Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35620903-20180910122310/@comment-36009152-20191210234325

Anonymous-wow wrote: Not to mention with Shinoa, Shikama Doji mentioned about saving Mika will make Yu love her or something like that (haven't read that part in awhile, my apologies). Making as if... Mika is the key to Yu's heart (full credit to no-signs-no-lights for noticing that). Shikama Doji knows best, for real!

LauraTepes wrote: Mika is just lost The Mika is lost point is interesting, may you explain more? If anything Mika seems complete when with Yu, there is nowhere else in all the universe or outside it that Mika would rather be than there with Yu.

People have shown a range of views, some people see their actions as brotherly, family, for this thread people see love. Many views are shown, and respected.

Mika explicitly saying “I love you, Yu” may never happen, but there is a view that something being formally declared canon isn’t needed. With everything in the manga so far, nothing like Mika loving Yu is stated, but it’s more than enough where people think they know what they are looking at, and that’s great. That’s very effective storytelling, letting the subtleties and body language do the talking and have that explain the situation more effectively than text, which is then free to tell the story. The plot can continue in that manner with all the occurrences, artwork, it will continue to be amazing regardless!

Seeing the remains of Akane may have been a hint, Mika was fond of Akane as a member of his orphanage family, and as a human had feelings for her (doesn’t matter what they were, feelings as in human ones). It was anger at what Ferid had done, with Mika’s feelings on Yu they remain tender ones. He was angered at seeing someone deceased, as anyone would be, but the human feelings for a close family member are not the same as the deeper ones for Yu.