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Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing” has our demonic butler in one hell of a mess. With various duties coming into collision, he’s now lost all time and his patience. Alas, this means he has to resort to some…drastic measures to slap some sense back into Ciel.
Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing”: Details
Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing” is the sixth episode (you can read my reviews of Ep. 1, Ep. 2, Ep. 3, Ep. 4, and Ep. 5 here) of the new season of the dark comedy and darker fantasy/supernatural anime adaptation of Black Butler. This latest season comes directly after the Public School Arc.
Said anime is the anime adaptation of the manga of the same name by Yana Toboso (Rust Blaster, Disney Twisted-Wonderland). CloverWorks (Spy x Family, Bocchi the Rock!, The Elusive Samurai) is the animation studio behind the anime. Crunchyroll is the company licensing the anime for its global release.
Production Crew
Alas, we don’t know who specifically is behind Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing”.
As for Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- as a whole though: we do know that Kenjirou Okada is the director, with Hiroyuki Yoshino as the writer. Yoshito Ito is the producer. Yumi Shimazu is the character designer. Ryo Kawasaki is the composer behind music.
Speaking of music: the opening theme song for Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- is “MAISIE” by Cö shu Nie feat. HYDE. Meanwhile, “WALTZ” by RYUGUJO is the ending theme song for the same.
Voice Cast
Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing” features the voices of Maaya Sakamoto (Brina Palencia in English dub) as Ciel Phantomhive, Daisuke Ono (J. Michael Tatum in English dub) as Sebastian, Rie Kugimiya (English dub voice unknown) as Sieglinde Sullivan, and Chikahiro Kobayashi (English dub voice unknown) as Wolfram Geltzer.
The Phantomhive manor voice cast consists of Hiroki Tōchi (Ian Sinclair in English dub) as Baldroy, Yūki Kaji (Jason Liebrecht in English dub) as Finnian, Emiri Katō (Monica Rial in English dub) as Mey-Rin, Takuma Terashima (Spike Spencer in English dub) as Snake, and Shunji Fujimura (R. Bruce Elliott in English dub) as Tanaka.
Other notable voice roles in this episode include Ayako Kawasumi (Alexis Tipton in English dub) as Queen Victoria and Hiroshi Kamiya (Aaron Dismuke in English dub) as John Brown.
When and Where to Watch
Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing” made its airing and streaming (aka. simulcast) debut on May 10, 2025. You can watch this episode only on Crunchyroll. In fact, you can watch this entire latest season of the anime, along with all previous seasons and even the Book of the Atlantic anime film, only on Crunchyroll.
Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing”: Synopsis
Alas, Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- only recently began airing a couple weeks ago. In fact, Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing” only made its debut three days ago as of this writing. Thus, here’s the official synopsis from Crunchyroll to give you an idea of what’s going on without too much in the way of spoilers below:
“Sebastian intuits that they are out of time and sternly confronts Ciel.”
Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing”: The Good
Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing” is great in innumerable ways, but the story stands out pretty clearly. Mostly because pretty much this entire episode is a deep exploration of Ciel’s psyche and his reflection on his journey thus far. He doesn’t really go into any specific details, but longtime viewers and readers of Yana Toboso’s manga will definitely the key figures that show up in Ciel’s mindscape. All of them are posthumous depictions, of course, But then, that’s the point of their appearances in Ciel’s mind.
And of course, CloverWorks and their animation team does an amazing job with the animation as always. This time, they put their animation skills into depicting some nightmarish and surreal scenes. Sebastian in this episode really shows off just how demonic he is, and the animation of that is as gorgeous as it is haunting. The surreal mindscape where everything can change in the blink of an eye is as good as it is thanks to their hard work.
Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 6 “His Butler, Despairing”: The Bad
Honestly, the one thing I might take a bit of offense to is how the story depicts what’s essentially corporal punishment in order to help someone through a big dose of PTSD. Granted, this blow is softened by how Yana Toboso wrote it all as being morally ambiguous to begin with. Sebastian, for example, most certainly does not have Ciel’s best interest in mind when doing his devlish duty. He’s a predator first and foremost, and he really shows that in this episode. When even the story shows the cruelty to be more or less in the wrong, then you stop taking offense at it.
Beyond that, this episode is most definitely not an action-packed episode. It’s just not that kind of a story. If you want a bloody action anime, then I might suggest that you give Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kaiju No. 8, DDDD, DAN DA DAN, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II, Zenshu, Blue Box, and/or Solo Leveling a watch. Those anime should have more than enough action and/or blood to keep you entertained until Black Butler gets to that bloody action. Which won’t be long now.
What did you think of this week’s episode of Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc-? Tell us your thoughts about it in the comments section below.
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