!

[Doc]

The truth exposed at last!

This entire volume is set in the past even though it makes recent revelations about Ciel still shrouded in mystery (which I sadly can't talk about without spoiling the book.) The things Ciel and his brother went through should never be experienced by any child and I was thrilled to see justice met out even though this is just the beginning of Sebastian's story with the young Phantomhive master. Never more appropriate to the Older Teen rating this book shows some creative representations as heathens prepare the boys in horrendous ways for their role as keys to the dark lord.

My fave moment is not to much of a spoiler in that even while caught and trapped by absolute villains Ciel has the frame of mind to swallow the ring of Phantomhive that is to be worn only by the proper Earl so the bad guys don't get it.

[Audrey]

TW meurtre, sang, violence
(contrairement à ses apparences c'est vraiment pas un manga tout mignon, dire que je l'ai commencé quand j'étais ado lol)

On en apprend + sur la fameuse nuit du pacte, je me demande ce qu'il s'est passé depuis pr l'autre personne ????

[Mary]

I'm not sure I know what's happening, but I'm sure I want to know. This story has taken such an interesting turn.

[Phantomº]

Fascinating, learning all about the contract and the explanations behind the "major" events that lead our young Earl to these decisions.
Hmm, one volume left; how chapters "fly"...

[Anu-vinkkari]

Hyvä sarja edelleen, mutta olipa kerrassaan karmiva osa. Vaikeimpien asioiden osalta varsin viitteellinen kuvitus toivottavasti suojelee nuorta lukijaa pahimmalta.

[abbyfei]

My favorite arc for sure, and one of the hardest to read :( i love it so much tho, I'm in love with Yana's way of making you feel the pain of the characters.

[DonutKnow]

I was not expecting the deep darkness of the Ciel’s past and the sexual violence that was a part of that 😡😭

[Karlin]

I need to go back to volume one to fully appreciate and understand everything I just learned from this volume. Amazing.