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Black Butler: Book of Circus 30-Second Commercial Streamed

Aniplex began streaming a commercial for the Black Butler: Book of Circus television series this Friday. The commercial confirms that the anime will premiere on July 10 on MBS and also run on TBS, CBC, and BS-TBS.

Aside from the upcoming new television series, an original video anime (OVA) titled Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder is also in producion. The OVA will be screened in Japanese movie theaters this fall.

The cast and staff for the new projects includes:

Daisuke Ono as Sebastian Michaelis
Maaya Sakamoto as Ciel Phantomhive
Mamoru Miyano as Joker
Ayahi Takagaki as Doll
Yūko Kaida as Beast
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Dagger
Takuma Terashima as Snake
Hiroki Touchi as Baldroy
Yūki Kaji as Finnian
Emiri Katō as Mey Rin
Shunji Fujimura as Mr. Tanaka
Noriaki Sugiyama as William T. Spears
KENN as Ronald Knox
Jun Fukuyama as Grelle Sutcliff
Shinnosuke Tachibana as Soma Asman Kadar
Hiroki Yasumoto as Agni
Yukari Tamura as Elizabeth Midford
Kōji Yusa as Lau
Sayuri Yahagi as Ran-Mao
Junichi Suwabe as Undertaker
Hisayoshi Suganuma as Fred Abberline
Yūki Tai as Peter
Mayumi Shintani as Wendy
Yoshihiro Koyanagi as Jumbo
Ryōhei Kimura as Charles Grey
Tomoaki Maeno as Charles Phips

Director: Noriyuki Abe
Series Composition: Hiroyuki Yoshino
Scripts: Hiroyuki Yoshino, Ichiro Okouchi, Yuka Miyata
Character Design/Storyboard Director: Minako Shiba
Sub Character Design: Senri Kawaguchi
Art Director: Manabu Otsuzuki
Color Key: Kanako Hokari
Director of Photographer: Nozomi Shitara
Editing: Masahiro Gotō
Music: Yasunori Mitsuda
Sound Director: Katsuyoshi Kobayashi
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures

SID will return to perform the series' opening theme, "Enamel," and Akira of the band Disacode will make her solo debut performing the series' ending theme.

The manga debuted in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy magazine in 2006, and Square Enix will publish the 19th volume on June 27. The first 17 volumes have more than 18 million copies in print, including those published in 42 countries and territories. The manga already inspired a television anime series in 2008 and a stage play in 2009. A second television series followed in 2010 with a new butler and master. The manga won the top prize in the shōnen manga category of France's Japan Expo Awards in 2010 and the Best International Manga Award in Germany's ANImagic in 2011.

[Via Otakomu]