Manga and Anime reviews 2

Review 10; Seraph Of The End (Loving Those Hats)!

So this one was another great find, courtesy of Viewster. It's been coming up on my suggested for quite some time now, and I didn't want to watch it because it's all vampire related... But was it as bad as the twilight saga?

Of course it wasn't as bad as the bloody Twilight saga, nothing can be as bad as that, Jesus bloody Christ.

I've never actually heard of this series really, I did see it a few times on Facebook but I never actually bothered to go and watch it. Which was a shame really, because I actually enjoyed this quite a bit; I'm not one for vampire animes after watching Vampire Knight and a few other cheesey ones that I never went back too.

This series is based on the end of the world, the apocalypse and the ruling of vampires over the human race. On the surface, where the humans roam freely without knowledge of what's about to happen or about what is underneath their feet. A virus spreads across the world, killing all of those over the age of 13 years old, everyone under the age of 13 lived but had to somehow survive by themselves. When the adults where dead, the vampires left their underground cities and began to roam the human world; they took the children down underground and kept them there for years on end. They donate blood every now and then, and in return they get houses where they live with other children and they get a small amount of food so they can keep on producing blood for them to drink; the humans are basically like feeding stations for the vampires underground.

Our story follows the escape of one of the humans, yes one... Just one, I know, the first three episodes are heart breaking and make you lose all hope in everything you think will happen to these people. He escapes up to the surface, where a small amount of humans still roam and have started a small civilization full of people who survived the apocalypse those few years ago. They have their own army, The Imperial Demon Army, they train human children at a large school like facility and some of them eventually join the army and join in with the fight against any Vampires that come into the territory. There are small areas of humans that love a little further away from the main school facility, but everyone is over looked by the army, and everyone is protected by the army. These people rescue our main character, and train him up to become part of the Moon Demon Company; one of the strongest units in the Army and one of the few that are put on the front line to fight against the Vampires (also random creatures called the Horsemen of John). There are other people who are higher up than the Moon Demon Company, but they stay quiet until further on in the show.

The humans that live in the school facility face a small amount of training on the side, we don't really see it that much but it must be there since quite a few students are enrolling to be in the Imperial Demon Army. Those who even get the opportunity to be in the army then have to choose a weapon; the way this works is weird... when you touch a Demon Weapon, the Demon enters your mind and you have to somehow beat it to then own the weapon. So with our main character, it shows him his dead friends that are taunting him and making him feel bad about leaving them behind... Kind of spoiled It for you there, but it happens in like the first episode so you'll see that straight away, no biggy. The demons then live in the weapons, and when you call out their name they activate or something like that; reminded me of Bleach a little bit with the calling thing. But to even use the weapon, you'll have to overcome whatever terrible memories they mess with, and once you fail at that, the demon takes over your body.

We don't see too much of the demons, we mainly see the people who are actually using the weapons; I would of enjoyed it more if you got to know a bit more about the demons or if you at least get to see them a little bit more than you do. If memory serves me correctly, you only get to see them quite briefly, which is a shame because their designs are quite interesting; They seem somewhat plain, but their designs seem to have a slight quirky edge, so they kind of look like humans, but with a little something extra. The designs of the weapons are also really good, not as unique as you would expect them to be, but some of them are quite impressive and they all suite the character who is handling them too; which seemed like a nice touch, the perfect weapon that matches up with the characters personality and traits.