Black Butler XVI Takes place at a very private public school – Weston College – which only allows the most elite members of society's children. In fact the Queens nephew goes there, and he has gone missing. That's why Ciel and Sebastian are there in the first place, to unravel the mystery. The public school is run by an unseen headmaster whose rule is absolute, but does this headmaster even exist? In reality the school is run by a vicious group called the P4, composed of the prefects of each house. Ciel can only meet the headmaster by gaining admittance to the "Midnight Tea Party." To do this he must become the most valuable player in the annual cricket tournament.
I haven't read a lot of manga recently; there's something slightly more satisfying about a single-issue comic. A tankoban volume contains five to 12 individual comics. These volumes very rarely represent a complete story the way a volume of Western comics would. A typical arc for Black Butler is two to four of these volumes. Most people read the individual volumes, but many read the monthly, biweekly, or even weekly comics as they come out in Shonen Jump or other publications.
Black Butler is one of my favorite manga, and I've only read more of Hunter X Hunter, 20th Century Boys, and One Piece. I like the Victorian setting, and of course the characters are beyond reproach. Unlike One Piece, Black Butler has minor characters that are less to the periphery, such as Elizabeth, Ciel's bride-to-be, who appears at the gala before the annual cricket tournament. Prince Kadar goes to Weston College with Ciel. The main two characters are of course Ciel and Sebastian, the young master and the Akuma.
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