Board Thread:Chapter Discourse/@comment-43813832-20191030190334/@comment-36009152-20191117152315

Crimson lotus ichinose wrote: I can understand Guren very well when he ended the world. Stay pure? What a joke! Even Yoichi that now has a chance wanna take his beloved ones back why? Easy cause tgis is what humans do, we do whatever for our beloved ones, Yes it’s easy to say remain above everything and stay the same happy self, yet when physically in the moment, evidently when these characters are under extreme stress they are not thinking of what is right or wrong. It largely comes down to them wanting to protect what is important to them, and that’s the same for almost every character, interestingly.

Worth pointing out that anything can be made to look inferior by comparing it unfavourably against something else. There can be opinions that Guren won’t ever be good as Ashera in terms of their background story, same with Ashera not being as good as Guren because he hasn’t experienced as much severe loss. Krul has it easy compared to Yu, Shinya’s unfortunate happenings are not as significant as Saito’s, therefore they don’t matter?

Really with Seraph of the End it’s like some kind of suffering Olympics where everyone is going for the gold, and then a newly invented platinum award XD seriously, there is bad luck for everyone yet each character is worth examining for how and if this impacts their future actions.

Exactly like here in Chapter 84, Kimizuki has decided no matter what he will try and help his sister. That is really sweet of course yet what happened was outside his control. He, especially when grief stricken may decide to resurrect his sister, never mind the rest of the world. This may not be as much as severe loss of Krul losing Ashera (the not knowing and never having closure can be worse) but comparing it and deeming it as less impactful likely won’t affect Kimizuki’s feelings towards the matter. Indeed, Krul and Ashera, Mika, anyone is more than likely to make a serious choice (like consciously press the button to end the world) if it gives them the option of getting their loved ones back.

Guess no matter what the extent of the losses are, people react to things differently and the story is showing the ramifications of that.