Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto and Daisuke Furuya's vampire saga Seraph of the End will conclude with its 37th tankobon, with roughly four to five chapters left to publish in Jump SQ.
Seraph of the End, the vampire-apocalypse manga that has run in Shueisha's Jump SQ since 2012, is heading into its final stretch. The afterword of the newly released volume 36 confirms the series will end with volume 37, leaving roughly four to five chapters before writer Takaya Kagami, illustrator Yamato Yamamoto and storyboard artist Daisuke Furuya wrap a 14-year run.
Volume 36 shipped on May 1, 2026, collecting chapters 151 through 155. In the closing notes, Kagami tells readers the team is now working toward the manga's conclusion and that volume 37 will be the last tankobon. The remaining chapters will continue to run in Jump SQ before being collected into that final book, though Shueisha has not yet listed a release date for volume 37.
The end of the manga does not necessarily mean the end of the wider franchise. The Seraph of the End universe has expanded across light novels focused on Guren Ichinose's pre-apocalypse story, spin-off manga, and stage plays, and Kagami has historically split storytelling between the main series and those side projects.
Launched in September 2012, Seraph of the End is set in a world where a mysterious virus wiped out everyone over the age of 13, allowing vampires to surface and claim humanity's surviving children as livestock. The story follows Yuichiro Hyakuya, who enlists in the Japanese Imperial Demon Army's Moon Demon Company to hunt vampires, avenge his murdered family, and rescue his childhood friend Mikaela, who was turned during their escape from a vampire stronghold.
Over 36 volumes, the series has layered in apocalyptic prophecy, cursed weapons housing demons, and a long-running cold war between the vampire nobility and humanity's military leadership. The final arc has been tracking the consequences of the Hyakuya Sect's experiments on Yuichiro and his companions, and the volume 36 cliffhanger sets up the confrontations the team intends to resolve over the closing chapters.
Wit Studio adapted the manga into a 24-episode television anime split across two cours in 2015, directed by Daisuke Tokudo. The adaptation covered roughly the first 9-10 volumes of the manga and ended on an open note, and no continuation has been announced in the years since. With the source material now committing to an endpoint, fan attention will likely return to whether Wit, or another studio, picks the franchise back up to adapt the post-anime arcs.
The Guren Ichinose light novels, illustrated by Yamamoto, remain ongoing and have served as the canonical backstory for several major characters. Kagami has previously said the manga and the novels were always designed to converge, so volume 37 is expected to tie threads from both halves of the project together.
English-language volumes of Seraph of the End are published by VIZ Media and are available digitally in India through the VIZ Manga app and on Kindle. The 2015 anime is not currently on a major Indian streamer, though it has previously been available on Crunchyroll's global catalogue. The remaining chapters will appear in Jump SQ before volume 37's eventual release.
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