User blog comment:Jwjchsr/Anime Hopes and Expectations./@comment-25942629-20150227162445

1.  I'm expecting great action scenes and desperately hoping for good voice acting and etc. I hope the anime closely follows the manga. Unlike Attack on Titan, Seraph's manga art is out of this world, so making it up to par will be a great challenge for Wit.

2.  I believe it may become -the- anime of 2015. The series is very popular in Japan, especially in Jump SQ, even without an anime backing it up. I believe the series just appears less popular in the west because we're more anime-focused. The anime will boost its popularity big time either way, and I think it will leave a major impact in the west. Some other popular series like Shokugeki no Soma/Food Wars! Parasyte is already a hit. I believe The Heroic Legend of Arslan is getting an anime, too. Many sequels to popular anime are also going to come out like Kuroko's Basket 2 or whatever. The competition may be tough. I think Seraph may be the surprise underdog since it's still a relatively new series.

3.  I think... I will. I've seen some pretty atrocious anime. I even watched the end of the Blue Exorcist anime even though I knew better.

4.  Yes. I'm easy to disappoint. The first anime art shown lowered my expectations quite a bit, but everything will look better with movement. The subsequent art is better, and it's all in a different medium, so... I'm just keeping my expectations low because I know how I am. If I have too high of expectations, I'll be too busy criticizing the damn thing the whole time and won't enjoy it.

5.  Yes. Western audiences tend to watch anime more. The scanlations for the manga really haven't helped it on scanlation sites, although I appreciate the various teams' efforts. It just looks like a tricky manga to translate. The English editor for it in WSJ is fluent and Japanese and very skilled at what she does, so that really shows through. Although it's done extremely well in EWSJ, most people who read manga do it on scanlation sites, so that's a big bulk of possible fans. The anime will definitely increase the popularity. I'm a Wiki n00b, so I'm not sure if users on here will increase a whole lot. My friend joined here because it really needed work, and I finally joined during my December break to fix it up. I've never messed with a Wiki other than this one, and I only bothered because it desperately needed help.

6.  I've been a subscriber to EWSJ for many years, so I first saw Seraph when they began publishing it in there. The first thing that impressed me was the artwork--I couldn't recall seeing children in manga drawn that well before. The hint about child prostitution in the first chapter caught my attention, too. I like dark and twisted things. The second chapter through me off with a "wtf did this school plot even come from." The third chapter was meh, but the ending of it was what actually got me intriqued with the series. I realized it had a mystery genre to it, even though that wasn't overt. I saw Mika as a vampire, but he was older. He also appeared to have both arms attached. I knew for sure that vampires do not age in this series, so I was confused and had a blast trying to figure out what the hell happened. Was he turned into a vampire back then and somehow aged, or did it happen more recently? Did Ferid do it? Was everything that happened plotted by Mika and Ferid? Etc. I still think many of the characters are weak or superficial, but Mika has so much depth that he's like a real person. I love Shinoa, too. She reminds me of my friends growing up. Her humor is natural and realistic. There was also the plot twist when it was revealed that everything Mika said about the humans using Yu was the truth, and Yu was just oblivous to it. I'd originally thought Mika had been brain-washed or that he didn't know the complete story. In reality, Mika has the clearest view about what is going on. Who exactly are the good guys?

Now, it looks like everything that happened in chapter 1 was probably planned by Ferid and the JIDA. How could a 7th Progenitor be shot by a normal gun at any range? We've seen them fight. Ferid even saw the bullet coming, so we'd have to presume he let himself get shot on purpose. Even Krul mentioned it. Why? To send one of the seraph kids (or both) to the JIDA. He says Mika approached him (we don't know the details, though), but he probably targeted the kids from that orphanage from the start. Whatever he did behind the scenes to Mika was bad enough to drive Mika to flee into an above-ground world he believed was completely barren of life where he would be destined to die wtihin a year from the virus anyway. Mika happened to take his family along. Either Mika or Yu would be fine if they reached the surface. By slaughtering the others, Ferid instilled a hatred of vampires into them. This way, whichever one reached the surface would hate vampires with every part of their being and would willingly be trained by the JIDA and undergo whatever experimentation they wanted. Ferid made it so that the survivor would choose to be used by the JIDA. I think he only reflexively cut off Mika's arm because Mika surprised him.

In the end, Yu was given to Guren, the top experimental researcher. Whether he is the one working directly with Ferid or if Kureto or someone else in the JIDA is, I don't know yet. Guren would be the most capable of making something out of the seraph of the end, so he's the best for this kind of job. If the upper brass have been manipulating him, they are acting like they haven't. Ferid also avoided the opportunity to kill Guren (his hand was around his neck) on the battlefield, which is pretty suspicious unless he really wants to make Mika kill Guren or something instead.

So it looks like the JIDA that Yu works for might actually be the ones responsible for killing his family. He's been working for the people who ordered the death of his family for the past 4 years and has no idea about it. And it looks like they just killed his family in order to manipulate him into doing so. Talk about using a person...

The series is difficult to predict, but I'm looking forward to see what I've deduced correctly.

It's also kinda funny/sick/ironic that Kureto has been sending human children as "spies" to Ferid (he literally strolls the streets looking for them) when they appear to actually be his payment for information. The kids are really just a trade item in exchange for intel, but they'd probably be disgusted if they realized the truth.

I like how everyone has hidden intentions and secrets and how nothing is like what it seems. Although this is a vampire series, it's more of a war series. It has many parallels with the American Civil War between the north and south, but it's more than just that. It is loaded with racism and discrimination.

I also love the vampire culture here. I've never seen anything quite like it.

Anyway, I'll restrain myself here.... >.>;