Seraph of the End | |
Cover of the first Japanese volume of Seraph of the End
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終わりのセラフ (Owari no Serafu) |
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Genre | Action, Dark fantasy |
Manga | |
Written by | Takaya Kagami |
Illustrated by | Yamato Yamamoto |
Published by | Shueisha |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Jump SQ |
English magazine | |
Original run | September 3, 2012 – present |
Volumes | 13 |
Light novels | |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Daisuke Tokudo |
Written by | Hiroshi Seko |
Music by |
Hiroyuki Sawano Takafumi Wada Asami Tachibana Megumi Shiraishi |
Studio | Wit Studio |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, MBS, TVA, BS11, AT-X, TV Asahi Channel 1 |
Original run | April 4, 2015 – December 26, 2015 |
Episodes | 24 |
Manga | |
Serapetit!〜Seraph of the End four-frame manga〜 | |
Written by |
Takaya Kagami Yamato Yamamoto Daisuke Furuya |
Illustrated by | Ren Aokita |
Published by | Shueisha |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Jump SQ |
Original run | April 2015 – present |
Volumes | 1 |
Game | |
Seraph of the End: Bloody Blades | |
Developer | Bandai Namco Entertainment |
Genre | RPG |
Platform | iOS, Android |
Released | September 28, 2015 |
Game | |
Owari no Seraph: Unmei no Hajimari | |
Developer | Bandai Namco Entertainment |
Genre | TRPG |
Platform | PlayStation Vita |
Released | December 17, 2015 |
Original video animation | |
Seraph of the End: Vampire Shahal | |
Directed by | Hironori Aoyagi |
Written by | Attatory |
Studio | Wit Studio |
Released | May 2, 2016 |
Seraph of the End (Japanese: 終わりのセラフ Hepburn: Owari no Serafu?) (also known as Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto with storyboards by Daisuke Furuya. It is published by Shueisha on Jump SQ and in English by Viz Media on Weekly Shonen Jump. The series is set in a world that allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a "human-made" virus, ravaging the global populace and leaving only children under the age of thirteen untouched. It is at this time that vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth, likely followed by age-old horrors of the dark thought only to be myth. A young man named Yūichirō Hyakuya joins a vampire extermination unit to avenge the deaths of his orphaned family and reclaim his best friend Mikaela Hyakuya from the vampires. An anime adaptation by Wit Studio was announced on August 28, 2014. The first part of the anime premiered in Japan on April 4, 2015 and ended on June 20, 2015. The second part of the anime began on October 10, 2015 and finished on December 26, 2015. A series of light novels focused on Yu's superior, Guren Ichinose, has been written by Kagami and illustrated by Yamamoto.
In 2012, the world allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a "human-made" virus, ravaging the global populace and leaving only children under the age of thirteen untouched. It is, at this time, that vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth, likely followed by age-old horrors of the dark thought only to be myth. The vampires sweep the earth and claim it in a single violent stroke, subjugating the remnants of humanity and leading them beneath the surface to safety. This "protection" comes at the price of donating blood to their captors. At the age of twelve, Yūichirō and his friend and fellow orphan Mikaela plotted to escape along with the children in Hyakuya Orphanage. However, this resulted in their deaths and Mikaela sacrifices himself in order for Yūichirō to escape and be saved by members of the Moon Demon Company, an extermination unit of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army. Four years later, Yūichirō dedicates his life to destroy vampires and seek revenge against them for murdering his "family." At the same time, it is revealed that Mikaela is still alive and is a vampire that Yūichirō has sworn to exterminate.