ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Black Butler English dub stars Brina Palencia and J. Michael Tatum about the Public School Arc, which is now streaming weekly on
It’s just really fun to play and really fun to witness him get so flustered and see him have such a hard time with what he thought would be just a breeze. Like, ugh, these are stupid children. Like, I could totally just come in and do this so easily, figure everything out so easily. But it turns out school’s hard, and it’s kind of traumatizing for everyone, even smart kids like Ciel. So I love his discombobulation. It’s very fun.
Brina, I like that in Black Butler’s Publich School Arc we’re seeing Ciel immediately run into these social faux pas, like walking on the grass. There’s also an interesting dynamic because he’s an earl, he’s come from high society, and now he starts off here at the bottom for once and has to navigate this very social and cliquey nature.
I hope that the fans have grown with it and aren’t tired of it yet, and they certainly don’t seem to be, which is always nice. One of the great advantages of getting to come back to a role like this and feeling so supported and enthusiastic is that it feels like the show is being animated now by people who grew up watching it. I don’t know if that’s the case, but it certainly feels like it’s certainly the show feels like a love letter to what the show has always meant to its fans.