Soma is a fabulous character if only because he irritates Ciel so much. That boy needs to loosen up.



I do enjoy the contrast between the realistic linework and their exaggerated chibi reaction figures. This mangaka has excellent style, no doubt about it.

In the last chapter we discover a bit more of how Ciel came to meet Sebastian and strike his disturbing Faustian contract, done with both intense artistic flair and horrifying background context. This was inserted into the narrative much more cohesively than the scene in Volume 1 with Elizabeth and the Phantomhive ring; that was a little too crass for my tastes. Ciel softens a tiny bit in the telling (lord knows the kid never really shared his trauma with anyone but those who dealt it out) and Soma is given new purpose.

Onward and upward. Or downward, given we're speaking of demons.