Reviews

To be honest, the beginning of the first episode scared me a bit. Alois seemed really messed up, proven by his drastic mood swings and the fact he had gauged his maid's eye out within the first half of the episode. Claude is yet another demon butler who really wants to eat his bipolar master's soul, but (spoiler) ends up unsuccessfully going after Ciel's, who shows up in the show with memory loss. Due to the at-first unexplained reappearance of Ciel and Sebastian, things get a bit confusing. Basically, what I've come to believe, is that Ciel's memory is set back to whatever it was like at the very beginning of the first season. Therefore, Madam Red is 'alive' and he still needs his revenge and works loyally under the Queen.
But everything is okay, because it is all explained gradually.

(spoiler) Due to fanservice, Ciel is not eaten by poor Sebastian, who worked so-very-hard for his soul. Instead, Ciel was turned into a demon. So there we have a master demon, with a suffering Sebastian who did no deserve what he got. If you were a really hungry demon and worked for years for a kid's soul, how would you like for it to be snatched from your hands, and then have to remain his butler for the rest of eternity?
I still don't understand WHY everything turned out the way it did. Thanks to the ending of this anime, there is really no point for any after-story or season 3.

However, the animation itself really is beautiful, in the whole victorian-gothic setting. It's hard to find something with the same qualities as this one, so it is, in a sense, still worth watching, just as long you don't hold high expectations.