Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36009152-20190317175134/@comment-131.191.54.156-20190727044955

Looking at things from a nonshipper perspective and just the story itself, I don't think Yuu will end up with anyone in a romantic sense. A lot of the core themes of seraph of the end have been that family and friendship are things that are considerable more important than romance itself. Yuu himself has never shown to have an explicit romantic like towards anyone, even if there's been implications of romantic moments such as with Shinoa, Mitsuba, or even Mikaela (?) it's all been onesided. Even when Shikami Doji told Yuu that Shinoa loved him, he didn't react much to it at all.

I most definitely believe Yuu loves them all, but I think he lacks the capability in canon to pursue romance at all. He's not like Guren in which a main motivator for him was his love for Mahiru, as much as Guren wants Yuu to be more like him and have a relationship similar to his and Mahiru's with Shinoa (yes friendship was a main motivator for Guren as well, but his main motivator through things was undeniably mahiru from a young age).

As for my biased opinion because I stan Shinoa to hell and back, I hope she doesn't end up with Yuu because it will do her character arc a great disservice. Part of her entire character arc has been that she HASN'T ended up like her sister, if she ends up in a romance she will undeniably end up going the route of Mahiru and Guren. That and she'a been said to be STRONG, stronger than her sister ever was and I fully believe that part of that reason is because Shinoa has much stronger attachments to MANY people. Mahiru had her attachments, but she obsessed over one man and it ended up letting her give into the demon which is still a tragedy.

I would also like Shinoa not to end up with Yuu because she's a good enough character on her own, and she's already lost the initial spark that made so many people love her at the beginning of the manga with how cocky and good-natured she was, and how efficent she was at being a good leader and friend. Now she's become basically a subdued lackey much like Guren's girl squad and goes along with whatever Yuu voices (anyone else find it concerning that she had no issue going along with guren's plans when intially she had great issue with the harm they could bring to yuu in the beginning of the manga? Funny huh.)

Shinoa doesn't need her arc to end in romance and neither does Yuu, friendship and family is equally as powerful in saving a friend and I feel that Shikami Doji severely underestimates that power.

Kagami has also stated that ONS will not have a happy ending (if I remember correctly), happy endings include people getting together so... I have reasons to believe Yuu won't end up with anyone.