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Ok, I just watched it. And I'm basically speechless. Like... it was almost perfect. I loved it, loved it, LOVED IT. Of course, as a manga reader, I knew what was going to happen, but I wasn't sure about the way they were going to animate it. And what happened on my screen was absolutely fucking amazing!

Now, I was saying it was almost perfect. And I'm gonna explain myself here. Like, yes, the scene was animated frame by frame with very little changes from the manga. And this little change is actually very interesting to talk about. So let's talk. So, in the manga there are several panels which I really like about this scene. But this one's one of my favorites.

This is sebaciel through and through. The way Ciel is positioned here. The way Sebastian's tentacles are wrapped pretty much around his ass. The way another tentacle is crawling back from under his shirt. And I mean, at this point Ciel's pose it very relaxed, he's not tense, he's neither panicking, nor struggling. He's just waiting for Sebastian to slowly recede, and Sebastian is taking his time to grope at Ciel just a little longer. Not here's how they transferred the frame into the anime:

Care to see the differences? Like, sure, Ciel's pose is almost the same, it's quite relaxed, but his spine isn't curved like in the manga frame. Also, the picture is dark and low contrast, so that Senastian's tentacles look a lot more obscure and less pronounced. There is NO specific groping of Ciel's ass, which is a fucking shame, cuz you guys just imagine WHAT would the manga frame look like if it was animated? Cuz they didn't animate this frame. They reimagined it. Which poses the question, why? Well, one may think, for artistic reasons, but I see another reason here, which is this:

The people behind the animation must have thought the manga source was too much. So this is how they chose to tone down the obvious sexual undertone of this frame. I mean, those tentacles are waaaaaay too grabby in the manga. right?

Which is a shame, cuz I was looking specifically for this frame, because this is the one that screams SEX. And they toned it down.

So this is my only problem with this episode. But alright... I can understand why they did it. I wish they didn't have to do it, but alas... However, they didn't backtrack from the obvious romance of their interaction. And we had the bedroom eyes, and they were perfect. They looked one another in the eyes, and smiled, and giggled, and FLIRTED! And that scene was so perfect that I'm willing to forgive them the previous one. And then we had jealous Sebastian not letting Finny touch Ciel, and everything was so-so-so good.

So I guess, here's my main point about this episode:

Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc - Opening

the purest form of love ♡

Im 99% sure my old account @crybabierin got deleted unfortunately so I would appreciate if I could find my old mutuals and followers!! This is the last picture of my tumblr it looked something like this!

and I draw like this!!

heres a thank you from me and sebastian for enjoying my art and interacting !! i'm so excited that tumblr is actually so welcoming and that im getting engagement at all, these just haaappppeennn to be exactly discord banner size *nudge nudge* please use it if you want bc we dont get enough kuroshitsuji content online

G0re Dynamics ㅤ♡ྀི ₊

TW: darkship tropes, comship and nsfw

ྀི killing their partner so they can stay together forever and ever <3

ྀི opening their face open to give them the deepest kiss ever !

ྀི a hunter doesn't necessarily only hunts animals...

ྀི two sh addicteds giving in to their urges together as they rub their wrists together ♡

ྀིthe human brain can be fascinating to some scientists but this one was too impatient to wait until their test subject had died by natural means.

Their relationship cannot be fully conveyed through descriptions like romantic or platonic. They are bound together by something even more intimate than romance or sex—Ciel is promised to Sebastian with something indissoluble; beyond any romantic or sexual relationship, which can be broken, ended or divorced. The contract demands that Ciel will eventually grant Sebastian his soul to devour—thus becoming one existence together for eternity. Their oath to each other is not written in official papers; it’s engraved in their body and soul. It is irrevocable. Given the nature of their doomed end—where it is certain that only one of them will remain in the end—their covenant becomes such that there will be no escape for either of them. With the more time they spent together and the more memories they gently collected of the other party; they're both eroding and molding each other to fit the shape of each other's palms—leaving lasting, permanent damage on each other. Both of them will be changed—and have been changing—irreversibly since their very first meeting, to the point where their final parting will never be a true parting as they will leave their own selves within each other.