#ons chapter 117

The best way to show this intention is back in chapter 117 i think, where you clearly see Ashera with Krul in what seems to be "paradise", because they're together, right? Yet the next panel shows the crude reality, the people they killed, whose lifes were traded in a non natural way for them. Ashera sees the truth and is conflicted about it, yet Krul seems oblivious to reality. In this scenario, I feel like Ashera is Mikaela, Yuu is Krul. One is partially aware, yet chooses to remain in the present comfort and the other is constantly seeking a past feeling long gone.

Hey anon!

Hnm, well, let's dig on this.

First of all, it's true what you say about how it ends up turning into a viscious cycle of neverending of "repeating the same mistake".

1. Character insight towards the cycle

Shikama

At 1st, Shikama tried resurrecting Mikaela in order to prolong the life of his angels along bringing back the rest of the angels; but of course, that ended up in failure.

As the big OP angel said, because Shikama broke one of the biggest taboos within the laws, it's not simply law but rather, the main message that's been focused on transmiting.

That gratitude of life was forsaken, but here, let's not dwell on the right/wrong; but rather, narrative wise speaking, we're talking about how love has two faces very independent of how it's directed.

1. Love binded by order and gratitude

2. Selfish love

Shikama falls in the latter. Paimon specially told Shikama to not lose his path; he begged him to do what it was supposed to be the correct thing to do instead of losing his path; yet Shikama due to the deep love he felt for his followers, he chose to follow on a plan that literally highlighted "if God can create miracles, then I shall too cast one".

Which of course, the result ended up on his eternal punishment.

Guren

Regarding Guren, his action is more akin to a curse because eventually, the whole end of the world was bound to happen. For that, let's rely on the Catastrophe manga this time.

Very independent of how readers might interpret Mahiru; canonically speaking, Mahiru knew from the get go she wasn't bound to be happy, nor was bound to live beyond her 16 years of life. She knew she was someone whose wings were cut and set in stone.

The purpose of the Hiragi sisters was to control fully the Seraph of the End experiment. Mahiru was the one to create the cursed gear; Shinoa being the perfect result was made to control that punishment.

However, when it came to Guren, he understood that he couldn't save anyone, nor he wanted to go further, he was too devastated for that because ever since he met Mahiru, he fell in love with her; he understood with time that Mahiru didn't live like a spoiled girl under the Hiragi Family but the latter.

And what we see upon Guren is absolute despair, but along the way Guren has been able to defy "Fate" which is further mentioned in the Catastrophe & Resurrection at 19 LNs. Guren was made so he could oppose the fate directed by Shikama Doji.

And it was true, Mahiru would have wanted Guren to not get involved; but given that she was constantly struggling to retain control over her demons, along the fact that Guren was set on stone on a path of aiming to rescue the girl he loved. That's why Guren chose to get involved (it didn't help Rigr Stafford to mixed into the equation)

Ultimately, if Guren wasn't triggering, a team would have made for certain the punishment to make the world end. However, given that it was him, he carried on the sin.

Ultimately, in Vampire Reign story, Guren tried to control much better the divine punishment by just reviving humanity, yet for him, he was tired, he had enough, he only wanted to heal the world or fix what Shikama Doji's plan was focused on.

For him, it's not that he didn't value life, but his purpose is driven by guilt and seeking salvation for humanity.

Yuu

Contrast to the two mentioned above; Yuu's driven by guilt. Given that he didn't value the love given to him after he was healing regarding his 1st family aka his parents; when the kids get killed, Yuu literally loses it, he pretty much wants to die yet for Mika, it was a matter of living, of escaping, of being free.

And given that the resurrection became a possibility for him, he started to sink into an endless loop. To make it worse, it just didn't stop in humanity, it spread to the point he wants to bring Shikama, the vampires and angels back.

And this of course has left him on a point of him doing the same thing as Shikama. Not valuing life in the slightest.

I mean, he casually says this:

Mika is concerned cause it's not just some casual topic, he's talking about their friends, the ones who followed Yuu for the sake of his happiness. (They engaged into the idea of resurrection after Guren killed Mirai and mentioned the whereabouts of Tomoe).

Now. You mentioned this

Yuu = Krul

Mika = Ashera

This in fact is the opposite.

Krul and Mika are on the same opinion that immortality should come to an end. Whereas Yuu is doing exactly what Ashera did back in the past, hence why Ashera's lines:

Ashera at the end understood that they were supposed to long have perished. But because at that time immortality and the fact of seeing his sister again felt like heaven, he didn't pay much attention to it.

But when he knew his sister was there, concerned about him despite his reckles acts, he understood he made his baby sister suffer way worse than a single life, he made her suffer for thousand of years.

But as you can see, Yuu has sunk in that loop to the bitter end, while the squad has chosen to stand against that.

If Yuu were to win, there would be no meaning unless the author seeks to portray a delusional protagonist if he were to focus on a tragic end.

It will depend on what exactly the author seeks at the end.

What do you think anon?

Hello everyone, this is the 2nd analysis I promised I'd update. Sometimes we might ponder about why Kagami shows us the PoV of the squad and mayhaps some might think that the Squad members are heartless, however, this in fact is a method to reflect what Yuu should have learnt on his life journey.

Thus, let's begin!

Was hearing this ost when my bestie talked with me:

P.S: This analysis fully belongs to my bestie Ange; she doesn't have a tumblr acc but she's on twitter but not so active, we actually talked about this on other social media plataform and she gave me authorization to post this. She's really well versed on OnS

The story so far, at first seems like a journey until it reaches its current destination; however, the tale itself is more of a reflection. What do I mean? Yuu is a character that treasures Mikaela, wants to see him alive and of course, he's focused on achieving that ultimate goal even if it means sacrificing his friends. This of course clashes well with his real goal which is to die if he fails even if he swears he won't.

On the other hand, we finally see the Shinoa squad members resolution, one by one. It's not random writing, there's a purpose to it, it's a way to create a difference and a reflection or a contrast.

Yuu's current self is a character that does not value life. It may sound harsh but, his character ignores the suffering all the vampires carry, dismisses that there's a time limit for living beings... dismisses that even demons have long suffered enough; dismisses the meaning humans have by simply stating he'll bring them back as an easy feat.

Let's start with the 1st reflection on contrast.

Shinoa Hiragi

Shinoa went from a girl who literally did not know of love. If anything, she saw that life held no meaning, however, for some reason, even if she broke her mind with it as a child, she kept living, something drove her to live. When the squad was made, at first she viewed it as duty, however, that warmth, that human interaction started to soften her heart.

When she started to interact with vampires, such as Crowley Eusford, she started to learn that even among vampires, some didn't choose to be turned into one; if anything, they too struggled to cope with other vampires.

With this, she was the only one to actually ask Krul about her past, about Ashera and their ties to the 1st. And it's not simply for digging information, if anything, she really didn't have to, yet she chose to ask, she chose to understand or at least tried to.

When she ambushed Ky Luc, she viewed Ky Luc as a mere killer, as someone who didn't value human life, someone who simply was as distorted as Ferid; however, when she started to gain Ky Luc's memories, she realized the memories of the vampires were more complex than she originally thought. She even saw why Ky Luc was fighting, aka Urd's dream to achieve death for all vampires

This allowed her to understand that vampires were exhausted of living forever, they were done struggling for eternity and the thing they wanted the most was to finally be able to rest. To stop living in cursed bodies that were bound to last for eternity.

2. Shiho Kimizuki

Kimizuki & Yuu have too much in common. Both lost what they held dear, and in the current chapter, we were able to see that Kimizuki's struggle or pain was letting go. He chose to mute Mirai. What the memory of her sister tried to convey was always met with a "shut up".

Kimizuki chose to mute Mirai in order to prevent hearing what her sister truthfully tried to convey.

This same situation reflects with Yuu, ever since he lost Mikaela as a human & as a vampire; Mikaela, before the whole memory recollection, tried to convey one single thing to Yuu, but like any moment, Yuu chose to mute his voice, his wishes.

Even Asuramaru told Yuu what Mikaela truthfully wanted.

3. Yoichi Saotome

With Yoichi, contrast to Yuu who refuses to let go of the past; Yoichi spent so much "hiding beneath the bed", however, thanks to chapter 154 & 155; Yoichi broke free from that. Yoichi reflects bravery, about standing up, about walking even if there seems to be no reason. It changes way more when someone out there is waiting for you, when someone cares & loves you so much that all they want is to see you well & again.

4. Mitsuba Sanguu

With Mitsuba, even if her development through the story hasn't been much... When you love, the least you want is to see your loved ones suffer physical pain; living is painful, but it's entirely different when you're actively hurting others...

What I'm trying to say, the squad itself reflects the path Yuu could have walked through; on the other hand, Yuu reflects a path that chose to remain in the past, chose to crawl down under the bed, refused to let go, refused to acknowledge that life is a path filled with grief, pain, sorrow; but at the same time, it's filled with happiness, love, joy, the value of life and the meaning each person possesses.

Something that made me to think a lot after chapter 117 was that, is this Yuu we saw in new chapter really the same Yuu we know or....?!

I mean just take a look at these:

SPECIALLY this part then:

Look guys, sounds like Yuu knows MORE than he should knows. Like he stated before that he has no memories of what happened to him by the First in thousends of years ago but he has only memories of his past 16 years of life and Yuu clearly didn't know anything about the drugs or how they work but now he clearly knows how a drug works and what side effects a certain drug must have on him and this is weird yes, as if he is our Yuu then he must not know things about Ashera, how seeing someone's heart, Shikama doji and his plans and the drugs and all no he is clearly knows more than he must and so what can this mean? Does it mean Yuu has his memories back fully or no this is another personality of him now?!

Back to chapters ago we had Guren telling Mika something weird about Yuu and that was he wanted to save Yuu from a CURSE he is carrying

And so this suddenly made me think that what if this current Yuu we are seeing is actually that curse he was talking about?! So a theory appeared in my mind that what if the reason why Guren brought Yuu to the corpses and told him about that he can't resurrect both Mika and the world but he needs to chose one was actually because Guren wanted Yuu to show his or better to say to activate Yuu's secret curse so in the its full and clamix he can completely clear it from Yuu's mind and body and heart and soul?! (just like how we saw Guren killing Mika was actually saving him not killing him in reality so there must be another new secret reason behind this current one too)

And something which made me more suspended was that both Guren and Ferid talked about doing some kind of experiments with the sinful keys in order to save the world long ago

And yet even after chapter 109 they didn't do anything with them and sounds like they had a plan with them for the current situation

Therefore I guess maybe they actually plans to remove Yuu's curse from him fully when the curse is fully appear and so maybe this Yuu isn't actually Yuu?!

Hello everyone, after slacking for quite a time and pondering whenever to continue or not, @black-sapphire57​ (thank you for always giving me that push to continue!) Let’s talk about one thing the fandom, or rather part of the fandom that is more focused on two characters got triggered about.

P.S: Theories are held within a neutral view and ships are excluded

Shinoa as a character has been popping less in terms of how right now the screen time has been focused for quite several chapters about the past of Mika and Yuu; and of course, there are two things I’d love to discuss.

1. The oh so called love confession

Under the most popular insight, we have chapter 118 on which after a long battle between Asuramaru and Yuu; ultimately Yuu wins, of course, in the outside world, it seems more akin that he’s dying and we have that famous panel on which Shinoa cries and begs for Yuu to stop.

Image taken from Chapter 118

One of the things many people gave insight was that ShInoa was confessing her love to him, that she was pouring her emotions to see what he’d say; but, is that really the case? Is that a fact?

In fact it’s not. Why? Is it a delusion? Is it a denial?

The answer is actually more simple that what it seems like and it retorts to something more primal and common which in fact, we tent to experience a lot as human beings in general, what could it be?

Correct, the fear of losing someone we love and care about.

This is something the manga portrays so much, everyone fights to protect what they hold dear even if they have to do wrongs or even if they have to go towards a path of self destruction but, the thing all characters fear is losing someone forever.

The connotation here or rather the scene that takes place is that Shinoa finally found a place she could call home and a group of persons she could label as family, and of course, the one who taught her that was Yuu no less. But why did she tell him to leave without her?

Shinoa knows pretty well that Yuu’s destiny right now is sealed in stone; she knows that the further he dives into the abyss, the further he’ll ever reach the light of the sun. This means, she’s aware that Yuu’s life is a stake and this is well known since chapter 72:

Image taken from chapter 72

And that is something certain, Shinoa is aware that the constant abuse of power only fractures Yuu’s body; the issue with chapter 118 reflected the fear of seeing someone she cares about to fade forever.

But why do I refer this to something primal or normal among humans?

When the bonds forged with time shatter due to the unexpected death, the first thing that comes is denial, pain, sadness, grief and ultimately pleading for the person to not go. A wish for a miracle is the factor that people seek. In Shinoa’s case, despite her being in love with Yuu, her wish is to see him alive instead of dead.

But now, let’s talk about another interesting point that triggered the fandom.

2. Shinoa’s resort of killing Mikaela

Image taken from Chapter 120

Something rather doubtful to some extent considering that Mika is a demon, The only way Shinoa could actually kill Mikaela would be literally taking away Yuu’s cursed gear which, considering the huge gap of power between both, it’s close to impossible that this scenario happens. 

Therefore, why did she state that? Is it as how the fandom says that she’s angry Yuu rejected her?

No, this doesn’t even involve sentimentalism or romantic feelings, 

What do I mean? 

For that, let’s make some memories, who is Shikama trying to resurrect? Who is Yuu trying to resurrect mainly?

Of course, Mikaela.

Image taken from Chapter 113

Chronologically speaking, this takes place way before the vampires were a thing; it was a moment on which it was only Yuu, Shikama and the corpse. How can I say that? Do I have proof? I do.

One of the small details that the chapter gave insight of, is that the time the conversation took place was back when vampires weren’t even a thing; it was a time on which the journey was only about Shikama and Yuu trying to resurrect the corpse of Mikaela. It is the first path on which Shikama finds out he needs “SACRIFICES”.

Eventually population would rise and he’d have his apostles who would later see Yuu as the “sacrifice” to bring back Mikaela back to life:

Image taken from Chapter 106

Indeed, in order to bring Mikaela back to life, Yuu must be the sacrifice. 

Though, there’s one big issue and detail that many might have forgotten, what could it be?

Correct. Shikama’s plans have changed ever since chapter 103:

Image taken from chapter 103

Therefore, what’s Shinoa actually trying to say with “even if I have to kill Mikaela”?

If Mikaela’s resurrection were bound to happen; first of all:

-Humanity would be further punished, which is something confirmed by the Progenitors for sure

-Second, all this “planning out something from Yuu for the greater end or killing and we’ll revive them later sounds quite interesting that he is so confident that his idea will happen” but, there’s just a tiny huge detail that seems to elude everything and that is him of course:

Image taken from chapter 117

Despite Yuu being free of the supposed shackles from the First Progenitor and to some extent having his own authonomy, Shikama found it ironic and funny:

Image taken from chapter 117

In the ultimate case Yuu manages to resurrect Mikaela, there are two questions that linger in the air since there’s nothing certain towards Yuu’s fate.

1. Once Mikaela is brought back, who’ll be the one waking up?

2. Will you die or will he become a source of power? After all Shikama’s plan does involve keeping them together for such goal.

In the ultimate case Yuu’s life would be endangered to be used and Mikaela Hyakuya would disappear and the one being brought back was the Son of Shikama, then it would be logic for her to say that saving Yuu is a priority even if it means killing Mikaela.

Another theory awaits, hope you enjoyed this analysis and theory dear readers, feel free to share your thoughts, after all, there are topics to discuss.

The lostsoul is back.

This theory came to my mind too suddenly and it was, what if Kagami sensei also plans the same for Shinya he had for Yuu?! What do I mean? Please let me to start like this then!!