Seraph of the End is a dark fantasy manga series written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto. It has been serialized by Shueisha in its Japanese monthly shōnen manga magazine, Jump SQ, since September 3, 2012. The series is set in a world where a virus has ravaged the global populace, leaving only children under the age of thirteen untouched; in its wake, vampires and other strange creatures appear from beneath the earth. A young man, Yuichiro "Yu" Hyakuya, sets out to kill the vampires after one slaughters almost all the members from his orphanage.