Seraph of the End

Seraph of the End (Japanese: 終わりのセラフ, Hepburn: Owari no Serafu; also known as Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series. It is written by Takaya Kagami, illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto and features storyboards by Daisuke Furuya. The series is set in a world that allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a "human-made" virus, ravaging the global populace and leaving only children under the age of thirteen untouched. It is at this time that vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth, likely followed by the emergence of vampires and other supernatural entities thought only to be myth. A young man named Yūichirō Hyakuya joins a vampire extermination unit to avenge the deaths of his orphaned family and reclaim his childhood best friend Mikaela Hyakuya from the vampires. It started publishing in Shueisha's Jump SQ in September 2012.

An anime television series adaptation produced by Wit Studio was broadcast in two cours. The anime was split into two cours: the first aired from April to June 2015 and the second from October to December 2015. A series of light novels focused on Yu's superior, Guren Ichinose, have been written by Kagami and illustrated by Yamamoto. In North America, Viz Media licensed the series for an English language release, and it ran in Weekly Shonen Jump. The anime series was licensed by Funimation. It was later broadcast in the United Kingdom on Viceland in February 2018.

By October 2022, the Seraph of the End manga had over 15 million copies in circulation.