Also, simplified Chinese manga: Defense Devil #8 and One Piece #62: Adventure on Fishman Island.
Kuroshitsuji © Toboso Yana/Square Enix [GFantasy]
Defense Devil © Youn InWan & Yang KyungIl/Shogakukan [Shonen Sunday]
One Piece © Oda Eiichiro/Shueisha [Weekly Shonen Jump]
Published in Singapore as Black Butler, Metal Fight Beyblade Explosive Guidebook - The Complete Collection, Defense Devil and One Piece by Chuang Yi
Sebastian and Agni's Great Curry Battle continues in Black Butler 5; Kucabara tries to prove Jupiter's parents' innocence in Defense Devil #8; and unhappy fishmen attack Luffy and crew as they approach Fishman Island in One Piece #62. [More on the latter pair below the release list]
As at publication, Chuang Yi's synopsis for Black Butler 5 (ISBN: 978-981-4341-13-4) still obviously refers to FullMetal Alchemist, as you can see from the excerpt below:
The eclipse is upon Amestris, and the rebels have made a horrifying discovery - they've inadvertently brought the Father of the Homonculi exactly what he wanted: five ideal candidates, each of whom has opened the Gate of Truth, to be used as a catalyst to activate the Runic Circle that encompasses all of Amestris...
Black Butler 5 collects chapters 20 through 23: That Butler, Idea
; That Butler, Competition
; That Butler, Pure Heart
; and That Butler, Intermingling.
[*NOT Chuang Yi's chapter titles; excerpted from Wikipedia]
Metal Fight Beyblade Explosive Guidebook (ISBN: 978-981-4341-03-5), meanwhile, has neither summary (not that it really needs, what with the self-explanatory title) nor credits.
Chuang Yi English manga (2011.06.21)
- Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) 5 of 12+ by Toboso Yana
- [Premiere] Metal Fight Beyblade Explosive Guidebook - The Complete Collection (Complete)
Simplified Chinese manga (2011.06.21)
- Defense Devil #8 of 9+ by Youn InWan & Yang KyungIl
- ONE PIECE #62 of 63+ by Oda Eiichiro
Kuroshitsuji 「黒執事」 by Toboso Yana
Square Enix GFantasy, shounen
Volume 5 first published in Japan 2008.09
Other languages
Alternative English Black Butler (Yen Press: five volumes per 2011.04 • volume 6 street date: 2011.07.19), French (Kana: Black Butler tome 6 per 2011.03 • tome 7 ships 2011.07.01), German (Carlsen Comics: Black Butler Band 6 per 2011.04 • Band 7 street date: 2011.06.24), Indonesian (Elex Media: vol. 10 released 2011.03 • volume 11 scheduled 2011.07.06), traditional Chinese (Tong Li: 黑執事 11 per 2011.04) and simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi: 黑执事 #8 released 2010.02.24)
Adaptations
The 24-episode A-1 Pictures anime adaptation, starring seiyuu Ono Daisuke (Sebastian Michaelis) and Sakamoto Maaya (Ciel Phantomhive), aired in Japan from October 2008 to March 2009. An unaired OAV side story, Kuroshitsuji: Sono Shitsuji, Kōgyō, shipped with DVD volume 9.
A 12-episode second series—Kuroshitsuji II—aired between July and September 2010. The new master and butler pair designed by Toboso Yana, butler Claude Faustus and master Alois Trancy, were voiced by Sakurai Takahiro and Mizuki Nana.
Two audio dramas preceded the anime. The first Kuroshitsuji Drama CD, released August 2007 by Geneon Entertainment, featured seiyuu Morikawa Toshiyuki, Takashiro Genki, Suzuki Chihiro, and Seki Tomokazu. The second Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) Karei Naru Drama CD, released November 2008 by Sony Music Entertainment, featured the anime cast.
A musical adaptation—That Butler, Friendship—enjoyed a theater run from May 28, 2009 to June 7, 2009. The second Musical Black Butler, The Most Beautiful Death in The World, A Thousand Soul and The Fallen Grim Reapers stage musical had Matsushita Yuya reprising his role as Sebastian Michaelis. Nishii Yukito replaced Sakamoto Shougo as Ciel Phantomhive in the second musical that ran between 3 and 23 May 2010 in Japan.
Related
Black Butler Character Guide “That Butler, Assembles” (2008.02) • The TV Animation Black Butler Black Record (2009.03) • Rainbow Butler official comics anthology (2009.03)