Picked up Volume 2 of Black Butler and I continue to be pretty impressed. The art is totally awesome, and it's cool to see Sebastian's point of view on certain things, and why he has such a cat fetish--which was never really explained in the anime. One thing that really annoyed me was the the English text wasn't centered in the speech bubbles. I know this is a really anal, nitpicky thing, but it really bothers me when the text in a speech bubble doesn't look good. Especially since it's not hard to place text centered with software.

This volume also included the Jack the Ripper arc, and introduced some of my favorite characters in the series: Undertaker and Grell. However, in terms of storytelling point goes to the anime. The anime did a much better job in terms of timing, in both in terms of comedy and drama. In the anime Grell was introduced much earlier in the series, so you got a chance to know him, and therefore it was much more shocking when he transformed. Also, because the Jack the Ripper arc lasted several episodes (about 5, I believe) there was much more time to set up the suspects, the evidence and the drama, compared to the 3 chapters that took place in the manga. And also, the Ciel 'dream sequence', one of the single funniest scenes in the entire series was much, much funnier in the anime. Though, I give 400 bonus points to the translators of the manga for their choice in dialog, they really took advantage of some very suggestive English dialog to really fool the reader if they were unfamiliar with the series. I really do think the English dialog worked out a bit better than Japanese, as in the Japanese Ciel just said he's having a hard time breathing.

Gah! Now I have to wait until October for volume 3 to come out.