Seraph of the End | |
![]() Cover of the first manga volume featuring Yūichirō | |
終わりのセラフ (Owari no Serafu) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Takaya Kagami |
Illustrated by | Yamato Yamamoto |
Published by | Shueisha |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Jump Comics SQ. |
Magazine | Jump Square |
English magazine | |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | September 4, 2012 – present |
Volumes | 32 |
Light novels | |
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Manga | |
Serapetit! Seraph of the End four-frame manga | |
Written by |
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Illustrated by | Ren Aokita |
Published by | Shueisha |
Magazine |
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Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | December 19, 2014 – December 4, 2015 |
Volumes | 1 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Daisuke Tokudo |
Written by | Hiroshi Seko |
Music by |
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Studio | Wit Studio |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, MBS, TVA, BS11, AT-X, TV Asahi Channel 1 |
English network | |
Original run | April 4, 2015 – December 26, 2015 |
Episodes | 24 |
Manga | |
Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen | |
Written by | Takaya Kagami |
Illustrated by | Yo Asami |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Magazine |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | June 6, 2017 – February 4, 2022 |
Volumes | 11 |
Video game | |
Seraph of the End: Bloody Blades | |
Developer | Bandai Namco Entertainment |
Genre | RPG |
Platform | iOS, Android |
Released | September 28, 2015 |
Video 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 | Hironori Aoyagi |
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Studio | Wit Studio |
Released | May 2, 2016 |
Runtime | 23 minutes |
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. 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 childhood best friend Mikaela Hyakuya from the vampires. It started publishing in Shueisha's Jump SQ in September 2012.
An anime television series adaptation produced by Wit Studio was broadcast in two cours. The first cour aired from April to June 2015. The second cour aired from October to December 2015. A series of light novels focused on Yu's superior, Guren Ichinose, has been written by Kagami and illustrated by Yamamoto. In North America, Viz Media licensed the series for an English language release, and it ran in Weekly Shonen Jump. The anime series was licensed by Funimation. It was later broadcast in the United Kingdom on Viceland in February 2018.
By October 2021, the Seraph of the End manga had over 13 million copies in circulation.
Yamamoto and Kagami launched the dark fantasy series in Shueisha's Jump Square magazine in fall 2012
Post-apocalyptic vampire manga also inspired 2 anime seasons, Jump event anime