Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign ends on December 4 after 14 years

Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign (Owari no Seraph) will end on December 4. The final chapter will appear in the next issue of Jump SQ., according to the December issue of Shueisha's magazine.

The work by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, and Daisuke Furuya, who handles the storyboards, closes fourteen years of serialization. The manga started in 2012 and says goodbye with the 37th compiled volume, although Shueisha has not yet announced the exact release date for that final volume.

Volume 36 was published on May 1. Before that, on November 10, the English edition of volume 35 is scheduled.

An ending that comes after more than a decade

The story takes place in a world devastated by an unknown virus that kills almost the entire adult human population. The surviving children fall under the rule of a vampire society that enslaves them. Among them is Yūichirō Hyakuya, a young man determined to become strong enough to exterminate them all.

The plot combines action, supernatural horror, military conflicts, and family drama. Yūichirō's desire for revenge is tied to the losses he suffered in childhood, but also to the bonds he builds with other humans and to the secrets surrounding the origin of the catastrophe. The war between humans and vampires rests on an uncomfortable detail: neither side holds all the information about the disaster that destroyed civilization.

VIZ Media distributes the series in North America in print and digital. VIZ Media and MANGA Plus also publish digital chapters simultaneously with Japan, which has allowed international readers to follow the final stretch almost at the same time as the Japanese audience.

From the anime to the novels and the musical

The manga inspired a 12-episode TV anime series that began airing in April 2015. A second season of another 12 episodes, Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya, premiered in October of the same year and expanded the conflict between human squads and vampire forces. Funimation streamed both seasons as they aired in Japan and later released them on home video. Although the anime ended in 2015, the manga continued developing the story for years: the printed ending marks the definitive close of the main plot.

The universe of the series also expanded with the Guren Ichinose novels. Catastrophe at Sixteen explores the character's past before the events of the manga, with a manga adaptation by Yo Asami that ended in February 2022 with its 12th volume. In 2017, Kagami started another novel series, Guren Ichinose: Resurrection at Nineteen, with illustrations by Asami and published in English by Kodansha USA Publishing. The franchise also had a musical adaptation.

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