There's a reason we learned about Finny's past in this season. A creation of deranged scientists, Finny's life in the underground laboratory shares some imagery with both Sieglinde's magic workshop ...

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Being presented to Queen Victoria, whether as part of an official social debut or otherwise, was governed by a strict and very specific set of rules, and whatever other historical issues Black Butler ...

Witches and werewolves lurk in the forests of Germany, or at least people thought they did in days gone by. We see vestiges of the old folklore in the versions written down by The Brothers Grimm; even ...

In fiction, history is malleable. I'm saying that as much to remind myself as anything; this season of Black Butler has been playing fast and loose with the difference between 1889 and 1914. Or maybe ...

Black Butler's relationship with history is a mixed bag, at least in part because when Yana Toboso started it, she didn't know anything about the Victorian era (per her notes in manga volume one). But ...

Before we begin, I must admit something: I just spent over an hour on YouTube watching Renaissance dances, trying to figure out what the second dance in the ending theme is. One is a waltz, which fits ...

Once upon a time, a little girl was imprisoned in a castle in a dark forest by her mother, who was a wicked witch. The witch told a wolf to guard her daughter, and the wolf took that to mean that he ...

It only just occurred to me this week that Wolfram isn't wearing 15th-century clothing. That could be a little bit of nothing; what he's wearing is infinitely easier to draw than what he might have ...