Volume 7

Seraph of the End 7 (終わりのセラフ 7) (also known as Seraph of the End, Vol. 7) is the seventh volume to the Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign manga.

Contents

 * 24. The Moon Demon's Orders (月鬼のゴウレイ)


 * 25. Narumi & The 20-Year-Old Yu (鳴海とハタチ)


 * 26. Thirst Logic (血乏するリセイ)


 * 27. Vampire Noble Lucal (貴族のルカル)

Japanese Summary
名古屋出撃命令を受け、優一郎たちは部隊の集結地へ向かう. だが大遅刻をしグレンの怒りを買ってしまう. 隊全体に闘志と緊張が漂う中、遅刻の罰を受けることになる優一郎は!? また作戦を共にする小隊と出会い….

English Summary
Thanks to intelligence acquired by the upper echelons of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army, the human resistance knows that vampire nobles are massing in Nagoya prior to an attack on the human stronghold of Tokyo in one month’s time. Yūichirō's squad joins a secret mission to exterminate them, but the Moon Demon Company is very unimpressed with their lack of polish. Can these rookies prove their worth in real combat?

Characters
List of characters in order of appearance:

Afterword
Hello. I'm Takaya Kagami, author and script writer for this series.

Volume 7 is finally on sale! In the story, the humans have decided to leave Tokyo and go on a journey to the West, to Nagoya. Speeding along in their hip, super-charged sport cars, they raced through Kanagawa Prefecture down into Aichi Prefecture and eventually made it to Nagoya! (Okay, that's not exactly what happened). This is the beginning of their Vampire Noble Extermination Mission.

Meanwhile, the vampires have begun to move East. What will happen next?

In this arc, Yu's present day team finally meets Guren's old team from the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose's Catastrophe at 16 light novels that were published by Kodansha's light novel imprint in Japan. Shinya, Sayuri, Shigure, Goshi and Mito are a veteran team to be revered. Even though they were only teenagers during the catastrophe, they managed to survive the chaos and join forces to eventually meet Yu and his friends. It's a touching story really. For those interested in learning just how touching the story really is, please feel free to check out Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose's Catastrophe at 16, on sale in the Kodansha area of the light novel section in bookstores (enough with the ADs already! Ha!).

Seriously, writing the pre-catastrophe story (with Guren, Shinya and Kureto clashing all throughout high school) really helped me give the scenes in the present-day story this, I dunno, greater tension and depth I'm not sure I would've been able to convey if I had only written the present-day manga storyline.

Every day I can't help but think about how happy and thankful I am that I have gotten to work on this story in this way. I'm very pleased and grateful for this story, but not so much for the deadlines. Especially how tight they are and I'm really starting to feel like they might just kill me so please go easier on me. (Huh?)

Moving on! It's now the time of year when the anime is just about to start! The anime has been put into the hands of a famous studio behind a certain mega-hit series—Wit Studio! Yaaay! Clap, clap, clap. That's great!

By the time this volume comes out, I'm sure everyone will already have seen these characters move around on TV, but I'm already excited for it. It's gonna be awesome! I mean, Wit Studio makes some really great stuff when they put their hearts in it. I had a blast working with them. I can hardly wait to watch the show!

As a side note, after the anime announcement I had a chance to attend a party with serval other creators and publishers. No matter where I went, everybody was like, "Mr. Kagami, I hear that Seraph of the End is being animated by Wit Studio! That's amazing! Congratulations! I'm so jealous!"

It has really helped me come to understand just how incredible and well-regarded Wit Studio is. All the staff members I worked with were excited and passionate. During meetings and email exchanges, everything they sent back to me for approvals were amazing. It was an all around great experience.

Not only is the studio amazing, but we also got an all-star lineup of voice actors being announced one after the other. At the moment, here are the voice actors we can confirm:


 * Yūichirō Hyakuya: Miyu Irino
 * Mikaela Hyakuya: Kenshō Ono
 * Guren Ichinose: Yūichi Nakamura
 * Ferid Bathory: Takahiro Sakurai
 * Shinoa Hīragi: Saori Hayami
 * Yoichi Saotome: Nobuhiko Okamoto
 * Shihō Kimizuki: Kaito Ishikawa
 * Mitsuba Sangū: Yuka Iguchi

The first season will premiere in Japan in April 2015 and the second season will premiere in October 2015.

I hope you will read both the Seraph of the End manga and the light novels while you're waiting for the anime to premiere. Please look forward to it!

— Takaya Kagami