<P> Seraph of the End (Japanese: 終わり の セラフ, Hepburn: Owari no Seraph) is a Japanese dark fantasy anime based on the manga with the same name written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto with storyboards by Daisuke Furuya . It is produced by Wit Studio, directed by Daisuke Tokudo, and screenplayed solely by Hiroshi Seko . Additionally, the original manga's writer, Takaya Kagami, is personally drafting the original story for episodes with material not yet serialized in the manga and supervising the scripts until the anime's final episode . 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 age - old horrors of the dark 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 best friend Mikaela Hyakuya from the vampires . </P> <P> On December 12, 2014, it was announced the series would run in two split cours (quarters of the year). The first would air in 2015 from April to June and the second from October to December, with both cours having 12 episodes each . The series premiered on Tokyo MX, MBS, TV Aichi, and BS11 at their respective time slots . NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan is releasing the first cour in Blu - ray and DVD formats in Japan starting on June 24, 2015 across four volumes . A six minutes omake anime specials adapted from the omake featured in the original manga, included in each Blu - ray / DVD volume titled Seraph of the Endless (終わら ない セラフ, Owaranai Serafu). On March 31, 2015, it was announced that Funimation Entertainment has licensed the series for streaming and home video release in North America . Hulu will also be streaming the series . On May 13, 2015, Funimation announced that the English broadcast dub will stream every Wednesday at 8: 30 p.m. EDT on its "Dubble Talk" streaming block . </P> <P> The second cour of the anime television series was renamed as Seraph of The End: Battle in Nagoya (終わり の セラフ 名古屋 決戦 編, Owari no Serafu: Nagoya Kessen - hen). </P>

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