Volume 02

Seraph of the End 2 (終わりのセラフ 2) (also known as Seraph of the End, Vol. 2) is the second volume to the Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign manga.

Contents

 * 4. The Worst Pair (不倶戴天の敵)


 * 5. Vampire Mikaela (ミカエラ吸血鬼)


 * 6. Black Asura (漆黒のアシュラ)


 * 7. New Family (新しいカゾク)

Japanese Summary
ついに月鬼ノ組の研修生になった優一郎. だがクラスには君月という問題児が…. 二人は上位の鬼呪装備獲得に向け争うが!? 一方、死亡したはずのミカエラが、成長した姿で地上に出現！　その存在は正か邪か!?

English Summary
Now that Yūichirō has earned his place in the Japanese Imperial Demon Army, he prepares to undergo a fiendish test to acquire the most powerful and deadly of humanity’s weapons against vampires — Black Demon Series Cursed Gear. Meanwhile, the vampire nobility welcome a new member — Mika, the best friend Yūichirō thinks died in their escape but who has his own bitter story of survival.

Characters
List of characters in order of appearance:

Afterword
Hello. I'm Takaya Kagami, author of Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign. It seems writing the afterword has fallen to me again.


 * ED: If we don't have someone do an afterword, we won't have any bonus content at all in this volume.


 * TK: What? Yeah, that's not good...


 * ED: So get to it, okay? We need two bonus pages and three pages of afterword.


 * TK: Yikes! That's a lot!

And that's how I wound up with it. What do you all think about having a novel-like afterword stuck at the end of a manga? Wouldn't you rather not read pages full of nothing but words? That's what I thought, at least, but I hope you'll stick with me.

Still, when I'm not working on Seraph, I do other normal author things, so I've written tons of afterwords (if you put every one I wrote together, I think it would be about two full books' worth).

But despite how many of them I've done, they're still hard for me. Sometimes, I think I'll write about what's happening in my daily life, but all I do is write at home or at a restaurant, so nothing interesting there. But I want to write interesting things! I thought if I wrote an afterword about something interesting, then maybe people would think I was a great creative writer! That thought had me motivated for about five minutes. Then I realized I probably couldn't do it, so I gave up. I mean, the deadline was looming and all.

By the way, I've learned Weekly Shonen Jump will be running a one-shot chapter of Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign soon. For real! Isn't that awesome?! It was, of course, directly after that sudden offer that this afterword came up and, well, for Daisuke Furuya, Yamato Yamamoto and I, our schedules just kinda exploded. We were all like...


 * DF: What, wait...you're going to try to write an afterword when you have this kind of schedule?!


 * ED: Aaaah!! Can you do it, Mr. Kagami?! Can you manage it?!


 * TK: Auugh!! Hold it! Hang on! Lemme go to talk to my other editors for my other books and try to shift my schedule...!!


 * YY: By the way, just so you know, I'm totally swamped. I've hit my limit!


 * TK: Oh no no no! I can't fill it all out with just my writing! I need some chibi characters! Just four! Can you give me four?!


 * YY: Four?! Yikes! Make it two! Only two!


 * TK: Gaaaah!!


 * ED: C'mon, everyone! We'll pull through this!

So yeah. I'm sorry for the long and wordy afterword, but we had space to fill. But it does mean there's more manga coming for you to read elsewhere. I hope you're looking forward to it!

Oh, and one more thing! I should probably say something as novel-writer me, and not manga-script writer me. I hope you're also enjoying the novel Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose's Catastrophe at 16!

See you in volume 3!

P.S. - I hate deadlines.

— Takaya Kagami