<P> Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic (Japanese: 劇場 版 「 黒 執事 Book of the Atlantic 」, Hepburn: Gekijō - ban Kuroshitsuji: Book of the Atlantic) is a 2017 Japanese animated film based on the Black Butler manga series written and illustrated by Yana Toboso . The film was produced by A-1 Pictures, directed by Noriyuki Abe and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, featuring character designs by Minako Shiba and music by Yasunori Mitsuda . It premiered in Japan on January 21, 2017 . </P> <P> A few months after its Japanese release, Funimation announced that they had licensed and would screen the film in a limited theatrical release in North America later in June of that year . </P> <P> Ciel, Sebastian and Snake board the luxury liner Campania on her maiden voyage to investigate the mysterious Aurora Society, who is rumored to perform experiments to raise the dead . Onboard the ship, is also Elizabeth, her older brother and parents as well . While sneaking on a meeting of the Aurora Society, where they have a short meeting with Undertaker, Ciel and Sebastian witness doctor Rian Stoker use a machine to reanimate a dead woman, who starts attacking the attendants . Ciel chases after Stoker but meets Elizabeth and Snake instead on the ship's cargo, where they find several other reanimated corpses who attack them, but Sebastian appears in the nick of time to rescue them . Once interrogating Stoker, Ciel discovers that a larger batch of corpses is stored in another place of the ship, as they also awaken and attack the ship's crew and passengers . Amidst the chaos, the ship crashes on an iceberg and starts sinking . </P> <P> While attempting to escape, Ciel, Elizabeth and Sebastian are approached by Grell Sutcliff and Ronald Knox, who despite being onboard the ship to investigate the Aurora Society as well, attack Sebastian for being a demon . The two reapers distract Sebastian while Elizabeth and an injured Ciel are about to be overrun by the monsters when Elizabeth decides to make use of her fencing skills to dispatch them with ease . While the reapers give up on fighting Sebastian to look for Stoker, Ciel and the others reach Elizabeth's family as they prepare to evacuate the ship . After leaving Elizabeth and Snake with them, Ciel and Sebastian return to confront Stoker as well and discover that the whole incident was orchestrated by Undertaker, who reveals that he is a retired reaper and that he arranged for the Aurora Society to get their hands on the process to reanimate corpses as part of his own experiment . </P>

When will book of the atlantic be dubbed