Black Butler

Director(s)Kenjiro Okada
Production year2024
Genre(s)Animation, Fantasy
Approx. running minutes24m
CastCiel Phantomhive, Sebastian Michaelis, Brina Palencia

Black Butler

moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Phantomhive begins a new term at Western College, London.

injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening credit sequence; a person's head is briefly bloodied following a fall.
additional issues
Bad language includes 'git' and 'hell'. There are also scenes of slapstick violence.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese historical fantasy anime series; in this episode, Ciel’s growing reputation is rewarded with an invitation to a private prefect meeting, but another student seems determined to sabotage his efforts.

injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur during the credits sequences at the start and end of the episode.
additional issues
Bad language includes ‘bloody’ and ‘damn’.
moderate bloody images, threat, violence
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese historical fantasy mystery anime series; in this episode, Ciel recruits outside help to keep an eye on Maurice Cole.

violence
A bully kicks a restrained victim in the abdomen.
threat and horror
School bullies restrain a younger boy, threaten him with a pair of scissors, and begin to forcibly remove his clothes with the intention of taking a humiliating photo. However, the victim quickly regains the upper hand.
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur during credits sequences at the start and end of the episode.
additional issues
Bad language includes ‘sodding’ and ‘damn’.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Ciel finds the prefects unwilling to talk about Derrick Arden.

injury detail
Fantastical head explosions are accompanied by small stylised blood spurts, a hand bursts from a mass of blood in fantastical fashion, and a person sustains bloody injury to his face following a fall.
additional issues
There is infrequent mild bad language (‘strumpet’), threat and sex references.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, the students evacuate Violet Wolf's dorm after it catches on fire.

injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening and closing credit sequences; a boy spurts blood after being hit in the face by a ball.
additional issues
There are moments of mild threat in which school students flee from a burning building. A girl offers her younger sister for marriage in a comic context. Very mild bad language includes 'hell' and 'God'.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ciel is chosen to play cricket, but the boys of Sapphire Owl House continue to be the perennial wooden spooners.

injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening and closing credit sequences.
additional issues
There is mild rude humour in which characters double over with stomach cramps after eating food that has been tampered with. After he calls him 'mole face', a student retaliates by calling his classmate a 'typical German'.
moderate bloody images, sex references
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ciel and the rest of Sapphire Owl House have won their way into the deciding match.

sex
There is a brief sexualised focus on the physical attributes of female characters.
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening and closing credit sequences; a person's head is briefly bloodied after being accidentally hit with a cricket bat.
additional issues
Moments of mild threat and violence occur. People are doubled over in pain due to food poisoning. Language is very mild ('damn').
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, at the boat parade that caps off the cricket tournament, Ciel vows once again to learn the truth and present it to Queen Victoria.

injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur during credits sequences at the start and end of the episode.
additional issues
There is mild threat, such as pupils fleeing a fire at their school, as well as references to some of the children subsequently disappearing.
strong horror, bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ciel explains that Sebastian is his butler and that they came to Weston College specifically to look for the missing students.

threat and horror
A carnivorous fantastical being savagely bites the arm of a school student, resulting in bloody detail.
injury detail
There are strong bloody images and blood spurts in the aftermath of violence, as well as bloody corpses.
additional issues
A group of older students are discovered bullying younger pupils, humiliating them and beating them. References are made to underage drinking.
strong violence, bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is an animated series; in this episode, Ciel confronts Undertaker.

violence
A person is bitten in a violent attack, and another is struck impressionistically with a bat, resulting in large spurts of blood.
injury detail
In the aftermath of violence, there are bloodied dead bodies.
additional issues
People are menaced by reanimated corpses.
brief moderate injury detail
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

BLACK BUTLER is an animated series; in this episode, Ciel and Sebastian run errands.

injury detail
There is brief imagery of a dead body sporting blood.
additional issues
In a comic scene, a person holds up a magazine featuring a clothed woman posing, titled 'sexy girl'. There is use of mild bad language ('bloody') as well as milder terms including 'God'. A frightening monster briefly appears.
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Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Crunchyroll Limited
Classified date28/08/2025
LanguageEnglish
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening credit sequence; a person's head is briefly bloodied following a fall.
additional issues
Bad language includes 'git' and 'hell'. There are also scenes of slapstick violence.
brief moderate injury detail
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There is brief imagery of a dead body sporting blood.
additional issues
In a comic scene, a person holds up a magazine featuring a clothed woman posing, titled 'sexy girl'. There is use of mild bad language ('bloody') as well as milder terms including 'God'. A frightening monster briefly appears.
strong violence, bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A person is bitten in a violent attack, and another is struck impressionistically with a bat, resulting in large spurts of blood.
injury detail
In the aftermath of violence, there are bloodied dead bodies.
additional issues
People are menaced by reanimated corpses.
strong horror, bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A carnivorous fantastical being savagely bites the arm of a school student, resulting in bloody detail.
injury detail
There are strong bloody images and blood spurts in the aftermath of violence, as well as bloody corpses.
additional issues
A group of older students are discovered bullying younger pupils, humiliating them and beating them. References are made to underage drinking.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur during credits sequences at the start and end of the episode.
additional issues
There is mild threat, such as pupils fleeing a fire at their school, as well as references to some of the children subsequently disappearing.
moderate bloody images, sex references
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
sex
There is a brief sexualised focus on the physical attributes of female characters.
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening and closing credit sequences; a person's head is briefly bloodied after being accidentally hit with a cricket bat.
additional issues
Moments of mild threat and violence occur. People are doubled over in pain due to food poisoning. Language is very mild ('damn').
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening and closing credit sequences.
additional issues
There is mild rude humour in which characters double over with stomach cramps after eating food that has been tampered with. After he calls him 'mole face', a student retaliates by calling his classmate a 'typical German'.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening and closing credit sequences; a boy spurts blood after being hit in the face by a ball.
additional issues
There are moments of mild threat in which school students flee from a burning building. A girl offers her younger sister for marriage in a comic context. Very mild bad language includes 'hell' and 'God'.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
Fantastical head explosions are accompanied by small stylised blood spurts, a hand bursts from a mass of blood in fantastical fashion, and a person sustains bloody injury to his face following a fall.
additional issues
There is infrequent mild bad language (‘strumpet’), threat and sex references.
moderate bloody images, threat, violence
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A bully kicks a restrained victim in the abdomen.
threat and horror
School bullies restrain a younger boy, threaten him with a pair of scissors, and begin to forcibly remove his clothes with the intention of taking a humiliating photo. However, the victim quickly regains the upper hand.
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur during credits sequences at the start and end of the episode.
additional issues
Bad language includes ‘sodding’ and ‘damn’.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur during the credits sequences at the start and end of the episode.
additional issues
Bad language includes ‘bloody’ and ‘damn’.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
Stylised bloody images occur in the opening credit sequence; a person's head is briefly bloodied following a fall.
additional issues
Bad language includes 'git' and 'hell'. There are also scenes of slapstick violence.
Director(s)Kenjiro Okada
Production year2024
Genre(s)Animation, Fantasy
Approx. running minutes24m
CastCiel Phantomhive, Sebastian Michaelis, Brina Palencia
Classified Date:
28/08/2025
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Crunchyroll Limited
Classified date28/08/2025
LanguageEnglish