Volume 01

Seraph of the End 1 (終わりのセラフ 1) (also known as Seraph of the End, Vol. 1) is the first volume to the Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign manga.

Contents

 * 1. The World of Blood Legacy (血脈のセカイ)


 * 2. Humanity After the Fall (破滅後のニンゲン)


 * 3. The Demon in Your Heart (心に棲むオニ)

Japanese Summary
未知のウイルスにより人類は壊滅、子供だけが生き残り、地下都市で吸血鬼に支配されていた. 勝気な少年・百夜優一郎は仲間たちの犠牲のもと、ただ一人脱出に成功、復讐を誓う. 優一郎が見た新しい地上の世界とは!?

English Summary
''After trumpets of the apocalypse proclaim the fall of humanity, vampires arise from the shadows to rule the earth. Yūichirō wants just one thing — to get revenge by killing each and every vampire.''

Yūichirō's dream of killing all vampires is near-impossible, given that vampires are seven times stronger than humans, and the only way to kill them is by mastering Cursed Gear, advanced demon-possessed weaponry. Not to mention that humanity's most elite Vampire Extermination Unit, the Moon Demon Company, wants nothing to do with Yūichirō unless he can prove he's willing to work in a team — which is the last thing he wants!

Characters
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Afterword
Hello. Nice to meet you. I'm Takaya Kagami, author of novels such as The Legend of the Legendary Heroes and A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives for the fantasia bunko label. Jump Square asked me to pen the original script for this story. I hope you enjoy it.

I think my editor and I got a little too excited about this project. For just the first chapter, there were four different versions and fifteen different drafts. It was so ridiculous it took a year and half to complete. We had Mr. Furuya, who was storyboarding for Kure-nai at the time, draw content for this over and over. We asked Mr. Yamamoto for feedback multiple times. I blew deadlines for Legend and Dark Rabbit again and again, thinking the whole time 'oh no, I've announced something everyone's going to get really mad at me for' but somehow, here we are. I pray it is something readers will love for a long time to come.

By the way, to those of you thinking "who cares about this Kagami guy, give us more art by Yamato Yamamoto!"—I understand. However, Mr. Yamamoto is currently busy enough to explode, illustrating both Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign and Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose's Catastrophe at 16 at the same time. Accordingly, I decided to write this afterword. Still, I off-handedly mentioned that I have come up with a few ideas, and it would be great if he could flesh them out in four-panel comics. He agreed! So there will be two four-panel comics on the next page.

So anyway, we all plan on giving it our best, so I hope you keep reading!

Oh! and we're releasing the novel series simultaneously with the manga. It features fifteen-year-old Guren as the main character and chronicles the last eight months before the end of the world. Check it out!

— Takaya Kagami