No not Ciel, the other kid! Yes, we're doing this again only with a "we are not so different" kind of mirror image rival.
One thing you'll notice in every single review of S2 is this line (this is fanfiction, it's not from the manga.) This line sums up the entire season. You have the same aesthetic, same style, characters from S1 return AND you get double the fun with not just one hell of a butler but two.
If you can get over the whiny brat (doesn't matter, just pick one.) that is all there is and the show doesn't shy away from that premise. In fact here Sebastian is VERY conscious of his sexual appeal and weaponizes it... way too often.
Although this one is worse compared to S1 it does two things right. One, it knows what it is, it's fanservice and that is completely fine with it, a short and sweet 12 episode show with cute guys fighting it out. Two, the ending is actually pretty good. Fanservicey as HELL but still good, more so than the mess of a Finale S1 had.
Although I hated the first few episodes I found that I enjoyed the rest far more than the second half of S1. Because of that my first instinct was to give this a higher rating of (7). Buuuuuuuuuuut because this one had nothing to say and was formulaic fanfic I will be forgetting about it and the additional characters next week. Say what you want about S1 but it left a mark, so much so that this one doesn't built on it so much as depends on it entirely without adding anything of it's own.
So 5 it is. I don't think I can recommend this even to black butler fans if I'm being honest.
