![]() ![]() Arthur Conan Doyle has gained quite the reputation as the guy who wrote mysteries and got sick of them while no one cared about his historical novels, so this conversation is actually pretty funny. Ciel then says that Arthur should just make a name writing mysteries and that after that the history novels will sell based on his name alone. In chapter 39 of Kuro, Arthur admits to Ciel that he would rather write historical novels instead of detective fiction, but his editors told him historical novels wouldn’t sell.This might seem pretty obvious and yeah it kind of is, but there are a lot of fun little details that relate to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes (The Phantomhive Mansion Murder Arc) Peter and Wendy from Kuro are also trapeze performers, which is the closest thing in a circus to flying. Peter and Wendy from Kuro have a medical condition where their bodies literally “never grow up,” which is something that happens in Peter Pan, but in that story it’s a result of magic instead of biology. Peter and Wendy was originally a play/novel from the early 1900s and (as you’ve probably guessed) was the source material for the 1953 Disney film, Peter Pan. Peter and Wendy (Peter and Wendy from the Circus arc) ![]() These include, but are not limited to, John Webster, John Donne, Emily Bronte, Oscar Wilde, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I’m guessing Yana named Sebastian after this guy.Īll of Snake’s snakes are named after famous canonical writers. ![]() It included a classification/hierarchy of demons that is sometimes referenced in esoteric literature. In the 1600s, a French inquisitor named Sebastien Michaelis co-wrote The Admirable History of Possession and Conversion of a Penitent Woman. The Admirable History of Possession (Sebastian Michaelis) There are a crap ton of references to literature in Kuroshitsuji, and after re-reading all of Kuro I was really motivated to make a giant list of the literary references. ![]()
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