The most dominant race on the planet before the apocalypse
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Humans
General
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Demons, vampires, and angels seem to believe this at least. The human magic cults and organizations in this story are depraved at best and sickeningly atrocious at worst. The tendency of humans to engage in immoral experimentation and push boundaries that should not be pushed when left on their own is remarked on by several vampires, and in the Chapter 43, Shinoa's squad agrees that the JIDA is actually a more dangerous than the vampires, who for the most part only care about their next meal.
Family
Akane Hyakuya
Akane Hyakuya
Voiced by: Yo Taichi (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English), Gabriela Pérez (Latin American Spanish)
One of the orphans from the Hyakuya Orphanage.
- Brain in a Jar: In Chapter 46, it is revealed that Ferid preserved her disembodied head. He shows the jar to the Shinoa squad, Yu and Mika. Seeing this made Yu go berserk and try to kill Ferid.
- Disposable Woman: She's killed off in the first chapter/episode, along most of the orphans, to fuel Yuu's desire for revenge against vampires and Mika's Survivor Guilt.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: Fitting her role as the Team Mom, she cooked curry for the other children using the ingredients Mika got from Ferid.
- Hopeless Suitor: She had a crush on Mika, but he only saw her as a younger sister at most.
- Horrible Judge of Character: In the prequel, she meets Mahiru when she arrives to "adopt" a boy from the Hyakuya Orphanage. Akane thinks Mahiru is a good and nice person, unaware that Mahiru was a cruel and murderous demon who planned to use the boy to make a deal with the vampires.
- Motherly Side Plait: She wore a braid over her left shoulder, fitting her role as the Team Mom to the group of orphans.
- Nice Girl: From what little is seen of her, Akane was a caring and gentle girl.
- Off with Her Head!: Ferid kills her by cutting off her head.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Her death along with other orphans was the main reason why Yu wants to kill vampires. It's also what caused Mika to constantly blame himself and become the bitter man he is today.
- Puppy Love: She had a one-sided crush on Mika since both were under ten years old.
- Team Mom: As the oldest girl, she was like a mother to the other orphans.
Mr. and Mrs. Amane
Mr. and Mrs. Amane
Voiced by: Shinji Kawada (Japanese, father), Mike McFarland (English, father)
Yuichiro's father and stepmother who tried to kill him as a child.
- Abusive Parents: They called Yuu a "demon spawn" and tried to kill him. First, the father apparently tried to stab him, and then the mother left him in a burning building.
- The Faceless: Their faces are never drawn in the manga, but the anime does show the face of the father.
- Psycho Knife Nut: The father stabbed Yuu with a knife because he thought Yuu was a demon.
- Self-Immolation: When Yuu was left in a burning building, his mother committed suicide by burning herself to death.
- Unnamed Parent: Their names are never revealed, but their surname was "Amane" since that was Yuu's surname before he got taken to the orphanage.
Mirai Kimizuki
Mirai Kimizuki
Voiced by: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English), Effy Estrada (Latin American Spanish)
Kimizuki's younger sister. She was infected with the Apocalypse Virus despite being a child and is being treated in a hospital.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Like Yuu, both of her sclera turn black after awakening as a seraph, specifically the Fifth Trumpet, the Angel of Destruction.
- Delicate and Sickly: Having been infected with the Apocalypse Virus, she has been bedridden from a young age. Her brother joined the Vampire Extermination Unit to pay for her treatment at the hospital.
- Facial Markings: She has purple curse marks from the Apocalypse Virus on the left side of her face.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Guren kills her by impaling her with his sword.
- Marked Change: When she awakens as a seraph, a pattern of flame-like purple marks spreads all over her face and body.
- Power Gives You Wings: She gains two pairs of white feathered wings on her back after awakening as a seraph.
- Superpowered Evil Side: She is unwillingly injected with drugs to force her to transform into a seraph. In this form, she curses the sinners and almost transforms into an angel of destruction to smite mankind.
Tomoe Saotome
Tomoe Saotome
Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese), Kara Edwards (English), Andrea Ascencio (Latin American Spanish)
Yoichi's older sister, who was killed by Lacus Welt sometime after the Apocalypse began.
- Big Sister Instinct: In her final moments, she protected Yoichi by making him hide under a bed when she knew vampires were in their house.
- Disposable Woman: The sole purpose of her existence is being the motive behind her brother Yoichi's quest for revenge against Lacus, the vampire that killed her.
- Girlish Pigtails: She was a cute young girl and her hair is tied in two pigtails.
- Posthumous Character: She died years before the start of the series and is only seen in her brother's flashback.
Sakae Ichinose
Sakae Ichinose
Guren Ichinose's father. He appears in the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen light novel series as head of the Ichinose branch family.
- Extreme Doormat: Sakae was submissive to the Hīragi Family and endured their abuse.
- Face Death with Dignity: When Tenri sentenced him to death, Sakae calmly accepted his own demise and spent his final moments saying his goodbyes to his son with a smile.
- Good Parents: Sakae was a loving father and cared for his son's safety.
- Off with His Head!: He was executed by beheading.
- Rapid Aging: He was presumably in his 40's but aged drastically while in Hīragi captivity.
- So Proud of You: He was very proud of Guren, and told him as much many times throughout Catastrophe.
Civilians
Satoshi Yamanaka
Satoshi Yamanaka
Voiced by: Yoshihito Sasaki (Japanese), Seth Magill (English)
A minor character and a student at Second Shibuya High School.
- Blatant Lies: He and his friends lie about being selected for the army in order to intimidate people.
- Reformed Bully: He's introduced as one of Yoichi's bullies. After Yoichi's and Yuu's display of heroics in defeating a vampire that attacked the school, he becomes much kinder to Yoichi and apologizes for picking on him.
Riko
Riko
Voiced by: Rina Hidaka
A human girl that is kidnapped by a vampire named Shahal.
- Canon Foreigner: She only appears in the anime OVA and doesn't exist in the manga.
- Damsel in Distress: She gets kidnapped by Shahal and the Shinoa Squad goes to her rescue.
- Identical Stranger: She bore a close resemblance to Shahal's younger sister Lana, which is why he kidnapped her since he thought she was Lana.
- Sympathy for the Devil: She becomes sympathetic towards Shahal because unlike other vampires, he expresses strong humanlike emotions like grief.
