Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-73.4.253.121-20150721012737/@comment-25942629-20150801134137

Hahaha. I remember the second episode has a moment where it looks like Yoichi is humping Yu. It confused me for a second until I fell out of my chair laughing. That is NOT how it was presented in the manga. There's no way the animators made it look like that by accident, right? Yoichi has always been the most feminine of the boys, but that scene cut away any doubts about his sexuality.

In the manga, Mika definitely likes girls. He blushes pretty badly when the girl he rescues offers her blood to him and whenever Krul gets really close to him. Note: He does not have this reaction in the anime. In fact, the anime actually removes or changes most of the shipping moments between Mika and Krul. Although Krul compares herself to a mother later in the manga, it's common in vampire lore for the sire to act as a parent, a lover, and master. I suppose the incest vibes just gave an extra dash of evil to vampires? It's so common that it could really be interpreted either way. However, she could have turned Mika into a vampire in a variety of easier ways than by kissing him. For instance, she could have just bit onto the tip of her finger and stuck it down his mouth instead of taking that extra step to kiss him. Kissing on the mouth like that is not something family members do to one another unless they're romantically involved. Later on in the manga, he also attacks a girl and ignores the boy closer to him. He also has to resist the urge to drink the blood of a woman he kills. He always lusts after the blood of females rather than males. The only time he appears to want a boy's blood is when Ferid makes one bleed right in front of him, but he resists that easily enough.

Mika doesn't get the chance to hug Yu until chapter 35 in the manga. The anime threw in all sorts of shipping things, especially in the opening. Hello, extremely intense BL vibes.

Mika loves Yu, but I see it as a familial love in the manga. In the anime, it comes across a little differently. Lol. In the anime, he doesn't show any interest in girls and is always only obsessively only thinking about Yu, which is different than in the manga. In the anime, he also touches and hugs Yu a lot, and he acts weirdly jealous and upset when Shinoa hugs Yu to make Yu turn back to normal. In the manga, most of the skinship occurs when Asuramaru is trying to possess Yu, and Mika only touches him a normal amount outside of those dreams. I think Yu might have a bad crush on Mika in the manga, but I think it's one-sided. In the manga, he also doesn't get upset when Shinoa hugs Yu--instead, he's just ticked that the humans really have been experimenting on Yu. In the manga, Mika comes across more like Yu's parent or older sibling who is there to get Yu away from bad influences. He wants to take Yu away from this violent drug-using group that's seriously putting Yu's life in danger on a regular basis. In the anime, there are more possessive vibes. For the most part, I have to see manga and anime Mika as two different Mikas.

While Ferid ships Mika x Yu, he is also pretty likely to try and make them miserable or kill one of them in front of the other, so be careful what you wish for.

Shinoa's crush is cute. I think she deserves better than Yu, though. And Yu has shown no interest in her (or any other girl) in the manga. He only ever thinks about Mika.

Shinoa x Mitsuba is cute. Is that how you interpreted that scene? I thought the anime was just trying to ship Yu x Shinoa again, but I suppose it could be interpreted like that. Mitsuba doesn't become upset or angry or anything when she sees that scene in the manga. The two girls are really funny together, especially with their pranks and how they can read each other and play off each other with hardly a word. They become BFFs pretty quickly.

Peculiar. I just usually ship whatever is cannon for the most part. I don't like corrupting friendships by making them romantic or sexual. I like Crowley x Chess x Horn, Crowley x Chess moreso. I can't ship Guren with anyone other than Mahiru, but she's his dead lover and is living in his head. Poor guy ain't tappin' nothin'. He cannot date, cannot ship, cannot romance. Except with Mahiru, who is dead and quite literally possessive in a demonic sense. Guren x Yu creeps me out 'cause I also see Guren like a dad.