Best Selling Books by Yana Toboso

The color black is absolutely luscious, and nowhere is more apparent than in the ever-expanding world of Black Butler! This fourth illustration collection from New York Times bestselling author Yana Toboso includes marvelous art from the manga’s Blue Cult and Blue Memory arcs and the anime’s Book of Murder and Book of the Atlantic arcs, as well as promotional art for the various Black Butler musicals and the Black Label product line. Presented as a deluxe beribboned hardcover tome as scrumptious as any sweet treat!

In this first-ever full-color illustration collection by manga artist Yana Toboso, the New York Times bestselling manga series Black Butler comes to vivid life. Starting at the beginning of the tale of Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his inimitable butler, Sebastian, the collection focuses on the series through the immensely popular Circus Arc. In addition to these glorious color cuts are illustrations from her debut work, Rust Blaster, as well as promotional art from Black Butler and the artist''s own tribute illustrations for other popular manga series. As anyone picking up this gorgeous beribboned hardcover tome will realise, black is a colour of many facets, indeed!

The veil of mystery cast over the Aurora Society''s "absolute salvation" is torn away, and the true mastermind behind the scheme steps forward at long last. In the ensuing battle, Earl Ciel Phantomhive looks on in horror as Sebastian, his infallible manservant, is struck down by the death scythe of an unforeseen combatant. Devil though he may be, even Sebastian is not immune to the blade of a reaper''s scythe. As Sebastian''s cinematic record spills forth, the tale of how a devil became a butler to a little lost lord flickers to life in shades of sepia, blood, and ash...

The cheer of the holidays has passed, but the Noah''s Ark traveling circus has been making the rounds, bringing fun and joy to children of all ages. However, as the ringmaster''s cries fade away, a disturbing trend begins to surface in the wake of the colourful entourage. Children seem to disappear whenever the circus packs up for its next destination, and there are no clues...or corpses...to be found. But when the situation calls for Ciel and Sebastian to infiltrate the big top, will Sebastian''s inhuman skills be enough to see him and his young master through a treacherous tightrope act that may well end in death?

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On the twins'' tenth birthday, the Phantomhive manor--once a home that overflowed with happiness--becomes a house of horrors... Read the latest installment of Yana Toboso''s Black Butler the same day it comes out in Japan!

Baldo and Lau have uncovered the blood collection scheme at the Athena Sanitorium for Former Service men in record time, but the situation is not as cut-and-dry as they had assumed. While chief nurse Ada wants nothing more than to wash her hands of the whole affair, her duty to give the best care possible to her fellow veterans keeps her shackled to the Aurora Society. After all, the atrocities of war and the guilt of survival are heavy burdens to bear—ones that Baldo himself knows all too well...

Snake is down, and the group is still trapped between Doll and the staff—their chances of escape growing slimmer with each passing moment. Can they find a way to save their friend, and make it out before it’s too late? Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same day as Japan!

Ciel and Sebastian arrive in Brighton on an undercover investigation, where a sinister new luxury resort may be taking more than just their customers money… Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same day as Japan!

Deep within the tunnels beneath the F.O.L. Orphanage, Finny and the other''s make run for it—with the staff in hot pursuit! Can they find their way back to the surface? Or will these tunnels become their final resting place...? Read the next chapter of Black Butler, same day as Japan!

A mysterious cult mesmerises legions of followers with glorious rituals of song and dance. But the unbridled passion it inspires gives Queen Victoria cause for concern, and she urges Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his expert butler, Sebastian, to do some digging. Ciel has his own reasons for taking this lot to task, but the discovery of the cult''s penchant for blood means the Queen''s Watchdog must take swift action. When Sebastian goes probing behind the stage and into the shadows, however, he is met by a girl standing in his way, glinting sword at the ready...

London - the capital of the Great Empire - is once again under siege, as a string of bizarre attacks on British citizens returned from India sends rumours flying and casts a pall upon Queen Victoria''s rule. Sent in by Her Majesty, young Earl Phantomhive and his most capable butler, Sebastian, follow a trail that collides head-on with an Indian youth who claims to be a prince. And this prince possesses an extraordinary butler of his own! As an intense rivalry between the two butlers begins to form, will the kitchen be the dueling duo''s final battleground?!

The mysterious secret society prepares its unwilling sacrifices for the summoning ritual... Read the latest installment of Yana Toboso''s Black Butler the same day it comes out in Japan!

Baldo was planning to live a happy, orderinary life, but... Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same time as Japan!

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¡LLEGA EL MAYORDOMO MÁS ESPERADO POR LOS FANS DEL MANGA: SEBASTIAN MICHAELIS! La aristocrática familia Phantomhive posee una espléndida mansión y un próspero negocio, pero de lo que están más orgullosos es de su mayordomo, un fámulo realmente... infernal. ¡Primer volumen del manga de Yana Toboso, el shonen más esperado en nuestro país!

Baldo opens his eyes to familiar faces... Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same time as Japan!

The night of Earl Ciel Phantomhive''s tenth birthday visits still more horrors upon him, body and soul alike... Read the latest installment of Yana Toboso''s Black Butler the same day it comes out in Japan!

"Owl" stakes out the Phantomhive manor, waiting for her target to appear...! Read the next chapter of Black Butler at the same time as Japan!

A glimpse into Mey-Rin''s past reveals her devotions to the Young Master... Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same day as Japan!

Baldo reflects on what the life and people at Phantomhive Manor mean to him. Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same time as Japan!

Doll shows Finny and Snake around F.O.L. orphanage. Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same day as Japan!

At Millennium Academy, elite vampires are trained to maintain balance in a world where humans and vampires, who possess far greater physical strength than their human neighbors, coexist. When Aldred, the most distinctly un-vampire-like vampire to be found in the entire institution, meets Kei, a human transfer student to the school, their destinies become surprisingly intertwined, and the fate of the world as they know it comes to lie in their hands. Will the unlikely duo be able to break the vicious cycle of blood and chaos that comes every millennium on the ominous night of the Twin Moons?

Finny and the elder students are searching the stable for Ginny when somebody walks in! Who could it be— and how will the students deal with their discovery... Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same day as Japan!

Snake lies bleeding in Doll’s arms, and memories begin to flood in. A childhood best forgotten, the family who saved them, and what happened leading up to that fateful night at the circus...Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same day as Japan!

On 14 December 1885-Earl Ciel Phantomhive''s tenth birthday-despair was visited upon House Phantomhive in the form of a heinous attack on the family manor. Beckoned by the hatred in the wails of a helpless child, a devil alighted from an undulating purple-black mire. Thus, one story began, even as another ended...Or did it?

Baldo works with Ada to buy some time, but not everything goes to plan... Read the next chapter of Black Butler the same time as Japan!