Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting”: Mystery’s End [Review]

Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting” finally ends the mystery that has been haunting Weston College. All in a rather stunning and dramatic way to boot. It’s certainly a great way to wrap up the Public School Arc, even if this season of the anime apparently isn’t quite over yet.

Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting”: Details

Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting” is the 10th episode (you can read reviews of Ep. 1, Ep. 2, Ep. 3, Ep. 4, Ep. 5, Ep. 6, Ep. 7, Ep. 8, and Ep. 9 here) of season 4 of the Black Butler anime series, immediately following the 2017 anime film Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic. Said dark fantasy and dark comedy anime is the anime adaptation of the dark fantasy and even darker comedy (sometimes the other way around) manga of the same name by Yana Toboso (Disney Twisted-Wonderland). Normally, A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Lycoris Recoil, Solo Leveling) is the studio behind this anime. This time, though, the studio behind season 4 is CloverWorks (HoriMiya, My Dress-Up Darling, Spy x Family). Crunchyroll is licensing this anime for its global debut.

Alas, we have no idea just who is behind Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting” as of this writing, just as we have been in the dark about who has been behind the previous handful of episodes. As for the new season of the anime as a whole, Kenjirou Okada is still the director behind this newest season of the anime as a whole. Hiroyuki Yoshino is the writer, while Yumi Shimizu is responsible for character design. Ryo Kawasaki composes the music.

Speaking of music: the opening theme music for this anime as a whole is “Fanatic Parade – The Parade of Battlers” by otoha. Meanwhile, “Shokuzai” (Atonement) by SID is the ending theme music for the same.

Voice Cast

Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting” features the voices of Maaya Sakamoto (Brina Palencia in English dub) as Ciel Phantomhive and Daisuke Ono (J. Michael Tatum in English dub) as Sebastian Michaelis. The voice actors for the Prefects of Weston College (otherwise known as P4) consist of Toshiki Watanabe (Reagan Murdock in English dub) as Edgar Redmond, Junya Enoki (Brandon McInnis in English dub) as Lawrence Bluewer, Shunsuke Takeuchi (Jonah Scott in English dub) as Herman Greenhill, and Tatsumuru Tachibana (Kieran Flitton in English dub) as Gregory Violet.

The other notable voice roles in this episode include Seiichiro Yamashita (Justin Briner in English dub) as Edward Midford, Shōya Ishige (Christian Taylor in English dub) as Clayton, and Shinnosuke Tokudome (Marianne Bray in English dub) as Joanne Harcourt.

On the other side of the equation, we have the voices of Show Hayami (Andrew Webb in English dub) as vice-principal Johann Agares, Yūsuke Kobayashi (English dub voice actor unknown) as Derrick Arden, and Junichi Suwabe (John Swasey in English dub) as the Undertaker.

When and Where to Watch

Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting” made its airing and streaming (aka. simulcast) debut on June 15, 2024. You can watch this episode only on Crunchyroll. In fact, you can watch this entire latest season of the anime, along with all previous seasons and even the Book of the Atlantic anime film, only on Crunchyroll.

Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting”: Synopsis

Alas, Black Butler -Public School Arc- is an ongoing anime series. In fact, Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting” only just made its debut five days ago as of this writing. Thus, you will all get the official synopsis for this episode from Crunchyroll instead of a spoiler-filled plot summary. You can read that synopsis below:

The truth behind the disappearances of Derrick Arden and the others comes to light. What’s more, Ciel discovers that a former Phantomhive ally has been involved all along.

Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting”: The Good

There’s no question about it. It’s the story of Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting” that makes this episode just absolutely amazing. After all, this is the grand conclusion to the mysterious events behind the Weston College disappearances. Fortunately, Yana Toboso continues to not disappoint. The way this murder mystery plays out is like watching a row of dominoes fall over. There’s such an intenseness to the episode that leaves you staring at the screen, waiting with bated breath as the mystery completely unravels before you. Honestly, finding out why and how the murders came to be is perfectly understandable once you see it. It’s why Toboso is one of the best mangaka out there period.

Complementing that amazing story is the animation. CloverWorks is still quite committed to maintaining a very high level of quality animation for this season. It’s still feature-length anime film levels of quality for this episode, as it has been for the entire season. Seriously, when you see some beautiful tea spilling out of a cup as it’s shattering on the floor, then you know that they put a lot of time, effort, and budget into that animation.

Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting”: The Bad

Do you not like the horror and action in Black Butler -Public School Arc- Ep. 10 “His Butler, Assenting”? Is it not intense or long enough for you? Then I suspect that you are an action junkie. Thus, I would recommend Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Solo Leveling, and/or Kaiju No. 8. Those anime series have more than enough action to satisfy any action junkie.