Black Butler: Book of Circus - Recommendations

• One Shot
• 2015

The year is 189X. Lurking in the shadows of London's streets, a terrifying epidemic threatens to plunge the city into chaos. Tempted by their hidden desires, its inhabitants are transformed into inhuman creatures known as Doppelgangers. At the heart of the struggle against these monsters are Nero Morely and Abby Brighton, two secret agents who may find that the brightest light casts the longest shadow.

• Vol: 1
• 2005

Ann Hardy is gentle, loyal young maid who starts working for a slightly eccentric middle-aged gentleman named Victor Glenn who lost his beloved wife to disease. Soon, Ann's sweet smile wins Victor over, and the two gradually become closer... but between them stands the staunch wall of "social status." 

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2008

Putting aside his feelings, when Sora found out that his childhood friend Rui got divorced, he decided to pay him a visit. After meeting for the first time in six months, Rui's overbearing way had not changed. Will he unreasonably decide to live together like they used to, ignorant of Sora's feelings!?

• Vol: 1+
• 2022 - ?

The story is set in a vividly depicted 19th century England, where the search for a father begins in the 19th century, with a penniless man who has no clues. Rone, a Canterbury girl, is separated from her father on a train heading to London. Set in London, Rone's search for her father begins with a story of "homeless, penniless, and without a clue," making full use of the survival techniques learned from her father!

• Vol: 5; Ch: 25
• 2020 - 2022

A string of gruesome incidents all lead back to a single boy who was born into a world where chaos, order, wealth, and poverty are all deeply intertwined. What fate awaits him in the end?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 19
• 2014

In a remote English village, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, a not-so-well-to do country squire and his wife, must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the very center of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter, Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Mister Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the story to its magnificent conclusion.

• Vol: 4+; Ch: 17+
• 2015 - ?

British Empire under the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century. The stage is "Bray Rock Antique Store" like a graveyard, with a store in one corner of Imperial City London. Inside the store, there is a brooding young store owner "Bray Rock" and an innocent girl "Rila" who knows nothing. “Nancy,” a flower seller who visits the store every day to deliver flowers, touches the mystery of “Lilith,” the first witch of mankind, hidden behind the store one day!

• Vol: 8; Ch: 48
• 2001 - 2004

A grotesque gift holds a clue to the Cain's family past; a mortician's daughter has deadly designs on one of Cain's closest friends; and a woman from Riff's past may have murder on her mind.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2011 - 2012

Son of the marquis, Nicholas has strawberry-red hair, honey-yellow eyes, and syrupy smooth skin. At his side at all times is Eim, his butler. Though Nicholas has already grown up, Eim still loyally bathes his master. One night, Eim walks in on Nicholas fantasizing about his butler's true feelings...

• Vol: 3; Ch: 12
• 2015 - 2016

The Empire of Corpses is a story that takes place in 19th century Europe, and revolves around John Watson, who is scouted by the government to become a secret agent. However, Watson lives in a world where "Frankensteins"—human corpses that are re-purposed with a false soul in order to use them as labourers—are used to improve industrial development.