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That’s right everybody I, Luna, am back — and I’m honestly frustrated. I’m going to go ahead and skip over how busy our past few months were (you can read all about that here) and go straight into content warning. Ahem–SPOILER ALERT– if you have not read up to the latest chapter of Kuroshitsuji (212 I believe) you are about to get majorly spoiled. Proceed with caution. Otherwise, let’s dive right into what’s been getting under my skin.

Now, for you to understand my upset with this manga–and for picking it back up where I did–I need to tell you a story. A story that has to do with Naruto. See, back when the Naruto manga was coming out week to week, I told myself “nah I don’t need to read that every week”. So I decided to just pick it up every once and a while, read the latest chapter to see where it was at, and then go back and fill the in-between. I know this was a terrible way to read manga, but it’s how I decided if I wanted to invest all that time in catching up. So, one of these times happened near the end of the manga. I hadn’t checked in on it for a few months, but I was reminded of it and thought, let me check-in. And my favorite character died. That chapter. He died. Spoiler alert: it was Neji. I was absolutely livid. At that point, I told myself I wouldn’t read manga like that again. So I’ve done my best to keep up with everything I’m reading. Except for Kuroshitsuji. I was up to date for a while…then I forgot about it.

UNTIL the new anime came out. We were watching it on one of our anime watch parties and I thought to myself “hmm, I haven’t read that in months. Wonder where it’s at?” So obviously I, the idiot that I am, went to read the latest chapter. Just Ciel and Sebastian on a train. They were talking about the servants funny…and then they mention Snake. And there’s a sus panel to go with it. I decide I need to back up and go a few chaps back, back to when I left off and read forward. And goddess I wish I didn’t. Because they fucking killed Snake. For no rhyme or reason (okay admittedly I now believe there is a reason). Once again, my favorite character. Dead. I was so frustrated I started crying. Partially because of how he died, and then the chapter where we get to be in his head for his final moments. It was so painful and so sad. Snake, cute and innocent, only wanting to do good by the people he loves, Snake–was betrayed by everyone he loved. Everyone was lying to him. The Phantomhives were lying to him. The Circus was lying to him. He was done so dirty by the people who showed him such brightness, such life and love–all a lie. He died thinking it was better off that none of them reached out to him to begin with. He died confused that anyone tried to save him to begin with. I was so frustrated and in tears. I was done dirty all over again.

However, giving it some thought, there were two things that came to mind. Number one: this must be karma because as a fellow author/writer I would TOTALLY do something like that just for the turmoil of my readers. Number two: this is totally setting Snake up to come back as one of the undead bizarre dolls. Or at least, if I were a writer, that’s what I’d be doing. Seeing as Snake died not in favor of either of his found families, it would be great for him to come back as a bizarre doll who would later kill–well, everyone who was left standing at the end. A kind of karmic retribution if you would say. But of course, that is my solution as an author. I really hope that the real reason for his death is just so he would never have to choose between the circus or the Phantomhives. Or that it’s just going to be a copout later on and Ciel will die by being bitten by one of Snake’s snakes (as Sebastian has mentioned he was worried about several times). I just want there to be a good reason for my favorite character to have died. I don’t want it to be senseless. Please don’t do that to me Kuroshitsuji. I have stayed with you for so long…why would you do me dirty like that?

Anyway, thanks everyone for reading my mini-rant (and spoilers) about how upset I am at Kuroshitsuji. You would think that after all this I would just up and drop the manga but nope. I am still holding onto it. Call me crazy. But at this point…I think I’ll be here until the end.

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xoxo

Luna