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100 free Black Butler trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Black Butler starts with a bargain: a twelve-year-old earl sells his soul to a demon, names him after the family dog and puts him to work in a tailcoat. Yana Toboso's Victorian revenge story has been running in Monthly GFantasy since 2006, has sold more than 36 million volumes and has spawned five anime seasons, a film, seven stage musicals and a live-action movie. These 100 questions cover the manga and the adaptations: the contract mark in Ciel's eye, Mey-Rin, Baldroy and Finnian, Tanaka's tea cup, Snake's pets, Madam Red and Grell as Jack the Ripper, the Aurora Society and Ciel's twin, Alois and Claude, Book of Circus, Book of the Atlantic, the Public School and Emerald Witch arcs, the Nintendo DS game and the voice casts in Japanese and English. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo or print it for an anime night.
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Q 01Who writes and illustrates the Black Butler manga?
Yana Toboso
Yana Toboso wrapped up a one-volume vampire story, Rust Blaster, in early 2006, launched Black Butler that September and has stayed with it for two decades.
Q 02What is Black Butler's Japanese title?
Kuroshitsuji
Kuroshitsuji's hero has a catchphrase built on a pun: 'akumade shitsuji' means 'simply a butler' but sounds just like 'a demon and a butler', hence the English 'one hell of a butler'.
Q 03In which magazine did Black Butler begin serialization in 2006?
Monthly GFantasy
Monthly GFantasy first ran it in September 2006; just over two years later the story had a collected edition, a drama CD and a television anime.
Q 04Which noble title does the young Ciel Phantomhive hold?
Earl
Earl is the title Ciel inherited as a child, after the attack that killed his parents; at twelve he is already head of the Phantomhive family.
Q 05What nickname describes Ciel's role solving crimes for the Crown?
The Queen's Watchdog
The Queen's Watchdog deals with crimes the Crown wants kept quiet, by any means, which is why the Phantomhives are also called the 'Aristocrats of Evil'.
Q 06What does Sebastian receive in exchange for his service?
Ciel's soul
Ciel's soul is the price of the Faustian contract: Sebastian may consume it only once Ciel has taken revenge on those who destroyed his family.
Q 07In which era is Black Butler set?
Victorian
Victorian London of the late 1880s is the setting, and the Queen herself is a character, sending Ciel his cases by letter.
Q 08Which studio produced the first Black Butler anime in 2008?
A-1 Pictures
A-1 Pictures began by adapting the manga, then broke away partway through the first season and gave it an original ending.
Q 09Which band performed the first Black Butler anime's opening theme?
Sid
Sid released 'Monochrome no Kiss' as their first major-label single and saw it reach number four in Japan; the band returned six years later to open the third series.
Q 10Which 2014 anime series adapted the Noah's Ark arc?
Book of Circus
Book of Circus dropped the first two seasons' original storyline and returned to the manga, sending Ciel and Sebastian undercover among a troupe of performers.
Q 11Which Black Butler story reached cinemas as an animated film in 2017?
Book of the Atlantic
Book of the Atlantic strands Ciel and Sebastian on a doomed ocean crossing among walking corpses; the original anime cast returned to voice it.
Q 12Which studio produced the fourth season, Public School Arc, in 2024?
CloverWorks
CloverWorks revived the anime seven years after its last outing, a 2017 film, with a new director, Kenjirou Okada, and a new character designer.
Q 13What is the subtitle of the fifth anime season, aired in 2025?
Emerald Witch Arc
Emerald Witch Arc sends Ciel and Sebastian to Germany, where the Queen wants to know why people who enter a 'werewolves' forest' keep dying.
Q 21Which secret organization in Black Butler experiments with reanimated corpses?
The Aurora Society
The Aurora Society promises to conquer death, but its walking corpses are the work of Undertaker, a renegade Grim Reaper with old ties to the Phantomhives.
Q 22Whose body does Undertaker ultimately aim to revive?
Ciel's older twin brother
Ciel's older twin brother, the true heir, was sacrificed in the ritual that summoned Sebastian; the boy we follow took his name and title.
Q 23Which two anime-original characters star in Black Butler II?
Alois Trancy and Claude Faustus
Q 14Which publisher licensed the Black Butler manga in North America?
Yen Press
Yen Press ran the series in its Yen Plus magazine first; when the paperbacks followed in 2010, they became regulars on The New York Times manga best-seller list.
Q 15Which company publishes the Black Butler manga in Japan?
Square Enix
Square Enix is best known for video games such as Final Fantasy, yet its manga arm had over 36 million Black Butler copies in circulation by August 2025.
Q 16The attack that killed Ciel's parents fell on which day?
His tenth birthday
His tenth birthday, 14 December 1885, ended with his parents dead and the manor burned; Ciel himself was seized and sold to a cult.
Q 17Ciel named his demon butler after what?
The family's late dog
The family's late dog, a black Borzoi called Sebastian, died in the attack on the manor, so the demon butler answers to a pet's name.
Q 18On which part of Ciel's body is the Faustian contract symbol placed?
His right eye
His right eye carries the contract's pentagram, which is why he wears a black eye patch; Sebastian's matching mark is on the back of his left hand.
Q 19Which Phantomhive servant is a trained sniper posing as a maid?
Mey-Rin
Mey-Rin sees so well at a distance that she needs no scope, yet up close she is clumsy; she refuses to give up the round glasses Ciel gave her.
Q 20What is the Phantomhive estate's teenage gardener famous for?
Superhuman strength
Superhuman strength was forced on Finnian by experiments before he reached the manor, and he still wrecks the garden he loves by accident.
Alois Trancy and Claude Faustus mirror the leads as a rival young noble and his demon butler; the manga's author designed both, yet neither appears in the manga.
Q 24Who voices Undertaker in the Japanese anime?
Junichi Suwabe
Junichi Suwabe also broke the news of a second season, posting it on his blog the day a fan event announced it in June 2009.
Q 25Who played Sebastian in the 2014 live-action Black Butler film?
Hiro Mizushima
Hiro Mizushima returned to the screen after three years away for the film, which moves the story to the year 2020 and gives Sebastian a new master in place of Ciel.
Q 26What was the first stage musical adaptation, staged in 2009, called?
That Butler, Friendship
Yuya Matsushita played Sebastian at Ikebukuro's Sunshine Theater.
Q 27The fifth musical, Tango on the Campania, adapts which manga arc?
Luxury Liner
Luxury Liner is the arc in which the dead walk aboard the liner Campania and Ciel's fiancée is revealed as a master of the sword.
Q 28On which console was the 2009 game Phantom & Ghost released?
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS players got an original story rather than a retelling, and could switch between master and butler to see its scenes from both sides.
Q 29Which elite boarding school does Ciel infiltrate in the Public School arc?
Weston College
Weston College is where the Queen sends Ciel, posing as a new pupil, to find out why her cousin's son and other students no longer come home.
Q 30What stage name is Ciel given when he goes undercover as a travelling performer?
Smile
Smile is the name the troupe's leader, Joker, gives him, to the annoyance of a boy who rarely does; Sebastian, performing beside him, is billed as Black.