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Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc Anime's Teaser Reveals April 5 Debut

The staff for Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc, the new television anime of Yana Toboso's Black Butler manga, revealed on Tuesday the anime's teaser video, key visual, and April 5 premiere.

The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, and Tochigi TV channels (and simultaneously stream on ABEMA) on April 5 at 11:30 p.m. JST (10:30 a.m. EDT). It will then air on MBS on April 5 at 27:08 JST (effectively, April 6 at 3:08 a.m. JST). The anime will also stream on other streaming services in Japan starting on April 8.

The anime will have an advance screening event on March 23 at the United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba in Tokyo.

The Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc anime takes Sebastian and Ciel to Germany, as they are ordered by the queen to investigate mysterious death occurrences there. A terrifying curse falls on Sebastian and Ciel, as they search for the truth about the Werewolf Forest, where anyone who steps in it is cursed to death.

Daisuke Ono and Maaya Sakamoto are reprising their respective roles as the butler and demon Sebastian Michaelis and British noble Ciel Phantomhive. Other cast members include Rie Kugimiya as Sieglinde Sullivan and Chikahiro Kobayashi as Wolfram.

Kenjirō Okada (March comes in like a lion, RWBY: Ice Queendom) is once again directing the anime at CloverWorks. Additional returning staff members from the Black Butler: Public School Arc anime include Hiroyuki Yoshino in charge of series scripts, Yumi Shimizu designing the characters, and Ryo Kawasaki composing the music.

The rock band Cö shu Nie and musician HYDE are collaborating for the first time to perform the opening theme song "Maisie." Ryūgūjō, the seven-member group produced by Queen Bee's Avu-chan, performs the ending theme song "Waltz."

Crunchyroll will stream the series.

The anime's cast will appear at an event on the Green Stage at AnimeJapan 2025 on March 23 at 11:35 a.m. JST.

The Black Butler: Public School Arc series premiered in Japan on April 13, 2024. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in English-speaking, Latin American, and European countries. Crunchyroll previously stated it licensed the anime for streaming worldwide except Japan.

The Black Butler anime adapts Yana Toboso's manga of the same name. The series premiered in Japan in 2008, and Black Butler II followed in 2010. Black Butler: Book of Circus premiered in 2014. Funimation has released all three television anime, the Black Butler II OVA project, the Black Butler: Book of Murder OVA, and the Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic anime film on home video.

Sources: Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc anime's website, Comic Natalie