Seraph of the End

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Seraph of the End
Original title 終 わ り の セ ラ フ
transcription Owari no Serafu
genre Fantasy
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Takaya Kagami (idea)
Daisuke Furuya (storyboards)
Illustrator Yamato Yamamoto
publishing company Shūeisha
magazine Jump Square
First publication September 4, 2012 - ...
expenditure 20th
Light novel
title Owari no Seraph: Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Catastrophe
Original title 終 わ り の セ ラ フ 一 瀬 グ レ ン 、 16 歳 の破滅カ タ ス ト ロ フ ィ
transcription Owari no Serafu: Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Katasutorofi
country JapanJapan Japan
author Takaya Kagami
illustrator Yamato Yamamoto
publishing company Kōdansha
First publication January 4, 2013 - December 2, 2016
expenditure 7th
Anime television series
title Seraph of the End - Vampire Reign
Seraph of the End - Battle in Nagoya
Original title 終 わ り の セ ラ フ
終 わ り の セ ラ フ 名古屋 決 戦 編
transcription Owari no Serafu
Owari no Serafu: Nagoya Kessen-hen
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2015
Studio Wit studio
length 25 minutes
Episodes 24 in 2 seasons
Director Daisuke Tokudo
music Hiroyuki Sawano , Takafumi Wada, Asami Tachibana, Megumi Shiraishi
First broadcast April 4th - December 26th, 2015 on Tokyo MX
German-language
first broadcast
May 11, 2016 on ProSieben Maxx
synchronization

Seraph of the End ( Japanese 終 わ り の セ ラ フ , Owari no Serafu , Eng . " Seraph of the End") is a Japanese manga by Takaya Kagami (idea), Daisuke Furuya (storyboards) and Yamato Yamamoto (drawings). The work can be classified in the fantasy genre and is adapted as a light novel and anime , among other things .

action

In 2012, a disaster allegedly caused by a virus killed everyone over the age of 13. Then the vampires came out of hiding and took over the world under the pretext of protecting the children. These only serve the vampires as blood donors. These children include the two orphans Yūichirō Hyakuya ( 百 夜 優 一郎 ) and Mikaela Hyakuya ( 百 夜 ミ カ エ ラ ). Four years later, both now 12 years old, the two of them, with the rest of the children from the orphanage, plan and undertake an escape from the underground city of the vampires to which they were brought. They are provided by the high-ranking vampire Ferid Bathory ( フ ェ リ ド ・ バ ー ト リ ー , Ferido Bātorī ), who causes a slaughter from which only Yūichirō can escape. He decides to take revenge on the vampires for the death of his orphan family, whereby it comes in handy that after his escape he is picked up by Guren Ichinose ( 一 瀬 グ レ ン ), the leader of the "moon hunter unit" ( 月 鬼 ノ 組 ) of the "Japanese Imperial Demon Army" ( 日本 帝 鬼 軍 ), which hunt down vampires using demonic weapons. The real action sets in another four years later. At that time, Yūichirō was already a cadet and thus a member of the army, after saving the lives of several classmates.

But the army does not want to let him participate in the official training yet. Instead, they send the top student Shinoa Hiragi to observe him and to train secretly in team skills, since even with demons the stronger vampires can only be defeated as a team. Yūichirō, who is a very good fighter but a lousy team player, manages to prove himself repeatedly, and he also succeeds in defeating a weaker demon in a kind of test.

Shortly afterwards, he and the said student come to the official training with his only confidante Yoichi Saotome, who is actually quite shy and physically weak. Here Yūichirō meets Shiho Kimiziki, with whom he competes quite often, because he wants to be the strongest for his terminally ill sister. Nevertheless, the two gradually become friends, which often leads to conflicts. One of these conflicts leads Guren to subject all students to the power of his extremely powerful demon. Yūichirō, Yoichi and Shiho are the only students who can withstand this pressure and thus get the chance to make a pact with one of the strongest demons and thus receive a weapon that can also kill vampires. All three make it despite some problems, whereupon they join a team with Shinoa, which is led by Mitsuba Sangu, who is related to Shinoa.

They explore hostile terrain and meet a little girl who is being chased by a monster. Mitsuba forbids to intervene as these monsters are controlled by the vampires and it is obviously a trap. Yūichirō defies the order and saves the girl anyway. As expected, vampires are now attacking. After Yūichirō has killed the monster, the team fights together against the vampires, who ultimately flee. From the girl they learn the position of a sub-camp of the vampires. They finally attack this and free it from the vampires. Shortly afterwards, however, they attack the border wall. The soldiers posted there fail to hold their positions. Coincidentally, Yūichirō's team is also present. Now they meet one of the ancestors, who are the strongest vampires of all, and his two henchmen, who belong to the higher-ranking vampire nobility, i.e. the strongest after the ancestors. However, there is no fight because the ancestor has something to do. Nevertheless, it impressively demonstrates its strength and its absolute superiority over people.

Shortly afterwards, the "Black Demon" unit, the elite of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army, attacks a vampire unit in which there are many noble vampires. Yūichirō and Shinoa are briefly separated from their team, which also belongs to the Black Demon. Yūichirō then rushes to help them, as they are about to attack said unit. When Yūichirō appears in the middle of the battle, it turns out that Bakori, the vampire who has Yūichirō's family on his conscience and also Yūichirō's brother Mika, who is now a vampire, but unlike all other vampires, is also involved in the fighting are. It doesn't look good for people when the ancestor suddenly comes along. Yūichirō is separated from the other people by Mika, who then tries to convince him to flee with them and to warn against the people, since they were responsible for the mass deaths of people and used forbidden magic. When Yūichirō sees that his role model Guten, who saved him back then, is mortally wounded and that his best friends are sucked out by the ancestor and his companions, something breaks inside him. It turns out that the forbidden techniques were used on him and his siblings. Yūichirō loses control and becomes half a "Seraph of the End". He's extremely strong now, but just wants to kill. The ancestor stands in Yūichirō's way, but after a blow that splits a high-rise building, he gives up, but also, the vampires retreat. Yūichirō continues to rage until he is stopped by Shinoa. But before that he almost kills her. Krul Tepes, the vampire queen of Japan and one of the strongest ancestors, then got into trouble because she had the task of destroying all "Seraph of the end".

Publications

Manga

The manga is written by the light novel author Takaya Kagami ( Densetsu no Yūsha no Densetsu , Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi ), whose texts are then implemented in storyboards by Daisuke Furuya and these are finally implemented in drawings by Yamato Yamamoto. The first chapter was published on September 4, 2012 (issue 5/2012) of Shūeisha's manga magazine Jump Square . The individual chapters have so far been summarized in 20 anthologies . The series sold more than 1.8 million times by October 2014.

The manga has been published in German by Kazé Manga since April 2016 in 18 volumes so far.

The manga was licensed in the US by Viz, who have been translating the chapters parallel to their Japanese publication since October 2013 and have published them digitally as part of their online magazine Weekly Shonen Jump under the title Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign , and since then June 3, 2014 the individual volumes.

Next to it appears with Serapuchi! - Owari no Seraph 4-koma Hen ( せ ら ぷ ち! 〜 終 わ り の セ ラ フ 4 コ マ 編 〜 ) a parody drawn by Ren Aoki in Yonkoma format ( comic strip ). This has been published since December 19, 2014 in Jump SQ.19 magazine (Vol. 17) and then switched to Jump Square after its discontinuation with Vol. 18 (February 19, 2015) . The first anthology was published on December 4, 2015.

A manga adaptation of the light novel spin-off Owari no Seraph: Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Catastrophe has been published in Japan by Kōdansha in Gekkan Shōnen Magazine since May 2, 2017 (issue 6/2017) . The chapters drawn by Yō Asami have been summarized in four anthologies so far (as of April 2019).

Light novel

In parallel to the manga, the series of novels Owari no Seraph: Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Catastrophe ( 終 わ り の セ ラ フ 一 瀬 グ レ ン 、 16 歳 の破滅カ タ ス ト ロ フ ィ, Owari no Serafu: ~ Katasutorofi ) written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto. Its plot is scheduled immediately after the apocalypse with Guren Ichinose as protagonist and thus tells the events eight years before the actual plot of the manga. It is completed in seven volumes and has been published in Germany by Kazé Manga under the title Seraph of the End - Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen since December 2017 . The US publisher Vertical has been publishing the series since January 26, 2016.

Another light novel series called Owari no Seraph: Kyūketsuki Mikaela no Monogatari ( 終 わ り の セ ラ フ 吸血鬼 ミ カ エ ラ の 物語 ) by Kagami and Yamamoto has been published in two volumes since December 4, 2015 (as of April 2019).

radio play

On February 1, 2013, the Vomic segment (from voice and comic ) of Shūeisha's Jump TV show Sakiyomi Jum-Bang! on TV Tokyo listed the first episode of a radio play for manga. By the end of August 2013, a total of eight parts had been published on the Vomic website.

Anime

The animation studio Wit Studio adapted the manga, directed by Daisuke Tokudo, who was assisted by Masashi Koizuka. The character design comes from Satoshi Kadowaki. The script for all episodes is by Hiroshi Seko, with the author of the manga Takaya Kagami working on this and also contributing other plot pieces that have not yet been published in the manga.

The 24 episodes were split into two seasons, the first of which was broadcast from April 4 to June 20 and the second - Owari no Seraph: Nagoya Kassen-hen - from October 10 to December 26, 2015 on Tokyo MX , as well as on Mainichi Hōsō , TV Aichi , AT-X and BS11 with an offset of up to a few days .

In Europe, the series was licensed as a simulcast by Viewster , who stream it as Seraph of the End - Vampire Reign or Seraph of the End - Battle in Nagoya parallel to the Japanese broadcast with German, English and Spanish subtitles, while the series in North America from Funimation for the home video market and as a simulcast. ProSieben Maxx showed both seasons on television from May 11 to July 29, 2016 and February 8 to May 3, 2017.

A special episode is to be shown on the Jump Special Anime Festa Tour from November 3rd to 15th in nine Japanese cities.

music

The soundtrack for the series comes from Hiroyuki Sawano , Takafumi Wada, Asami Tachibana and Megumi Shiraishi, the former also acting as the sound producer.

In the first season, the opening title XU is sung by SawanoHiroyuki [nZk]: Gemie and the ending title scaPEGoat is sung by SawanoHiroyuki [nZk]: Yosh. For the second season, Two souls -toward the truth- by fripSide is used in the opening credits and Orarion ( オ ラ リ オ ン ) by Nagi Yanagi is used in the credits .

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
radio play Anime
Yūichirō Hyakuya Romi Park Miyu Irino Karim El Kammouchi
Guren Ichinose Kenji Hamada Yūichi Nakamura Oliver Scheffel
Shinoa Hiiragi Aki Toyosaki Saori Hayami Catherine of Daake
Yoichi Saotome Chikahiro Kobayashi Nobuhiko Okamoto Johannes Wolko
Shihō Kimizuki - Kaito Ishikawa Benjamin Hirt
Mitsuba Sangu - Yuka Iguchi Patricia Strasburger
Mikaela Hyakuya Daisuke Kishio Kensho Ono Felix Mayer
Ferid Bathory Tarusuke Shingaki Takahiro Sakurai Dirk Meyer
Krul Tepes - Aoi Yūki Laura Preiss

The German language version was created in Munich by Violetmedia GmbH .

musical

From February 4 to 11, 2016, a musical version of Owari no Seraph was shown , based on the text and direction by Muck Akazawa. This was performed in the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 終 わ り の セ ラ フ 全 巻 大量 重版 決定! . In: 講 談 社 ラ ノ ベ 文庫 編 集 部 ブ ロ グ . Kōdansha, October 2, 2014, accessed April 6, 2015 (Japanese).
  2. Viz's Weekly Shonen Jump Adds Seraph of the End Manga. In: Anime News Network. October 7, 2013, accessed April 6, 2015 .
  3. ^ New Seraph of the End Novel Series' 1st Volume Listed for December. In: Anime News Network. October 24, 2015, accessed October 29, 2015 .
  4. 鏡 貴 也 × 山 本 ヤ マ ト 「終 わ り の セ ラ フ」 朴 ロ 美 ら で VOMIC に . In: Natalie.mu. January 29, 2013, accessed April 6, 2015 (Japanese).
  5. 『終 わ り の セ ラ フ』 集 英 社 ヴ ォ イ ス コ ミ ッ ク ス テ ー シ ョ ン -VOMIC- . Shūeisha, archived from the original on October 2, 2013 ; Retrieved April 6, 2015 (Japanese).
  6. Spring is Here and So Are TEN New Simulcasts! Viewster, April 9, 2015, accessed April 10, 2015 .
  7. Second season of "Seraph of the End" free in simulcast on Viewster. In: Anime2You. October 11, 2015, accessed October 29, 2015 .
  8. Seraph of the End Gets Original Event Anime. In: Anime News Network. July 31, 2015, accessed October 29, 2015 .
  9. They are the voice actors on "Seraph of the End". In: ProSieben Maxx . ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH, April 27, 2016, accessed on April 29, 2016 .
  10. Synchronized files : "Seraph of the End (2015)" , accessed on February 3, 2016.
  11. Seraph of the End Manga Gets Stage Musical Next February. In: Anime News Network. September 1, 2015, accessed October 29, 2015 .