Servamp

Servamp

Cover of English Servamp volume one.
SERVAMP -サーヴァンプ-
(Sāvanpu)
Genre Supernatural
Manga
Written by Strike Tanaka
Published by Media Factory
English publisher
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Monthly Comic Gene
Original run April 2011 – ongoing
Volumes 9
Anime television series
Directed by Itto Sara (Chief Director)
Hideaki Nakano
Written by Kenji Konuta
Studio Brain's Base
Original run July 2016 – scheduled
Episodes TBA

Servamp (SERVAMP -サーヴァンプ- Sāvanpu) is a Japanese manga series by Strike Tanaka, serialized in Media Factory's shōjo manga magazine Monthly Comic Gene since 2011. It has been collected into nine tankōbon volumes. The series is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. A television anime adaptation has been announced and will begin airing in July 2016.[1][2]

Plot

When Mahiru Shirota finds the servamp Kuro, he is caught up in a conflict between vampires and humans.[1]

Characters

Mahiru Shirota
Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (drama CD, anime)[3]
A freshman high school student who took a stray cat home, not knowing it's a vampire, and became it's Eve - it's master.
Kuro
Voiced by: Yūki Kaji (drama CD, anime)[3]
A servamp, or servant vampire, of Sloth. Takes the form of a black cat.[4]
Tsubaki
Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (drama CD, anime)[3]
The vampire of Melancholy. This mysterious man introduces himself as the eighth servamp, despite the fact that there are only supposed to be seven.[4]
Misono Alicein
Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (drama CD, anime)[3]
Lily's Eve, a high school student who is in the same year as Mahiru.[4]
Snow Lily
Voiced by: Kazuma Horie (drama CD, anime)[3]
Servamp of Lust, takes the form of a butterfly.
Licht Jekylland Todoroki
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (drama CD, anime)[3]
Lawless' Eve, a world-known pianist.
Lawless
Voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura (drama CD, anime)[3]
Servamp of Greed, takes the form of a hedgehog
Tetsu Sendagaya
Voiced by: Yūki Ono (drama CD, anime)[3]
Hugh's Eve, a junior high school student who works in an onsen.
Hugh
Voiced by: Ayumu Murase (drama CD, anime)[3]
Servamp of Pride, takes the form of a bat.
Belkia
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (drama CD, anime)[3]
Tsubaki's subclass, takes the form of a doll.
Sakuya Watanuki
Voiced by: Toshinari Fukamachi (drama CD),[3] Yūto Suzuki (anime)[5]
Mahiru's classmate and friend.
Mikuni Alicein
Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (anime)[5]
Jeje's Eve, Misono's older brother.
Jeje
Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (anime)[5]
Servamp of Envy, takes the form of a snake.

Media

Manga

Strike Tanaka began publishing Sevamp in the first issue of Media Factory's Monthly Comic Gene magazine in April 2011, where it was first tentatively titled Eve and Servamps.[6][7] The chapters from the magazine have been collected into nine tankōbon that have been released by Kadokawa.[3] In July, 2014 Seven Seas Entertainment announced it had licensed the series for publication in North America.[6] Four adapted English language manga volumes have been released, with more announced.[8] In addition to print material, the series also inspired two drama CDs,[1] the first of which was released with volume six of the manga in July 2014.[6]

Volume list

No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1 December 27, 2011[9]ISBN 978-4-04-066261-9[9]March 17, 2015[8]ISBN 978-1-626921-75-7[8]
2 June 27, 2012[10]ISBN 978-4-04-066234-3[10]June 16, 2015[8]ISBN 978-1-626921-76-4[8]
3 December 27, 2012[11]ISBN 978-4-04-066235-0[11]September 15, 2015[8]ISBN 978-1-626921-83-2[8]
4 April 27, 2013[12]ISBN 978-4-04-066236-7[12]December 8, 2015[8]ISBN 978-1-626922-23-5[8]
5 December 27, 2013[13]ISBN 978-4-04-066171-1[13]March 22, 2016[8]ISBN 978-1-626922-53-2[8]
6 July 26, 2014[14]ISBN 978-4-04-066822-2[14]June 21, 2016[8]ISBN 978-1-626922-81-5[8]
7 December 27, 2014[15]ISBN 978-4-04-067233-5[15]September 20, 2016[8]ISBN 978-1-626923-17-1[8]
8 July 27, 2015[16]ISBN 978-4-04-067565-7[16]——
9 December 26, 2015[17]ISBN 978-4-04-067868-9[17]——

Anime

A television anime adaptation was announced in the August issue of Monthly Comic Gene.[1] It was reported by Oricon Style that the adaptation would be a television series.[4] The anime will be produced by Brain's Base with Itto Sara serving as the chief director, Hideaki Nakano as director and Kenji Konuta handling series composition, with character designs by Junko Yamanaka. The anime will begin airing in July 2016.[2]

Reception

On Anime News Network, Rebecca Silverman gave the first three English language adapted manga volumes a combined overall grade of B.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Strike Tanaka's Servamp Manga Gets Anime Adaptation". Anime News Network. July 13, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Servamp TV Anime's 1st Promo Reveals July Premiere". Anime News Network. February 1, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Servamp TV Anime Casts Ryohei Kimura, Nobunaga Shimazaki". Anime News Network. August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Servamp Vampire Anime's Cast, TV Broadcast Listed". Anime News Network. July 15, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 "Servamp TV Anime Casts Kenjiro Tsuda, Tetsuya Kakihara, Yuuto Suzuki". Anime News Network. December 17, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 "Seven Seas Licenses 12 Beast, Servamp Manga". Anime News Network. July 30, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Makoto Shinkai's New Hoshi o Ou Kodomo Film Gets Manga". Anime News Network. February 10, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Servamp". Seven Seas Entertainment. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  9. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ- １". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  10. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ- ２". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  11. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ- ３". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  12. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ- ４". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  13. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ- 5". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  14. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ- 6". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  15. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ- ７". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  16. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ- ８". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  17. 1 2 "SERVAMP-サーヴァンプ-　９". Monthly Comic Gene (in Japanese). Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  18. ↑ Silverman, Rebecca (October 3, 2015). "Servamp GN 1 - 3". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 6, 2015.

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