So you mean to tell me that despite travelling with them for months, being Yuu's precious family member and literal attached almost bf, and them having shed blood to FEED him during their time on the run... Not ONE of Shinoa's squad was concerned or even mourned for Mika's death when he wasn't by Yuu's side? Not a single one of them even mentioned him!!
They were apparently having a great time getting shitfaced immediately after Mika died, I'm so angry. They only seemed to care about Yuu, I'm honestly disgusted in the lot of them.
I feel so bad for Mika, he's been handed an absolute bullshit life: from parental abuse to near death, to orphanage, to experiments, to apocalypse, to blood slavery and fighting to survive underground, to literal dismemberment and partial death of his human form, to vampirism and the agony of thirst, to giving up what's left of his physical humanity to be a complete vampire and then a downhill spiral to his vampire death and demonhood.
I'm so very sad about his fate. I feel like Mika has just been slapped with the 'universal punching bag' tag. It's so unfair.
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Chapter 85: The Guinea Pigs Gather- Or Better Known As âWhat The Hell Is Going On?â
Let me get this out there first. Iâm not a theorist and Iâm not great at analyzing texts. This is more ranty and my brain trying to make sense of things with what we are given and absolutely no research done.
Well, I finally got what I wanted, Shinoa is dead.
Segue Done Wrong
Image: Chapter 85, page 2, panel 1-2
After how many chapters, someone finally shows concern for Shinoa and itâs the villain.
Image: Chapter 85, page 3, panel 2-6
Someone showing concern for Shinoa: 2, and itâs a morally grey character. Fun.
Interesting what Noya says considering that Shinoa is technically already dead. So Kagami, how are you gonna explain this? Likely answer, probably not even gonna mention it. I mean, how many questions has he managed to circle his way around already?
The whole point of why Yuu agreed to be experimented on was to prevent Shikama Doji from taking over her and to prevent Shinoa from becoming a vampire, which the two were linked for some reason. Seeing as how to become a vampire, you would have to die and Shinoa DID get taking over by Shikama, it leads one to conclude that Shinoa is dead.
And despite what the more likely explanation is, Shikama taking over Shinoaâs body isnât demon possession.
I could use Guren or Yuu as an example, but this series enjoys treating them as special cases, Shinoa, too as well, if this chapters any indication so I canât use them. Luckily for us, there is in fact another demon possession that we could compare to, Yoichiâs possession back in Chapter 7.
How they got Yoichi back was that they appealed to Yoichi who was still ALIVE and was inside his consciousness where he was cowering. They got him back by screaming at him to come back. Specifically, Guren yelled at Yoichi and encouraged him to stop hiding and to protect his family now.
Demon Possession: the host is still ALIVE and CONSCIOUS. Shinoa getting possessed by Shikama was triggered when she DIED.
Her possession wasnât demon possession.
And to prove that Shinoa wasnât conscious like how Yoichi was during the âpossessionâ is this scene.
Image: Chapter 85, page 4, panel 5-7
Youâd think that if she was conscious, this information would have already been known to her. You could argue that sheâs faking it as the âimpassionate observerâ but I highly doubt that as Shinoa letting in Shika to take over her body is when all the walls she built crumbles. Simply put, there is no reason for her to fake being ignorant or even being surprised.
So with this, it brings on issue #1 I have with this chapter and refers back to a word that I titled this section with.
Image: Chapter 85, page 5, panels 1-3
Issue #1: This segue from shifting the focus from Shinoa to Yuu.
Segue is a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption. And this scene, just feels off. Thereâs just something about this scene that doesnât connect with me. And it has absolutely nothing to do with my dislike for Shinoa or Yuu//Noa- Hell, some of their other scenes make sense to me and I understand that those scenes were needed to get the story moving but this scene is not one of them.
Image-wise I guess it kinda flows-and thatâs me being nice- since Shinoa mentions Yuu then it switches to Yuu but in terms of where the story is heading, this scene is irrelevant. I strongly believe that this scene wasnât meant to have any importance behind it other than to shift the focus from Shinoa to Yuu. And itâs precisely this reason this segue feels off is because this scene does not make narrative sense and doesnât flow very well.
Another issue I have with this part yeah there is more than one is:
Issue 2: How does Shinoa even know that Guren went off in the direction where Yuu was at? While adding onto that, how does Guren know?
As I said before, Shinoa has no reason to fake what she knows and she couldnât even be consciously aware of what was happening because she was DEAD. So Shinoa shouldnât know that Guren was going to where Yuu was at.
Prior to Shinoa dying, what she knows about Yuu was that he was the last person whose face she saw before being wheeled away. Other than the possible romantic undertones to it which I wonât touch because why bother? There is no reason for Shinoa to know or suspect that Guren is going after Yuu and no reason at all for her to even mention his name after being revived.?
As for Guren knowing, Iâm gonna write it off as him knowing thanks to Mahiru or something since we did see that Mahiru can travel to other places with no need of Guren to be in close proximity of the place. Or maybe he heard Mitsuba yelling out that Yuu was captured, which I doubt but let me dream that she still has an important part. Itâs a cop-out but whatever.
And the award for vagueness goes toâŠ
Image: Chapter 85, page 7, panel 1
Ah. Another flashback and another puzzle piece added to an uncompleted picture. But more on that later as this has been what has kept me up at night and what is Issue #3: who does Krul mean when she says âtheyâ?
Because she wants to save Asura and the scene before this was Mika trying to rescue Yuu and being aNGeRY at Guren. I assume that it has to do with either one of them or both. But for who she was worried about them confronting, I wasnât sure.
But after rereading and thinking it over again, I think I know which two people she was worried about confronting one another and honestly Iâm excited. And if Iâm right, this is great foreshadowing that we have seen so far.
Foreshadowing is more prominently shown before the encounter comes to pass. These two panels arenât the amazing piece of foreshadowing. No. The excellent piece of foreshadowing that shows this is back in Chapter 82.
Image: Chapter 82, page 30(panel 2)-31, 33-34
But that discovery isnât what has me excited but the realization as to what this means. I think we are finally reaching the puzzle piece that we couldnât grasp because of so little info we have on it: the Mikaela gene.
Itâs quite a trend for Kagami to completely focus on something else rather than give it the attention it needs. And itâs because of this that this brings on Issue #4 because I am fairly certain this will be glossed over in the coming chapters. Fingers crossed Iâm wrong.
Speaking of things that get glossed overâŠ
Image: Chapter 85, page 6
They didnât refer to Yuu as demon or a variant of it since back in Chapter 77, page 26 when they were first captured. Is this just a translation error? I mean previous chapters has referred to Yuu as âSun God Atenâ
I tried relooking at the other chapters to see if it was just a difference in what species refer to Yuu. Like if humans call him a devil and itâs just humans or if itâs the vampires who call him Sun God Aten and them only and vice versa.
The results?
Not a damn difference.
Now moving on: âSword of Mikaelaâ
This one, at least, was consistent. When they were first captured, Asura was referred to by his real name âAshera Tepesâ and then any reference to both Yuu and Asura has been consistently referring to Asura as âSword of Mikaelaâ or âMikaelaâs Swordâ which brings on some concerns- mostly questions really. And this brings Issue #5:
Given our knowledge of the Mikaela (gene) that we have now:
Mikaelaâs are what the vampireâs apparently trying to become.
Turning someone who was supposed to have the Mikaela gene into a vampire somehow negates them as being successful.
Image: Chapter 85, page 36
Fucking how Noya? See the issue? And given that âMikaelaâs Swordâ is a demon sword that turns vampires into ashes when strucked when the demons power is released and that their injuries arenât able to regenerate/heal when cut...Iâm not sure how this would work or connect.
But then again this is under the assumption that vampires canât touch the handle of the sword and wield it so I guess there is some leeway here??
Either that or the ongoing joke/theory of the vampires all want to die is now confirmed based on this contradiction.
Just miscellaneous things that wonât ever get attention, probably
I wanted to include this in the above section but eh, there more of things that I guess that donât fit in to it. Anyway, this:
Image: Chapter 85, page 21-22
Do you think after Rigr was exploded that the chains that were absorbing the Hyakuya Sect members disappeared as well?
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Mitsuba. Seriously, where is she during all this? What was she doing during all this?
Speaking of other people missing during these events,  and someone that I absolutely forgot  where the hell is Narumi at?
