Black Butler season 5: release date of new episodes

There is a high probability that the release date for season 5 of Black Butler will be announced soon, because the franchise has triumphantly returned to the small screen and its popularity is growing. The title started back in the XNUMXs and quickly gained the love of viewers, becoming one of the most recognizable anime. The adventures of young Ciel, seeking to find the killers of his relatives, and his mysterious and incredibly charismatic butler Sebastian even now attract the attention of viewers, and the plot of the manga is gaining momentum, offering readers more and more mysteries and unexpected discoveries.

In this article, fans will find all the latest information about Black Butler season 5, including suggestions for the arcs that will cover the new series, and interesting facts about the anime and its source material.

When will Black Butler season 5 be released?

Will there be a season 5 of Black Butler has already been officially announced. CloverWorks is responsible for production and the release is scheduled for 5 April 2025 of the year.

Season 5 episodes release schedule

The table below shows the current schedule of new anime episodes. The show has already started, the episodes that have been released so far are highlighted in green:

Please note! The schedule shows the release dates of new episodes in Japan. Translation and dubbing take on average one to three days, so the release in Russian will take place a little later.

Briefly about the events of previous seasons of the anime

Ciel Phantomhive is Queen Victoria's twelve-year-old Watchdog, who carries out secret errands for Her Majesty along with his mysterious butler Sebastian Michaelis. In reality, Sebastian is a demon who answered the boy's call when he was kidnapped by a cult. As part of the agreement between him and the protagonist, Michaelis will absorb the soul of his master as payment for services rendered.

The fourth season of the anime adapted the Boarding School arc, in which Ciel receives a dangerous assignment from the queen. As part of the case, the young man must infiltrate Weston College under the guise of a student in order to investigate the disappearance of several students. Among the missing is Derrick Arden, a relative of Her Majesty, so the two main characters immediately begin the task.

Together with the faithful Sebastian, who has taken on the role of teacher and dormitory overseer, Phantomhive infiltrates the educational institution and immerses himself in local life. There are four dormitories in the college, and each of them has its own prefect. Ciel gets to know each of them and, due to the strange “inaccessibility” of the director of the academy, decides to use their favor to gain an audience with him.

Thanks to victory at the annual cricket tournament, where the guy repeats the feat of his father, he finally manages to meet with the head of the educational institution. During the confrontation, Phantomhive reveals the true identities of himself and Sebastian. In turn, the director turns out to be the Undertaker in disguise, and the missing Derrick appears as a reanimated corpse.

The four prefects reveal the causes of Arden's death. It turns out that he was involved in serious and cruel persecution, which the elders learned about from an encrypted letter that was sent to them anonymously. As a result, Derrick was killed by Hermann, which they tried to hush up.

What will happen in the fifth season of Black Butler

The sequel to Black Butler, following the events of the manga, will cover the eighth arc of The Green Witch: Ciel and his faithful assistant, at the request of Her Majesty Victoria, will have to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in southern . After visiting the Werewolf Forest, completely healthy people contract a mysterious illness and subsequently die, and locals claim that the cause of their death was some kind of witch’s curse. Young Phantomhive and his servants immediately move to the scene.

Interesting Facts

We invite Kuroshitsuji fans to familiarize themselves with a selection of interesting facts about the franchise presented below:

• The anime is based on the manga of the same name by Yana Toboso, the circulation of which has already exceeded 35 million copies.
• The story received a two-CD drama adaptation from Frontier works и aniplex. Also, five musicals with live actors were staged in Japanese theaters over the years.
• Various volumes of the original source are consistently included in the lists of best-selling manga in Japan.
• Sebastian Michaelis took ninth place in the annual survey Recochoku on the character whom the audience would like to see as their fiancé.
• Ciel Phantomhive voiced her voice actor Maaya Sakamoto, known for her roles as Echidna from Re:Zero. Life from scratch in an alternate world and Ryogi Shiki from the feature film series Border of the Void.
• Sebastian was played by an experienced voice actor Daisuke Ono, who has over two hundred roles behind him. Characters he has voiced include Jotaro Kujo from the franchise Kuroko Basketball.

Teasers and trailers

Along with the announcement, the first teaser was released:

March trailer:

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