Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36009152-20190317175134/@comment-36009152-20190727160653

Yu remaining with his whole squad as he has done through the story seems best for them all since they all seem happy and we have witnessed how well they have gotten along so far, they need one another.

Just to offer a different if hopefully welcome perspective, Shinoa can fall in love and end up with Yu and remain her strong self, Shinoa can have it all. Falling in love and wanting to be with someone is not a one way ticket to total doom and being diminished, Shinoa can demonstrate that first hand. Just because it happened to Mahiru (who was resolute in her plans, likely since she saw a much larger picture concerning hers and Saito's schemes – major plot areas) does not mean Shinoa has to avoid love to not share in that fate. Similarly with Mahiru it wasn’t a casual give into love and be overcome by a demon, she purposely fused, again with her larger plan being set in motion. Definitely a bad message if it's "don't fall in love kids or you will turn into a demon and lose everything forever" XD which is only one example, and then not one since Mahiru had concurrent thoughts deciding her actions.

Also respectively dissent that Shinoa has lost her spark, it’s simply shining in other areas. If she remained as she was at the beginning especially considering everything that has happened, technically concerned people would dismiss her as a cardboard cut-out character that only done one thing. Shinoa has been there, done that can return at any time, but there comes a point, and it happened some time ago, where a character stops being a drawing on paper, rather is seen as an actual person reacting and changing to the events around them as Shinoa has and is doing. She retains all her good traits, adapted some more, grown further in other areas – just like every person.

Can be seen as not being Guren’s lackey but co-operating where there was mistrust before. They are working with truly resented enemies like Ferid, all out of practicality to survive. It is a huge issue that a mass murdering maniac is within their mist, it is an issue that great harm can befall Yu, Mika currently feels exactly the same way. Does not mean they are subdued (well they are) but the reason isn’t a weakness in story issue, if they even exist here – they don’t! It’s a these are the serious predicaments facing these characters and this is all they can do as they weather these truly unbearable weights on top of them.

131.191.54.156 wrote:

friendship and family is equally as powerful in saving a friend and I feel that Shikami Doji severely underestimates that power. Choice words and wholeheartedly agree, only Shinoa, Yu can end up with anyone they like so long as they are happy, and can never mean any are diminished or reduced in value if they do fall in love. No matter what though, happy ending or not, it’s the happy journey they are on now that is special! AquilaeAltair wrote: It's too soon to talk about thr end when the end is only the beginning of another story And so much yes to this! Though would be thrilled with anything Seraph of the End related, reinventing and new arcs keeps everyone happy so it can continue forever! Besides heaps of content to delve into as well.