Black Butler XII sees zombies aboard a cruise liner, and that cruise liner hitting an iceberg. The Aurora Society has found a way to reanimate corpses, but for what reason it is still unclear. They do so by stimulating the brain with tiny waves, and the corpses turn into meat-hungry zombies, attacking passengers and crew aboard the Campania of the Blue Star Line. The similarities with the Titanic are fairly obvious. The Titanic was on the White Star Line, it hit an iceberg, and it had water-proof doors that failed. Whether or not the Titanic was plagued by zombies is an issue for forensic archaeologists.
Throw in the Japanese myths of the akuma (Sebastian) and the shinigami (Ronald Knox and Grell Sutcliff), and you have a hell of a story, if you'll mind the pun. Zombies aren't my go-to genre of manga or comics, but what makes Black Butler so great is the way it goes in and out of different genres of manga fluidly. There are cooking sequences, zombie sequences, even a romance of sorts. The sexual innuendos are hilarious at times. Good stuff.
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