#akuma6

Parallels between manga and anime

I have some older posts about parallels between the manga canon and the first two seasons of the anime, as well as what appear to be easter eggs found in the anime.

Basically, it's about how Yana-san must have given them some vague ideas about upcoming parts of the manga, and the anime team was allowed to interpret them as they pleased. What we ended up with are like professionally written (but still very flawed) fanfic scenarios.

Please see my tag for #anime vs manga.

Oh, but keep in mind that in the Akuma6 side chapter, ch107.5, Snake doesn't turn on our earl and Sebastian... but his snakes turn against everyone, including Snake. I recall making the parallel with Mother3 that the individual snakes in the manga are like the Rope Snakes in the game -- very useful! But all the snakes combining (working) together and acting as an adversary in ch107.5 is like the game's Oh-So-Snake, which provides an early boss fight.

It’s possible that whatever links I gave are just no longer working urls. By the time I came up with this post, I didn’t even include links to the chapters, because the links always seem to break after a while.

Every time I want to read an extra chapter, I have to hunt it down. I can usually find them through Google searches, though that sometimes means going to random profiles on Facebook, Instagram, etc. Sometimes an old manga hosting site has one or two, but those are full of redirections that might contain viruses or other malware. And then you might get lucky finding one or two chapters posted to Tumblr. In any case, they will all be fan translations, except possibly for ch107.5.

However, ch107.5, the “Akuma6” chapter, is serialized in the manga volumes, which are available as GFantasy (if you can hunt down the right issue), ereader, and paperback editions. And that would be a licensed translation.

See the tags below to find more on these extra chapters. Some tags might not populate right now, but eventually they should.

Edit: I’ve decided to add overviews of the chapters here, in case you forgot which chapter is about what. This is what I recall about them. 😏

Anthology 2, “With Father” (no real timeline): Vincent, Diedrich, and Tanaka are in a questionable reality. Vincent is reading a copy of Anthology 2, apparently brought to him by Undertaker. He tells Diedrich about an old photo of young “Ciel” in a dress. No twin reveal yet, so wording is vague. This chapter is in Anthology 2. But he’s reading Anthology 2. But this chapter is in— 🤯

Ch96.5 That Butler, Friendly (circus arc): Our earl has a loose baby tooth while he’s posing as “Finny” at the circus. Sebastian is determined to remove it.

Ch99.5 That Butler, Nursing (end of circus arc): Sebastian makes a meal for our earl while he’s recovering from an asthma attack, after returning home from the circus. Flashback to when Vincent gets Diedrich to make a meal for Rachel (and our earl has some, too, but the twin reveal hasn’t happened yet, so the visuals and wording are vague on purpose). [[This is touched on later, in the serial chapters, when we get to see real Ciel bring some of that meal to our earl, apparently after our earl had decided to return to their bedroom. But the treatment is different. It might not be the exact same occasion, but the recipes are the same.]]

Ch101.5 That Butler, Requested (after murders arc): Sebastian basically visits Arthur in his dreams, prompting him to write more stories about Sherlock Holmes. We see Arthur dreaming about classic children’s stories, mostly written by Hans Christian Andersen, but all the characters are replaced by Kuro characters. Some of them Arthur has never even met. He wakes up, terrified, and resumes writing about Sherlock.

Ch107.5 The Devil Six, Uninhibited (no real timeline): The Kuro characters have been ranked by the fans, so it’s the only extra chapter that appears in GFantasy and the manga volumes (so far). This is the “Akuma6” chapter where they wear rank rosettes, and the Viscount of Druitt starts a fight over Vincent’s portrait’s #5 rosette. Druitt becomes the protagonist of the series for a moment, Finny becomes extra swoll, Grelle never grabs it but imagines the effect it would have, and Snake’s snakes turn into a basilisk-looking monster that Sebastian has to destroy. Druitt’s party is ruined, so they all go to Phantomhive Manor for a huge buffet. Undertaker tries to revive Vincent with his own higher-ranking #3 rosette, but it only lets Vincent break the fourth wall long enough to tell us about this incident... and how love is beautiful but can also lead to destruction and tragedy.

It’s a bit vague, really. I’ve talked about it before, and I sadly don’t have any new information.

He (and his snakes) can be looked at as both the Oh-So-Snake (as an enemy) and as Rope Snakes (as useful tools).

The Oh-So-Snake is alluded to in ch107.5 when Snake’s snakes rebel to claim the high-ranked rosette for themselves (as a group). They turn into a giant serpent (or even a basilisk), and Sebastian has to gain even more “rosette power” to defeat it. The Rope Snake parallel occurs any time they use any of his snakes to help them… like going through vents, pipes, cracks in the wall, etc. Also when they attack Bizarre Dolls or give Snake information to pass along to the earl and Sebastian.

If Snake ever finds out the first tier circus troupe members have been killed, we could see him as an adversary again. I expect he will find out at some point…. Real Ciel might even be the one to tell him.

That’s about all I have for him, unless new developments occur.

I’ve also considered that his dismissive behavior towards her could hide feelings of awe/admiration and attraction.

When discussing the “genius” of the Midford family, he’s taken aback by the fact it’s Lizzie, not Edward, and it seems he’s been keeping an eye on her since then.

In Frenzy (ch66), I thought it was really odd that Grey and Phipps just show up to compete in games, particularly to end up competing to find Lizzie’s decorated egg….

Then there is that extra chapter (107.5) where Grey says he’s been waiting for the chance to test her abilities with the sword. This is outside the plot of the series, but it could foreshadow the two of them facing off in the main canon….

Made last ditch effort to use wig for Akuma6 look. I’m calling it a... succe— wig. 😆

Given more time and a wig that hasn’t been through hell, I could do way better on the up-braid and the ponytail, but (shrugs).

Oh, and it’s a rare 6-chapter volume, thanks to the “Akuma 6” chapter, “The Devil Six, Uninhibited”….