Anime/Manga Owari no Seraph

[Skip Class]

Owari no Seraph​

One day, a mysterious virus appeared on Earth which killed every infected human over the age of 13. At the same time, vampires emerged from the world's dark recesses and enslaved mankind. Enter Hyakuya Yuuichirou, a young boy, who along with the rest of the children from his orphanage, are treated as livestock by the vampires. Even in captivity, Yuuichirou dreams big. He dreams of killing vampires. He dreams of killing them all.


Type: TV
Episodes: Unknown
Status: Currently Airing
Aired: Mar 15, 2015 to Jun 20, 2015 (season 1) [Season 2 confirmed for Fall 2015]
Producers: Wit Studio
Genres: Drama, Shounen, Vampire, Supernatural
Duration: Unknown
Rating: None

Spoiler: Cast and Crew

Cast:
Kaito Ishikawa as Shiho Kimizuki
Kensho Ono as Mikaela Hyakuya
Miyu Irino as Yuichiro Hyakuya
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Yoichi Saotome
Saori Hayami as Shinoa Hiragi
Takahiro Sakurai as Ferid Bathory
Yūichi Nakamura as Guren Ichinose
Yuka Iguchi as Mitsuba Sangu

Aoi Yūki as Krul Tepes
Atsumi Tanezaki as Sayuri Hanayori
Daisuke Ono as Norito Goshi
Kenichi Suzumura as Crowley Eusford
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Shinya Hiragi
Tomoaki Maeno as Kureto Hiragi
Yu Shimamura as Mito Jūjō
Yui Ishikawa as Shigure Yukimi

Hibiku Yamamura as Asuramaru
Takuma Nagatsuka as Lacus Welt
Yuichiro Umehara as René Simm

Staff:
Director: Daisuke Tokudo
Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko
Screenplay: Hiroshi Seko
Music:
Asami Tachibana
Hiroyuki Sawano
Megumi Shiraishi
Takafumi Wada
Original creator:
Daisuke Furuya (storyboard)
Takaya Kagami (story)
Yamato Yamamoto (art)
Character Design: Satoshi Kadowaki
Art Director: Seiko Yoshioka
Chief Animation Director:
Ayumi Yamada
Satoshi Kadowaki
Art design: Kazushi Fujii
3D Director: Tsukasa Saitō
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Yasuhiro Akamatsu

2D Work: Hirofumi Araki
Associate Director: Masashi Koizuka
Color setting: Fumiko Numahata
Editing: Masaki Utsunomiya
Imageboard: Hiroki Shinagawa
Lead Animator:
Megumi Tomita
Miho Kato
Takuma Ebisu
Yuka Sugizaki
Music producer: Hiroyuki Sawano
Music Production: Yasushi Horiguchi (Legendoor)
Prop Design: Takuma Ebisu
Sub-Character Design: Takuma Ebisu
Theme Song Performance:
Gemie
Yosh Morita

TRAILERS

Spoiler:

"Even in captivity, Yuuichirou dreams big. He dreams of killing vampires. He dreams of killing them all."

Is it me or does that sound familiar... *coughSnKcough*

 

[pkmin3033]

I'll watch this one, but I have the feeling that it's going to be the one that everyone loves that I absolutely cannot stand...it reminds me too much of certain other shows that have been hyped into the stratosphere and turned out to be extremely disappointing/filled with pointless discourse/flashbacks that never actually go anywhere. The premise sounds interesting, but I'll not hold my breath for it to be executed properly. Still going to pick it up though. I bet the soundtrack will be amazing if nothing else~

 

[Kenchiin]

I'm so hyped for this! Vampires, shounen. It has what is needed.

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

Why do I get yaoi vibes from this...?
Well, I planned to watch it for the cast.

 

[Chikara]

As much as I hate Vampires, this is on my "give it a chance" list. The animation and art is pretty, and the plot seems interesting enough c:

 

[KingRin]

I've heard that it's really bad and as far as I know the manga isn't finished. So expect an anime original ending. At least it looks pretty, might as well give it a shot.

 

[Kenchiin]

I've heard that it's really bad and as far as I know the manga isn't finished. So expect an anime original ending. At least it looks pretty, might as well give it a shot.

You have just killed my expectations ;___;

 

[derozio]

Pretty animation + shounen with vampires = give it a watch at least.

So yeah, definitely watching it no matter what people say. If nothing else, it'll be eye candy at least. It is being done by Wit studio so that definitely does raise my expectations a bit as far as animation goes. :p

You have just killed my expectations ;___;

Lack of expectation works out in the favor of your opinion towards the show most of the time, just saying~ /personal_experience

 

[Candy]

First impressions: Hmm... not too bad, really. Although, if people say the source material is bad then I probably won't get my expectations up too high haha.

 

[Arc]

First episode was a nice set-up.

Spoiler:

Death flags everywhere, wasn't expecting ALL of the orphans to die though. Also, Mikaela dying when he's showcased in glorious vampire clothing in the key visual, haha.

So, I'm expecting something akin to being grimdark setting full of death and potential edginess based off the first episode. And, then the preview for the second episode showed off school life shenanigans lmao. Had to read the second chapter of the manga to confirm this, and it was true lol.

 

[Skip Class]

After a day away doing all these Easter celebrations and whatnot, finally got to sit down and watch this.
While a lot of people are saying DanMachi is the SAO of the Spring, a lot of others are saying this show's going to be the SnK of the season too so it'll be interesting to see how it turns out.

Spoiler: Episode 1 - thoughts and first impressions

Owari no Seraph or Seraph of the End starts of with the world being killed by a virus where only those of thirteen and younger won't be affected. The story follows two boy named Yuuichirou and Mikaela along with several children from an orphanage they belong to. Them along with several other children are captured by vampires and taken into captivity where they live for the next four(?) years.

First things first. That Virus felt reaaaaally fast and sudden:
1 person collapses > girlfriend of person and then every other person in the scene collapses > truck comes flying in and crashes into car/ building > plane flying by crashes and causes massive explosion > world pretty much dead
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Personal highlight for me was the clothing designs given to the characters. Despite that the identical uniform clothes they wear in the "experiment" that they're trapped in, incomparision to the plain cloth clothing they gave to the children in Zankyou no Terror, I was quite fond of the design of them. Of course the nature between the two different show and "experiments" were both quite different, they seemed quite comfortable and looked great on the characters.
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Despite this one episode going through a lot of different times and several different moments quite quickly. The story has started and been set up well to give us a good background on Yu and Mikaela - their past and a good look into their relationship between themselves and the other kids of the orphanage
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I cringed seeing the children run away. From the scenes where Mikaela had gotten the map and the gun, you could see where it was heading. That particular moment when Yu had told them to run... you knew it was going to come and just watching each child die one by one was painful - especially Akane​

I just want to say THANK GOD there's no filters in this anime, but this moment Ferid piercing his hand through Mikaela (although it was the most painful scene hitting my heart on the emotional level) any filter would have destroyed any deep feelings gravitating from this scene. However out of all the scenes in this episode, this one really does somewhat mirror the death of Eren's mother from SnK (but I'll talk about the whole SnK comparison thing later). Though for me this scene and the children running one felt like it still lacked some emotional punch that I got from the end of SnK which was kinda the feeling I was hoping to get from it.
Yu shooting Ferid in the head with the gun does seem quite a fake death to me. I don't think an ordinary gun would have killed him. I wouldn't be surprised to see him come back later.​

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Finally he escapes and runs into the hands of his savior/ a group of people looking for him based off some prophecy.
With the realization that his only family is gone, agrees to join the group in killing off the vampires.
I will admit though the whole "he's the boy from the prophecy" was kinda a random/sudden statement.​

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Finally we get a glimpse into present day with Yu now a 16 year old in a new uniform walking in the current state of the destroyed city. Again I am liking the clothing design here. More or less I am really fond with the whole black and green combination which was one of the things that kinda compelled me to watch it in the first place.​

Overall this was a pretty decent episode and I would rate it a 7.5-7.8ish/10 for a first impression.
Art and animation were sexy and the soundtrack was pretty good. Can't wait to see the next episode based off from what I saw in the PV.

But there were a few things that were left on my mind after watching this episode:

Spoiler:

As seen already (especially from tumblr) we're getting a lot of SnK comparisons just from the first episode.​

• Yu is apparently like Eren ("I WANT TO KILL THINGS") who is hungry to kill titans, but instead is hungry to kill vampires. Have someone important to them killed in front of their eyes. He joins some elite group to kill them, has some sort of awesome blade that allows them to kill them.
  Mika on the other end is compared to Armin's sweet but eventually will become strong personality as well as the relationship between the two characters.
  Also both Wit studios, but I don't think that really has to do with anything besides the SnK fandom complaining it's a rip-off xD
  Personally it isn't bothering me since I'm not a big SnK fan or anything, and it will probably change and become more different as the story progresses so I probably won't look into it much anyways.
  
  
• Obviously from the key visual Mikaela is most likely still alive and will probably be turned into a vampire (probably to save him from dying or something). Was a tad bit confused because in the PV you actually see him getting bitten with his limbs still in place.
  Now that 4 more years have past, I'm curious to how Mikaela has changed over the years and how he views his relationship with Yu since he really cared a lot for his family - and me thinks he will probably blame himself for the deaths of the others.

Had more to add but forgot and should probs stop procrastinating by writing this xD

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
No Eotenas references... come on... and here I wanted to watch it because of based Vivid subbing it.

 

[Raine]

Why do I get yaoi vibes from this...?
Well, I planned to watch it for the cast.

Nothing wrong with hints of bromance later on c:

I'd happily welcome a mostly male cast series into my watch list anyway. That being said, first episode was...interesting. Kind of neutral on the impression it left, but I could sense some of the feels. But since I'm low on Spring anime series that I'll be watching, I shall keep it.

 

[Kenchiin]

So basically they are all gay and vampires. And we I spoiled myself thanks to the 2nd season cover that some of the characters are still alive...

Anyway, I did enjoy the 'gorish' (not that much) parts. Looking forward to it.

Spoiler: Episode 1 - thoughts and first impressions

Obviously from the key visual Mikaela is most likely still alive and will probably be turned into a vampire (probably to save him from dying or something). Was a tad bit confused because in the PV you actually see him getting bitten with his limbs still in place.

This. It really confused me lol

 

[Weeaboo Name]

Would have watched if it was about an edgy 12 year old murdering vampires but then it timeskipped. At least the background art was nice,

D R O P P E D
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[Altairis]

First impression: am I watching Attack on Titan?

Also the top image spoiled something huge for me...

Spoiler:

I never expected the blonde boy to become a vampire until I saw that =/

 

[Winter]

Yeah I'm getting SnK meets edgy highschooler who hates Twilight vibes from this. The first two episodes have been a little too cheesy for me. Episode 3 had better up the ante.

Why do I get yaoi vibes from this...?
Well, I planned to watch it for the cast.

I bet Mika went gay for the bloodsucking men. Blame it on Lord Pedo.

 

[Chikara]

Insert mandatory main character emotional breakdown when he

Spoiler:

finds out his bro isn't dead, but a vampire instead
dun dun DUN

I'll give it one more episode(halfway through episode 2 now), but I don't think I can handle edgy teenagers/preteens any more than Laptrap can.

 

[derozio]

Like already mentioned, blondie's fate being the one that he ended up with was very predictable. I'm indifferent towards this series. It'll have to do something really boring or bad to totally fuck it up enough for me to drop it. But on the flipside, since it isn't doing anything that hasn't been done before and is being cliché as hell, it also has to do something incredible for me to think of it as a good series =p

Either way, I won't really be dropping it now at least.

 

[Kenchiin]

#2

The yaoi vibes are there. I'm just watching it because of that.

Nice animation during the fight by the way.

Blame it on Lord Pedo.

I CAN'T AT THIS. ROFL.