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Servamp | |
SERVAMP -サーヴァンプ- (Sāvanpu) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Strike Tanaka |
Published by | Media Factory |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Monthly Comic Gene |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Original run | June 15, 2011 – December 13, 2024 |
Volumes | 24 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by |
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Written by | Kenji Konuta |
Music by | Kenji Kawai |
Studio | |
Licensed by | |
Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, Sun TV, Mētele, BS Nittele |
English network | |
Original run | July 5, 2016 – September 20, 2016 |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime film | |
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Servamp (Japanese: SERVAMP -サーヴァンプ-, Hepburn: Sāvanpu) is a Japanese manga series by Strike Tanaka, It was serialized in Media Factory's shōjo manga magazine Monthly Comic Gene since June 2011 to December 2024, with its chapters collected into twenty-four tankōbon volumes. The series is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television adaptation began airing on July 5, 2016, and concluded on September 20, 2016, with 12 episodes.[2][3]
Mahiru Shirota is a normal high school student who likes simple things. One day, on his way back home, he finds a black cat and decides to take care of it, naming it Kuro. The next day, however, he is surprised to find out that the black cat is, in fact, one of the seven vampires that represent the Seven Deadly Sins. His name is Sleepy Ash, he represents Sloth, and he turns into a cat when exposed to sunlight. By giving Sleepy Ash a name and a cat bell, and then calling him by his given name, Mahiru accidentally forms a temporary contract with him. The contract is finalized once Sleepy Ash drinks his blood, making him Mahiru's vampire servant known as "Servamp" and Mahiru becomes his master called "Eve". Following this, Mahiru and Sleepy Ash, now Kuro, encounter Tsubaki, a vampire who claims to be the Servamp of Melancholy and the unknown eighth brother of the other Servamps. Tsubaki intends to wage an all-out war against his six brothers and Sister, while Mahiru decides to gather them to fight against Tsubaki and his group together.
Strike Tanaka began publishing Servamp in the first issue of Media Factory's Monthly Comic Gene magazine on June 15 2011 to December 13 2024, where it was first tentatively titled Eve and Servamps.[9][10] The chapters from the magazine have been collected into twenty-four tankōbon that have been released by Kadokawa.[4] In July 2014 Seven Seas Entertainment announced it had licensed the series for publication in North America.[9] Twenty adapted English-language manga volumes have been released, with more announced.[11] In addition to print material, the series also inspired six drama CDs,[2] the first of which was released with volume six of the manga in July 2014.[9] The manga entered the hiatus in February 2017 due to the author's health. She had the intense pain which led to rest and recover.[12] The manga resumed on April 15, 2017, after she was recovered from her pain.[13] The 24th and final volume was released on December 27, 2024.[14]
In addition to drama CDs the series has also produced several character song CDs, as well as an original soundtrack CD. In total there have been five character pair CDs, released in 2015, as well as a character song mini-album and an original soundtrack, both of which have been released in October 2016.[61][62][63] The anime series also had an opening song, "Deal With" by Oldcodex, and an ending song, "Sunlight Avenue" by Takuma Terashima.[64][65]
An anime television adaptation was announced in the August issue of Monthly Comic Gene.[2] It was reported by Oricon Style that the adaptation would be a television series.[6] The anime was produced by Brain's Base and Platinum Vision with Itto Sara serving as the chief director, Hideaki Nakano as director and Kenji Konuta handling series composition, with character designs by Junko Yamanaka and music by Kenji Kawai.[66] The anime aired from July[3] to September 2016. Funimation had licensed the series outside Asia for streaming on their website.[67] In Southeast Asia, Muse Communication holds the license to the series.[68]
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1 | "Mahiru and Kuro" "Mahiru to Kuro" (真昼とクロ) | July 5, 2016 | |
Mahiru Shirota is a high school student who likes simple things and dislikes complicated things, so he picked up a cat that he named Kuro. The next day, he finds out that Kuro is actually a vampire who only metamorphoses into a cat if exposed to sunlight. Mahiru accidentally makes a contract with Kuro the moment he calls his given name in his human form. Kuro explains that he is a special type of vampire who makes a contract and then serves humans. He can only drink blood from his master and must listen to their orders. Mahiru had made a temporary contract with him, and as long as Kuro doesn't drink Mahiru's blood for 24 hours, the contract is cancelled. Until then, he cannot be separated from Mahiru. While shopping, they are attacked by another vampire, Belkia. Although initially reluctant, Kuro saves Mahiru from Belkia and Mahiru decides to finalise their contract by making Kuro drink his blood. With the contract made, Kuro becomes a servant vampire called Servamp, and Mahiru his master called Eve. With the power of their contract, Kuro easily defeats Belkia. | |||
2 | "Tsubaki" "Tsubaki" (椿) | July 12, 2016 | |
Mahiru and Kuro are approached by Tsubaki, the vampire who ordered Belkia to attack Kuro. He reveals that there are seven known Servamp siblings, each representing one of the Seven Deadly Sins. He then introduces himself as the eighth Servamp of Melancholy. To stop Tsubaki, Mahiru attempts to form a contract with him, leading Tsubaki to try and kill him, but before he can do so, another Servamp, All of Love, saves Mahiru and Kuro. The pair is approached by the Eve of Servamp of Lust, Misono Alicein who then introduces All of Love, now going by the name of Snow Lily. He demands Mahiru to give Kuro to him to get rid of Tsubaki, but Mahiru instead offers an alliance between them. | |||
3 | "About the Future That Never Came" "Otozurenakatta Mirai ni Tsuite" (訪れなかった未来について) | July 19, 2016 | |
Misono tells Mahiru of a weapon called Lead that Eves get from their Servamp, so Mahiru asks Kuro to give him one, which takes the form of a broom. Meanwhile, one of Mahiru's close friends, Sakuya, is revealed to be one of Tsubaki's Subclass. The next day, Mahiru realises that his memories of Sakuya are starting to disappear. Sakuya then approaches and lures Mahiru and Kuro to an alley where he reveals that he and Mahiru only know each other for a year and admits his connection with Tsubaki, Otogiri attacks Kuro and Mahiru, and the two are saved by Misono and Lily who manage to defeat Belkia, but Otogiri uses her ability to control his unconscious body. Sakuya then severely injures Misono, and Mahiru, horrified by Sakuya's action, decides to fight despite his own dilemma. | |||
4 | "Sakuya" "Sakuya" (桜哉) | July 26, 2016 | |
Mahiru's uncertainty overflows within Kuro, causing him to lose control of his power. As Mahiru is engulfed by Kuro's power, Sakuya tries to help him, admitting he acted the way he did to convince Mahiru to kill him. Kuro is stopped by the Servamp of Envy, now named Jeje, and the Subclass are forced to retreat. Jeje's Eve, an antique dealer, offers Mahiru a chance to cancel the contract between him and Kuro if he feels like it. The incident leaves Mahiru confused about the way he is using his power. By chance, he meets Tsubaki at a sushi bar and asks how Sakuya became his Subclass. Tsubaki explains that Sakuya, along with his sister, used to be abused by his parents. His older sister was forced into suicide so their parents can earn the insurance money, and they forced Sakuya to do the same six years later but Tsubaki saved him by turning him into his Subclass. Mahiru confronts Sakuya at the school festival and the two make amends with Mahiru promising he will stop Tsubaki so Sakuya can be free. | |||
5 | "I Am an Adult. This is Society" "Ore wa Otona, Koko wa Shakai" (俺は大人, ここは社会) | August 2, 2016 | |
Mahiru receives a letter that Kuro quickly dismisses as being a prank. At a summer festival, Mahiru is approached by a stranger and asked to take a silver case to the lost and found stall, as the man had no time to do it himself. On his way, he meets a young man carrying a coffin who claims that there's a vampire sleeping inside it. An explosion occurs and Mahiru finds out it came from a case similar to the one he is carrying. He quickly calls Kuro to throw it into the sky, but it starts falling back too soon. The young man from earlier catches it with his coffin where it explodes, leaving the coffin intact. He introduces himself as Tetsu Sendagaya, the Eve of Servamp of Pride, named Hugh. After forming an alliance with the two of them, Mahiru is kidnapped by a neutral organisation called C3 while Kuro is attacked by three C3 members. A C3 researcher, Syuhei Tsuyuki, demands Mahiru to give them Kuro, as they also want to stop Tsubaki. He threatens that Mahiru will die due to the distance between him and Kuro. Refusing to cooperate, Mahiru escapes by himself and rescues Kuro. | |||
6 | "Angel or Demon" "Tenshi ka Akuma" (天使か悪魔) | August 9, 2016 | |
One of Hugh's Subclass informs them about a suspicious person defeating another Subclass. Mahiru and Kuro tail the person who appears to have captured a Servamp who takes the form of a hedgehog. However, it is revealed that the person, Licht Jekllyland Todoroki, is in fact the Eve of the Servamp of Greed, Lawless, who is on bad terms with Kuro and refuses to cooperate with them. Finding out Licht is a famous pianist and is holding a concert, Mahiru and Kuro go to the concert to try and convince him again, but realise that the concert is merely a trap set by Tsubaki who had sent Subclass to kill Licht and Lawless. Lawless manages to kill nearly all of Tsubaki's Subclass himself, however, and he and Kuro have a brief fight after Lawless brings up a past incident that involves the Servamps receiving an order from C3. The fight is stopped by Licht, who himself then almost has another fight with Lawless, but both are stopped by Lawless' Subclass, Guildernstein. As the situation resolves, Mahiru takes custody of the sole survivor of Tsubaki's Subclass to get information. Meanwhile, Tsubaki, enraged by the death of his Subclass, directly confronts Lawless. | |||
7 | "Because I Am..." "Nazenara Ore wa" (なぜなら俺は) | August 16, 2016 | |
After bringing Tsubaki's Subclass, Lilac, to their place, Mahiru thinks that Tsubaki will come and save him just like he did with Belkia. While discussing this, Mahiru notices Kuro acting strange after the incident with Lawless regarding his past. The next day, Licht's manager, Rosen Crantz, explains that Lawless has gone missing and Licht is feeling unwell. Deducing that Tsubaki has attacked Lawless for revenge, Mahiru and Kuro go to look for the weakened Licht, who is fighting Higan, one of Tsubaki's Subclass ordered to capture him. Mahiru and Kuro try to help him, but Kuro suddenly becomes a black ball, resulting in Licht's capture. Using the cell phone Higan dropped, Misono makes contact with Tsubaki and demands to trade the Greed Pair for his Subclass. Back at the lodging, Mahiru discovers that Kuro is unharmed inside the ball and vows to return him back to normal. | |||
8 | "Nothing Begins Without Action" "Hajime ni Okonai Ariki" (はじめに行いありき) | August 23, 2016 | |
Mahiru and Tetsu try to free Kuro from the ball to no avail. Mahiru remembers the antique dealer who helped him once before, who seemed to know more about vampires and decides to go to his shop while Misono, Lily, Tetsu, Hugh, Crantz, and Guilderstein come up with a plan to save Licht and Lawless. From the picture in Higan's cell phone and Misono's servant, Dodo, they find out that Tsubaki is staying at a hotel. At the antique shop, Mahiru and Kuro are welcomed by a doctor named Johannes who is researching vampires. The antique dealer, revealed to be Misono's older brother Mikuni, explains that Subclass can be killed if a Servamp drinks their blood, and that Servamps can be broken by destroying the item that their Eve gave them along with a name. Johannes then tricks Mahiru into drinking something that sends him to Kuro's mind. Misono, Lily, Tetsu, and Hugh infiltrate the hotel Tsubaki is staying in while the vampire is not present, only to find out they have fallen right into Tsubaki's trap. | |||
9 | "I'm Not Wrong" "Ore wa Machigattenai" (俺は間違ってない) | August 30, 2016 | |
Lawless' Subclass confront Tsubaki to buy some time until Misono and the others rescue Licht and Lawless. Misono and Lily fight against Sakuya on the basement floor while Tetsu and Hugh fight against Tsubaki's remaining Subclass. Mahiru, who has entered Kuro's mind, witnesses his memories that show the Servamps having a majority vote to decide whether they should kill their creator or not. Kuro, being the last to vote, decides on killing the person, stating he will personally do the job. This earns him disdain from Lawless who greatly objects the request. When Kuro goes to kill his creator, however, his resolve starts to waver but he is still going through his decision. The incident makes Kuro question his own action. Feeling Kuro's uncertainty, Mahiru urges Kuro to face his past and assures that he is there for him, convincing Kuro to return. | |||
10 | "Lawless" "Rauresu" (ロウレス) | September 6, 2016 | |
Lawless and Licht clash against each other after a heated argument. Licht points out Lawless' attempt to run away from reality by devaluing people's lives. This enrages Lawless who then shows Licht his past. Hundreds of years ago, he was serving a princess named Ophelia who was his Eve at the time, whom he fell in love with. However, he was heartbroken when Ophelia chose to marry a prince from a neighbouring country to avoid war. This didn't last long as Ophelia's marriage was a ploy by her kingdom to attack, leading Ophelia to be executed but not before she left an inspiring speech that eventually brought peace to both countries. After Ophelia's death, Lawless and the rest of the Servamps are called to a meeting regarding the request to kill their creator. Already in despair after Ophelia's death, Kuro's decision to kill their creator furthered disillusioned Lawless' view of human lives and it finally reached its peak when the country that Ophelia sacrificed her life to protect was destroyed by another country. Now knowing Lawless' problem, Licht uses his piano play to urge Lawless to be honest with his own feelings and realize his wishes as he calls Lawless with his current name: Hyde. With the new resolve, both free themselves from their confinement but then meet face-to-face with Higan. | |||
11 | "For Not Forgiving Me" "Yurusanaide Kurete" (許さないでくれて) | September 13, 2016 | |
Lawless and Licht are able to corner Higan, pushing the Subclass to unleash his full power. Meanwhile, Mikuni and Jeje arrive and save Misono and Lily from Sakuya, urging the Lust Pair to go to where Tetsu and Hugh are fighting against Tsubaki's remaining Subclass. When they get there, they find out Hugh has disappeared after becoming trapped inside Belkia's magic box. Without any manpower left, Misono decides to retreat until Mahiru and Kuro, now taking the form of a giant black lion, save them, easily defeating the Subclass. Back to Lawless and Licht, the Greed Pair finally defeat Higan using the combination of Licht's piano play and Lawless' swordsmanship just as Mahiru and Kuro arrive. Kuro takes the opportunity to finally reconciles with Lawless. Their relief is short-lived when Lila, still bitter at Lawless for killing his friends, steals Lawless' contract item. The situation worsens when Tsubaki arrives. | |||
12 | "Thinking Simply..." "Shinpuru ni Kangaete..." (シンプルに考えて) | September 20, 2016 | |
Tsubaki reveals that he has defeated Hugh and then proceeds to break Lawless' contract item, causing the Servamp to lose his power. He confronts Kuro, recognising his lion form as the one who killed their creator. Kuro tries to talk Tsubaki out of fighting further, but Tsubaki refuses to listen out of his twisted dedication to fulfil their creator's expectation. While Misono, Tetsu, Licht, and Lawless evacuate with C3's help, Mahiru decides to stay and fight together with Kuro. Confronting Tsubaki, Mahiru's weapon changes into a key that unlocks Tsubaki's past. After being picked and metamorphosed into a vampire by the creator of the Servamps, Tsubaki is unsure of his place among his vampire siblings and could only rely on his creator until Kuro killed him, which lead to Tsubaki seeking vengeance against Kuro. Determined to end the fighting, Mahiru and Kuro struggle against Tsubaki's attacks until Mahiru finally reaches Tsubaki, convincing him to stop. Afterwards, Tsubaki cuts all ties with his Subclass and disappears, while Mahiru and his friends return to their normal lives. |
A sequel anime film titled Servamp: Alice in the Garden premiered in Japan on April 7, 2018. The film was produced by Platinum Vision. Hideaki Nakano and Junko Yamanaka returned for the direction and character designs respectively, while Ayumu Hisao served as scriptwriter. The film's theme song is "One Side" by Oldcodex.[69]
A stage play adaptation of the manga ran in Tokyo's Kokumin Kyōsai coop Hall / Space Zero from November 27 to December 6, 2020. It had also been scheduled to run in Osaka on December 19 and December 20, 2020, but was canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The stage play starred Ryohei Takenaka as Mahiru Shirota, Kyouhei Chida as Kuro, Ryu Kiyama as Misono Alicein, Yuya Tominaga as Snow Lily, Reo Hotta as Mikuni Alicein, Ken Kato as Tetsu Sendagaya, Nagato Okui as Hugh, Yuta Kishimoto as Licht Jekylland Todoroki, Yuta Osumi as Lawless, Mondo Ukai as Higan, Masaki Matsuda as Sakuya Watanuki, Shuto Washio as Belkia, and Taiko Katono as Tsubaki.[70][71]
On Anime News Network, Rebecca Silverman gave the first three English language adapted manga volumes a combined overall grade of B.[72]