Seraph of the End-Kıyamet Meleği Cilt 1

終わりのセラフ [Owari no Seraph] #1

by Takaya Kagami

Gizemli bir virüs dünyaya yayıldı ve 13 yaşın üzerindeki herkesin ölümüne neden oldu. Vampirler karanlık köşelerinden çıktılar ve hayatta kalan çocukları yer altının karanlığına mahkûm ettiler.



Arkadaşlarının fedakârlığı sayesinde vampirlerin elinden kurtulan Yuiçiro’yu bekleyen büyük sürprizler var. Yuiçiro vampirlerden intikamını almak istiyor ancak insanlardan yedi kat daha güçlü olan vampirleri dize getirmek, onun için belki de asla gerçekleşmeyecek bir rüyadan ibaret olabilir.

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Vampires, Graphic Novels, Comics, Shonen, Action

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 2013

About the author

Also known as 鏡貴也.

Reviews

[Will M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This reminds me of my favorite manga/anime, Blue Exorcist. I like how the main character is a stubborn kid fuelled by revenge. The plot seems promising and the set of characters are interesting. I can't wait for him to get his weapon. I used to read a lot of angel/demon related books, so I have a feeling that I'm going to enjoy this series.

3/5 stars. The plot and characters are still very undeveloped, but hopefully as the series goes on both aspects would improve.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seraph of the End could best be described as a guilt pleasure. It has a few nigh-fatal flaws, but it can be enjoyable if you can look past its flaws. It has clean, attractive art and character designs. It's quickly paced, so the more annoying segments don't linger for too long. The action scenes are well staged and some of Seraph's greatest strengths. Oh, and it's got really cool weapons. I'm a sucker for cool weapons. Like, seriously, check out this scythe!

I think this scythe is my second favorite character.

But what are those flaws I mentioned? The largest is the alternately boring or irksome characters. A typical shounen protagonist that you've seen characterized better in other manga; hypocritical superiors who spout one idea and do the opposite; teammates who all have variations of the same tragic back story that I don't care enough to remember. Poor characters can be looked past, though. The more annoying flaw is the immediate focus on friendship and the setting it uses for this. The first chapter uses extreme violence to set up a brutal tone, but the next few try to lighten the mood. That only archives an awkward tone shift. So you want to fight in the post-apocalyptic war for the survival of humanity? Oh, then I guess we'll have to send you to high school!

... No, seriously! It wastes multiple chapters on teaching the protagonist about the importance of teamwork by making him go to school and make a friend. Ugh, what is with Japan and middle/high schools? It seems like a school setting is crammed into anything! Anywho, like I mentioned, the pacing is quick so it doesn't waste too much time in the school setting, but it comes so early in the series than it can turn a lot of people away from reading more.

Seraph's ultimate saving grace is that it has progressively improved over the 13 or so chapters/4-ish volumes that I've read (I've been reading it in Weekly Shounen Jump). Conflict-wise, it starts very black and white. Vampires evil, humans good. But it soon becomes more complex as doubts are cast on both sides of the war. It doesn't take long to introduce a character who makes future events impossible to predict. If this improvement continues, Seraph of the End could end up being a really good series, and it has the potential to be really awesome. If it regresses, well, it still has really cool action scenes.

[Mal · Rating 5 out of 5]

ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ, ʏᴜᴜ. ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ғᴀᴍɪʟʏ.

[Lucy Tonks (the invisible life of a reader) · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is what happens when you watch an anime that is not finished
you go read the manga 😃 which is also not finished but that's a problem for future me

[Alexis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I finished season one of the anime last month and I'm currently watching the second and I LOVE it. It's such a wonderful series and I can't get enough of it. I picked up the manga so I can get more of it. The manga didn't disappoint and I can't wait to start the next volume. SO GOOD.

[Joana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mika... My Mika doesn't deserve any of this shit.

Mika & Yuu are OTP!!

[Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Lt. Colonel Guren told me something. He said that when you were a child, your entire family was slaughtered by vampires. And that is why you refuse to get close to anyone. You're afraid to lose someone again. So you don't look for friends or romance...because you're too scared."
-Shinoa Hiragi

Yuichiro, or Yu, was almost killed by his father, and his mother went crazy, calling him "demon spawn." The woman who was supposed to devoutly love him eventually committed suicide, and his father attempted to murder him, the person who was supposed to always protect him in life. As a result of this messed up situation between his parents, he is sent to an orphanage. It is here that all of the children quickly take to him like they do to all of the new arrivals and immediately consider him part of their nonbiological yet true family. Yu is then approached by the charismatic and "big brother" of the group, Mikaela. Seeing as they are both eight, the oldest of all the boys and girls in the orphanage, they are looked up to by all. While Mikaela stresses that they are all family, Yu states that he "doesn't want some stupid family." This simple word that is so full of meaning proves to be of absolutely no significance to him. However, he soon finds out that all of the children have had horrible family lives previous to their current situation, just like he did. That is why they always stick together. Shocked and now deepened by a bond, Yu is slightly less hardened to them, but he never lets this show. At the same time, Mikaela sees right through his tough exterior.

Almost as soon as the previously mentioned events occur, vampires suddenly and unexpectedly rise to the surface of the earth in the dead of night. Adults suddenly fall ill and die in seconds. Children are left all alone. Mikaela and Yu try to protect the kids and themselves but are taken underground by the evil inhuman creatures that rule in twilight. It is here that they live among the creatures of darkness, never to know the sweet kiss of the sun again. The children grow up a little, and we see them viewed as nothing more than human livestock for the vampires to feed off of as they wish. They are told that all of the adults died and that now the vampires run as rampant as they wish, as long as it is during the evening hours. Yu and Mikaela still try to protect their "family" and look over everyone with love and sacrifice. Freely giving his blood to a noble vampire, Mikaela goes to the demon's house and, during the feeding sessions, slowly steals several items. One of these includes a very important map that shows all of the tunnels that lead in and out of the underground fortress/city that they are kept in. This place is a maze, but with the map, the gang has a strong chance to get out and taste freedom once more.

After returning from a feeding session with the noble vampire, Mikaela wakes everyone up so that they can make their escape. Following and trusting this new found possession to be accurate, they finally make it to the end of the line. A huge archway marks their freedom from the underground prison up to the real world that they were born into, but everything goes wrong. That very same noble vampire is their, waiting eagerly for the young faces to spot him. From here, he admits that he was planning this out from the very beginning so that he could see the terror on their little faces. Slaughter quickly ensues and child after child is viciously fed upon until each one is drained of blood for the purpose of a fun game that one vampire concocted. Helpless to do anything against the vampire's strength and speed, they see countless loved ones fall every second while they still continue to run to the archway. Finally, only Yu is left. (Mikaela sacrificed himself so that Yu may live.) Tired, stricken with guilt, and in utter shock, Yu eventually reaches the surface, a single survivor out of all that tried to escape the grasps that bound them. However, it is not what he expected. He is greeted by a young man who claims to kill the blood suckers that come up to his turf during the night. Yu promises that he wants to be like them, that he will fight with them and kill those who hurt him and took his loved ones away. Yu is out for revenge.

As a surprise to Yuichiro, adults still roam the earth. Not all of them died in the sudden epidemic and are still active in today's society. Now that humanity has fallen, it is trying to get back on its feet and take a stand. Yu wants to be a part of this by killing every single vampire he encounters. To do so, he must first join to Moon Demon Company, an elite assassination/extermination group. However, in order to do so, he is told that he must learn to work in a group. Yu is horrible at this. To him, he alone must get revenge. In doing so, the orders that he is given by those in the company mean nothing to him. He does what he wants without listening to anyone or with regards to authority. This is the story of his journey to making his one dream a reality.

Yu is struggling to this day. He continues to think about that night when he made it to the surface while everybody else perished before his very eyes. They were together and then suddenly they weren't. Being the lone survivor in this experience makes it so much harder. No one went through what he did because he couldn't save those with him. His drive is what makes him live on. One would hate to think about what he would do if he didn't have a cause.

Please note that this review is a collaborative one with Christian, and we both thought that his manga was simply fabulous. What many people do not realize is that we are secret anime and manga junkies. (Now that that is out in the open, cue the shy glance towards the floor.) Seraph of the End, Vol. 1: Vampire Reign was the embodiment of why we love them. Takaya Kagami wrote an amazing story full of action, loss, love, friendship, revenge, hints of humor, and ultimately heartbreak verses redemption. Every second of the plot added more and more enrichment to the story. We were never bored, not even for a second. Yu and Mikaela were so easily loved and felt for while the vampires were so easy to hate. The characters were all unique and had such diverse personalities that you just had to love them. We were really tempted to go up and hug little Mikaela through the pages. How could you even resist? The art by Yamato Yamamoto was stunning. Beautiful and capturing the story perfectly, it's definitely not a secret that everyone would envy his drawing skills. We felt the pain that Yu did through Kagami and Yamamoto's collaborative work. Together, they're one big genius! It's impossible to describe how amazing this manga was or how much we loved it. There are no words to possibly say what we thought about it.

Yu was complex and full of baggage right from the start. The instant he was introduced, you realized how great his character was. The switch between his past and present in the beginning of the book was brilliant and well done. The love we felt for this book almost made us want to keep it even though it was from the library. Of course, we didn't, but maybe we'll get the chance to buy it someday. It's definitely rereading material. The only thing about Seraph of the End was that we easily predicted the ending of the book before we were even halfway through it. However, this didn't stop us from devouring the rest of it. The ending was still amazing and left us ranting about how we needed the next one for days on end. We are definitely looking forward to how the author is going to deal with this predictable scenario and make it his own through various and unique creative directions. If you're a manga addict like us, especially if it's in the vampire area, read it!!!!! If you love vampires, read it!!!! You just have have to pick it up!!!!!!!!


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[caiseeᡣ᭡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I watched the anime of Seraph of the End with a friend and now I just have to read ALL the manga!!! Mika is my darling. 😍

[Nocturnalux]

Owari no Seraph is remarkable precisely for being almost surprising unremarkable: if I were to tell you it's shounen action with fancy vampires, cool swords, and the usual hotblooded hero, you would be able to picture it in your mind, with great accuracy, almost panel by panel.

It is intensely derivative but oddly enough, it is difficult to tell precisely where each of its elements was lifted from. More than overtly copycatting any specific title, it just draws from already well established- dare I say done to death- themes and tropes, not just of vampire fiction in general in the way it is treated in 2D culture. With this said, it is impossible not to compare it with Attack on Titan.

So we get vampires wearing vaguely 18th century clothing, for no good reason; we get demons thrown into the story- which are not vampires- of the traditional Japanese tradition; and references to the Book of Revelation. It all seems more a matter of aesthetics, pleasing but hardly original aesthetics, that do most of the heavy lifting.

Given that this is manga, this means that the artwork carries the plot along. Said artwork is well done albeit not distinctive. It handles action and fast movement, though, which is an absolute must in depicting battles: I often think it is the make it or break it factor when it comes to fighting in this medium, how well fast motion translates will determine how effective it is.

Unfortunately, the artwork is considerably superior to the plot that leaves much to be desired. I usually find that creative duos of mangaka and writer to inject a greater depth as well as technical prowess, not only is a team good for bandying ideas as it allows for a division of labor that brings up the best skills in both, mangaka do not always handle a long, protracted story: having any actual writer releases them to focus on honing the artwork.

However, this one is an exception. In this case, it seems that having a writer and an artist, along with a lot of input from an editor, caused a lot of confusion. As the writer explains in the afterword, the first chapter was rewritten and reworked, so much so that it took something like six whole months to finally get it done.

This overworking of the material, ironically enough, comes across as paltry worldbuilding and some weird kinks that I am not too sure actually work.

For example, Yuu, our textbook example of How to Write Hotblooded Shounen Heroes, is very eager to join the elite vampire extermination unit. But he is already in the actual army, even has a weapon, albeit not magical, and we see him very briefly in a mission. I cannot help thinking that his entering the army proper should have been covered as opposed to this obsessing over this particular unit. I suspect this is more cribbing from Attack on Titan, in which Eren's one goal is to join the Survey Corps and the Survey Corps alone. That Yuu is very much the second coming of Eren does not help either.

Perhaps more importantly, while he is already in the army, he goes to high school. Yuu himself is keenly aware that this makes no sense and for once, he is right. On occasion, military involvement and high school can be married- Fafner is a painfully tender example of this, the pilots will all die young and so the higher ups want to give them a school experience so that they will not lose touch with what it mans to be a normal teen- but more often than not, it fails.

It fails here. We see Yuu at school a lot but only a blink-and-you'll-miss-it mission. Granted, throughout most of this volume he is suspended for not obeying orders, but I could never take him as a soldier. Maybe because being sent to school as punishment for not obeying orders in an actual army strikes me so utterly juvenile that the whole thing falls apart. The way Yuu treats the leader of this unit is another way in which the worst shounen clichés cluster around to choke whatever genuine kernel of entertainment might be derived from this read. Yuu feels entitled enough to scream in Guren's face, demanding a place in his unit, which then devolves into slapstick shenanigans.

The school scenario becomes even stranger when the military supervisor and source of terrible humor, Shinoa, is introduced. She has an actual rank in the military but waffles her time away as a high school student. Supposedly, to keep an eye on Yuu.

OnS tries to combine typical school hijinks with a gritty, violent premise and it simply does not work. Its attempt at humor either fall flat or are plain gross as Shinoa 'poking fun' at Yuu for being a virgin. Typical Light Novel fare but I can never stand it. It should come as no surprise that the writer is involved in Light Novels, which is not always bad but can mean he picked up all sorts of annoying quirks along the way.

One of the biggest misses is that the manga has a sense of timing that works against it.Instead of waiting for a confrontation between Yuu and Mika to reveal that Mika is both alive and a vampire, it jumps the gun by showing us Mika in the very last panels. The idea is to keep the reader primed for the second volume but I found it a missed opportunity. It would have been much more impactful if we could have shared Yuu's dismay and shock.

But I think it goes deeper than fumbling for a cliffhanger at all costs. Yuu is so standard a character, such a stock bundle of depressingly predictable traits, that without the promise of Mika still being around, the entire thing would be harder to stomach. Mikaela is the plotter, the Armin, so to speak, to Yuu/Eren; Mikaela is genuinely funny and has this Zen attitude about his past misfortune that is quite refreshing. More, even as a very young child he was able to work the system, so to speak, by using Ferid to his own advantage. It backfires royally on him but it is still much better than Yuu's, 'GOTTA BECOME STRONGER AND KILL 'EM ALL' attitude that has been done to death and done much better, too. I would go as far as to stay that Mikaela deserved a better manga than this one. He would have thrived in something like Promised Neverland.

And OnS itself seems somewhat aware of this, too. The omake feature several members of the cast contesting Yuu's role as the protagonist and Mika's 4Koma bit is hilarious precisely because it is true. Chibi-Mika as a kid goes on about how the manga needs a protagonist with flair and not a dull guy like Yuu. I could not agree more.

Ironically, what I view as a redeeming feature to this manga is precisely what has cost it readers: The intense homoerotic tension. This volume just barely skims the surface in this regard but it eventually becomes one of the defining modes of emotional expression in what is otherwise shounen by numbers.

[Dani ❤️ Perspective of a Writer · Rating 4 out of 5]

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After a catastrophic epidemic kills every adult on earth, vampires arise from the shadows to enslave the remaining human population. Caught in the aftermath an orphanage of children are swept up to become blood donors. Hot-headed Yuichiro escapes from captivity at great cost and joins the Japanese Imperial Demon Army. He'll have to face a series of missions that terrify this loner before he can even think about fighting vampires!!

This is a review of volumes 1-2 which I read together back to back. See the plot section for my thoughts on the individual volumes.

The Premise

Post apocalyptic stories are so fun because they act as a sort of fantasy set on earth. I love the extreme situations humans are expected to endure and somehow survive both mentally and physically. In life and death situations our true heart and motives are revealed and friendship becomes a bond of upmost importance. Takaya Kagami TOTALLY knows all about what makes this genre great and wove it into Seraph of the End vol 1-2!!

I'm so glad that I read Seraph of the End vol 1-2 back to back because what we learn in vol 1 was totally turned on its head in vol 2!! Nothing is really as it seems, even the vampires aren't as clear cut as you'd expect blood suckers to be. We learn there is a secret agenda and Yu and his friends, Mika is right in the middle of it. I'm so happy though that I got to know Yu's back history right away. It's really necessary to understand why he feels so strongly about killing vampires in the Demon army and yet why he's determined to be a one-man army.


The Buzz

Hahaha funnily I don't enjoy reading about vampires... Normally! I picked up Seraph of the End vol 1-2 due to seeing it on VIZ Media's rolls and being curious to know what it was about. I was totally captured by the first chapter!! I was seduced like Yu by his friend Mika and his brand of forced friendship, hahaha. Honestly I wasn't taken with the vampires at all in vol 1. Though we do meet Yu's mentor in the army Ichinose and yes, I totally fell for him too!! Takaya Kagami knows how to give us charismatic characters.

Then in vol 2 I learned about all the twisty-do and how nothing is as it seems! That changed how I viewed the vampires. It was also quite fascinating that other monsters also appeared in the world along with the vampires. It puts the regular humans between a rock and a hard place. The demon army is fighting on two fronts! Plus we learn that Ichinose is in a whole political mess that is sure to add a lot of tension to the entire situation! Really for the way this is written the world building is fantastic.

The real problem I had with these volumes is that the story feels episodic. Most manga feels slightly slice of life as we see many aspects of the characters involved in the story. There are action times and down times and moments in between to setup plot. In Seraph of the End vol 1-2 each chapter is devoted to moving Yu along his path into the army. It's a little too focused on that plot and makes the pacing feel hurried.


The Feels

Yu is one of those protagonists with a huge chip on his shoulder, he talks big, he knows little fear and even though its not obvious on the surface he feels massively for those close to him. I was TOTALLY captured by his emotional plight! I LOVED how he met Mika and how Mika dealt with his attitude. And I fell for Mika too! Getting to see how they met and why they are such good friends allowed me to go on that journey with Yu!! In vol 1 I thought this may just be contrived back story but from the way the two parted I was suspicious there was going to be more to it... and I was right!! (I'm soooo glad I was too.)

In vol 2 we learn that we will be rooting for someone on each side of the human vs. vampire war! I feel strongly about each boy and feel like I'm going to be torn up as I continue past Seraph of the End vol 1-2... We also meet two other boys that I am totally rooting for too!! I loved that Kimizuki is a different kind of friend that Mika. It has more of a bromance vibe that is great in team situations. Boy was my heart racing as I waited for Yu to decide what to do about Yochi!! But it's that final frame that makes me wonder just how much our boys are going to go through...


The Visuals

The covers are GORGEOUS!! I can see why Takaya Kagami was so excited to work with Yamato Yamamoto... I would have been too. I really loved the character designs. I need everyone to look different so that I can tell who they are without being constantly reminded. The battle frames are masterpieces!! I can't wait until we see a lot more of those going on. Plus the advent of the demons into the mix is intriguing and add a bit of grey that is much needed. My most favorite frames are with Mika as his young self. The ones with the demon with all the white and the bodies... GAHHHHH! So atmospheric and emotional.

Seraph of the End vol 1-2 is a great start to a vampire vs. demon strengthening humans battle series. Yu and Mika are protagonists to root for and I can't wait to see them go head to head. There is much plotting afoot that will surely bring them much angst... but the secondary characters are just as intriguing! I'm happy to keep reading!!


⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Authenticity
⋆ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tension
⋆ ⋆ ⭐⭐⭐ Plot
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Art

This is a multi-volume series and there may be references to the plot of those volumes... SO READ WITH CARE! Here is my review of 1 | 2 |

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[liuwiuuu :33 · Rating 5 out of 5]

this manga is SOOO good, years can pass but it will still be my top 1 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

[Nea Poulain · Rating 3 out of 5]

El prota está traumado y es un terco que no sabe cooperar con nadie. Quiero abrazarlo y luego darle con una silla.

MIKA, POR OTRO LADO.

[Stacie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Viruses and vampires and vengeance, oh my!

[Spalah ☆ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Я ніколи не дочекаюсь третього сезону аніме, тому пора вже читати

[Selena Pigoni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hits every cliche in the book, and yet is still promising. That's a new one.

You have your reckless main character, Yu, who always manages to beat the enemy he should 100% be unable to beat. He's got to do the basic high school thing in order to achieve his dreams for revenge against the vampires (you know, making friends, getting a girlfriend... getting laid). He just proves himself stronger and stronger as the first volume runs.

You have a somewhat interesting dystopian world in which most of humanity was killed off by some kind of virus, and now the survivors are being harassed by monsters. But don't mistake this as some kind of monster hunting manga. So far, it hasn't shown itself to be a monster of the week type series. It's more of a, "look how many stupid situations Yu will recklessly barge into and survive" type series right now.

And no, I'm not complaining. The fact this first volume is so straightforward is kind of refreshing considering all the crazy complicated plotlines I've seen in manga lately. Sometimes we don't need a higher power pulling strings. Sometimes we don't need there to be extra meaning under the surface. Sometimes an "idiot goes up against something stupidly powerful and wins" story is just what the doctor ordered.

For me, this series is definitely the right brand of "no-thought-required" manga I've been wanting to read lately.

[Arantxa (TheRoomWhereItHappens) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I LOVE ME SOME GAY VAMPIRES



Look, Owari No Seraph is not the most original story out there. It's full of the same clichés you find in every shonen manga.

But you gotta admit



MIKA AND YUU



ARE PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER



AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE.

Also, everyone in this series is incredibly attractive.

[Christopher · Rating 3 out of 5]

The world is a promising one, where a virus has killed off most of the adult population and vampires kidnapped a bunch of kids in the aftermath. Our lead is one of those kids, who now wants nothing more than to kill every vampire ever. That's enough to keep me going into the next volume.

What provides hesitation is that the tropes are so thick they stumble over themselves. Our male lead is an idiot loner. The female lead says crap like "You don't possess one iota of cooperative spirit," as if that means anything, and acts like our male lead is dumb for ignoring her. Use your words to communicate ideas. Not spout off nonsense. You aren't a monk on a mountain.

Throw in the powers-that-be withholding vital information because "plot" and you have the makings of a series I probably won't get very far in before putting a stake through it. But vampires and demons and a prophecy (I told you, trope-laden), so I'll give volume two a shot.

[Kim Clifton · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bizarre and repetitive and not the best subject matter for squeamish folk like myself. Why did I read it? Because a student literally pressed it into my hands and said (in all caps, I presume), "HERE'S THE FIRST BOOK! I HAVE THE NEXT THIRTY* IN MY LOCKER FOR WHEN YOU FINISH!" To which I said, "Um," and then, "Why do you think I'll like it?" And he said, "BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE RAVEN BOYS!!!!!" And that did it.

In the future, I will know that not all books compared to The Raven Boys are remotely worth comparing to The Raven Boys.

On the plus side, this was my first Manga, and reading from right to left was not nearly as hard as I thought it would be.

*There are not thirty books in this series, thank goodness.

[Ertica*~She'sABookBirdy~*Castley]

this book just flawless. I'm not a fans of manga but this book have got me loving it.

[Pauchis · Rating 3 out of 5]

3🌟
I love Guren for having the appearance of being mysterious and enigmatic hahahaha (I love when he scolds Yu) <3
pdt: I want a friend like Yochi or shinoa

[Anne (ReadEatGameRepeat) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm going to preface this by saying that I did watch the anime when that first aired, I really enjoyed that at the time and when I saw this was on sale I decided why not snatch up the first copy because I really enjoyed the anime wanted to find out what happened with the story.

So this was a solid manga, it was fun, I'll probably continue with the series. I picked it up now because Halloween and I realized I had read no spooky books so I wanted a spooky book and this book is about as spooky as my little coward self is willing to go.

[Micaylah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I remember this being better when I first read it, which was about 7 or more years ago. I had actually loved it.

Now it's just over-the-top cringey and facepalm-inducing. The characters are worse then I remember, and Yuichiro is actually kind of aggravating.

I don't know if I'm just growing out of Manga, or if I'm just a lot more picky than I used to be. I don't remember if they continue with the Virgin jokes throughout the series, but it's pretty annoying and is not as funny when you continue making the same jokes.

The art is great, though!

[RG · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed the anime more than the manga. I think it was the soundtrack

[Diana H. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would’ve been a lot of gold stars if I caught up earlier, dammit

[isa :) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ahh I saw the serie so I had to read it and as expected it was amazing!!

[lauraa]

I forgot to mark this as readinG BUT ANYWAY I FINISHED THIS DAYS AGO ALREARY ANYWAY yes



pre-read!!

I REMEMBER LOVING THIS SM A FEW YEARS AGO BUT NEVER FINISHING THIS SERIES AND BASICALLY JUST FORGOT ABOUT IT STOPP

I need to read this again like now

[xsebastianx · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[The Manga Kid]

*Spoilers*

Our main character is Yuichiro, a boy who wants to kill vampires after watching them kill all his friends. Because of what happened, he refuses to grow close to anyone because he is afraid of them dying. (Hmm. Never heard of that before.) Now he is stuck in regular school being watched by a creepy stalker girl named Shinoa. Is it me, or is this turning into an opposite version of Twilight? To get out of regular school, he needs to make a friend to enter the best demon killing company, The Moon Demon Company. Enter Yoichi (who almost looks the exact same as Yuichiro) a bullied kid who also wants to be a vampire hunter. After saving Yoichi, Shinoa thinks he counts as a friend for Yuichiro and he is allowed to enter The Moon Demon Company. Oh, and one of Yuichiro's childhood friends is actually still alive and is a vampire. Ugh. PLOT TWISTS!

All in all, I enjoyed Seraph of the End Vol. 1. It had action and good dialogue, among other things. If you want to start reading manga, I think this would be a good start. I had one complaint, though. STOP WITH THE VIRGINITY JOKES ALL READY!

[sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

yu needs to stop talking and start listening to queen shinoa

[r · Rating 3 out of 5]

i watched this anime last year and i loved it fuck ferid though i want him gone