The WORST episodes of Black Butler
Every episode of Black Butler ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Black Butler!
One of the noble families of England - Phantomhive, has a butler, Sebastian Michaels. He has unquestionably perfect knowledge, manners, talent with materials. martial arts and much more. But for some reason, he serves a 12 year old master...
#1 - His Butler, Serving
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2025
Sebastian starts serving Sullivan as her butler. Meanwhile, Ciel seems to have become a different person.
#2 - His Butler, Taking Off
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/22/2024
His duty as the Queen's guard dog complete, Ciel and his servants take a trip to London to inspect new Funtom Company goods. Later, Sebastian is reunited with someone unexpected.
#3 - His Butler, Submerged
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/28/2025
The household returns to England, where their final task is to present Sullivan to the Queen.
#4 - His Butler, in Disguise
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2024
Ciel builds his reputation within the school in order to get close to the P4. His success grants him the opportunity to participate in an exclusive gathering reserved only for prefects and their drudges. However, this meeting doesn't go as expected.
#5 - His Butler, Encouraging
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2025
Sullivan finally completes the Ultimate Spell.
#6 - His Butler, at School
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/2024
Ciel begins attending England’s prestigious Weston College. This insular school values tradition, is bound by strict discipline, and is ruled by the prefects of its four boarding houses, collectively known as "P4".
#7 - His Butler, Descending
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/2025
While Sebastian and Snake are off investigating the Emerald Castle behind Wolfram's back, a werewolf attacks.
#8 - His Butler, Sounding the Alarm
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2025
Wolfram installs the group in the Castle. Ciel and Sullivan sit down to dine, only to receive shocking news.
#9 - His Butler, Assenting
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/15/2024
The truth behind the disappearances of Derrick Arden and the others comes to light. What's more, Ciel discovers that a former Phantomhive ally has been involved all along.
#10 - His Butler, Scheming
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/18/2024
Ciel is chosen to play cricket, but the boys of Sapphire Owl House are the perennial wooden spooners. They've had just one victory in the history of the tournament. Ciel resolves to wrest another victory for his House—without any miracles.
#11 - His Butler, Despairing
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/2025
Sebastian intuits that they are out of time and sternly confronts Ciel.
#12 - His Butler, Colluding
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/4/2024
Ciel wins the P4's trust, but he still can't find a chance to get close to the Head Master. And so he brings up the subject of Derrick Arden with the P4 and their drudges. When he does, the expressions on the prefects' faces change...
#13 - His Butler, Plotting
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/2024
Ciel decides to pay back Maurice Cole for his underhanded trick. Since Maurice lives in a different boarding house, he arranges a special exemption for an acquaintance to be admitted to Weston so that he can monitor Maurice.
#14 - His Butler, Locking Up
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/1/2024
At the boat parade that caps off the cricket tournament, Ciel vows once again to learn the truth and present it to Queen Victoria.
#15 - His Butler, Furious
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/2025
After learning everything there is to know about the mystery, Ciel presses Sullivan to come to a decision.
#16 - His Butler, On Loan
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2025
Sebastian and Ciel pay a price for entering the Werewolves' Forest. Sullivan agrees to help, on one condition.
#17 - His Butler, Having a Laugh
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/2024
His efforts in the cricket tournament having succeeded, Ciel now has an invitation to a tea party sponsored by Weston College's absolute monarch: the Head Master.
#18 - His Butler, Final Match
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/2024
Ciel and the rest of Sapphire Owl House have won their way into the deciding match. As the cricketers exercise their talents to the fullest, Sebastian pursues the Head Master, who has appeared at last.
#19 - His Butler, Doing Fieldwork
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2025
Sebastian and Ciel begin investigating a series of suspicious deaths in Germany at the Queen's request.
#20 - His Butler, Gaining Admittance
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/2024
Ciel hears some promising information: the ever-busy Head Master will be attending Weston's traditional cricket tournament, and evidently the student who exhibits the most sportsmanlike behaviour will be invited to the Head Master's "midnight tea party."
#21 - His Butler, Calling
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/21/2025
Sebastian and the others manage to escape the Werewolves' Forest. Diederich tells Ciel something surprising.
#22 - His Butler, Omnipotent
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2008
Elizabeth, Ciel's fiancee, arrives at the Phantomhive Estate for a visit. While Ciel does not wish to dance with her, Sebastian convinces him to learn to dance for the sake of preserving his social reputation, and teaches him a simple waltz. Later, Elizabeth is unhappy with Ciel wearing his own ring in favour of the one she has brought him, and she breaks Ciel's ring by throwing it on the floor. Ciel comes close to hitting Elizabeth but is stopped by Sebastian, who explains to Elizabeth that Ciel's ring is the Phantomhive family's ring. Elizabeth is upset, but Ciel throws the ring out of the window and declares that he is the head of the Phantomhive family, with or without it. Ciel then wipes Elizabeth's tears away and dances with her. That night, Sebastian finds Ciel depressed in bed and produces Ciel's ring, undamaged. Ciel wonders how many Phantomhives have died wearing the ring. He tells Sebastian to stay by his side until he falls asleep, amusing Sebastian and causing him to comment on Ciel showing his weaknesses to him.
#23 - His Butler, Much Unknown
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/2025
After escaping death, Sebastian and the others reunite, but they're only afforded a brief moment of relief.
#24 - His Butler, Strongest
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2008
Ciel is kidnapped for ransom, but Sebastian easily defeats a mob of underlings, with various kitchen supplies, and retrieves his master.
#25 - His Butler, Able
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2008
Ciel Phantomhive is awakened by his butler, Sebastian Michaelis, who informs Ciel that Damian, the head of one of his factories, is coming for a visit. Sebastian orders the household staff, Baldroy, the cook, Finnian, the gardener, and Mey-Rin, the maid, to prepare for Damian's arrival. However, their attempts result in disaster, as Baldo overcooks the food, Finnian kills the garden by spraying herbicides on it, and Mey-Rin breaks all of the china. To resolve the situation, Sebastian orders them to rearrange the yard into a stone Japanese garden and has Bard make beef tataki. Damian, impressed with the staff's preparations, plays a board game with Ciel in which his character loses his legs and is ultimately incinerated. Following the dinner, Damian calls his associate, commenting that the factory he owns has been sold and he is attempting to fraudulently acquire more money from Ciel. When Damian attempts to return to the lounge, the scenario in the game occurs in real life, as he breaks one of his legs, and Sebastian locks him in the oven, to be burned with the dessert. He later runs away from the mansion.