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Black Butler Gets 'Book of Murder' Arc Video Anime

The AnimeJapan panel for Yana Toboso's Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) manga and anime announced more details on future works on Saturday, and also unveiled a new promotional video. The video reveals that, aside from the upcoming new television series titled Kuroshitsuji Book of Circus, an original video anime (OVA) titled Kuroshitsuji Book of Murder is also in producion. The OVA will be screened in Japanese movie theaters this fall. The website also posted the first key visual for the OVA (pictured below).

The website lists the main cast:

Daisuke Ono as Sebastian Michaelis
Maaya Sakamoto as Ciel Phantomhive
Mamoru Miyano as Joker
Ayahi Takagaki as Doll
Yuko Kaida as Beast
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Dagger
Takuma Terashima as Snake
Hiroki Touchi as Baldroy
Yuuki Kaji as Finnian
Emiri Kato as Mey Rin
Shunji Fujimura as Mr. Tanaka
Noriaki Sugiyama as William T. Spears
Kenn as Ronald Knox
Jun Fukuyama as Grelle Sutcliff
Shinnosuke Tachibana as Soma Asman Kadar
Hiroki Yasumoto as Agni
Yukari Tamura as Elizabeth Midford
Koji Yusa as Lau
Sayuri Yahagi as Ran-Mao
Junichi Suwabe as Undertaker
Hisayoshi Suganuma as Fred Abberline

In addition, the staff list has been posted:

Director: Noriyuki Abe
Series Composition: Hiroyuki Yoshino
Scripts: Hiroyuki Yoshino, Ichiro Okouchi, Yuka Miyata
Character Design/Storyboard Director: Minako Shiba
Sub Character Design: Senri Kawaguchi
Art Director: Manabu Otsuzuki
Color Key: Kanako Hokari
Director of Photographer: Nozomi Shitara
Editing: Masahiro Goto
Music: Yasunori Mitsuda
Sound Director: Katsuyoshi Kobayashi
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures

The new Black Butler TV anime series will premiere on Japanese television in June.

The manga debuted in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy magazine in 2006, and its 17 volumes thus far have nearly 18 million copies in print, including those published in 42 countries and territories. The manga already inspired a television anime series in 2008 and a stage play in 2009. A second television series followed in 2010 with a new butler and master. The manga won the top prize in the shōnen manga category of France's Japan Expo Awards in 2010 and the Best International Manga Award in Germany's Animagic in 2011.

Thanks to Rachel S. for the news tip

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