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[[File:Kuroshitsuji_II_Alois_and_Claude.jpg|thumb|The new main characters, Alois and Claude.]]
Given the very final way that the [[Black Butler (anime)|first ''Black Butler'' anime]] ended, it didn't seem like there could ever be a sequel. However, financial realities had their way and a sequel, titled ''Black Butler II'', was made anyway.
Alois Trancy is a 13-year-old earl who has [[Deal with the Devil|made a deal with]] the demon Claude Faustus who now serves Alois as his black-clad butler. The setup is nearly identical to the first season, but the personalities of the characters involved are very different to the point of being able to be perceived as intentional Jungian shadows of the main characters of the previous season. This changes the entire dynamic.
Character sheet is [[Kuroshitsuji II/Characters|here]].▼
However, it turns out that despite first appearances this season is not unconnected to the previous and is in fact a true sequel, with numerous characters returning {{spoiler|including Sebastian and Ciel as main characters.}}
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* [[Backup Twin]]: {{spoiler|Edward Abberline}} is the twin brother of {{spoiler|Fred Abberline}} from the previous season.
* [[Beneath the Mask]]
* [[Big Fancy House]]: Alois and Ciel both have such.
* [[Combat Commentator]]: Viscount Druitt in Episode 7.
* [[Cooking Duel]]: Sebastian and Claude have an unfriendly cooking duel.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Sebastian with Ciel and Claude with Alois. {{spoiler|Also, Hannah with Luca and later Alois.}}
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Tanaka pretty much vanishes after episode 2. He finally reappears for about 2 seconds during the finale, and gets no spoken lines.
* [[Double Entendre]]: So many. ''Especially'' when Claude is having a conversation or talking to himself about Ciel.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Sebastian versus Claude is the big one here.
* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Alois stabs Hannah}} in the eye with his finger.
* [[Fable Remake]]: There is a two-part [[OVA]] based on ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', with Ciel as Alice.
* [[Face Palm]]: Ciel when Sebastian has a moment of adoration over stray kitties and ignores the task at hand to do so. Really, every time Sebastian and cats are in the same frame/panel and Ciel is around.
* [[Fan Service]]: In particularly large amounts, both male and female oriented.
* [[Flip Personality]]: {{spoiler|Alois' soul ends up in Ciel's body}} and both souls dispute its control.
* [[Frame-Up]]: {{spoiler|Sebastian and Claude cooperate in providing Ciel with fake evidence about the murder of his parents.}}
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Changed for this season to just "_______ Butler".
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]]: Claude does this {{spoiler|to Ciel}}... and gets kicked in the face for it.
* [[Image Song]]: Several characters get them, including Ronald Knox (who only appears ''once'').
* [[Lecherous Licking]]: In episode 5, a disguised Alois licks Ciel's ear.
* [[Masquerade Ball]]: Alois has one. The entire cast comes.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Hannah plays this weird instrument that [[Brown Note|causes intense physical pain]] in anyone who hears it. So, Agni tries to free Maylene, Finny, and Bard from the effects by way of [[Pressure Point]] attacks. It works...but now their voices are out of sync with their lip movements. And it actually is too, if you watch closely.
* [[Mental World]]
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Parodied [[Up to Eleven]] in the fourth OVA, featuring the characters as actors. The last portion of the episode features a mock trailer for the season...consisting almost entirely of events that never happened. It gets just a ''little'' ridiculous when we see Lau and Ran-Mao show up in a UFO, and it pretty much snowballs from there.
* [[No Badass to His Valet]]: Claude towards Alois.
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* [[Shotacon]] The late Earl Trancy.
* [[Shout Out]]: Sebastian's line to Claude {{spoiler|as he's hanging on to the trap door in Cielois's maze}} "We meet again, Claude" is the polite, as one would expect of a butler, form of "We meet again, Cloud" uttered by Sephiroth in [[Advent Children]]. Even better as Claude and Cloud share a VA. Square-Enix self-shout.
* [[Spot of Tea]]: Lots.
* [[Staying Alive]]: {{spoiler|Sebastian, Ciel and even Lau and Ran Mao.}}
* [[Take a Third Option]]: {{spoiler|Ciel becomes a demon to avoid having his soul devoured. However, Alois unwittingly made the choice for him}}.
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: The [[
* [[Trainstopping]]: {{spoiler|By Sebastian.}}
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]: Season 2 is half the length of season 1.
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: So whatever ''did'' happen to {{spoiler|the real Alois Trancy}}?
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Alois has some Grade A [[Zettai Ryouiki]] in the first episode. Mind you, he's wearing knickerbockers, not a skirt.
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