
Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
is a 2017 Japanese animated supernatural disaster film based on the Black Butler manga series written and illustrated by Yana Toboso. The film was produced by A-1 Pictures, directed by Noriyuki Abe and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, featuring character designs by Minako Shiba and music by Yasunori Mitsuda. It premiered in Japan on January 21, 2017. It covers the arc, the sixth arc of the manga series.
Plot
The story is based on the sinking of the ''Titanic'' in 1912. Ciel, Sebastian, and Snake board the luxury liner Campania on her maiden voyage to investigate the mysterious Aurora Society, rumored to perform unethical experiments to raise the dead. On board is also Elizabeth and her family. In a secret Aurora Society meeting, Ciel and Sebastian witness Doctor Rian Stoker use a machine to reanimate a dead woman, who starts attacking and killing the attendants. Ciel finds himself trapped in the ship's cargo with Elizabeth and Snake, where they realize that Stoker brought thousands more reanimated corpses on board. Sebastian rescues them. Upon interrogating Stoker, Ciel discovers that an even larger batch of corpses is stored in another area of the ship; that batch promptly awakens and begin killing the ship's crew and passengers. Amidst the chaos, the ship crashes into an iceberg and starts sinking, giving Sebastian and the Grim Reapers, including Grell, only a few hours.
More details
author | Hiroyuki Yoshino |
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director | Noriyuki Abe |
editor | Masahiro Goto |
genre | comedy fantasy horror mystery |
keywords | attempt to escape dead woman fight grim reaper kill luxury liner meet reanimated corpse rescue rescue boat scold summon sunken ship surround train trap wound |
musicBy | Yasunori Mitsuda |
producer | Ayako Yokoyama Hiroshi Kamei Natsumi Mori Tomomi Kyōtani Yasutaka Kimura |
productionCompany | A-1 Pictures Aniplex Square Enix |
publisher | Aniplex |
theme | animated anime black comedy comedy horror death disaster supernatural |