Live action Kuroshitsuji movie in the works!

Live-action NANA movie director Kentaro Otani and anime director Keiichi Satou (Tiger & Bunny, Karas) will co-direct a live-action feature film based on Yana Toboso’s supernatural adventure manga “Black Butler” (Kuroshitsuji). Hiro Mizushima (Beck, Zettai Kareshi) will star as the demonic butler Sebastian Michaelis in an original story set 130 years after the events of the manga. The movie will begin filming in April for a summer release.

Interesting to say the least.

 Source: AnimeNation

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Whereas the 56th volume of Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga ranked at #3. The other two manga volumes in the top 20 are the 62nd volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece (#13) and the ninth volume of Yana Toboso's Black Butler (#16). The same volume of Black Butler had ranked at #14 in April.

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