Danielle Leigh's Reading Diary -- Black Butler vol 1

Although Yana Toboso doesn't strive for realism -- far from it actually -- her portrait of a 19th century British butler and his young charge is energetic and intriguing.


Black Butler is almost a fun house mirror image of Kaori Yuki's gothic, melodramatic Godchild.  Toboso plays with the Victorian age much more freely than Yuki (although [...] http://tinyurl.com/yd5z6f7