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Rock Band Sid Performs New Black Butler TV Anime's Opening

The four-man rock band SID created their new song "Enamel" for the opening theme of the Black Butler: Book of Circus television anime series. The anime will premiere this July, and the song's CD single will go on sale on August 27.

Vocalist Mao commented, "We aimed to produce a song that would fit Black Butler! SID would like to rise in unison with the Black Butler anime." He expressed the band's confidence in the song, "We're hoping fans will enjoy the worldview of 'Enamel,' too."

The band already performed the opening theme song "Monochrome no Kiss" for the first television anime (2008-2009) inspired by Yana Toboso's popular Black Butler manga. That song was also the band's major debut single. The band contributed music to Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic as well.

The third Black Butler television anime series will premiere in the Animeism programming block on Japan's MBS, TBS, CBC, and BS-TBS channels in July. The cast includes:

• Daisuke Ono as Sebastian Michaelis
• Maaya Sakamoto as Ciel Phantomhive
• Mamoru Miyano as Joker
• Ayahi Takagaki as Doll
• Yūko Kaida as Beast
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Dagger
• Takuma Terashima as Snake
• Yūki Tai as Peter
• Mayumi Shintani as Wendy
• Yoshihiro Koyanagi as Jumbo
• Hiroki Touchi as Baldroy
• Yūki Kaji as Finnian
• Emiri Katō as Mey Rin
• Shunji Fujimura as Mr. Tanaka
• Noriaki Sugiyama as William T. Spears
• KENN as Ronald Knox
• Jun Fukuyama as Grelle Sutcliff
• Shinnosuke Tachibana as Soma Asman Kadar
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Agni
• Yukari Tamura as Elizabeth Midford
• Kōji Yusa as Lau
• Sayuri Yahagi as Ran-Mao
• Junichi Suwabe as Undertaker
• Hisayoshi Suganuma as Fred Abberline
• Ryōhei Kimura as Charles Grey
• Tomoaki Maeno as Charles Phips

Aside from the upcoming new television series, an original video anime (OVA) titled Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder is also in production. The OVA will be screened in Japanese movie theaters this fall.

Source: Oricon