This Is the End Stagnation Committee Light Novels Have Anime in the Works
Oct 4
Kien Aien's story of youths taking on the coming apocalypse
The story imagines if our world is actually in the middle of an apocalypse, unbeknownst to most people. Weird creatures beneath Tokyo's Shinobazu Pond, a giant snail perched on the Eiffel Tower, a demon lord who looks like a beautiful girl …. Yet, in the underbelly of society, there are boys and girls who fight the coming apocalypse while giving it the middle finger. They can't cancel the apocalypse, and they can only delay it. Still, they take their arms into battle. Why? To them, this is just day-to-day life, a ritual festival every day for the young.
Kadokawa published the first light novel volume with illustrations by Ogipote on July 10, 2025, and published the sixth volume on July 10, 2026. Hiroshi Sakurai began a manga adaptation on Kadokawa 's Shōnen Ace Plus service in April 2024, and Kadokawa published the second manga volume on July 10.